Gazelle

Track Listings

 
1. Tell My Beloved (Dezile Al Mi Amor)
2. Gazelle, My Heart Is Parched
3. Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
4. Come, My Friend
5. Oud Solo
6. Sherifa - La Reina Sherifa Mora
7. Ya Melih (My Perfect Beloved)
8. Eliahu (Elijah)
9. Bestow the Pity
10. Oh, Dove Where Will You Wander
11. My Desire Will Blaze
12. So Says the Bride (Ansina Dize la Nuestro Novia)
13. Sham`A (Candle)/Una Ija Tiene el Rey (The King Has One Daughter)

Gazelle,Kol Oud Tof Trio,Magda,Int'l & World Music,Pop
Wiener Musik
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  • A waltz lovers delight:
Wiener Musik

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ASIN: B0009U55QK
Release Date: 2005-09-06

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A waltz lovers delight:.......2007-02-11

If you love to listen to Viennese waltz music, you'll find this 12 disc set a wonderful experience. Highly recommended.
Sprinting Gazelle: Palestinian Songs
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  • The Blues By any other Name
Sprinting Gazelle: Palestinian Songs
Reem Kelani
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ASIN: B000DN6CI8
Release Date: 2006-03-10

Tracks:

  1. As Nazarene Women Crossed The Meadow (QataEn An-Nasraawiyyaat)
  2. The Cameleer Tormented My Heart (Adthab El-Jammaal Qalbi)
  3. Galilean Lullaby (Tahlileh Jaliliyyeh)
  4. A BakerS Dozen (Habl El-Ghiwa)
  5. Mawwaal (Variations On Loss)
  6. Yearning (Khawaatir Wa-Asdaa)
  7. Sprinting Gazelle (Ah! Ya Reem Al-Ghuzlaan)
  8. Yafa (Jaffa!)
  9. Qasidah Of Return (Qasidat Al-Awdah)
  10. Il-Hamdillah (Giving Praise)

Album Details

Debut Album from One of the Foremost Researchers and Performers of Palestinian Music, Singer and Broadcaster Reem Kelani.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Blues By any other Name.......2006-04-15

Think Blues of the finest nuance and transpose its disposition first to Palestine and the contingent necessity for many of its natives to relocate. This music is party to the powerful response to a tragedy. That said,'Sprinting Gazelle, by Reen Kelani, is one of the most exhilerating musical experiences I've encountered. So brilliantly performed, it's impossible to believe that this is a debut effort. The rating system is inadequate to do it justice. Her singing is up there with Alim Qasimov, Dimi Mint Abba, and Aster Aweke. Emotionally, her collection is more diverse than any issued by the aforementioned luminaries. For this, she is superbly abetted by musicians and production of uncanny majesty. Even were she never to produce more recorded work, her position on the top deck of cherished CDs is assured. It's not all disporatic dislocation and woe. The liturgical droning of,'Women Crossed the Meadow' immediately transported me.'Sprinting Gazelle', whom Reem,'the white antelope' identifies with, is an upbeat, wedding celebration, saucy and throbbing.'Yearning's' words are penned by Rashid Husain and ushered in by the pentatonic sadness of Zoe Rahman's piano. Kelani provides the musical settings for her chosen, exiled poets. Here, when the sky cries rain, an expression familiar to neighbouring Aboriginal mourners in Central Australia, the violin talks in tandem with Kelani's voice. Rahman's Steinway is again prominent on,'Yafa', a song of uncompromising pain. The singer's burden is soothed by the profoudest sonic waters of the keyboard. 'Il Hamdillah', rounds off the work: a medley of two songs, one , the promise of building and healing is constructed on a zikyr mantra, familiar to many branches of Sufism. No song could be more appropriate for perpetuating Palestinian traditions in this brave and thrilling cycle.
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    ASIN: B000004613
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    Menuhin Plays Bazzini, Bloch, Dinicu, Granados, Kreisler, Moszkowski and Others
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    ASIN: B000005GT1
    Release Date: 2002-11-05

    Tracks:

    1. Caprice Basque, Op.24
    2. Danzas Espanolas, No.1, Op.21: No.1 Malaguena - Yehudi Menuhin/Hendrik Endt
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars dazzling playing.......2003-07-06

    this cd gives a very well impression about the incredible facility of Menuhin's technique in his youth. Not yet hampered with his bow arm problems that he had in his career since the forty's, one is aware of a natural talent who could perform this pieces without any difficulty. Although coordination and intonation are not always of a Heifetz-like perfection, it is incredibly exciting. The oldest records on this cd were made when he was just 11 years old, and it is interesting to hear what happened in the years after. For example: his playing at the age of 18/19 is much much more powerful than the first records he made, his vibrato is always very much faster, (it was sometimes quite slow when he was 11,) altough he developed a slight tendency to force a litte bit with his tone production. But the overall picture is that of playing of a huge huge talent, which'll seldom be equalled
    The Sephardic Experience: Volume 3, Gazelle & Flea
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      The Sephardic Experience: Volume 3, Gazelle & Flea
      The Renaissance Players
      Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies
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      ASIN: B00000IIWC
      Release Date: 1999-04-06

      Tracks:

      1. Cetvorno Oro
      2. El Rey De Francia Tres Hijas Tenia
      3. Rychenitsa
      4. Por Amar Una Donzella
      5. Ajugar De Novia Galana
      6. Staro Povrateno
      7. Y Una Madre Comio Asado
      8. El Conde Nino
      9. Cetvorka
      10. Hija Mia Mi Querida
      11. Y Aunque Yo No Vendi Nada
      12. Play For Me Minstrel
      13. Desde Hoy La Mi Madre
      14. Pravo Za Ramo
      15. Fleas
      16. Estavase La Mora
      17. Dvajspetorka
      18. Dunje Rajke Kruske Kara Manke/Kyustendilka

      Album Description

      The Sephardic Experience quadrilogy, is a priceless sound document in which The Renaissance Players present their own performance versions of well- and lesser-known romansas (ballads), kantigas (religious songs) and muwashshahat (poetical forms) which have survived for centuries entirely via oral/aural transmission by parents, grandparents, friends and acquaintances within the family circle, while working, or as a form of ad hoc entertainment in Sephardic communities of the West and East. Sadly, as the end of the 20th century draws near we are witnessing the alarming disappearance of Spanish-Jewish culture due to vast, worldwide changes in social circumstances. In fact, these songs are no longer a part of the rich, musical fabric of the everyday life of the Sephardim.

      The collection of Spanish-Jewish songs in this third volume, Gazelle and Flea, include satire, a panegyric addressed to a minstrel, wedding songs, laments, coplas, kantigas, and romansas. These are placed cheek-by-jowl with traditional dances from the Sephardim's host countries, Bulgaria, South Yugoslavia and Macedonia. The text covers themes of love from literal and figurative references involving animals, humans and insects (e.g. gazelle and flea) to more direct faces of love - courtships which are frustrated, sadly disappointed and sea/siren connected, and weddings, specifically the traditional marriage preparations with their expectations of nuptial bliss and love's frightful sufferings in a cycle of destruction-famine-exile. The songs and dances are performed with improvised decoration as the melodies to which these originally Hebrew texts were sung are lost forever in the ancient folk-memory.

      The four volumes of The Sephardic Experience ( Thorns of Fire, Apples and Honey, Gazelle and Flea and Eggplants) can be purchased individually or together in a beautiful hand-wrapped black linen box.
      Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1
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        Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1

        Manufacturer: Angel Records
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        ASIN: B000005GSX
        Release Date: 2001-05-01

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        1. Vn Con No.1 in E flat (Trans into D), Op.6: I. Allegro Maestoso
        2. Vn Con No.1 in E flat (Trans into D), Op.6: II. Adagio Espressivo
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        11. Caprices, Op 1: No.23 in E flat
        12. Caprices, Op 1: No.24 in a
        Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999): Mozart, Elgar, Bach Concertos / Beethoven, Prokofiev Sonatas
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          CD 1: --- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Concerto for Violin and Orchestra #3 in G major, K. 216 (Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Monteux, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, recorded 1934)__________ Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Sonata for Violin and Piano #9 in A minor, op. 47 "Kreutzer" (Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin, recorded 1934)___________ CD 2: --- Edward Elgar (1857-1934): Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in B minor, op. 61 (Yehudi Menuhin, Sir Edward Elgar, London Symphony Orchestra, recorded 1926)__________ Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Rondo for Violin and Piano in B minor, D. 895 (Yehudi Menuhin, Hephzibah Menuhin, recorded 1938)__________ CD 3: --- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in A minor, BWV 1041 (Yehudi Menuhin, George Enescu, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, recorded 1936)__________ Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Concerto for 2 Violins and Orchestra in D minor, BWV 1043 (Yehudi Menuhin, George Enescu, Pierre Monteux, Orchestre Symphonique de Paris, recorded 1932)__________ Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Sonata for Violin and Piano #1, op. 80 (Yehudi Menuhin, Marcel Gazelle, recorded 1948)
          Brahms: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata No. 3; 5 Hungarian Dances
          Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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          Brahms: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata No. 3; 5 Hungarian Dances

          Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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          ASIN: B0001HAH96
          Release Date: 2004-03-23

          Tracks:

          1. I. Allegro Non Troppo
          2. II. Adagio
          3. III. Allegro Giocoso, Ma Non Troppo Vivace
          4. I. Allegro
          5. II. Adagio
          6. III. Un Poco Presto E Con Sentimento
          7. IV. Presto Agitato
          8. No.1 In G Minor
          9. No.4 In B Minor
          10. No.6 In B Flat
          11. No.7 In A
          12. No.17 In F Sharp

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars A classic--Menuhin's best postwar recording?.......2006-01-08

          This live recording of the Brahms concerto from 1949 finds Menuhin in commanding form. He plays courageously and in tune, with almost undiminished technique. By comparison his two famed readings of the Beethoven concerto, also with Furtwangler on EMI, seem cautious and technically insecure. I can't acount for this contrast, given that the Brahms is much the more challenging work technically.

          In any event, this is a performance to celebrate without reservation. In its imagination, emotional depth, and rapport between conductor and soloist, I've never heard an equal. It helps, of course, that Furtwangler was the greatest of Brahms conductors--you can't decide whether to focus on the orchestra or the violin, which is rare.

          The Lucerne Festival has given us some of the best-sounding live Furtwangler recordings, particularly an incomparable Beethoven Ninth, but this issn't one of them. EMI must be working from a radio air check, because the mono sound is restricted in dynamics and prone to sudden jumps in volume here and there. The overall tone is grainy but still natural enough so that the ear adapts fairly easily. With better sound I think there would be consensus that this performance dominates the field. As it is, we have a musical treasure to be grateful for from the heart.

          (I own the original EMI References recording as well as this 2004 remastering, which I can attest is a major improvement in sound. The engineers have removed surface gritch, added discreet reverberation, and sweetened the string tone--well done!)

          4 out of 5 stars Great Artist, but not a Great Release.......2004-04-30

          EMI's latest reissue creation is the "Great Artists of the Century" series, and this title featuring violinist Yehudi Menuhin is one of the initial 25 offerings. But I have to say, since this series is seemingly aimed at entry-level classical fans, this CD is questionable to say the least. While no single disc release can capture the majesty of Menuhin, Brahms performances are definitely not the place to start (some other B's like Bach, Beethoven or Bruch would be more appropriate). Add the fact that all three performances featured here are in mono, when so many of his greatest recordings are in stereo, and you begin to wonder why EMI chose these selections. I personally thought the old "References" title, that paired the 1949 account of the Violin Concerto with Furtwangler featured here with the Double Concerto, was a more sensible release than this one combining the VC, Violin Sonata No. 3 and some of the Hungarian Dances. Having just released a 10CD Box Set of Menuhin's Concerto recordings (see my review), maybe EMI has just spread themselves too thin lately when it comes to the violinist's reissues. Yehudi Menuhin was certainly one of the great artists of the last century, but this title struggles to show it.
          Omaggio a Paganini, Vol. 2
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            Omaggio a Paganini, Vol. 2

            Manufacturer: Idi [Ital Disc Inst]
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            Binding: Audio CD

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            GeneralGeneral | Paganini, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B00018D4C2
            Release Date: 2004-01-27
            Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin Play Tchaikovsky
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              Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin Play Tchaikovsky

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              ASIN: B00021Y90Y
              Release Date: 2004-08-10

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              5. Irish Folk Favorites
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