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| Gloria: Music of Praise & Inspiration | 
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| Creators: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Maurice Durufle, Antonin Dvorak, George Frederick Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Aleksandr Kopylov, Frank Martin, Arvo Part, Francis Poulenc, Sergey Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Randall Thompson, Giuseppe Verdi, Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Shaw, Marietta Simpson, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Dawn Upshaw, Penelope Jensen
Label: Telarc
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $10.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 59822
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 80519
UPC: 089408051920
EAN: 0089408051920
ASIN: B00000DFWF
Release Date: October 27, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Gloria~Gloria In Excelsis | | • | Sanctus | | • | Glory to God | | • | Awake the harp | | • | Gloria | | • | Gloria | | • | Sanctus | | • | A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High: Heavenly Light - Robert Shaw, Kopylov, Boris | | • | Aeterna fac | | • | Slava V Vyshnikh Bogu (Glory to God in the Highest) | | • | Sanctus | | • | Gloria | | • | A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High: Alleluia - Robert Shaw, Thompson | | • | Sanctus | | • | Evocation of the Spirit: Magnificat - Robert Shaw, Part, Arvo |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
This compilation features excerpts from some of the greatest sacred works in the literature--including Bach's Mass in B Minor, Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, and Verdi's Requiem--all led by Robert Shaw. The selections, from recordings made between 1983 and 1997 by Shaw and various ensembles including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, are presented more or less in order of their composition, from Vivaldi's Gloria to Arvo Paert's Magnificat. Especially thrilling is the complete "Gloria" from the Missa solemnis, 17 minutes of sheer grandeur, and the Sanctus movements from the Requiems of Verdi and Maurice Durufle. --Ted Libbey
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| Customer Reviews:
Glorious June 29, 2000
43 out of 43 found this review helpful
If I had to choose one conductor to compile exerpts from the greatest masses and works in choral literature and history, I would only bestow that duty to Robert Shaw and his choruses. Once again he displays his uncanny ability to not only choose beautiful music but also perform it in a spellbinding manner. Even with the pieces the average listener has heard or performed, such as Vivaldi's Gloria or portions of Handel's Messiah, one cannot help but become enthralled with the recordings of Shaw's interpretations of those works. Although Shaw never followed through on his early-life ambition to be a minister, I still believe he does so and perhaps to a greater extent through his music ministry. One cannot help but feel closer to understanding what heaven is about after having finished listening to this CD. This is well worth buying for it will live up to the english interpretation of its Latin title: Glorious.
Robert Shaw Choruses At Their Best! September 19, 2004
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
If Sir Robert were still alive, & breathing, I believe he would be caught-up making music with this awesome, majestic, mystical GLORIA, Sanctus, Hallelujah Masterworks! I lucked-up on this old collection in the few classical CD'S in Best Buy!
At first hearing they sent me back into the 1970's when most of Church Musicians majored in Vivaldi's Gloria, the Sanctus of Bach's B-Minor Mass, the Long, georgeous GLORIA, Missa Solemnis, Beethoven, and incomparable Alleluia by Randall Thompson.
During a visit of Hurricane IVAN'S rushing winds and torrents of rain, I stayed on back roads of Decatur and East Atlanta! Also keeping alert & relaxed listening to Robert Shaw re-inventing his Choral Mystique! In slowly moving traffic of 2++ hours to Fayetteville, I kept alert singing along at 30 mph, wrapped in his quiet heavenly beauty of Koplov's "Heavenly Light!"
That mysteriously spiritual power of glorious choruses provided the same resourceful sounds of his eternal music-making from rehearsals in the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Westminster Choir College and Avery Fischer Hall concerts in NYC! (1975-1985)
Only the early 33 1/3 recordings of the Robert Shaw Chorale in his Spirituals and Irish Songs, later Handel's Messiah and Bach B-Minor Mass were forerunners to his awesome listing of repeated Grammy winners, now printed in digital stereo color and sound! Hooray for Sir Robert and his rich chorale legacy... Let's keep them singing for Eternity! Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood
It is absolutely breath-takingly beautiful. May 15, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this CD very much. It is just beautiful music.
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