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Average customer rating: The classical heritage

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The classical heritage .......2006-04-16

The visible embellishment of this noble instrument was enriched still more by the Spanish composers, who following the traces of his contemporaries. In the case of Fernando Sor, Haydn was his musical guide, where as Aguado, could establish himself with major vehemence, due its particular style, based in the notable right-hand articulation, eschewed the classical patterns, being able to print his own music a flamboyant and refined character.

In the particular case of Fernando Sor, we have a wisdom blending of the counterpoint technique, an evocative mood from his own that, added the well known influence of the Italian composers (Domenico Cimarrosa and Giovanni Batista Pergolesi) and his beloved love for the Operatic genre, allowed him to enrich still more the lyrical possibilities of the guitar. Besides, unlike Nicolo Paganini, for instance fortunately did not transform the guitar in a simple device to show his overwhelming gifts. He used the guitar to play music, on the opposite approach of Paganini who used the music as mere device to play his instrument.


In the guitar genre there has not been most deserved and superb tribute to Mozart that this Variations Op. 9 based on a motive of The most famous Mozart ?s Magic Flute. Loaded of such imaginative freshness and enraptured inspiration you may notice that one of the Variations conserves an undeniable Italian flavor; this is one of the most beloved hidden treasures the guitar can offers us, which raise with special charm in the hands of this formidable soloist.

Aguado on the contrary acquired due his personal state of things, a notable adroitness who excelled by far, to Sor, so his musical approaches rode in opposite directions, trying to exploit at maximum levels the technical possibilities of the instrument.


Julian Bream makes a colossal tribute to both composers in this egregious and golden album.

Average customer rating: Luigi Nono, Avant-Garde Superstar! Massive Orchestral Violence Revolutionary music. get it while you can Nono masterpiece plus two, with Pollini and Abbado

Luigi Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz, for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra & Magnetic Tape (1971-72) / ...sofferte onde serene... For Piano & Magnetic Tape (1976) / Contrapunto dialettico alla mente, for Magnetic Tape (1968) - Maurizio Pollini / Claudio Abbado Luigi Nono (Composer) , Maurizio Pollini (Piano) , Slavka Taskova (Soprano) , Claudio Abbado (Conductor) , Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra , Rome RAI Chamber Choir , and Nino Antonellini (Director) Manufacturer: Deutsche Gram. Ger. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Nono | Nono, Luigi | ( N ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Luigi Nono: Fragmente; Hay que caminar Luciano Berio: Corale (Sequenza VIII), for Violin, 2 Horns & Strings / Chemins II (Sequenza VI) / Chemins IV (Sequenza VII) / Ritorno degli Snovidenia, for Cello & Small Orchestra / "Points on the Curve to Find...", for Piano & 22 Instrumentalists - Pierre Boulez Luciano Berio: Laborintus 2 Xénakis: Pléïdes Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again ASIN: B00000E3Z2 Release Date: 1988-07-25

Tracks:

1. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: Beginning
2. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: I. Interno Dolce
3. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: II. Duro Deciso
4. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: Piano Entry
5. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: III. Dolcissimo Sereno
6. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: Orch Entry
7. Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz: Orch And Pno Entry
8. .....Sofferte Onde Serene... - Maurizio Pollini
9. Contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente - Liliana Poli/Cadigia Bove/Marisa Mazzoni/Elena Vicini/Umberto Troni...

Album Details

Luigi Nono was One of the Most Original and Influential Composers to Emerge from Post War Italy. Having Always Guided by a Keen Awareness of Social Unity (He Joined Italy's Communist Party in 1952) Nono's Works Often Take the Form of Highly Empowering Expressive Public Spectacles. Here Among Others, Two of the Composers More Famous Longstanding Champions of his Work Mauricio Pollini and Claudio Abbado Perform Three of the Composers Most Evocative Works- the 'sofferte Onde Serene' and 'contrappunto Dialettico Alla Mente' Written Specifically for Them. If You Enjoy the Efforts of Stockhausen and Ligeti, Nono Will Certainly Be of Interest as Well.

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Luigi Nono, Avant-Garde Superstar!.......2006-09-09

You know what, in all honesty I don't really care about Luigi Nono's politics whatsoever. Does anyone here have a deep insight into his political ideas other than mentioning he was some sort of radical Marxist? If you have read extensively about Nono and are fascinated by how his socio-political ideas come into bloom via his unique music, well don't be offended by my comments because like I said earlier, his politics don't mean much to me. I am much more fascinated by his creation of a singular sound world and at this he is one of the original voices of the past century, along with other modernist notables, anyone from Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and the more avant-garde frame of modernism like Boulez, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Ligeti, etc. Wow, I was just dropping names like some jerk at an avant-garde music dinner party. Are there such parties? Ha!

Anyway, back to Luigi Nono, I really had some good listening fun with this CD. The main work is "Como una ola de fuerza y luz" (composed 1971-72), which means, "Like a wave of light and strength" in English. An intriguing title and very enigmatic music. It is half an hour long and mixes moments of dreamy quiet with intense, massive orchestral explosions. Just to think how much the idiom of Nono and his avant-garde cohorts was blatantly ripped off by Hollywood film composers for decades up to the present day. Mostly of course in fashion for sci-fi and horror films. Gotta love those Hollywood hacks, like Elliot Goldenthal for one example.

I want to mention that Maurizio Pollini plays the piano parts in this work and there is a soprano part amidst the orchestral violence and electronic studio tinkering. Claudio Abbado conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Pollini, that magnificient Italian pianist, whose technique is a wonder to behold on his other recordings is much misused on this CD. The second work, "...soffete onde serene..." (composed 1976), features him prominently but it's just a lot of piano banging, not much work for a prime, superstar virtuoso.

The final selection on this record is "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" (a tape composition from 1968), this is the most overtly political selection you will find on this whole disc. You get complete translations in the booklet and you can find out for yourself the anger that Luigi Nono wanted to convey about the various political upheavals taking place during the late 1960's. There is even one attack against American imperialism and the war in Vietnam. Yikes! To be honest, this final work which runs 19 minutes, 51 seconds is quite unintentionally funny. It electronically varies different human voices together in crazy ramblings. This sound experiment can actually give you a good, hearty laugh at the avant-garde hijinks which were so prevelant during this era in musical and political history. I found it very entertaining and stimulating as an aural, environmental landscape. Every person I played it to have responded with laughter and mocking fun. I certainly don't imagine this was Nono's intention or did the man have a wicked sense of humor to go along with his high-minded intellectualism? Nonetheless, nowadays you can hear similar crazy electronic experimentalism on various public radio outfits late at night.

This CD is a very entertaining venture into the world of the European avant-garde. For such a cheap price and with very fine sound, certainly consider exploring this alien terrain, I'm sure it's unlike most of the music you listen to unless you're already a die-hard modernist convert.

Massive Orchestral Violence.......2003-11-06

Having posessed this disc for quite a few years I was surprised to see it again here. This is not music for the faint of heart. Ultimately this music is about destruction - maybe the lyrics are not, but the music itself is. Nono went on to other musical ideas later on in his career, but this truly is Nono at his most ruthless on the ear. This music demands a very high end stereo system and either no neighbors or deaf neighbors. The last movement of Como una ola... is pretty uncompromising. I find it the apex of anger, hatred and violence in music that I have heard so far out of the Nono catalog. The performances on this disc are first rate. No other recording (yes, there are others) approaches the intensity of this. Buy this if you are extremely agitated yourself or want to be.

Revolutionary music........2003-08-31

Luigi Nono (1924-1990) was one of the 20th century's most radical composers. Nono, who fought against the Fascists in the Italian Resistance during World War II, studied both music and law in the post-war years before joining the Italian Communist Party in 1952. During the mid- to late-1950s, Nono taught at Darmstadt, the center of European serialism, and with Boulez and Stockhausen was the foremost exponent of that music on the continent. Nono married Schoenberg's daughter, Nuria, in 1955, and severed his ties with Darmstadt in 1959, after delivering a lecture entitled "The Presence of History in the Music of Today." This lecture was the composer's most notable public statement concerning his own radical Marxist politics, and the 1960s and 1970s saw Nono taking an increasingly active role the affairs of the Communist Party, for which he served on the Central Committee.

Like Pollini, Abbado, and Berio, Nono's worldview was permanently shaped by the subjection of Italy to the Fascism of Mussolini. All turned to Marxism in response, and Nono's deeply held political beliefs are on display throughout this magnificent collection of works from the late 1960s and early '70s. Unlike Stockhausen and Boulez, Nono saw in serialism a revolutionary musical grammar with implications extending beyond the realm of the purely musical into the realm of the political. Nono's adoption of serialism was a response to the domination of capitalism, imperialism, and the continued subjugation of the many by the few. Nono's music, which is initially forbidding and inaccessible, can be understood as the embodiment of Marx's concept of the unity of theory and practice. This is a revolutionary music, through which the composer expresses his hope for a world of true freedom rather than slavery, alienation, and mass murder.

"Como una ola de fuerza y luz" is dedicated to the memory of Lusiano Cruz, whose name is repeated in the work by the soprano vocalist (in this case, Slavka Taskova). Cruz, a Chilean revolutionary, died in 1971, two years before the Kissinger-planned coup which led to the death of Marxist president Salvador Allende and the installation of the Fascist Augusto Pinochet, who murdered Chileans en masse for the next 17 years. Nono's text implores the dead Cruz to "keep on glowing, young as the revolution in every one of your peoples' struggles." This powerful piece features thundering piano work from Nono's fellow Marxist, Maurizio Pollini, whose virtuosity is offset by the composer's jarring tape manipulations. A beautifully conceived and executed work.

Pollini again contributes his piano skills to 1976's "... sofferte onde serene. . . ." Moments of lyricism are contrasted against Nono's magnetic tape arrangements, and the result is a stunning mixture of opacity and accessibility. A challenging, but ultimately satisfying work.

"Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" (1968) again sets overtly political texts in Nono's pursuit of a total political engagement, "ideological and technical." Using words from Malcolm X and an anti-Vietnam War pamphlet, Nono crafts a work that is a reflection of the warped society it criticizes: terrifying, overwhelming, remorseless. The shrieking voices and intimations of violence echo the horrific destruction of the late-1960s. This is one of Nono's most important and ideologically characteristic works.

Obviously, this is not music for everyone, but for the openminded and discerning listener, this disc contains treasures. Nono's work is among the most vital and dynamic to emerge from the 20th century avant-garde, and in our modern world of Fascism, war, and imperialism, the political message which lies behind Nono's music has never been more relavent.

get it while you can.......2003-08-30

I agree 100% with Autonomeus, this is a "must own"; I was excited to see they reissued it. The last piece "Contrapunto dialettico alla mente" is a classic from the tape-manipulation genre, mixing sounds of leftist 60s speeches with interesting effects. I don't think it's available anywhere else, so worth getting for this masterpiece alone. The sung line (in Italian) "Whitey wants you, n*gg**, to go to Vietnam and die" gives me shivers every time, even after hearing this piece many times. The second piece "...sofferte onde serene..." is a subtle complex piece admired by pianists but difficult to get a hook into for listeners. This is a great performance of it though. In my opinion this version of "Como una ola de fuerza y luz" isn't as good as the other recorded rendition--which is not what you'd expect considering it's Abaddo (who's excellent with Nono) and Pollini (who's Pollini)! Part of it is the singing; the passion of the singer on the other version is superior, maybe because she speaks Italian. Also, though Pollini's piano is noticably better in this rendition, something is missing from his overall performance. Maybe Nono is too--dare I say--raw for Pollini? Still, this performance is different enough from others that it is worth owning. Overall, terrific CD.

Nono masterpiece plus two, with Pollini and Abbado.......2003-06-16

This is the original recording of one of Nono's masterpieces, with Maurizio Pollini on piano and Claudio Abbado conducting. "Como una ola de fuerza y luz" ("Like a Wave of Strength and Light") was written in 1971-2 commemmorating the death of a friend of Nono's, Luciano Cruz, a Chilean leftist opponent of Pinochet. A 30-minute piece, it features soprano voice, piano, orchestra, and electronics. It is incredible in every aspect, and though challenging, it is one of Nono's more accessible works, the perfect introduction to the work of one of the late 20th century's greatest composers. "...sofferte onde serene..." ("serene waves suffered"), for piano and magnetic tape, is a fantastic 14-minute piece featuring Pollini in the Schoenberg/Webern tradition. Finally, "Contrappunto dialettico alla mente" is a startling radical 20-minute piece for vocals and electronics, with lyrics from Malcolm X and an anti-Vietnam war flier among other sources. The booklet contains the complete text, thankfully, since the vocals are all in Italian.

This album was originally issued in 1990, but it has not been available recently in the U.S. .... Grab it quick before it disappears again! DG has now packaged these recordings of "Como una ola..." and "sofferte" under Pollini's name, along with a third piano piece not by Nono (a single-disc taken from the massive Pollini Edition). This disc, from DG's excellent mid-line "20th Century Classics" series, is clearly preferable if you are interested in Nono and not just Pollini.

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Valderrábano: Silva de Sirenes Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Morales, Cristóbal de | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BM3MIE Release Date: 2005-12-13

Average customer rating: A feast of little known music from the Court of Charles V

El arte de fantasía Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Spanish Dances Jácaras! 18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre Dame Villancicos y Danzas Criollas Les Travailleurs de la Mer: Ancient Songs from a Small Island ASIN: B0001W8E0K Release Date: 2004-04-13

Tracks:

1. Entrada
2. Tres Sobre El Canto Llano De La Alta
3. Cancion Del Emperador: Mille Regres
4. Cancion: Demandez Vous
5. Cancion: Je Vous
6. Tiento Para Harpa U Organo
7. Tiento Sobre La Pavana Real
8. Soneto A Manera De Danca
9. Romance: Diferencias Sobre Conde Claros
10. Pavana Con Su Glosa
11. Cancion: Mundo, Que Me Puedes Dar?
12. Diferencias Sobre La Gallarda Milanesa
13. Fuga A 40: Unum Colle Deum
14. Cancion: Miralo Como Llora
15. Para Discantar
16. Romance: De Los Alamos Vengo, Madre
17. Baxa De Contrapunto
18. Tiento XVIII
19. Canto Llano
20. Duo
21. Tres
22. Himno A 4
23. Himno De Canto Llano
24. Diferencias Sobre Guardame Las Vacas
25. Romance: Paseabase El Rey Moro
26. Paseabase Glosado
27. Final

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A feast of little known music from the Court of Charles V.......2004-09-25

In 1557 Luis Venegas de Henestrosa composed a "book" of music using themes from other composers (Spanish and Flemish) for the Court of Charles V, the most powerful ruler in Europe. (He was not only King of Spain and Flanders but also the Holy Roman Emperor, with dominion over much of Central Europe.) The Harp Consort, lead by Andrew Lawrence-King has captured this music in a lavish performance on period instruments of Spain. The result is 70 minutes of sheer pleasure. My favorite is the 10 minute long "Diferencias sobre Conde Claros" -- a set of variations based on a famous Spanish medieval poem of love (discussed in Don Quixote) which had been set to music by Valderrabano.

Average customer rating: Go back in time...

Cancionero Manufacturer: Avie Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Dufay Collective:Miri It Is On the Banks of the Seine-Music of the Trouovères A Dance in the Garden of Mirth: Medieval Instrumental Music - The Dufay Collective Music for Alfonso the Wise Medieval Dance Music ASIN: B000063XX5 Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Go back in time..........2007-01-05

and relax with this amazing CD from the Dufay Collective. Cancionero is stately and romantic. Melancholy ballads as well as a bawdy tune! A must for any serious early music collector.

Average customer rating: Ahah! I found you, my precious!! Nothing bad, nothing special. Beautiful, Stately Music By A Master TOTALLY AWESOME! Exquisite!

Lute Music for Witches and Alchemists / Lutz Kirchhof Anthony Holborne Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Instruments | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Early Venetian Lute Music Baroque Lute Music, Vol. 1 Early Sixteenth Century Venetian Lute Music Lusty Gallant: England's Golden Age Royal Lewters: Music of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I's ASIN: B00004S38O Release Date: 2000-03-21

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The mellow German lutenist Lutz Kirchhof advises listeners not to turn the volume up too high on his latest Sony solo disc. The delicate lute tone charmed 16th- and 17th-century listeners by its simple acoustic beauty. The gentle plucked notes could affect the mood, altering one's emotional state. Kirchhof suggests that such potential made music invaluable to witches and alchemists, who were held in high regard in the irrational centuries before the Age of Enlightenment. This theory enables Kirchhof to make an eclectic selection of 30 short pieces covering 200 years and four different lutes--renaissance lute, vihuela, baroque lute, and theorbo. He does not claim that any of the items were actually put to any alchemical or satanic use, but he does not need to. The Presto and Galanterie by S. L. Weiss speak for themselves. Dufaut's Suite in A minor might not otherwise have reached the public; Hagen's Sonata in C minor would have remained obscure; and Holborne's The Fairy Round Galliard waited in vain for the revival of alchemy as a science. An eccentric disc all-round. --Rick Jones

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Ahah! I found you, my precious!!.......2006-07-27

I am sorry that the 11-year-old child found this sad music!!
That is truly within the realm of Herr/Herra Parent to educate the child that there is quite a universe of music that is out there.

The reason I call this 'My Precious', is that I had lost a lot in Hurricane Katrina, including my music library, which i am still slowly rebuilding, thank the Goddess!!

I owned this CD when it became released, and found it to be a collection of music that is most suited for comtemplative study, note-taking, journalling, writing memoirs with tea/coffee/mead/or aperitif. For me, it is also good music to use when busy scripting in my book-of-shadows, or rhyming wordings to be used later for some good works, by tensor light if not by candle.

As one who has self-taught guitar and medieval instruments, i appreciate the talent behind, and the hard work to play this collection.

I will place this among my 'workings' collection, once i receive it ... although not quick enough!

Nothing bad, nothing special........2003-06-11

Kirchhof invariably finds interesting repertoire to entice us, but just as his jangly Bach pales next to North's, and his Weiss can't compare to Smith's, here he ends up trailing again.
While this disc might be attractive to newcomers to the lute and its magical attractions, I am sure that most who are familiar with the skills and taste of the other aforementioned artists will know that plenty of the music on this disc can be found, sounding better, elsewhere.
There's nothing bad about this disc, but nothing special, either.

Beautiful, Stately Music By A Master.......2003-01-02

Sorry folks, but the title of this CD might be a bit misleading. You will not hear Halloween sound effects, or "A Night on Bald Mountain" Disney-style. Instead you will be treated to meditative music based on the theories of Ficino, Agrippa, and others. Kirchof does us all a favor by fleshing out what has previously been locked away in archives and rare publications and allowing us to hear each composition as it was originally meant to be heard. A good book to buy with this CD would be D.P. Walker's classic Spiritual and Demonic [as in Socrates' daemon, not the kind from the uh-oh place] Magic (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000). This music is meant to heal and not to hurt; meant to uplift and enlighten the mind and not to drown it in darkness. And besides all that folks, it's just plain pleasant to drink wine and eat cheese to. In addition, Lute Music For Witches and Alchemists has great liner notes that give the low-down on each Hermetic ditty. M & M it's not, thank Plato, Plotinus. Ficino, and the stars!

TOTALLY AWESOME!.......2002-02-14

I felt as if I was back in the Middle Ages! It is well worth the $$$!!

Exquisite!.......2001-12-22

This CD is a wonderful selection of period lute pieces, very soothing to listen to, very exquisitely played. Even friends of mine who have no interest in period music find it enjoyable and ask me about it.

Average customer rating: Good re-release -- but more, please

Renaissance Fantasias Manufacturer: Hyperion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Instruments | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002ZGX Release Date: 1993-11-11

Tracks:

1. Three Tastari De Corde E Recercare
2. Three Recercari
3. Recercare 'De Tous Biens Plaine'
4. Fant No.11
5. Fant No.8
6. Conde Claros
7. Mille Regrets De Josquin
8. Baxa De Contrapunto
9. Fant
10. Matachins
11. Ricercar No.13
12. Fant No.42
13. Fant
14. Fant
15. Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
16. Fant
17. Fant No.6

Customer Reviews:

Good re-release -- but more, please.......2007-04-27

This is a re-release of an LP from 1982.

Tony Rooley has been one of my favourite lutenists since his early duo days with Jim Tyler; and if (as he rather ruefully remarked) he has been technically outstripped by younger virtuosi such as Paul O'Dette, certainly no one has a deeper love, understanding or feel for the music of the period, all of which communicate perfectly on this album. The choice of tempi, the magic way he captures the nuances of mood of each piece, reflect the touch of the master.

The vinyl record had one drawback: despite the quality of the music, confining the contents not just to the Renaissance but to Fantasias cannot help but bring a certain sameness, and the pieces are best listened to a few at a time. With CD track selection, this is no problem! Come home after a hard day's work, relax, and enjoy.

I just wish Hyperion would re-release Tony's two duet albums with Jim ("Renaissance Duets" and "My Lute Awake").

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De Janequin Aux Beatles Manufacturer: EMI Classics Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Finzi, Gerald | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Lassus | Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music King's Singers | ( K ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chansons | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008PW6L Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. La Guerre
2. This Sweet And Merry Month Of May
3. Come Sirrah Jack Hol
4. Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone
5. Contrappunto Bestiale Alla Mente
6. Valle, Che De Lamenti Miei
7. Pastime With Good Company
8. Downderry Down
9. A Little Pretty Bonny Lass
10. Weep No More Thou Sorry Boy
11. Shoot, False Love
12. Exultate Deo
13. Jesus Dulcis Memoria
14. Nigra Sum
15. La Belle Margarite Dit 'Clemens Non Papa'
16. Baisez-Moi
17. Petite Camusette
18. Mon Cuer En Vous
19. Au Joly Jeu
20. I Laid Me Down To Slumber, Op.30 No.1
21. Little Thora, Op.30 No.3
22. Kwallin's Halling, Op.30 No.4
23. When I Take A Stroll, Op.30 No.6
24. Billy Boy
25. Puppet On A String
26. One Day
27. The Mermaid

Tracks:

1. No.1 Ilhubo (Chant)
2. No.2 Mambabo! (Wow)!
3. No.3 Lala Mntwana (Berceuse)
4. No.4 Uhambo Ngesitimela (Voyage En Train)
5. No.5 Egoli (Johannesburg)
6. No.6 Umdanso Wasegoli (Jo' Burg Dance)
7. Pavane, Op.50
8. La-Bas Dans Le Limousin
9. The Slow Train
10. Resonet In Laudibus
11. Short People
12. Short People
13. Humpty Dumpty
14. Chi Chilichi?
15. The Oak And The Ash
16. Now Is The Month Of Maying
17. Veronika, Der Lenz Ist Da
18. My Spirit Sang All Day
19. You Are The New Day
20. Romance
21. Greens
22. When Pa Was Courtin' Ma
23. Dayton Ohio
24. Marry, A Woman Uglier Than You
25. I'm Train
26. After The Gold Rush
27. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
28. King's Singers Rag

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De Contrapunto Orquesta Escuela de Tango Manufacturer: EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002689OG

Tracks:

1. Sentimental y Canyengue
2. Si Sos Brujo
3. Milonguero Viejo
4. Tanguero de Ley
5. Danzar
6. Bordona
7. Pimienta
8. Pata Ancha
9. Cumparsita
10. Cuidado Con los 50
11. Yumba
12. De Contrapunto

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De Contrapunto Orquesta Escuela de Tango Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Argentina | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001XASO4 Release Date: 2004-04-20

Tracks:

1. Sentimental y Canyengue
2. Si Sos Brujo
3. Milonguero Viejo
4. Tanguero de Ley
5. Danzar
6. Bordona
7. Pimienta
8. Pata Ancha
9. Cumparsita
10. Cuidado Con los 50
11. Yumba
12. De Contrapunto

Pop Music:

1. Despues De Tantos Anos
2. Echoes of Ireland
3. Esquisse [Import]
4. Estasi d'Amore [Import]
5. Flute of the Andes
6. Fortschritt [Import]
7. Galway to Graceland
8. Girl from Clare
9. Git It, Beau Jocque!
10. Healing Of All Nations

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