Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace
Product Details | Similar Products | Customer Reviews | Artist: Karl Jenkins List Price: £15.99 Our Price: £6.98 You Save: £9.01 (56%) Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours  |
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 10 September 2001 Record Label: Virgin Rating:   Sales Rank: 543 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: Amazon Review a bit off (10 August 2008)I would guess that the Amazon reviewer Warwick Thompson is under 25. Anyway, he writes as if he is, judging by his use of the English language ("think Goldfinger", eeeeeeeeh!). He also believes that L'Homme Armee is 16th century. Oh dear. I find the reviews of the actual buyers much more to the point, wheher positive or negative. Pity that the text of the Amazon reviewer is displayed at the top. OK? Emotional music (29 May 2008)This piece just reduces me to tears - probably because my closet friend served in both the Falklands War and the first Gulf War. A most moving piece of music - to anyone's ears, if only they've got ears to hear. I am singing it with my choir this year and find it almost impossible to sing it without welling-up. Worth every penny of the CD's price. Meretricious pap (26 May 2008)I'm sorry but anyone who thinks this is good music needs to get out more. At best it's second-rate, at worst it's meretricious pap. For anti-war music listen to Britten's War Requiem, for settings of the mass listen to any one of a hundred composers who have done it better. Stick to Adiemus Karl, you'll never hack it as a proper composer. surprised (30 April 2008)I wasn't keen on Adiemus, and wasn't expecting to like this, though I had heard bits on classic fm that grabbed my attention (while working with the radio on). However, I do find this enjoyable from start to finish, skipping over the muezzin's prayer (which I could hear out my window in certain locales). Maybe it is not complex, but there are surprising moments and there is plenty of passion throughout. Obviously this is something that splits opinion, so I must be a prole. Yes, I even like Andrew Lloyd Webber at times. But then I also listen to Arvo Part, to Tavener and others in abundance, alongside the likes of Ali Farka Toure and Santana (in his prime), so... I consider myself to be without baggage but not without ears. It's worth a listen. Make up your own mind. The worst piece of music I have ever performed. (10 March 2008)I have been singing since I was a chorister at the age of 8 and I am sorry, but 17 years later this the only peace that I would never perform again. It is musically uninspiring and monotonous. I am sorry that I will be accused of being elitist but I know of no redeeming features for this work. |
