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Companion volume to Gregorian Christmas

M. J. Smith | Seattle, WA USA | 09/02/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Advent Gregorian Chants is a companion volume to Gregorian Christmas. The latter has a same descrepancy in who recorded these - the listing says: "Performed by Schola Hungarica Conducted by László Dobszay" while the cd itself simply says "Capella Gregoriana". This, too, is attributed to Capella Gregoriana but given the quality I suspect it also is Schola Hungarica. The recording has voices clearly used to chant with careful unisons that keeps the words understandable. Occasionally the high ranges of the women's voices as a fragility in sound I doubt is intentional but that is a small flaw. The collection includes the "O" antiphons which introduce the Magnificat during the last bit of Advent. These antiphons are the basis of the carol "O come, o come Emmanuel". This is definately an acceptable version of very traditional Advent music."

CONFUSED!!!!

Michael Antaya | Fall River, MA USA | 11/18/2003

(1 out of 5 stars)

"First of all Iam no writing a bad review, since I like the CD very much, however...there are some very MAJOR discrepacies with this recording. First there are onl 15 chants on the album, when there are supposed to be 21 chants. The numbers and track titles on the back of the case do not correspond with the actual chants that are recorded...for example...it says that the "Magnificat" is trak number 6 on the rear of the case, however its another chant all together. also Trcks 16-21 do not even appear on th CD itself, however according to the package there are 21 tracks....half of the chants that I bought this CD for on not even on it!WHERE IS THE CHANT"