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Heavenly Adagios
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StudioDecca
Release DateNovember 4, 2003
UPC Code028947534525
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Tracks

Disc 1
  1. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Karl Munchinger
  2. Meditation - Nigel Kennedy
  3. In Paradisum - Iwan Edwards
  4. Gymnopedie No. 1 - Charles Dutoit
  5. Flower Duet - Joan Sutherland
  6. The Swan - Jascha Silberstein
  7. Sleepers Awake - Raymond Agoult
  8. Humming Chorus - Vienna State Opera Chorus
  9. Nimrod - Sir Georg Solti
  10. Walk To The Paradise Garden - Sir Charles Mackerras
  11. Pavane, Op. 50 - Iwan Edwards
  12. Panis Angelicus - Julian Lloyd Webber
  13. Ombra Mai Fu (Largo) - Anthony Way
  14. The Lark Ascending - Iona Brown
Disc 2
  1. Clair De Lune - Pascal Roge
  2. Sheep May Safely Graze - Karl Munchinger
  3. Symphony No. 3 - Second Movement (Excerpt) - Joanna Kozlowska
  4. Stabat Mater - Judith Raskin
  5. Ave Maria - Julian Lloyd Weber
  6. Adagio - Miklos Perenyi
  7. Ave Verum Corpus, K618 - Peter White
  8. Andante Molto Mosso: Scene By The Brook - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
  9. Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Karl Munchinger
  10. Largo - Colin Davis
  11. Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op. 49 No. 4 - Marisa Robles
  12. Adagio - Valery Gergiev
  13. Air On A G string - Sir Neville Marriner

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User Reviews

Average user review: 5.0 (2 reviews)

rating: 5 QuoteMusic just this Side of HeavenQuote
If you are looking for a nice mix of some choral and mostly instrumental adagios, then this is the CD (or MP3) for you! To me, quality music and average music is separated by how often you choose to listen to it. Average music sounds good the first few times, but eventually you get "tired" of it. Quality music sounds good the first time, but gets better and more satisfying with each additional play. The Heavenly Adagios CD qualifies as quality music. December 10, 2007

rating: 5 QuoteTwo and a half hours of divine music...what more can I say?Quote
Well, a lot! And since no one else has taken the trouble to review my favorite Adagios collection, I'm just gonna hafta go an' do it myself, won't I?

Starting with the stunningly gorgeous 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' by Bach, this tape reels you in instantly. I'm not much of a fan of 'slow' and 'peaceful' music; I like the beautiful, sublime type that just makes you tingle all over whenever you hear it. (If only Canon in D was in this tape my cup of joy would overflow) Anyway, don't stop listening because Delibes' 'Flower Duet' comes soon after and it is the very meaning of divine. I listen to the taoe just to hear that one song over and over--but not too much, or it'll loose it's touch. This is a Opera duet (sorry, don't know technical terms, my passion is music, not the science of) sung by two women, for those of you out there like me who know practically nothing!! Gorgeous! Sugoi!! (That's Japanese)

Ahem.
The lovely 'Ombra mai fu' (which, I believe Elizabeth Bennet's sister horribly sings in the BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries) is another memorable piece (hear the previews of these titles, please) and finally, William Vaughan's 'The Lark Ascending' a sixteen minute piece of violin heaven played so expertly you will see larks flying in circles about your head--or is that because your noggen got whacked?

Well, as for the second CD, it wasn't quite as memorable, but it's up against perfection, ok? Brahms' 'lullaby' (yes, THAT lullaby) is really sweet and of course there's 'Claire de Lune', a favorite of the Adagios collection, besides 'Sheep may safely graze' and 'Air on a G string'. (Honestly, does EVERY Adagios collection have that one? It's not even that wonderful.)

But what am I going on and on for?
BUY IT!!!!

NOW!!!!

STOP THINKING ALREADY AND BUY IT!!!
=^-^= February 27, 2006

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