Maggie Brown

Bruce Warren (WXPN Philadelphia)
"Brown's debut is mind-blowingly fantastic.."

Product Description:
"A solid guitarist, singer and songwriter, Brown's debut is mind-blowingly fantastic—a singular achievement from an artist who has been practicing her craft for the last 20 years. Her release is an honest record that is equal parts Southern rock and country, with blues and folk flavoring. While comparisons to Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Allison Moorer, Susan Tedeschi and Lucinda Williams are just a few inevitable musical touchstones for comparison, Maggie has her own incomparable style. Add a dash of Tom Petty and Delbert McClinton… and you've got a sense of Brown's musical range.

Maggie Brown

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Average customer rating: a voice teacher and early music fan POETRY PLEASE

Henry Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary; Sacred Music; Dioclesian Songs Manufacturer: Brilliant Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007WFXF8 Release Date: 2005-03-29

Customer Reviews:

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-11-25

This is an excellent 'starter' album for the person who does not own many Purcell discs. It rather covers the gamut of his types of offerings. Disc 1 :Choir of St. Clare College,Cambridge -conductor Timothy Brown. They sing some of Purcell's Sacred Music, and it's a good selection:'Te Deum','Jubilate Deo','My Beloved Spake' a much-recorded favoite of many English choirs,'O God,'Thou art my God','Lord, how long will Thou be angry?','Remember not,Lord,our offenses',and the well-known 'Hear my prayer,O Lord'. The choir is excellent having the typically British sound with the boy sopranos and male altos.
The last half of Disc 1 comprises the music of 'Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary, some vocal and some instrumental;again sung by the St. Clare Choir and accompanied by the Baroque Brass of London; all very excellent.
Disc 2 begins with 9 songs sung by Michael Chance, who, in my opinion sings Purcell better than any other counter-tenor. His voice is rich and full using a whole-body sound; diction is flawless and every song is sung in the style and with the proper emotional input- just wonderful singing!!!!The Premier songs on the disc (in my opinion) are : "the Queen's Epicedium' also known as 'Incassum,Lesbia,Incassum Rogas' is an elegy on the death of Queen Mary (1694)...."In the Black Dismal Dungeon of Dispair" is a sacred song written for domestic use, and is in a dramatic and declamatory style....."An Evening Hymn" of the same ilk as the previous song and is a graceful ground-bass song which descends step-wise from tonic to dominant.
The 2nd half of CD2 includes music from the 'Dioclesian'and one selection from the play 'Timon of Athens' all instrumental, quite charming to hear, and played very skillfully by varied instrumentalists.
All in all this album is really a bargain!

POETRY PLEASE.......2006-02-02

The leaflet with this outstanding pair of discs contains the words to the vocal numbers and nothing else. I would like to know a great deal more about both the music and the performers, but I have no right to complain about any lack when presented with so much superb music in high-quality sound at a price like this.

One of the discs contains 9 songs given by the counter-tenor Michael Chance, plus the reasonably-famous chaconny in G minor, 15 numbers from Purcell's instrumental music to someone's play Dioclesian, and the `curtain tune' to Timon of Athens, presumably Shakespeare's. At first hearing I was slightly taken aback by the start of the `dance of the furies' in Dioclesian - beautiful in the extreme but almost suggestive of Gluck's dance of the blessed spirits - until the furies became a little more lively, if not exactly my idea of furious, in the second section of the piece. I also wonder what took place in the `chair dance'. It's all really lovely stuff, done with out-and-out professionalism and a love and understanding of the music that shines through every bar; but in the last resort it's not the instrumental music here, except perhaps the chaconny, that reveals the very greatest Purcell. The songs could hardly have a better advocate than Chance who has a really superb and powerful voice, helped by a rather `forward' recording. One song stands out as quite extraordinary, the long `Queen's Epicedium', and for sheer raw emotion I can't offhand think of its like in Bach or even in Handel. Unfortunately there is no translation of the Latin text, but I can help here if required (below*).

The other, and shorter, disc consists of choral numbers starting with a short but eloquent and most un-Handelian Te Deum, followed by 6 settings of verses from the Psalms. The balance of the disc is occupied by 6 `Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary', a solemn and beautiful suite easily as coherent as Handel's fireworks music or the Bach orchestral suites. Among such outstanding vocal and instrumental work it would be unfair and invidious to single out any particular performer, so let me draw attention unfairly and invidiously to the superb drum-work of Robert Howes in the two funeral march episodes.


*I imagine that in the `Queen's Epicedium' you will want to know what sentiments this extraordinary music is expressing. The poem is frankly third-rate rodomontade, but it should still make sense, and at two points it doesn't. I have therefore done what is really the cautious and conservative thing, and conjectured what the original text probably said. The alternative - to cling to the text as given, which is quite certainly corrupted by scribal errors of the usual type, and then render Latin nonsense into English nonsense and go on my way rejoicing - is just disreputable. In fact I would lay reasonable odds on my first change, `iuncorum' for the meaningless `iunctorum', as it provides a very fitting poetic cliché of bullrushes bowing their heads in sorrow. My other change is to the sequence `gemitibus imis...turbido'. Here if we remove the full stop after `imis' and substitute a comma after `pectoris', then read `singultus' for `singultre' and put a full stop after `turbido', we get bad but feasible Latin. It might even just be right. This poet was no Horace to say the least, and I doubt I have done any serious injustice to his divine afflatus. So the sense now is -

'In vain, Lesbia, in vain you ask. My lyre, my mind is untuned. With the world full of tears, full of sorrows, do you ask for song?

Nymphs! Shepherds! Every head droops like the rushes, so much is she bewailed. Galatea sings not, nor does Tityrus sport in the fields. The sheep care not, lost in grief.

The queen alas, the queen of Arcadia is dead. O loss not to be expressed, not by sighs nor the deepest groans of the bosom nor the turmoil of plaintive sobbing. Sad Arcadians, how grief-stricken! The wondrous delight of her eyes is gone, never O never to return. Her fixed star outshines the sky.'

All that notwithstanding, a quite marvellous issue of quite marvellous music.

Average customer rating: Amid fine work, a new star! Stephen Foster Would Be Proud Foster at his simple best Well-rounded and convincing

Stephen Foster Songs: Parlor & Minstrel Songs, Dance Tunes & Instrumentals Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber 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 General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Songs by Stephen Foster, Vol. 1-2 Stephen Foster's America American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster Stephen Foster Song Book ASIN: B0000049NP Release Date: 1995-07-28

Tracks:

1. The Glendy Burke
2. Nelly Was A Lady
3. Melinda May
4. The Soree Polka
5. The Moustache Song
6. O Willie, Is It You, Dear?
7. Mr. & Mrs. Brown
8. Gem From Lucia No.1
9. Wilt Thou Be Gone?
10. The Voices That Are Gone
11. Ole Black Joe
12. Maggie By My Side
13. Camptown Ladies
14. Hard Times
15. Gems From Lucia No.2, No.3
16. The Shanghai Chicken
17. Beautiful Dreamer
18. Ah! May The Red Rose Live Away
19. Nelly Bly
20. I Dream Of Jeannie
21. O Susannah & Some Folks

Customer Reviews:

Amid fine work, a new star!.......2004-09-28

Baird, Russell and Van Buskirk give fine performances in a splendid
program, but tenor Frederick Urrey [his Foster recording debut?] is a sensation! A glorious voice, with a perfect command of style in
operatic, ballad, ensemble and even comic scenes, his Melinda May is breathtaking, his Beautiful Dreamer is the best on records, his
duets charm and his drunken husband is a gas! He has it all!! In my 25 years of total immersion in Foster and his era, I have never
even dreamt of hearing an artist of such stature. Foster was said to have a fine voice and to sing his music better than any other.
I pray we now hear more of SF's songs as he must have sung them!

Stephen Foster Would Be Proud.......2004-02-26

Linda Russell is a remarkable woman. I have every CD she has done and I've never been disappointed in the high quality recordings she releases. I consider her every bit of an historian as the authors of history books.
This collection of Stephen Foster tunes, one of two that Russell has partaken in, is a rousing collection of the musical sounds of the mid-19th century. Soprano Julianne Baird and tenor Frederick Urrey join in with Ms. Russell's alto vocals to make a truly remarkable ensemble (including the musicians playing the mountain dulcimer, fortepiano, fiddle, hammered dulcimer, recorder, and accordion - all on authentic antique instruments). All combined show off the genius that Stephen Foster was - the 19th century's top songwriter who wrote music for ALL time, not just his time.
But if it wasn't for the musical reenactors (on CD at least) of Russell and company many of these long lost gems might have stayed hidden, sadly unheard. Some choral music, a feel of opera, a bit of traditional folk all mixed together to make what I feel is an authentic piece of musical history.
Here's hoping that Linda Russell and friends continue in the making of traditional music - Christmas and popular.
Ms. Russell, do you ever tour? We'd love to see you here in Michigan!

Foster at his simple best.......2002-01-22

What a delicious surprise this little album is, and from the ..... date, it appears to have been around for a few seasons, but is utterly new to me. I am a Julianne Baird fan from the get-go, but was pleasantly taken aback at her appearance on an album of American songs with folk balladeer Linda Russell (who plays dulcimers, mountain fiddles and all manner of country instruments and sings with the earthy texture of Judy Collins). But as usual Baird finds a way to integrate her own exquisite sensibilities and artistry into the assignment and makes a touching case for the simple and heart-rending Foster tunes--this is, after all, "early music" in which she excels--American "Early Music." Tenor Fred Urrey is another find and he likewise blends wonderfully into the surroundings. In fact, the three diverse artists hit their stride in a haunting trio rendition of Old Black Joe. Keyboard and string instruments have a ghostly and authentic ring to them as well. indeed, after the pompous and overblown Foster CDs of better-known opera singers in the bins today, this is so welcome. A treasure!
Get it today.

Well-rounded and convincing.......2000-10-27

This is an excellent rendition of Stephen Foster's songs, capitalizing on the duality inherent in the repertoire: the beautiful parlor ballads and the rowdy folk-inspired tunes. Especially remarkable is the fact that the performers bring to the music the "early music" sensibility (Julianne Baird is renowned as a performer of Elizabethan lutesongs)--this sensibility urges the performers to be as historically accurate as possible, performing on original/reproduction instruments. Also of note is the fact that it is a collaboration between classical and folk musicians: soprano, alto, tenor, fortepiano, fiddle, mountain and hammered dulcimers, harmonica, recorder, and accordian. Linda Russell (alto, mountain dulcimer) is lyrical and moving with her "folkie" voice, perfectly complementing the other "cultivated" voices and grounding them on the occasions they come together in poignant harmony.

I only wish that they had incorporated a 19th c. parlor guitar to round out the ballads. Overall, however, one can well imagine that this is indeed the way the music sounded. As one of America's first "popular song" writers, the present performers succeed in doing him justice by incorporating many styles of 19th c. popular musics, avoiding the anachronistic "bluegrass" sound often used in performances of this repertoire, and never succumbing to waves of overly self-indulgent nostalgia.

Average customer rating: mean mothers are really sweet

Mean Mothers, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Rose Quartz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music 1920-1929 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1940-1949 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music 1930-1939 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002137 Release Date: 1995-04-16

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mean mothers are really sweet.......2006-07-30

What an amazing album! If you like early blues music and artists like Bessie Smith, Lil Armstrong and Ida Cox, then you will love this compilation. Other than Billie Holiday and Lil Armstrong,this recording of women blues singers from the 20s, 30s and 40s, may not have many well-known names, but the talent is clear. Full of beautiful, deep voices and heart-felt emotion, singers like Bessie Brown, Harlem Hannah, Blu Lu Barker and Bertha Idaho, evoke memories of triumph over struggle and sorrow in the only way that the blues can, by lifting us out of it with its ardent, expressive songs of love and pain.

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By the Old Pine Tree Manufacturer: Arabesque Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Folk | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000000T9D Release Date: 1996-07-01

Tracks:

1. Village Festival-Quadrille No.1
2. Village Festival-Quadrille No.2
3. Village Festival-Quadrille No.3
4. Village Festival-Quadrille No.4
5. Village Festival-Jig
6. Anadolia
7. Byerly's Waltz
8. Rainbow Schottisch - Paula Robinson/Krista Bennion Feeney/Calvin Wiersma/John Feeney/Samuel Sanders P
9. Jennie's Own Schottisch
10. I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
11. Oh! Susanna
12. Blackbirds
13. Wald einsamkeit I
14. Wald einsamkeit II - Paula Robinson/Krista Bennion Feeney/Calvin Wiersma/John Feeney/Samuel Sanders P
15. A Melody From Lanier's Flute
16. Cradle Song
17. Wind Song
18. The Old Pine Tree
19. Beautiful Dreamer - Paula Robinson/Krista Bennion Feeney/Calvin Wiersma/John Feeney/Samuel Sanders P
20. Maggie By My Side
21. Gentle Annie
22. Where Are the Friends of My Youth
23. Old Folks' Quadriles-No.1, Old Folks at Home
24. Old Folks' Quadriles-No.2, Oh Boys, Carry Me 'Long - Paula Robinson/Krista Bennion Feeney/Calvin Wiersma/John Feeney/Samuel Sanders P
25. Old Folks' Quadriles-No.3, Nelly Bly
26. Old Folks' Quadriles-No.4, Farewell, My Lilly Dear
27. Old Folks' Quadriles-No.5, Plantation Jig
28. My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night

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I Hear You Calling Me Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Godard, Benjamin | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Divertimentos | Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber 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 Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000Y37EW Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
2. The Sunshine Of Your Smile
3. Macushla
4. The Bard Of Armagh
5. Come Into The Garden, Maud
6. Turn Ye To Me
7. Angels Guard Thee ('Berceuse')
8. I'll Sing The Songs Of Araby
9. Venetian Song
10. Flirtation
11. Since You Went Away (Seems Lak' To Me)
12. Dear Old Pal Of Mine
13. Dream Once Again
14. A Brown Bird Singing
15. When You And I Were Young, Maggie
16. The Garden Where The Praties Grow
17. I Hear You Calling Me
18. The Irish Emigrant
19. Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
20. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
21. South Winds
22. She Moved Thro' The Fair
23. The Star Of The County Down
24. Waiting For You
25. The Kerry Dance

Tracks:

1. The Minstrel Boy
2. Nirvana
3. My Dreams
4. A Little Love, A Little Kiss
5. The Angel's Serenade
6. Ave Maria (Intermezzo From 'Cavalleria Rusticana')
7. Serenata
8. Barcarolle ('Night Of Stars And Night Of Love')
9. Before My Window
10. Swans
11. Come, My Beloved
12. Moonlight And Roses
13. I Look Into Your Garden
14. Bird Songs At Eventide
15. By The Short Cut To The Roses
16. The Fairy Tree
17. The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls
18. Once In A Blue Moon
19. Charm Me Asleep
20. Vespers
21. Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
22. A Song Remembered
23. The Dawning Of The Day
24. A House, Love, Made For You And Me
25. The Old House

Average customer rating: Listen and you will love.. A favorite from the first play Maggie is AWESOME From her Monday Night Family Shades of Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams on strong debut

Maggie Brown Maggie Brown Manufacturer: Riverwide Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Southern Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Classic Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 R&B | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pictures From Life's Other Side Last Days of Wonder Balls 40 Days Pay the Devil ASIN: B0002EXKJC Release Date: 2004-07-06

Tracks:

1. Forty Dollars
2. I Like It
3. Full Moon Over Dallas
4. Used Cars
5. Jacob's Eyes
6. Black River Blues
7. Nowhere To Go But Crazy
8. Wasted
9. Mosquito Net
10. Shame
11. Hush
12. Looking Back

Album Description

"A solid guitarist, singer and songwriter, Brown's debut is mind-blowingly fantastic—a singular achievement from an artist who has been practicing her craft for the last 20 years. Her release is an honest record that is equal parts Southern rock and country, with blues and folk flavoring. While comparisons to Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Allison Moorer, Susan Tedeschi and Lucinda Williams are just a few inevitable musical touchstones for comparison, Maggie has her own incomparable style. Add a dash of Tom Petty and Delbert McClinton… and you've got a sense of Brown's musical range.

Customer Reviews:

Listen and you will love.........2005-10-29

Rarely do I love an album on first listen, but this one I did. "Nowhere to Go But Crazy" was the first song I heard on a local Americana radio program and fell head over heels immediately. It is still a favorite. I only wish she would come back to Texas!!

A favorite from the first play.......2004-10-03

I've listened to a lot of wonderful (and underappreciated) women singers recently--Lucy Kaplansky, Rosie Thomas, Mindy Smith, Kasey Chambers. I've enjoyed all of their CDs. Maggie Brown easily ranks among them. Her debut CD is simply amazing. Comparisons to Bonnie Raitt and Toni Price come to mind. Maggie Brown holds her own with everyone that I've mentioned. And she is a truly gifted songwriter. Buy this CD!

Maggie is AWESOME.......2004-07-18

Any music enthusiast will really love this album.

From her Monday Night Family.......2004-07-17

The best yet! Every song is a winner. Beautifully written. As a local, I can't get enough. Also, a wonderful performer. Catch her live show and you'll be hooked too!

Shades of Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams on strong debut.......2004-07-17

It's the rare musician who takes time off, lives a "normal" life, and actually returns to write about it. But that's exactly what the thirty-something Brown has done. As a teenager she earned the family's keep in roadhouses and honky-tonks throughout Texas, but when her mother passed away, she dropped out, married and started a family. Years later, the siren's call of music proved too strong, and as she gradually re-entered the industry, she found that the life she'd been living provided ample material.

Her songs (she wrote eleven of these twelve) knit together the bluesy work of Bonnie Raitt and Joan Osborne (those who've never listened past Osborne's "One of Us" should take her album "Relish" out for a spin) with the twangy fusion Lucinda Williams brought to her self-titled album in 1988. There's even an occasional spark of Janis Joplin to be heard. Brown is equally at home singing confessionals with her acoustic guitar as she is belting it out in front of an electric band.

Though technically a debut album, these are the songs and performances of a seasoned artist. Brown writes with a voice full of experience, fleshing out women on the move from failed relationships to those that should have been and never can seem to be. She contemplates the contradictions of being both a mother and a daughter, and finds both dreams and nightmares on the road. Producer Jeff Ford mixes up full-band backings with acoustic singer-songwriter settings that frame Brown perfectly to create a tremendously accomplished CD.

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Knights of the Blues Table (HDCD) Cyril Davies , Jack Bruce , Georgie Fame , Duffy Power , Chris Jagger and Mick Jagger , Pete Brown and Phil Ryan , Miller Anderson , Maggie Bell and Big Jim Sullivan , Peter Green and Nigel Watson , and TS McPhee Manufacturer: Lightyear ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CDO31M

Product Description

Knights Of The Blues Table//HDCD - High Definition 1. K.C. Moan / Send For Me - Cyril Davies/Jack Bruce 2. If You Live - Georgie Fame 3. Go Down Sunshine - Duffy Power 4. Racketeer Blues - Chris Jagger/Mick Jagger 5. Rocks In My Bed - Pete Brown/Phil Ryan 6. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Miller Anderson 7. Blind Man - Maggie Bell/Big Jim Sullivan 8. Travelling Riverside Blues - Peter Green/Nigel Watson 9. Drop Down Mama - TS McPhee 10. I've Got News For You - Clem Clempson 11. Nine Below Zero - Nine Below Zero 12. Judgment Day - The Pretty Things 13. Play On Little Girl / T-Bone Shuffle - Paul Jones/Otis Grand 14. One More Mile - Mick Clarke/Lou Martin 15. You Shook Me - Mick Taylor/Max Middleton

Average customer rating: Product Info POETRY PLEASE

Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary; Sacred Music; Dioclesian; Songs Manufacturer: Columns Classic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005YA9F Release Date: 2001-11-13

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Product Info.......2006-11-15

CD ONE
1. Te Deum and Jubilate Deo in D major, Z. 232
2. My beloved spake, anthem , Z. 28
3. O God, thou art my god, anthem, Z. 35
4. Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry, anthem, Z. 25
5. Remember not, Lord, our offences, anthem, Z. 50
6. Hear my prayer, O Lord, anthem, Z. 15 (unfinished)
7. Funeral Sentences (for the funeral of Queen Mary), Z. 27

The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown, conductor
Andrew Manze, Marshall Marcus, violins
Jan Schlapp, viola
Jenny Ward-Clarke, bass violin
Liz Kenny, William Carter, theorbo
Jonathan Brown, Keri Dexter, organ
Baroque Brass of London
Mark Bennett, Crispian Steele Perkins, Michael Laird, trumpets
Ron Bryans, sackbut
Robert Howes, drum


CD TWO
1. Come ye sons of art away, Z. 323: Strike the Viol
2. Incassum, Lesbia, incassum rogas, song, Z 383
3. Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339: Here the Deities approve
4. O solitude, my sweetest choice, song, Z. 406
5. Sweeter than roses, song, Z. 585/1
6. Music for a While, song, Z. 583/2
7. If music be the food of love, song, Z. 379 (3 settings)
8. In the black, dismal dungeon of despair, sacred song, Z. 190
9. Now that the sun hath veiled his light, sacred song, Z. 193
10. Chacony, for 4 strings in G minor, Z. 730
11. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 First music
12. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Overture
13. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 1st Act tune
14. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Dance of the furies
15. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Second act tune
16. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Two in one upon a ground
17. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 The chair dance
18. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Third act tune
19. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Butterfly dance
20. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Country dance in act 5
21. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Dance of the Bacchanals
22. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Still I'm wishing
23. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Canaries
24. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Dance
25. Prophetess, semi-opera, Z. 627 Dance
26. Timon of Athens, semi-opera, Z. 632 Curtain time

(1-9)
Michal Chance, counter-tenor
Richard Boothby, viola da gamba
Maggie Cole, harpsichord
Nigel North, archlute, theorba
(10-26)
Miscellany:
Ashley Solomon, Rebecca Prosser, recorder
Rachel Podger, Lucy Russel, violin
Jane Rogers, viola
Daniel Yeadon, bass violin
David Miller, theorbo, archlute, guitar
Neal Peres da Costa, harpsichord / organ

POETRY PLEASE.......2003-07-24

The leaflet with this outstanding pair of discs contains the words to the vocal numbers and nothing else. I would like to know a great deal more about both the music and the performers, but I have no right to complain about any lack when presented with so much superb music in high-quality sound at a price like this.

One of the discs contains 9 songs given by the counter-tenor Michael Chance, plus the reasonably-famous chaconny in G minor, 15 numbers from Purcell's instrumental music to someone's play Dioclesian, and the `curtain tune' to Timon of Athens, presumably Shakespeare's. At first hearing I was slightly taken aback by the start of the `dance of the furies' in Dioclesian - beautiful in the extreme but almost suggestive of Gluck's dance of the blessed spirits - until the furies became a little more lively, if not exactly my idea of furious, in the second section of the piece. I also wonder what took place in the `chair dance'. It's all really lovely stuff, done with out-and-out professionalism and a love and understanding of the music that shines through every bar; but in the last resort it's not the instrumental music here, except perhaps the chaconny, that reveals the very greatest Purcell. The songs could hardly have a better advocate than Chance who has a really superb and powerful voice, helped by a rather `forward' recording. One song stands out as quite extraordinary, the long `Queen's Epicedium', and for sheer raw emotion I can't offhand think of its like in Bach or even in Handel. Unfortunately there is no translation of the Latin text, but I can help here if required (below*).

The other, and shorter, disc consists of choral numbers starting with a short but eloquent and most un-Handelian Te Deum, followed by 6 settings of verses from the Psalms. The balance of the disc is occupied by 6 `Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary', a solemn and beautiful suite easily as coherent as Handel's fireworks music or the Bach orchestral suites. Among such outstanding vocal and instrumental work it would be unfair and invidious to single out any particular performer, so let me draw attention unfairly and invidiously to the superb drum-work of Robert Howes in the two funeral march episodes.

*I imagine that in the `Queen's Epicedium' you will want to know what sentiments this extraordinary music is expressing. The poem is frankly third-rate rodomontade, but it should still make sense, and at two points it doesn't. I have therefore done what is really the cautious and conservative thing, and conjectured what the original text probably said. The alternative - to cling to the text as given, which is quite certainly corrupted by scribal errors of the usual type, and then render Latin nonsense into English nonsense and go on my way rejoicing - is just disreputable. In fact I would lay reasonable odds on my first change, `iuncorum' for the meaningless `iunctorum', as it provides a very fitting poetic cliché of bullrushes bowing their heads in sorrow. My other change is to the sequence `gemitibus imis...turbido'. Here if we remove the full stop after `imis' and substitute a comma after `pectoris', then read `singultus' for `singultre' and put a full stop after `turbido', we get bad but feasible Latin. It might even just be right. This poet was no Horace to say the least, and I doubt I have done any serious injustice to his divine afflatus. So the sense now is -

'In vain, Lesbia, in vain you ask. My lyre, my mind is untuned. With the world full of tears, full of sorrows, do you ask for song?

Nymphs! Shepherds! Every head droops like the rushes, so much is she bewailed. Galatea sings not, nor does Tityrus sport in the fields. The sheep care not, lost in grief.

The queen alas, the queen of Arcadia is dead. O loss not to be expressed, not by sighs nor the deepest groans of the bosom nor the turmoil of plaintive sobbing! Sad Arcadians, how grief-stricken! The wondrous delight of her eyes is gone, never O never to return. Her fixed star outshines the sky.'

All that notwithstanding, a quite marvellous issue of quite marvellous music.

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