Libera Visions

Robert Prizeman (Artist), Libera (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: EMI Classics
• ASIN: B000BMUVGK
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,189 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Libera matures with Visions, February 17, 2006

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Becky (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Libera Visions (Audio CD)

Libera is a wonderful boys choir and in this release their arrangements are adjusted for maturing voices. (Several of the boys have been with the group for at least three CDs!) In past releases, men were included when a 'bottom' was needed to the sound. In this release, Prizeman skillfully arranges the tracks to utilize these lower boy voices to provide the 'bottom' instead, making for a more coherent sound. The new soloists are beautiful, showing the depth of the group. The remake of several earlier released tracks improved them, bringing better balance between the vocal and instrumental. Some of the new songs are appealing, but I did not find myself as transfixed by this CD as I was with 'Free'.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Libera CD, January 23, 2006

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Mr. D. B. Daniels (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Libera Visions (Audio CD)

As with all their previous CDs, Libera can always be relied upon to produce a superb musical experience. From the early days in 1988 when they were known as St. Philip's Choir, through to 1998 under the name Angel Voices, and now with the name Libera, they have never failed to produce anything less than sheer perfection.

Despite this CD coming out only a year after their previous best selling CD Free, in 2004, there are new soloists yet the familiar distinctive Libera sound is still evident. This CD has slightly less use of lower voices and electronic accompaniment than Free but it is just as excellent. Michael Horncastle, Conor O'Donnell, Tom Cully and James Vereycken provide some excellent solo tracks and others help provide duets - Joseph Sanders-Wilde and Callum Payne. Some of the tracks are new compositions and arrangements by choirmaster Robert Prizeman, the best of which include Wings of a Dove [ not to be confused with the traditional O for the wings of a dove ], Locus Iste, Recordare and Always With You. Older familiar Prizeman compositions are heard again here but with the new voices, they are just as welcome as the first time round - eg Libera and Sing for Ever.

Buy this CD if you wish to hear the highest quality music performed by such talented, experienced youngsters.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Libera - Magnificent - Must buy, January 15, 2007

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Richard A. Patton "BoyScout" (Ormond Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Libera Visions (Audio CD)

This is Libera's 4th album and I believe that it is one of the best, included on the disk is a video, and some of the best "terbie" music i have ever heard!

The boys who make up the vocal band Libera have been described as "normal" and "ordinary". However, as their recordings and performances demonstrate, the music they produce is truly extraordinary. With shimmering, mystical chords and ecstatic harmonies, they are unlike any other group you have ever heard. At times plaintive, at others climactic and transcendent. These are truly sounds to lift the soul. Celestial sounds for a new time.