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Amazon ASIN: B0002RUAAQ
LowestNewPrice CurrencyCode USD
LowestNewPrice FormattedPrice $8.62
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LowestUsedPrice FormattedPrice $5.50
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Product Details
| Artist | Chris Dodd |
| Artist | Fiona Pears |
| Artist | Anthony Chadney |
| Artist | Ben Crawley |
| Artist | Christopher Robson |
| Artist | Raoul Platt |
| Binding | Audio CD |
| EAN | 0724355782328 |
| Label | EMI Classics |
| CurrencyCode | USD |
| FormattedPrice | $16.98 |
| Manufacturer | EMI Classics |
| MPN | 57823 |
| NumberOfDiscs | 1 |
| ProductGroup | Music |
| Publisher | EMI Classics |
| ReleaseDate | 2004-10-05 |
| Studio | EMI Classics |
| Title | Free |
| UPC | 724355782328 |
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Editorial Reviews
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English composer Robert Prizeman has taken a conventional English boy's choir--usually a haven for sweet songs and ecclesiastical renderings--and made them contemporary without selling out any of their intrinsic charm. Their stacked choral voices and lead sopranos, dressed up with electronica rhythms, synthesizers, and strings still sound like they could be coming from the church balcony, even while they exude an Enya-like appeal. While there are adaptations of Gregorian chants and Sibelius hymns, most of the songs are Prizeman originals based on those styles, with texts often drawn from Latin Liturgy. Except for the chilled romanticism of "Stay With Me," and the rhythm driven "Adoramus," whose chorus sounds like a Harry Potter incantation, few of the songs on Free have the anthemic pop appeal of "Salva Me" or "Vespera" from previous albums. Instead, Prizeman has opted for a more serene sound on Free, even with their first video from the disc, the yearning "I Am the Day." Some of it, like Prizeman's setting of a Walter de la Mare poem on "A Song of Enchantment," gets lugubrious. But most of Free floats on gentle soprano breezes, intrinsically innocent, even if the boys might be smoking cigarettes behind the altar. --John Diliberto
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