Stille Nacht... [Import]

Eduard Karl Nossler (Composer), Max Reger (Composer), Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), Albert Becker (Composer), Martin Luther (Composer), Friedrich Silcher (Composer), Robert Fuchs (Composer), Max Bruch (Composer), Wilhelm Kienzl (Composer), Carl Riedel (Composer), Franz Wullner (Composer), Eusebius Mandyczewski (Composer), Hermann Riedel (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Eduard Karl Nossler, Max Reger, Felix [1] Mendelssohn, Albert Becker, Martin Luther, et al.
• Audio CD (October 13, 2009)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
• ASIN: B002EDVGXQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,221 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And no children's choir!, December 15, 2009

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JJA Kiefte "Joost Kiefte" (Tegelen, Nederland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stille Nacht... (Audio CD)

For years I had been looking for a CD without slick André Rieu-romanticism, without Anglo-American commercialism and without children's choir-plus-baritone-or-soprano. And I finally found it in the form of this CD by the wonderful Rias Kammerchor. The songs are a-capella (so no instrumental accompaniment) and without soloists. Some titles will be readily familiar, others won't ring a bell perhaps, but all were arranged by Romantic composers, such as Felix Mendelssohn, Wilhelm Kienzl, Robert Fuchs und Max Bruch, with a starring role for Max Reger, whom I find much less impressive as a composer of large scale orchestral works than as an arranger of these beautiful, translucent miniatures. Quoting from the generously laid-out booklet I can wholeheartedly confirm that this "atmospheric CD is a timeless guarantor of festive thoughts" (This incidentally is the same as "Weihnacht der Romantik" by the Rias Kammerchor on a 2002 Harmonia Mundi CD)

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely German Christmas Music!, January 16, 2012

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Lorraine P. Zigman (Vermont, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stille Nacht... (Audio CD)

This is a keeper, and a much treasured addition to my music collection. Although in German, and I don't understand the German language, it is the music which brings peace and rest to the soul. I truly believe that music is an international language which brings peoples together.