Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Rock of Ages: 30 Great Hymns
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Free Music Review: Rock of Ages: 30 Great Hymns
Hit: 5 Stars
I was pleased with the album and how fast that I received it !!
Free Music Review: Classic hymns with 'ok' sound quality
Hit: 4 Stars
This collection has many of the popular Mormon Tabernacle Choir songs. (However, I would have liked to hear Battle Hymn of the Republic.) The instrumental accompaniment also works very well. I especially like the drums and brass on songs like "Onward Christian Soldiers". The main fault of this recording is the sound quality. The fidelity is just not what would be expected from a recording today. It would sound fine on a cassette tape, but is just not the quality I would expect on CD. (Perhaps these masters were sitting around a little too long.)Free Music Review: Classic Hymns
Hit: 4 Stars
The CD is beautiful. The quality you'd expect from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. These are the hymns I've known all my life. Very comforting to listen to.Free Music Review: Good recordings from the 1960s.
Hit: 3 Stars
This CD is taken from two sessions the Choir recorded in 1960 and 1969, the earlier session (thirteen of the thirty tracks) being sung accompanied by the Philidelphia Brass Ensemble, and the latter session carried by the Tabernacle organ alone. The CD is generously filled out to 74 minutes, with 30 tracks crammed into the running time. It's intriguing to hear the finesse the choir has achieved in the last 40 years; if you compare this recording with their latest: "A Tabernacle Christmas," the improvement in the latter recording is dramatic. The recent creation of the Orchestra at Temple Square has been a much-admired improvement, but this recording has much to recommend it, including fervent readings of "Onward Christian Soldiers," the somber arrangement of "Abide With Me" and many others. Overall, a stolid, sincere recording which pales somewhat compared to the brilliant recent releases from this world-class choir.Free Music Review: Aged
Hit: 3 Stars
First off I loved the play list. I was very excited to see so many songs I enjoyed on one CD.
Most of the songs felt like the recordings were older. After some research, it appears to be true. These songs were recorded a long time ago, by about 40 years. Not that the music has changed, but recording certainly has changed.
Also I was a bit let down by some of the songs. Some just seemed too low sounding or as if they lacked passion. Personally I kept thinking about my own Ward and how we sound on Sunday and wishing I had a recording of us. Well the rest of the ward, I sound like a cat in heat when I sing.
Overall it is still a good and uplifting CD. It is just not what I was hoping for in terms of recording or passion.