Peace -- A Choral Album for Our Times [Import]

Grant Llewellyn (Artist, Conductor), Handel and Haydn Society (Artist, Conductor), Chorus of Handel and Haydn Society (Performer), Samuel Barber (Composer), Frederick Delius (Composer), Edward Elgar (Composer), Henryk Gorecki (Composer), Morten Lauridsen (Composer), Sergey Rachmaninov (Composer), Arnold Schoenberg (Composer), John Tavener (Composer), Randall Thompson (Composer), Tomas Luis de Victoria (Composer), Grant Llewellyn (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Chorus of Handel and Haydn Society, Grant Llewellyn
• Conductor: Grant Llewellyn, Handel and Haydn Society
• Composer: Samuel Barber, Frederick Delius, Edward Elgar, Henryk Gorecki, Morten Lauridsen, et al.
• Audio CD (May 24, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Avie
• ASIN: B0001M1JHA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #208,759 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunningly Beautiful, October 7, 2004

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Charles Horton (Nashville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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Glorious Indeed! Robert Levine's above review is 'right on'.
Morten Lauridsen's chill-provoking 'O magnum mysterium' brought me to this project after hearing it on public radio at 2AM. Choice of material, quality and sensitivity of performance, and Grant Llewellyn's masterful direction make this a 'must have'.
I rarely buy choral music, but this one I will give at Christmas with a wish for the 'Peace' this music inspires.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Peace, October 6, 2007

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D. J. Heath (Wayzata, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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Well, I really enjoyed this recording. Sure, the choir was not perfect in a few places but it was good enough for me (I sing in a couple of choirs myself). Lauridsen's Magnum was very good, quite hair raising in a nice way. The final chords so lovely and so hard to be really quiet yet maintain pitch and body.

6 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cold Porridge, July 14, 2005

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G. K. Hitchcock (Newport, RI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Peace -- A Choral Album for Our Times (Audio CD)

The choral singing is crude and sloppy throughout this album. The whole product has the sound and look (is that an alien on the cover?) of something hastily and cheaply produced. Indeed, opportunism seems to have ruled over musicianship, as it appears the product was rushed to market to coincide with the outbreak of war in Iraq. Grant Llewellan is a fine musician and capable of producing so much more. What went wrong? Are the musicians in Boston just not up to snuff, or is the board and administration just painfully parochial? This is an ensemble that became leaders in baroque music under Christopher Hogwood. So what makes them think they should be performing Schoenberg, Barber, Delius and Gorecki?