Songs to Remember

1. Ghost

2. Is There Something on Your Mind

3. Building Heartaches

4. Everything But You

5. Home Is Where You're Happy

6. I Can't Find the Time

7. I Didn't Sleep a Wink

8. I'm Going to Lose a Lot of Teardrops

9. Shelter of My Arms

10. Broken Promises

11. Last Letter

12. Touch Me

Tracks:

Be My Love
I'll Never Love You
Because You're Mine
The Song Angels Sing
Drink, Drink, Drink
Serenade
The Loveliest Night of the Year
La Donna E Mobile
Because
For You Alone
Golden Days
Deep In My Heart, Dear
If I Loved You
Yours Is My Heart Alone
One Night Of Love
Beloved
Beautiful Love
With A Song In My Heart
You Are My Love
Call Me Fool

Tracks:

All The Things You Are
My Song,My Love
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
Will You Remember
Granada
Lolita
Serenade
Temptation
Lygia
Lady of Spain
This Land
Lee-Ah-Loo
Tina-Lina
Boom Biddy Boom Boom
The Bayou Lullaby
The Lord's Prayer
And Here You Are
Song of Songs
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling
I Never Knew

Tracks:

Ciribiribin
Wonder Why
Come Dance With Me
O Sole Mio
Younger Than Springtime
For the First Time (Come Prima)
Never Till Now
Arrivederci, Roma
If You Were Mine
Behold!
A Night to Remember
Love in a Home
Do You Wonder
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
One Alone
Aida:Celeste Aida
Carmen: Flower Song
La Traviata: Brindisi
Rigoletto:Questa O Quella
Pagliacci:Vesti La Giubba
Cavalleria Rusticana: Addio Alla Madre

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Selections from the Greatest Voice of the Last Hundred Years.......2007-03-13

Mario Lanza was, arguably, the greatest tenor and greatest singer of this and the last century. It is difficult to appreciate him without listening to a variety of selections. This collection has some of his best recordings and exhibits the versatility and variety that he possessed that permitted him to "crossover" from opera to popular music with a ease.

I recommend this for those who already know Lanza to some extent but want to go into more depth and understand his marvelous skills.

A Must Have .......2006-12-12

I had forgotten what a beautiful voice Mario Lanza had. This collection contains opera and pop selections that exhibit the power yet sweetness of his voice. Fortunately, we have his CD's and videos so we can remember and listen to his gorgeous, vibrant voice and personality. I highly recommend this collection along with his wonderful movies, especially The Great Caruso.

The Mario Lanza Collection.......2006-11-10

I had forgotten just how beautiful a voice from the past was. It is a wonderful collection

The MARIO LANZA Collection.......2006-08-19

extract from most important LPs. Brilliant sound quality from RCA. Also included are soundtrack recordings from some of his movies. The are several reissues from Mario Lanza but this one is a collection you should have.

WONDERFUL!!!!!.......2005-10-19

The Mario Lanza Collection is a three CD set and it has 61 songs and they all sound great. The mastering on this set is excellent and the song choice is very very good. It would have been perfect if they added a forth CD with more Arias, Italian songs and Sacred Arias. BUT still this set is a great introduction to Lanza. Lanza's voice was powerful and beautiful; if you are a fan of great singing, you will love Lanza. Highlights on this CD set are; Be my Love, Because your Mine, Serenade, With a Song in My Heart, Temptation, The Lord's Prayer, Ciribirbin, O Solo Mio, Ariverducci Roma, and on and on. They are many many great songs on this set, and I highly recommend it.

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For Fans of Broadway (Sondheim, Hamlisch & Bernstein e.g.):
The songs that didn't get away
Songs that showcase Sarah's theatrical gifts
Good, for Sarah Brightman
Pleasant, but not up to standard

The Songs That Got Away

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Love Changes Everything: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, Vol. 2

ASIN: B000005S0R
Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

Meadowlark
I Am Going To Like It Here
I Remember
Mr. Monotony
Dreamers
Silent Heart
Lud's Wedding
Three-Cornered Tune
If I Ever Fall In Love Again - Sarah Brightman Sarah Brightman
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If Love Were All
Half A Moment - Sarah Brightman Sarah Brightman

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For those Sarah Brightman fans who didn't spring for The Songs That Got Away when it was a pricey import, this domestic release will be a must-buy. Originally recorded in 1989 shortly after she achieved international fame in The Phantom of the Opera, the album spotlights obscure American and British musical theater songs that either were removed from shows or were "lost" when the shows themselves slipped out of the repertoire. (Of course, some of the songs aren't nearly as obscure as they were in 1989--the opening track, Stephen Schwartz's soaring "Meadowlark," has since been claimed by Liz Callaway, Patti LuPone, and Betty Buckley, while Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember"--well suited to Brightman's glasslike tones--is now recognized as one of his most gorgeous and haunting compositions.) Brightman performs well on this diverse collection of entertaining and often lovely songs, including an early draft of Frank Loesser's "Fugue for Tinhorns," here sung as a triple-tracked, lilting waltz, and the Puccini aria "Chi il bel sogno di doretta," which foreshadows her later, more ambitious crossover projects. There's also a tune from Jeeves by then-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber, who produced this album not long before he and Brightman divorced in 1990. --David Horiuchi

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For Fans of Broadway (Sondheim, Hamlisch & Bernstein e.g.):.......2007-02-24

This is an interesting and surprising production that showcases the vocal prowess of Sara Brightman. It is not however, representative of the new and highly overproduced vocal productions that constitute her newer recordings. Although this production really allows the listener to hear a very melodic and unencumbered vocal performance, as it is pleasing in it's simplicity, yet meant for the more discriminating listener. Fans of Irving Berlin, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and Richard Rodgers will feel right at home here. For those seeking another major sonic production as in Eden, La Luna, Dive, or The Harem Tour this is not it! My criticism is not of her vocal prowess or production values but the apparently endless array of previously released material offered as a new and different recording. But I suppose that this is rather due to the greedy objectives of of A&M Records just trying to go to the bank, often and laden heavy with dollars. Nothing that any label wouldn't try to do. My advice with Sara Brightman is "caveat emptor" (buyer beware) check the disc carefully for redundancy of tracks within her discography. If you're a fan of this genre of music, you will probably respond quite well to this recording.

The songs that didn't get away.......2004-02-12

This is one of my favorite albums by Sarah. She surprised me with her ability to go from light opera to jazz. Here we don't find the over-produced albums such as Harem, just a superbly trained voice. No little girl breathy tunes here, just solid performances. This is the Sarah Brightman that I like to remember and enjoy. If you see this album and you're a Sarah Brightman fan, pick it up and treasure it. I'd like to see her do more of thisgenre, where she showcases her voice. Who ever thinks that Sarah has a small voice will be convinced otherwise by this album.

Songs that showcase Sarah's theatrical gifts.......2003-12-11

Before experimental albums like Dive and Fly, as well as the ones where her classically-trained voice enchanted millions, Sarah Brightman did a collection of musical and theatrical songs originally released in 1989, but reissued when she made it big with Time To Say Goodbye. Her vocal style leans towards the theatrical Broadway side, but more mellowed. But on songs like the strings-laden mid-tempo "Meadowlark" from Stephen Schwartz's The Baker's Wife, the way she would later do splendidly interpret Lloyd Webber's songs is in the making. Here are other highlights, including those that were reissued on Sarah's Encore album (2002).

Stephen Sondheim's "I Remember" is a sad ballad told from the POV of a window mannequin remembering the sights it has experienced throughout the seasons, but the memories are now hazy and at the end, it sings, "At times I think/I would gladly die/for a day of sky."

Some songs like "Lud's Wedding" from Bernstein's failed bicentennial musical, only seem to work due to Sarah's voice. Ditto for the simple "Three-Cornered Tune." Consisting of three verses, each repeated twice. However, Irving Berlin's "Mr. Monotony", a tune understandably cut from Easter Parade, is not a particularly inspiring song.

Marvin Hamlisch's "Dreamers" is one of my favourites here, as I have affinity to it, and I'm sure Sarah is one at heart as well. "Only dreamers have wings with which to fly far away", as in their own fantasies, but unfortunately, "sometimes dreamers are forced to leave their dreams far away", i.e. the harshness of reality. However, it paints them in a positive light and states that everyone needs to have some sort of dream "to take time to find treasures and mountains we can climb."

"Silent Heart" really showcases Sarah's voices, on how some things the heart is best left silent, as in things that really thrill it. "If I Ever Fall In Love Again" is taken from The Crooked Mile and is a nice love song Sarah really wraps herself in.

"Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta" from Puccini's La Rondine is a great showcase of the operatic voice that would come into full bloom on Time To Say Goodbye. This song would be reissued on Encore.

"Away From You" by Richard Rodgers, and taken from a musical biog of Henry VIII (!!!). "The clocks are frozen and time's a traveler who's lost his way" is one of the sentiments Sarah conveys effectively. Also reissued on Encore.

"If love were all, I should be lonely" sings Sarah from Noel Coward's Bittersweet, "If Love Were All" was the one song that stood out for me when I first heard this CD. The ability of a talent to amuse is seen as a solid standing for mental security. A definite standout here.

From Lloyd Webber's Jeeves, the lush strings of "Half A Moment" features the vocal stylings familiar enough to those who have Sarah's Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. It focuses on how important the capture of a moment to bright up a future rainy day is. Also reissued on Encore.

Initially, I dismissed this as the songs that should've stayed away. Although they lack the magical punch of Time To Say Goodbye or La Luna, it's still a worthwhile collection, because Sarah's clear birdlike theatrical/musicals voice makes it all worthwhile.

Good, for Sarah Brightman.......2003-08-25

Some people just love Sarah's voice, but I don't see what's so special about it. She sings in two sorts of ways, the first one is lovely, simple, forgetable, and the other sounds like Stitch with a high voice. This CD does her justice, though. A lot of the tunes are catchy and nice (how she sings them could be better) but the one I really like is "Three cornered tune." Now that's a good song! She does not have a particularly bad voice, but nothing interesting - that's for sure. And when she tries to act in her music she sounds even worse! But that's alright. After all, everyone has a different style. A highlight of this CD includes "Mr. Monotony," which, unfortunatly, did not come with lyrics in the CD case. Too bad, because its a great song. At the end of this record, though, she writes about these songs and - wow! It is amazing how many shows that song was taken out of! At one point it said it had Judy Garland singing it, and when I try to imagine her doing it I know that must have been awesome. I really want to hear Judy Garland singing this song sometime. Maybe I'll find it here on Amazon... But anyway, back to Sarah Brightman. The only other thing I can think of to say at the moment is that from what I've heard of her records, this is as good as it gets. And also, the track titled "Dreamers" is nice. I like the tune and she doesn't sing it too bad, either. It would be a good song to be played at a graduation. Only after a while the sound of it gets a little creepy and annoying. And its sticky, too. "Silent heart" is a classic, though she shouldn't sing it twice. For you see, she sings it, and then you think, "Ah, that's a sweet song. Wonderful words, soft tune," and the music gets at a great stoping point and then comes back for an encore (as one of Sarah's other records is titled). And then we have to listen to it all over again - and its not as good the second time. So overall is it good? Yes, it is. Though perhaps not good enough.

Pleasant, but not up to standard.......2003-06-22

I love Sarah Brightman's singing and her musical style as presented on Eden and La Luna. This CD is completely different in style from those two. I find it enjoyable, but it is not my favorite. Her singing is nothing special on this CD, it doesn't display her vocal range or talent in the way that her other CDs do, especially her CD "Surrender", her vocals are absolutely stunning on that CD.

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This is the classic Bards ...
Love the Bards!
The best of the best
Captures the spirit of their live show.
Love Renaissance Faires? You'll love this cd...

A Faire To Remember
Brobdingnagian Bards
Manufacturer: Mage Records
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ASIN: B00005T5UN
Release Date: 2001-09-01

Tracks:

The Mermaid Song
Do Virgins Taste Better Medley
Scarborough Faire
Whiskey in the Jar
Wild Mountain Thyme
Health to the Company
Wild Rover
Johnny Jump Up
The Scotsman
Greensleeves Medley
A Faire-ly Informative Interlude
If I Had A Million Ducats
Lusty Young Smith
Donald, Where's Your Trousers? Medley
Irish Ballad
A Fairy Story
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Album Description

The fourth official full length CD by the Brobdingnagian Bards featuring 17 tracks of great musical entertainment. Also features our pick of the Top 10 Renaissance Faire Favorite songs, plus our personal pick including Monty Python, Tom Lehrer and more. Also includes 8 page booklet packed full of song lyrics and our favorite faire memories.

Customer Reviews:

This is the classic Bards ..........2005-05-14

that we all love from the Renn Faire or the occasional convention. Full of fun with some of the sweeter melodies such as "Wild Mountain Thyme" this is the Bards at their best. If you're like and fell in love with these guys at a Faire or con, then this is surely the CD for you.

Love the Bards!.......2004-06-20

A Faire to Remember is the best CD to get to introduce yourself to the Bards with. It has most of their funniest songs on one CD. Its a great buy for anyone with a good sense of fun!

The best of the best.......2004-05-20

Can't make it to the Faire?Listen to AFTR,and you'll be there.This cd will make you laugh,cry,and get up and dance.I raise my glass high in toast to this cd,and you will,too.From comical tunes like "the Scotsman"&"A Fairy Story"to the more heart-felt tunes like "Wild Mountain Thyme"& "Health to the Company",this cd offers a chance to experience the faire from your home.I highly recommend you get this cd.You won't be disappointed.

Captures the spirit of their live show........2004-05-20

The live show.

An audience in garb laughs and claps and sings along. Marc dances around as Andrew tries to maintain sanity. Sometimes.

It's the best thing about the Bards.

The Bards have recorded a tremendous library of old Ren Faire favorites, original songs, folk music, and the occasional Tom Lehrer tribute piece, and dominated the World Music charts on the old MP3.com.

A Faire to Remember captures the spirit of their live Ren Faire show; they recorded the songs the way they're performed, and even threw in "A Short Interlude" to keep the banter going. As I listened, I felt like they were with me in my living room, talking to me, while I laughed and clapped and sang along.

If you like the Bards' music and haven't heard them live, the free-form approach of A Faire to Remember is as close to being there as you can get. You owe it to your "elf" to get this CD.

Love Renaissance Faires? You'll love this cd..........2004-05-13

Beloved faire songs, including The Mermaid, make this compilation a must-have for any faire goer...recommended, too, for faire newcomers who want a quick sampling of the music they will likely hear at any rensaissance faire...and, as always, delivered by the Brob Bards with skill, wit and panache!

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The genius that is GREEN...........
What a mess!
Baby, well, you know that it's true like the Tractatus
Hip Hop Hippity Hop Now Hurry and Buy This!
Pure hetero-genius!

Songs to Remember
Scritti Politti
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Provision
Anomie & Bonhomie

ASIN: B00005Q62O
Release Date: 2001-10-22

Tracks:

Asylums In Jerusalem
A Slow Soul
Jacques Derrida
Lions After Slumber
Faithless
Sex
Rock-A-Boy Blue
Gettin' Havin' & Holdin'
The Sweetest Girl

Album Description

UK remastered reissue of the new wave act's long unavailable debut album, originally released on Rough Trade in 1982. Includes lyrics. 2001.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered with Extended Liner Notes and Complete Lyrics. Originally Released in 1982, it Established Green Gartside as a Major Pop Star and Composer. Includes the Singles "Asylums in Jerusalem/Jacques Derrida", "Faithless" and "Sweet.

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The genius that is GREEN..................2007-01-26

Yes, I have listened to this over and over (along with all things Scritti)and it never ceases to amaze me at how mind blowing the creativity of this music is.In this day where ALL music sounds the same it says ALOT when something for the early 80's surpasses them all.Green Gartside was way ahead of his time then, and even today his genius with sound,composition,lyrics and tone stand out.

What a mess!.......2006-06-29

Are the other reviewers listening to the same cd I was? This cd was awful. There was no definable genre of music, it was just all over the place. A major disappointment compared to the masterpiece that is the "Provision" cd. The cd title is right, these are "songs to remember": they'll be remembered for how bad they were! Avoid this one at all costs.

Baby, well, you know that it's true like the Tractatus.......2006-02-08

"Songs to Remember," the document of Scritti Politti's transitional phase between the early Gramscian postpunk of 'Skank Bloc Bologna' and 'Hegemony' and the now embarrassingly dated and unlistenable worst-of-the-'80s commercial emetic, "Cupid & Psyche '85," manages to employ nearly all of the components of bad '80s dance music and yet combine them in such a thoughtful and unconventional way (that's bricolage, baby!) that the result is brilliant, witty poststructuralist whiteboy soul that sounded like nothing else being produced in 1982 and nothing that has been produced since. "Songs to Remember" is, if anything, fresher in 2006 than it was when it was originally released. Highly recommended, especially to graduate students specializing in Continental philosophy or comparative literature.

Hip Hop Hippity Hop Now Hurry and Buy This!.......2006-01-30

Is this anything like Cupid and Psyche and all that followed? Nope. Is this music like anything else in my collection (80's and electronica)? Nope. Is it one of the most mind blowing and fresh albums I have ever heard? Yes! Yes! Yes! Listen to this recording and you body will start to move in strange and exciting ways. Standout tracks include Lions After Slumber, Sex and the Sweetest Girl (which was later covered by Madness in the late 80's). Feel like listening to something totally different? Give this a go - it will not disappoint.

Pure hetero-genius!.......2005-07-21

There are three albums from the Eighties that I listen to most often in 2005: Prince's masterful 'Parade', Warren Zevon's epiphanous 'Sentimental Hygiene' and this one, the absolute finest work of Green Gartside and Scritti Politti. True to its title, 'Songs To Remember' has that certain something that belongs to eternity.

As a songwriter, it could be argued Green is both modern and postmodern. His borrowings, repetitions and deft deployment of soul/rock cliches are far more sophisticated than the likes of New Order or Depeche Mode who enjoyed greater recognition for less interesting, more genre-specific work. Scritti Politti were later to enjoy 15 minutes of fame for their brief, though expert, dalliance with new wave dance music: the two singles from 'Cupid and Psyche '85', being 'Woodbeez' and 'Absolute', were both hits, despite the fact that the lyrics of the former included the word 'intravenous', while the lyrics of the latter included the word 'paramour'. Scritti Politti weren't particularly interested in sounding fashionable; Green simply liked black music and he wore his heart on his sleeve to this end. What's more, he vocalised his heart with eloquence and uncompromising intelligence. The downside is: the song titles do sound a little academic, but, trust me, 'Songs' is an emotional record.

A mere five seconds into the album and you'd swear you were listening to Stevie Wonder. 'Asylums In Jerasulem' bounces along gleefully as if it were 'Boogie On Reggae Woman'. Green's unmistakable voice is, perhaps, the most Eighties quality about the music, since it is totally androgynous: it also retains some of Scritti's punk roots by sounding like "sick bubblegum", which is how The Ramones once described themselves. The lyrics set many precedences: there will be intertextuality, layers of ambiguity, smart exploitation of semiotics and leftist social commentary.

'A Slow Soul' could have been written for Aretha Franklin. It wasn't. It was written by a poet who once lived in a squat, in Camden, UK. The words, "You stuck in North London" always put a lump in my throat.

Then comes the best track: 'Jacques Derrida'. Musically, it has a live, improvisational feel from the start; of course, it ends with some delightfully anarchistic noise-making. The title refers to one of the forefathers of structuralism and semiotics but, for those of you not schooled in the theory that inspires the track, it is best understood as a statement that the author, or the authentic voice of protest, is not dead yet. Green chants, "I want to eat your nation state" and it is as powerful as any of Joe Strummer's most brutal warbles against the ideological superstructure.

"Lions After Slumber" is both a precursor to smooth UK hip-hop (The Streets, for example) and trip-hop (Tricky, Massive Attack). Again, the lyrics are thoughtful and soulful.

'Faithless' is a fantastic ballad with a swirling chorus of backing vocals that could easily be compared to early Funkadelic. Can much more be said of Green's greatness than simply quoting the lyric 'I'm a hetero-genius / I want to testify!'

'Sex' is the only track that might have dated a little. It sounded more revolutionary when the album was first released but its language remains unique and, excuse the pun, penetrative.

'Rock-A-Boy-Blue' is the anti-dead-author anthem. It renounces all contemporary notions of manufactured art that is supposedly more generous to the audience because we asked for it somehow. Yeah right! Like a rape victim asked to be raped. "Don't they want make the money? / Don't they want to be the Beatles?" Green cleverly repeats phrases like "Learn to love that one-note sound / Make me sick with repetition" just to drive the point home.

On "Gettin, Havin' and Holdin'", Green steals and reinvents the classic soul phrase "When a man loves a woman" to construct a song that may well really be about loss. I can't help but think of how The White Stripes dedicated their recent album 'Elephant' to "the sweetheart" or her death. This is a beautiful, bittersweet song about loss of intimacy and romance.

The album ends on an equally high note with 'The Sweetest Girl', continuing the same theme. The song may have been influenced by another punk hero, Ian Dury, in that even its bitterest, most scathing moments are imbued with child-like wonder.

Sadly, I've probably made this album sound far too intelligent to be something you sing along to in the car. For that, I'm sorry, because 'Songs To Remember' has lots "baby baby's" and "woo woo's" and "yeah yeah's", after all. And it is full of love. How else do you define genius?

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Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom
Great Songs, but Mind the Singer
The Songs of William Bolcom

William Bolcom: Songs
Carole Farley , William Bolcom , Farley , and Bolcom
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ASIN: B0009F4UBQ
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

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My Father The Ganster
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I Am Not Free
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From Wandering
Beware
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I Remember
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Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
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Never More Will The Wind
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Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom.......2007-02-13

Carole Farley and William Bolcom have recorded this landmark CD, and I can easily understand why this CD received a GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Vocal Recording of the Year" and a 2nd GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Engineered Recording of the Year" category. It's indeed one of the best vocal albums of contemporary songs ever made. Carole Farley, who made her MET debut in the MET's first LULU production, seems to be just at home with Puccini, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and even Latin American popular songs (her Lecuona songs album is extremely beautiful).
William Bolcom's accompaniment is brilliant, and the songs are a revelation.
J.B. (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Great Songs, but Mind the Singer.......2006-07-04

This is one of those discs where the listener has to balance the advantages of the program with the disadvantages of the performance. Bolcom is one of this country's most versatile and brilliant composers, and those qualities are demonstrated to great effect in the songs on this album. His piano playing is, as one would expect, also solid and expressive. The drawback here is Carole Farley. Although her diction and intonation are good, as far as tone-color goes, she seems to be a one-trick pony; and if you don't like that trick (opera singer trying to sound like what she thinks a musical theater singer sounds like), listening to her can get very tiring. So while I highly recommend the disc for its content, I suggest listening to excerpts first before buying just to make sure that the singer's voice doesn't drive you batty.

The Songs of William Bolcom.......2006-02-14

The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, "Mary" which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime.

The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano. Ms. Farley has also recorded for Naxos' "American classics" series a selection of the songs of Ned Rorem with Rorem at the piano. Ms. Farley and Naxos are doing listeners a service by introducing them to the world of the American art song.

The highlight of this CD is the 20-minute song-cycle "I will breathe a mountain" in which Bolcom sets 11 poems by American women. The poems were selected by Alice Fulton, and they include Fulton's own "I will swing those obligatos around" in which the young singer describes a come-on from a boor. The song writing is declamatory in character with many twists, turns, and shouts in the vocal line. Only the setting of H.D.'s "Never More Will the Wind" is lyrical and flowing. Besides Fulton and H.D. the settings include poems by Millay, Gwendolwn Brooks (a poem called "The Crazy Woman" with appropriately wild shrieks) Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore (listen to what Ms. Farley makes of the poets wish to be a DRA' GON), Emily Dickinson (in a moving poem of the stillness of a home after death),Louise Bogan, May Swenson, and Elizabeth Bishop. "I will breathe a mountain" is an outstanding and moving contemporary American song-cycle and is in itself sufficient reason for hearing this recording.

The CD also includes a second exquisite cycle, "Songs to Dance" which sets ten miniature poems by George Montgomery. This is a work to be danced as well as sung, and it has apparently been performed live only once, by the composer, his wife, the soprano Joan Morris, and dancer, Dan Wagoner. It has never been recorded before. The work deserves to be heard and seen.

Many of the remaining works on this CD are cabaret-style theatrical pieces that Bolcom composed in collaboration with lyricist Arnold Weinstein. The best of these are two torch songs from a show called "Casino Paradise": Night Make my Day (a parody of the torch style which is sometimes performed straight) and "My Father the Gangster", in which a young woman laments how men are, understandably, worried about her father and afraid to approach her. The collection opens with a scream by Ms. Farley in the erotic novelty "You cannot have me now", about the affairs of the wife of a German officer, sung with a heavily inflected German accent and also set to words by Weinstein.

I enjoyed Bolcom's short setting of May Swenson's poem "The Digital Wonder Watch" with the tick-ticking in the piano. This song is a satire of technology, with the poet describing the features of her "wonderful watch" while asking: "Does it show how to wind up/a broken heart?" The other songs on the CD include the passionate "The Last Days of Mankind", conceived for rock singer Marianne Faithful, two eloquent settings of poems by Richard Tillinghast, and four concluding early collaborations between Bolcom and Weinstein.

This CD offers an opportunity to explore the world of American song in the works of a leading contemporary composer. The cycle, "I will breathe a mountain" will be a lasting achievement in American art song.

Robin Friedman

With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart

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With a Song in My Heart: The Songs of Rodgers & Hart

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
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ASIN: B000059N0T
Release Date: 2001-03-27

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Romantic Saxophone: Love Songs to Remember

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Romantic Saxophone: Love Songs to Remember
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Columbia River Ent.
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Romantic Saxophone: Late Night Sax
Together: Romantic Saxophone

ASIN: B00006312I
Release Date: 2002-05-07

Tracks:

You Send Me
One More Night
You Were There
Moonglow
Can You Feel The Love Tonight?
I've Had The Time of My Life
The Power Of Love
Black Velvet
You Are Not Alone
It Had To Be You

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the ingredients

Christmas with King's Singers

Manufacturer: Signum UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DDB84
Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

Veni, Veni Emmanuel
Angelus Ad Virginem
This Is the Truth Sent from Above
Wie Scheuchtet Der Morgenstern
Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprunger
There Is No Rose
Coventry Carol
Nowell Sing We Now
Remember, O Thou Man
In Dulci Jubilo
Lullay My Liking
Bogoroditsye Dyevo
Lamb
Maria Durch Ein' Dornwald Ging
O Little One Sweet
Bethlehem Down
Crown of Roses
To Us in Bethlem City
Szczo to Za Prediwo
There Is a Flower
Peregrinan
Away in a Manger
NoNouvelet
Stille Nacht
Born on a New Day

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the ingredients.......2006-12-23

This is a perfect King's Singers recording filled with Christmas music. The sustained success of this group of six English gentlemen is legendary, but not surprising. The ingredients for that success have remained the same for many years, through varying personnel, and across a very wide-ranging repertory of a capella music. First and foremost, these men are true musicians - musicians first, singers and interpreters second. Musicianship consisting of equal parts learning and attentive transmission, the King's Singers are immaculate musicians - attuned, commited, ready, and fortunately blessed with musical intelligence to guide their choices of material. Second, and as important in my view, these men are comrades. In their recently released DVD, one finds abundant evidence of a committment not only to their art, but to each other. A capella singing by nature revealing, you'll find no seams in the singing of this mastergroup. Everything is seen to, raised up, compelling - and ever beautiful. This is authentic art of the gods. As fond as I am of Chanticleer, and of Harry Christopher's The Sixteen, the work of those fine ensembles pales when compared to the lingering beauty of the King's Singers. Constant invention is one of the hallmarks of their recorded legacy, and is bountiful on this disc - voicings, approaches, and a magical communion of voices. Check out Ariel Ramirez' instantly amenable 'La peregrinacion' and you'll never turn back. Big recommendation.

Thomas Hampson: An Old Song Re-Sung - American Concert Songs

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Songs Saved From Obscurity
Charming songs, beautifully sung

Thomas Hampson: An Old Song Re-Sung - American Concert Songs

Manufacturer: Angel Records
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Long Time Ago - Copland / Dawn Upshaw & Thomas Hampson
American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason

ASIN: B000002RRM
Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

An Old Song Re-sung
Tell me, Oh Blue, Blue Sky
Senandoah
Brother Will, Brother John
Darling Nellie Gray
Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway
The Erie Canal
Will You Remember?
Danny Deever
In the Gloaming
The Nightingale
On the Road to Mandalay
The Lass From the Low Countree
Do Not Go, My Love
Luke Havergal
When I Have Sung My Songs
At Dawning
Tomorrow
Roses of Picardy
Long Ago in Alcala

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You never know when beauty will break your heart.......2006-07-17

This was Thomas Hampson's debut album on EMI, a 1990 release that catapulted him much higher than his earlier recitals on Teldec. It comprises a rather scholarly collection of sentimental memorabilia. Each selection is a "platform song" that Victorians cherished from singers who varied operatic arias with sentimental popular stuff. (Was it Nellie Melba or Jenny Lind who interjected 'Home, Sweet Home' in the middle of the Marriage of Figaro?)

Yet as forgotten as platform songs are today, with the exception of a few Stephen Foster tunes like 'Ah, May the Red Rose Live Alway,' a folk song like 'Shenandoah,' and a brass-bound immortal like 'Roses of Picardy,' everything on this unique CD is ripe with emotion. I am not ashamed to say that I teared up the first twenty times I listened (compulsively) to this memento from a more innocent age.

One is transported back to the time and spirit of Kipling and empire, TR and the Rough Riders, and brave young dougboys marching off to their doom singing 'Over There.' I teared up just writing that sentence.

Songs Saved From Obscurity.......2001-03-27

There is a tremendous body of American songs which is yet to be fully appreciated. Thomas Hampson does us a favor in saving these gems from what might become obscurity. The songs on this disc are truly sentimental, bringing us from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows. I commend Hampson for his continued dedication to singing these songs which rival the art songs of any culture and are worthy to be heard, sung and recorded.

Charming songs, beautifully sung.......1999-06-09

This is not just an album of chestnuts. Hampson's love for the material shines through. His performance is always just right. His voice is warm, velvety, and wonderful! "In the Gloaming" and "Roses in Picardy" will bring you to tears, but my favorite is "Do not go, my love." Bravo, Tom!

John McCormack: The Acoustic Victor and HMV Recordings (1912-14)

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John McCormack: The Acoustic Victor and HMV Recordings (1912-14)

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Release Date: 1998-02-10

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Maire, My Girl
Like Stars Above
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My Commander As Envoy Bids Me Come
I Know Of Two Bright Eyes
Eileen Aroon
The Wearing Of The Green
The Rosary
The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
Silver Threads Among The Gold
T'eri Un Giorno Ammalato
At Dawning
Dai Campi, Dai Prati
Giunto Sul Passo
Mi Par D'udir Ancora
Nirvana
There Is a Flower That Bloometh
My Dreams
Sweet Genevieve
I'll Sing Thee Songs Of Araby
Where The River Shannon Flows
Silver Threads Among The Gold

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Within The Garden Of My Heart
Dear Love, Remember Me
Chiudo Gli Occhi 'Il Sogno'
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A Foggy Dew
The Low Back'd Car
Sospiri Miei, Andate Ove Vi Mando
Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Goodbye'
Mother O' Mine
Down In The Forest
Votre Mere Avec Moi Sortait De La Chapelle
I Hear A Thrush At Eve
Goodbye
A Little Love A Little Kiss
Questa O Quella
Nearer My God To Thee
Eileen Allanah
Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye
Le Portrait
Angel's Serenade
Le Nil
Beneath The Quivering Leaves
Ave Maria, D.839
Ave Maria 'Meditation On J.S. Bach's Prelude In C'

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When looking for "the most".......2001-05-14

A local New York professional opera enthusiast has concluded that Corelli is the most popular operatic tenor, followed by Jussi Bjoerling. But if the question is, who had the most beautiful tenor voice ever impressed upon wax, we must lift up John McCormack. Here is true bel canto which no one else has ever equalled. These two CD's contain some of the most exquisite sounds ever issued by a human throat. Let the galleries declare their enthusiasm for stentorian high C's, the real lover of great singing will find much more to their like her than in all the verisssimo arias. Listen to the two "Mefistofele" Arias (Boito) and ask yourself if they have ever since been so beautifully sung. This recording belongs in the collection of every aspiring tenor, just to remind what can be accomplished by art and perfect singing.

A superb McCormack collection.......2000-10-21

If you remember hearing transfers of acoustic recordings to LP, you remember how hard it was to really connect with the music and performer through all the rumble, noise and resonance. This audio restoration is the most astonishing technical feat I have ever heard. The noise is now only a gentle background presence, not the roar of yesteryear. And even more important, it is constant in volume- in other words not a distraction. The fidelity really lets us hear what the early recording engineers really achieved. That said, what this brings to us are the performances of one of the world's greatest singers in richly emotional popular songs (and a few opera arias). There are so many of those old sentimental pieces no one could get away with recording anymore, but hold such a splendid reward for those of us who love them. John McCormack's recordings receive with this reissue the wonderful presentation they so richly deserve. Many many thanks to the label and Mr. Marston who made it possible.

Simply the Best.......2000-01-27

This along with Vol. 1 is simply the best McCormack transfers available from this period. The master of the trade, Ward Marston has outdone himself this time. Waiting for Vols. 3,4,5!

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