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This handy collection of wedding music will eliminate the need for prenuptial fights, at
least about music. Certainly it will lead to more humane treatment of wedding musicians.
To be sure, the repertoire here is well worn. There's Pachelbel's Canon,...Read more
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Though never a fingerstyle technician on a par with the Pierre Bensusans and Martin
Simpsons of the world, Windham Hill founder and acoustic guitarist Ackerman has a way with
the elegiac and the moodily majestic, rarely so well-conceived as on this...Read more
Amazon.com Essential Recording
Brittany, in western France, is an ancient Celtic homeland whose language and music are
closely related to those of Wales and Cornwall. And although Breton folklorist Polig
Monjarret only jokingly suggested that the Chieftains do a Breton album, they...Read more
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Grainger was one of music's true originals. Folk-song collector, bandmaster, composer of
quirkily original orchestral and choral music, his works have yet to be fully
appreciated--or even cataloged. The problem was that he liked to keep his...Read more
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Accordian player Gabriel Gomes first heard the silken voice of Teresa Salgueiro as she
sang at a café table among friends in 1986. Gomes, along with fellow Madredeus musicians,
was searching for a singer and Salgueiro's pensive, crystal voice...Read more