Emerson Plays Emerson [Import]

Product Description
2002 Release from Ex-elp and the Nice Keyboardist. A Mostly Solo Piano Collection of Emerson Originals Mixed with a Few Covers. Keith Performs Pastoral Mood Pieces, Film Music, a Few Jazz Tunes and Touches on his Barrelhouse Boogie Roots Too. A Must for Any Serious Piano Afficionados and of Course Elp Fans.

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Average customer rating: This Is Keith Emerson without the fanfare... period. THE MAN SPEAKS 3 stars, 1/2,as for some weak old productions resumed here!! Emerson still going He's still got it

Emerson Plays Emerson Keith Emerson Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Hammer It Out: The Anthology At the Movies Vivacitas: Live at Glasgow 2002 Pictures of an Exhibitionist Christmas Album ASIN: B000063DTD Release Date: 2002-05-13

Tracks:

1. Vagrant
2. Creole Dance
3. Solitudinous
4. Broken Bough
5. A Cajun Alley
6. Prelude To Candice (From The Film Murderock)
7. A Blade Of Grass
8. Outgoing Tide
9. Summertime (With Bass And Drums)
10. Interlude
11. Roll'n Jelly
12. B&W Blues (With Bass And Drums)
13. For Kevin
14. The Dreamer (From The Film Best Revenge)
15. Hammer It Out
16. Ballad For A Common Man
17. Barrelhouse Shakedown
18. Nilu's Dream
19. Soulscapes
20. Close To Home (Recorded Live At The Royal Albert Hall, London)
21. Honky Tonk Train Blues
22. Medley (Nicola, Silver Shoes & I'll See You In My Dreams) (Recorded Aged 14)

Album Details

2002 Release from ex-ELP and the The Nice Keyboardist. A Mostly Solo Piano Collection of Emerson Originals Mixed with a Few Covers. Keith Performs Pastoral Mood Pieces, Film Music, a Few Jazz Tunes and Touches on his Barrelhouse Boogie Roots Too. A Must for Any Serious Piano Afficionados and of Course Elp Fans.

Customer Reviews:

This Is Keith Emerson without the fanfare... period........2006-06-22

You know K.E. from The Nice? You know K.E. from Emerson, Lake & Palmer? You know K.E. from at least a couple of movie scores hes done? If you answer YES to all of this questions or at least most of them, then you konow what K.E. is all about and what he is capable of... Now with his performance in this recording he's showing the world -better yet, he's reminding the world- his passion for classical music, from which he draws his marvelous skills, without compromising on elaborate arrengements and steping out of the limelight of art-rock and/or progressive-rock. The playing is superb, that's why he IS still the wizard of the keyboards in the rock music scene.

To those readers who are NOT familiar with K.E. life long work this recording IS NOT for you or where you should start listening tho him, instead I recomend you should start where most of K.E. true fans started: Listening to ELP's FIRST album, then if you like what you hear follow his recordings in cronological secuence, going back in time to The Nice every once in a while, and then and only then, you come back to "Emerson Plays Emerson" for a full enjoyable experience of this output.

I know that I didn't say anything about the songs in particular, but that's just it, my humble opinion IS NOT about the songlist, IS ABOUT THE ARTIST and the work contained herein.

THE MAN SPEAKS.......2005-01-31

I love Keith and this is a must album for anyone that admires his talent. It is one thing to keep ones interest with synthesizers, organ, and production techniques but he proved a good point by doing an album with minimal instrumentation. This album I feel, bares his artistry and brings you to the root of his awesome talent. Keith, perhaps you read my critique' on the Honky album and decided to take my idea. If you did, you owe me a beverage or two. Thanks, Al.

3 stars, 1/2,as for some weak old productions resumed here!!.......2004-03-31

To me this is an excellent excursion into the remarkable career regarding the activity of K.Emerson as a musician. Since the early sixties He passed through interesting collaborations, as long as He became the most famous keyboards' wizard within the Progressive scene in the UK. it's difficult to choose a particular track here, but I think of his most recent tracks, whose production is very good..instead the old ones are weak from this point of view..it neverminds, this album can follow you, through your car travels all over the world, because it's very relaxing and of course very well performed too!!

Good listen!!

Emerson still going.......2004-01-16

A pricey import which starts out strong, then with live and trio cuts gets weaker with re-hashing of 12 bar blues Emerson style. Changing States from '95 was the dream disc I always knew he could do. This disc isn't quite as solid.

He's still got it.......2003-02-24

Good things comes to those who wait. Keith has not been releasing music with regularity, to say the least, in the 90's and later. And while it is true that some of the tracks on this collection are available on other recordings, this is a great way to experience the unique Emerson talent. You won't hear any screaming synthesizers here. Instead, you just get piano, piano, and more piano. This collection has a little jazz, a little new age, a little of everything. Even if you just like "piano music", and not necessarily the Keith Emerson style, you'll probably enjoy this, without even knowing who it is.

Average customer rating: Very Good Keith's Finest Solo Collection

Emerson Plays Emerson Keith Emerson Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000641QF Release Date: 2002-05-22

Tracks:

1. Vagrant
2. Creole Dance
3. Solitudinous
4. Broken Bough
5. Cajun Alley
6. Prelude to Candice [From Murderock]
7. Blade of Grass
8. Outgoing Tide
9. Summertime
10. Interlude
11. Roll'n Jelly
12. B&W Blues
13. For Kevin
14. Dreamer [From Best Revenge]
15. Hammer It Out
16. Ballad for a Common Man
17. Barrelhouse Shakedown
18. Nilu's Dream
19. Soulscapes
20. Close to Home
21. Honky Tonk Train Blues - Big Band, Keith Emerson, Oscar Peterson
22. Medley: Nicola/Silver Shoes/I'll See You in My Dreams

Album Details

2002 Release from Ex-elp and the Nice Keyboardist. A Mostly Solo Piano Collection of Emerson Originals Mixed with a Few Covers. Keith Performs Pastoral Mood Pieces, Film Music, a Few Jazz Tunes and Touches on his Barrelhouse Boogie Roots Too. A Must for Any Serious Piano Afficionados and of Course Elp Fans.

Customer Reviews:

Very Good.......2007-05-24

This is fine set of recordings, which is well worth getting before it becomes unavailable. Apart from "Close to Home" which does appear to have some effects added to original the Piano sound, this is Keith Emerson playing his own grand Piano.

So if you like solo Piano (although there are a couple of Jazz Trio tracks as well), in a variety of different styles this is well worth buying. My favourite track is the duet with Oscar Peterson on Honky Tonk Train Blues.

Keiths own sleevenotes give a little insight into each track and the whole CD shows what a great talent the man is.

Keith's Finest Solo Collection.......2002-12-07

If you were going to buy one Emerson solo CD that says it all, then you've found it. Everything on this CD is worth listening to, but it's definitely for piano lovers. It shines.

Average customer rating: Interesting, historically important CD man and machine Ives speaks for himself, better late than never. Recordings of a Twentieth Century Master Precious moments with America's greatest composer.

Ives Plays Ives / Record # 4 in "Charles Ives, the 100th Anniversary" Manufacturer: Composers Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000K2FD Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

1. June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Beg.)
2. June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (End)
3. June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
4. June 12,1933: Improvisation On A Passage In Study No. 23, Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 2, And Emerson Overture's Cadenza No. 4 (With False Start)
5. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
6. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
7. Mid 1930s: Study No. 11 (Abandoned)
8. Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
9. Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
10. Mid 1930s: Patch For Study No. 23
11. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
12. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
13. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
14. Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
15. May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Beg.)
16. May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (End)
17. May 11,1938: Study No. 11
18. May 11,1938: Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots
19. May 11,1938: Study No. 2 with false start
20. May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (Beg.)
21. May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (End)
22. May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
23. May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Abandoned)
24. May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Middle)
25. May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
26. May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No. 1
27. May 11,1938: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Hawthorne' (Excerpt)
28. May 11,1938: Symphony No. 1 - Rejected Mvt. 2 (Largo)
29. May 11,1938: Unidentified (Improvisation On The 'Sunrise' Cadenza'?)
30. May 11,1938: Study No. 20 (Partial)
31. May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No.3
32. April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
33. April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
34. April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
35. April 24, 1943: Study No. 2 + Study No. 23 (Mixed)
36. April 24, 1943: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Abandoned)
37. April 24, 1943: Study No.9: The Anti-Abolishonist Riots
38. April 24, 1943: They Are There!, First Take (Abandoned)
39. April 24, 1943: They Are There!, Second Take
40. 1943/04/24 They Are There!, Third Take
41. April 24, 1943: March No. 6 For Piano With 'Here's To Good Old Yale'
42. April 24, 1943: Sonata No.2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 'The Alcotts'

Amazon.com essential recording

In his lifetime, maverick composer Charles Ives entered the recording studio only four times, mostly to hear (and tinker with) his works in progress. He ended up doing 42 takes of 17 different pieces on the piano, all recorded between 1933 and 1943: everything from snippets of the unfinished Emerson Concerto to his rousing wartime anthem "They Are There!" It's a varied lot, to say the least, but now we have his complete recordings on one CD. The sound quality isn't great and you can easily hear how frustrated Ives is by the newfangled technology (recording techniques restricted his playing to five minute chunks). That said, you couldn't ask for a greater insight into the composer.

Most of these pieces derive from Ives's unfinished Emerson concerto for piano and orchestra, but the entire package is one big treasure chest. Here we have the composer at work: improvising, (occasionally) frustrated, frenzied, and--most of all--creative. His playing is as off-the-wall as you can imagine: fast, improvised, with failed notes galore, and occasionally spot-on. Highlights abound--just check out "The Alcotts" from the Concord Sonata (No. 2) to hear him at his performance peak--but the most memorable cuts feature Ives himself singing. His three versions of the wartime anthem "We Are There!" should give hope to any struggling vocalist... for a career either selling insurance or composing great music. Yes, his voice is simply awful, but the music and history contained on this disc are breathtaking. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, historically important CD.......2005-08-16

To hear Ives play his own works is a real treasure. Of course, the recording quality is spotty at best, and the tracks recorded on the Speak-O-Phone are sometimes almost unbearable to hear.

But other tracks have excellent sound and you can catch Ives at his creative and offbeat best.

Those willing to bear with the sound limitations will be well rewarded when they hear the final track 42, which is particularly beautiful and because it comes indirectly from a tape transfer has better sound quality.

man and machine.......2002-04-09

This is a fantastic peek at the complexities of the recording art.. Charlie was lucky to have access to recording technology, and yet it was quite frustrating for him.

Easy to forget the 'miracle.' John Kirkpatrick once told me that his recording of the Concord required something like 43 different 'takes' (if you will); I guess I had assumed it was just one run through.

I'm grateful for all the 'Emerson' here. It is my favorite part of Concord. I heard some of these recordings back in '73, and they really have been lovingly upgraded. Thank you for making these available to us.

Ives speaks for himself, better late than never........2001-12-07

Shades of Cecil Taylor! This collection flies in the face of attempts to create "definitive" performance scores for Ives' compositions. The composer who imagined a world without symphony orchestras, where one simply thought-created the music while contemplating nature, can hardly be tied down to an engraving of notes. It wasn't only the skill to perform his compositions that Ives demanded of musicians, but the spirit to enter into them - a conceptual understanding & a will to get at them from the inside out.

I still believe Charlie was willfully naive & had a neurotic fear of success. While he looked over his shoulder at the "Rollos" of American music, as if they mattered, he missed out on the emergence of the very generation of composers & artists who were his exact, or nearly exact, contemporaries. There was no Armory Show in Ives' world; no Alfred Stieglitz; no Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams; no Arensberg salon. He worked himself half to death & shamelessly let younger men do the heavy lifting of his reputation. This recording shows how revelatory Ives might have been to Europeans, had he gone to bat "over there" for his own art when he was both healthy & wealthy. Ives took a great gamble with his art. Thank heavens it paid off.

Recordings of a Twentieth Century Master.......2001-11-06

The preceeding descriptions of the music are good. I just wanted to add this: The playing and singing of '...They are there!' that Ives demonstrates towwards the end of the disc is some really musicially sensitive stuff. It is what Charles Ives is all about; no 'rollo,' no inhibitions, just playing and expression without self consciousness. I would very strongly recommend this recording to anyone who improvises and anyone who composes; you really should hear this. However, for anyone, hearing genius at the piano is good fun and very interesting...

Precious moments with America's greatest composer........2000-05-12

The millenium's over, the ballots are in, and the winner of the Most Important Twentieth Century American Composer title is--still--Charles Ives. Ives was a great composer with his own voice, a lofty vision, and sense of humor besides. He was also a nationalist, but in the best way, overtly embracing the music which meant the most to his countrymen--hymns, popular tunes, the mainline classics--and adapting it for his own use.
Ives' music is likely among the most complicated ever put on a page, and generations of musicians have wondered if they had broken Ives' code and were playing it the way he wanted it. Wonder no more! This CD presents rare examples of Ives playing his own stuff. The good news is that performers pretty much had it right. The bad news is that the music here is strictly for the Ives fanatic. Don't start your Ives recording collection here. Even with the most ingenious digital enhancement, the sound quality is generally poor and way too much time is spent on those damnable Emerson studies and other recondite repertoire. But the performances of "They are there," are a lot of fun, and the reading of "The Alcotts" is revelatory. So is that enough to make the CD worth getting? Darned right!!

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