Album Reviews
Nirvana: Live at Reading (Deluxe Edition CD & DVD) Universal Music B002MRRRAA £22.50
They were kings of the grunge scene, and when Kurt and co took to the stage at Reading Festival in 1992, the performance would go on to gain legendary status. Now, 17 years later, never-seen-before footage has just been released. The NME voted the gig as the number one moment in Nirvana's history, and it also took the top spot in a Kerrang! feature on the 100 gigs that shook the world. The CD has 24 tracks and the DVD additionally includes Love Buzz. PW
Queen: Absolute Greatest EMI B002NULL9E 12.72
Freddie Mercury may have tragically died in 1991 but his music lives on, and you'll be hard-pushed to find anyone out there who isn't a fan of Queen. The Absolute Greatest includes all the Queen hits you'd expect. Opening with We Will Rock You and going onto We Are The Champions, the hits continue until the album closes with Bohemian Rhapsody. Fans of the band may have these songs already, but not all on one album. Every song chosen is a classic, and when put together this album makes the perfect Christmas gift. PW
Christmas from York, Regent REGCD 317 7.82
York Minster's new director of music, Robert Sharp, has brought with him that vibrant and exciting quality that made his Truro Cathedral Choir so admired. Twenty tracks of carols, including two first recordings and such evergreens as Away in a Manger, In the Bleak Midwinter and Once in Royal David's City. The trebles are superb when they scale the heights of Ding Dong! Merrily On High. Unobtrusive organ accompaniment from John Scott Whiteley, the recording defeating the Minster's massive acoustic. DD
Into This World This Day Did Come Delphian DCD 34075 13.70
Or why not try something different, with contemporary and medieval carols that celebrate special birth buried deep in the past. Most you may never have heard, as they move in time from the anonymous 12th century Verbum Patris unmanatur to works of our time by Diana Burrell, Howard Skempton, Robin Holloway and Judith Bingham, beauty being the linking factor. The award-winning Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, is superb, their sopranos so pleasing to the ear. Maybe a mite too much resonance to the sound. DD
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