Advantages: A good introduction to sacred music Disadvantages: A rather niche album on which those into the genre will find nothing new
cheaper discs. I've always found Naxos to be reliable and, indeed, some of my favourite versions of classical pieces can be found on this label. One thing to note, if you're not overly familiar with classical music, is that the recording can make all the difference. The variation in interpretation of the musical score can be as varied as thinking of all the cover-versions of popular songs - no two are ever the same.
Requiem is subtitled "music for Reflection and Meditation". It takes various well known settings of the requiem mass, together with a couple of other fitting pieces and puts them together in one place. If one is so minded, one should note that this album is NOT a requiem mass. The pieces don't follow in the right order but, having said that, to the knowledgeable, the whole album stands on its own as a good religious set ...
Advantages: Peaceful Sleep Disadvantages: Can be boring
This is a review of the audio book, Angel Therapy Meditations.
-Doreen Virtue-
Doreen Virtue is a qualified counselling psychologist, educated to PhD level. She is also a clairvoyant who works closely with Angels. I haven't read any of her books yet but I have used several of her meditation CD's and in my experience although she claims to work with non-denominational Angels, therefore appealing to people of all faiths (but probably not people with no faith) I have found that her CD's are more tailored for people who believe in a single, masculine God, although of course you can interpret her words in whatever way you want.
-The CD-
Although the title of the CD would suggest that this is a CD with many meditations on it, it's actually just one long meditation that has lots of different parts that are like mini-meditations. This ...