Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - Hallelujah!: The Very Best of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
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Free Music Review: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir - black mass choir
Hit: 5 Stars
Excellent product, perfect condition, timely delivery, this choir never disappoints in the black mass choir genre' of music... recommended seller.Free Music Review: brooklyn tab choir cd
Hit: 5 Stars
The product is great. The amount of time it took to get here was extremely slow. So incredibly slow that I may not use Amazon again.Free Music Review: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Hallelujah
Hit: 5 Stars
A wonderful CD. The music is inspiring. Hallejuah Chorus was raised to new heights. Would strongly recommend it.Free Music Review: Hallelujah Chorus
Hit: 3 Stars
Secular white guys like me can still like good ol' roots oriented gospel musicf. It's the emotion that grabs you--when it's heartfelt. You could be a Buddhist, an animist or a Wiccan --or a complete non-believer--and it'd still get to you if you're open to it at all.
At the top of their game, it's evident that the singers in Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir are very, very good indeed. A powerful ensemble with lots of great soloists (since this is a "best of," I'm not sure how many are currently active in this 35 year old institution, but at the very least they have a history of fronting some great voices). And many of the arrangements are creative and some downright inspired (in whatever sense of the word you might prefer). That's particularly true of the opening two tracks, a rousing re-interpretation of "How Great Thou Art" and a gospel take on two movements from Handel's "The Hallelujah Chorus."
So it may seem like carping to suggest that the rest of the album does quite come up to the level established by the opening cuts. There are certainly many fine moments, but nothing quite as captivating as those two tracks. (I see that at least one other reviewer felt the same way and resultantly did not garner very many "helpfuls." Oh, well, you gotta call 'em as you see 'em.) And almost none of the tracks are helped out by the sometimes grandiose, sometimes just awkward instrumental arrangements. I like my gospel straight, thank you, no "show biz" overlay needed.
And I could do without the child's solo on "Happy Birthday Jesus," a cutesy-wootsy track that proves that "being saved" is no guarantee that you'll actually develop good taste (as if Tammy Faye hadn't already proved that decades ago). I do hope that was an actual child singing and not an adult putting on a simpering child's voice. Either way, it's painful.
All quibbling aside though, I would love to see this choir in conert. No doubt they'd be electrifying. At the very least, I'll have to check to see if there is anything by the BTC available in a video format. Could make for a rousing--and inspirational--evening.
Free Music Review: My First CD of this group
Hit: 5 Stars
I purchased this CD to get a good sampling of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir, one of the best known church choirs in the nation. It is clear why they are so popular with the arrangements on this album. If you appreciate good choir performances, this is not a CD you will be disappointed with.