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16. Adios - Kiki D Aki

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Average customer rating: Outstanding It's not heavy breathing Technically good, emotionally bland. Highly recommended just a warning...

Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol.1-5 Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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 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 | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | 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: Baroque Lute Music, Vol. 1 Early Venetian Lute Music Weiss: Sonatas for Lute, Volume 1 Royal Lewters: Music of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I's Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley ASIN: B0000007HU Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

1. A Piece Without Title - Dowland
2. Pavana - Dowland
3. Mr Knights Galliard - Dowland
4. My lord willobies wellcome home - Dowland
5. The frogg galliard - Dowland
6. A Fancy - Dowland
7. My Ladie Riches galyerd - Dowland
8. The Lady Laitons Almone - Dowland
9. A Dream (Lady Leighton's Paven) - Dowland
10. Galliard - Dowland
11. Orlando sleepeth - Dowland
12. What if a Day - Dowland
13. Mrs Winters Jumpp - Dowland
14. Galliard - Dowland
15. M. Giles Hobies Galiard - Dowland
16. Dr Cases Pauen - Dowland
17. Mellancoly Galliard - Dowland
18. Galliard - Dowland
19. Mistris Whittes thinge - Dowland
20. Go from my windowe - Dowland
21. Almain - Dowland
22. Mrs Whites Nothing - Dowland
23. Pavan - Dowland
24. Galliard - Dowland
25. Farewell - Dowland

Tracks:

1. My lady hunnsdons puffe
2. Solus cum sola
3. Suzanna Galliard
4. Sir John Smith his Almain
5. Sweet Robyne
6. Dowlands first galliard
7. Master Pypers Pavyn
8. Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard
9. As I wen to Walsingham
10. Monsieur's Almaine
11. Mrs Brigide fleetwoods paven alias Solus sine sola
12. Dowlands Galliard
13. Farwell (As
14. Captain Candishe his Galyard
15. Aloe
16. Can she excuse
17. A Coye Joye
18. Mrs vauxes Gigge
19. Mrs vaux Galliarde
20. Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine
21. Mignarda
22. Lachrimae
23. Sir John Souch his galliard
24. Fantasia

Tracks:

1. The most high and mightie Christianus, the fourth King of Denmark, his Galliard
2. Sir John Langton his Pavin
3. Mr. Langtons galliard
4. A Fancy
5. A Pavan
6. The most sacred Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard
7. Mrs. Cliftons Allmaine
8. The Right Honourable the Lady Cliftons Spirit
9. tarletones riserrectione
10. Tarletons Willy
11. fortune my foe
12. The Queenes galliard
13. Wallsingham
14. A Galliard (on Walsingham)
15. Dowlands Adew for Master Oliver Cromwell
16. The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earle of Darby, his Galliard
17. Lord Strangs March
18. Mistresse Nichols Almand
19. forlone Hope fancye
20. Mr. Dowlands Midnight
21. Semper Dowland semper dolens

Tracks:

1. Preludium
2. A Fancy
3. Lachrimae
4. Galliard to Lachrimae
5. A Fantasia
6. An Almand
7. Pavana
8. The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard
9. A Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel Bachelar)
10. My Lord Wilobies Welcom Home
11. The Shoemakers Wife. A Toy
12. The Right Hounourable The Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard
13. Coranto
14. A Galliard
15. The Lady Russells Paven
16. Galliard (on Awake sweet love, set by Fr. Cutting)
17. The Frog Galliard
18. Come Away
19. La mia Barbara
20. Loth to Departe

Tracks:

1. A Fancy
2. Pavana Dowlandi Angli (Mylius #2)
3. Doulands rounde battell galyarde
4. Pavin
5. The Erle of Darbies Galiard
6. Mistris Norrishis Delight
7. A Jig
8. The Erle of Essex Galliard
9. Galliard
10. Une Jeune Fillette
11. Gagliarda
12. Pavana Lachrimae
13. Squires Galliard
14. A Fancy
15. Hasellwoods Galliard
16. Sir Thomas Monson, his Pavin
17. Sir Thomas Monson, his Galliard
18. Almande
19. Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
20. Captayne Pipers Galliard
21. A fantasie

Amazon.com

Dowland did for lute music what Haydn did for the string quartet and Beethoven the piano sonata. The finest lutenist and songwriter of his age--he composed several of the greatest hits of the late 16th and early 17th centuries--the surviving lute works constitute a sort of encyclopedia of the possibilities of the instrument. There are song arrangements, dance pieces, tributes to the composer's friends, even a musical self-portrait. Much of the music is fashionably sad. Lute songs generally deal with the agony of lost love, and Dowland's most popular tune was called Lachrimae (Tears). Paul O'Dette is simply the best lutenist alive. These five discs are available together at a special price, or separately. A reference edition. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

Outstanding.......2007-03-31

If you are a fan of the music of John Dowland, you must own this CD. The playing is outstanding to say the least.

It's not heavy breathing.......2006-08-22

It's great that O'Dette gives us the complete solo works, of course. I have the common reaction to O'Dette: his technique is flawless, his performance unengaging.

Others have remarked on the "heavy breathing" noticeable on the recordings -- it's not heavy breathing, but the movement of his fingers on the gut strings making that sound.

Technically good, emotionally bland. .......2006-04-11

Considering the extreme paucity of (especially solo) lute recordings currently available worldwide,
but especially in the US, this set becomes an essential "must have" for all lovers of the lute.
Yet it somehow disappoints.
I am sure that Paul O'Dette is brimming over with virtuousity and a technical expertise
that I am hardly one to pass sound judgement upon.
But the recordings have a flatness and monotony;
the songs are rendered with precision, but seem to lack feeling, empathy, or enthusiasm throughout the offering.
It is an impressive compendium, and I'm glad I purchased it.
There are very few lutenists out there producing any music at all, so Mr. O'Dette should certainly be praised
for delivering such a substantial feast to our ears.
It just should have had more flavor.
Where is Konrad Ragossnig when you need him?

Highly recommended.......2005-10-23

I bought Volume 1 of this set a couple of years ago. It has become one of my favorite CDs, so I thought I would enjoy the full set. I have not been disappointed. I find the sound quality excellent, the playing superb. The included booklet has a lot of interesting background material. The music is great as background for a dinner party or intimate conversation, but has depth aplenty for concentrated listening. I often listen to it while working at the computer where I swear it improves concentration and productivity!

A few tunes appear more than once as Dowland reused some work, but the arrangements are sufficiently different to be interesting. It is his complete lute works, after all. Some might criticise the set for sounding too much in the same style. It is the work of one composer, and if you happen to like the style, as I do, this is a pro rather than a con.

Another reviewer mentioned obtrusive breathing on the recording. I had listened to Volume 1 for two years before reading the review and had not noticed this. On listening carefully, there is breathing audible, but I do not find it a problem. Perhaps it depends whether one listens to the music or the background.

just a warning..........2005-10-14

Beautiful music, but... you can hear Paul's heavy breathing throughout. Apparently a lot of other reviewers either don't hear the heavy breathing, or aren't bothered by it, but for me, it's a near deal-breaker. Go ahead and mark my review as unhelpful, but I had to put the warning out there.

Average customer rating: A musical treasure-box a beautiful journey into melancholy

Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by White | White, Robert | ( W ) | 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 Sacred & Religious | 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 Recorder | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Lute | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music Blowout Box Sets | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | 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 Dowland, John | ( D ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Holborne, Anthony | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music White, Robert | ( W ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Bargain Box Sets | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Bargain Box Sets | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol.1-5 William Byrd: Consort Songs Bach: The Landowska Recordings Britten Conducts Britten Janácek: Operas ASIN: B000004CYV Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

1. First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
2. First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
3. First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
4. First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
5. First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
6. First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
7. First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
8. First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
9. First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
10. First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
11. First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
12. First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
13. First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
14. First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
15. First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
16. First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
17. First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
18. First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
19. First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
20. First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
21. First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

1. Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
2. Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
3. Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
4. Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
5. Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
6. Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
7. Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
8. Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
9. Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
10. Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
11. Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
12. Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
13. Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
14. Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
15. Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
16. Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
17. Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
18. Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
19. Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
20. Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
21. Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
22. Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

1. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
2. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
3. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
4. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
5. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
6. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
7. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
8. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
9. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
10. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
11. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
12. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
13. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
14. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
15. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
16. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
17. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
18. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
19. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
20. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
21. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

1. A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
2. A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
3. A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
4. A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
5. A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
6. A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
7. A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
8. A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
9. A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
10. A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
11. A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
12. A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
13. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
14. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
15. A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
16. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

1. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
2. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
3. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
4. A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
5. A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
6. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
7. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
8. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
9. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
10. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
11. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
12. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
13. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
14. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
15. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
16. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
17. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

1. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
2. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
3. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
4. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
5. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
6. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
7. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
8. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
9. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
10. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
11. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
12. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
13. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
14. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
15. Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
16. Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
17. Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
18. Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
19. Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
20. Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
21. Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
22. Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
23. Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
24. Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
25. Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
26. Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
27. Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
28. Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

1. Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
2. Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
3. Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
4. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
5. Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
6. Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
7. Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
8. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
9. Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
10. A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
11. Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
12. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
13. Instrumental Music: Galliard
14. Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
15. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
16. Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
17. Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
18. Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
19. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
20. Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
21. Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
22. Instrumental Music: Comagain
23. Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
24. Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Preludium
2. Lute Music: Lachrimae
3. Lute Music: Can She Excuse
4. Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
5. Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
6. Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
7. Lute Music: Fantasia
8. Lute Music: A Dream
9. Lute Music: Almain
10. Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
11. Lute Music: Coranto
12. Lute Music: Resolution
13. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
14. Lute Music: Almain
15. Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
16. Lute Music: Fantasia
17. Lute Music: Loth To Depart
18. Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
19. Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
20. Lute Music: Pavan
21. Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
22. Lute Music: Aloe
23. Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
24. Lute Music: What If A Day
25. Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
26. Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
27. Lute Music: Galliard
28. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
2. Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
3. Lute Music: [Jig]
4. Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
5. Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
6. Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
7. Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
8. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
9. Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
10. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
11. Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
12. Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
13. Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
14. Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
15. Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
16. Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
17. Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
18. Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
19. Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
20. Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
21. Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
22. Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
23. Lute Music: Galliard
24. Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
25. Lute Music: Galliard
26. Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
27. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
2. Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
3. Lute Music: La mia Barbara
4. Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
5. Lute Music: Lachrimae
6. Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
7. Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
8. Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
9. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
10. Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
11. Lute Music: Galliard
12. Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
13. Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
14. Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
15. Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
16. Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
17. Lute Music: Galliard
18. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
19. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
20. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
21. Lute Music: Solus cum sola
22. Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
23. Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
24. Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
25. Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
26. Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

1. Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
2. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
3. Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
4. Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
5. Lute Music: A Coy Toy
6. Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
7. Lute Music: [Almain]
8. Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
9. Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
10. Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
11. Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
12. Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
13. Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
14. Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
15. Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
16. Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
17. Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
18. Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
19. Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
20. Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
21. Consort Music: Almain a 2
22. Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
23. Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
24. Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
25. Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
26. Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
27. Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

1. Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
2. Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
3. Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
4. Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
5. Consort Music: Pavan a 4
6. A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
7. A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
8. A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
9. A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
10. A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
11. A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
12. A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
13. A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
14. A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
15. A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
16. A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
17. A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
18. A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
19. A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
20. A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
21. A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
22. A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
23. A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
24. A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
25. A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).

Average customer rating: Buy This Sit back and relax

Good Night, Witness Light Daphne Loves Derby Manufacturer: Outlook Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: On the Strength of All Convinced A Different Light Southern Weather The Well A Better View Of The Rising Moon ASIN: B000NA1YSY Release Date: 2007-03-27

Tracks:

1. Are Two Chords Enough, Dear?
2. Stranger, You And I
3. Iron In the Backseat
4. No One Is Convinced
5. Marching Band Intro
6. That's Our Hero Shot
7. To Struggle With Light Colors
8. Cue the Sun!
9. Miniature Christmas Tree
10. Love & Mercy
11. Hello Color Red
12. The Best Part About It Honey
13. How's It Going To End?

Customer Reviews:

Buy This.......2007-05-12

I'm more of the type that listens to heavy metal or harder rock then Daphne Loves Derby, but every so often i like to calm it down and listen to something mellow, and this is the cd i listen to. It's a great cd and everyone should buy it.

Sit back and relax.......2007-05-07

This band is amazing. They are calm, but at the same time they invoke different emotions. The song "Our Hero Shot" is amazing, especially because they use a marching band, which is very different. And the song "Cue the Sun" is very emotional! The singers voice is calming, but slightly emo at the same time. Very good cd for those who like indie/emo.

Average customer rating: Neither Circus nor Spectacular, but it is Karl King. Great circus music Good music, mediocre playing Review of Circus Spectacular Circus Spectacular

Circus Spectacular Manufacturer: Vox (Classical) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Jazz | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Grand Old Circus Band Circus Music from the Big Top Under the Big Top: 100 Years of Circus Music Screamers (Circus Marches) Circus Clown Calliope ASIN: B000001KEZ Release Date: 1997-02-18

Tracks:

1. Sells-Floto Triumphal March
2. Voice of America
3. The Home Town Boy March
4. Wings for Peace
5. 'Loyalty' March
6. Prestissimo Galop
7. Emblem Of Freedom
8. Our Heritage
9. We Stand United
10. Glorious America
11. The Kentucky Derby
12. Yellowstone Trail March
13. On The Warpath, Indian War Dance
14. Broadway One-Step Or Two-Step
15. The American Way
16. The Joy Riders, March & Two Step
17. Bombardier March
18. Diplomacy March
19. Aviation Tournament March
20. Call To Victory March
21. Thumbs-Up US.A. March
22. Step On It! March
23. Fete Triumphal March
24. The Victor March
25. Mountain Trail March
26. The Defending Circle March
27. Canton Aero Club March
28. Auld Lang Syne March

Customer Reviews:

Neither Circus nor Spectacular, but it is Karl King........2006-10-15

Having played a number of times under Karl King, I had great expectations for this CD. Alas, it was not to be. The music is there, the musicians play all the right notes and the conductor keeps time. The recording is only mediocre, of Laserlight quality, and the performance is not what I expected from what they call a "Circus Band." Indeed, the liner notes state that the band is mostly students and professionals from the Philadelphia area. In other words, a "pick up" band. And the conductor seems to have no circus experience only small town symphony experience (from the puffery in the liner notes). From listening, it would appear that he has never even heard a real circus band. Both conductor and band would not last a day at a real circus. I do have a suspicion, however, that the musicians would do better under a better conductor.

Now, if they called themselves a concert band, that would be accurate and fair, and would not have dashed my hopes, as they are OK as a concert band. But just OK.

Of course, a concert band can indeed generate all the excitement of a bona fide circus band, as Frederick Fennell so aptly demonstrated on his Mercury recordings.

Now, if you want real circus music played by a real circus band, get a Merle Evans recording.

However, having said all that, I will keep the album, as I have always been a Karl King fan, and it is fine music decently played by an OK concert band.

Great circus music.......2005-08-12

I needed some circus music to promote a fundraiser our Lion's club was having (a circus). I got the CD on time and it sounded great. I could not find this type of music anywhere else. Thanks.

Good music, mediocre playing.......2001-11-19

It was indeed exciting to find so many of Karl King's marches on one disc. The band's playing, however leaves a lot to be desired, as does the sound quality of the disc. The balance is poor, with a very annoying tenor sax playing loud and out-of-tune on every cut. Buy this if you are a march collector (which I am), but I do not recommend it for its entertainment value. Get the "Screamers" disc by Fennell and Eastman for a far superior set of circus marches with great playing and sound.

Review of Circus Spectacular.......2000-12-07

Certainly the best thing about this CD is that there are many of Karl King's marches that have probably never been recorded previously, which is curious, since some of them rank with his best. The curious thing about this CD, on the other hand, is that it is supposedly a circus album, but only a few marches were actually written for the "big top". This band is not the best I have heard - recommend listening with headphones, to get a much clearer, less muddled sound. King was only kind of a contemporary of Sousa, having lived 35-40 years later. He actually published more marches than Sousa, and generally wrote in a style that was "softer" than the March King. Sousa wrote mostly military-style marches (better than anyone else ever has, of course), whereas King wrote many military as well as circus marches, and marches in a simpler style, suitable for school bands.

Circus Spectacular.......2000-08-12

This recording of music by Karl King is absolutely splendid -it contains 28 tracks most of which I have certainly not heard before - I particularly liked the tempos of the marches - not too quick but just right - the band is good (although I had never heard of them) - I came across this recording by chance and I'm glad I did - highly recommended

Average customer rating: Melody of a Fallen Tree

We Fight Til Death Windsor for the Derby Manufacturer: Secretly Canadian ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pet Grief Lesser Matters Emotional Rescue Lp Marie Antoinette Difference and Repetition ASIN: B0002IQG3U Release Date: 2004-08-17

Tracks:

1. The Melody Of A Fallen Tree
2. The Cutter
3. Nightengale
4. The Door Is Red
5. Logic And Suprise
6. Black Coats
7. A Spring Like Sixty
8. For People Unknown
9. We Fight Til Death
10. Flight

Album Description

This year Windsor For The Derby celebrates its tenth year with the release of its fifth full-length, We Fight Til Death. Over those ten years Dan Matz (newly relocated to Philadelphia) and Jason McNeely (from Austin) have managed to arduously maintain this project over many miles. Those years have seen many personnel changes and much help from their talented friends. Over the last few years, Timothy White and Ben Cissner have jumped on board to lend their invaluable assistance to WFTD and help create a solid quartet. We Fight Til Death finds WFTD in Bloomington with Dan Burton (Early Day Miners, Ativin) at the controls. This album was recorded and mixed over the last year at Grotto Home Studio with Burton and a few other locals sitting in. WFTD find a way to take each release to a wholly different trajectory while at the same time creating a progressive connection to the last. The skewed pop sensibilities of The Emotional Rescue are hinted at on We Fight Til Death, as well as the dark refrains of 1998's Minnie Greutzfeldt. By combining elements of previous releases and exploring new terrain, We Fight Til Death is Windsor For The Derby's most realized release to date.

Customer Reviews:

Melody of a Fallen Tree.......2005-02-26

From my BlogSpot site: "The Boy Reviewer"


We Fight Til Death, the latest release from Dan Matz (The Birdwatcher) and Jason McNeeley, is by far WFTD's most accessible work to date. The influence of Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, Bedhead), although he is absent from the current WFTD lineup, is still felt on this album. The opening track, "The Melody of a Fallen Tree," recalls an early Bedhead tooling around on top of the rhythm section from New Order's "Temptation." Anyone who has heard Bedhead's cover of "Disorder" can imagine this without taxing their imagination too much: just speed it up and add a melody. "For People Unknown" gives a nod to Can's "Mother Sky", but adds a certain emo feel to the oft-covered and oft-riffed tune. The organ on this track adds a nice dark touch. Imagine a ghostly couples-only song at a haunted high-school skate night, or any scene from Carnival of Lost Souls. "Black Coats" and "We Fight Til Death" are the most driving tracks on this album. Sombre, melancholy and raging at the same time, they represent a WFTD lineup that has found the right blend of rhythmic backbone and minor key introspection that have always been characteristics of WFTD, but rarely saw expression in the same track.

It's not too unusual these days for a new record to evoke the Factory Records sound, the washed thrashing timbres of Sonic Youth's alternate tunings, or the throbbing psychotropic dronings of a Kraut-rock dirge. What is rare, is for a record to distill the essential oils from each of these staples and combine them into a fresh, undated, non-derivative potion. Windsor for the Derby's latest album does just this.

Average customer rating: American Sorta-Beauties Good, but not great good Exquisite! Excellent Rags Played with Gusto

American Beauties: The Rags of Joseph Lamb Virginia Eskin Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics 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 | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Complete Stark Rags of Joseph F. Lamb James Scott: The Complete Works 1903-1922 The Greatest Ragtime of the Century Knockout Drops The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra (finally) Plays "The Entertainer" ASIN: B00004SC17 Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

1. Walper House Rag
2. The Alaskan Rag
3. Ragtime Reverie
4. Brown Derbie No.2
5. Alabama Rag
6. Arctic Sunset
7. Bird-Brain Rag
8. Cottontail Rag
9. Hot Cinders
10. Ragtime Bobolink
11. The Old Home Rag
12. Firefly Rag
13. Thouroughbred Rag
14. Toad Stool Rag
15. Sensation
16. Ethiopia
17. Excelsior
18. American Beauty Rag
19. Patricia Rag
20. Nightingale Rag

Amazon.com

Joseph Lamb, a white musician who lived from 1887 to 1960, was considered one of the major ragtime composers of his era. By the end of his life, he had fallen into total obscurity, and even the ragtime revival hasn't made him a household name. His rags are different in style from Scott Joplin's, generally briefer and simpler in construction but still filled with lovely melodies and unaffected charm. The "American Beauty Rag," from which this disc takes its name, is only one of Lamb's many delicious miniatures (most of them under three minutes). Virginia Eskin has the style of this music down perfectly. She plays with just the right tempos (a trifle faster than would be appropriate for most of Joplin) and a lyrical sensitivity that doesn't prevent her from showing rhythmic drive. We're used to more than 49 minutes of music on most CDs, but 20 of Lamb's rags in a row are enough for one listening session. Don't give up before you reach the last one, though; "Nightingale Rag" is one of Lamb's best. A fascinating byway in American music is effectively explored and presented in realistic sound. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

American Sorta-Beauties.......2007-05-06

Ms. Eskin certainly can play piano. She can certainly read music. And she can combine the two well enough. What I found most distracting about this album, however, isn't the fact that she doesn't repeat many of the measures. It's that she tends occasionally to hit clinkers. After the first one or two, I found myself listening more closely for mistakes than actually enjoying the music. Another problem with this album is that her renditions are too bulky and heavy. I've heard much cleaner-sounding performances of Lamb's work.

I paid the money so I don't intend to return the CD. But it'll play well enough in my noisy car driving to and from work.

Good, but not great.......2005-10-10

I have owned this album since June 2000, and it inspired me at the time to find out more online and even to compose some rags of my own. It turns out that many of the melodies are made more "logical" by Eskin. However, she does use too much pedal, and she also does not take most of the repeats. It is unfortunate that she repeats only the first strain of "Ragtime Reverie," for there are no on-demand recordings of that work over the Internet.

good.......2005-07-31

its a good album but not very good
first of all in several rags virgina doesn't repeat where it says it must. second she plays several rags way to fast. Joe lamb was just like the others that ragtime must not be played fast the feeling get lost in the a rag that is played to fast like ragtime nightingale. I have the sheetmusic myself and it says "slow march tempo" not fast like virginia it plays.
but its a good album she plays with flair and style

Exquisite!.......2002-12-29

Joseph F. Lamb is generally thought of as one of the three greatest of the classical ragtime composers, the others being Scott Joplin and James Scott. It's a matter of taste, but many rank him almost as highly as Joplin, and this exquisite album shows why. Lamb's rags typically soar with wonderful, reverie-evoking melodies, unmatched in the ragtime canon. These melodies are offset by original, exciting, brisk passages. Virginia Eskin executes these gems wonderfully. She presents them always at the proper tempo and as written, without the filigrees that are so common in ragtime playing (Lamb doesn't need them!). The only drawback -- and it is a very minor one -- is that she sometimes treads a little too heavily on the pedal. This album is essential in even a small ragtime collection. In my large collection, it is one of my favorite and oft-played treasures.

Excellent Rags Played with Gusto.......2002-08-04

Up until Joseph Lamb, the only ragtime composer who could satisfy me was Scott Joplin. These rags are excellent and distinctly different from Joplin's, although both composers are obviously from the same genre. According to the liner notes, they even knew each other.

The pianist has a great love of the material, and it shows in her playing.

I highly recommend this CD to all fans of ragtime.

Average customer rating: Daphne Loves Derby Great Album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Emo! No, really! We are! A tad cheesy and a guilty pleasure, but every song is good and they have genuine heart and soul - only for emo fans - 4.5 stars Much more than a cookie cutter emo-pop band

On the Strength of All Convinced Daphne Loves Derby Manufacturer: Outlook Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Good Night, Witness Light Sing, But Keep Going Composure Our Worlds Divorce Sleepwalker ASIN: B000A2H6V4 Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Sundays
2. Hammers And Hearts
3. A Year On An Airplane
4. Birthday Gallery
5. You Versus The Sea
6. Kirby
7. Middle Middle
8. Pollen And Salt
9. If You're Lucky No One Will Get Hurt
10. Debussie
11. What We Have Been Waiting For
12. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews:

Daphne Loves Derby.......2007-01-06

This is a great album! It's poppy and fun and it is overall good from start to finsih. It's nothing super special or unique but it is music that is done really well. The songs are written great and the vocals are awesome! For fans of the poppy emo music this is a great record to consider adding to the collection! It really is a good time

Great Album.......2006-05-30

This is a great album. Give these young lads some credit where credit is due.

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Emo! No, really! We are!.......2006-04-15

Nothing new here, folks. Same old/new formula. These boys should decide on a direction and follow it, just please don't turn into another 3-piece "Blink-N-Green" clone. God knows we need more of "those", eh?

A tad cheesy and a guilty pleasure, but every song is good and they have genuine heart and soul - only for emo fans - 4.5 stars.......2006-01-08

Daphne Loves Derby is pretty cheesy and a guilty pleasure, but they have genuine heart. Their problem is that they aren't entirely appealing to non-emo fans. The singer, especially, is not for everyone as he as a distinctly whiny voice. Thankfully every song is good and the lyrics are somewhat deep and worth hearing. The musicianship is slightly lo-fi indie rock with a little garage rock and acoustic guitars thrown in, but it's usually good (though more catchy than interesting I think). They certainly know how to create a great hook. It was a hard decision to make, but I don't think I could give this "5" stars. It doesn't seem to really "wow" me enough, I suppose. It's definitely not an album that most people will enjoy, but emo fans will like it a lot. If you like this album I would also highly recommend JamisonParkers' "Sleepwalker". Recommended!

Highlgihts include:
the entire album!

Much more than a cookie cutter emo-pop band.......2005-11-12

I've been a DLD fan for some time now. I saw them live in 2004 and bought the self titled CD. It was awesome. Almost every song acoustic and mellow. A truly great band with awesome talent. Later, DLD released an EP. Sadly, it didn't really meet the greatness that their full-length did. It tried to be more powerful by getting rid of the acoustic thing, but failed and just made a decent atmospheric emo CD. I didn't lose faith though, and waited for this CD to come out. "On the strength of all convinced" is the CD fans have been waiting for. It's also the band's first foray out of the indie scene. They've finally achieved the status that's been needed for so long, probably through means of the internet.

At first I was skeptical about this CD. It sounded much like an extended version of "closing down the pattern department." I felt that DLD had failed me again. Still though, i listened on. Finally, I found some common ground in the song: Pollen and Salt. It sounded like something off of their first release. It had that raw acoustic guitar talent that seemed to be missing from CDTPD. After that, the whole album just clicked. Every song became enjoyable. The fact is, DLD have finally found their sound. Previously they couldn't decide if they wanted to do acoustic music or upbeat power popish stuff. With OTSOAC, they prove that they can do both at once. They prove it well.

Everything great about DLD recieves an upgrade here. It's about time too! There's so much to like about this record, I could go on forever. Firstly, Kenny's lyrical talent has expanded greatly. Given, he has always been great with wording but it truly shines here. Especially in songs like "a year on an airplane" where Kenny shows he can use metaphor quite well.

Another awesome thing about this CD is the variation. It's not often that a band can make a CD of songs this diverse, and keep up the pace throughout. A problem I had with the full-length was that there were a couple of songs that sort of sucked, despite the other ones being awesome. OTSOAC eliminates this issue, by making every song a fresh and enjoyable experience.

DLD has evolved into something that defies the boundaries of EMO band. Yes, a lot of songs here are optimistic. Would you look at that? An emo band that doesn't just sing about heartbreak and hurt! I guarantee the upbeatness found here will put a smile on most anyone's face. Great stuff

As some of you might know, DLD is from Seattle, and it shows, moreso on here that ever. The influences are pretty obvious. Copeland, Jimmy Eat World, any emo related or indie band. Don't get me wrong though, DLD sounds much different than all those bands. They have such a unique sound. There will always be people that say they are only riding the emo-pop band wagon, but I refuse to believe that. They have been around too long to be called an imitation.

I would highly recommend this for fans of copeland or Jimmy eat world. DLD is also on tour right now so visit the wedsite for dates. You won't be dissapointed.

Average customer rating: Authentic folk music

The Sounds of Kentucky Angela Bartley Manufacturer: Angela Bartley ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lucky Numbers My Old Kentucky Home ASIN: B00004S8ZK Release Date: 1999-04-01

Tracks:

1. "Call to the Post" (Angela Bartley)
2. "Theyre Off" (Mike Battaglia)
3. "Run for the Roses (Angela Bartley, vocals and trumpet Pfilil Stirgwolt and Walter Riddle Backup Vocals Don Wagner, Keyboards)
4. Boots and Saddles (Bucky Sallee, Keeneland Bugler)
5. Assembly (Bucky Sallee, Keeneland Bugler)
6. My Old Kentucky Home (Angela Bartley, vocals and trumpet.Pfilil Stirgwolt,Backup Vocals Don Wagner, Keyboards)
7. Steamboat Whistle and engines (Belle of Louisville)
8. Dixie (Belle of Louisville Calliope)
9. Stephen Foster Medley (Kentucky Blue)
10. Kentucky Medley (Louisville Thoroughbred Chorus)

Album Description

Sounds of Kentucky is a Kentucky Derby Souvenir CD. Featuring the only digital recording in existence of the "Call to the Post", the start for all horse races, by Angela Bartley. The CD includes songs about Kentucky by Kentucky Artists. The CD is a favorite for Derby Parties!

Customer Reviews:

Authentic folk music.......2007-01-18

This is the real thing, folk music the way it is and has been played for generations. These artists are skilled musicians and it really shows on this collection. Don't miss out on this opportunity to own what might be the finest collection of traditional Kentucky standards ever published.

Average customer rating: Great unknown composer Sparkling Performances CENTENARIES CAN BE USEFUL

William Alwyn: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Alwyn | Alwyn, William | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: William Alwyn: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5; Lyra Angelica (Harp Concerto) Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne Ferguson: Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra; Gerhard: Concerto for Piano and Strings Camargo Guarnieri: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Alwyn: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 ASIN: B0009SQC96 Release Date: 2005-07-19

Tracks:

1. Allegro Deciso
2. Adagio E Tranquillo
3. Tempo Primo
4. Adagio Molto E Tranquillo
5. Derby Day Overture
6. Allegro
7. Andante
8. Allegro Con Fuoco
9. Maestoso: Allegro Ritmico E Jubilante
10. Andante Con Moto E Semplice
11. Molto Vivace

Customer Reviews:

Great unknown composer.......2007-02-18

Alwyn's music deserves to be heard. At least as good as many composers we hear often. If you like Shostokovich, Prokofiev, and Grieg, you will really like this refreshing and beautiful music.

Sparkling Performances.......2005-12-30

A review in Gramophone led me to this CD of William Alwyn's music. I knew very little about his music, recalling only that he wrote several film scores. Alwyn was an unabashed Romantic like his contemporary Samuel Barber. The First Piano Concerto (1930) is a short work of less than 15 minutes but in that space of time it manages to explore the form completely. Cast in four movements, the concerto in an innovative work beginning with an energetic toccata and explores different ideas closing with an adagio that fades away.

The Derby Day Overture is an energetic overture that was first performed at a Promenade concert conducted by Malcolm Sargent. The inspiration was a Victorian era painting by William Powell Firth, who was a painter noted for the crowds depicted in his pictures. The overture is a stimulating overture, perfect for opening a concert. The Second Piano Concerto (1960) followed the First by 30 years and is a highly Romantic work with the epic sweep of Rachmaninov, for whom some critics thought Alwyn was writing his own homage. The first movement is indeed epic is scale with virtuosic flourishes. It is followed by a quietly reflective middle movement and a long cadenza leads into the final movement, which is more dissonant and features jazz syncopations. The soloist has a demanding job with the last movement with a long cadenza before the concerto closes with a flourish. The Sonata alla toccata is a short work in three movements in a neo-classical style. It is a virtuoso piece and indeed requires an agile pianist and reminded me more of a brief series of studies.

This is a very engaging CD for which one acquires a greater appreciation on repeated hearings. Peter Donohoe plays marvelously and is ably supported by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Judd. This is a great introduction to the music of William Alwyn and, for me, the first CD of an Alwyn collection.

CENTENARIES CAN BE USEFUL.......2005-09-27

William Alwyn, probably best known for his numerous film-scores, was born in 1905. I heard his sinfonietta for strings on the BBC only this morning, and that pearl of the recording industry Naxos is promoting this disc comprising Alwyn's two piano concertos plus a couple of fillers, the recordings having been done originally in 1995. Other sponsors are the British Piano Concerto Foundation, of which series I already own on disc performances, again with the admirable Peter Donohoe as soloist, of corresponding works by Rawsthorne and Bliss.

It's the amateur musician in me, not the part-time patriot, that leads me to be as enthusiastic as I am about these performances. For one thing, I doubt that Donohoe really enjoys the `profile' among modern piano-players that he fully deserves. He is a virtuoso of the very first magnitude and a musical intellectual, and I have cause to appreciate his magnificent musicianship from some of his other work that I know in Beethoven, in Elgar's quintet and in no less than Turangalila where he partners Rattle. He focuses his formidable endowment here on Alwyn, giving us the two piano concertos plus the so-called sonata alla toccata in readings of colossal aplomb and conviction. They are not difficult concertos to understand or enjoy, and how difficult they may be for the soloist I have no way of knowing given the panache with which Donohoe puts them across. The first is an early work, presumably one of the compositions that Alwyn `withdrew' (how does one do that?) wholesale with a view to relaunching himself. It is hardly a quarter of an hour in length, divided into four continuous sections that barely qualify for the title of movements, and has a certain `neo-classical' style about it as that term might be applied to some of Stravinsky. The second is a late piece, intended in the first instance for the admirable Cor de Groot before he suddenly lost the use of his right arm, and at the time of the liner-note with the disc it had not received a public performance. It could quite easily lure me out if I saw it billed, given the right soloist. It's idiom is, I suppose, more `romantic' than that of its predecessor, but take with a pinch of salt what the liner-note might be suggesting in the way of parallels with Rachmaninov, and don't be expecting anything as luscious as some of Alwyn's film-music either.

The two minor items are of great interest. One is an overture entitled `Derby Day'. This title was apparently suggested in the composer's mind by seeing a picture of this society event subsequent to the work's composition, and you need fear no suggestion in the music of mounts coming in at 7-to-10 on or of ladies' millinery. It is only 6 minutes in length, and although there is apparently some use of a 12-tone scale I for one would never have guessed. My much more confident guess would be that this was no more than some professionals' game that beguiled the composer as he worked on the piece. The final number is the sonata alla toccata, and seeing that the work was in 4 movements I dared hope that it might hark back to Bach's magnificent toccatas, which are nothing like the perpetuum-mobile studies in rapid execution that have hijacked the name of toccata at least since Schumann's effort by that title. No such luck, but the piece is an attractive one nonetheless, explicitly written to be difficult and despatched with confident mastery as usual by Donohoe.

The liner-note at this point suffers a bit of a lapse into liner-note-ese, talking about `toccata form' (there's no such animal) and `breaking free from all stylistic constraints', a concept which is, if you think about it, totally bereft of sense or meaning. Otherwise it's not bad at all - informative, succinct and clear for the most part, and there are also brief resumes of soloist, orchestra and conductor. The Bournemouth SO under James Judd acquit themselves really very well, I'd say, although the concertos are works where the piano hogs the limelight to a great extent. The recording is also perfectly good, although the volume needs a fairly high setting.

Definitely recommended, and hats off again to Naxos. Fugaces labuntur anni, says Horace - `the years are slipping away past recall'. Naxos are giving me the opportunity of some belated musical education at very modest cost indeed, and I can't suppose I'm alone in that regard.

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