Fireside Piano

Track Listings

 
1. Out Of This World
2. One Love
3. Bless The Beasts and the Children
4. You Go To My Head
5. Lovely
6. Out Of My Dreams
7. Hurting Each Other
8. Send In The Clowns
9. Through The Eyes Of Love
10. Chopin Sonata Theme
11. Not Going Home Anymore
12. Theme From Love Story
13. Romeo and Juliet
14. Whoever You Are, I Love You
15. Somewhere My Love

Editorial Reviews

D Magazine, p.108, November 1980
Newell Oler plays Roger Williams-style dramatic runs, and he often throws in "the classics", such as Chopin polonaise.

Product Description
This CD features solo piano arrangements of romantic songs, played in a classical style

Fireside Piano

Fireside Piano,Newell Oler,NOME Co. of Dallas, Inc.,This CD features solo piano arrangements of romantic songs, played in a classical style.
Most Relaxing Classical Piano Music in the Universe
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Solid collection of piano favorites
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ASIN: B0002A2VIM
Release Date: 2004-06-29

Tracks:

  1. BACH Goldberg Variations, Aria
  2. SCHUMANN Piano Sonata in f# minor, II. Aria
  3. CHOPIN Ballade No. 1
  4. MOZART Piano Concert No. 24, II. Larghetto
  5. RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2, Adagio
  6. BEETHOVEN Moonlight Sonata, Adagio Sostenuto
  7. MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle
  8. TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons, October: Song of Autumn
  9. BRAHMS Sonata for Two Pianos, Andante
  10. BACH Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Prelude 22

Tracks:

  1. SATIE Gymnopedie No. 1
  2. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1, Larghetto
  3. DEBUSSY Claire de Lune
  4. MOZART Sonata in a minor, Andante cantabile
  5. BEETHOVEN Fse
  6. MUSSORGSKY Rrie
  7. TCHAIKOVSKY The Seasons, January: At the Fireside
  8. BRAHMS Piano Sonata No. 3, II. Andante espressivo
  9. DVORAK Piano Trio No. 3, III. Poco adagio
  10. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto, II. Andante gracioso

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Solid collection of piano favorites.......2006-11-10

If you can gag your way past the album title, this is a most pleasant collection of beloved classical piano pieces that actually is relaxing, I suppose.
MacDowell: Piano Music, Vol. 1
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Not so bad
  • Simplicity, clarity, brevity.
  • AN ENCHANTING PARCEL OF NEGLECTED MACDOWELL
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ASIN: B00000DHTE
Release Date: 1998-10-27

Tracks:

  1. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: To A Wild Rose
  2. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: Will-O'-The-Wisp
  3. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: At An Old Trysting Place
  4. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: In Autumn
  5. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: From An Indian Lodge
  6. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: To A Water-Lily
  7. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: From Uncle Remus
  8. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: A Deserted Farm
  9. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: By A Meadow Brook
  10. Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: Told At Sunset
  11. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: To The Sea
  12. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: From A Wandering Iceberg
  13. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: A.D. MDCXX
  14. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: Starlight
  15. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: Song
  16. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: From The Depths
  17. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: Nautilus
  18. Sea Pieces, Op. 55: In Mid-Ocean
  19. Fireside Tales, Op.61: An Old Love Story
  20. Fireside Tales, Op.61: Of Br'er Rabbit
  21. Fireside Tales, Op.61: From A German Forest
  22. Fireside Tales, Op.61: Of Salamanders
  23. Fireside Tales, Op.61: A Haunted House
  24. Fireside Tales, Op.61: By Smouldering Embers
  25. New England Idyls, Op. 62: An Old Garden
  26. New England Idyls, Op. 62: Mid-Summer
  27. New England Idyls, Op. 62: Mid-Winter
  28. New England Idyls, Op. 62: With Sweet Lavender
  29. New England Idyls, Op. 62: In Deep Woods
  30. New England Idyls, Op. 62: Indian Idyl
  31. New England Idyls, Op. 62: To An Old White Pine
  32. New England Idyls, Op. 62: From Puritan Days
  33. New England Idyls, Op. 62: From A Log Cabin
  34. New England Idyls, Op. 62: The Joy Of Autumn

Amazon.com

Many listeners will immediately recognize the opening piece on this disc, To a Wild Rose, one of MacDowell's best inspirations. However, even after a couple of hearings, they'll probably have trouble recognizing the rest of these pieces, none of which has the same kind of inspiration. MacDowell's deeply held belief that American music should copy European models was also his limitation. This music is historically important, but as a listening experience, it has the same effect as second-rate imitations of Grieg's Lyric Pieces. Barbagallo's lovely playing, a fine memorial to this regrettably short-lived artist, makes the music sound better than it really is, and the recorded piano tone is beautiful. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Not so bad.......2006-05-16

The Amazon reviewer (Gerber) is too condescending by half. No sensible listener would rate these pieces as the equal of efforts by the likes of Mozart or Schubert, and Macdowell never claimed they were. They are interesting period pieces, composed with a good deal of charm and skill. It is amusing that Gerber likens them to second-rate versions of the Grieg Lyric Pieces - as if those pieces were worth imitating. Even Macdowell knew better than to copy junk like that.

5 out of 5 stars Simplicity, clarity, brevity........2001-08-17

These vignettes are not bravura performances (such as Chopin, Polonaise in A-flat), but short and brief tellings of a larger story.

The only criticisms I have is that pianist James Barbagallo played, "To a Wild Rose", a bit too fast for my taste, and MacDowell might have written a different, "From a Wandering Iceberg", had he lived to see the Titanic disaster.

5 out of 5 stars AN ENCHANTING PARCEL OF NEGLECTED MACDOWELL.......2000-07-26

A master of the piano vignette, as these pieces aptly and beautifully illustrate, MacDowell (1860-1908) remains, for the most part, remembered solely as the composer of "To A Wild Rose," the first piece in his collection of Woodland Sketches, Op. 51, incomprehensible as it may seem.

MacDowell is a bit of a paradox. Musically schooled in Europe, admired by Liszt, taught by Raff, and having his own viewpoints about composition, nobody typifies, personifies or exemplifies what one might call the "New England School" like MacDowell does. He's rather the Thoreau of New England music, actually, and especially the piano vignette, of which he is a master.

Just look at the titles: Woodland Sketches, Fireside Tales, New England Idyls, Sea Pieces. For me, this music is New England. There's more nostalgia in these four sets than you can shake a stick at! But, you know, in this case, more is better, not less. This music has no whiff of the salon; it's of a particular place in America that calls to our very roots. It has a feel that cannot be accurately described. A mood. An ambience that resonates to the bottom of our consciousness. We become immersed in a dreamy reverie of our collected experiences, nostalgic yearnings, of people, places and things that have gone before... and are no longer. It's that kind of music.

It reminds me of my childhood, of late Autumn days, the smell of burning leaves as Halloween crept nearer, of rainy days, of places lost and found and lost again, walks on the beach at sunset, quiet evenings watching the embers fade in the fireplace, of first loves gone, of lighthouses... of sweet and bittersweet melancholy. That kind of music. The kind of music that one "knows" without ever having heard before, innate within us all, and reaching down to our very fiber. And that is the wonder, beauty and profundity of MacDowell.

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Fireside Piano
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • I heard it at a friend's house
  • Relaxing and beautiful
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ASIN: B0000638SE
Release Date: 1998-08-01

Tracks:

  1. Out Of This World
  2. One Love
  3. Bless The Beasts and the Children
  4. You Go To My Head
  5. Lovely
  6. Out Of My Dreams
  7. Hurting Each Other
  8. Send In The Clowns
  9. Through The Eyes Of Love
  10. Chopin Sonata Theme
  11. Not Going Home Anymore
  12. Theme From Love Story
  13. Romeo and Juliet
  14. Whoever You Are, I Love You
  15. Somewhere My Love

Album Description

This CD features solo piano arrangements of romantic songs, played in a classical style

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars I heard it at a friend's house.......2007-05-09

Well I heard about 3 minutes of this CD at a friend's house and asked her what it was. That's how I found out about this music. It is what I like, which is solo piano music, played in a very smooth, easy-going, but not MUSAK style. I just ordered it for my wife for our Anniversary.

5 out of 5 stars Relaxing and beautiful.......2004-07-17

Every cut is wonderful. Purchase this CD if you want to be transported to a beautiful world through music.
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    ASIN: B000004AHS
    Release Date: 1996-12-17

    Tracks:

    1. Funeral March And Humn Of Seraphs
    2. Sonata No.1, Op.42: III. Finale
    3. 'The Little Red Lark'
    4. Fireside Francies, Op.29
    5. Lord Enthroned
    6. Suite Folklorique: Canzona
    7. Lied des Chrysanthemes, Op.3, No.1
    8. Fantasie And Fugue In B-Flat
    9. We Know That Christ Is Raised
    10. Peer Gynt Suite I.: Ases Tod
    11. Andante
    12. Concerto No.1: Organ Solo
    13. Johnson Rag

    Tracks:

    1. Sonata IV.
    2. Ave Maria, Op.104, No.2
    3. Allegro Maestoso And Fugue On America
    4. Homage To Persichetti
    5. Dawn Hymn, Op.138
    6. Sunset To Sunrise
    7. O God, Thou Faithful God, Op.65
    8. Church Cantata: b. Aria
    9. Hymn Interpret: Beach Spring
    10. Sonata V.
    11. Elevation, No.30
    12. Secondo Dialogo
    13. Monologue, Op.162, No.1: Fughetta On B-A-C-H
    14. Homeward Bound
    15. Prayer
    16. Offertoire (La madone)
    17. Chanson de nuit, Op.15, No.1
    18. Thais: Meditation
    19. Prelude On Pisgah

    Tracks:

    1. Sonata No.4 In B-Flat Major: I., II.
    2. Fugue In A-Flat Minor
    3. Prelude On Hyfrydol
    4. L'Apres midi faune: Prelude
    5. The Ride Of The Walkuren
    6. The Last Rose Of Summer
    7. Laudate Dominum: O Praise Ye the Lord
    8. Three Pieces
    9. Fantasie

    Tracks:

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    2. A Mighty Fortress
    3. Sonata II.: I. Lebhaft
    4. Prelude And Fugue In E-Flat
    5. Sing Alleluia Forth
    6. Trumpet Tune
    7. Grand March In B-Flat Major
    8. Partita On Resonet In laudibus
    9. When In Our Music: Chorale
    Mountain Standards Time
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      ASIN: B00007EFIO
      Release Date: 2002-10-25

      Tracks:

      1. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
      2. Someone to Watch Over Me
      3. When You Wish Upon a Star
      4. Laura
      5. Now is the Hour
      6. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
      7. Our Love is Here to Stay
      8. I've Got You Under My Skin
      9. Tenderly
      10. Over the Rainbow
      11. My One and Only Love
      12. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

      Album Description

      This new solo piano release by veteran keyboardist Paul Potyen contains twelve classic jazz standards, performed in an understated, elegant manner. "I felt it was time to record some of my all-time favorite tunes in a simple, straightforward style," Potyen remarks. "It's in keeping with my current lifestyle, having recently moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Steamboat Springs, CO."

      The CD shows yet another side of the versatile pianist, who has played with the Tony Williams Lifetime, the Headhunters, Chet Baker, Mel Torme, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tom Harrell, Mark Murphy, Bobby McFerrin, Mark Isham, and the San Francisco Symphony, to name a few.

      His previous outing—also on Guacamole Records—was as pianist with Latin-Jazz group Soul Sauce. Titled, "Got Sauce?", that release has garnered excellent reviews with its Cal Tjader-inspired sound.
      Vintage America: A Musical Meritage
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Saucy, Melodic, Old-Fashioned American Wind Quintet Music
      Vintage America: A Musical Meritage

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      ASIN: B0002NY8LM
      Release Date: 2004-08-31

      Tracks:

      1. Dance Antique
      2. Fireside Tales
      3. Divertimento
      4. Prairie Miniature
      5. Miniatures
      6. Folk Suite
      7. Two Rags
      8. Sea Sketches
      9. Stars & Stripes

      Album Description

      America began forging its own cultural identity in the 19th Century with music reflecting a vast array of cultures coming together. By the time the first music conservatory opened in 1865, European classical music had begun to be mingled with music influenced by Native American themes, African-American styles of ragtime and spirituals, Latin American and rural American folk music, and the traditional military band. With Vintage America, Calico Winds showcases these American musical roots. Known for exploring the full palette of tone colors available to the wind quintet, Calico Winds plays "in perfect balance with each other, each [member] contributing lovely tone quality and flawless intonation…" (The Times Herald, Olean, NY) It is with these attributes that Calico Winds brings to life America's rich musical legacy.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Saucy, Melodic, Old-Fashioned American Wind Quintet Music.......2004-09-13

      [Disclaimer: I'm a pushover for wind quintet music. There is something about the uneasy combination of timbres that unfailingly engages my interest and admiration.]

      I found myself having trouble getting beyond the first band on this delightful release from Albany Records featuring the playing of a Los Angeles-based wind quintet calling themselves 'Calico Winds.' I kept pushing the repeat button to hear it one more time. It's that rhythmically invigorating and melodic. The music presented here is almost all by Americans, some from among those first conservatory-trained American composers of the 19th-century: William Mason, his nephew Daniel Gregory Mason, and Edward MacDowell. The more recent composers tend to write in conservative style so that the most recent work, 'Sea Sketches' by the only non-American, Briton David B. Chadwick, could be mistaken for something by an early twentieth-century writer. Some of the pieces are skillful transcriptions for quintet: Mason's 'Dance Antique,' that infectious first band I'd mentioned; MacDowell's 'Fireside Tales,' William Grant Still's folk-song based 'Miniatures' and 'Folk Suite,' Scott Joplin's 'Two Rags' ('The Cascades' and 'Maple Leaf Rag'), and the rousing closer, Sousa's 'The Stars and Stripes Forever.' Indeed, the only works originally written for wind quintet are Daniel Gregory Mason's 'Divertimento,' Arthur Farwell's brief and delightful 'Prairie Miniature,' and Chadwick's 'Sea Sketches.' That latter, by the way, has a catchy setting of 'The Sailors' Hornpipe,' another piece I couldn't get enough of.

      Calico Winds consists of five women: Eileen Holt Helwig, flute and piccolo; Rong-Huey Liu, oboe and English horn; Rachel Berry, horn; Kathryn Nevin, clarinet; and Theresa Treuenfels, bassoon. I'd never heard of this expert and musicianly group before, although I gather they have made at least one prior recording on the humorously named 'Occasionally Sober' label and containing music from Bach to Zappa. I expect we'll be hearing from them again, if we're lucky.

      This is not profound music. This is joyful music. It's worth hearing, and more important, worth coming to love. A real keeper, this.

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        Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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        Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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        Modern & 20th CenturyModern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
        NostalgiaNostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music
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        GeneralGeneral | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B00009WQU5
        Release Date: 2003-08-19

        Tracks:

        1. Side by Side [Over She Goes] - Billy Mayerl,
        2. Intro/County Wedding/The Dance Goes On/I Breathe on Windows [Over ...]
        3. Four Aces (Suite): Ace of Hearts
        4. Bats in the Belfry
        5. Nimble-Fingered Gentleman
        6. Mistletoe
        7. Crazy Days (Piano Selection): Intro/Stranger in a Teacup/Nice People
        8. Aquarium Suite: Willow Moss
        9. Aquarium Suite: Morrish Idol
        10. Aquarium Suite: Fantail
        11. Aquarium Suite: Whirligig
        12. Orange Blossom
        13. Parade of the Sandwich-Board Men
        14. Phil the Fluter's Ball
        15. Runaway Love (Selection): Intro/Two Hearts in Harmony/We Can't Do ...
        16. Stepping Tones (Suite): Hop-O'-My-Thumb
        17. Fools Rush In
        18. All the Things You Are
        19. Sweet Nothings
        20. Sweet William
        21. Resting
        22. Fireside Fusiliers
        British Light Music: Billy Mayerl
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          British Light Music: Billy Mayerl

          Manufacturer: Marco Polo
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          SuitesSuites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
          GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
          CDs $7 - $10CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music
          All Bargain TitlesAll Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music
          ASIN: B000004603
          Release Date: 1994-10-04

          Tracks:

          1. Marigold
          2. A Lily Pond
          3. Four Aces Suite: Ace Of Clubs
          4. Four Aces Suite: Ace Of Diamonds
          5. Four Aces Suite: Ace Of Hearts
          6. Four Aces Suite: Ace Of Spades
          7. From A Spanish Lattice
          8. Minuet By Candlelight
          9. Aquarium Suite: No. 1 Willow Moss
          10. Aquarium Suite: No. 2 Moorish Idol
          11. Aquarium Suite: No. 3 Fantail
          12. Aquarium Suite: No. 4 Whirligig
          13. Autumn Crocus
          14. Bats In The Belfry
          15. Pastoral Sketches: No. 1 A Legend
          16. Pastoral Sketches: No. 2 Lovers' Lane
          17. Pastoral Sketches: No. 3 A Village Festival
          18. Fireside Fusiliers
          19. Parade Of The Sandwich-Board Men
          20. Waltz For A Lonely Heart
          21. Busybody
          Fireside Piano
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            Fireside Piano
            Newell Oler
            Manufacturer: The Orchard
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music
            GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
            ClassicalClassical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
            ASIN: B00009YULP
            Release Date: 2003-06-10

            Tracks:

            1. Out Of This World
            2. One Love
            3. Bless The Beasts and the Children
            4. You Go To My Head
            5. Lovely
            6. Out Of My Dreams
            7. Hurting Each Other
            8. Send In The Clowns
            9. Through The Eyes Of Love
            10. Chopin Sonata Theme
            11. Not Going Home Anymore
            12. Theme From Love Story
            13. Romeo and Juliet
            14. Whoever You Are, I Love You
            15. Somewhere My Love

            Album Description

            The songs on Fireside Piano are some of the most traditional and popular romantic songs. Each song is performed with a classical piano interpretation making it one of the most popular of Newell Oler's recordings.
            Piano Music by Edward MacDowell
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              Piano Music by Edward MacDowell

              Manufacturer: Somm Recordings
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              All Works by MacDowellAll Works by MacDowell | MacDowell, Edward | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
              EtudesEtudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
              SonatinasSonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
              SuitesSuites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
              Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
              Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
              GeneralGeneral | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
              GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
              GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
              ClassicalClassical | Imports | Stores | Music
              ASIN: B000983WXU
              Release Date: 2005-06-28

              Music Album:

              1. Forever & Always [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
              2. Great Tammy Wynette [Import]
              3. Heartache
              4. Hell Bent & Country Bound: Off The Record
              5. Highwayman
              6. Keep on Truckin'
              7. Kenny Rogers, Vol. 1 [Karaoke]
              8. Larry Keel and Natural Bridge
              9. Life's Highway
              10. Life in the Moment

              Music Album

              Music Album