STYLE: Classical RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 12611-10618 LABEL: Kingsway KMCD2535 FORMAT: CD Album ITEMS: 4 RELEASE DATE: 2004-03-19 RRP: £16.99
Reviewed by Tony Cummings
Kingsway should be congratulated for bringing some of the highlights of classical music's extensive repertoire of sacred music to the attention of the Christian bookshop browser and this, the latest in the Masterworks series, is every bit as good as its predecessors. £16.99 brings you four albums of stunning music - Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", Rachmaninov's "Vespers" and Stainer's "The Crucifixion" plus a CD (rather imaginatively titled 'Great Instrumentals') which features some individual gems from Haydn, Handel, Bach, Mozart and more. It says in the excellent sleevenotes from Roger Wilcock, "For Christians there is an added bonus to listening to much of this kind of music, since it was, in fact, the praise and worship music of its time." When one experiences the kaleidoscope of incandescent musical themes of "Missa Solemnis" presented here one can only hope that such towering creativity will still connect with those hooked on the latest Hillsong.
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