CD Albums - Comments by Gill Sans

CD Albums - Comments by Gill Sans

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
Gill Sans SUBS 21st Jun 2024		CD Album Gracious - Gracious ! / This Is... Gracious !! (1995)	'Fugue In 'D' Minor' is more or less Bach's 'Little Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578, transcribed down, which makes for a pleasantly 'Classical' piece by this Surrey-based 5-piece progrock band. [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 17th Oct 2023		CD Album Drakensberg Boys' Choir - Window On The World	Dominei Ad Adjuvandum Me Festina by Gottfried Homilius [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 24th Jul 2023		CD Album Andy Garbi - The Sound Of One (2005)	[YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 8th Jun 2022		CD Album Malle Babbe Women's Choir - Paradise Road (1997)	Let's hear the Rutland Boughton, in the arrangement made by the women prisoners' vocal orchestra, recorded here for the 1997 film Paradise Road. [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 15th Feb 2022		CD Album Konrad Kucz Featuring Kuba Jakowicz - The Four Seasons (2013)	Konrad Kucz, Polish composer of electronic and experimental music. [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 26th Nov 2020		CD Album The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Last Night At The Proms (2008)	There is some good brisk playing on this assortment of tracks which all seem to have been released elsewhere. The accompanying details are few and the typos and errors on the sleeve and CD data are many. I don't recognise the two Bugle Calls (Buggle Calls on the CD data) but the brass is bright and clear. The conductor is not credited but can be seen to be Carl Davis from this video. The tracks The Anchors Weighed, The Saucy Arethusa, Tom Bowling, Jack's The Lad, Farewell And Adieu Ye Spanish Ladies, and Home Sweet Home make up a Fantasia On British Sea Songs which were arranged by Sir Henry Wood. The Anchors Weighed: [YouTube Video] Among the folk tunes of the Fantasia, The Saucy Arethusa was in fact written by Turlough O’Carolan and is quite my favourite track on the CD. [YouTube Video] Rule, Britannia! was written by Thomas Arne, with both instrumental and choral versions here. Jerusalem was written by Hubert Parry and orchestrated by Elgar. The Pomp And Circumstance March is No. 1 In D. There is no known composer of the tune for Auld Lang Syne so "Davie" is completely spurious on the sleeve.
Gill Sans SUBS 25th Nov 2020		CD Album The London Philharmonic Orchestra And Singers - The Andrew Lloyd Webber Songbook (2007)	Andrew Lloyd Webber's Greatest Hits, from ten of the musicals, in pleasing recordings by the Orchestra And Singers [YouTube Video]
Gill Sans SUBS 10th Apr 2017		CD Album Various Artists - 24 Preludes And Fugues (2016)	Would you like to add this also on Classical Music World? It would be nice to have it there