Around the Horn [Live]

1. Soggy Bustle Boys

2. Around the Horn

3. Mystique

4. Roots

5. Barn Burner

6. Old Friends [Old Mix]

7. Olden Days [Old Mix]

8. Old Time'n Man [Old Mix]

9. Treaty 6

10. It's Been Awhile

11. My Real Life

Tracks:

The Search
Sockable Face Club
Chrysalis
The Ding-Dong Daddy Of The D-Car Line
Equus
Mister White Keys
Skyline Drive
Pink Elephant
Hazel, South Dakota
Lovers Understand
Johanna Of The Spirits
Inertia Rhapsody
Bobby Kennedy
Come Back To Me
Impossible Dream

Customer Reviews:

Great CPD.......2007-01-10

Great Cherry Poppin' Daddies. An eclectic mix -- as usual. With this kind of variety, you may not like every tune -- but, you're bound to find something new you like, if your a CPD fan.

if you really love music..............2005-12-17

the daddies are for you. i am lucky enough to own all of their work and with the exception of ferociously stoned (their first release), they are all awesome. this is my #1 favorite cd out of all their work. an adventure in musical styles, you will be surprised with every song.

Buy this CD... seriously........2002-01-23

Everything I was ever looking for in music, I found in Rapid City Muscle Car. Skyline Drive is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. It is probably the most diverse album you can get and all of the musicians are as talanted as they come. I picked up the CD in an obscure shop on a vacation in Virginia, and it really is all I can remember about the trip. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't saying that Virginia was borning, that's just how powerful this album was. Okay maybe a little boring...
Do yourself a favor and pick this one up, or at least listen to the samples. All of them.

CPD is the best band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1999-10-24

The Cherry Poppin Daddies are a wonderful band. I really like this CD. Infact out of the four it is my favorite. It has all different kinds of music. The Lyrics are touching. As I said it before they are a wonderful band!

this cd w/o a doubt receives a 5 from me~.......1999-10-17

ok, well, i heard zoot suit riot on the radio, went out and bought the cd. I LOVED IT. so a couple of months later I bought this one, "rapid city muscle car." Quite frankly, i didn't like it. I put it away for a while. When I started to like rock and ska more, I got it back out and started listening to it. I listened to some of the tracks, grew to love some of them, avoided the rest. Then one day, I was in a, well, mood, where I just put it on, and well, more of the songs grew on me. I listened to the entire CD every day, just lettin' it run, u know. I started to learn the words and started to feel the music, and the great, let me stress that, GREAT, lyrics, got me to thinkin' this ain't no ordinary band. I would start singing in school, it was to the point where I would wanna go home just to listen to it!(if i wasn't doing anything more useful than sittin' at a friends house) I mean I have not bought a full length CD in like a year, besides the CPD! why u ask? because I didn't need to! I mean i bought singles and everything but this CD, and the Zoot Suit Riot CD have kept me goin' for like a year and a half now. So let me tell you ppl who came to read my review, if you think this cd is swing, well it is a little, but if you're like me and all you lived for was swing, consider this cd the revolution in your life. it sure changed me, and i guarantee you it'll change you- It got your swing, some rock, punk, ska, even a touch o' country. no matter, you'll love it, so buy it.

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Interesting...
One of the best albums ever.
if I could have only on cd......
Greatest Album Ever
EVERY SONG ON FEROCIOUSLY STONED IS EXELLENT!

Ferociously Stoned
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
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ASIN: B0000046EH
Release Date: 1995-09-01

Tracks:

Drunk Daddy
Teenage Brain Surgeon
Answering Machine
Midas In Reverse
The Lifeboat Mutiny
Master And Slave
Dirty Mutha Fuzz
You Better Move
Suicide Kings
Flovilla Thatch Vs. The Virile Garbage Man
Shake You Lovemaker
Dr. Bones
Diabolic Tastemaker
Up From The Gutter
Cherry Poppin' Daddy Strut

Customer Reviews:

Interesting..........2006-08-24

Cherry Poppin' Daddies first album and all I can say is funk. Yes there are some swing songs, but the album leens more towards funk. The only swing songs on here are the ones on their greatest hits album 'Zoot Suit Riot.' Overall the album is good, if you are open minded and curious seeing where the Cherry Poppin' Daddies came from. Yes the lyrics are sexual and comical, but with the music they play it fits right.

Sounds like: Royal Noise Brigade, Aquabats, Reel Big Fish

One of the best albums ever........2004-05-17

I don't know how many hundreds of times I have listened to the album and it still holds up as one of my favorites. The first time I heard any of their songs was a live performance at Speedy O' Tubs in Bellingham, Washington (probably 1990 or 1991). This is an incredible band and as great as this album is the Daddies are even better live. One thing though, this is not a pure Swing style album, it is more a cross between swing, punk and rock, add to that some incredible lyrics from Steve Perry and you end up with "Ferociously Stoned." If you are a fan of pure Swing you will probably be disappointed by parts of the album but if you are a fan of really good music that combines various styles and doesn't follow some boring formula then this is for you. While some are at times offended by some of the lyrics I find them to be very honest and often humorous, you really come away understanding just how disturbed Steve Perry's childhood must have been after listening to "Drunk Daddy". Russ Meyer fans will especially enjoy "Flovilla Thatch vs. the Virile Garbage Man." This CD deserves a place in any true music lover's collection.

if I could have only on cd.............2001-12-09

This would be it.... I bought my original copy at one of their shows in bellingham,Wa.... All I can say is... if you don't own it yet... spend the money...

Greatest Album Ever.......2001-07-10

How can anyone knock this album. it is only the greatest album recorded by any artist. i mean the funky groves of Diabolic Tastemaker and Dirty Mutha Fuzz (my personal favourite) plus the swing tunes of Drunk Daddy and Master and Slave make this THE best CD. of course some people are adverse to the lyrics in the songs, but i say you guys are just soft. the lyrics rule, and the songs are even better. so all you CPD haters, get lost and all you CPD lover embrace this CD as their personal best achievement.

EVERY SONG ON FEROCIOUSLY STONED IS EXELLENT!.......1999-09-07

EVERY SONG ON FEROCIOUSLY STONED IS EXELLENT!

The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are fireing up another album soon, tenatively titled "Soul Caddilac". Will it be a swing record like ZSR was? Sort of. Swing has always been a part of CPD's music. Will it be like "Ferociously Stoned"? Sort of.

Everyone must realize that ZSR is a collection of "swingin hits" and is a collection of songs from earler CD's. Zoot Suit Riot does not indicate the extent of the band's music, or the scope of their style! (Look for a twist of soul on the new album.)

The only thing one can expect when hearing a CPD album for the first time is: some songs will be rock/swing/punk/power pop or whatever CPD decides to do.

Tracks:

Syrba - Moldavian Dance
Syrba - Moldavian Dance
Beraber Taksim - Collective Improvisation
Zhok de Nante - Moldavian Dance
Ostropesul - Moldavian Dance
Syrba with Taksim - Moldavian Dance
Bestenigar Taksim - Improvisation
Pesrev in makam Bestenigar - Dimitrie Cantemir
Tanbur Taksimi - Improvisation (tanbur solo)
Saz Semaisi in makam Neva / usul aksak semai (10/8) - Dimitrie Cantemir
Saz Semaisi in makam Rast / usul aksak semai - Dimitrie Cantemir
Syrbas - Moldavian Dances
KemenTaksimi - Improvisation (kemensolo)
In Honor of Prince Kantemir - Lou Harrison
Beraber Taksim - Collective Improvisation
Andante (from Concertino per Kemance, Violino Picolo 5 Instruments, 'In Honor of Kantemiro, 2000) - Yalcin Tura
A Turkish Air (Travels and Observations, 1738) Thomas Shaw (1694-1751)
Marche a la Turque (Pis de viole, Book V, 1725) Marin Marais (1656 - 1728)
Marche pour la cmonie des Turcs (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, 1670) J-B. Lully (1632 - 1687)
The Turks' dance (Augurs, 1622) Ben Jonson (1572/3 - 1637)
New metar (The Dancing Master, 1665) John Playford (1623 - 1686)
Rast Taksim - Collective Improvisation
Pesrev in makam Rast / usul berefsan (16/8) Dimitrie Cantemir
Zhok de Nante - Moldavian Dance
Penh Taksim - Improvisation (kemensolo)
Saz semaisi in makam Penh / usul aksak semai (10/8) - yemai (6/8) - Bulgariaska (Floria 16) - yemai (6/8) - aksak semai (10/8) Dimitrie Cantemir and Moldavian Dance
H Taksim - Collective Improvisation (kemen baroque flute)
Pesrev in makam H - Dimitrie Cantemir
Buselik Taksim - Collective Improvisation
Pesrev in makam Buselik / usul devr-i-revan (14/16) Dimitrie Cantemir

Album Description

CANTEMIR honors the amazingly rich life of Prince Dimitrie Cantemir (Kantemiroglu, 1673-1723), born in Moldavia (now Romania) but educated in Istanbul, becoming during his many years at the heart of Ottoman culture a master musician, composer, linguist, and lexicographer. Sent home eventually to rule Moldavia as the representative of the Ottoman Empire, Cantemir betrayed the Sultan by attempting unsuccessfully with the aid of Tsar Peter the Great to liberate his people. In defeat, he fled with his court into exile in Russia.

Featured on the disc is Ihsan Ozgen, Linda Burman-Hall and the ensemble Lux Musica, in compositions in Ottoman classical style by Prince Cantemir, first recordings of new music honoring Kantemiroglu by Lou Harrison and Yalcin Tura, traditional and experimental improvisations, and Moldavian dance music. Ihsan Ozgen plays kemence (Turkish fiddle) and tanbur (Turkish lute). Linda Burman-Hall is playing early keyboards and bendir (frame drum).

Customer Reviews:

Cantemir, Great Sultan, Louis XIV and Peter the Great.......2006-07-30

Firstly, I want to thank Lux Musica and Ihsan Ozgen for recording such a beautiful exquisite album.
Moldavian prince Dmitrie Cantemir stood on cross-roads between the West, Russia and the Orient on the turning point of history - end of the 17th - beginning of 18th centuries. Philosopher, musician and musicologist, orientalist and politician - charismatic and interesting person.
Ihsan Ozgen and Lux Musica decided not to re-create authentic Turkish folk sound of Kantemir`s music, but to incorporate fantastic sound of Turkish string instrument kemence, which reminds crying human voice, and other Turkish instruments into the European ensemble Lux Musica (flute, violin, viola, lute, early guitar, percussion, harpsichord, virginal). Idea is to present the music by Kantemir as synthesis of European and Oriental cultural traditions, to imagine real concerts of his daughter Maria (who played harpsichord) in the court of Peter the Great in Russia, and to describe the cultural context of Kantemir`s music.
You would hear music by Kantemir himself, European "Turkish" style melodies of the 17th century by Lully (melody for famous play by Moliere "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"), Marin Marais, Ben Johnson, Moldavian folk dances - so this programme wouldn`t be boring for you. I don`t agree with the previous reviewer - to listen to whole CD of authentic Turkish material - it`s a real hard work for European, Russian or American lover of classical music. That`s why I think that Ihsan Ozgen and Lux Musica were right.
So listen to this beautiful music and read a good novels by modern writers devoted to problems of relationships between Orient and Occident - try works by Amin Maalouf, Orhan Pamuk, Milorad Pavic.

Very beautiful album!

P.S. Addition to the text in the booklet. There stated that "Kantemir betrayed Sultan". Let`s be objective - history was more sophisticated. Don`t forget that Kantemir lived in Istanbul as the hostage to guarantee the loyalty of his native Moldavia to the Ottoman Empire. As he wrote in his memoirs, when he was selected by the Sultan to be a ruler of Moldavia, he was informed that he should make a "gift" to the Court - to pay a sum of money. And the sum of this "gift" was very high. Kantemir understood that he should raise the taxes in Moldavia to collect this money. So the choice was - to betray Sultan or to betray his native people. Ruler of Vallachia (modern Romania) sent a letter to Kantemir and invited him to join the revolt of the Orthodox Christians against the Ottoman rule. They secretly asked Tzar Peter the Great to help them. But when the Russian troops started their expedition, Vallachian ruler, who provoked Kantemir, informed Sultan about this revolt and of course rejected to participate in it. So Kantemir in 1711 had no other choice than to join Russian troops and after the unglorious end of this expedition (there were no any revolt) - Kantemir with his family fled to Russia. His life was saved by Peter the Great, because Ottoman powers demanded to return Kantemir to them (of course he would be killed) as condition of peace treaty with Russia.
His son Antoich became Russian poet and diplomate. In Paris he was close to writers and poets of the French Enlightenment.

Worth exploring, but..........2004-08-07

If you're coming to this out of curiosity, rather than as an Ottoman music fan, you may be more pleased with this disk than I was.

The best compositions here are those of Cantemir, the master himself. The folk dances are interesting, but they aren't on the same level of refinement. Cantemir was at the peak of a learned tradition. The juxtaposition with folk material might be justified if Cantemir had drawn on it for his compositions, but that's not the case; we're simply told that the peasants back near Cantemir's home in what is now Romania were playing these dances while Cantemir was off in Constantinople playing his stuff for the sultan. And the point is...? I would have preferred a disk purely of Cantemir pieces.

The music is well played, but I'm not totally sold on the mixture of eastern and western instruments. Obviously, it isn't authentic, but that isn't the problem; sometimes the mixture of instruments just doesn't work. One glowing exception is the neva saz semai, where the tanbur and harpsichord blend quite nicely.

Don't get me wrong; it's worth a listen. But if you already know the Ottoman classical tradition and some of Cantemir's works, be sure you know that you're getting an experimental "fusion" disk, not something traditional.

Excellent.......2004-03-27

This CD finally opens the long forgotten bridge to the early Ottoman music. Although in recent albums (for example, in "Dream of the Orient" by Concerto Koln and Sarband) there are some fine examples of Cantemir's work, this single album is fully dedicated to him.

The examples are carefully chosen to present early Ottoman and Cantemir's own music. The addition of the music from the composers of the West (some are recent, in honor of Cantemir), showing the influence of the Turkish music, is very nice and complementary.

Cantemir, as might be known, is the first musician/traveler/diplomat (and later a trouble maker) from Romania, who recorded the Ottoman music while he was living in the Ottoman lands for near twenty years.

Followed by composers such as Fux, Mozart, J. and M. Haydn brothers, Beethoven, Gluck, Rossini and many others, the Turkish music, its musical instruments (drums, cymbals and triangle, etc.) and themes became the most influential regional effect on the Western classical music for a few centuries.

Tracks:

Open The Gates (Excerpt) - Cantor Alberto Mizrahi
Hashkiveinu - Hans Peter Blochwitz
Hudi Mitn Shtrudl - David Krakauer
III. Modere - Juilliard String Quartet
Old Jerusalem - Ana Maria Martinez
III. King David Dancing Before The Ark - Robert Vernon
Sheyibbaneh Beit Hamikdash - Cantor Benzion Miller
IV. Dance Of The Phantom Spirits - Gerard Schwarz
VII. Hinei Ma Tov - Vienna Boys Choir
VII. Psalm 126 - Prague Philharmonic Chorus
El Melekh Yoshev - New London Children's Choir
I. Demon's Welcome - Richard Stoltzman
Service Sacre L'Kha Dodi - Prague Philharmonic Chorus
The Flood, Part I - Fritz Weaver
Adon Olam - Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
IV. Camini Por Altas Torres - Lucy Shelton
Sheva B'Rakhot (Excerpt) - Cantor Simon Spiro
Mayn Goldele - Nell Snaidas
The Heavenly Host Delivers The Commandments To Moses/The People Dance Around The Golden Calf - Ian Denolfo

Album Description

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is a vast recorded panorama of the rich body of Jewish music, both sacred and secular, that has developed over the course of American history. This recording features nineteen tracks representing the broad scope of the Archive recordings.

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful introduction to a distinguished new series.......2003-09-29

I can't express how excited I am about this new series from Naxos and the Milken Archive! There is some absolutely stunning music on this sampler, and I can't wait until the full recordings are released. Especially notable are Ernst Toch's "Cantata of the Bitter Herbs" (what gorgeous choral & orchestral writing), Paul Schoenfield's Viola Concerto (utterly fantastic excerpt "King David Dancing Before the Ark"), the excerpt from Joseph Achron's suite from The Golem, "Open the Gates" from Dave Brubeck's Gates of Justice, and the lovely duet from Joseph Rumshinsky's Yiddish operetta "Di goldene kale." Also, if you're not familiar with Jewish liturgical music or with klezmer, there are wonderful examples on this disc. My only disappointment is that, because of economic reasons, most of the recordings had to be made with European ensembles. Although the performances are excellent (under directors Gerard Schwarz, Neville Marriner, Yoel Levi and others), it's just a shame that this music, which, in addition to being Jewish, is also very AMERICAN, cannot be preserved on CD by American ensembles. At any rate, I'm pretty certain that within the next couple of years, I'll have collected all the 50 discs in this project. You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate this great music. And at around $7.00 a disc, they're an incredible value. This marvelous sampler will get you hooked on some fabulous music.

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Sunshine Bundtcake
The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet
Manufacturer: Horn Hut Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005YTE7
Release Date: 2000-03-01

Tracks:

Miss Ann
Hands Down
Pike or Pine
Uke
Rucenica
Wires
Stompin' at the Cranium
Peace Warriors
Mali Krumpiri
Az Du Furst Avek
That the Peace
Atlas
Reflex

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almost the perfect James Bond collection
Good Collection
Not excatly what I expected
The James Bond CD for the John Barry purist?
Very enjoyable with most of the BOND music you'd want.

James Bond Collection

Manufacturer: Silva America
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The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary
You Only Live Twice
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Live and Let Die

ASIN: B00006JTGH
Release Date: 2002-10-22

Tracks:

Dr. No: The James Bond Theme (Original Version)
Dr. No: Suite
From Russia With Love: From Russia With Love (Film Version)
From Russia With Love: The Zagreb Express
From Russia With Love: The Golden Horn
From Russia With Love: Girl Trouble
From Russia With Love: 007 Takes The Lektor
From Russia With Love: From Russia With Love (Symphonic Version)
Goldfinger: Into Miami/Alpine Drive
Goldfinger: Dawn Raid At Fort Knox
Goldfinger: Goldfinger
Thunderball: Thunderball
Thunderball: The Bomb/Cafe Martinique
Thunderball: Fight On The Disco Volante/Death Of Largo

Tracks:

You Only Live Twice: Bond's Funeral/Mountains And Sunsets
You Only Live Twice: The Wedding/Capsule In Space
You Only Live Twice: You Only Live Twice
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: This Never Happened To The Other Fella'
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: We Have All The Time In The World
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Bond Meets The Girls
On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Ski Chase
Diamonds Are Forever: Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
Diamonds Are Forever: Circus, Circus
Diamonds Are Forever: Blofeld's Laser
Diamonds Are Forever: Diamonds Are Forever
Live And Let Die: Live And Let Die

Tracks:

The Man With The Golden Gun: The Man With The Golden Gun
The Man With The Golden Gun: Kung Fu Fight/Let's Go Get 'Em
The Man With The Golden Gun: Chew Me In Grisly Land/Return To Scaramanga's Fun House
The Man With The Golden Gun: Slow Boat From China/Nick Nack
The Spy Who Loved Me: Nobody Does It Better
The Spy Who Loved Me: The Tanker
The Spy Who Loved Me: Ride To Atlantis
Moonraker: Arrival At Chateau Drax/Freefall
Moonraker: Miss Goodhead Meets Bond
Moonraker: Flight Into Space
Moonraker: Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only: For Your Eyes Only
Octopussy: Suite: Bond Meets Octopussy/The Palace Fight
Octopussy: All Time High

Tracks:

A View To A Kill: Wine With Stacy/Fanfare/Snow Job
The Living Daylights: Koskov Escapes/Hercules Take Off
The Living Daylights: Mujahadin/Afghanistan Plan
The Living Daylights: Air Bond/Necros Attack
The Living Daylights: End Title
Licence To Kill: Suite
Goldeneye: Goldeneye
Goldeneye: Tank Drive Around St. Petersburg
Tomorrow Never Dies: Tomorrow Never Dies
Tomorrow Never Dies: Surrender
The World Is Not Enough: Ice Bandits
The World Is Not Enough: Access Denied
The World Is Not Enough: The World Is Not Enough
The James Bond Theme (Symphonic Version)

Amazon.com

The exploits of Ian Fleming's British super-agent James Bond have long since become the longest running film series in history, spanning 40 years and counting. Not the least of the cycle's charm has been its music, a body of work that encompasses pop clichés (the twangy guitar of Monty Norman's original "James Bond Theme") and elegant underscores alike. While this collection spans music from Dr. No to The World Is Not Enough, decades of various legal entanglements prevented it from becoming the ultimate Bond music anthology. This is more a credible simulation, a newly recorded collection of cues and suites (including music previously unreleased on the original soundtracks) performed by Nic Raine and the City of Prague Symphony Orchestra. With John Barry's lush, ever-evocative scores both forming the core and setting the tone (but also featuring the work of George Martin, David Arnold, Michael Kamen, Bill Conti, and Eric Serra), it's the most comprehensive--if not exactly authentic--collection of Bond music yet attempted. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

almost the perfect James Bond collection.......2005-07-20

this 4 CD box has most of the familiar James Bond compositions.

Still,some tunes are missing(from for instance Thunderball and For Your Eyes Only)and most of the time the attention is on the instrumental version of the title track which is a bit of a shame.And yet,there are too many great pieces on this collection to make it a failure.Alpine Drive,Dawn Raid at Fort Knox,On Her Majesty's Secret Service(every track),Miss Goodhead and so on.All great pieces that not only show the great talent of John Barry but also the great power of James Bond films.Cause when you hear the music,you see the scenes in front of you.

Very much a recommendation to all Bond and Barry fans although sometimes it focusses too much on title songs.The only solution is to buy all separate soundtracks.

Good Collection.......2005-02-24

Very nice packaging and good tracks from the Bond music library make this an anoutstanding item. "From Russia With Love" and "Diamonds Are Forever" contain beautiful and energetic renditions. The John Barry music is handled quite well. I didn't real care for the David Arnold selections. "The World Is Not Enough" was weak. Overall it is a good collection just the same.

Not excatly what I expected.......2003-04-10

I when I read some of the reviews of this I thought that this was a complete collection of all the originals of the Theme songs of every James Bond movie and remakes done by the Prague Philharmonic of some of the other songs in the various movies. After recieveing this ... I started to listen to it and found out that it was all done by the orchestra. The are very good, but to a point it is not the same thing as owning a disc will all the orignal songs on it. Overall, this good if all the you want is the orchestral versions of most of the songs in the movies or the suites out of some of the movies. To a point these don't compare to the orignals. Keep looking if you want a set with all the orignals songs in it.

The James Bond CD for the John Barry purist?.......2003-01-28

Let's cut to the chase. Nic Raine and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra do John Barry's work justice. 90% of this collection is as close as you can get to the original James Bond soundtracks. The other 10% lends itself to some artistic license with respect to the arrangements. Most notable is the main theme to Goldfinger. Also Nic slips in a few previously unreleased tracks. You will find these on the On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Golden Eye tracks. This CD boxed set is definitely made for the Bond soundtrack fan. The die hard John Barry "purist"/ traditionalist may find some of these tracks questionable at first, but after a few times Nic Raine's artistic license gives a fresh perspective to the familiar Bond/ Barry themes. The only reservation I have with this CD set is with some of selections that are performed. For instance, from Goldfinger, "Dawn Raid At Fort Knox" was a poor selection considering the selection available on that particular soundtrack. The most famous 007 soundtrack of all I dare say. Overall Nic hits the mark, and this CD set is a tribute to Barry's (as well as, George Martin's, Marvin Hamlish's, and Bill Conti's and David Arnold's) work. It's all here in one collection. I am a die-hard Bond soundtrack fan, and to the casual soundtrack fan I say this CD is set all you need to experience the Bond music legacy. To those who are hard core 007 soundtrack fans ...this is a FANTASTIC "addition" to your collection. This has to be the BEST (and probably the only) 007 "soundtrack" compilation. Whereas all the others feature the "main themes" from the Bond films as originally recorded, this one truly gives you the Bond experience.

Very enjoyable with most of the BOND music you'd want........2002-12-08

This is similar but more comprehensive than another BOND collection on one CD by the City of Prague Philharmonic. These are good renditions but clearly not the orginals. I must ask if the Prague Philharmonic does not own a harp? It is glaringly missing in the Goldfinger themes and i am sure on others. That harp is an exciting and beautiful touch to the wonderful GOLDFINGER theme and its absents is unfortuneatly very noticeable. Also some of the other themes can even sound muzaky if thats a word(elevator music)
It gets 3 solid stars good collection yet defineatly something is lacking.

Pal Joey: Highlights From The Original 1980 London Cast Recording

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Pal Joey: Highlights From The Original 1980 London Cast Recording
Lorenz Hart
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
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ASIN: B000000KA7
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

You Mustn't Kick It Around
I Could Write A Book
That Terrific Rainbow
What Is A Man?
Happy Hunting Horn
Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
The Flower Garden Of My Heart
Zip
Plant You Now, Dig You Later
In Our Little Den
Do It The Hard Way
Take Him

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Just As Its Title Says: CLASSICS IN AMERICA
Eclectic collection, Russo's Three Pieces first time on CD

Panorama: Classics in America

Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005IB66
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

Rhap In Blue - Leonard Bernstein/LAPO
An American In Paris - San Francisco SO/Seiji Ozawa
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Prologue. Allegro Moderato - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: 'Somewhere'. Adagio - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Scherzo. Vivace Leggiero - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Mambo. Presto - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Cha-Cha ('Maria'). Andante Con Grazia - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Meeting Scene. Meno Mosso - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: 'Cool' Fugue. Allegretto - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Rumble. Molto Allegro - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Finale. Adagio - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
The Stars And Stripes Forever - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Central Park In The Dark: Molto Adagio - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein
The Unanswered Question: Largo Molto Sempre - New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein

Tracks:

Adagio, Op.11: Molto Adagio - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Appalachian Spring (Ballet for Martha) - LAPO/Leonard Bernstein
Three Pieces, Op.50: 1st Part - Siegel-Schwall Band/Stuart Canin
Three Pieces, Op.50: 2nd Part - Siegel-Schwall Band/Stuart Canin
Three Pieces, Op.50: 3rd Part - Siegel-Schwall Band/Stuart Canin
The Entertainer - Pasquale Cardillo/Jerome Rosen
Sugar Cane Rag - Pasquale Cardillo/Jerome Rosen
Maple Leaf Rag - Pasquale Cardillo/Jerome Rosen
Treemonisha: We're Goin' Around (A Ring Play) - Kenneth Hicks/Houston Grand Opr Chor
Treemonisha: Aunt Dinah Has Blowed The Horn - Houston Grand Opr Chor

Customer Reviews:

Just As Its Title Says: CLASSICS IN AMERICA.......2004-08-19

OK, so all the "great composers" maybe weren't from Austria, Germany, or Italy. This CD, right here, justifies the quite justifable elitest attitude (also known as "Patriotism"). Maybe another title, "America's Greatest Hits" might have been appropriate, but then, a dunce or two would be whining for "A Horse With No Name," so "Classics" is it. Just look at who and what is represented on these cds: George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" (you might remember THAT if you saw "Fantasia 2000") Leonard Bernstein conducts his own beautiful "Dances From West Side Story" (he also conducted Gershwin). There's John Phillip Sousa's "Stars And Stripes Forever," a piece of music so beautiful, so astoundingly patriotism-inducing that it'd even make a.....democrat stand up with his hand over his heart! The ubquitous (and greatly missed) Bernstein conducts Ives' "Central Park In The Dark," and "The Unanswered Question." And that's just the FIRST CD! CAN you improve on perfection? CD #2 is a resounding YES! Here's Berbstein again conducting Samuel Barber's "Adagio For String," and Aaron Copland's beautiful "Appalachin Spring." And here's where the rest of the cd hits you like an enormous amyl-nitrate rush: Seiji Ozawa conducts the San Francisco Orchestra performing William Russo's unvbelievable "Three Piece For Blues Band And Orchestra." Ozawa, the story goes, enjoyed "going out for a cold one" after orchestra rehearsals, and he was especially was fond of a local blues band, The Seigel-Schwall Band. He commissioned his composer friend, William Russo, to compose something that the Band could could perfom with the orchestra. And I know you're thinking, "OH yeah, Procol Harum Live In Edmonton, 'Conquistador,' yeah." NO: As much as I ADORE Procol Harum, there is NO comparison! The Seigel-Schwall Band was strictly a BLUES band, and Russo - whew! composed three pieces that not only altered, but definitely enhanced the Band's electric blues. Like I'm so fond of saying,"By Alteration, Enhances!" My brother is a classically trained symphonic musician, and one time - wow, 25 years ago - he was playing "Three Pieces" on my battered stereo while I was in the shower. And I couldn't WAIT to "dry off," and run screaming in the romm, "WAHT IS THAT YOU'RE PLAYING?" Trust me on this folks, you won't believe it either - and you'll thank Heaven that it's on a CD, because if it was an album, you'd wear the grroves right out by replaying it over and over. And OLD ON, it ain't finished yet: the remainder of the CD features Arthur Feilder conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra performin 3 of the fantastically-talented but almost unknown, Scott Joplin. You remember that great piano music in the movie,"The Sting?" That was Scott Joplin - and he's represented here with "The Entertainer" (I dare you to keep from tapping your right foot when you listen to this),"The Sugar Cane Rag," and the "Maple Leaf Rag." The cd closes with an undiscovered GEM, excerpts fro Joplin's opera "Tremonshia."
This is pure, undiluted AMERICAN music, people. PLEASE do yourself a favor and put down the metal, the "alt," the rapping, the country 'n western, and even my beloved Rock and Roll for
about 2 and a half hours of some of the most incredible - and not THE LEAST BIT BORING! - Classical Music. Music that AMERICA was responsible for!

Eclectic collection, Russo's Three Pieces first time on CD.......2001-09-23

Eclectic collection of some well known and some previously unavailable works. The first appearance of the complete "Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra" by Williams Russo and the Siegel-Schwall Band. Excellent recordings. Bargain price.

Babbitt: Around The Horn/Four Cavalier Settings/None But The Lonely Flute/Whirled Series/Homily/Beaten Paths/Play It

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envoi for beauty ;combinatorial solo integrative complexity
Moving works by an American Icon
Rich musical spaces laden with expressive possibilities
Outstanding
This is not music.

Babbitt: Around The Horn/Four Cavalier Settings/None But The Lonely Flute/Whirled Series/Homily/Beaten Paths/Play It

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000001SIW
Release Date: 1996-07-23

Tracks:

Soli e Duettini: Around The Horn
Soli e Duettini: Around The Horn
Soli e Duettini: Four Cavalier Settings
Soli e Duettini: Four Cavalier Settings
Soli e Duettini: Four Cavalier Settings
Soli e Duettini: Four Cavalier Settings
Soli e Duettini: None But The Lonely Flute
Soli e Duettini: Whirled Series
Soli e Duettini: Homily
Soli e Duettini: Beaten Paths
Soli e Duettini: Play It Again, Sam
Soli e duettini

Tracks:

Soli e Duettini: Melismata
Soli e Duettini: On Having Been And Still Being An American Composer
Soli e Duettini: On Having Been And Still Being An American Composer

Customer Reviews:

envoi for beauty ;combinatorial solo integrative complexity.......2001-09-26

I've discovered Babbitt's oeuvre rather late,and I've missed quite a bit of wonderful moving impassioned, and above all conceptually stimulating pieces.
'around the horn' for french horn solo?, well there's not much written for this difficult instrument,Scelsi has a horn solo, but Babbitt's here is quite ambitious devouring itself over two movments,tossing itself into all registers. We sense immediately the spatial dimensions at work soft,'lontano' moments the closer ones,the distance the more gruff rough open timbres,the in-yer-face ones are louder.One aesthetic strategy of Babbitt is a keen nuanced appriasal of the creative potentials of register, high,middle low, or greater divisions,as for instance his piano solo literature. There is also marvelous mutings moments,with poetic like decrescendo envelopes. The work has a gentle beauty however fragmentized,it is still there.
I have a problem with all dodecaphonic music for the voice, I don't think much thought equals that pondered over pitch array configurations,rhythmic architecture,timbre. I think the primordial dimensions of the voice are/become(have been) compromised within this language. I've yet to hear any avant-garde voice work that grabs me be it Boulez, Carter, Shapey, oh perhaps Luigi Nono,but he was onto some other vocal dimensions.

"none but the lonely flute' is also a wonderful work played with great passion by Rachel Rudich. There must be literally hundreds of unaccompanied pieces for solo flute. So writing one that contributes profoundly to this well-trodden genre is like the eye of the needle. This solo also jumps registers tossing beautiful fragmentized lines into differing timbral fields; Fast, wistful, quicksilver,sinuous. Sorry the microphone-ing of the recording is poor. You hear all Rachel's breathing, and an overwhelming ambience, an opaque perceivability is unwantonly there.
"homily' is less effective, there is an art to writing for the solo drum, Stuart Sanders Smith had commissioned solo snare drum works from countless composers. This one is rather dull. Well Milton can't hit it every time up to the conceptual home plate.In
"play it again ,Sam" for marimba is not real Babbitt. The marimba is simply a powerful wonderful instrument to listen to and contemplate,it is deceiving,duplicitous, you can simply play a C major scale and it would have an intrigue about it..
The various 'soli e duettini', this one for the likely combination of flute and guitar works quite well. The guitar is here a real accompaniment. The flute dominates with the primary linear materials, like a tyranny here. Although Babbitt works his charms with exceptional beauty.
Disc 2 there occurs a lecture for which Babbitt finally straighthens everyone out about his nefarious uncelebrated/celebrated article in High Fidelity Mag. "Who Cares if You Listen". A title was chosen by the editor of the magazine, not Babbitt.Who has here a boring voice for reading his statement. Much better would have been a taped interview.
Well, we are all listening today, and I forgot who the editor was at the time, another mediacre tossed on the scrap heap of history.
The violin solo 'melsimata from' 1982 is also wonderful. Babbitt has revealed,his insterest in violin timbre in the "Sextets" and "The Joy of More Sextets".

Moving works by an American Icon.......2000-10-25

What a moving statement for Babbitt to make through his setting of To Sycamores--the last of his four Cavalier Settings. I'm sick of love; (and therefor life) O let me lie/ Under your shades, to sleep or die!/ Either is welcome, so I have/ Or here my bed or here my greave./ Why do you sigh, and sob, and keep/ Time with the tears that I do weep?/ Say, have ye sense, or do you prove/ What crucifixiouns are in love?/ I know ye do; and that's the why/ You sigh for love as well as I.

Knowing Babbitt's history, this is his love-weariness but also his war weariness. How tiresome defending his loves (his musical tastes and predelections, so loved by his fans and inscrubable to others).

I find Babbitt's setting terribly moving, and a most fitting end to what is one of the most extraordinary vocal works I've ever heard. It is played miraculously by William Anderson and Niel Farrel.

Having this insight into Babbitt's frame of mind at a certain age, the rest of the works resonate with the same fervent passion. Babbitt's music is about the fusion of the subjective and the objecticve. It is about the transcendence of that duality. His music would not work if not for the matching of rigor with an intense personal vantagepoint.

This disc is one of the most important discs now on the market.

Rich musical spaces laden with expressive possibilities.......2000-10-14

Babbitt's musical world is definitely difficult and, for some, completely inscrutable. As one of his biggest fans, I've learned to live peacefully with the reality that not everyone understands what Babbitt's music is all about. The most remarkable aspect of the music for me are those moments where the melody, which is exploded counterpoint, soars like a hang glider catching updrafts. The updrafts in this music consist of brilliant countrapuntal voice leading. This is a composer who knows about music and uses everything he knows in just the right places. His language is new, daring, and it has been constantly evolving throughout the course of his career.

Outstanding.......2000-09-23

This cd contains many of the finest performances that Mr. Babbitt's music has ever received. In particular, the treatment of Melsimata is what might be considered a definitive recording. Unlile performances of exceptionally difficult new works where the technical problems are naturally overlooked, Macomber sounds as fluid as if he were playing Mozart. I cannot say enough positive things about this music and this recording.

This is not music........2000-07-04

The plinks and plunks burned onto the CD in question are amusical (atonal) noises the likes of which I have heard from 2 year old children "playing" upon a piano. Let me qualify hat statement: I hear more music in the "playing" of the average 2 year old than I do in these "composed" pieces. Pieces of what? I think you can guess.

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Foreign Affair Featuring Nenad Vasilic
Laurie Antonioli
Manufacturer: Nabel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00066UUQW
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

Ballad for Djole
Holy Water
Where Flamingos Fly
Tschusch Chochek
I Know You
Mayana
Crni Narcis
Cure
Music Box

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