20 Centuries of Hits

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 19, 1999)
• Original Release Date: January 19, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000GC0Z
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #504,007 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. First Delphic Hymn to Apollo

2. Epitaph of Seikilos

3. Hymn to the Muse

4. Hymne chretienne d'Oxyrhynchus

5. Te Deum Laudamus

6. Alleluia Oculis

7. Pange Lingua Gloriosi Praelium Certaminis

8. Verbum caro factum est, villancico

9. Urbs Ierusalem Beata, hymn

10. Ave Maris Stella

11. Hymn to the Virgin Mary

12. Victimae paschali laudes

13. Entrada del temps clar

14. Edi Beo Thu, Hevene Queene, carol (English) [Anonymous 4]

15. Gloria

16. Quam pulcra es, antiphon for 3 voices, MB 44

17. Greensleeves, folk song

18. Barbara Allen, folk song

19. St. James Hospital

20. Old Folks at Home, for voice & piano

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars nifty CD, but...., September 30, 2000

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Michael J. Barkley "Mike Barkley" (Manteca, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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Scholarship is suspect since cut for the 4th Century (and 8th, 9th, & 10th Centuries) has organ accompaniment, for instance. For that matter, since the bulk of it would ordinarily be classified as "classical" (I found it on the Rhino site and then come back here to buy it), please cross-reference it from "popular", Amazon. Bought it to hear the Oxyrhynchus Hymn Fragment for a report on Byzantine music, but I've been playing it over and over, thoroughly enjoying it.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Rhino's most inspired compilations!, April 17, 2000

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Daniel J. Palladino (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 20 Centuries of Hits (Audio CD)

Of all the Rhino collections (and I own a vast majority of them,) this single CD elicits the most intrigue from friends and co-workers who see it amidst my collection. It's an impossible concept to pull off, but the fact that the weirdos at Rhino attempted it at all is inspiring.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Cool Novelty But Should Have Been Better, December 31, 1999

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This review is from: 20 Centuries of Hits (Audio CD)

This is a neat historic curiosity, but since they were willing to go beyond 20 tracks, why not include the oldest piece of music historians know of? And the excuse of using "Louis Louis" rather than the Beatles or Elvis or Frank Sinatra is weak ("most covered song" - ha! - I suspect it has more to do with copyrights and royalties). Otherwise well chosen and intriguing - and all those chants are kinda relaxing.