Advent at Ephesus

Advent at Ephesus
~ Benedictines of Mary (Artist), Queen of Apostles (Artist)
9 days in the top 100
Release Date: November 19, 2012

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The first of its kind, charged with joy, and graced with angelic blend of voices, this new release captures in song the spirit of hope and expectation of Advent.

This unique CD is recorded by the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles: a young, monastic order of Sisters located in rural Missouri, dedicated to prayer for priests. Advent at Ephesus includes an amazing variety of traditional Latin and English hymns, polyphony, Gregorian Chant, medieval harmonies and an original piece to prayerfully lead you through the sacred season in preparation for Christmas.

Advent is perhaps the most neglected season, but remains one of the most treasured by the sisters here at the Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus. The Liturgical year has reached its dramatic close with the Feast of Christ the King and a series of meditations on the Last Judgment. While lamps remain lit in our hearts for the final coming of the Lord, (track 14) a milder tenor creeps into the voice of the Church as Advent begins a new year, and attention is also given to the coming of the Infant Christ into the world (tracks 1, 6, and 13.) The Annunciation (tracks 3, 5 and 8) the cry of the Baptist (track 12) and the expectation of Our Lady (tracks 11, 16, and 17) are all leitmotifs that repeatedly occur in the chants and the Divine Office. The
nightly antiphon to Our Lady changes from the familiar Salve Regina to the gentle Alma Redemptoris Mater, honoring her motherhood (tracks 2, 15.) A bold, melancholy tone of impatience is joined to those of the prophets and chosen people who waited for the Lords coming for centuries (tracks 7, 9.) Yet there also remains a sustained strain of gaudium, the interior joy characteristic of Advent that lends its name to the Third Sunday, Gaudete Sunday. (Track 10, Offertory of Gaudete Sunday.)

The Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles is a monastic community located in rural Missouri. Consecrated
to the Queen of Apostles, their lives are dedicated to contemplative prayer especially for priests. They support
themselves primarily by making priestly vestments. Professing obedience to the Churchs teaching, the community upholds
a loving commitment to preserving the liturgical heritage of the Church in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass
and traditional monastic Office. This is their first recording with de Montfort Music and Decca records.

• Rank: #194 in Music
• Released on: 2012-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Greatest Hits: Deluxe Version

Greatest Hits: Deluxe Version
~ Il Divo (Artist)
(1)
Release Date: December 4, 2012

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Deluxe version contains a bonus disc with 13 additional tracks. The one and only Il Divo celebrate eight years of unprecedented global success with the release of their definitive Greatest Hits collection featuring four brand new tracks. The greatest hits features tracks from all 5 studio albums released to date and they've also recorded four songs especially for this release:My Heart Will Go On(in Italian),I Will Always Love You(in Spanish),I Can't Help Falling In Love With You(English) andAlone(Spanish). Below is a link to download a watermarked audio of the album. The world's first and still the best classical crossover group - Urs Buhler, Carlos Marin, David Miller and Sebastien Izambard - have sold over 26 million albums, enjoyed over 50 number ones, chalked up 160 gold and platinum sales in over 33 countries and staged 4 world tours.

• Rank: #361 in Music
• Released on: 2012-12-04
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .28 pounds

Adam's Lament

Adam's Lament
~ Arvo Part (Artist, Composer), Riga Sinfonietta (Performer), Tonu Kaljuste (Conductor), Latvian Radio Choir (Orchestra), Vox Clamantis (Orchestra), et al.
12 days in the top 100
Release Date: October 30, 2012

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Marshalling orchestral and choral forces under the direction of Tonu Kaljuste, this new Arvo Part album, produced by Manfred Eicher and realized, like all Part s ECM discs, with the composers participation, is a major event. Sacred music predominates, by turns monumentally powerful and tenderly fragile. Compositions featured, in premiere recordings made in Tallinns Niguliste Church, are: Adams Lament for choir and string orchestra; Beatus Petronius for two choirs, eight woodwind instruments, tubular bells and string orchestra; Salve Regina for choir, celesta and string orchestra; Statuit ei Dominus for two choirs, woodwinds and string orchestra; Alleluia-Tropus for choir and string orchestra; LAbbe Agathon for soprano, baritone, female choir and string orchestra. The album concludes with two lullabies Estonian Lullaby and Christmas Lullaby for female choir and string orchestra. In title piece Adams Lament Part uses a poetic text by Silouan of Athos to emphasize our common heritage in the figure of Adam. Adam is all of us who bear his legacy. This Total Adam has been suffering and lamenting for thousands of years on Earth. Adam himself, our primal father, foresaw the human tragedy and experienced it as his personal guilt. He has suffered all human cataclysms, unto the depths of despair.

• Rank: #180 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 5.04" h x .43" w x 5.63" l, .27 pounds

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays
~ Andre Rieu (Artist)
Release Date: October 30, 2012

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Andre Rieu, together with his Johann Strauss Orchestra, featured soloists, and choir celebrate the most romantic time of the year with 14 holiday classics. The Modern Maestro presents the heartening Silent Night, Ave Maria and O Come All Ye Faithful as well as unforgettable renditions of all-time favorites like Silver Bells and White Christmas. A highlight in the program is the premier of Andre Rieu's own composition December Lights, sure to become an instant classic. Home For The Holidays is a treat for fans of Andre Rieu, a wonderful display of classical music, and a feast of holiday entertainment for the whole family.

• Rank: #117 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25" h x 5.00" w x 5.50" l, .22 pounds

Well Tempered Clavier Books I & II

Well Tempered Clavier Books I & II
~ Andras Schiff (Artist), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)
(3)
Release Date: September 25, 2012

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As a young pianist, Andras Schiff earned wide esteem for his 1980s recordings of the major keyboard works of J.S. Bach; in recent years, as part of his long-term relationship with ECM, he has gone back to Bach as a sage veteran, earning more acclaim for his New Series recordings of the Goldberg Variations (2001) and the six Partitas (2007). The New York Times said, Mr. Schiff is, in Bach, a phenomenon. He doesn t so much perform it as emit, breathe it. In August 2011, Schiff turned his focus to the 48 preludes and fugues of The Well-Tempered Clavier, making studio recordings of both books in the Auditorium Radiosvizzera Italiana, Lugano. An iconic inspiration for composers from Mozart and Beethoven to Chopin and Brahms and beyond, The Well-Tempered Clavier has long been considered the Old Testament of the keyboard literature (with Beethovens piano sonatas as the New Testament). In his liner notes to this four-CD set, Paul Griffiths underscores the suitability of Bachs timeless keyboard work for the modern piano: Bach s inquiry into so many nuances, of touch, of interplay between hands and between contrapuntal lines, of character and of expressivity, has helped form keyboard technique as we know it, and his music belongs to the instrument of Beethoven, of Chopin, of Debussy, of Kurtág especially when that instrument is played with the mastery and sensitivity of Schiff in these performances. . . Noteworthy is his floated melody and his rhythmic sense his realization that so much of Bach s music is song or dance. Grandeur and intimacy are also here. Wit, too.

• Rank: #264 in Music
• Released on: 2012-09-25
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: 5.12" h x .79" w x 5.71" l, .48 pounds

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Rework-Philip Glass Remixed

Rework-Philip Glass Remixed
~ Philip Glass (Artist, Composer, Conductor), My Great Ghost (Artist), Tyondai Braxton (Artist), Nosaj Thing (Artist), Dan Deacon (Artist), et al.
Release Date: October 23, 2012

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2012 two CD remix project from the Avant-Garde composer. The idea for Rework came together during a conversation between Philip and his friend and new collaborator Beck. The pair recruited producer Hector Castillo to help assemble a collection of remixes of Glass' works by a list of critically acclaimed artists including Beck himself, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert, Pantha Du Prince, My Great Ghost and Peter Broderick.

• Rank: #712 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .15" h x 5.75" w x 5.00" l, .28 pounds

The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection

The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection
~ Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Artist)
(1)

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In celebration of 50 years of the legendary New Orlean's Preservation Hall comes a 4-CD, 58-track collection that spans from 1962, when Nesuhi Ertegun first recorded New Orleans living legends at the Preservation Hall, to 2010 when the current incarnation of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band recorded with an array of musical guests, including Richie Havens, Tom Waits, Pete Seeger, Andrew Bird, Yim Yames and Del McCoury. This box set includes 5 previously unissued performances.

• Rank: #1345 in Music
• Released on: 2012-09-25
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.75" w x 10.50" l, .90 pounds

The Greatest Hits

The Greatest Hits
~ Il Divo (Artist)
Release Date: November 19, 2012

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Il Divo celebrate eight years of unprecedented global success with the release of The Greatest Hits, a definitive 18-song collection featuring four brand new tracks.

Many of the tracks have been chosen by their fans all over the world and include favorites "Somewhere," "Unbreak My Heart," "Unchained Melody" and "Adagio." They've also recorded four songs especially for this release: "My Heart Will Go On" (in Italian), "I Will Always Love You" (in Spanish), "I Can't Help Falling In Love" (English) and "Alone" (Spanish).

"I am proud of this Greatest Hits," says Carlos. "I love every song on it. It reminds me of everything we have achieved, to have been together for so many years, still selling so many records, playing so many concerts and making such great music together. It is just fantastic people have supported and enjoyed what we do for so long. It is the love of my life."

Urs says "As a singer you can never take for granted what you do, every note is a balancing act. But every night I step on stage so proud of what we do. I have learned so much these past 8 years, had so many wonderful experiences and cherished every moment. This Greatest Hits release for us and hopefully our fans marks what has been an incredible journey so far."

Fans around the world wholeheartedly agree with those sentiments. That beautiful blend of voices has been widely imitated since their inception but never bettered. There is only one original. There is only one Il Divo.

• Rank: #229 in Music
• Released on: 2012-11-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Lang Lang: The Chopin Album

Lang Lang: The Chopin Album
~ Lang Lang (Artist, Conductor), Chopin (Composer)
18 days in the top 100

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World-renowned pianist LANG LANG turns to the composer who has accompanied him throughout his career on his new release for Sony Classical, THE CHOPIN ALBUM. The music of Chopin, universally loved for its beauty and communicative power, has long been a dynamic force in Lang Lang's life, propelling him through a number of career-defining experiences. Now, in his 30th-birthday year, Lang Lang records his first album entirely devoted to the great composer's solo piano masterpieces. Chopin "speaks with such a universal voice," says Lang Lang. "I genuinely believe he's a true ambassador for classical music among the great composers. He appeals to everyone."

One of the first pieces Lang Lang learned was the Grande Valse brillante in E-flat major op. 18 (included on this album), and it was Chopin's music that also carried him through a number of career-changing competitions, including Ettlingen (Germany) in 1994 and the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians in Sendai (Japan) in 1995, when he took First Prize performing Chopin's Second Piano Concerto. And it was with the Chopin Etudes that Lang Lang made his now-renowned Beijing Concert Hall recital at age 14 a performance that led to his studying with Gary Graffman at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. The Chopin Album includes the second set of Chopin's Etudes (op. 25), the Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise and a selection of shorter works that he has long enjoyed performing, including three Nocturnes and the Waltz op. 64 no. 1, popularly known as the "Minute" Waltz.

• Rank: #179 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Dimensions: .25" h x 5.50" w x 5.25" l, .24 pounds

Mission: Deluxe Hardcover Limited Edition

Mission: Deluxe Hardcover Limited Edition
~ Cecilia Bartoli (Performer), Philippe Jaroussky (Performer), Agostino Steffani (Composer), Diego Fasolis (Conductor), I Barocchisti (Orchestra)
(4)

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Limited-edition 25K
Hardcover book presentation
172 page booklet (which will not be reproduced when the jewel version comes out later) including historical essay and complete album notes and libretto

Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational release from the world s best-selling classical artist Cecilia Bartoli and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart.
Following the exceptional artistic and commercial success of 2009 s Sacrificium (which earned Cecilia her fifth Grammy award), Cecilia Bartoli now turns to the early baroque period for the first time in her recording career and uncovers a treasure of beautiful music in an album almost entirely composed of world premiere recordings.

The album showcases the music of little-known Italian composer Agostino Steffani (1654 1728), and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album.

Steffanis story is mysterious at the very least; his name is largely absent from studies of Italian music despite holding senior court positions during his lifetime and contemporary accounts acknowledging him as one of the greatest opera composers of the period and the acknowledged master of the vocal duet (Colin Timms, author of the booklet note).

Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan.

Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis.

A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles will be available on DVD and for TV broadcast later in the year.

• Rank: #210 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition
• Dimensions: .50" h x 5.75" w x 5.00" l, .67 pounds

Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album

Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album
~ Various Artists (Artist), Alexandre Tharaud (Performer), Barbara Hendricks (Performer), Samson Francois (Performer), Alexis Weissenberg (Performer), et al.
(30)

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EMI Classics will release Fifty Shades of Grey The Classical Album, a 15-track album featuring classical music personally selected by author E L James herself and referenced in her bestselling Fifty Shades book trilogy. The album will be available digitally August 21st and on CD September 18th.

Says James of the new compilation album: "I am thrilled that the classical pieces that inspired me while I wrote the Fifty Shades Trilogy are being brought together in one collection for all lovers of the books to enjoy."

The three novels in the Fifty Shades trilogy (Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed) are published by Vintage Books and have sold more than 20 million copies in the U.S. (the trilogy has sold 31 million copies worldwide). The books' various references to classical music have spurred sales of the pieces mentioned even going so far as to cause Spem in Alium, a 16th century motet for 40 voices by Thomas Tallis, to jump to the top of the classical charts in the UK.

Fifty Shades of Grey The Classical Album aims to provide the perfect accompaniment to the Fifty Shades reading experience, setting a mysterious and alluring atmosphere with just the slightest hint of danger...the music on the album includes The Tallis Scholars' sweeping version of Spem in Alium featured in the first novel, along with 14 other works from the books, such as the 'Flower Duet' from Lakmé, Pachelbel's Canon in D, the 'aria' from Bach's Goldberg Variations and more. The recording artists include such world-class performers as Sir Simon Rattle, King's College Choir, Barbara Hendricks, and Alexandre Tharaud, and the album features cover art based on the novels with a liner note from E L James.

• Rank: #69 in Music
• Released on: 2012-09-11
• Number of discs: 1
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 11.81" h x .39" w x 11.81" l, .20 pounds

Dreams Of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night)

Dreams Of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night)
~ Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Release Date: October 30, 2012

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5 Tracks, Jewelcase

• Rank: #158 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Together (US Version)

Together (US Version)
~ Jonathan & Charlotte (Artist)
Release Date: October 30, 2012

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Together is the debut album from Jonathan & Charlotte, the duo who shot to fame on the hit TV show Britain's Got Talent with their dazzling rendition of "The Prayer." Jonathan Antoine, 17 with his tenor vocals and Charlotte Jaconelli, 16, with her poised soprano surprised the audience and judges with their show-stopping performances during the phenomenally successful sixth series of Britain's Got Talent.

Jonathan Antoine sings with the rich tenor of a world-class opera star; in fact, his fans have already dubbed him "the British Pavarotti." He and his singing partner and close friend Charlotte Jaconelli were originally paired a few years ago by their music teacher, who thought their voices would complement each other. At her suggestion, they sang "The Prayer" for their music class final (they got an "A") and the teacher was so impressed she later requested that they sing it at her wedding.

"Together" sees the duo join forces with acclaimed producer Graham Stack, who has worked with stars like Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, LeAnn Rimes, Take That, Natalie Cole and Rod Stewart.
The album features stunning hits, "Ave Maria" and "Canto Della Terra." Jonathan & Charlotte also fearlessly take on iconic pop songs including Take That's "Rule The World" and Muse's "Unintended," giving them a new identity. The album also features the two songs they sang during the televised competition last May: "The Prayer," originally sung by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion, and "Caruso," the heartbreaking love song that became a trademark of the late superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Also on the album are covers of some of Jonathan and Charlotte s favorite songs from all different genres including "Everybody Hurts" (originally recorded by REM), "Somewhere" (from the musical West Side Story), and "Your Song," by Elton John.

• Rank: #195 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Gold Dust

Gold Dust
~ Tori Amos
63 days in the top 100
(18)

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This deluxe edition includes a 32 page hardcover booklet and a DVD that features music videos of Flavor, Gold Dust and behind the scenes footage.

20 Years of Conversations
How do you commemorate the 20-year career of Tori Amos, an artist who has sold over 12 million albums, played well over 1,000 shows, won numerous awards and, more importantly, touched, healed or changed the lives of millions of fans? For a composer with such an artful ability to dart and flourish in different directions, experimenting and searching for new ways of creating art, breaking more boundaries than perhaps any other female singer-songwriter, it would be impossible to predict. In this case of her 13th album, Gold Dust burst out of a series of serendipitous events. Gold Dust is the second album by Tori Amos released on the classical label Deutsche Grammophon, in cooperation with Mercury Classics. Soon after she started working on the first album, the acclaimed Night of Hunters, there was a phone call from the Metropole Orchestra in the Netherlands inviting her to play with them in October 2010. Once her songs had been performed live in an orchestral setting it was clear that Tori needed to make an album. I was really touched by the orchestra and I wanted to capture that on recording she says. And so Gold Dust was conceived. Of course Tori's musical history actually began in the classical world, when she entered the prestigious Peabody Institute at the age of 5. Frustrated by the close-minded limitations the classical world imposed on her in the 70s, she checked out and headed into rock when she was 13, magnetized by its expressive and expanding possibilities, intent on expanding her sonic architecture. Now she has been pulled back to approach that world again. Music has a way of taking you by the hand and saying, it's time to create like this she explains. Times have changed and now she feels limited instead by the contemporary world and the derivative sameness of what she hears on the radio. You don't have as many complex structures in contemporary music which is why musicians are trying to explore other ways of constructing a song. But her classical training provided her with the language, tools and understanding of form and structure to create Night of Hunters and Gold Dust. So how did she go about picking the right songs out of her vast repertoire? The track-listing for Gold Dust doesn't read like a collection of her Greatest Hits. Although it includes a number of her best-loved songs - Precious Things, Silent All These Years, Winter - some of the others tracks are lesser known treasures. She compares arranging the songs in a classical setting to giving a woman a makeover, considering who she is and what style would work for her. Tori has always thought of her songs as separate women and girls and jokes: you can't say 'Oh my God bangles are in so let's put everybody in bangles!' It doesn't work like that. Some of the songs have been reinvented quite dramatically with the help of Tori s long time arranger John-Philip Shenale. The fear driven rock sounds of Precious Things and the spheric electro soundworld of Flavor came to a new form of being in the environment of a symphony
orchestra. Other songs have undergone more subtle makeovers, taking, adding or changing individual colours to the beloved original versions. But all have been chosen for a reason. Almost autobiographical in structure, the songs represent stories in Tori's life. Jackie's Strength is about her relationship with her mother. Winter is about her father and grandfather. Snow Cherries from France, one of her favorites, is about falling in love with her husband. To bring them forward into 2012, Tori made a decision not to sing them as they were in the original form, and to avoid trying to be the person she was at the time.

• Rank: #75 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-02
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: CD+DVD, Deluxe Edition
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .35" h x 5.00" w x 5.50" l, .30 pounds

Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul

Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul
~ Itzhak Perlman (Artist)
40 days in the top 100
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• Rank: #44 in Music
• Released on: 2012-09-04
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25" h x 5.50" w x 5.25" l, .23 pounds

Believe: Platinum Collection

Believe: Platinum Collection
~ Katherine Jenkins (Artist)
190 days in the top 100
(12)

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• Rank: #162 in Music
• Released on: 2010-12-28
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .40" h x 5.60" w x 4.90" l, .26 pounds

• JENKINS KATHERINE BELIEVE - PLATINUM EDITION (CD+DVD)

The Piano Guys

The Piano Guys
~
The Piano Guys (Artist)
(1)

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The Piano Guys have become a YouTube sensation with their clever and inspiring takes on popular music and creative videos that accompany them. From Beethoven to Adele, their eclectic mix of classical, film score, rock, and pop favorites resonate with audiences across generations and from all walks of life. Their debut album on Sony Masterworks includes songs featured in their hit videos, including their latest viral smash, a distinctive take on One Direction's "What Makes You Beautiful."

• Rank: #6 in Music
• Released on: 2012-10-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25" h x 5.00" w x 5.50" l, .21 pounds