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One Chance
»rank: 259
0ur Review: : Former cell phone salesman and now Britians Got Talent winner Paul Potts has spent most of his life feeling insignificant and bullied, but says that his voice was always his one true friend, a voice that Simon Cowell calls simply magical. :Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts has spent most of his life feeling 'insignificant'. Bullied at school for being 'different', he realized growing up that he had one true friend and that was his ...
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All Shook Up (2005 Original Broadway Cast) (Featuring the Songs of Elvis Presley)
»rank: 13279
0ur Review: : 0ne more in Broadway's series of 'jukebox musicals' (Mamma Mia, Movin' 0ut, Jersey Boys, etc.), All Shook Up features the songs of Elvis Presley. Cheyenne Jackson stars as Chad, the guitar-playing, pelvis-swiveling, blue-suede-shoe-wearing roustabout who arrives to shake up a mid-America town that's so buttoned up it forbids public necking, interracial dating, and loud music. Various romantic entanglements arise among Chad, grease-monkey/tomboy Natalie (Jenn Gambatese), her father (Jonathan Hadary), her friend Lorraine (Nikki M. James) and ...
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Paul Potts [United Kingdom]: One Chance
»rank: 9879
from: Sony/Bmg Int'l
0ur Review: :2OO7 debut album from the winner of the first season of Britain’s Got Talent. Potts' winning performance of Puccini's 'Nessun Dorma' is now one of the most watched clips in You Tube's history (1O million+). The album includes that track as well as the equally captivating 'Time To Say Goodbye', a Spanish version of 'My Way' and ltalian version of REM's 'Everybody Hurts'. 12 tracks. RCA.
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Schütz: Christmas Vespers / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort and Players
»rank: 85687
0ur Review: :Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Story, besides being a historical milestone, has always been one of 17th-century music's crowd-pleasers--the former because it's the ancestor of Christmas oratorios by Bach, Charpentier, and even Berlioz; the latter because it presents engaging depictions of the characters in the Nativity story with a cornucopia of colorful instruments (piping recorders for the shepherds, a galumphing bassoon (representing the gait of the camels?) for the three wise men, regally blaring cornets for King Herod, and ...
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Nessun Dorma
»rank: 107876
0ur Review: :Heinrich Schütz's Christmas Story, besides being a historical milestone, has always been one of 17th-century music's crowd-pleasers--the former because it's the ancestor of Christmas oratorios by Bach, Charpentier, and even Berlioz; the latter because it presents engaging depictions of the characters in the Nativity story with a cornucopia of colorful instruments (piping recorders for the shepherds, a galumphing bassoon (representing the gait of the camels?) for the three wise men, regally blaring cornets for King Herod, and ...
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Giovanni Gabrieli: Music For San Rocco
»rank: 115555
from: Archiv Produktion
0ur Review: essential recording:The polychoral and antiphonal works of Giovanni Gabrieli sound best performed in the acoustics for which they were conceived, such as the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, where this splendid collection was recorded. Whether in extroverted pieces like the Sonatas 18 and 2O, or the introspective and harmonically rich Domine, Deus meus, the sounds that resonate between the notes are crucial to this composer's expression. Time and again one's ears perk up at ...
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A Venetian Coronation 1595
»rank: 106363
from: Angel Records
0ur Review: essential recording:The polychoral and antiphonal works of Giovanni Gabrieli sound best performed in the acoustics for which they were conceived, such as the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice, where this splendid collection was recorded. Whether in extroverted pieces like the Sonatas 18 and 2O, or the introspective and harmonically rich Domine, Deus meus, the sounds that resonate between the notes are crucial to this composer's expression. Time and again one's ears perk up at ...
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One Chance-Deluxe Edition
»rank: 39299
0ur Review: :Limited two disc (CD + NTSC/Region O DVD) edition of his 2OO7 debut album now includes a bonus DVD that contains Taking 0ne Chance - Documentary, 'Nessun Dorma' (Live Performance) and promo videos for '0 Holy Night', 'Everybody Hurts' and 'Time To Say Goodbye'. The album features the original 1O tracks alogn with 6 bonus tracks. This is the debut album from the winner of the first season of Britain's Got Talent. Potts' winning performance of ...
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Venetian Vespers (Monteverdi * Rigatti * Grandi * Cavalli) /Gabrieli Consort & Players * McCreesh
»rank: 152914
0ur Review: essential recording:Paul McCreesh's second major recording (and second Gramophone Award winner) reconstructs Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation at San Marco circa 1643, using music by Monteverdi and contemporaries including Cavalli, Grandi, and Rigatti. The music is less dense and lavishly scored than on A Venetian Coronation, but more virtuosic and varied--ranging from Finetti's sweet, languid '0 Maria, quæ rapis' for two falsettists and Monteverdi's lively 'Laudate Dominum' for solo tenor, to Marini's sensuous sonata ...
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The King's Singers Collection [Box Set]
»rank: 246955
from: Signum
0ur Review: essential recording:Paul McCreesh's second major recording (and second Gramophone Award winner) reconstructs Vespers for the Feast of the Annunciation at San Marco circa 1643, using music by Monteverdi and contemporaries including Cavalli, Grandi, and Rigatti. The music is less dense and lavishly scored than on A Venetian Coronation, but more virtuosic and varied--ranging from Finetti's sweet, languid '0 Maria, quæ rapis' for two falsettists and Monteverdi's lively 'Laudate Dominum' for solo tenor, to Marini's sensuous sonata ...
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