Name: Cinema Choral Classics
Brand: E1 Entertainment Dist ***
SKU: 899117
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Cinema Choral Classics

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Album: Cinema Choral Classics
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna - (Latin, with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
2)	Jesus of Nazareth, television film score: Prelude & Birth of Christ - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
3)	Agnus Dei, for chorus (arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet), Op. 11 - (Latin, with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
4)	First Knight, film score: Never Surrender - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
5)	Abyss, film score: Themes, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
6)	King of Kings, film score: The Lord's Prayer - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
7)	Conan the Barbarian, film score: Riders of Doom - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
8)	Mission, film score: Ave Maria: Guarini, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
9)	Mission, film score: On Earth as it is in Heaven, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
10)	Lion in Winter, film score: Suite, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
11)	1492: Conquest of Paradise, film score: Main Theme - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
12)	Vikings, film score: Funeral & Finale, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
13)	Omen, film score: Suite, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
14)	Henry V (1989), film score: Non Nobis Domine - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)

Album: Cinema Choral Classics
#	Song Title	Time
1)	Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra: O Fortuna - (Latin, with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
2)	Jesus of Nazareth, television film score: Prelude & Birth of Christ - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
3)	Agnus Dei, for chorus (arr. from 2nd mvt. of String Quartet), Op. 11 - (Latin, with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
4)	First Knight, film score: Never Surrender - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
5)	Abyss, film score: Themes, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
6)	King of Kings, film score: The Lord's Prayer - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
7)	Conan the Barbarian, film score: Riders of Doom - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
8)	Mission, film score: Ave Maria: Guarini, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
9)	Mission, film score: On Earth as it is in Heaven, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
10)	Lion in Winter, film score: Suite, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
11)	1492: Conquest of Paradise, film score: Main Theme - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
12)	Vikings, film score: Funeral & Finale, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
13)	Omen, film score: Suite, The - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)
14)	Henry V (1989), film score: Non Nobis Domine - (with Crouch End Festival Chorus/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra)

Performer Notes

Just the ticket if you're seeking something moody, elegant and powerful. David Temple conducts the Crouch End Festival Chorus while the COPP is handled variously by Nic Raine, Paul Bateman and Kenneth Alwyn. Once again we have the "O Fortuna!" from Carl Orff's reading of the Carmina Burana, a piece so magnificent that it often dwarfs the next piece or two. Also included, for good measure, is Basil Poledouris' "Riders Of Doom", from Conan The Barbarian, another excellent choral outing (presented here with new Latin lyrics due to the loss of the originals.) Ennio Morricone's beautiful score for The Mission is sampled twice, though it's Jerry Goldsmith who gets the largest chunk of running time, with the tremendous "Never Surrender" from First Knight and a twelve minute suite drawn from The Omen. More dramatic than touching in contents, Cinema Choral Classics does a good job of stirring the blood. ~ Steven McDonald

Professional Reviews

American Record Guide (11-12/97, p.254) - "...There is a lot of loud, majestic, and --let's face it--pretentious music on this disc, most of it well performed....Some of the music from Maurice Jarre's score for `Jesus of Nazareth' is truly beautiful...Jerry Goldsmith's score for `The Omen' is appropriately creepy and jangling, and the Crouch End Chorus sings it well..."