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Brand: National
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2004-07-27
Music Label: Koch Int'L Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Algeria
  2. Arab Emirates
  3. Argentina
  4. Armenia
  5. Australia
  6. Egypt
  7. Barbados
  8. Belgium
  9. Bolivia
  10. Brazil
  11. Germany
  12. Bulgaria
  13. Denmark
  14. Ecuador
  15. England
  16. Estland
  17. Europe
  18. Finland
  19. France
  20. Georgia
  21. Greece
  22. Iraq
  23. Iran
  24. Ireland
  25. Iceland
  26. Israel
  27. Italy
  28. Japan
  29. Cameroon
  30. Canada
  31. Colombia
  32. Cuba
  33. Latvia
  34. Luxembourg
Music CD 2
  1. Lithuania
  2. Malta
  3. Morocco
  4. Mexico
  5. Mozambique
  6. Moldova
  7. Monaco
  8. Mongolia
  9. New Zealand
  10. The Netherlands
  11. Norway
  12. Oman
  13. Austria
  14. Peru
  15. The Philippines
  16. Poland
  17. Portugal
  18. Romania
  19. Russia
  20. San Marino
  21. Saudi Arabia
  22. Sweden
  23. Switzerland
  24. Singapore
  25. Slovakia
  26. Slovenia
  27. Spain
  28. South Africa
  29. Syria
  30. Thailand
  31. Czech Republic
  32. Tunisia
  33. Turkey
  34. Hungary
  35. Uruquay
  36. United States
  37. Venezuela
  38. Vietnam
  39. Zimbabwe

Music reviews of National Anthems of the World

Music Review: Large collection for the price, but not perfect
Rating: 3 Stars

As with these sorts of all-inclusive collections, there are issues to be had with 'National Anthems of the World' as performed by the Swarovski Orchestra. Primary--to me--is that these performances and arrangements come off as being rather sterile and bland, though it's perhaps not surprising since I doubt very much that most of the nationalities of the nations represented here have citizens actually in the Swarovski Orchestra. There's little of the passion that a national band or orchestra would have in playing their own nation's anthem, much like listening to a generic studio band play play a collection of college fight songs (and there ARE CDs of those out for sale as well).

That said, this 2-disc CD set does offer a wide spectrum of national anthems, though it does a far better job of covering European nations more so than any other region. For instance, Central America is poorly represented in this collection as is Africa which, aside from Cameroon, the heart of that continent is conspicuously ill-depicted. But the biggest omission is China; neither the mainland or Taiwanese anthems are included in this set. Considering that The People's Republic of China is the most populous nation on earth, as well as a global political and economic force to be reckoned with, even in 1996 (this CD set dates from 2004, but at least one online database list the contents from the mid-1990s), this is a glaring oversight in my opinion.

The final gripe deals with the included documentation. Each of these anthems DO have titles to them, none of which the producers of this collection ever bother to mention and provide. One has to go to Wikipedia or some other resource to look up the actual name of the anthems included here. This is information that is relatively cheap to research and out of courtesy to the consumer should've been provided for this set, especially since this collection has been around in some form for over a decade already.

For the money, it's a fairly good buy for those who want a collection of national anthems. But the producers could've done a better job of compiling the contents of this collection, and what music there is would've certainly benefitted from a bit more impassioned play.
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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 27-JUL-2004

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