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(8 customer reviews) 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Greatest March Sampling Out There!,
April 4, 2004 K. Brown "El Rudo Lucky Pierre!" (Walnut, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Greatest Hits Marches (Audio CD)
Knowing very little about classical music, I bought several march compilations a few years back, in hopes that I could develop at least a fanboy level of appreciation. Of the compilations I picked up, this is the one that showed me the most diverse sampling of marches. If you want to become familiar with the march genre, this collection runs away with the blue ribbon, with no contendors close behind. The other compilations I came across focused strictly on the American military marches; they were all very good, but this compilation dishes up a diverse menu, from Ludwig Von Beethoven to John Williams.This CD has a special place in my collection since it turned me on to John Philip Sousa, who has become one of my favorite composers ever. The Sousa selections on this CD are performed by The Incredible Columbia All-Star Band. I enjoyed these tunes immensely enough to buy some Sousa compilations, and found that while the All-Star Band's take on Sousa tunes is very good, I greatly prefer...Read more
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Blood Pumping Music,
January 29, 2001 "legalalien626" (Nacogdoches, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Greatest Hits Marches (Audio CD)
This CD took me back many years. It has great music that will get your blood pumping. It is a great selection of music and should be in anyones CD collection!!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Horrible sound quality,
August 20, 2010 Jay (Tacoma, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Greatest Hits Marches (Audio CD)
The music has no snap to it and tends to blend together, unlike a real marching band. Of course many of these are done by classical orchestras with their own renditions and not marching renditions and they don't have as heavy the impact of the bass drum and cymbals compared to a symphony hall. To anyone who has experienced marching in a military parade - 6,000 men in dress uniform carrying rifles on a parade field being led by a large marching band as I have (Marine Corps), they don't know what a real marching band sounds like and therefore have nothing to compare it to. The other thing that I don't like is the Colonel Bogey march - whistled, instead of the snappy marching music. I have marched to this several times in the Corps where it was played the way a march should be played. (The British had their own words to this march that couldn't be reproduced in the movie without R rating so they had them whistle it. The Marines also had a set of different verses. With those...Read more
