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| Thomas Tallis: Spem in Alium |
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| Simply beautiful Elizabethan Renaissance music, the singers wrapping their voices around each other as the sound rises and falls like the waves of the sea. |
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| Schubert: String Quartet No.15 |
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| Classically pure yet so evocative, this truly great composer straddles the worlds of Bach and of the Romantics to come. |
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| Sibelius: Third Symphony |
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| Sombre but magnificent the music keep swelling to ever greater and more sustained climaxes. |
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| Michael Tippett: A Child of our Time |
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| One of the 20th Century's seminal works, a choral masterpiece of despair and hope. |
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| Ben Webster: Old Folks |
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| The great tenor sax jazzman playing a slow piece in his unique and beautifully smoky way. |
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| Herbie Hancock: Canteloupe Island |
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| A survivor. Herbie is a true giant of jazz as this exquisitely structured piece reveals. |
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| Peggy Lee: Till There Was You |
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| One of the great torch singers at her impressive best with this beautiful love song. |
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| James Booker: Papa Was A Rascal |
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| New Orleans has produced its shares of R n B pianists and this man is surely the greatest of them. A romp of a piece with piano interludes to die for. |
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| Los Lobos: La Pistola y La Corazon |
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| The Californian Mexicans sing this achingly beautiful song in Spanish. |
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| Wyclif Jean: Many Rains Ago |
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| Rapping anger and magnificent redemption from the Haitian master. |
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