American Indian Life [Box set] [Import]

Track Listings

 
1. Dawn & Sunrise Leading To Sounds Of The Day In A Native American Indian Village
2. Evening To The Night Time With Night Sounds & Thunderstorm
3. Indian Village Part 1
4. Indian Village Part 2
5. Code Of Handsome Lake
6. Vanishing Race

American Indian Life,Various Artists,Laserlight,World Music
San Francisco and Other Jeanette MacDonald Favorites
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  • Jeanette MacDonald Favorites
  • A MUST for any Jeanette fan!
  • Jeanette MacDonald Was Unique
  • An excellent demonstration of Jeanette MacDonald's artistry
San Francisco and Other Jeanette MacDonald Favorites

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ASIN: B000003F6P
Release Date: 1991-11-09

Tracks:

  1. Ciribiribin
  2. The Firefly: Giannina mia
  3. The Firefly: The Donkey Serenade
  4. Naughty Marietta: Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life
  5. Naughty Marietta: Italian Street Song
  6. New Moon: Lover Come Back To Me
  7. New Moon: One Kiss
  8. Smilin' Through: Land Of Hope And Glory
  9. Rose Marie: Indian Love Call
  10. San Francisco
  11. The Holy City
  12. Love Parade: March Of The Grenadiers
  13. Monte Carlo: Beyond The Blue Horizon
  14. The Fortune Teller: Romany Life
  15. The Vagabond King: Only A Rose
  16. Les filles de Cadiz
  17. Ave Maria
  18. Songs My Mother Taught Me
  19. Romeo et Juliette: Je veux vivre dans ce reve
  20. Faust: Il etait un roi de Thule
  21. Faust: Air des bijoux
  22. Louise: Depuis le jour

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Jeanette MacDonald Favorites.......2007-05-13

This CD is an incredible testimony and celebration of an American Master Singer.
A must have for all. An introduction to quality and good taste for a new generation of music lovers.

5 out of 5 stars A MUST for any Jeanette fan!.......2006-04-25

This CD is a gem! The songs included on it are beautiful and show off MacDonald's incredible voice. The best part of this CD, however, is the sound quality. Unlike many of her other recordings, and those featuring her with frequent costar Nelson Eddy, the sound on this CD is pristine, and you can barely tell the recordings are 50+ years old!

4 out of 5 stars Jeanette MacDonald Was Unique.......2001-03-12

It really doesn't matter whether or not she could sing; Jeanette MacDonald was unique. On these old recordings, her voice sounds thin and watery, and contemporary tastes do not respond so readily to the sentimentality and predictability of her movies. But she was a gracious lady and glittering presence on the silver screen. These film songs do suggest the excitement she generated when her movies first appeared. And how many truly major singers she inspired! Joan Sutherland recalled meeting MacDonald a few years before her death. Said Sutherland: "I still had stars in my eyes."

5 out of 5 stars An excellent demonstration of Jeanette MacDonald's artistry.......1998-12-18

The highlights of this Jeanette MacDonald CD include her excellent singing of Delibes' "Les Filles de Cadiz," the Bach-Gounod "Ave Maria," and the "Jewel Song" from "Faust." A much-underrated artist, MacDonald proves here that she can handle a wide range of music, from concert songs and opera arias to familiar tunes from her operetta films. Particularly fine are her renditions of "Only a Rose," and Herbert's "Romany Life" (in spite of an amateurish male chorus). Highly recommended not only as a tribute to filmdom's first lady of song, but also to listeners who enjoy both opera and musical comedy.
The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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  • disappointment
  • "music giants come together ~ Herbert & Faith"
  • Herbert in good hands with Faith renditions
  • Percy Faith-Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert
The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert

Manufacturer: Collectables
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ASIN: B0000996GF
Release Date: 2003-09-16

Tracks:

  1. Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life
  2. Spanish Serenade
  3. Dream Girl
  4. Because You're You!
  5. Toyland
  6. March of the Toys
  7. Gypsy Love Song and Romany Life
  8. Kiss in the Dark
  9. I Want What I Want When I Want It
  10. When You're Away
  11. Cuban Serenade
  12. Indian Summer
  13. Every Day Is Ladies' Day with Me
  14. Kiss Me Again
  15. Habanera
  16. To the Land of My Own Romance
  17. Dagger Dance
  18. Italian Street Song
  19. Sweethearts
  20. Yesterthoughts
  21. Streets of New York
  22. I'm Falling in Love With Someone
  23. Thine Alone

Album Description

Percy Faith was the master of distilling the best of melodies and in this collection from 1958, Percy rescues us from the images that Victor Herbert melodies tend to evoke - the operetta, and the "erstwhile lady singing (belting out?) Herbert tunes at the piano." With this in mind, Percy's early stereo spectacular brings us the best of the Victor Herbert tunes - with the grand voice of the orchestra to bring out the beauty of each song - twenty-three Victor Herbert songs in this collection! (Bill Halvorsen)

Album Description

Full Title - The Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert/And His Orchestra. Pianist Percy Faith, a pioneer of the Easy Listening genre, had a successful and lengthy career as the in-house conductor and arranger for Columbia Records. Faith was renowned for his musical interpretations of Broadway and motion picture music. These 2 albums on 1 CD were originally released in 1958. 23 tracks. 2003 Collectables reissue.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Inauthentic Herbert/authentic Percy Faith.......2006-09-03

If you love the Percy Faith orchestral style, you will certainly
enjoy this typical example. The disc is full and the selections are numerous and varied, including characteristic pieces, operetta
excerpts, and even a couple of excerpts from one of Herbert's
grand operas.
BUT - if you're primarily interested in the music of Victor Herbert, then the advice has to be to avoid this seemingly tempting item. The combination of anachronistic arrangements, altered harmonies, and orchestrations foreign to anything Herbert would have imagined or countenanced ends by falsifying the charm and character of Herbert's music. In essence it's more like "1950's Fantasies Loosely Based on Certain Herbert Themes."

1 out of 5 stars disappointment.......2006-08-14

This is a very poor rendering of the music of Victor Herbert. I am very disappointed in it and would not have ordered it if I realized that there were no vocals.

5 out of 5 stars "music giants come together ~ Herbert & Faith".......2004-02-09

Now we have something that only Percy Faith could tackle "The Columbia Album of Victor Herbert", composer Victor Herbert has all the elements that Mr. Faith was looking for, and what a workout the award winning Percy Faith Orchestra has in store for them, look at the result...pure satisfaction and then some ~ "TOYLAND" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, Percy's arrangement comes from the heart and weaves a magic spell over the listener ~ "MARCH OF THE TOYS", once again the signature arrangement comes to the surface of each cue that Mr. Faith records, very stimulating performance ~ listen to this cue and visualize the toys coming to life ~ "A KISS IN THE DARK" and "KISS ME AGAIN", once again the magic prevails with soft and sweeping strings, The Percy Faith Touch comes to the forefront ~ and Percy was always there to record the music whenever the time presented itself, and it is here and now.

Two great giants in the music world Victor Herbert (1859-1924) and Percy Faith (1908-1976), brought together by Columbia Records and originally released in 1958 (C2S-801), received wonderful reviews from the music critics. This is an historic event for Faith fans, a double LP that has all the ingredients is now released on one single compact disc ~ with all the sonic clarity you could ask for.

Great job to all who were involved in bringing this to listeners of fine music ~ very impressive with all original liner notes and recording cues intact. This has to be in the top five of Faith's re-issues, keep them coming, cause there is an audience out there crying and craving more of the same...gotta love it!

Total Time: 73:46 on 23 Tracks ~ Collectables 7565 ~ (9/16/2003)

5 out of 5 stars Herbert in good hands with Faith renditions.......2003-10-08

Percy Faith, the easy listening music arranger and conductor, pays homage to composer Victor Herbert (1859-1924) and in doing so offers us a remarkable recording of Herbert's oft-forgotten music. Faith interprets Herbert's music with his signature lush strings and sound orchestral arrangements that provide a light buoyancy to the compositions. Especially good are Indian Summer, Spanish Serenade and Gypsy Love Song. But all tracks are impressive and offer good testimony to Herbert's compositions and Faith's tuneful arranging. This is one of the better Faith re-releases from Collectables to date.

5 out of 5 stars Percy Faith-Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert.......2003-09-18

This is one of Percy Faith's most beautiful albums and it is finally on cd.Most of this album is beautiful and lush but there is a few songs that are brassy,2 Christmas songs and 1 Semi classical song.Here is the song list.

The Columbia Album Of Victor Herbert-1958(Liner Notes Included)
1)Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life-Lush
2)Spanish Life-Brassy
3)Dream Girl-Lush
4)Because Your You're You-Lush
5)Toyland-Lush Christmas This is the most beautiful version of toyland I have ever heard although Johnny Mathis has a pretty good version too.You should play Percy's version during the Christmas season off of this cd.
6)March Of The Toys-Brassy Christmas with Drums interspursed.Percy's version of this song is great and should also get a lot of play during the holiday season.
7)Gypsy Love Song and Romany Life-Semi Classical
8)A Kiss In The Dark-Lush
9)I Want What I Want When I Want It-Brassy
10)When You're Away-Lush
11)Cuban Love Song-Light Strings
12)Indian Summer-Lush
13)Every Day Is Ladies Day With Me-Brassy
14)Kiss Me Again-Lush
15)Habanera-Brassy
16)To The Land Of My Own Romance-Lush
17)Dagger Dance-Brassy
18)Italian Street Song-Brassy
19)Sweethearts-Lush
20)Yesterthoughts-Lush
21)Streets Of New York-Lush
22)I'm Falling In Love With Someone-Light Strings
23)Thine Alone-Lush

All 23 Songs are just with orchestra and no chrous.Also the two Christmas Songs on this album are not available on his other 3 Christmas albums only here.You may also like Percy Faith's Columbia Album of George Gershwin if it's still available,if it's not Collectibles will probebly be reissiuing it eventually.If you like beautiful music this album must be in your collection.Doubtless a lot of these songs probebly got played on beautiful music stations before beautiful music died out on the radio.
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Robert Merrill, Vol. 3
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  • More glorious heritage from THE VOICE
Lebendige Vergangenheit: Robert Merrill, Vol. 3

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ASIN: B0001HN2TS
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars More glorious heritage from THE VOICE.......2006-01-15



The singing is so flawlessly superb that all you need to know is WHAT Bob sings:

Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti): Cruda, funesta smania

with Ezio Pinza (Bass), Luigi Vellucci (Tenor)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 3/8/1952
Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs.



2. Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni): Il cavallo scalpita

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.



3. Cavalleria Rusticana: Oh! Il Signore vi manda

With Zinka Milanov (Soprano)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 4 Minutes 56 Secs.



4. I Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Silvio! a quest' ora...che imprudenza

With Victoria De los Angeles (Soprano)

Conductor: Renato Cellini
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/1953
Length: 8 Minutes 19 Secs.



5. Porgy and Bess (Gershwin): A woman is a sometime thing

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.



6. Porgy and Bess: I got plenty o' nuttin

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.



7. Porgy and Bess: Bess, you is my woman now

With Risë Stevens (Mezzo Soprano)

Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/13/1950
Length: 5 Minutes 0 Secs.



8. Porgy and Bess: It ain't necessarily so


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/12/1950
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.



9. Porgy and Bess: Oh Bess, where's my Bess?


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/12/1950
Length: 9 Minutes 35 Secs.



10. Show Boat (Kern): Ol' Man River


Conductor: Robert Russell Bennett
RCA Victor Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 3 Minutes 35 Secs.



11. The New Moon (Romberg): Wanting you

With Dorothy Kirsten (Soprano)

Conductor: Russ Case
Russ Case Orchestra
Date of Recording: 9/11/1947
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.



12. The Three Musketeers (Friml): Ma belle


Conductor: Leopold Spitalny
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1/2/1946
Length: 3 Minutes 28 Secs.



13. Rose Marie (Friml): Indian Love Call "When I'm calling you"

With Roberta Peters (Soprano)

Conductor: Charles Sanford
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1952
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.



14. Kiss Me, Kate (Porter): So in Love

With Roberta Peters (Soprano)

Conductor: Charles Sanford
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1952
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.



15. My Life's Desire by Tolchard Evans


Conductor: Henri René
Henri René Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1951
Length: 2 Minutes 37 Secs.



16. My Beloved by Jay Livingston


Conductor: Hugo Winterhalter
Hugo Winterhalter & His Orchestra
Date of Recording: 1951
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.



17. Phyllis has such charming graces (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 43 Secs.



18. My Lovely Celia by George Munro

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 21 Secs.



19. Mary of Allendale (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.



20. Down by the Salley Gardens (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 42 Secs.



21. Be merry, be merry (Anonymous)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs.



22. A Ballynure Ballad (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 1 Minutes 28 Secs.



23. Oliver Cromwell (Traditional)

Leila Edwards (Piano)
Date of Recording: 1948
Length: 0 Minutes 43 Secs.




My own particular favourite: the gorgeous duet from The New Moon with the unforgettable Dorothy Kirsten. I LOVE IT! I love this CD.


Sweethearts
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Sweethearts is a sweet album indeed!
  • Sweethearts is a sweet album indeed!
  • Sweethearts - Operetta Favorites of MacDonald & Eddy
  • True Sweethearts!
Sweethearts

Manufacturer: Newport Classic
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00001R3MB
Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

  1. Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life
  2. Sweethearts
  3. Lover, Come Back To Me
  4. Romany Life
  5. Will You Remember
  6. Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
  7. Thine Alone
  8. One Kiss
  9. The Butterfly Waltz
  10. Wanting You
  11. Pretty As A Picture
  12. Kiss Me Again
  13. Stout-Hearted Men
  14. Indian Love Call

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sweethearts is a sweet album indeed!.......2002-01-18

How delicious that the two superb singers on this lovely tribute to Macdonald and Eddy are actually married. Futral is well-known from her opera appearances in the US and abroad (she starred in Andre Previn's Streetcar Named Desire and as Baby Doe at City Opera, I believe), but baritone Steven White is less well-known. This seems odd, as the man has an utterly fluent baritone and he is spot-on in the style of Nelson Eddy: same masculine timbre and boy-scout-like sturdy diction. Reports in Opera News have it that this singer is also an opera conductor and is engaged now by many US companies--if true, and he stops singing, it's our loss, for sure.
This is a darling collaboration, and the Newport label is to be congratulated for avoiding the cloying and yet not fearing to offer the listener some of the very best-known duos and solos which the operetta immortals brought us decades ago. Bravo!!

5 out of 5 stars Sweethearts is a sweet album indeed!.......2002-01-18

How delicious that the two superb singers on this lovely tribute to Macdonald and Eddy are actually married. Futral is well-known from her opera appearances in the US and abroad (she starred in Andre Previn's Streetcar Named Desire and as Baby Doe at City Opera, I believe), but baritone Steven White is less well-known. This seems odd, as the man has an utterly fluent baritone and he is spot-on in the style of Nelson Eddy: same masculine timbre and boy-scout-like sturdy diction. Reports in Opera News have it that this singer is also an opera conductor and is engaged now by many US companies--if true, and he stops singing, it's our loss, for sure.
This is a darling collaboration, and the Newport label is to be congratulated for avoiding the cloying and yet not fearing to offer the listener some of the very best-known duos and solos which the operetta immortals brought us decades ago. Bravo!!

5 out of 5 stars Sweethearts - Operetta Favorites of MacDonald & Eddy.......2000-09-16

I recently had the priveledge of meeting Ms. Futral and Mr. White, and they are as wonderful in person as they are on this album!

5 out of 5 stars True Sweethearts!.......2000-08-16

What a wonderful collaboration! Both Mr. White and Ms. Futral are superior solo vocalists, yet this husband/wife pair complement each other very well. I'm looking forward to more of the same!
The Life and Works of Antonín Dvorák, Narration with Musical Excerpts
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ASIN: B0001HOXLO
Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

  1. Slavonic Dance In G Minor, Op.46 No.8/Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
  2. Symphony No.8 In G, Op.88 (Mvt 3: Allegretto Grazioso - Molto Vivace)
  3. A Secret Life: Early Manhood, Determination And First Love
  4. Cypresses, B.152 (No.3: When Thy Sweet Glances)
  5. A Change Of Job, Marriage And Increasing Success
  6. Symphony No.3 In E Flat, Op.10 (Mvt 1: Allegro Moderato)
  7. Hope, Grief And Sublimation/Stabat Mater, Op.58 (Quando Corpus Morietur)
  8. International Celebrity And Deceptive Simplicity
  9. Serenade In E For Strings, Op.22 (Mvt 2: Walzer)
  10. A New Championing, A New Friendship: Brahms Weighs In
  11. String Quartet In D Minor, Op.34 (Mvt 1: Allegro)

Tracks:

  1. A Populist Commission
  2. Slavonic Dance In C, Op.46 No.1
  3. An Amateur Pianist's Dream
  4. Slavonic Dance In A, Op.46 No.5
  5. A Token Of Gratitude
  6. Serenade For Wind Instruments, Op.44 (Mvt 1: Moderato, Quasi Marcia)
  7. An Explosion Of Popularity - On Both Sides Of The Atlantic
  8. Romance In F Minor For Violin And Orchestra, Op.11
  9. Personal Glimpses: The Outer Man
  10. Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 1: Allegro Non Tanto)
  11. The Anti-Czech Stance Of Vienna
  12. Piano Trio In F Minor, Op.65 (Mvt 3: Poco Adagio)
  13. Dvorak In London
  14. Vysoka: A New Home, A Simple Life
  15. The Second London Visit
  16. Symphony No.7 In D Minor, Op.70 (Mvt 1: Allegro Maestoso)
  17. Dvorak The Conductor
  18. Czech Suite, Op.39 (Preludium: Pastorale)
  19. London, Birmingham - And Brighton Belles
  20. Dvorak The Czech
  21. Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 3: Scherzo: Furiant)

Tracks:

  1. Discord With Simrock
  2. Slavonic Dances In A For Piano Duet, Op.72 No.15
  3. 'Orchestra!'
  4. Slavonic Dance In B, Op.72 No.1
  5. Dvorak In Leeds
  6. Piano Quintet In A, Op.81 (Mvt 3: Finale: Allegro Con Brio)
  7. Dvorak And Tchaikovsky
  8. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin: (Act III: Polonaise)
  9. Dvorak In Russia
  10. Schezo Capriccioso, Op.66
  11. Dvorak The Teacher
  12. Mozart: Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Mvt 4: Allegro Con Spirito)
  13. Dvorak In Cambridge
  14. Dvorak In New York
  15. String Quartet In F, Op.96 ('American' - Mvt 1: Allegro Ma Non Troppo)

Tracks:

  1. Dvorak In Iowa
  2. Sonatian In G For Violin And Piano, Op.100 (Mvt 2: Larghetto)
  3. Niagara Falls
  4. Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95 ('From The New World' - Mvt 1: Adagio - Allegro Molto)
  5. The Dark Side
  6. Cello Concerto In B Minor, Op.104 (Mvt 3: Finale: Allegro Moderato - Andante - Allegro Vivo)
  7. Home Again
  8. Symphony No.9 In E Minor, Op.95 ('From The New World' - Mvt 4: Allegro Con Fuoco)
  9. The Death Of Brahms And A Change Of Direction
  10. A Hero's Song, Op.111
  11. The Return To Opera
  12. Rusalka (Act I: Song To The Moon)
  13. Distraction, Disappointment And Death
  14. Symphony No.6 In D, Op.60 (Mvt 4: Finale: Allegro Con Spirito)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An Extraordinary User-Friendly Multimedia Dvorák Biography.......2004-04-28

I have followed with interest the series of CDs explaining popular operas by Jeremy Siepmann, an American musicologist long resident in Britain. Each of those is a single CD with a spoken text interspersed with longish excerpts from the opera in question. This 4-CD set, though, is something else again. It is a combination of music/audio CDs with superimposed CD-ROM material (on the same discs). One plays the audio portion on your regular stereo equipment. When put in your PC or Mac CD drive, the CD-ROM portion of the discs brings up an extensive set of hyperlinked text materials as well as links to the CDs from which the musical examples are taken (all from the Naxos music recordings library, of course). Also included in the CD-ROM material is the full text of Siepmann's detailed biography of Dvorák. There is also a thick booklet that includes cast lists (various actors playing various important people in Dvorák's life), an extensive essay about the sociopolitical and cultural conditions extant during Dvorák's life, an longish essay about his major works and their significance, a graded listening plan, an article outlining recommended reading, biographical snippets about each of the important people in Dvorák's life, a chronological calendar of Dvorák's life, and an extensive glossary of musical and other pertinent terms.

Siepmann's four-and-a-half-hour exploration of Dvorák's life and works is in his wonted polished, often witty, prose. It is read gracefully by Siepmann himself. Dvorák is played by the suave-voiced British actor, Sean Barrett. The musical examples are extensive, often including complete movements, arias, etc., and are placed expertly within the flow of the text. Production values for this budget-priced set are quite high.

I will admit that I had a particular interest in this production as I grew up in a rural Oklahoma town settled by Bohemians (Czechs) and came to love some of Dvorák's music before even that of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. I've already recommended this set to the public schools and town library in my hometown.

I am not quite sure who the intended audience for this set is. Presumably there are those, like me, who are insatiable when it comes to increasing their knowledge of classical music, its composers and their sociocultural milieu. One also imagines that even in these days of decreasing support for music and music appreciation courses in our schools, there are teachers who could make wonderful use of this material for their students. Whoever the audience is, I cannot imagine a listener coming away from this set without a great deal more information and appreciation for the genius of Antonin Dvorák.

Recommended.

Scott Morrison
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          3. Heavenly Night - Webster Booth
          4. The Maid Of The Mountains: A Paradise For Two - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
          5. In Old Madrid - Webster Booth
          6. A Brown Bird Singing - Webster Booth
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          8. Pale Moon - Webster Booth
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          10. The Second Minuet - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
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          16. Indian Summer - Webster Booth
          17. The Geisha: Star Of My Soul - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
          18. The New Moon: Lover, Come Back To Me - Webster Booth
          19. Song Of Songs - Webster Booth
          20. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes - Webster Booth
          21. Naughty Marietta: Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
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