Customer Reviews

Comfort and Joy: Volume One

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Cantus requires your complete attention. Sit as if you were at a concert and let the music take you. The "Ave Maria" (transcending any I've heard) made me weep.

We're buying this for several friends and know it will be their favorite Christmas present, perhaps of all their Christmases. But not if they're looking for the familiar and predictable.

Being a vocal coach and choir director, I'm always excited when an all-male, classical trained ensemble makes it big on the national scene. This is a very good album. My only criticism is the collective vibrato of their tone on Franz Biebl's AVE MARIA and some of the other pieces. The Biebl is one of my favorite works and sounds better if done with more of a straight tone. In fact, many of the pieces on this album and volume two would sound more pleasing if CANTUS would eliminate or at least minimize their vibrato. At times, it reminds one of a taped recording that isn't playing at exactly the right speed.

This is a very nice album to put on in the background. Especially if you like the unusual. Very calming acapella music done with interesting arrangements and classical vocals.