The Valentine Collection

1. Miles Home to You

2. Love Like This

3. So Glad

4. Still Be Missing You

5. Northern Star

6. Second Chance

7. Love Online

8. Anybody Else But You

9. Two Trees

10. I Will Be There for You

11. No Time Like the Present

12. All of My Life Without You

13. Love at the Fair

14. I Hope You

15. Pieces of Dreams

16. If You Were Mine

17. Somethin' to Do With You

18. Just Out of Reach

19. Maybe It's You

20. It Might Happen

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The Valentine Collection,Ann Reed,Turtle Club,Folk & Traditional,Pop

Average customer rating: A useful survey of Antheil's piano music - but not always the best readings

George Antheil, Bad Boy of Music Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: George Antheil: Symphony No. 3 "American" George Antheil: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; a Jazz Symphony; Jazz Sonata George Antheil: Symphonies 1 & 6 Kurt Atterberg: The Symphonies (Box Set) ASIN: B0000049OD Release Date: 2006-10-24

Tracks:

1. Airplane Son: As Fast As Possible
2. Airplane Son: Andante
3. Son Sauvage: A La Negre, Allegro Vivo
4. Son Sauvage: Snakes
5. Son Sauvage: Ivory, Prestissimo
6. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: I.
7. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: II.
8. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: III.
9. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: IV.
10. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: V.
11. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: VI.
12. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: VII.
13. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: VIII.
14. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: IX.
15. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: X.
16. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XI.
17. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XII.
18. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XIII.
19. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XXIV.
20. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XXV.
21. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XXVI.
22. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XL.
23. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XLIII.
24. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XLIV.
25. La Femme 100 Tetes After Max Ernst: XLV.
26. Little Shimmy
27. Tango From The Opera Transatlantic
28. Son No. 4: Allegro Giocoso-Ironico
29. Son No. 4: Andante Cantabile
30. Son No. 4: Allegro
31. Valentine Waltzes: I.
32. Valentine Waltzes: II.
33. Valentine Waltzes: III.
34. Valentine Waltzes: IV.
35. Valentine Waltzes: V.
36. Valentine Waltzes: VI.
37. Valentine Waltzes: VII.
38. Valentine Waltzes: VIII.
39. Valentine Waltzes: IX.
40. Valentine Waltzes: X.
41. Valentine Waltzes: XI.

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George Antheil wrote a fascinating autobiography, Bad Boy of Music, and a lot of "bad boy" music before he settled down to a career as a mainstream film composer. His Ballet mécanique still has a lot of life in it, but most of this piano music is simply dated: nose-thumbing naughty stuff that doesn't convince anymore. Antheil had obviously heard Prokofiev's famous Sonata No. 7 before writing his own Sonata No. 4. You may enjoy the Valentine Waltzes, which find a convincing balance between romance and dissonance. And pianist Marthanne Verbit obviously takes this music more seriously than the rest of us will. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

A useful survey of Antheil's piano music - but not always the best readings.......2007-04-05

This well-filled (68:23) CD came out in 1994 and was thus the first in a series that launched a mild but long due revival of interest in the piano music of George Antheil. .

Rather than concentrating on the brash and provocative early Antheil (his piano pieces from the 1920s) like Koehlen (George Antheil: Bad Boy's Piano Music) or Henck (Piano Music by Nancarrow and Antheil), Verbit offers a survey that encompasses his various compositional periods: the earth-conquering modernist is represented by the 1921 "Airplane Sonata", 1922 "Sonata Sauvage" and 1923 "Little Shimmy". Antheil the "post-neo-classic" from the early 30s is featured in the Tango from his opera "Transaltlantic" and, more significantly, in the 20 excerpts out of the 45 short preludes that make up the cycle "La Femme 100 têtes", and the later Antheil is heard in the 1948 4th Sonata and the Valentine Waltzes from 1949.

Verbit is not always interpretively at the top of the competition. In the first movement of the "Airplane Sonata" Antheil instructs to play "as fast as possible" and Verbit isn't quite as fast as Henck and Koehlen, but she is muscular and more cleanly articulated than they are. Her very moderately paced 2nd movement "Andante moderato" lends the music an almost Coplandesque-bluesy character, but almost deprives it of its contour; Henck's more animated tempo seems preferable here. In "Sonata Sauvage" she is muscular, powerful and evocative, but a comparison with Henck and Koehlen shows them in the outer movements to be faster, more electric and hectic, producing more unleashed energy. In the finale despite all the power and din she produces she doesn't quite convey the "xylophonic" impression called for by Antheil, that Koehlen captures. On the other hand her "Little Shimmy" is perfectly judged, at a tempo that's neither too fast nor too slow, sounding like a vaguely nonchalant blues, and she easily scores over the hard-driven Henck and the teutonically heavy Koehlen.

"La Femme 100 têtes" is a wonderfully imaginative cycle of short preludes inspired by a book of engravings by Max Ernst. Its title means literally, in French as in English "The Woman One Hundred Heads" (and not "The Woman with a hundred heads", as Antheil maintains in his autobiography "Bad Boy of Music"), but through a phonetic play on words it can also mean "The Woman without a Head" or "The Woman stubbornly persists". Though in his book Antheil boasts having written 100 of them, he completed apparently only 45. Much of the earlier, hammering Antheil is still present in those short pieces (none is longer than 2 minutes and the shortest zips through in 10 seconds) based on very simple and typically young-Antheil, repetitive melodic/rhythmic cells. Possibly to avoid an impression of monotony Verbit plays only 20, but I find the choice regrettable, as I don't find the cycle monotonous and the pieces that she left aside are as good as those included. Interpretively, Verbit is often atmospheric and she finds fine colors, but she also often favors slow tempos at the expense of some snap and piquancy (as in Nr. 1 "Thoughtfully, not too slow", 3 "Faintly energetic", 7 "Sad") or even of a sense of frenzy (5 "furioso", 12 "Brilliant clean" where her articulation lacks clarity). On the other hand she has plenty of muscle in 8 "Electrical (spiccato)", 10 ("Slightly brutal tempo"), 11 ("Bawdy ferocious tempo"), 25 ("Minuet?"), 26 ("Onward Christian Soldiers") and 44 ("Cruel (Quick)"). Still, it is better to have the complete cycle, and Benedikt Koehlen plays it excellently (see my review of Piano Pictures: Satie Sports & Divertissements / Antheil La Femme 100 têtes).

In the 4th sonata the pounding Antheil is still there but whereas the pounding in the early works was mechanistically devoid of emotion (other than the joy of making such a racket), by 1948 you can feel the anger and bitterness of the composer who failed to live up to his early promises. With its motoric rhythms in the outer movements and bitter-sweet harmonies and terse counterpoint in the middle "Andante Cantabile", the sonata is in fact strikingly reminiscent of Prokofiev's War Sonatas - a feature I had already remarked with the contemporary 4th Violin and Piano Sonata (see my review of George Antheil: Violin Sonatas 1, 2 & 4) - and it is hard to believe that the Toccata-like finale wasn't inspired by the Finale of Prokofiev's 7th. Strange how Antheil went from one Russian to the other - from the Stravinsky quotations of the 1920s to the Prokofiev similitudes of the 1940s. The Sonata's 1st movement also has a secondary motive that is a mock imitation of a trite early Chopin run - Antheil's iconoclastic sense of humor is still there. Verbit is more hectic and energetic than Guy Livingston (George Antheil: The Lost Sonatas) and Eric Parkin (on a 1987 Preamble CD of American Piano Music Vol.1, with works of Barber, Copland, Gershwin, Stevens and Waxman), but also, in the first movement, not as clearly articulated. As a result, for all of Verbit's impressive power, it is Parkin that brings out better the Prokofiev-like march rhythms and kinetic energy and Livingston its neo-classical "stravinskysms".

The intimate Valentine Waltzes weren't destined for publication. Don't expect much: they are walzes, period. Their apparent triteness, wry humor and emotional restraint recalls Satie, a musician Antheil much admired, and I also hear some Brahms in the 4th. It is not the most significant Antheil, but Verbit's is the only recording, so she very much has the field to herself here.

In sum this is a useful overview of Antheil's various compositional styles but not as interesting as Livingston's program. It is also not the disc I would recommend if you have only one CD of the piano music of Antheil: go instead to Koehlen's Col Legno collection of the early pieces, and if you enjoy it as much as I do, complete it with Koehlen's "Femme 100 têtes", then Livingston.

Average customer rating: Focus on Ophelia and Desdemona

Shakespeare in Music Manufacturer: Signum ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chausson, Ernest | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Medtner | Medtner, Nikolai | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Debussy | Debussy, Claude | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Korngold, Erich Wolfgang | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005TPF5 Release Date: 2001-11-27

Tracks:

1. Musiques Pour 'Le Roi Lear': Fanfare
2. Musiques Pour 'Le Roi Lear': Le Sommeil De Lear
3. Aus:Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs: How Should I Your True Love
4. Aus:Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs: Good Morrow 'Tis St. Valentine's Day
5. Aus:Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs: They Bore Him Barefac'd
6. Aus:Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs: For Bonny Sweet Robin
7. Aus:Shakespeare's Dramatic Songs: And Will He Not Come Again?
8. Herzeleid Op. 107, Nr. 1
9. Funf Ophelia-Lieder: Wie Erkenn' Ich Dein Treulieb
10. Funf Ophelia-Lieder: Sein Leichenhemd WeiB Wie Schnee
11. Funf Ophelia-Lieder: Auf Morgen Ist Sankt Valentins Tag
12. Funf Ophelia-Lieder: Sie Trugen Ihn Auf Der Bahre BloB
13. Funf Ophelia-Lieder: Und Kommt Er Nicht Mehr Zuruck?
14. Buhnenmusik Zu 'Hamlet': Entr' Acte Avant Le 3eme Acte
15. Buhnenmusik Zu 'Hamlet': Votre Amoureux, A Quels Gages
16. Buhnenmusik Zu 'Hamlet': On L'a Porte Couvert De Fleurs
17. Chanson D'Ophelie
18. Opheliens Gesang
19. How Should I Your True Love?
20. How Should I Your True Love?
21. Willow, Willow, Willow
22. Romance De Shakespear
23. Romance Du Saule De Shakespeare
24. Lied Der Desdemona Op.58, Nr.4: Lied Der Desdemona
25. Lied Der Desdemona
26. Lied Der Desdemona Op. 9, Heft II, NR.2: Lied Der Desdemona
27. The Willow Song
28. The Willow Song Op.79, Nr.4: The Willow Song
29. The Pour Soul Sat Sighing
30. Desdemona's Song Op.31, Nr.1: Desdemona's Song

Customer Reviews:

Focus on Ophelia and Desdemona.......2007-05-09

Shakespeare in Music covers music inspired by three Shakespearean tragedies, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear, and focuses on Ophelia's mad scene and Desdemona's Willow Song. Only a few minutes are devoted to King Lear, with Claude Debussy's introductory Fanfare and his tone picture Le Sommeil de Lear.

This album concentrates on the central scenes where Ophelia and Desdemona sing and shows how eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century composers responded to these extreme emotional states of the two heroines.

In Othello, Desdemona 's Willow Song develops out of her despair, fear, and presentiment of death. The old song of scorned love expresses the anguish of Desdemona, hurt and threatened by her husband Othello's jealousy and unjust accusations. Treatments here of the Willow Song include works by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Carl Loewe, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Erich Korngold, and others.

In Hamlet, Ophelia's mad scene is punctuated by her alternation of confused speech and abrupt sing-song, expressing her depression and departure from reality. Included here are works by William Linley, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Peter Tchaikovsky, Ernest Chausson, and others. The Schumann selection, however, does not involve Ophelia's mad scene, but instead the scene where Queen Gertrude tells Hamlet that Ophelia has drowned herself ("There is a willow grows aslant a brook...").

This album contains thirty musical selections, and a booklet containing the major texts in English, German, and French upon which the songs are based. They are not translated, per se, but the texts in different languages more or less correspond with each other, and the meanings can easily be determined. Overall, the album is a pleasant and instructive sampling of music inspired by these Shakespearean passages over the last three centuries. Mezzosoprano Rosemarie Buhler has a lovely voice, and she and the accompanists do a fine job. Students of Shakespeare, as well as anyone who enjoys the plays Hamlet and Othello, would appreciate this music.

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The Best of Our Love: The Valentine's Day Collection Various Artists Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007WFYJI Release Date: 2005-01-25

Tracks:

1. Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow
2. Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
3. One on One - Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall, John Oates
4. Sweet Dreams - Air Supply
5. Slow Hand - The Pointer Sisters
6. You Mean the World to Me - Toni Braxton
7. I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
8. Through the Eyes of Love [Theme from the Motion Picture "Ice Castles"] - Melissa Manchester
9. My Cup Runneth Over - Ed Ames
10. Swept Away - Yanni

Average customer rating: Amazing collection of indie pop tunes!!!!!!!!

I'm With Cupid: A Waxfruit Transatlantic Valentine Various Artists Manufacturer: Waxfruit / Stereorrific / WIAIWYA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001FZCPC Release Date: 2004-02-01

Tracks:

1. The Rain (Miss Mary)
2. Can't Explain (The A-Lines)
3. Dear St. Valentine (The Would Be Goods)
4. Perfect Night Out (Komatrohn)
5. A Girl Called Hope (The Glasses)
6. Leave That Girl Alone (The Cut-Outs)
7. You Are the Boy That I Want To be With (The Oscillators)
8. Bedroom Eyes (Free Loan Investments)
9. Sad Valentine (Actionbiker)
10. I Tried To Give You My Love (Thee Fine Lines)
11. On Your Special Day (Bearsuit)
12. Stone River (The Raindrops)
13. A February Secret (Igloo)
14. A Picture Of My Heart With An X-ray Camera (Motormark)
15. Feel the Luvah (Sunga)
16. Pick Up Star (Riviera F)
17. Love Song (The Mumps)
18. Like The Spanish City To Me (The Winter Sleep)
19. Number To Call (Doug Shepherd)
20. For The Girl I've Never Met (Ever Since I was A Little Girl)
21. Music For Travel Agents (The Seven Inches)
22. When You're Around (Kristin Mueller)

Album Description

A collection of some of the best new underground garage, indie-pop, and electronica from the UK, Sweden, Brazil, and the USA. The CD package also includes a new poem by Garrett Caples, photography by John Soares, and design by Jeff Mellin.

Customer Reviews:

Amazing collection of indie pop tunes!!!!!!!!.......2004-02-29

If you like powerpop or indie rock you must take a listening to this record, It's an amazing collection of pure raw pop tunes around the world(USA , UK, Brazil, Sweden).

Average customer rating: A well-filled disc that doesn't offer as much as it promises

Valentines Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fennimore, Joseph | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000049ME Release Date: 1995-05-19

Tracks:

1. I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
2. Oh, Lady Be Good
3. Swanee
4. Valentine Waltzes: No. 1
5. Valentine Waltzes: No. II
6. Valentine Waltzes: No. III
7. Valentine Waltzes: No. IX
8. Twelve Sonatinas For Piano: In E-Flat, In D, In E
9. Twelve Sonatinas For Piano: In C-Sharp, In F, In C
10. Twelve Sonatinas For Piano: In F-Sharp, In B, In G
11. Twelve Sonatinas For Piano: In B-Flat, I A-Flat, In A
12. Crystal Stairs
13. Morning In The Woods
14. A la Chinoise, Op. 39
15. Five Poems: Poppies
16. Five Poems: The Garden Of Soul-Sympathy
17. Five Poems: Bells
18. Five Poems: The Twilight Of The Year
19. Paradise Birds

Customer Reviews:

A well-filled disc that doesn't offer as much as it promises.......2007-04-19

The well-filled disc (72:11) might seem exciting on the face of it, but unfortunately it doesn't offer as much as it promises. It brings together compositions by three early modernists - the Americans Leo Ornstein and George Antheil and the English composer Cyril Scott -, three small Gershwin transcriptions, and pieces by two contemporary American composers - John Diercks (b 1927) and Joseph Fennimore (b. 1940) - both composed on commission from the pianist, Marthanne Verbit.

The three Gershwin trifles are, well, typical Gershwin, but trifles. Antheil's Valentine Waltzes weren't meant for publication. They are a very private and intimate affair - "affair", indeed, as they were composed in 1949 for a married woman with whom the composer was having a secret relation. Don't expect much: they are simple waltzes, mostly Chopin-inspired with a kind of Satie terseness. Verbit offers here a selection of four, but they are better found as a complete set, which Verbit later recorded on a valuable complete Antheil collection (see my review of George Antheil, Bad Boy of Music)

Cyril Scott (1879-1970) was one of those very typically early century English breed of eccentric and dilettante. In his 5 Poems from 1912 I hear nothing to fuss about. They are evocative short pieces, but the musical language is early Debussy - hardly original.

Scott is one of those cases of a composer who, having made his (however limited) mark in the early 20th century, has lived so old that he also witnessed a musical world dominated by people such as Boulez, Xenakis, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Nono, Berio - you name `em. Leo Ornstein (1892-2002) is another and even more striking example. In the late 1910s and early `20s he was possibly the most notorious "modernist" of his days. His early retirement from concertizing and from the public eye sent him into oblivion, until his rediscovery in the `70s. His "Morning in the Woods" is one of those late piece (1971) and its musical language is surprisingly backward-looking. It is a wistful and evocative tone-poem, full of aquatic ripples (here rather depicting wind in the leaves), harking back to Debussy and French impressionism (Severac, Le Flem come to mind, but maybe only because I have listened to their piano pieces recently).

Among the contemporary composers, Joseph Fennimore's 1983 Crystal Stairs is a big Romantic thing full of notes with some jazzy offbeat rhythms. Its style seems to me a not very palatable blend of Rachmaninoff and Gershwin.

So what's left ?

John Diercks' Twelve Sonatinas from 1980 break no grounds in musical language or instrumental technique - I feel they could have been written by some early Russian or Austro-German modernist like Lourié, Mossolov, Hauer or Stephan Wolpe in the late 1910s or early 20s, or again composers from the "school" of Charles Seeger in the USA in the 1930s - but they are well-crafted and evocative. Moods are varied, sometimes tersely enigmatic, sometimes mysteriously dreamy, sometimes explosive, always with elaborate counterpoint. The 8th pays direct and acknowledged tribute to the music of Scriabin, and in the last one I also hear a reference to a passage in Scriabin's Fourth Sonata.

And then - Ornstein's extraordinary 5-minute "A la Chinoise" from 1918, with its flurry of agitated activity, mostly in the piano's upper registers, around "Chinese" themes. The piece seems as modern, imaginative, daring and evocative today as it must have some ninety years ago. One understands that young Antheil didn't come out of the blue - but where did Ornstein come out of?

Still, less than thirty minutes of interesting to fascinating music may be just a little too short to warrant full endorsement of this disc.

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A Windham Hill Collection: For the One I Love Manufacturer: Winham Hill ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0006GT1O4

Product Description

Songs of love & tenderness by Windham Hill artists. Some include: Valentine, One Heart One Love, Togetherness, Reflections of Passion & Companions.

Average customer rating:

Doo Wop Coast to Coast and Everything in Between, Vol 1 Various Doo Wop Artists , Joyce Lomas & Group , Ida Valentine & The Lyrics , Johnny Cole & The Reptiles , The Marquees , The Jades , Candice & The Royal Counts , Debbie Andrews & The Musketeers , Betty Jackson & The Carousels , and Willie Winfield & The Harptones Manufacturer: Wheels ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000T8SS66

Product Description

Song list: 1. Cry Fool/Joyce Lomas & Group 2. Little, Little, Little/Joyce Lomas & Group 3. Why Did You Lie/Ida Valentine & Lyrics 4. Wrap My Heart in Velvet/Johnny Cole & Reptiles 5. Stay With Me/Marquees 6. I Need a Helping Hand/Marquees 7. I Sit Alone/Jades 8. I Wonder/Jades 9. You're The Only One For Me/Strollers 10. The Bells/ Crystallights 11. If You Don't Want My Love/Sunglows 12. Can Can Rock & Roll/Kitty & La Fets 13. Hey Good Lookin'/Dinah Washington & Ravens 14. That's What You're Doing to Me/Dominoes (alt. version) 15. A Lover's Hymn/Fontane Sisters 16. Three Pictures of the Lord/Violinaires 17. Hey There Lonely Boy/Candice & Royal Counts 18. Love Me, Please Love Me/Debbie Andrews & Musketeers 19. Pretty Little Thing/Betty Jackson & Carousels 20. Don't Be Late/Shadows 21. Don't Make Me Cry/Debbie Andrews & Musketeers 22. I'm So in Love Tonight/Heptones 23. Our Love is True/Del-Rays 24. Nasty Boogie Woogie/Champion Jack Dupree 25. I'm Past Sixteen/Bette McLaurin & Four Fellows 26. My One and Only Love/Willie Winfield & Harptones 27. He's My Light/Mahalia Jackson & Larks

Average customer rating: An Interesting Recording Archive

Antheil Plays Antheil Manufacturer: Other Minds ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004W1TN Release Date: 2000-06-09

Tracks:

1. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
2. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
3. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
4. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
5. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
6. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
7. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
8. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
9. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
10. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
11. Valentine Waltzes for Piano (1949)
12. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
13. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
14. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
15. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
16. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
17. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
18. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
19. Eight Fragments from Shelley, for mixed chorus and piano (1950)
20. McKonkey's Ferry Overture, for orchestra (1948)
21. Symphony No. 5 "joyous" (1947-48)
22. Symphony No. 5 "joyous" (1947-48)
23. Symphony No. 5 "joyous" (1947-48)

Tracks:

1. Two Odes of John Keats, for narrator and piano (1950)
2. Two Odes of John Keats, for narrator and piano (1950)
3. "The Prostitute" from the ballet Capital of the World, for piano (1953)
4. Stories for Peter, for voice and piano (1942)
5. Stories for Peter, for voice and piano (1942)
6. Prediction of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
7. Prediction of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
8. Stories for Peter, for voice and piano (1942)
9. Stories for Peter, for voice and piano (1942)
10. George Antheil Speaks (1958)
11. The SPA Interview (1981) (Charles Amirkhanian interviews Mrs. F. Charles Adler and Norman Fox)

Customer Reviews:

An Interesting Recording Archive.......2003-06-28

I read about George Antheil before I heard his music. Mr. Antheil lived in Paris during the 1920s and there exists a photograph of him climbing the wall of the building he lived in (above the famous Shakespeare and Company). Since that time, I have gotten to know the music of George Antheil from the excellent recordings by Hugh Wolff, so I was interested in
hearing more of his music.

The two discs in this set were issued for the Antheil centennial and provide us with an intimate glimpse of the composer. Collected here are the only recordings Antheil made of his own music. The Valentine Waltzes are charming and sound a bit like the preludes of Dimitri Shostakovich, a comparison that has been made of Antheil's music. These are followed by a
setting of Shelly fragments for voice and piano which was well performed but not necessarily a work that will be a favorite of mine. The orchestral works, the McKonkey Ferry Overture and Fifth Symphony are well played and are marvelous works. The symphony compares well with the recording by Hugh Wolff and the sound is quite good. The second CD starts of with Two Odes
of John Keats for speaker and piano, with Mr. Antheil at the piano and Vincent Price as the speaker. This recording is probably of more interest for the participation of Vincent Price. The Odes are well performed and recorded but is also something I would not listen to very often. There is
a short piece from a ballet called 'Capitol of the World' played and introduced by George Antheil. This is quite tantalizing and I wish I could hear more. Next, are four songs written for his son Peter in 1942, which Mr. Antheil recorded on his own 78-disc recorder. The quality of the recording is not very good but are clear enough. The songs are stories
written for Peter and set to music; they offer a more intimate look at Mr. Antheil as he sings and accompanies himself on the piano. I am not sure if George Antheil even thought these recordings would be published; they are intimate and were obviously done with some fun in mind. There also is an interview with George Antheil from 1958, the year before his death, where he provides a complete and candid biography of himself.

There are three tracks recorded on this CD that I have trouble justifying in this collection. Two are news items from the Second World War that Mr. Antheil recorded on his disc player, the last is a 20 minute interview with Hannah Adler and Norman Fox concerning the SPA record company that recorded the music on these discs. Since they do not directly concern Mr. Antheil's music I cannot justify their being here.

This is an interesting set for someone who has a deep interest in George Antheil's music but I consider the three tracks I mentioned as a big drawback. I hope that record companies take a good look at George Antheil's music and record more of it. In this regard, I must note the Hugh Wolff has recorded
1, 4, 5 and 6 of George Antheil's six. I hope to see the 2nd and 3rd someday.

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Zoo Collection: Happy Valentine Various Artists Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B000068ZSA Release Date: 2002-05-30

Average customer rating:

The Best of Our Love: The Valentine's Day Collection Various Artists Manufacturer: Bmg Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Soft Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0007WFXLC Release Date: 2005-01-25

Tracks:

1. Looks Like We Made It - Barry Manilow
2. Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
3. One on One - Hall & Oates, Daryl Hall, John Oates
4. Sweet Dreams - Air Supply
5. Slow Hand - The Pointer Sisters
6. You Mean the World to Me - Toni Braxton
7. I'll Never Love This Way Again - Dionne Warwick
8. Through the Eyes of Love [Theme from the Motion Picture "Ice Castles"] - Melissa Manchester
9. My Cup Runneth Over - Ed Ames
10. Swept Away - Yanni

Music Album:

1. This I Am
2. Those Pleasant Days-Anthology [Import]
3. Tonight at Johnny's Speakeasy [Live]
4. Victorious America
5. Viva Mexico
6. You Draw Me In
7. Zurich
8. Abelard & Heloise
9. Anatolian Village Music
10. As Good as It Gets: Folk

Music Album