Traditional Israeli & Jewish Classics

1. Adon Olam - Uzi Chitman

2. Eli Eli (A Journey to Cesarea)

3. Shir Hama'alot

4. Kol Dodi - Joseph Malovany

5. Dror Yikra

6. Kol Nidrey - Jan Peerce

7. Kadish - Joseph Malovany

8. Halleluja

9. Lecha Dodi

10. Shmah Israel - Chaim Adler

11. Eli Eli - Jan Peerce

12. Yedid Nefesh - Joseph Malovany

13. Am Israel Chai - Moshe Koussevitzky

14. Hamavdil

15. Cesher Tzar Meod

16. Shalom Aleichem/Lecha Dodi

17. Adon Alam [Sepharadic Version]

Adon Olam - Traditional Israeli & Jewish Classics,Various Artists,Israel Music,Int'l & World Music,Israel,Israeli,Jewish,Jewish Music,Jewish: Trad. & Klezmer,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: Too much music, not enough song Israeli Folk dances and songs Great music!

Authentic Israeli Folk Songs and Dances Various Artists Manufacturer: Legacy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | International General | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Middle East | International | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Most Popular Songs From Israel: Hava Nagila 20 Popular Folksongs from Israel Shalom: Most Beautiful Popular Songs from Israe Classic Jewish Holiday & Shabbat Songs Thank God It's Friday!: The Music of Shabbat ASIN: B000002NQO Release Date: 1994-07-18

Tracks:

1. Hava Nagila (Let's Be Joyful)
2. Eretz Hacarmel (The Land Of The Carmel)
3. Bisdot Bet-Lechem (In The Fields Of Bet-Lechem)
4. Hava Netze Babachol (Let Us Go To The Dance)...
5. Sadot Sheba'emek (Fields In The Valley
6. Boyee Tama (Come Fair Maiden)
7. Shalom Al Israel (Peace For Israel)
8. Benah Betcha (Build Your House)
9. Vayven Usiyahu (And Usiyahu Built)...
10. Drums Solo
11. Adamah Adamah (Land O Land)...
12. Hevenu Shalom Alechem (We Brought Peace Upon You)...
13. Mayim Mayim (Water Water)
14. Kuma Echa (Come Brothers)
15. Bat Yiftach (The Daughter Of Yiftach)
16. Ta'am Haman (The Taste Of The 'Mann')
17. Debka Druz (The Debka Of The Druz)
18. Simchat He'amel (The Joy OF The Worker)
19. Hora Medura (The Hora Of Bonfire)
20. Nigun A Tik (Ancient Melody)
21. Simchu Na (Be Glad)
22. Vedavid Yefe Einayim (David Has Beautiful Eyes)

Customer Reviews:

Too much music, not enough song.......2007-06-25

Hava Nagila was about the only good song on this CD in my opinion. Most of the tracks are music tracks that sound very much like the one before it. I guess that's okay if that is what you were looking for, but I was hoping for more songs with words. I played it once and tossed it in a storage box (my garage sale box).

Israeli Folk dances and songs .......2005-11-12

Great Cd I love all the Israeli songs. As an Israeli dance teacher, I found new version of musice to teach Israeli Dancing. Recomend getting it. Good quality

Dalya in San Diego
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Great music!.......2005-04-08

My mom played this for me a few years ago, and I listened to it a lot until I lost the disc. Finally I found it again, heh heh. Anyway, I really love this CD. The songs are all really pretty, and it all sounds really natural. I mean, they don't have weird synthesized stuff or anything, haha. It almost reminds me of the first pioneers in Israel. ^^ Buy this CD! I heart it.

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Things Will Be Better: The Best of David Broza David Broza Manufacturer: Jmg / Jewish Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Painted Postcard Rough Guide to the Music of Israel Stone Doors David Broza La Mujer Que Yo Q ASIN: B000EQHXAU Release Date: 2006-04-18

Tracks:

1. Suavecito
2. Under the Sun
3. Chileno Boys
4. Haifa
5. Parking Completo
6. Homecoming
7. Because I Love You
8. It's All or Nothing
9. You Don't Love Me
10. Me Voy
11. Srochim (Shoelaces)
12. Crying to the Walls
13. High Noon
14. Ramito de Violetas (Sigaliyot)
15. Natasha
16. Bedouin Love Song
17. Yihye Tov (Things Will Get Better)

Album Description

With twenty three albums to his name, Broza continues to forge his way with a style so diverse that he has passionate fans in every corner of the world. Critics have labeled Broza as a post-modern Leonard Cohen, the Bruce Springsteen of Israel and all five Gypsy Kings rolled into one!

He became a superstar in his homeland of Israel by his early 20's with his quadruple platinum debut album, 'The Woman By My Side." 16 gold, platinum and multi-platinum releases later, the Jewish Music Group, along with David Broza, has hand-picked songs on this "Best Of."

Average customer rating: Savall family extravaganza

Du temps & de l'instant Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Marais | Marais, Marin | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lux Feminae Orient - Occident Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002) Music In Europe 1550-1650 Bella Terra ASIN: B0009JOMDI Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Cantiga De Amigo V: Quantas Sabedes Amare
2. Nastaran
3. Noumui, Noumi Yaladatii
4. Variations Sur O Sonjal
5. La Canco Del Lladre
6. Romanesca & Pasamezzo
7. La Salve
8. Paxarico Tu Te Llamas
9. Apo Xeno Meros
10. Ghazali Tal Jahri
11. Durme, Hermosa Donzella
12. Tarantela D'apres
13. Jaroslaw
14. Canarios
15. Fantasiant
16. Muzettes I-II (IV.28.29)
17. El Cant Dels Aucells
18. Diferencias Sobre La Guaracha
19. Sentirete Una Canzonetta

Customer Reviews:

Savall family extravaganza.......2006-01-27

Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras are the two giants in the Catalan early music scene. On this album they enlist the help of percussionist Pedro Estevan and their two children to produce some truly exceptional music. Jordi Savall, the most famous family member, almost fades into the background, although he is obviously the rock that anchors the album. His playing is superb, and it seems as though it was most likely him who chose the excellent repertoire. Figueras, like wine, is only improving with age. Also like wine, however, she's a bit of an acquired taste; I am a huge fan of straight tone singing and even I took a while to get used to her bizarre, raw sound. It's worth it, however, as she is one of the most intriguing singers of this era.

Daughter Arianna is a world-class artist in her own right. Like her father, she is multi-talented; she sings, plays the harp, and composes (her contribution to this album, "La Salve," is beautiful and affecting, but some of the selections on her own solo album "Bella Terra" are far superior). Like her mother, her voice is haunting and beautiful, more polished than the elder woman but slightly less interesting. She sounds particularly lovely in the background of the first track. Ferran Savall also lends his voice to the album, although his singing is far less classical sounding, which may be a plus to some listeners. "Noumi, Noumi, Yaladatii," which Figueras has previously recorded as a solo, includes a vocalise from Ferran astonishing in its power, although his one solo on this album, "La Canco Del Lladre," is the least impressive track, as his voice can be irritating after a while and the song itself is repetitive and overlong.

The instrumental tracks are universally excellent. Jordi Savall is one of the world's best viola da gamba players and this album proves that he is still at the top of his game. Arianna's virtuosic harp solo is one of the album's highlights; her playing is less restrained and more visceral than most harpists. Pedro Estevan seems to have very little to do, but a little goes a long way with this music.

I sincerely hope that this will not be the last album to feature the Savall-Figueras family together. These five musicians have produced an album of surreal beauty, not to be missed.

Average customer rating: nice Mediterranean Music Comment on "Gemçis Güzel Günerli" and more Gecmis Guzel Gunleri is actually Armenian The Meditarranean Soul Captured in One CD!

Mediterranea: Songs of the Mediterranean Manufacturer: Sounds True Direct ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Greece | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Spain | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sumiglia Terra Nostra Mondo Greece Di Efchon Putumayo Presents Greece: A Musical Odyssey ASIN: B00004UES8 Release Date: 2000-08-15

Tracks:

1. Why Little Bird Do you Not Sing
2. You On A Hill, I On A Hilll
3. Pinguli Pinguli Giuvacchinu/The Door
4. The Girl From Nuoro
5. Sardinian Dance
6. Gentle Hand
7. When The Lissome Girl Appeared
8. Glory To The Word Of God
9. The Jasmine
10. Smyrnaean Air
11. In The Beautiful Bygone Days
12. Dawn Has Broken
13. And A Mother
14. Lullaby
15. The Boatmen
16. La Finforletta
17. O, Wave
18. God Has Afflicted Me/Why Little Bird Do You Not Sing

Customer Reviews:

nice.......2007-05-30

She has a very beautiful voice the songs are just not strong enough. I found 3 songs that I find myself listening to over and over. She dose have a great voice but the songs just don't show that off.

Mediterranean Music.......2006-11-03

An exquisite collection of songs from the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, the White Sea, in original languauges. S Yanatou has an angelic voice. Strongly recommended.

Comment on "Gemçis Güzel Günerli" and more.......2005-05-01

First off, this is the best Savina Yannatou CD I've heard to date -- her voice is in terrific form here. (Though you'll get to hear a lot more of the band on her latest release, Sumiglia.)

Second, track 11 ("Gemçis Güzel Günerli") *is* a Turkish song, written by an Aremenian citizen of Turkey, Hrant Kenkulian, or "Udi Hrant," as he's often known -- this is mentioned in the liner notes to Mediterranea. ("Udi" is an honorific prefix meaning that he was a master player of the ud, a Middle Eastern lute.) If you're interested in exploring his music further, there are several recordings of his work (voice, ud, and violin) on the Traditional Crossroads label. (Type "Udi Hrant" into the search engine on this site and you'll find the CDs very easily.)

Turkey was -- and still is -- an ethnically mixed country, which is a legacy of the Ottoman Empire. There were Armenian Turkish composers and musicians at the courts of the Ottoman sultans, and there were those who also excelled at light classical and popular song. Hrant Kenkulian was a master of classical and popular music -- if you explore further, you'll find out that he's one of many 20th-century Armenians who were involved in the development of Turkish music.

Yannatou is an inheritor of Turkish tradition, too. Modern Greece was occupied by the Ottomans for many centuries, and there is a very strong Turkish tinge to much of the Greek music she performs. (And vice versa, as she performs Pontic Greek music from the Black Sea coast of Turkey; also songs from Smyrna -- now called Izmir -- on Turkey's western coast.)

What I love most about her work is her peerless way with all of the songs she chooses. Many people have tried to come up with pan-Mediterranean discs, but Yannatou is one of a handful of people who has succeeded at it.

Gecmis Guzel Gunleri is actually Armenian.......2004-09-22

My professional background is in ethnomusicology. I am not Greek, Turkish or Armenia so I have no axe to grind. One reviewer below, apparently of Turkish background, seems to take offense that Gecmis Guzel Gunleri is not listed as "Turkish Traditional." there is a simple reason for that, it isn't orignially a Turkish song. It is a well known Armenian song, with the same melody for hundred of years. Indeed this rendition is in Turkish, but to call it "Turkish traditional" would be innacurate.

Inded it belongs to, adn illustrates, a whole body of non Turkish music from Turkey which actually speaks to the ethnic cleansing that occured the in the 1900-1920's period.

Few people in today's Turkey, which has been purged of knowledge of the roots of its own tradional music, are aware of the multiethnic roots of its music. It was for years criminal to even suggest that many songs were orignially Greek, Kurdish or Armenian.

So I am glad that my Turkish friend likes the Armenian ballad Gecmis Guzel Gunleri ("The Beautiful Past Days") and am only sorry that he never heard the original recordings by an long dead artist now know in Turkey as Udi Hrant, but whose non stage name was Udi Hrant Kenkulian. His family was murdered in the Turkish Genocide against the Armenians, which makes his song more ever poignant - as the title suggests..

The Meditarranean Soul Captured in One CD!.......2002-04-02

Savina Yannatou has an indescribable soprano voice which captures the sounds and emotions of the Meditarranean people whether Italian, Greek, French (Corsica), Hebrew or Turkish (I may have missed a country or two present on the CD). The wedding song from the Greek island of Kalymnos and the Turkish "aman" song are my favorites. All the songs are so beautifully sung, it is hard to say that one is better than another ... I have heard these two songs before and am familiar with how they should sound: her singing is traditonal with a tenderness and sincerity that is a uniquely her own. Savina's voice is ethereal and "other worldly" - totally living up to her name, after a saint from the Meditarranean, Italy, I think.

I first heard Savina Yannatou on Mondo Greece and knew I must have one of her CDs. I discovered this one and was compelled to buy it. It is filled with the music of Primavera de Salonika, playing kanun, santouri, lyra, and other authentic intstruments that complement Savina's voice. Her voice is beyond description ... totally captivating, exceptional, without comparison. Listen and be amazed - then buy the CD!!! Erika Borsos (erikab93)

Average customer rating: Postcards from various locations First time buyer Nothing New

Painted Postcard David Broza Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Things Will Be Better: The Best of David Broza Stone Doors Away From Home Time of Trains Second Street ASIN: B000068GFS Release Date: 2002-07-02

Tracks:

1. Time of Trains (I Will Wait for You)
2. A Night in Wyoming
3. A Painted Postcard
4. Second Street
5. What Will You Do
6. Chileno Boys
7. Isadora
8. In Snow
9. It Is You
10. If You Don't Kiss Me
11. Hips to Hips
12. When I Didn't Have a Home
13. The Art of Losing (One Art)
14. Under the Sky

Customer Reviews:

Postcards from various locations.......2007-04-16

David Broza first came to my attention several years ago via his touring with Sting. I kept hearing raves about this singer that I had never heard before, and eventually found a copy of Broza's "Time Of Trains." I was mesmerized by this clearly talented man, who could pick a guitar like nobody's business and had such a beautifully husky voice. There were a few songs on that CD that have stayed with me, especially the title track, "Somebody Make Me Laugh" and "Blood For Blood."

Sadly, that CD did not bring about the American success it was aiming for. Around the world, however, Broza's mix of Hebrew, Spanish and English lyrics with a mix of musical styles has won him a steady audience for almost 30 years. "Painted Postcards" is his latest attempt at finding new listeners in America, combining songs from his albums "Second Street," "Time of Trains" "David Broza" and "Stone Doors." While each of these albums is a fine recording in its own light, they have often been released in America on smaller or labels now gone defunct.

Broza picked some of his favorite songs from both his English and Hebrew catalogs for this 2002 release on Rounder. While Broza writes most of the music himself, he searches for poets and lyricists the world over to either match his spirited music or to translate into Hebrew. If you're a fan of the Gypsy Kings, "It Is You" will warm your cold feet. His association with Sting seems to have influenced "If You Don't Kiss Me." Dire Straits and Eric Clapton are conjured up during "When I Didn't Have a Home." And personally, I have loved "Time Of Trains" since I first heard it in 1993. Broza's multi-cultural music is of a flavor that I wish more could get a taste of and, having been lucky enough to see him perform, experience first hand. "Painted Postcards" will help you take that first sampling.

First time buyer.......2003-03-07

Having never heard David Broza before, I am totally enthralled with this CD. The mix of hebrew and spainish influence creates an exotic combination. I think the guitar work is exceptional.

Nothing New.......2002-09-06

Disappointing. We were hoping for some new material from this fine artist. All he's done is signed on to a new label and re-issued songs, mostly off Stone Doors and the self titled David Broza, which we already have. Better to buy those two CDs because there are several great songs that couldn't be crammed on to one "best of" CD.

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Childhood Manufacturer: Wind Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: My Happy Paradise ASIN: B000260HGO Release Date: 2004-11-23

Tracks:

1. Childhood
2. Song of Splashing Water
3. Moving on in High Spirit
4. Little Flower Hat
5. You Who Shared the Same Desk With Me
6. Pen-Hu Beach
7. Arch Moon
8. Western Wind's Words
9. Malan Girl
10. In the Bamboo Chamber
11. Come Back My Girl
12. Lu-Bing Flower

Product Description

Another CD by the Beijing Angelic Choir

Average customer rating: A Beautiful and Colourful Masterpiece! Nice Music, Bad quality recording Trance Ararat .... mesmerizing middle eastern sounds

Silan Yair Dalal & Al Ol Ensemble Manufacturer: Amiata Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Iraq | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Israel | Middle East | International | Styles | Music Arabic | Middle East | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Art of the Ud ASIN: B00000I8VE Release Date: 1998-07-07

Tracks:

1. Acco Malca
2. Arrarat
3. Silan
4. Trance
5. Dikklat Nour
6. Min Hamidbar
7. Adon Haslichot

Customer Reviews:

A Beautiful and Colourful Masterpiece!.......2005-12-01

Yair Dalal exemplifies a rare mixture between conflicting trends in music: traditional versus modern, Eastern versus Western and Jewish versus Arabic. He also explores musical traditions of different countries like Iraq, Turkey and India, besides Jewish traditional music. Most of the pieces presented here are of charming beauty and very colourful and great instrumental arrangement.

Although Dalal is not as skillful in playing the violin as in musical composition, his taqsims on the Middle Eastern violin are very haunting. The Al Ol ensemble membres are very skillful players. The recording quality is not perfect, but it is not "bad" - as the previous reviewer sais - either.

I highly recommend this CD for anyone interested in Middle Eastern/Eastern music.

Nice Music, Bad quality recording.......2005-07-21

Hi I liked the artists music, but the problem is with the recording quality. Except for the first track the remaining track were unclear.
Thanks

Trance Ararat ...........2000-11-22

Unlike his first CD's , Silan is not a solo one , with the backup of Al Ol Ensemble (great sound) , Dalal is getting closer to the western eastern oriented music lovers . This rainbow coloured train (you may call it Trance Ararat or Orient ..), takes you all the way from Israel to Turkey , Iran , India and some other exotic places . Each tune takes you to another place , so relax , don't forget your nargila and cup of strong black coffee , the pleasure is all yours .

mesmerizing middle eastern sounds.......1999-08-23

I bought this CD a few weeks ago and have listened to its breathtaking dream-like Israeli/Arabic sounds of peace at least 20-30 times already. I am not of eastern heritage, a musician, nor versed in eastern music, and am enjoying this CD tremendously. It is somehow modern and ancient simultaneously, almost a brief anthology of eastern sounds. The instrumentation is delicate and powerful. If you're new to middle eastern music like I am, you'll hear familiar sounds, but not songs. Also if you like Indian music, I think you will appreciate this album as it seems to have an Indian flavor as well. Somehow Dalal and the Al Ol Ensemble have managed to give the music both an exotic, timeless quality while at the same time making it approachable to the foreign western ear. I don't know how they've done it, but I am now looking for more.

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Pearls of Jewish Liturgical Music Manufacturer: Israel Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Jewish & Yiddish Music | Folk | Styles | Music Klezmer | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001LYH20 Release Date: 2004-03-30

Tracks:

1. Ve'te'erav Lefaneicha
2. Eich Niftach Peh
3. Av Harachamim
4. Mah Gadlu Ma'aseicha
5. Ve'liyerushalayim Ircha
6. Halleluya Hallelu Avdey Hashem
7. Haben Yakir Li
8. Meloch
9. Ledavid Mizmor [A Psalm of David]
10. Maleh Rachamim
11. Naeinu
12. Akavia Ben Mahallalel
13. Maran Di Bishmaya

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Children's Songs of the World Manufacturer: Nightingale ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Gruberova, Edita | ( G ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000025HPF Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. Poesje Mauw
2. D'esos Caballos
3. Si Toutes Les Filles
4. Che Baccan
5. Es Klappert Die Muhle
6. Spi, Mladjenec
7. Miala Kasienka
8. Numi, Numi
9. Tancuj, Tancuj
10. Una Flor De La Cantuta
11. Three Blind Mice
12. Aa, Aa, Allin Lasta
13. Haragszik
14. Pridi Ty Suhajko
15. Yuyake Koyake
16. Heidschi Bumbeidschi
17. Pera Ston Pera Kambo
18. L'inverno E Passato
19. Mi Jachol Lassim
20. Sakura
21. Dolina, Dolina
22. Humpty Dumpty
23. Kumbaya
24. Nana Mara Haath
25. Katten Og Killingen
26. Ciobanas
27. Schyau
28. Joli Tambour
29. Ba, Ba, Vita Lamm
30. The Itsy Bitsy Spider
31. Tala 'Al-Badru' Alaina
32. Alle Voglein

Average customer rating: waste of beautiful voices a brave failure Excellent fabulous And the beauty goes on and on !

Vienna Choir Boys: Amazing Grace Manufacturer: Koch Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004YMML Release Date: 2001-01-23

Tracks:

1. Amazing Grace
2. Edelweiss Aus 'The Sound Of Music'
3. Das Wandern Ist Des Mullers Lust
4. Sakura
5. Sur Le Pont D'Avignon
6. Tiritomba
7. Auld Lang Syne
8. Wien, Wien Nur Du Allein
9. Santa Lucia (Barcarole Aus Neapel)
10. Kalinka
11. Greensleeves (Elisabethanische Ballade)
12. Im Prater Bluh'n Wieder Die Baume
13. Hevenu Shalom Aleichem
14. Muss I Denn Zum Stadtele Hinaus

Amazon.com

With Amazing Grace, the Vienna Choir Boys have released an interesting collection tending down a path different from that of their usual repertoire. The legendary institution--with members regularly chosen by some of the greatest conductors for boy-choir parts in music by Mozart, Bach, and Mahler, as well as Bernstein--was founded half a millennium ago, and a number of famous musicians have been alumni of this almost peerless ensemble through the centuries.

Here, they sing a marketable soup of international songs and traditional folk melodies from around the world. Typical of the songs on this disc is the Japanese tune "Sakura," which blends a popular oriental melody with Western harmony and culturally idiomatic-sounding instruments. Another particularly gripping work is an arrangement of the liturgical Hebrew folk song "Hevenu Shalom Aleichem." Traditionally, this piece is sung on the Sabbath, but the energetic version here is more suited to a grand festival (one can easily imagine the accelerando dance refrain repeating to a frenzy during a bar mitzvah or a Jewish wedding celebration). The varied program demonstrates the VCB's relatively recent expansion into world music--not to mention a broader audience (they have also recorded soundtracks for such films as Primal Fear)--which might raise red flags for the purist. But with the VCB--under financial pressure (like so many other nonprofit concert ensembles today) and seeking a more popular audience by expanding their repertoire--there is nothing to forgive. This beautiful, shameless, sometimes fun, even on occasion thought-provoking collection benefits from the ensemble's impeccable standards. --W.T. Arnold

Customer Reviews:

waste of beautiful voices.......2005-12-12

The arrangements for the songs are terrible, sounds like pre-programmed songs from keyboard and actually you can barely hear the boys singing. it would be a waste of money to buy this CD when the Vienna Boys have others much better. Watch out: a terrible choice for a gift.

a brave failure.......2002-01-01

The concept of this CD seems to aim for a broader audience than the classical listeners used to the VBC performing Strauss, Mozart etc. This attempt at an easy listening collection of folk and folk-like songs seems swamped by the "backing tracks". There is little room for subtlety, rubato or, indeed, artistry in this recording. The end result seems to be mechanical music making performed by those more accustomed to a different idiom.

Excellent.......2001-04-23

This CD of Vienna Choir Boys is excellent. In this unusual repertory, these boys are perfect. I think, this CD ought to be discovered by all lovers of choir boy's music.

fabulous.......2001-02-25

I have 53 recordings of The Vienna Choir Boys and this one ranks up there as one of the best. I loved it.

And the beauty goes on and on !.......2001-02-10

Once again The "Sailor Suited Lads" from Austria have not let down the millions of fans that attend there concerts world wide.They,with this CD,demonstrate what it takes to withstand the test-of-time.All of the songs are sung to the perfection one now expects,and always receives,when listening to this choir.The title song is my personal favorite."Amazing Grace" is and always has been my favorite hymn.The choirs rendition is acompanied by a hauntingly beautiful Tin Whistle that adds that old European flavor that just puts it over the edge. To all Fans present and future this CD is one that will be a treasured addition to your music library. Enjoy

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