Hallelujah! Great Choral Classics

Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh (Composer), William Clayton (Composer), Cesar Franck (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Felix Mendelssohn (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), William Steffe (Composer), Shaker Traditional (Composer), Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Mormon Tabernacle Choir
• Composer: Harry T. (Henry) Burleigh, William Clayton, Cesar Franck, George Frederick Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, et al.
• Audio CD (October 11, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B00000423S
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,617 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #76 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Anthems

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5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A touch of the holy, November 24, 2001

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Kendal B. Hunter (Provo, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a nice CD that serves as an overview of mostly baroque choral pieces by one of my favorite choirs. One of the advantages of this CD it that it allows you to compare Beethoven's "Hallelujah Chorus" with the more famous Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus." I think that Beethoven's starts out better, but Handel's is, overall, far superior.

They do a remarkable job singing the Humming Chorus, an absolutely oddball piece of classical music, reminiscent of the Magic Flute's Papageno singing with the padlock on his mouth! No, there is nothing wrong with your hi-fi; the choir is just humming the music.

The choir does a magnificent job signing the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which, along with Messiah's Hallelujah Chorus, is one of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's signature pieces.

They did an exceptional job of transferring the old analogue recordings to CD, so there is minimal hiss and fading.

This is great music for Sunday, or for Easter and Christmas. It is nice to have a touch of the holy in your life, if not for a day, at least for a few minutes.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent music by an excellent choir., November 24, 2007

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Darrel Drumm "Darrel the librarian" (Bunch, OK United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hallelujah! Great Choral Classics (Audio CD)

I have a friend who doesn't like the Morman Tabernacle Choir because she says there are too many voices. I don't know about that, but this CD is excellent. The arrangements are excellent, and the choir is good. In choir at Oral Roberts University and South High School, Wichita, Kansas, I sang Beethovan's Hallelujah Chorus and this is a wonderful rendition of it.