Little Voices

RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo series spawned a number of ensembles with Living in their titles; the two that folks remember these days are The Living Strings and The Living Voices. Here's two holiday albums featured on this twofer that she released with The Living Voices remain treasured among Christmas music aficionados for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. The first, 1962's "Sing Christmas Music", had actually come out on the Living Stereo imprint in 1959 as "Christmas Surprises" from The Ralph Hunter. The second album, 1965's "The Little Drummer Boy", featured the legendary Anita Kerr Singers and production by Anita Kerr herself.

New York Voices is unquestionably one of the finest singing ensembles ever assembled and with Let It Snow, lend their quality vocals to the wintery season of cheer delivering a powerful performance of familiar Christmas songs sure to be regarded as a future holiday classic.

New York Voices is unquestionably one of the finest singing ensembles ever assembled and with Let It Snow, lend their quality vocals to the wintery season of cheer delivering a powerful performance of familiar Christmas songs sure to be regarded as a future holiday classic.

Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices' albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. As title says, here's the Living Voices sings the songs from a famous Broadway musicals.

Pünktlich zum Fest präsentieren The Golden Voices Of Gospel die Weihnachts-Edition Ihres Erfolgsalbums „Hallelujah“. Seit Jahrzehnten auch hierzulande eine stimmgewaltige Institution standen The Golden Voices of Gospel in dutzenden Samstagabend Shows gemeinsam mit den Größen des deutschen Schlagers auf der Bühne. Sie waren noch einmal im Studio und haben sechs Weihnachts-Klassiker speziell für diese Edition neu aufgenommen.

Brain child of pioneering producer Ethel Gabriel, The Living Voices were one of the top acts on RCA's wildly successful Living Stereo imprint. Living Voices' albums were renowned for their ornate orchestration, innovative arrangements, and, most of all, sweeping stereo sound. As title says, here's the Living Voices sings the songs from a famous Broadway musicals.

Mosaic Voices are the Resident Choir at the New West End Synagogue, in London. The synagogue, designed in 1877 by the Scottish architect George Audsley, is a masterpiece of Victorian architecture, known for its beautiful choral acoustic. A great deal of the material on this album is therefore music sung by Mosaic Voices, in Hebrew, during religious services and festivals, of which this music forms a functional element.

Gothic Voices, the world-famous early music ensemble, makes its Linn debut with a recording celebrating the biblical matriarch Mary. Pieces from contemporary composers Joanne Metcalf and Andrew Smith sit alongside settings of Marian texts from the 13th and 14th centuries. Notably, there is a rare setting of English biblical text which precedes the first publication of an English language bible by 150 years. Mary in her various guises - caring mother, virgin lover, guiding light - are explored through settings of ancient ritualistic texts showing her mythical and human aspects, whilst contemporary settings relate the themes to the modern day. The contemporary works are cleverly constructed around a modal core so that they fit perfectly with the structure and sound of the early music compositions. With over thirty years experience Gothic Voices' complete understanding of every aspect of early music performance is exceptional.

The message folk songs that have become so important in popular music in recent months have been heralded for their timeliness. But everything in this album is not that simple, not that easily categorized–not when one really listens to the extraordinarily meaningful lyrics that are virtually always the thing. Especially are things not so simple when one listens to the words written by Bob Dylan, the young front-runner of the message and/or protest folk song, folk rock, folk 'n' roll, anti-protest song, what-have-you. True, his words are as timely as today's headlines, but, paradoxically, they are also timeless, frequently dealing with social-political ills we can exchange for those headlines but which also could be set down in many a generation and be topical.