Turn the Tide

Track Listings

 
1. She Deserves You
2. Safe in the Arms of Love
3. I Can't Turn the Tide
4. (I Wish I Had A) Heart of Stone
5. Long Shot
6. Who Will I Be
7. Honest Love
8. Lovin' by Numbers
9. When It Rains It Pours
10. Heartache in Motion
11. Only Lonely One

Turn the Tide,Baillie & the Boys,RCA,Contemporary Country,Country,Country & Western
Turn the Tide
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Outstanding Harmonies
Turn the Tide
Baillie and the Boys
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008D4T
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. She Deserves You
  2. Safe in the Arms of Love
  3. I Can't Turn the Tide
  4. (I Wish I Had A) Heart of Stone
  5. Long Shot
  6. Who Will I Be
  7. Honest Love
  8. Lovin' by Numbers
  9. When It Rains It Pours
  10. Heartache in Motion
  11. Only Lonely One

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding Harmonies.......2005-10-21

It doesn't get much better than this. The harmonies are so tight; this group is so talented. The writing on this album is also great; the selections are very moving. Their other album, The Lights of Home is also great!
Turn the Tide 2001
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Promise Keepers Music is a real blessing
Turn the Tide 2001
Promise Keepers
Manufacturer: Maranatha
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000060MOL
Release Date: 2002-01-30

Tracks:

  1. Let the Praise Begin
  2. God You're So Good
  3. Take My Life
  4. I See the Lord
  5. Todo Lo Puedo en Cristo (I Can Do All Things Through Christ)
  6. Higher Ground
  7. Melodies from Heaven
  8. Exaltemos (Let It Rise)
  9. I Will Sing
  10. Let's Worship
  11. I Will Arise and Go to Jesus (Come Ye, Sinners Poor and Needy)
  12. Wailing into Dancing
  13. Holy Is the Lord

Tracks:

  1. Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?
  2. God of Mine
  3. You're Worthy of My Praise
  4. Cry Holy
  5. Tide, Wash Over Me
  6. Come Holy Spirit
  7. Hosanna in the Highest
  8. Eternal Wonderful God
  9. My Creator
  10. Higher
  11. Mansion
  12. Jesus Mighty Fortress
  13. Jesus My Lord, My God, My All
  14. Not My Will
  15. Fuel

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Promise Keepers Music is a real blessing.......2002-08-07

Great worship music for a mens meeting!!
George Frideric Handel: Esther
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME
  • a voice teacher and early music fan
George Frideric Handel: Esther

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ASIN: B0001B0A94
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

  1. Overture Andante - Larghetito - Allegro
  2. Recitative Habdonah/Haman: " 'Tis greater far to spare"
  3. Aria Haman: " Pluck root and branch from out the land"
  4. Recitative Persian Officer: "Our souls with ardour glow"
  5. Chorus: "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
  6. Recitative First Israelite: " Now persecution shall lay by her iron rod"
  7. Aria: " Tune your harps to cheerfull strains"
  8. Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
  9. Aria Israelite Woman: " Praise the Lord with cheerful noise"
  10. Recitative Israelite Woman: " 0 God, who from the suckling's mouth"
  11. Aria Second Israelite: " Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee"
  12. Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
  13. Recitative Priest of the Israelites: " How have our sins provoked the Lord!"
  14. Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
  15. Aria Priest ofc The Israelites: "0 Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide"
  16. Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
  17. Andante
  18. Allegro
  19. Adagio
  20. Allegro

Tracks:

  1. Recitative Esther/Mordecai: " Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?"
  2. Aria Mordecai: " Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger"
  3. Recitative Esther: "I go before the King to stand"
  4. Aria Esther: " Tears assist me, pity moving"
  5. Chorus: " Save us, O Lord"
  6. Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: "Who dares intrude into our presence"
  7. Duet Esther/Ahasuerus: " Who calls my parting soul from death?"
  8. Aria Ahasuerus: "0 beauteous Queen, unclose those eyes!"
  9. Recitative Esther: " If I find favour in thy sight"
  10. Aria Ahasuerus: " How can I stay when love invites?"
  11. Recitative Third Israelite/Fourth Israelite: " With inward joy his visage glows"
  12. Chorus: " Virtue, truth and innocence"
  13. Arioso Priest of the Israelites: " Jehovah, Crown'd with glory bright"
  14. Chorus: " He comes, he comes to end our woes"
  15. Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: " Now, a Queen, thy suit declare"
  16. Arioso Haman: " Turn not, a Queen, thy face away"
  17. Aria Esther: " Flatt' ring tongue, no more I hear thee!"
  18. Recitative Ahasuerus: "Guards, seize the traitor, bear him hence!"
  19. Aria Haman: " How art thou fall'n from thy height!"
  20. Chorus: "The Lord Our enemy has slain"

Album Description

Handel's oratorios vary greatly in their presentation. In many ways, Esther is a rarity;it is by far the most intimate, not surprisingly as it was composed for the Duke of Chandos. The Duke's Palladian palace near the village ofEdgware had not been completed in time for the first performance so this may have taken place (as did Acis and Galatea) in the intimate surroundings of a small church, St Lawrence, Whitchurch.

We decided, therefore, that we should attempt to convey that intimacy of performance on disc; so we performed in the round with microphones in the middle, the orchestra in front of me, the choir behind and the soloists alongside. The result is everything that chamber music should be where players and singers can enjoy every aspect of Handel's masterpiece.

"The 'sound' of Esther, superbly communicated in the recorded performance here, is pure enchantment... The choral singing has an exceptional grandure, and the instrumental playing a shimmering beauty. Among the soloists, none of whom is less than accomplished, Nancy Argenta and Michael Chance dominate... Both singers affirm a new golden age of Handel interpretation".

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.......2007-01-26

Esther is the first of Handel's oratorios by a good many years, written when he was 33 and enjoying the patronage of the Duke of Chandos. When he later became his own impresario and was running into trouble as a composer and producer of Italian operas he turned to oratorio as a strategic alternative, but at this early date his concern was to deliver staged entertainments for the Duke, and Esther, contemporary with the work that later gained the title Acis and Galatea, seems to have been just an unusually serious specimen of its type.

As often with Handel, there is no fully official version of the score, and this particular score may not even be fully complete from any point of view. The libretto seems to have been the work of someone in the frivolously named association of big literary figures called the Scriblerus Club, perhaps Dr John Arbuthnot, dedicatee of Pope's great poetic Epistle, but Pope himself may have had a hand in it too. As we have it here, the work breaks into two very asymmetrical parts. Scenes 1 and 2 start with a recitative lasting only seconds from Habdonah followed by a longer one in which Haman announces his onslaught on the Israelites, and from there on feature only anonymous participants. Esther herself and the other named characters make their appearance first in scene 4, but the change of tone occurs in scene 3. At this point the music gains gravity first in the chorus Ye sons of Israel with its extraordinary modulations and then in the striking aria O Jordan, Jordan. I myself feel that this weightier tone is maintained to the end, whether or not the writer of the liner note is correct in saying that the long final chorus with solos is out of proportion to its context.

Throughout - in the first part as well as in scenes 3-6 - the instrumental writing is vivid and varied, with an extraordinary pizzicato accompaniment to Tune your harps and then an even more extraordinary obbligato from the harp itself at Praise the Lord. The harpist is no less than Jan Walters, but sometime I would like to see the score and check out what seem some odd rhythmic interactions here between her and the soloist Nancy Argenta. There are no fewer than ten vocal soloists in a work lasting a little over an hour and a quarter, and a very distinguished bunch they are. I was particularly pleased to find Michael Chance in the countertenor role of the Priest of the Israelites as I admire the strength of his tone, but there is no real weakness among them, unless Lynda Russell as Esther has a couple of very slightly awkward high notes in Flatt'ring tongue, which must be a little nerve-wracking to sing as she has to find her note for herself unaccompanied at the start and later at the reprise. You will see some big names among the instrumentalists too, with Crispian Steele-Perkins on the trumpet making a predictably fine contribution towards the end, and of course with Jan Walters in that marvellous harp part early on. The chorus gets some wonderful work to do, and rises to it fully. I really am unable to worry about the proportionateness of the final chorus when I hear that incomparable Handelian build of tone, sung by 18 singers and sounding as if there were 100.

There is a good liner note by Graydon Beeks Jr, not perhaps the last word in lucidity (neither is the plot of the libretto come to that) but worth re-reading. Harry Christophers himself contributes a short foreword largely concerned with the recording process and highlighting the contributions of Mark Brown and Mike Hatch, his long-time technical collaborators. I was interested to see also the name of Geoff Miles in a role described as `editor'. What responsibilities this involved is not stated and perhaps I ought to know without being told, but I know the work of Geoff Miles as recording engineer from elsewhere and it gave me confidence just to see that he is involved in the proceedings, and the technical work is predictably excellent.

My collection of Handel oratorios is now almost complete, and what a wonderful musical experience they are. Each is unique in its own way, but Esther is unique in some very special ways, and I suggest that you do not wait until you are my age to get to know it.

5 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-04-04

Handel began composing the oratorio 'Esther' in 1718. There is some confusion as to who actually worte the libretto for it, but the story follows very closely the biblical story of Esther in the Book of Esther in the old testament. The story tells of a plot of Haman, the Agagite (Michael George-bass) jealous and powerful vizier of King Xerses (Ahasuerus-Tom Randle-tenor) of Persia(485-464), to destroy in a single day all the Jews living in the Roman Empire. He is moved to this out of hatred for the Jewish servant Mordecai (Mark Padmore-tenor),who for religious motives refuses to render him homage. The day of the proposed massacre is determined by lot. Meanwhile, Esther,niece and adopted daughter of Mordecai, is chosen Queen by King Xerses. She averts the pogrom planned against her people and has the royal decree of extermination reversed against Haman and the enemies of the Jews. Mordecai replaces Haman, and together with Esther, works for the welfare of their people. As you can see this makes for an interesting Oratorio, which it truly is!
This is a "small" contribution compared to many of Handel's other works. However, it is not "small" in a musical sense. There is much creativity on the part of Handel as to orchestral scoring; he exploits his small orchestra and chorus in surprising ways, introducing new vocal and instrumental colours throughout the score, adding and subtracting instruments and voices in many and varied ways. This is a listening surprise as it moves along. And what a great performance on the part of the Christophers as well as some outstanding vocal soloists. Mark Padmore's (Mordecai) aria "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains" was superb as was the Duet between Lynda Russell (Esther) and Tom Randle (Ahasuerus).But the aria that really drew me into the entire drama was sung by Michael Chance (Priest) "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred Tide." It was perfection itself!!!!The Chorus was extremely good and dictionally perfect. It is a great listening experience.
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    R988-01 (Warner Special Products OPCD-2733) - Sounds of the Eighties: The Rockin' Eighties - Various Artists [1994] All tracks stereo. Another One Bites The Dust - Queen/Modern Love - David Bowie/Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats/Middle Of The Road - Pretenders/Walk Of Life - Dire Straits/I Didn't Mean To Turn You On - Robert Palmer/The Tide Is High - Blondie/Can't Fight This Feeling - R.E.O. Speedwagon/Shout - Tears For Fears/La Bamba - Los Lobos/Love Shack - B-52's/Legs - ZZ Top/Manic Monday - Bangles/Down Under - Men At Work/Vacation - Go-Go's/Urgent - Foreigner/Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac/You Belong To The City - Glenn Frey
    Turn the Tide
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      Turn the Tide
      Sylver
      Manufacturer: Urban
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      ASIN: B000059ZLZ
      Release Date: 2001-03-19
      Das Barbecu: A New Musical Comedy (1994 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Wagner exposed for the rich old Texan he is...
      • Wagner's Ring Cylce set in Texas to Country Music
      • Enjoyable Music
      • Wagner goes to Texas
      • Country Western Version of Wagner's Ring (?!?!?!?)
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      Jim Luigs
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      Release Date: 1995-03-07

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      1. A Ring Of Gold In Texas - Original Cast
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      3. Hog-Tie Your Man - Sally Mayes
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      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars Wagner exposed for the rich old Texan he is..........2007-07-16

      I have had the pleasure of working backstage at a production of this particular show, and know it intimately... and to be perfectly honest, while I do not doubt the talent and ability of the CD's performers, I have heard these songs done MUCH more justice. However, the music is still quite fun, and if you have any knowledge of Der Ring Das Nibelungen at all, then you will find this show quite hilarious. Don't expect Wagner, but then again, don't expect a heartfelt tribute to Texas, either... this musical does it's best to poke fun at every... abrogating aspect of "Texan Culture"... of course, what better way to express the excessive and consanguineous hodge-podge that is Norse Mythology?

      5 out of 5 stars Wagner's Ring Cylce set in Texas to Country Music.......2007-06-06

      This is sheer genius. The show consists of five actors playing over 30 roles! The amazing thing is that you can do the show with two stage hands as long as you have enough dressers for the actors (I know, I was one of the two stage hands when we did the first production at Theatre on the Square in Indianapolis). The music is great, it has wonderful ballads, a great anthem song toward the end and several very funny songs.

      Highest rating.

      5 out of 5 stars Enjoyable Music.......2004-05-19

      I recently had the pleasure of being musical director and conductor for a production of this work, and although I have traditionally hated country-western music, I found this music to be wonderful and lots of fun. Usually, I am hired more as an opera coach and singer, more towards the "legit", "Wagner" side of this particular story; however, this version is worth every dollar. Too bad the cd doesn't contain the dialogue!

      5 out of 5 stars Wagner goes to Texas.......2003-07-08

      This is, alas, only the songs from the wonderful musical--I wish it had all the hilarious dialog too. It helps if you are familiar with "Goetterdaemmerung" (and the rest of the Ring cycle), because it is a truly wacky version of the story. Imagine Hagen as a narcoleptic, and the poor out-of-work Rhinemaidens have to perform in an aquatic extravaganza.

      The lively songs are Texas-flavored, and the lyrics have the clever syncopation and rhymes of a Cole Porter. It's hard to get "Makin' Guacamole" out of your head, and "Slide a Little Closer, Darlin'" is a ballad to equal any. But I can't wait for the video!

      4 out of 5 stars Country Western Version of Wagner's Ring (?!?!?!?).......2001-02-02

      Poor Wagner -- First Anna Russell makes a career of telling an accurate version of the Ring and getting her biggest laugh when she accurately says "I'm not making this up!" and now this. Don't mistake it for a highlisghts disk of the Ring! This is the country-western version of the Ring Cycle set in cowboy Texas and is, in its way, a pretty good telling of the Ring Cycle. I doubt it is going to convert a lot of country fans to Wagner, but if you like Wagner at all, it is a very, very funny retelling of the Alberich/Wotan/Brunnhilde/Siegfried story set to country music. It was a fun stage show (presented in Seattle when the Ring was being produced) and the album captured the goofy spirit of the show. This is a good album for folks who don't always take their Wagner too, too seriously. It is certainly good for a couple of listens, so enjoy. The Amazon sound clips are pretty representative of the show.
      Peter Maxwell Davies - Worldes Blis, for orchestra, J. 79; The Turn of the Tide, J. 253; Sir Charles his Pavan, for orchestra, J. 255
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      • Some notes on Worldes Blis
      Peter Maxwell Davies - Worldes Blis, for orchestra, J. 79; The Turn of the Tide, J. 253; Sir Charles his Pavan, for orchestra, J. 255

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      2. Worldes Blis: Lento recitando - lentissimo - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      3. Worldes Blis: L'istesso tempo - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      4. Worldes Blis: Allegro - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      5. Worldes Blis: Poco piu mosso - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      6. Worldes Blis: Allegro - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      7. Worldes Blis: Lento - RPO/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
      8. The Turn Of The Tide, Section I: First Life: 1. The creation of underwater plants
      9. The Turn Of The Tide, Section I: First Life: 2. The creation of plants on land
      10. The Turn Of The Tide, Section I: First Life: 3. The creation of the first sea creatures
      11. The Turn Of The Tide, Section I: First Life: 4. The creation of birds
      12. The Turn Of The Tide, Section I: First Life: 5. Mammals, and first people
      13. The Turn Of The Tide, Section II: Creation established. Life flourishes: 1. The underwater plants...
      14. The Turn Of The Tide, Section II: Creation established. Life flourishes: 2. The trees flourish
      15. The Turn Of The Tide, Section II: Creation established. Life flourishes: 3. The prosperity of fish
      16. The Turn Of The Tide, Section II: Creation established. Life flourishes: 4. Bird migration
      17. The Turn Of The Tide, Section II: Creation established. Life flourishes: 5. Instinct and...
      18. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The worst that could happen...: 1. The sea plants are poisoned
      19. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The worst that could happen...: 2. The trees are suffocated
      20. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The worst that could happen...: 3. The fish are deformed and cannot
      21. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The worst that could happen...: 4. The birds fall from the sky
      22. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The worst that could happen...: 5. Hubris triumphant
      23. The Turn Of The Tide, Section V: The warning is heeded: Nature reborn
      24. Sir Charles His Pavan - BBC Phil/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Some notes on Worldes Blis.......2002-10-01

      The premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies' orchestral piece Worldes Blis (1969) caused a large portion of the audience to leave their seats, and the performance hall, rather noisily. Davies reported that the audience members who decided to stay booed at the conclusion of the composition. The concert took place in London at the Royal Albert Hall on August 28, 1969. Davies himself conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra on this occasion. The extremely negative reaction of the audience is all the more surprising in view of the usual calmness of English concertgoers, but nothing happened on the scale of the riotous Rite of Spring premiere in 1913, when objects were thrown and audience members shouted at each other. Since the premiere of Worldes Blis, the composition has come to be accepted by many listeners and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of symphonic writing.
      In Worldes Blis, Davies attempted to represent evil and terrible aspects of the world around him, such as violence, poverty, and injustice. Sections of the work meant to portray these conditions are marked by the aggressive and striking sounds that offended audiences at the premiere. On the day after the premiere, most reporters made no mention of the audience's reaction to Davies' work. Stanley Sadie, a musical critic and later editor of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, wrote perhaps the only accurate account of the event. He acknowledged that the audience indeed had a right to leave if they so wished, but he criticized them for their "closed ears," and went on to suggest comically that the BBC should advertise such music as "suitable for adult listeners only."

      Davies made the first sketches of this composition in 1963 and 1964 while he was at Princeton University on a Harkness Fellowship. A couple of years later, Davies continued his work on the piece while he temporarily served as Professor of Composition at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Davies greatly enjoyed this position due to the fact that he taught an exceptional group of young composers there. Worldes Blis is a monumental work for full orchestra, lasting an average of 40 minutes in performance. The piece starts calmly and continually builds throughout its duration, and for this reason has been compared to Ravel's Bolero (1928). Aspects of the world that Davies abhors are represented through this growing tension. Perhaps in reference to the work's extramusical associations, the composer termed it a "motet for orchestra." The tension is not released until just before the conclusion of the work, in a large climax. A short coda follows in which a calmness falls over the orchestra.
      Turn of the Tide
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        Turn of the Tide
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        Songs To Turn The Tide
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          ASIN: B0000TET9E
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          The debut release from upstate New York's Marathon sees the birth of what may become one of the most important voices in punk rock. These five songs range in topic from societies manipulation of the ideas of beauty and attraction to war for profit.Amazing personal political hardcore.
          Turn the Tide
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            Turn the Tide
            Sylver
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