Church Catalogue

There have been a number of Boy George/Culture Club greatest hits collections, but none of them manages to offer a truly complete picture of the band that produced so many likable, hummable songs. In no particular order, "Storytellers/Greatest Moments" rounds up the usual suspects ("Do You Really Want to Hurt Me," "Karma Chameleon"), throws in a few surprises ("That's the Way," "Love is Love") and adds a few unreleased tracks ("Strange Voodoo," "I Just Want to Be Loved").

Leonard Charles "Lenny" Williams (born February 16, 1945) is an American singer known for his work in the R&B and soul music genres. During the 1970s, he was the lead vocalist for Tower of Power. As a soloist, he made several hit recordings, including 1977's "Choosing You" and 1978's "Cause I Love You".

The Verdi Messa da Requiem is probably the best known Requiem in the repertoire. Many great conductors have recorded it. I’m thinking of Toscanini at New York/1951, Victor De Sabata at Milan/1954 and probably the best known of all Carlo-Maria Giulini at London/1964-65. Some more recent versions have proved popular notably John Eliot Gardiner using period instruments in London/1992, Claudio Abbado at Berlin/2001 and also Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Vienna/2004.

Two fantastic examples of 17th century mass performed by specialists of the genre. The whole is perfectly chiseled, mixing the warm sonorities of the viols with the vocal and textual rigor of the singers, restoring in a serene atmosphere the style appropriate to each of the composers (delicately archaic for the one, soberly modern for the other.