| 1. Leaving Nancy |
| 2. My Caravan Girl |
| 3. Galway Rover |
| 4. Sally Broome |
| 5. Where the Blarney Roses Grow |
| 6. Town of Castle d'Oliver |
| 7. Ringsend Boatman |
| 8. Step It Out Nancy |
| 9. Maid in the Calico Dress |
| 10. Green Fields of France |
| 11. Save the Whales! |
| 12. High Germany |
| 13. Highwayman |
| 14. Since Maggie Went Away |
| 15. Nell Milligans Fools |
Folk Masters Ensemble,Danny Doyle,Rego Irish,Celtic/Irish,Int'l & World Music,Pop
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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Mantovani & Hi
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FOQ11I Release Date: 2006-06-20 |
Tracks:
- Charmaine
- Moon River
- Cara Mia
- Almost There
- Way You Look Tonight
- September Song
- Our Last Affair
- Swedish Rhapsody
- Some Enchanted Evening
- Walk in the Black Forest
- Moulin Rouge/Theme
- Exodus/Main Theme
- Big Country/Theme
- Around the World
- Londonderry Air
- Warsaw Concerto
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Excellent sound.......2007-04-11
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Wind Band Masterworks, Vol. 1
Manufacturer: Mark Masters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BL02L0 Release Date: 2003-11-01 |
Tracks:
- Slavic Woman's Farewell, March
- The Fire of Eternal Glory
- Second Suite in F Major I
- Second Suite in F Major II
- Second Suite in F Major III
- Second Suite in F Major IV
- Incantation and Dance
- I Wander Deep in Thought
- Third Suite (March)
- Third Suite (Waltz)
- Third Suite (Rondo)
- English Folk Song Suite (March)
- English Folk Song Suite (Intermezzo)
- English Folk Song Suite (March)
- Amazing Grace
- Turkey in the Straw
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A Portrait of Britten
Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000JCAX Release Date: 1999-06-15 |
Tracks:
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Intro And Theme - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Adagio - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: March - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Romance - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Aria Italiana - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Bourree Classique - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Wiener Walzer - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Moto Perpetuo - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Funeral March - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Chant - Roger Best
- Vars On A Theme Of Frank Bridge, Op.10: Fugue And Finale - Roger Best
- Simple Sym, Op.4: Boisterous Bourree - Roger Best
- Simple Sym, Op.4: Playful Pizzicato - Roger Best
- Simple Sym, Op.4: Sentimental Saraband - Roger Best
- Simple Sym, Op.4: Frolicsome Finale - Roger Best
- Lachrymae-Reflections On A Song Of Dowland: Lento-Allegretto, Andante Molto-Animato-Tranquillo... - Roger Best
- Plrd And Fugue, Op.29: Prld: Grave - Roger Best
- Plrd And Fugue, Op.29: Fugue: Allegro Energico - Roger Best
Tracks:
- Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a: I. Dawn - Michael Bochmann
- Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a: II. Sunday Morning - Michael Bochmann
- Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a: III. Moonlight - Michael Bochmann
- Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a: IV. Storm - Michael Bochmann
- Ste On English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', Op.90: I. Cakes And Ale - Michael Bochmann
- Ste On English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', Op.90: II. Bitter Withy - Michael Bochmann
- Ste On English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', Op.90: III. Hankin Booby - Michael Bochmann
- Ste On English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', Op.90: IV. Hunt The Squirrel - Michael Bochmann
- Ste On English Folk Tunes 'A Time There Was...', Op.90: V. Lord Melbourne - Michael Bochmann
- Gloriana: The Courtly Dances, Op.53a - Michael Bochmann
- The Young Person's Guide To The Orch, Op.34: Vars And Fugue On A Theme Of Purcell - Michael Bochmann
Tracks:
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Fanfare - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Villes - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Phrase - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Antique - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Royaute - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Marine - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Interlude - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Being Beauteous - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Parade - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Les Illuminations, Op.18: Depart - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Prologue - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Pastoral - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Nocturne - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Elegy - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Dirge - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Hymn - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Sonnet - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Ser, Op.31: Epilogue - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead
- Nocturne, Op.60 - Jerry Hadley/Anthony Halstead/Michael Hirst/Paul Arden Taylor/David Campbell/Keith Rubach...
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Stravinsky: Les Noces and Other Choral Music
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002ZNH Release Date: 1993-11-17 |
Tracks:
- Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Now, Little Grey Duck
- Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Good Day, My Fair One
- Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Oh Mother, My Little Head Hurts
- Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Oh, Come To Me (Lament)
- Five Bridal Folk Songs From The Voronezh District: Indoors, Outside
- The Wedding: The Tresses
- The Wedding: The Bridgegroom's House
- The Wedding: The Departure Of The Bride
- The Wedding: The Wedding Feast
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: In Our Saviour's Parish In Chigisakh Beyoond The Yauza
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: Ovesen
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: The Pike
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: Master Portly
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: In Our Saviour's Parish In Chigisakh Beyond The Yauza
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: Ovsen
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: The Pike
- Four Russian Peasant Songs: Master Portly
- Our Father
- Blessed Virgin
- Symbol Of Faith
- Tres sacrae cantiones: Da pacem Domine
- Tres sacrae cantiones: Assumpta est Maria
- Tres sacrae cantiones: Illunina nos
- Tres sacrae cantiones: The Dove Descending Breaks The Air
- Tres Sacrae: Introitus: T S Eliot IN Memoriam
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James Woods and the New London Chamber Chorus and Chamber Ensemble provide a performance of Stravinsky's Les Noces--considered by many to be the composer's finest work--that is careful and well balanced, even if it never reaches the Apollonian sublimity of Bardon Eötvös's recording. And it's wonderful to hear engaging renditions of lesser-known vocal music by the composer, including the Four Russian Peasant Songs and several Slavonic works. Stravinsky's arrangements of music by the infamous Renaissance composer Gesualdo and a modernist homage to T.S. Eliot round out this record. --Joshua CodyCustomer Reviews:
Superb Stravinsky Selections, excellently performed........2006-06-01
I have heard Stravinsky's 'Tres Sacrae Cantiones' done on other recordings and these are much better, and they fit in well with the other material on the disk.
This disk easily passes the single most important test of a CD. Not only do I enjoy listening to it at least once a year, I really look forward to it, much as I look forward to 'Rubber Soul' as I work my way through Beatles' recordings.
A truly superior recording and selection of choral material.
Stravinsky Gems.......2001-07-20
The other pieces are also not commonly had outside the big collections of Stravinsky works. They are worth hearing and knowing.
These are very good performances done in interesting ways.
A Stravinskian treasure trove.......2000-09-24
An excellent ploy is the use of two experienced choirs for the recording: the New London Chamber Choir and the Voronezh District Chamber Choir, with James Wood and Oleg Shepel as respective conductors. Whilst some may find the latter choir a slightly odd-sounding group, their presence adds a wonderfully authentic flavour to the music, most of which dates from Stravinsky's early period - commonly described as his 'Russian' period. Indeed, they open the disc with Four Bridal Songs from the Voronezh District itself, complete with tambourines and dancing (although of course only the tambourines are evident in the recording). These are a superb appetiser for what follows.
The title work "Les Noces," also known as "Svadebka" or even just simply "The Wedding," is without a doubt one of Stravinsky's most celebrated works. As with the Russian Songs, it is a pity that in listening to it we cannot also enjoy the accompanying choreography, although Stravinsky called for a large array of percussion instruments in the score and these add an almost aural choreography to the work. The two featured choirs join forces for this together with four outstanding soloists (including John Potter) and four deft pianists, resulting in a colourful, gripping and explosive performance.
Stravinsky's "Four Russian Peasant Songs" for women's choir deserve to be better known, and here we get the opportunity to listen to both versions: one for unaccompanied voices, the other for voices and four horns. These show as well as anything that part of Stravinsky's mastery lay in his ability to evoke a chosen style whilst remaining completely true to his own: if you can programme your CD player to play these and the opening traditional songs in sequence, you will see for yourself just how successfully this music works.
Westminster Cathedral Choir have recorded Stravinsky's "Three Sacred Choruses" in Latin for Hyperion; on this disc you can hear the original Slavonic versions. They are entrusted to the Voronezh Choir under Oleg Shepel, and he does some rather surprising things to the music (for instance, it is sung at more flexible speeds and with a curious degree of vibrato and 'swoopy' phrasing than on other recordings I have heard). Still, it is good to have them in sequence, presented as Stravinsky might have heard them upon returning to his homeland after nearly a whole lifetime in exile. The New London Chamber Choir follows these with three sacred pieces of a different kind: these began life as unfinished motets by Carlo Gesualdo. Stravinsky was fascinated by them and elected to finish them, but in the process his own musical thumbprints were placed on the music and what we thus hear is a curiously compelling mixture of flavourful Italian polyphony and twentieth century idioms. It is not hard to imagine these being sung in worship.
The programme closes with two fruits of Stravinsky's final years - his serial period. "The Dove Descending" is an eerily beautiful setting of a well-known poem by T. S. Eliot (another figure greatly admired by the composer) and provides further demonstration that Stravinsky could still sound like himself whilst under the influence of Schoenberg's twelve-tone discipline. The "Introit in memory of T. S. Eliot" which closes the disc is a more obviously serial work, setting the opening text of the Requiem Mass for male voices and a small ensemble (viola, double bass, piano, harp and percussion). This is Stravinsky at his grittiest, yet the music - right down to the timbre of the instruments combined - expresses the mood of the text in a wonderfully sublime manner.
This disc is a worthwhile investment, whether you are a Stravinsky addict, a Stravinsky student or just plain curious. It presents an amazingly varied range of works, each one a gem in its own way, performed to a very high standard. Colourful, exciting, well-made: I recommend it.
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Jascha Heifetz: The Decca Masters, Vol. 2 - Gershwin Foster Weill Berlin
Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000009I7Y Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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Dances & Dreams
Manufacturer: Mark Masters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00028ATY2 Release Date: 2003-12-01 |
Tracks:
- Mangulina: Paul Basler
- Red Cape Tango: Michael Daugherty/arr. Mark Spede
- Welcome Paddy Home: Irish Traditional/Brendan Nolan & Friends
- Minstrels of the Kells
- Minstrels of the Kells
Tracks:
- Jacob's Ladder: Paul Richards
- A Child's Garden of Dreams: David Maslanka
- A Child's Garden of Dreams: David Maslanka
- A Child's Garden of Dreams: David Maslanka
- A Child's Garden of Dreams: David Maslanka
- A Child's Garden of Dreams: David Maslanka
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Caricatures
Manufacturer: Mark Masters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007WHAUY Release Date: 2004-12-01 |
Tracks:
- Chamarita!
- Uncle Sid
- Caricatures from Sets I & II (John Cage- "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it")
- Caricatures from Sets I & II (Virginia Woolf- Anxious Moment)
- Caricatures from Sets I & II (Carol Channing- "Oh...I didn't know that!")
- Caricatures from Sets I & II (Camille Saint-saens - Scales)
- Caricatures from Sets I & II (Harry Houdini- Escape)
- Awakening of the Ents
- MetaMarch
- Suite of Old American Dances (Cake Walk)
- Suite of Old American Dances (Schottische)
- Suite of Old American Dances (Western One-Step)
- Suite of Old American Dances (Wallflower Waltz)
- Suite of Old American Dances (Rag)
- Grind
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Symphonia 3: Symphonia Fantastique!
Manufacturer: Mark Masters ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001ZQ5LW Release Date: 2001-10-01 |
Tracks:
- Overture to William Tell
- Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BVW544
- Dream of a Witches Sabbath from Symphonie Fantastique
- The Wasteland
- Tangents, op. 109
- Adagio
- Dies Irae from Requiem
- Jason and the Argonauts
- The Symplegades (Clashng Islands)
- Medea
- Sowing the Dragon's Teeth
- The Golden Fleece
- La Virgin De La Macarena
- The New "When Tubas Waltz"
- Autumn Leaves
Album Description
Audiences across the country and abroad have been surprised and delighted with Symphonia one of the world's most talented and intriguing ensembles. With their amazing performances of music ranging from Bach to Jazz, Symphonia's concerts have received the highest critical acclaim. This new 20-piece ensemble was first organized in 1995 by renowned tuba artists and pedagogues R. Winston Morris of Tennessee Tech University and Scott Watson of The University of Kansas. Morris and Watson bring together some of America's most legendary performers of the tuba and euphonium. Dedicated to proving that these frequently underestimated instruments are as beautiful as any others, Symphonia produces the most resonant and gorgeous of textures. The Tubas are Coming! The Tubas are Coming!
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Classical Guitar Masters (Box Set)
Manufacturer: Direct Source Label ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005QGCJ Release Date: 2000-07-07 |
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Folk Masters Ensemble
Danny Doyle , Donal Lunny , Andy Irvine , Paddy Keenan , Liam O'Flynn , Bill Whelan , Nollaig Casey , Davey Spillane , John Sheehan , and Testore String Quartet Manufacturer: Rego ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MC5SQM |
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