Rather Disappointing
Christina Paul | Anamosa, IA USA | 03/28/2010
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I was expecting something more akin to Ali Jihad Racy's Music from Ancient Egypt. What I got instead was another case of someone simply slapping the title 'Ancient Egyptian' on something in order to sell it on an unsuspecting public.
While the music is lovely, and certainly very relaxing, the members of the Hathor Ensemble should know that there is a vast difference between the Eastern Scale of music - which is prevalent in the Middle East, Greece and Mediterannean, and the Western scale of music, which we hear mostly in church hymns, Gregorian chants and the like. "Ancient Egypt - Music in the Age of the Pyramids" bears little if any resemblence to anything that would have probably been heard in antiquity and sounds far more like a group of nuns in a convent somewhere in Europe. I have heard musicby Hildegaard of Bingen (12th Century CE) that had more in common with Eastern music than this particular selection does. My advice is to save your money, there are far better collections out there that are more evocative of Ancient Egypt than this one."