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Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunk: Johann Sebastian Bach, Weichnachts Oratorium
After a couple of weeks of subtle early / church music that suits the Christmas mood well, this is a double CD of one of the daddies of the genre. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a baroque masterpiece made up of six cantatas. It tells the story of Christmas from the Nativity to the visit of…
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CeeLo Green: Heart Blanche
This has received a few mixed reviews so we were surprised how good it was. While it’s not original, it hits a consistently high standard and it’s an upbeat, positive album. Younger listeners will appreciate the slick tunes and dance/soul that’s a cut above most music around, older folk will like the references to past…
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Kylie: Christmas
If you’ve got a tenner to blow on a CD you’ll play for a couple of days and then put in a drawer for a year, this is as good as any. It opens with a lavish theatrical/ big band production of It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, followed by a lower key…
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Chorusgirl: Chorusgirl
The Press release calls this band a “noise pop” quartet, that description being the one of choice when you can’t think of anything else to say. As opposed to the “silent pop” bands, maybe. We played this through several times before it caught; if you don’t pay attention it’s easy to dismiss, but it’s got…
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The Danish Piano Trio: Danish Romantic Piano Trios
This lovely debut album sees The Danish Piano Trio present a beautiful collection of piano based music and it was only when playing it after a long hard day that we appreciated its virtue. The trio is newly-formed and comprises three of Denmark’s top musicians: pianist Katrine Gislinge, cellist Toke Møldrup and violinist Lars…
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Meat Wave: Delusion Moon
We’ve had this playing for several weeks, but each week have been unable to say much about it. We started dropping classical CDs in the Review Corner for the challenge of listening to music we knew nothing about, but if all albums were like this we’d be doing nothing but punk. If there was entry…
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The London Souls: Here Come the Girls
This is one of those glorious albums that you stick on expecting nothing much, and half an hour later you’re staring in shock at the speakers, eyes wide, hair windswept and the pictures on the wall all knocked askew. Ok, we exaggerate, but you get the idea. The London Souls are Led Zeppelin reincarnated (ok,…
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Vivaldi: Sacred Music, Vol 4, In Turbato Mare Irato
Another CD in the “nice for Christmas without being Christmassy” vein, and you can impress your friends with your erudition, saying: “Ah, yes, Vivaldi, seen as a one-hit wonder because of his big album Four Seasons but actually a prolific composer across a variety of genres”. The cover’s got Latin on, too. Antonio Vivaldi…
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Spook School: Try To Be Hopeful
The first album proper by Ash was 1977, released in 1996 and so called partly because two of the band members were born in 1977, which made them 19 at its release. It’s now another 19 years on but Spook School show that the Ash influence is still strong. Older Review Cornerers say that Ash…
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