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📝 2096 reviews| Artist | Title | Review |
|---|---|---|
| Various | Risky Business | |
| Various | Country | |
| Various | Streets Of Fire | |
| Various | Windham Hill Sampler | |
| Various | Once Upon A Time In America | |
| Various | Amadeus | <p>The Academy Award-sweeping film <I>Amadeus</I> wisely pinned much of its dramatic thrust on Mozart's gloriously eternal music, and its soundtrack remains a concise yet rewarding introduction to Wolfgang's spectacular oeuvre. This newly remastered "Director's Cut" edition is a companion to the expanded DVD and features 24-bit encoding on two 24-karat-gold discs, sharpening the sonic clarity of the performances of Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields to near perfection. The performances (which, Marriner notes, crucially served as templates during actual production) have also been augmented to match the expanded new video edition and include a new, 2001 recording of the Adagio in C Minor for Glass Armonica, K. 617.</p><b><I>--Jerry McCulley</I></b> |
| Various | Invitation To Windham Hill | |
| Various | Angels In The Architecture | |
| Various | A Venture Sampler | |
| Various | Intoduction To Windham Hill | |
| Various | Sampler '88 | |
| Various | World Of Digital Classics Vol.2 | |
| Various | Scrooged | |
| Various | Thats Australia All Over Vol.2 | |
| Various | World Of Digital Classics Vol.1 | |
| Various | Guitar Sampler | |
| Various | Folkways: A Vision Shared | |
| Various | Passion Source | <p>Peter Gabriel's score for Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, released as the album Passion, was a fair introduction to world music forms for the complete novice, as the music was filtered through Gabriel's more accessible western pop sensibility. The far superior Passion - Sources (the first release on Gabriel's incipient Real World label) presents the original performances that inspired Gabriel's music, and as such is both a handy second step for those intrigued by the soundtrack and an entertaining collection for the more experienced world music fan. Due to the physical location and spiritual themes of the film, Gabriel's source material focuses on the Middle East, northern Africa, and southern Asia and incorporates much religious and ceremonial music. Strict purists have balked about this collection, as it includes one fairly dire piece of Indian pop music by Shankar & the Epidemics, shortens some tracks (most unfortunately, a spine-tingling performance by the great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, cut from over 11 minutes to not quite five), and overdubs some of Gabriel's musical associates onto others, like Manu Katche's somewhat distracting percussion overdubs on an otherwise enchanting Moroccan wedding song. For most listeners, however, these will be only minor annoyances, and there are plenty of "purer" representations of these musics available. Passion - Sources is in most ways an exemplary collection that did much to launch Real World as one of the most viable high-profile world music labels in the world.</p><p>— <strong>Stewart Mason</strong></p> |
| Various | Night Music 3 | |
| Various | Charly Blues Sampler Vol. 2 |
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