Kemp [CD-single] [Import]

Product Description
Dutch single off the Swedish punk's 2002 album, 'Home From Home'. The title track is backed with 2 non-LP cuts 'The Downhill Walk' & 'Absolute Zero'.

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Average customer rating: It's Beauty Revealed, At Last OK, I'm a sucker for the 1893 version Life has been engulfed in time Requiem- a masterpiece. high quality but lacking emotion

Faure: Requiem and other choral music Manufacturer: Collegium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers The Best of Fauré Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter John Rutter: Te Deum and Other Church Music Fauré · Duruflé - Requiem / J. Blegen · J. Morris · Atlanta SO · Shaw ASIN: B0000031HB Release Date: 2000-02-29

Tracks:

1. Requiem: Introit et Kyrie
2. Requiem: Offertoire
3. Requiem: Sanctus
4. Requiem: Pie Jesu
5. Requiem: Agnus Dei
6. Requiem: Libera me
7. Requiem: In paradisum
8. Ave verum Corpus
9. Tantum ergo
10. Ave Maria
11. Maria, Mater gratiae
12. Cantique de Jean Racine
13. Messe basse: Kyrie eleison
14. Messe basse: Messe Basse - Sanctus
15. Messe basse: Messe Basse - Benedictus
16. Messe basse: Messe Basse - Agnus Dei

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John Rutter's groundbreaking research and subsequent performing edition of Fauré's beloved Requiem has enabled us to hear the work as the composer originally intended. His first version of the piece included only a chamber orchestra with lower strings, harp, timpani, and organ. Four years later, Fauré added two movements and slightly expanded the orchestration. This is the version that Rutter and his inimitable Cambridge Singers perform here-- and it's a glorious revelation, especially if the only Fauré Requiem you've heard is that for full orchestra, which the composer himself neither created nor approved. Rutter and his singers give us a wonderfully sumptuous yet detailed performance that benefits tremendously from the newly realized clarity of inner lines and from the richly colored orchestral textures. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

It's Beauty Revealed, At Last.......2007-01-11

This Collegium COLCD 109 is a later release of the Collegium COLCD 101 which I purchased circa 1985 after reading glowing reviews in Grammophone magazine. COLCD 101 is labeled Stereo/Digital. COLCD 109 is labeled Stereo/DDD. Is it a re-mastering? Liner notes don't say, but the new version provides noticeable improvements in vividness and clarity.

The release of COLCD 101 was a watershed event. John Rutter had questioned conventional performance versions of Faure's Requiem, those which used full symphony orchestras and Wagnerian-like soloists. Yes, it is a requiem, but Faure's ideas are very different than those found in, say, Verdi's Requiem. Instead of hellfire and damnation, Faure evokes serenity, peace and love. Rutter's historical research proved that Faure intended for his work to be performed in small, intimate settings where the orchestra and choir would be minimal and, maybe, use boy sopranos. Rutter's CD of the historical, 1893, version is like an expert restoration of an old painting where a century's grime is wiped away and the work is newly revealed in it's original beauty.

A 1990's CD of the 1893 version exists on Naxos 8.55076S by Jeremy Summerly and the Oxford Camerata. It, too, is beautiful and of similar performance quality, though conducted at a slightly slower tempo. I find Rutter's version more "right", but that's just personal preference.

OK, I'm a sucker for the 1893 version.......2006-01-17

John Rutter made substantial changes to the previously most-performed version of the Faure Requiem when he recorded this. He went back to the version of 1893 to do so, rather than using the more famous, more heavily orchestrated later version. One difference is that the violins in the Sanctus are transposed up an octave on this CD compared to the way in which they were played in the later Requiem. I find this recording to be beautiful and timeless, and definitely not over-orchestrated.

To me, Faure's great contribution with the Requiem was that he showed a firm refusal to judge other people as well as compassion in the face of death. This went against the beliefs of the Catholic church at the time, which emphasized hellfire and brimstone, and Faure was heavily criticized for putting as little mention in as he could get away with regarding the Day of Judgement. This compassion shows in his work and makes it comforting rather than frightening. It has been called a "lullaby of death."

I also enjoy the other vocal pieces, particularly the Ave Maria and the Cantique de Jean Racine, which is probably familiar to many people who are not really aware of Faure's career. These songs have a pure, clear sound which is not ruined through excessive orchestration.

In my opinion, John Rutter did a fantastic job with this material, and it's one of my favorite CDs.

Life has been engulfed in time.......2003-08-06

This requiem represents a complete shift in the general tone of the requiem as a genre. The vision of life and death is impregnated with a feminine light, the light of the ocean softly illuminated by the sunshine of Normandy, of the Graceful Coast. The figure that stands behind the music, that accompanies the dead person into the grave is no longer the masculine Germanic death that punishes man, nor even the furious feminine French death that challenges man, but the soft and comforting figure of the mother Mary, the universal comforter who takes the hand of each one of us, as if we were crying lost children, to make us pass the dangerous door that leads beyond life. This Holy Mary for whom Fauré has written so many Ave Marias, is promising us the end of time and our introduction into an everlasting stormless, painless and noiseless world that represents the very positive vision of a real world that is the negative vision of life. Photography is not far away. Everyday life becomes a life of strife, struggle, noise, violence, war, speed, work, exploitation and alienation, all elements seen as negative, and death is the negation of it all, is the positive virtuality that has to become our reality overthere. It is thus in perfect agreement with the vision the impressionists introduced to defy photography and bring art beyond the blaring image of reality a photographer brings up with his machine. The eye of the artist goes beyond those crude colors and forms to find light and life in the depth of his retina. Fauré is the impressionist painter of death as the real life beyond the surface we have to contemplate and suffer everyday. In other words virtual is beautiful and real is dreadful. Happiness has to be found in virtuality and not in reality. Fauré is bergsonian, who sees eternity beyond the flow of time. Fauré is proustian, who sees life beyond the loss of memory. This explains the erasing of the Dies Irae because there is no anger any more in the ascent to the eternal memory of what does not exist yet. This is a requiem of timelessness and nightlessness.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan

Requiem- a masterpiece........2002-04-21

This exquisite collection has so many gorgeous songs that move me to tears. In Sanctus, the violin is so pure, so beautiful, its wrings my heart. This is real music, real art, crafted with such care, that it is a true privilege to hear it, not to mention sing it (which I have done, and I loved it). It is an encredible CD, and I would encourage anyone to buy it.
Lilly

high quality but lacking emotion.......2001-09-01

One reviewer describes this as "no lack of sadness, bright, not gloomy, filled with sunshine"; another calls it "peaceful". I might go with peaceful. The quality is high and the recording is of interest for being more faithful to Faure's original, non-orchestral version, but I found the performance notably lacking in emotion. I would steer the reader toward the more deeply moving Naxos version (conductor: Jeremy Summerly), which is something of a gem at budget price.

Average customer rating: have been searching for this for years Been looking for years An Excellent Introduction to Renaissance Dance renaissance dance music Wonderful reissue from early days of early music recordings

Panorama: Dances of the Renaissance Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande Galliardes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gesualdo | Gesualdo, Carlo | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gibbons, Orlando | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Michael Praetorius | Praetorius, Michael | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection English Renaissance Music Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore Music for a Medieval Banquet Medieval Dance Music ASIN: B00004YMTN Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

1. Terpsichore: 1. Entree - Courante - Collegium Terpsichore
2. Terpsichore: 2. Gavotte - Collegium Terpsichore
3. Terpsichore: 3. Spagnoletta - Collegium Terpsichore
4. Terpsichore: 4. La Bouree - Collegium Terpsichore
5. Terpsichore: 5. Ballet - Collegium Terpsichore
6. Terpsichore: 6. Volte - Collegium Terpsichore
7. Musikalischer Tugenspiegel: Sophia (no.13) - Anna (no.4) - Collegium Terpsichore
8. Musikalischer Tugenspiegel: Clara (no.6) - Collegium Terpsichore
9. Musikalischer Tugenspiegel: Magdalena (no.3) - Collegium Terpsichore
10. Musikalischer Tugenspiegel: Agatha (no.15) - Collegium Terpsichore
11. Musikalischer Tugenspiegel: Regina (no.12) - Collegium Terpsichore
12. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.4 - 1. Pavane - Collegium Terpsichore
13. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.4 - 2. Gaillarde - Collegium Terpsichore
14. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.4 - 3. Courante - Collegium Terpsichore
15. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.4 - 4. Allemande - Tripla - Collegium Terpsichore
16. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.5 - 1. Pavane - Collegium Terpsichore
17. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.5 - 2. Gaillarde - Collegium Terpsichore
18. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.5 - 3. Courante - Collegium Terpsichore
19. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.5 - 4. Allemande - Tripla - Collegium Terpsichore
20. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.3 - 1. Pavane - Collegium Terpsichore
21. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.3 - 2. Gaillarde - Collegium Terpsichore
22. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.3 - 3. Courante - Collegium Terpsichore
23. Banchetto musicale: Suite No.3 - 4. Allemande - Tripla - Collegium Terpsichore
24. Lamento di Tristano - Rotta - Ulsamer Collegium
25. Trotto - Ulsamer Collegium
26. Istampita Ghaetta - Ulsamer Collegium
27. Istampita Cominciamento di gioia - Ulsamer Collegium
28. Saltarello - Ulsamer Collegium
29. Bassa danza a 2 - Ulsamer Collegium
30. Alta danza a 3 - Ulsamer Collegium
31. Bassa danza a 2 - Ulsamer Collegium
32. Bassa danza a 3 - Ulsamer Collegium
33. Basse danse La brosse - Tripla - Tourdion - Ulsamer Collegium
34. Bassa danse La gratta - Ulsamer Collegium
35. Basse danse La Magdalena - Ulsamer Collegium

Tracks:

1. Calata ala Spagnola
2. Der Judentanz
3. Welscher Tanz - Wascha mesa - Hupfauff
4. Pavana I - II
5. Romanesca Guarda me las vacas
6. Passamezzo - Saltarello
7. Branle de Bourgogne
8. Englischer Tanz
9. Tanz Du hast mich wollen nemmem
10. Schiarazula
11. Ungaresca - Saltarello
12. Ronde
13. Branle de Bourgogne
14. Branle de Champagne
15. Passamezzo d'Italye - Reprise - Gaillarde
16. Schiarazula Marazula
17. Tedesca - Saltarello
18. Ungaresca - Saltarello
19. Branle - Branle gau
20. Mascherade
21. Saltarello
22. Ballo detto 'Il Conte Orlando' - Saltarello
23. Gagliarda del Principle di Venosa
24. Barriera
25. Celeste Giglio
26. Pavana de Spaigne
27. Courante
28. Courante
29. Volte
30. Volte
31. Pavan: The Funerals
32. Noel's Galliard
33. Coranto: High Ho Holiday
34. Kemp's Jig
35. Queen Elizabeth her Galliard
36. Mrs. Winter's Jump
37. Alman
38. Galliard
39. Galliarde de Monsieur Wustron
40. Galliarde de la guerre
41. Reprinse
42. Tantz
43. Paduan
44. Galliard
45. Catkanei

Customer Reviews:

have been searching for this for years.......2007-06-11

Happy to see the Collegium Terpsichore CD out again (disc 1), though hiding in this bargain set, wasn't immediately obvious. But one listen to the Praetorius samples and knew I found it. This album was played continuously on the air on KKHI when I was in college (circa late-hippie_, and I never tired of it. I wore out my LPs. Now I've misplaced that single CD so might have to buy it again if I can't locate it soon. Phooey. At least it's available. It's the most refreshing CD you'll ever put on your player.

Been looking for years.......2007-02-13

I have been looking for the Deutsche Grammophon "Dances from Terpsicore" from the 60's but to no avail till now. The entire album is included in this two disc set...

Yippee

An Excellent Introduction to Renaissance Dance.......2005-06-23

This is my first disc of Renaissance dance music, for which I have been searching for quite a while. I thought ir was very excellent. I have heard some before when I was in a few Shakespeare plays, and ever since, I have been looking. These selections provide a broad range of the music of the courts during the 15th and 16th centuries. There is music from all over Europe, including what sounds like Southeastern Europe. The interpretations are also very good, and they put me, at least, back into that time period. The only problem I found was the glockenspiel like instrument, which was sometimes a little annoying. Otherwise, wonderful.

renaissance dance music.......2004-10-24

This CD is a compilation of three recordings which are From The Vault: Dance Music of the High Renaissance by Fritz Neumeyer, Dance Music of the Renaissance by Josef Ulsamer, and Early Baroque Music by Konrad Ragossnig.

Wonderful reissue from early days of early music recordings.......2004-01-28

This cd is a reissue of material from several albums in the 60s. The Fritz Neumeyer recordings of Praetorius are from an old Archiv LP that was one of my first introductions to "early music", and it can be charged that it was more enthusiastic than historically informed. A recorder consort will take up one section of a tune, and then a group of viols will swirl in, maybe followed by crumhorns playing another brief phrase, and then a solo harpsichord finishing off the tune. Different instruments provide a variety of textures of sound, keeping things interesting even though most of the tunes are played fairly "straight", without a lot of improvisation. There's been quite a bit of research and rediscovery of Renaissance techniques since this record was first out, and I appreciate those, but these old recordings really get my toe tapping and remind me why I fell in love with early music in the first place.

Average customer rating:

Just Got Paid Johnny Kemp Manufacturer: Sony Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music New Jack | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 R&B | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Object of My Desire and Other Hits Haven't You Heard: The Best of Patrice Rushen Groove Me: The Very Best of Guy The Best of Loose Ends The Very Best of Al B. Sure ASIN: B0009GX1PG Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

1. Just Got Paid [7" Version]
2. Cover Girl [7" Version]
3. Just Another Lover [12" Version]
4. Bring Your Love Around
5. Can't Get Enough
6. One Thing Led to Another
7. Anything Worth Having (Is Worth Waiting For)
8. Just Like Flyin'
9. Urban Times Medley: Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)/Mercy Mercy
10. Just Got Paid [12" Version]

Average customer rating: exellent

Dowland: Flow My Tears and Other Lute Songs Manufacturer: Naxos 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 Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Dowland, John | ( D ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Dowland: Consort Music Seaven Teares Songs from the Labyrinth (Music by John Dowland) John Dowland: Dowland's Tears - Lute Music, Vol. 2 Dowland: Fancyes, Dreams and Spirits - Lute Music, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000014DL Release Date: 2000-10-05

Tracks:

1. Lute Songs: Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
2. Lute Songs: Flow My Tears
3. Lute Songs: Lady, If You So Spite Me
4. Lute Songs: In Darkness Let Me Dwell
5. Lute Songs: Melancholy Galliard
6. Lute Songs: Say Love If Ever Thou Did'st Find
7. Lute Songs: His Golden Locks
8. Lute Songs: Greensleeves Divisions
9. Lute Songs: If My Complaints Could Passions Move
10. Lute Songs: Time Stands Still
11. Lute Songs: Can She Excuse My Wrongs?
12. Lute Songs: Fortune My Foe
13. Lute Songs: I Saw My Lady Weep
14. Lute Songs: Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me?
15. Lute Songs: Stay Time Awhile Thy Flying
16. Lute Songs: Bonny Sweet Robin
17. Lute Songs: Me, Me, And None But Me
18. Lute Songs: Sorrow, Stay
19. Lute Songs: Fine Knacks For Ladies
20. Lute Songs: Kemp's Jig
21. Lute Songs: Callino
22. Lute Songs: When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
23. Lute Songs: Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning?
24. Lute Songs: Galliards by Mary, Queen of Scots
25. Lute Songs: Now, O Now I Needs Must Part
26. Lute Songs: Come, Heavy Sleep

Customer Reviews:

exellent.......1999-02-03

Rickards beautiful, pure voice comes out so well in this cd. along with the wonderful sounds of the lute. I highly recommend this cd

Average customer rating: I can't stop listening to this album.

A Hand Full of Hurricanes Rose Kemp Manufacturer: One Little Indian Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Reminder Beloved One The Good, the Bad & the Queen Miracle of Five Keren Ann ASIN: B000N3ST2A Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

1. Little One
2. Violence
3. Tiny Flower
4. Morning Music
5. Orange Juice
6. Dark Corners
7. Metal Bird
8. Skins' Suite
9. Sister Sleep
10. Sheer Terror
11. Sing Our Last Goodbye

Customer Reviews:

I can't stop listening to this album........2007-04-13

This release is amazing. Rich and layered and complex and sweet and deep and light and melodic and chaotic. Rock this album now!

Average customer rating: Simply Magic! Buy This and You Will Go Wrong!

The Best of Hal Kemp and His Orchestra Hal Kemp and his Orchestra Manufacturer: Collector's Choice ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vintage Dance Bands | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Got a Date with an Angel Remember Me A Melody from the Sky The Band Played On - 25 Number One Hits! Dardanella ASIN: B00004UFD2 Release Date: 2000-08-08

Tracks:

1. For All We Know
2. Irresistable
3. Hands Across The Table
4. A Little White Gardenia
5. Thrilled
6. In The Middle Of A Kiss
7. Page Miss Glory
8. Alone
9. With All My Heart
10. The Music Goes 'Round And 'Round
11. The Touch Of Your Lips
12. Lost
13. Gloomy Sunday (The Famous Hungarian Suicide Song)
14. There's A Small Hotel
15. When I'm With You
16. A Star Fell Out Of Heaven
17. Me And The Moon
18. I've Got You Under My Skin
19. Pennies From Heaven
20. Goodnight, My Love
21. With Plenty Of Money And You (Oh, Baby What I Coudn't Do)
22. This Year's Kisses
23. What Will I Tell My Heart?
24. Where Or When

Product Description

1. There's A Small Hotel
2. When I'm With You
3. This Year's Kisses
4. Where Or When
5. For All We Know
6. Irresistible
7. Hands Across The Table
8. Little White Gardenia, A
9. Thrilled
10. In The Middle Of A Kiss
11. Page Miss Glory
12. Alone
13. With All My Heart
14. Music Goes Round And Round, The
15. Touch Of Your Lips, The
16. Lost
17. Gloomy Sunday
18. Star Fell Out Of Heaven, A
19. Me And The Moon
20. I've Got You Under My Skin
21. Pennies From Heaven
22. Goodnight, My Love
23. With Plenty Of Money And You
24. What Will I Tell My Heart


Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Simply Magic!.......2006-01-05

Although I own five Hal Kemp CDs, this is the one I return to the most often. The selection and placement of the music by Collectors' Choice is superlative and the sound quality is excellent. Every song is wonderful, including For All We Know, The Music Goes 'Round And 'Round, When I'm With You, I've Got You Under My Skin, Pennies From Heaven and Goodnight, My Love. Every singer, including the magical Skinnay Ennis and the superb Maxine Grey, is perfectly matched to each song. This music is pure heaven, and let us hope more studios will release Mr. Kemp's timeless recordings to be enjoyed by all future generations. I highly recommend this CD, another Hal Kemp gem to add to your collection!

Buy This and You Will Go Wrong!.......2006-01-04

Terrible sound quality! This CD was made in conjunction with Sony Music Special Products and yet their usual quality is nowhere to be found. The liner notes by Scott Yanow are filled with biographic inaccuracies, wrong recording dates and musician/soloist info, and even misspells the name of Kemp's vocalist Maxine Gray throughout. The digital restoration is credited to Ken Robertson who has done better on other similar titles. The main problem with the sound quality is that there is too much hiss, too much crackle, and the music sounds lifeless. I have the original 78rpm Brunswick records of all these tracks, and in all cases they sound much better than the "remastered" tracks on this cd. There have been numerous advances in sound restoration techniques during these past 10 years and yet listening to this CD you'd think we've taken a few steps back instead! Save your money and skip this one!

Average customer rating: A Delightful Collection!

Got a Date with an Angel Hal Kemp Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Melody from the Sky Remember Me That Old Feeling Plays 22 Original Big Band Records The Best of Hal Kemp and His Orchestra ASIN: B0000DJENE Release Date: 2003-12-09

Tracks:

1. How I'll Miss You When Summer Is Gone
2. Moonlight Saving Time
3. Forty-Second Street
4. Shuffle Off To Buffalo
5. For All We Know
6. Got A Date With An Angel
7. Lullaby Of Broadway
8. Dodging A Divorcee
9. In The Middle Of A Kiss
10. With All My Heart
11. The Music Goes 'Round And Around
12. The Touch Of Your Lips
13. Gloomy Sunday
14. There's A Small Hotel
15. When I'm With You
16. Star Fell Out Of Heaven
17. This Year's Kisses
18. Where Or When
19. Remember Me?
20. Lamplight
21. In Dutch With The Duchess
22. Love For Sale
23. In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room
24. So You're The One
25. It All Comes Back To Me Now

Customer Reviews:

A Delightful Collection!.......2005-12-16

This is a delightful album. I don't know how ASV Living Era does it, but once again they have created a wonderful collection of 1929-1940 songs, this time by Hal Kemp & His Orchestra. The selection and arrangement of the songs is impeccable and the sound quality is superb. Every single song is a delight, so I'll just highlight a few, such as Forty-Second Street, Shuffle Off to Buffalo, Lullaby of Broadway, When I'm with You, This Year's Kisses and Remember Me? I highly recommend this uplifting CD. Thanks again, ASV Living Era, for your flawless compilations!

Average customer rating: Top Counter Tenor Master

Shakespeare Songs Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Ballets & Dances | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Songs and Dances from Shakespeare Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World Shakespeare's Songbook Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD] Purcell: Odes for St. Cecilia's Day - Music for Queen Mary / Taverner Consort ASIN: B00004TVGW Release Date: 2000-10-10

Tracks:

1. As You Like It: Act V, Scene 3: It Was A Lover And His Lass
2. Measure For Measure: Act IV, Scene 1: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
3. Twelfth Night: Act II, Scene 3: O Mistress Mine
4. Strike It Up, Tabor
5. Othello: Act IV, Scene 3: Willow Song
6. The Tempest: Act V, Scene 1: Where The Bee Sucks
7. Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark: Act IV, Scene 5: How Should I Your True Love Know
8. Walshingham Vars
9. We Be Soldiers Three
10. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV, Scene 5: When Griping Griefs
11. The Tempest: Act I, Scene 2: Full Fathom Five
12. Henry V: Act IV, Scene 4: Calleno Custure Me
13. King Lear: Act I: Then They For Sudden Joy Did Weep
14. Bonny Sweet Robin
15. Twelfth Night: Act V, Scene 1: When That I Was
16. Kemp's Jig
17. Greensleeves
18. Melismes De Ravenscroft: He That Will An Alehouse Keep
19. Non Nobis Domine

Customer Reviews:

Top Counter Tenor Master.......2006-11-10

Alfred Deller presents a masterly classic of the Songs from Shakespeare.
Recorded in 1970, this work cannot be surpassed. Well worth adding to any collection.

Average customer rating: Bad day at work? Enter another realm Ahhhh....

Stillness And Sweet Harmony Manufacturer: Collegium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Allegri | Allegri, Gregorio | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gibbons, Orlando | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rutter | Rutter, John | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sheppard | Sheppard, John | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Brother Sun, Sister Moon John Rutter Collection Faire is the Heaven: Music of the English Church Be Thou My Vision The John Rutter Christmas Album ASIN: B0000031IC Release Date: 1996-10-10

Tracks:

1. Adoro te devote - Gregorian Chant
2. Requiem: Pie Jesu - Gabriel Faure
3. Visita, quaesumus Domine - William Byrd_
4. Draw On, Sweet Night - The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter
5. O Can Ye Sew Cushions - The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter
6. The Silver Swan - Orlando Gibbons
7. Down By The Sally Gardens - The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter
8. In manus tuas - The Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter
9. Miserere - Gregorio Allegri
10. Tantum ergo - Gabriel Faure
11. Justorum animae - William Byrd_
12. O quam suavis - William Byrd_
13. Laudi alla Vergine Maria - Giuseppe Verdi
14. Alma Redemptoris Mater - Gregorian Chant
15. What Sweeter Music - John Rutter

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Compilations from a performer's catalog are often musically hit-and-miss and programmatically shaky. But when you have a catalog as strong, varied, and musically rich as the Cambridge Singers', the question is not how to find appropriate material but how to reduce the first-rate choices to fit on a single CD. This one offers a wide range of selections, including chant, Renaissance sacred and secular works, folk song, and 20th-century pieces. Every track contains a gem--music and performance--so it's hard to list only a few highlights. There's the Pie Jesu from Fauré's Requiem, Allegri's famous Miserere, several classics by Byrd, Orlando Gibbons's popular "The silver swan," and two masterful folk-song arrangements by Rutter. But among the 15 works featured, John Sheppard's "In manus tuas" (one of the glories of the English Renaissance) and Rutter's "What sweeter music" (his most famous piece) alone make this disc worth owning. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Bad day at work? Enter another realm.......2005-07-31

This is a wonderfully mellow selection of choral works in the English tradition, and a particularly well-balanced program: You can set the CD to play and relax with a good glass of wine.

The Cambridge Singers come across as a single, smooth instrument--not a group of belting soloists. Rutter's arrangements and orchestrations avoid here some of the cutesy movie-style effects on some of the Christmas albums.

This album is a compilation from previous Cambridge Singers recordings, so it's very suitable as a gift from someone who has expressed an early interest in English choral music, to lead them into the area. The CD is a wonderful value and highly recommended.

Ahhhh...........2004-06-30

Very pleasant music for rattled nerves. I'm no expert on choral music, but this is a calming and enjoyable CD to listen to while driving.

Average customer rating: Gorgeous modern choral music

Howells: Choral Works Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Howells, Herbert | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FMR3ZI Release Date: 2006-07-25

Tracks:

1. Te Deum
2. Even Such Is Time
3. The Summer Is Coming
4. Nunc Dimittis
5. The House Of The Mind
6. Two Madrigals
7. Two Madrigals
8. Salve Regina
9. Mass In Dorian Mode
10. Mass In Dorian Mode
11. Mass In Dorian Mode
12. Mass In Dorian Mode
13. Mass In Dorian Mode
14. Mass In Dorian Mode
15. Mass In Dorian Mode
16. Mass In Dorian Mode
17. God Is Gone Up

Tracks:

1. Three Carol-Anthems
2. Three Carol-Anthems
3. Three Carol-Anthems
4. Sweetest Of Sweets
5. Haec Dies
6. Regina Coeli
7. Long, Long Ago
8. A Sequence For St Michael
9. Antiphon
10. Requiem
11. Requiem
12. Requiem
13. Requiem
14. Requiem
15. Requiem
16. Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
17. Thee Will I Love

Customer Reviews:

Gorgeous modern choral music.......2006-09-19

This very reasonably priced two disc compilation first caught my eye with its beautiful cover art (carried onto the notes and even the discs themselves). Being familiar with the well-known "Long, Long Ago" and "Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing" I was eager for more of Howells' choral music. I picked up the set and have been utterly delighted with it.

The set seems designed to supplement recordings of Howells' larger choral masterpieces, and it covers most of his career. Earlier pieces, such as the "Nunc Dimittis" and "Haec Dies," are influenced by Renaissance polyphony, itself undergoing rediscovery as Howells began composing. Later works here display the full flowering of modern harmony, often in very lush accounts.

The Finzi Singers are simply marvelous. Entrances and intonation are always dead on, and the singers manage the marked chromatic and dynamic modulations flawlessly. The pieces here were recorded through the 1990's, usually in moderately resonant spaces, and with transparent engineering.

Most of these works are for unaccompanied choir, while a few have organ acccompaniment. Notes are useful without being pedantic, and the entire package is very well done. Urgently recommended to anyone who loves modern choral music, indeed to those who love choral music generally.

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