St. Philip's Boys Choir - Angel Voices 3

Third volume of recordings from the esteemed St. Phillip's Boys Choir. Features 20 beautiful holiday recordings including classics like 'Do You Hear What I Hear', 'White Christmas', 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' and many others. Music Club. Album Description

Beautiful Music

Excellent CD, a pleasure to listen to. Their new name is now Libera. They are all school children from South London Schools. I recommend this group to everyone. May 27, 2008

Angel Voices 3 [The St. Philips Boy's Choir]

From south London in England, the group Angel Voices was first known as The St. Philips Boy's Choir. For those not so familiar with the group in 1998 the group adopted the new name Libera. "Libera" being the Latin word for "Free".

The compilation on this CD "Angel Voices 3" was first released in 1997 in Great Britain, the song selection is a mainly seasonal selection of Christmas songs! Many long time favourites like White Christmas, (many people will be familiar with the Bing Crosby rendition) Oh Come All Ye Faithful and The First Noel just to name a few.

We owe a debt of gratitude to Robert Prizeman, the music director of the group, and Ian Tilley whom I have learned is the sound and technical master mind of the group. Both these individuals are former St. Philip's choirboys, with a genuine wish to continue the good works started during the early days of the group.

When you listen to the song selection on this CD you will quickly note a more contemporary, mainstream sound! With the pure treble voices of the young boys, Robert Prizeman and Ian Tilley set a goal to integrate both classical and traditional music resulting in a new dynamic mainstream
sound, which would appeal to a wider audience!

Listen to other songs on this CD like "Walking in the Air" with soloist Liam O'Kane a few times and you will find yourself longing for more!

Best Wishes,
Thomas




February 11, 2008

HEAVENLY SOUNDS FOR CHRISTMAS

I watched this group sing on public television here locally, I had to get the CD after. Thank you Amazon.com; I tried locally to obtain the CD, none of the stores here had the CD, in fact, none even heard of 'Libera'. Amazon came through for me. This has got to be the best CD I have in my collection ; just amazing the sounds that come out of these kids. Buy it for sure you will not be disappointed. January 7, 2008

Too much fanfare

For me, the performance simply missed the mark. A capable choir should be able to stand forth and sing out without a surround of distracting instrumentation. Though the poor have already suffered enough, I promptly gave my copy of this CD to charity. For that I beg forgiveness. January 18, 2007

Great Songs and Singers.

This is a wonderful cd. I enjoy listening to it. The choir that sings on this cd all have such wonderful voices. The songs are sung so pretty on this cd. January 4, 2007

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