Re: music recommendation

You will need to set out some criteria for your CD collection.  You say you
prefer a capella to accompanied, but do you want to include (or exclude)
early music, modern music or ethnic music?  Religious or secular?  Early,
Classical, Romantic or avant garde and atonal?

The whole 'gamut' is quite an undertaking, and nobody can claim to have all
the answers.  The sound of a choir depends on its size, balance, repertoire
and the accoustics used during recording.  Again, personal tastes will vary
on all of these things.  A few contrasting examples I can recommend:

Gösta Ohlins Vokalensemble  - a Swedish mixed choir.  "Vind, vind lyckliga
vind" is one of my favourite CDs, and shows the influence of Eric Ericson,
the 'Grand Old Man' of choral singing in that country.
"Le mystere des voix bulgares"  - a female Bulgarian choir who made an
international reputation with their album of the same name.
Theatre of Voices made an excellent recording of Arvo Pärt's music on the
album "De Profundis".

-but I am sure that other deserving examples will be suggested on the
newsgroup.

best wishes
Simon Drew

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> I've always liked choral music, but despite having an extensive music
> collection, I've never owned any... can anyone recommend a good
compilation
> to introduce me to it?  Though I tend to like the kind with only voices,
not
> with big orchestra parts.  I also tend to like darker music, in general.
I
> like both "mundane" and unusual harmonies, so anything that spans the
gamut
> would be good.  I've searched a little on Amazon but there are so many
> choices.
>
> thanks for any help!
>
>