'Til I Know

Product Description
A multi-instrumentalist, world-class fiddler, and songwriter, the Virginia-based James Leva (formerly of the Jones & Leva team) is back with his first new solo recording in three years. Comprised entirely of recent Leva compositions, the music is a delightful and surprising mix of Appalachian and Cajun flavors. Sessions for the project were recorded in rural southwestern Virginia as well as Lafayette, Louisiana. The Louisiana sessions feature members of Steve Riley’s Mamou Playboys, a popular band from Cajun country. Co-producer David Greely notes, "Cajun and mountain musicians have always understood each other, sharing a deep love for groove and melody. We love modal tunes and crooked time. The Louisiana crew didn’t try to cajunize James Leva’s songs. All we did was play them, and join in with the heart that pours out of them. It was surprisingly easy, and immensely satisfying." Sam Broussard adds wonderful praise for Leva’s songwriting ability by noting, "Few can tell stories like James can. He starts with tradition but he ends by putting you there... all of a sudden you are the child in "Family Again," or the hopeful voice in "The Music’s Over," both contained herein. The stories are wrapped within the wooden traditions that James the musician commands so well."

'Til I Know,James Leva,Copper Creek,Bluegrass,Country,Folk,Neo-Traditional Folk,Neo-Traditionalist Country,Pop

Average customer rating: THE HAPPIEST MUSICAL THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN . . . . .

Olympus on My Mind - The American Cast Recording Manufacturer: Jay Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Curtains (2007 Original Broadway Cast) Tarzan - The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast) Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Oh, Brother! (1981 Original Broadway Cast) Seventh Heaven (1955 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B00005Y8ZT Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Welcome To Greece
3. Heaven On Earth
4. The Gods On Tap
5. Surprise!
6. Love - What A Concept
7. Wait 'Til It Dawns
8. Enter The Husband
9. I Know My Wife
10. It Was Me
11. Back So Soon
12. Wonderful
13. At Liberty In Thebes
14. It Must Have Been Jove
15. Jupiter Slept Here
16. Something Of Yourself
17. Olympus Is a Lonely Town
18. A Star Is Born
19. Mine Eyes Have Seen
20. Heaven On Earth

Customer Reviews:

THE HAPPIEST MUSICAL THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN . . . . . .......2006-08-14

This one is a hoot!

Don't ask me to explain the plot of OLYMPUS ON MY MIND, for as some character in some show once said, "It defies description." Barry Harman (book and lyrics for ROMANCE, ROMANCE) received Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Direction of a Musical and for Outstanding Book, "suggested" by Heinrich von Kleist's play of 1807, "Amphitryon," which may or may not have been "suggested" by Moliere's earlier version of the Greek myth. (The plot is as complicated and as convoluted as the previous sentence.) At any rate, Jupiter lusts after the beautiful mortal Alcmene and poses as her husband, Amphitryon, in order to seduce her. Mistaken identities abound and double-entendres fly freely, aided and abetted by Harman's witty and literate lyrics and Grant Sturiale's ". . . bubbly score, which suggests Rodgers and Hart with a pop-rock undertow." (Stephen Holden, in his review of the 1986 Original Off-Broadway Production) When Amphityron arrives home from the war, not knowing that Jupiter has just spent the night with his wife, Alcmene sings "Back So Soon?" and then proceeds to tell him in great detail how "Wonderful" he was last night, rather like poetry, ". . . especially the fourth and the seventeenth time." The slave, Sosia, having been barred from his own house and bed by Hercules, in the guise of Sosia, declares to his master,""It Was Me." And Delores only needs the mention of a constellation to break into "A Star Is Born" big production number. "Big" being relative, considering the size of the cast. Great fun.

(Holden) "From its firecracker-like opening number, 'Welcome to Greece,' in which a smirking Greek chorus of three men - 'Tom, Dick and Horace' - and a doll-faced, out-of-step chorus girl, 'Delores,' arrive to set the scene, the new musical OLYMPUS ON MY MIND percolates with an old-fashioned sense of naughty musical-comedy fun. Delores's ineptitude, it turns out, is part of the merriment. Periodically throughout the evening, she models the wares of the show's fictional producer, Murray the Furrier, whose name glows in lights at the rear of the stage." Opening night saw the marvelous Ron Raines (LEADING MEN DON'T DANCE) in the dual roles of Jupiter & Amphitryon, Emily Zacharias as Alcmene, Jason Graae as Hercules, Peggy Hewett as Charis, Lewis J. Stadlen as Sosia, and Faith Prince as Delores. By the time the recording was made in October, 1987, the equally marvelous Martin Vidnovic (Tony Nominee, 1981, BRIGADOON; 1984 Drama Desk Award Winner for BABY) was Jupiter/Amphitryon; Susan Powell, his wife; Nancy Johnson, Charis; Frank Kopyc, Sosia; and Joyce De Witt ("Three's Company"), Delores. Only Jason Graae remains from the opening night cast.

David Abers of the Bristol Riverside Theatre calls OLYMPUS ON MY MIND "the happiest musical this side of heaven," and he may well be right. Hal Serra's wonderful "stringless" orchestrations and the small cast of 10 make the show an excellent choice for community theaters and small colleges. I can't imagine anyone, except for the very prudish, not having a great time on OLYMPUS.

Highly recommended.

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'Til I Know James Leva Manufacturer: Copper Creek ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009299E2 Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

1. Didn't See the Rope
2. Fire Fire
3. Baby-O
4. Poor Little Mary/Lost Everything
5. You Always Get Your Way
6. Died for Love
7. Family Again
8. I Don't Know
9. Old Jack Dog
10. Lost Moon
11. 'Til I Know
12. Music's Over
13. It Must Be Good
14. Bye Bye O

Album Description

A multi-instrumentalist, world-class fiddler, and songwriter, the Virginia-based James Leva (formerly of the Jones & Leva team) is back with his first new solo recording in three years. Comprised entirely of recent Leva compositions, the music is a delightful and surprising mix of Appalachian and Cajun flavors. Sessions for the project were recorded in rural southwestern Virginia as well as Lafayette, Louisiana. The Louisiana sessions feature members of Steve Riley's Mamou Playboys, a popular band from Cajun country. Co-producer David Greely notes, "Cajun and mountain musicians have always understood each other, sharing a deep love for groove and melody. We love modal tunes and crooked time. The Louisiana crew didn't try to cajunize James Leva's songs. All we did was play them, and join in with the heart that pours out of them. It was surprisingly easy, and immensely satisfying." Sam Broussard adds wonderful praise for Leva's songwriting ability by noting, "Few can tell stories like James can. He starts with tradition but he ends by putting you there... all of a sudden you are the child in "Family Again," or the hopeful voice in "The Music's Over," both contained herein. The stories are wrapped within the wooden traditions that James the musician commands so well."

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Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 6 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 11 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 7 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 13 ASIN: B00000147W Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

1. National Anthem (How We Love Our Fatherland)
2. National Song (How Glorious Is The Land Of My Birth)
3. Norway's Grandeur (There I Live On That High Mountain)
4. Aagot's Mountain Song (Sunset O'r The Mountain Top)
5. I See You From The Cliffs Of Gluggjin. A Folk Song
6. Folk Dance From Vinje
7. Ingrid's Song (And The Fox Laid Under The Red Birch Tree)
8. Margrete's Lullaby (Now I Feel Uplifted)
9. Olav Trygvason (Over The North Sea, Broad Sails Blowing)
10. The Wedding Procession In Hardanger (A Breath Of Sparkling Summer Air)
11. The Student's Song (A Journey For The Bold And Brave)
12. Student's Song (The Happy Wanderers)
13. Young Billy Goat (My Little Kid, My Little Lamb)
14. Norwegian Sailor's Song (All That A Nordic Sailor Should Be)
15. A National Song (Sons Of Norway)
16. Song To The Flag (While The North Sea Swells And Rushes)
17. Onward! (Onward! Onward!)
18. Coastal Song From Bergen (I Rowed Into Troubled Waters)
19. Dairy Maid's Sunday (Basking In The Sun)
20. Resting In The Peaceful Forest (In The Fir Tree Grove At Noon-time)
21. Our Aastrid (And Have You Seen Our Aastrid)
22. Halling From Osterdalen
23. The Mountains Of Norway (Norway's Fortress And Protection)
24. Evening Voices (Be Still, Soft Whispers)
25. In Rosenlund During Saga Times (Under The Spell Of The Sagas...
26. Row, Row, Row Your Boat, To The Fish-Filled Reefs (Child's Song)
27. There Was An Old Woman Who Had An Old Broom (Child's Song)
28. Open Air Ballad (Behold Norway's Flowering Valley)
29. Song Of Norway (To Norway, Land Of Giants)
30. Young Lad From Younder Tistedal'n
31. Land Of My Birth (Wherever In The World I Go)
32. Land Of My Birth (Wherever In The World I Go)
33. The Hunter's Song (In The Heather Behind Us, A Trail Of Smoke)
34. Iceland. A Folk Melody (Farthest North)
35. One Can Never Please Them (From: 'The Heirs')
36. I Know A Wee Lass. A Ballad
37. Halling (Folk Dance) From Aamot
38. A Norwegian Love Song (Beside The Deep, Dark Sea)
39. The Young Birch Tree (The Young Birch Standing By The Fjord)
40. Synnove's Song (Thanks For Everything)
41. The North Sea (How Beautiful The Sea)
42. The Blind Man, Magnus (Oh! If I Could See Just Once)
43. Mountain Settler (Mountain Settlers Watch The Seasons)
44. Purity Or The Wagtail Bird. Folk Melody (Little Brook Winding Throug
45. Sailor's Song (Hurrah For Jonas Anton Hjelm)
46. Springdands (Folk Dance) From Nummedal
47. Patriotic Song (I'll Defend My Country)
48. Three Exalted Words (When The Harp Is Silenced...
49. Old Norway (There Lies The Country)
50. While Shepherding My Goats Last Year
51. Dalebu Jonson (Oh! Can You Hear, Beautiful Maiden)
52. Halling, (Folk Dance) From Telemark
53. Are You Fond Of Me
54. In The Mountains (Hei Ho! Where One Feels Hale And Hearty)
55. Sinclair's Song (Mr. Sinclair Set Out Across The Salty Sea)
56. Ole Glomstulen's Bridal Procession. Folk Song
57. Sunset (Spreading Its Colors Across The Heavens)
58. The Bear Hunter (How Brief A Life The Fir Tree Spans)
59. To The Fatherland (I Lift The Gold Cup Highest)
60. Lullaby. A Child's Song From Valdres (Rock A Bye Baby)
61. The Bachelor Proposing To The Maiden. A Folk Song (How I Should Love To Marry)
62. The Last Saturday Evening. Folk Song
63. A Ballad To Holy King Olaf (Holy Olaf Standing By The Fjord)
64. The Norwegian Parliament (Norway's Solemn Hour Has Come)

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Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 7 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music | Divertimentos Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Opera & Vocal | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 5 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 6 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 11 Grieg: Piano Music, Vol. 3 ASIN: B00000147Y Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

1. Trip To The Mountain Farm (Where Fields Are Greenest)
2. Were You Not Going To Jump
3. The Birch Bark Song (Milk, Sweet To Taste)
4. My Cup Runneth Over
5. The Room Song (Around Rogen Swings In A Ring)
6. Langeberg's Song. From Valdres
7. Throw The Scoundrel Out
8. Sjugur And The Goblin's Bride. A Folk Song From Hallingdal...
9. The Girl And The Boy In The Hayloft. Folk Song (Good Evening...
10. Folk Dance From Hallingdal
11. The Drinking Song (Diogenes, Cantankerous And Proud)
12. Olav Trygvason (Broad Sails O'r The North Sea Billow)
13. Synnove's Song (Thanks For Everything)
14. Solvejge (The Fjord Flows Silently By)
15. Guro From Valdres (Do You Know The Lass Named Guro)
16. Everyone Wants To Know Evan
17. The Sgr's Departure (Let's Sail Away)
18. The Student's Song (Holy Is The Student's Call)
19. Ser (When At Night, Pure And Lovely...)
20. I Was A Servant At Kjolstad, It's A Over A Year Gone By...
21. The Boy And The Siren (And What Do They Call You, Fair Maiden)
22. The Church, Its A Very Old House
23. Paul, On The Hill. Folk Song (Paul's Hen)
24. The Happy Thought (Think, Just Once)
25. On This Earth There Grows The Grape
26. A Sgr's Prayer (Aanders Herre, Our Adviser)
27. All My Longings (How Very Little It Would Take)
28. The Lion Of Norway (The Old Lion Of Norway)
29. St. Thomas' Yodel. From Valdres
30. Ingerid Sletten
31. My Heart And My Lyre (I Lay Down Everyhting At Your Feet)
32. To The Tri-Colored Flag Of Norway (You Were Once A Flaming Cloud
33. The First Meeting
34. Margrete's Lullaby. From 'The Saga Of The Kings' (Now I Am...
35. The Secret Meeting (The Silence Of The Evening)

Average customer rating: A MASTERPIECE! JOAN MORRIS AT HER PEAK!

Let's Do It: Bolcom & Morris at Aspen Manufacturer: Omega Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Tangos | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music General | Bolcom, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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 General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Ragtime | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: After The Ball plus Highlights from Vaudeville ASIN: B00000239K Release Date: 1993-04-07

Tracks:

1. A Bird In A Gilded Cage
2. Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
3. On The Banks Of The Wabash, Far Away
4. Yankee Doodle Blues
5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
6. Glad to be Unhappy
7. Let's Put Out the Lights
8. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
9. Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love
10. Graceful Ghost
11. Odeon
12. Jeepers Creepers
13. Bill
14. I'm Old Fashioned
15. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
16. You're Lucky To Me
17. Lazy Afternoon
18. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
19. Wait 'til the Sun Shines, Nellie
20. Always

Customer Reviews:

A MASTERPIECE! JOAN MORRIS AT HER PEAK!.......2000-04-30

I have been a Joan Morris fan for over 20 years and own many of her superb albums. More than any others, "Let's Do It: Live in Aspen" is a dazzling tour de force for Ms. Morris and her accompanist/husband, William Bolcom.

No singer can match Joan Morris's vocal and interpretive skills. Her phrasing and timing are impeccable! She can take a song you've heard a million times (by others) and make it breathtakingly unforgettable. Examples on this disc include "Always," "Bill," "Let's Do It" and - my favorite - "On the Banks of the Wabash." And William Bolcom's lilting piano composition, "Graceful Ghost," written in his father's memory, will knock your socks off!

In short, treat yourself to this CD!

Average customer rating: Focus on Ophelia and Desdemona

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

Tracks:

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

Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Nielsen: Songs Ulrik Cold , Carl Nielsen , and Johannes Mikkelsen Manufacturer: Classico ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | 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 | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00002S7GC Release Date: 1999-11-24

Average customer rating: 'A voice is a person' (Peter Pears)

Aksel Schiotz Vol. 7 Manufacturer: Danacord Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000006N5T Release Date: 1998-01-05

Tracks:

1. Danmark, nu blunder den lyse nat
2. Traekfuglene. Sig naermer dig
3. Du danske sommer, jeg elsker dig
4. Til Glaeden. Hulde Engel
5. Sne. Der er ingenting i verden
6. Limfjorden. Blaesten gar frisk
7. Majnat. Nar vildgasen larmer
8. Havren
9. Liljekonval
10. Jeg ved
11. I de lyse naetter
12. Mod efterar
13. Jeg gik mig ud en Sommerdag
14. Jeg ser de bogelyse oer
15. Jeg har sortnende hede
16. Mor Danmark
17. Her har hjertet hjemme
18. I Danmark er jeg fodt
19. Serenade. Natten er svanger
20. Midsommervise
21. Serenade. Lydlost leger Aarebladet
22. Jylland mellem tvende Have
23. Kom carina
24. Vaer hilset, min sol
25. Flaget
26. Majvise. Se det summer

Customer Reviews:

'A voice is a person' (Peter Pears).......2002-01-03

There are voices that attract you immediately, and/or they appear to you as soundmakers you'll never forget having heard them only once or just a few times. In fact the Danish tenor Aksel Schiøtz (1906-75) was one of them until due to a tumor acusticus he had to undergo brain surgery in 1946 which left him with a rather ordinary baritone. This volume is all in Danish, but you'll hear his voice in full bloom interpreting the virtual treasure of Danish song, like nobody did before him, and which, unfortunately enough, no Danish singer has been able to do ever since. In Denmark it is still a wonder how he could sing the vowel 'A' without swallowing it.
It is a matter of taste which songs to prefer, and through it all you hear his profound devotion to this music. If unlike me you don't understand Danish, then close your eyes, and let the music and the voice fill your mind. From his interpretation you may well understand the verbal contents merely through the music and its humble vocal servant.

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Aksel Schiøtz Sings Nielsen Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | 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 | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Scandinavian Languages | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WP8 Release Date: 1994-11-29

Tracks:

1. Underlige aftenlufte
2. Skjaldens sang - into - Jeg baere med smil
3. Sang bag ploven, Op.10 - 4
4. Vi sletterne sonner
5. Jaegersang
6. I aften
7. Sommersang, Op.10 - 3
8. Gron er barens hoek - intro. - Farvel, min
9. Magdelones dansescene
10. Den danske sang
11. Havets sang
12. 'Moderen' Op.41: Skjaldens vise
13. Den milde dag, Op.42
14. Hymne til Danmark
15. Jens Vehmand, Op.21-3
16. Farinello: Sangen har vinger
17. Farinelli: Den som har
18. Farinelli: Der er en sang
19. Farinelli: Livets glaeder
20. Lille Konval
21. Jeg ved ej
22. Dengang jeg var
23. Der var en svend

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The Lesser Known Nielsen, Vol. 4 Manufacturer: Rondo Grammofon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nielsen | Nielsen, Carl | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000009K5L Release Date: 1995-03-23

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