Detroit in the 40's & 50's, Vol. 1

1. Going to the Shindig

2. Mountain Rosa Lee

3. You're the One

4. Let's Talk Our Troubles Over

5. It Taint No Good

6. Highland Park Girl

7. Hamtramck Mama

8. Detroit Hula Girl

9. Gambler's Blues

10. Going Home

11. I Ain't No Good

12. New Mississippi River Blues

13. It Ain't No Good

14. Motor City Boogie

15. Lookin' for Somebody New

16. Saint Joseph's High School Bounce

17. Gravy Train

18. Sixty Minute Man

19. I'm Coming Back Home to Stay

20. Chicken Blues

See all 28 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Danse Macabre, Op. 40
Phaeton, Op. 39
Le Rouet D'Omphale, Op. 31
Introduction Et Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 28
Marche Militaire Francaise
Adagio - Allegro Moderato
Poco Adagio
Allegro Moderato - Presto - Allegro Moderato
Maestoso - Piu Allegro - Molto Allegro

Customer Reviews:

Great recordings.......2007-05-15

These are all fantastic recordings of the music of a very underrated composer, Camille Saint-Saens. I was skeptical about buying a disc where the feature artists were the Detroit Symphony Orchestra et al. (not that they are poor orchestras; I have simply grown accustomed to the sounds of the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestras). I was pleasantly surprised! Of the works on the CD, I greatly prefer listening to the "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso," op. 28. It is performed very well, and is well worth the price of the CD if for only this work. The "Danse Macabre" is also performed very well.

The "Organ Symphony" was still performed pretty well, however I am a fan of the Karajan, BPO, and Pierre Cochereau (Organ) recording released by DG a few years back.

This CD presents a very good and affordable opportunity to become introduced to the music of Saint-Saens.

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Raw, rare old hillbilly boogie
my uncles are the greatest
Yorks Brothers Come Back?

Detroit in the 40's & 50's, Vol. 1
York Brothers
Manufacturer: Collector/ Wht Label
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Country | Styles | Music

General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music

General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music

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ASIN: B00004S7M1
Release Date: 2000-03-14

Tracks:

Going to the Shindig
Mountain Rosa Lee
You're the One
Let's Talk Our Troubles Over
It Taint No Good
Highland Park Girl
Hamtramck Mama
Detroit Hula Girl
Gambler's Blues
Going Home
I Ain't No Good
New Mississippi River Blues
It Ain't No Good
Motor City Boogie
Lookin' for Somebody New
Saint Joseph's High School Bounce
Gravy Train
Sixty Minute Man
I'm Coming Back Home to Stay
Chicken Blues
That's Why I'm Crying All the Time
Don't Leave Me With the Yum Yum Blues
Tremblin'
Lakewood and John Marshall Blues
Love Sweet Love
You Get Mad
Mr. Midnight
Pretty Little Thing

Customer Reviews:

Raw, rare old hillbilly boogie.......2002-09-24

Raspy, rattling hardcore hillbilly music from the wartime and postwar era (1939-'53, roughly), from a Brother duo transplanted from the Kentucky hills up into the Great Lakes region. This is urbanized hick music, with strong doses of blues and jazz standars creeping into the mix, classic hillbilly boogie and bop from the years when the "new" country sound was still up for grabs. These guys had a rough, thoroughly authentic sound -- not polished or slick like the Nashville scene was becoming, and they recorded mainly on tiny independent labels like Mellow and Universal (uh, no, not the same Universal that swallowed up MCA in the 1990s...), although they also did some sessions for Decca which also appear on here. This is rare material that must have taken years of super-collector nerd adventures to gather together, and fills a nice gap in the country music saga. If you like your country crude and enthusiastic, then this is a mighty fine disc for you to check out.

my uncles are the greatest.......2000-07-10

I TRIED TO DO THIS THE OTHER DAY AND IT DID NOT WORK RIGHT BUT I WILL TRY ONE MORE TIME. "THAT IS THE YORK MOTTO". MY DAD WAS A BROTHER TO UNCLE GEORGE & UNCLE LES. WE HAD A LOT OF GOOD TIMES TOGETHER. DAD USED TO SING AN PLAY WITH THEM UNTIL HE DECIDED THAT HE WANTED TO BE A MINISTER. HE HAD A CHURCH IN IRONTON, OHIO FOR 40 YEARS OR MORE AND 16 KIDS. WE ALWAYS KEPT UP WITH OUR UNCLES AND THEY WITH US. THEY WERE GREAT SINGERS AND COULD PLAY ANY KIND OF MUSIC. SO CAN ALL OF THE REST OF THE FAMILY. "EXCEPT ME" IF YOU WANT KNOW MORE ABOUT THE BIG YOUR BUNCH JUST E-MAIL ME AND ASK ANYTHING. I HAVE A LOT OF BROTHER'S AND SISTER'S THAT ARE INTO MUSIC BIGTIME AND THEY ARE REALLY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS FOR OTHER PEOPLE TO ENGOY. VEDA YORK KESSINGER

Yorks Brothers Come Back?.......2000-07-08

As a member of the York family, I am curious as to who would produce the cd and who would be interested in buying it. The cd is country oldies from way back when. The York Brothers played at the Grand Ol Opry and all over. A cd of this good old fashioned country music is incredible.

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Paul Paray ... classical music's Lord of the Dance!
Truly Satanic.
"Fatal" Classical Music
Paray never was so inspired!
Epernay a la Paray

Paul Paray Conducts Dances of Death

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Bizet: Carmen Suite; Arlésienne Suites Nos. 1 & 2; Thomas: Mignon & Raymond Overtures
Paul Paray Conducts French Orchestral Music
Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsody no 2
Chabrier: España, rhapsody; Bourrée fantasque
Ibert: Escales; Ravel: Rapsodie, etc

ASIN: B0000057M8
Release Date: 1994-06-14

Tracks:

Mephisto Waltz
Invitation To Dance, Op. 65
Danse Macabre, Op. 40
'Shalome': Dance Of The Seven Veils
La Tragedie de Salome, Op. 50: I. (a) Prelude - (b) Danse des perles - II. (a) Lent - (b) Les Enchantements sur la mer - (c) Danse des eclairs - (d) Danse de l'effroi

Customer Reviews:

Paul Paray ... classical music's Lord of the Dance!.......2007-03-04

For those who only know Paray's "dance moves" in the light opera overtures he was so famous for playing, you might be surprised that he can do the same in these rather more serious compositions. Too often, conductors think that compositions such as those here need to be done in a lugubrious manner. Not so! And Paray proves it. You won't hear a better Danse Macabre than the one on this recording. And the Mephisto Waltz is performed here as a true dance -- not some sort of mini symphonic poem that you often hear with others. The Florent Schmitt Salome is one of the most successful renditions of the work ever recorded -- it was the first one in stereo, and it's outlasted all the others that have come since until the July 2007 release of Thierry Fischer's highly effective recording on Hyperion.

All in all, a very satisfying musical experience.

Truly Satanic........2006-09-29

If you want music that is truly satanic, then look no further than "Dances Of Death." I like Classical music that has to do with death, and this one is no acception. Songs like "Dance Of The Macabre" are much better than those so-called Classical Opera works that don't have any feeling in them. This Cd truly has emotions that will chill you to the core. Highly recommended along with the three act Opera of The Omen. This is true Classical music. Buy it...if you dare.

"Fatal" Classical Music.......2005-10-18

Paul Paray and his Detroit Symphony Orchestra were top exponents of a variety of classical music in the post-World War II Era. Paray, born in French-Canada, became an American icon in classical music at a time when Bernstein, Karajan, Solti and other brand name conductors far outshone him. In this album, Paray creatively compiles fatalistic music- that is music in which death or tragedy is mixed with the art of dancing. The first track is Lizst's popular Mephisto Waltz, a frenzy of fingering on the piano. Liszt was known for having a penchant for music that was both sensual and even frightening in its primal force. Weber's Invitation to the Dance is a rondo for piano and sounds excellent in symphonic form. Saint Saens Danse Macabre is, inevitably, on this recording and sounds dark and lilting at the same time. Strauss' Salome and Schmitt's Salomes are two different versions of the same story. Herod's wicked daughter falls for the languishing Prophet John the Baptist and after he rejects her advances asks for his head on a platter. Schmidtt's version is the more obscure rendition while Strauss' opera is more popular. Both are excellent danceable but dark musical pieces. This is a great recording and if you are into this kind of music you will definately enjoy it.

Paray never was so inspired!.......2004-07-15

Paul Paray built literally to Detroit Symphony , elevating his average performances in a real triumph . He gave balance , nuance and above all a deep expresiveness in every page he conducted . His predilect taste for the french music , however was not a serious obstacle to win in other battlefields .
This album is the best proof for this statement . The Macabre dance or the Mephisto waltz until the moment has not any other recording that even gets close in fierce intensity, dyonisiac fire and powerful wildness .
Buy this one . Its interpretative values are so many that it's useless to describe with all the adjectives that deserves it.
Bravo for Paul Paray!

Epernay a la Paray.......2001-04-19

This disk is selling a lot of copies since it represents the finest of Epernay vintages at a Korbel price.

Absolutely the only thing I would argue with here is that Paray didn't use a soprano for the wordless descant in the Schmitt...here it's relegated to oboe, which Schmitt allowed, but what a soloist he is! Paray makes a case for Schmitt's counterpoint, of all things, but it makes superb sense: this is a ballet after all and the only way a dancer would hear what she needs from the pit is to hear the beat and the counterpoint. No one else has ever thought of it and it says quite a bit about the standard of Schmitt as a composer. As ever, you end up learning something every time you listen to one of Paray's uniformly inspired performances. Too bad he didn't essay Malipiero's Pantea which is designed idependently but separately for solo dancer!

The balance of the disk is no less exemplary. Everything sounds fresh, the orchestral execution is so astonishingly accomplished that it is no wonder Le Mousnier in his bio of Paray draws telling parallels with Toscanini. Yet Paray's not Toscanini--he's unique among maestri. If you read transcripts from Paray's rehearsals, the mystery only deepens as to what it was that he did to get such inordinately extraordinary results, such as this program demonstrates. He talks a lot, is very literate, tells lots of jokes, conveys his admiration of his musicians constantly.

But lots of great maestri have done that. We'll probably never know...and that's the mystery of great art.

Tracks:

Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Vysehrad - Bedrich Smetana
Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava - Bedrich Smetana
Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Sarka - Bedrich Smetana
Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Z ceskych luhu a haju (From Bohemia's Meadows And Groves) - Bedrich Smetana
Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Tabor - Bedrich Smetana
Ma vlast (My Fatherland): Blanik - Bedrich Smetana

Tracks:

The Bartered Bride: Overture - Smetana/Dvorak
The Bartered Bride: Polka - Smetana/Dvorak
The Bartered Bride: Furiant - Smetana/Dvorak
Hakon Jarl, op.16 - Smetana/Dvorak
Prague Waltzes, B99 - Smetana/Dvorak
Nocturne, op.40 B47 - Smetana/Dvorak
Czech Suite, op.39 B93: l Preludium (Pastorale) - Smetana/Dvorak
Czech Suite, op.39 B93: ll Polka - Smetana/Dvorak
Czech Suite, op.39 B93: lll Sousedska (Minuetto) - Smetana/Dvorak
Czech Suite, op.39 B93: lV Romance - Smetana/Dvorak
Czech Suite, op.39 B93: V Finale (Furiant) - Smetana/Dvorak

Customer Reviews:

A very enjoyable album.......2004-11-07

There are plenty of great recordings of Ma Vlast. Actually, this one (Walter Weller conducting the Israel Philharmonic) is my favorite, even though Kubelik is a close second and Levine is good too. And there's also a choice I'm almost sure you haven't thought of, the superb performance by Igor Ardasev and Renata Ardaseva as a piano duet!

When you get this version, not only do you have an unforgettable Ma Vlast, you get a second CD that includes Antal Dorati conducting the Detroit Symphony in Dvorak's Czech Suite, Nokturno, and Prague Waltzes. Plus, there's Istvan Kertesz conducting the Israeli Philharmonic in some more works by Smetana (Hakon Jarl and the Overture, Polka and Furiant from the Bartered Bride). Of these, the Prague Waltzes and the Czech Suite are my favorites.

I heartily recommend this album.

Glorious "Ma Vlast".......2004-06-28

This is a very good czech collection includes Smetana's best known works and Dvorak's less known but all-worth-listening works.

CD 1 includes Smetana's complete symphonic poem cycle "Ma Vlast" (My Fatherland). This cycle based on six movements which, the second is ever-famous "Moldau". This cycle (as in name) tells about Czechoslovakia's historic lands and legends. As you know, Moldau is the famous river.
The other movements are:
1. Vysherad is the castle which protect the capital Prague in 13th century.

3. Sarka is the woman-hero who was lived in 13th century. She was fighted with Frenchs and but their general was fall in love to Sarka. So, she (with her charm) was deceived and then she invited the some of Frenchs for drink wine. Then, all of them (except Sarka) gets drunk and Sarka, secretly was added a poison which make them sleepy. So, all of them sleeps, and then Sarka calls her Czech army with her horn. And gradullay they comes, and all of them kills Frenchs (with their general), while they're sleeping!

5. Tabor is the army of the country and then 6. Blanik is the contiuation of Tabor. Blanik is the mountain which, the army's shelter, while they're waiting the "war alarm". But, this movement ends with a triumphal finale, which includes the main "Vysherad" and "God's Warriors" chorale. This work is very succesful example of patriotic music and it is to affect nationalism.

The performance of this work is very good. This is may be one of the best recordings of Walter Weller and Israel P O, too. They played this programme with emotion.

CD 2 starts with the overture and polka of Smetana's best known opera "The Bartered Bride". Especially, polka is a very beautiful example of this kind. The performances by Israel P O again, but conductor is Istvan Kertesz, who always a champion in perform Czech music. And then, there is a less known tone poem, Hakon Jarl, based on a Norwegian warrior legend. Conductor is again Walter Weller.

And at last, Dvorak and his beautiful Czech Suite which includes Furiant, Polka, Minuetto and like these dances. And there is a gentle work "Prague Waltzes" and a romantic "Notturno". All of these are digital recording and performed by Detroi S O, conducted by another legendary conductor, Antal Dorati.

This is a very good collection and highly recommended.

Nice Czech Collection.......2003-11-14

This two-disc set from the "Double Decker" series is a very good, if not definitive, collection of famous and lesser-known Czech orchestral works. Smetana's "Ma Vlast," a work virtually owned by conductors Kubelik and Ancerl (see my review of the latter), is performed well by Walter Weller and the Israel Philharmonic, who return for an encore on disc two with Smetana's "Hakon Jarl." Selections from Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" are done again with the IPO, but this time they are led by one of my favorite conductors, Istvan Kertesz. As much as I enjoy Kertesz, the highlights of this collection for me are the lesser-known pieces by Dvorak. Antal Dorati (another one of my favs) and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra offer us early digital recordings of the Prague Waltzes, Nocturne and Czech Suite. In all, this is a collection that will appeal to the casual fan and serious collector alike.

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