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Summary: Beautiful Music
Comment: This CD is the best of two different Musical Types. The orchestrtion and the choral components are wonderfully matched. When you listen to this you can go on a journey that is so magical!
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Summary: The BEST Adiemus
Comment: It's hard to decide which of the Adiemus CD's I would rate as best. However, as the title suggests, this is the title I always recommend to friends who have never heard any of Karl Jenkins' work. Every track is a great experience as well as a unique musical journey. Stated conversely, if you don't like this album, you won't like anything else by Karl Jenkins.
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Summary: Adiemus II
Comment: Overall, I think this is the best of the Adiemus works. The symphonic overtones add greatly to the richness of the songs.
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Summary: Gasps & Goosebumps! A 2,000 Mile CD!
Comment: This is my first experience listening to Karl Jenkins' music and I would give this CD 10 stars. I got the CD the day before taking a 500 mile trip and just took it out of the box and placed it on my dash. I had bought the CD for cut#8 Chorale IV which I heard on a cable TV New Age music station. I listened to them all and pretty much skipped cut #1 Cantus-Song of Tears because it started off a little boring.
Boy was I wrong! Cut#1 is possibly one of the most startlingly beautiful pieces EVER written. It takes a minute to get going, but it is breathtaking. It caused me to gasp "Wow!" and raised the hair on my arms each time I listened to it. The gorgeous payoff of this piece comes in at 6 minute 51 seconds. As another reviewer said, they used this piece in a live show and I was wondering as I listened to it why someone wouldn't put it to that great use.
This music not only gives you mind pictures, it can transcend distance OR time. I felt myself standing on a cliff in the Himalayas looking down across space and time. Incredible! Karl Jenkins is definitely an unhearalded musical genius.
Cut #14 Cantilena is what I would like played at my funeral if I go having lived a truly good life (which I have.) It is a fitting denouement of a good life. Same for #15 Elegia.
I had not read the jewelbox info before i played this CD and thought I heard Miriam Stockley. Great mix, these two artists! She is vastly talented and the Africa, Latin, Classical mix that she infuses makes this CD so addictive, I listened to it on two trips, over 2,000 miles! I will be buying more Karl Jenkins music.
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Summary: Cantata Mundi - Adiemus at its best
Comment: Many of us form mental images when we listen to music. When I listen to Adiemus, I sometimes
see [apologies to composer Karl Jenkins and primary vocalist Miriam Stockley]
National-Geographic-style Maori\Masai\Zulu women dancing around and singing in their
villages while the London Symphony Orchestra lingers in a nearby glade. Composer-genius
Jenkins has managed to meld ethnic-style vocalizations, many of them exuberant and\or
hauntingly beautiful, with rich Western European orchestrations in the late Romantic-to-now
style. The result is a unique genre that is instantly recognizable and can be downright infectious.
Fellow Amazonian cannot go wrong choosing any of the first 4 Adiemus efforts, but my personal
favorite is Cantata Mundi. Followed closely by Adiemus IV [substitute leprechauns for those
Zulu singers, although, come to think of it, they are there too - go figure for a CD that is based
upon Celtic legends], and just ever so slightly behind, Songs of Sanctuary and Dances of Time.
All will delight lovers of original, beautiful music.
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