Melody of Question [EP]

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Average customer rating: Good collection A good collection of American music

American Festival - Bernstein: Candide Overture / William Schuman: Newsreel for orchestra / Ives: The Unanswered Question (I & II), for trumpet, winds & string orchestra, S. 50 (K. 1C25); The Circus Band (song) / Ruggieri: If . . . Then (for orchestra) / Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man; Variations on a Shaker Melody from Appalachain Spring / Barber: Adagio for strings / Cowell: Saturday Night at the Firehouse Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schuman | Schuman, William | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | 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 Variations | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | 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 Similar Items: American Masters: Harris, Thompson, Diamond Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan/The White Peacock/Three Poems of Fiona McLeod Rostropovich, Master Cellist ASIN: B000000BKJ Release Date: 1994-10-18

Tracks:

1. Overture to 'Candide'
2. Horse Race
3. Fashion Show
4. Tribal Dance
5. Monkeys At The Zoo
6. Parade
7. The Unanswered Question
8. If...Then
9. Fanfare For The Common Man
10. 'Appalachian Spring': Variations On A Shaker Melody
11. Adagio For Strings
12. Saturday Night At The Firehouse
13. The Circus Band March

Customer Reviews:

Good collection.......2002-02-20

This is a well-performed collection of short orchestral pieces by American Composers. Highlights on the CD are the lesser-performed works such as William Schuman's "Newsreel in Five Shots", Roger Ruggeri's "If...Then", and Henry Cowell's "Saturday Night at the Firehouse." It would be great to hear some orchestras pay some of these neglected pieces more often.

This is a fine recording, a good collection, and a lot of fun. The one thing that disappointed me was that Copland's "Variations on a Shaker Melody" was extracted from "Appalachian Spring" for this collection. It is more effective in context of the whole piece. Maybe a better choice would have been something short and self-contained,like "Quiet City."

Definitely a worthy disc for your collection.

A good collection of American music.......2000-06-23

Lukas Foss and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra perform a number of well-known American music, such as Bernstein's Candide Overture and Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. But it also includes some rarer pieces, like Cowell's Saturday Night at the Firehouse, and Ives' Circus Band March.

Average customer rating: The slender difference that makes the great difference!

Bela Bartok: Mikrokosmos Bela Bartok , and Gyorgy Sandor Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Improvisation | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000028MQ Release Date: 1993-02-09

Tracks:

1. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 1-6. Six Unison Melodies
2. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 7. Dotted Notes
3. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 8. Repetition (1)
4. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 9. Syncopation (1)
5. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 10. With Alternate Hands
6. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 11. Parallel Motion
7. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 12. Reflection
8. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 13. Change of Position
9. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 14. Question and Answer
10. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 15. Village Song
11. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 16. Parallel Motion with Change of Position
12. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 17. Contrary Motion (1)
13. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 18-21. Four Unison Melodies
14. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 22. Imitation and Counterpoint
15. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 23. Imitation and Inversion
16. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 24. Pastorale
17. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 25. Imitation and Inversion (2)
18. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 26. Repetition (2)
19. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 27. Syncopation (2)
20. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 28. Canon at the Octave
21. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 29. Imitation Reflected
22. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 30. Canon at the Lower Fifth
23. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 31. Dance in Canon Form
24. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 32. In Dorian Mode
25. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 33. Slow Dance
26. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 34. In Phrygian Mode
27. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 35. Chorale
28. Mikrokosmos: Volume 1 - 36. Free Canon
29. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 37. In Lydian Mode
30. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 38. Staccato and Legato (1)
31. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 39. Staccato and Legato (canon)
32. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 40. In Yugoslav Style
33. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 41. Melody with Accompaniment
34. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 42. Accompaniment in Broken Triads
35. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 43. In Hungarian Style
36. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 44. Contrary Motion (2)
37. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 45. Meditation
38. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 46. Increasing-Diminishing
39. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 47. Country Fair
40. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 48. In Mixolydian Mode
41. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 49. Crescendo-Diminuendo
42. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 50. Minuetto
43. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 51. Waves
44. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 52. Unison Divided
45. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 53. In Transylvanian Style
46. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 54. Chromatics
47. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 55. Triplets in Lydian Mode
48. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 56. Melody in Tenths
49. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 57. Accents
50. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 58. In Oriental Style
51. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 59. Major and Minor
52. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 60. Canon with Sustained Notes
53. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 61. Pentatonic Melody
54. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 62. Minor Sixths in Parallel Motion
55. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 63. Buzzing
56. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 64. Line Against Point (a & b)
57. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 65. Dialogue
58. Mikrokosmos: Volume 2 - 66. Melody Divided
59. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 67. Thirds Against a Single Voice
60. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 68. Hungarian Dance
61. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 69. Study in Chords
62. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 70. Melody against Double Notes
63. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 71. Thirds
64. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 72. Dragon's Dance
65. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 73. Sixths and Triads
66. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 74. Hungarian Matchmaking Song (a & b)
67. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 75. Triplets
68. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 76. In Three Parts
69. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 77. Little Study
70. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 78. Five-Tone Scale
71. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 79. Hommage a J.S.B.
72. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 80. Hommage a R. Sch.
73. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 81. Wandering
74. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 82. Scherzo
75. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 83. Melody with Interruptions
76. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 84. Merriment
77. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 85. Broken Chords
78. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 86. Two Major Pentachords
79. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 87. Variations
80. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 88. Duet for Pipes
81. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 89. In Four Parts (1)
82. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 90. In Russian Style
83. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 91. Chromatic Invention (2)
84. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 92. Chromatic Invention (2)
85. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 93. In Four Parts (2)
86. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 94. Once Upon a Time...
87. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 95. Fox Song (a & b)
88. Mikrokosmos: Volume 3 - 96. Jolts

Tracks:

1. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 97. Notturno
2. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 98. Thumbs Under
3. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 99. Hands Crossing
4. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 100. In Folk Song Style
5. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 101. Diminished Fifth
6. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 102. Harmonics
7. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 103. Minor and Major
8. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 104. Wandering through the Keys (a & b)
9. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 105. Game (with two five-tone scales)
10. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 106. Children's Song
11. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 107. Melody in the Mist
12. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 108. Wrestling
13. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 109. From the Island of Bali
14. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 110. And the Sounds Clash and Clang
15. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 111. Intermezzo
16. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 112. Variations on a Folk Tune
17. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 113. Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
18. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 114. Theme and Inversion
19. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 115. Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
20. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 116. Song
21. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 117. Bouree
22. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 118. Triplets in 9 8 Time
23. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 119. Triplets in 3 4 Time
24. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 120. Triads
25. Mikrokosmos: Volume 4 - 121. Two-part Study
26. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 122. Chords Together in Opposition
27. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 123. Staccato and Legato (2) (a & b)
28. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 124. Staccato
29. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 125. Boating
30. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 126. Change of Time
31. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 127. New Hungarian Folk Song
32. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 128. Stamping Dance
33. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 129. Alternating Thirds
34. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 130. Village Joke
35. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 131. Fourths
36. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 132. Major Seconds Broken and Together
37. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 133. Syncopation (3)
38. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 134. Studies in Double Notes (a, b & c)
39. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 135. Perpetual Motion
40. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 136. Whole-tone Scales
41. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 137. Unison
42. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 138. Bagpipe Music
43. Mikrokosmos: Volume 5 - 139. Jack-in-the-Box
44. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 140. Free Variations
45. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 141. Subject and Reflection
46. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 142. From the Diary of a Fly
47. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 143. Divided Arpeggios
48. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 144. Minor Seconds, Major Sevenths
49. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 145. Chromatic Invention (3) (a &b)
50. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 146. Ostinato
51. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 147. March
52. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 148. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (1)
53. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 149. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (2)
54. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 150. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (3)
55. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 151. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (4)
56. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 152. Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm (5)
57. Mikrokosmos: Volume 6 - 153. Six Dance in Bulgarian Rhythm (6)

Amazon.com essential recording

Bartók's Mikrokosmos ("Little World") essentially comprises 153 teaching pieces, divided into six books of progressive difficulty. These works make ideal vehicles for budding piano students who are ready to face the myriad challenges of 20th-century keyboard music. They also reveal the kernels of the Hungarian composer's uncompromising compositional style. György Sándor was a piano pupil of Bartók's, and his fluid, perceptive playing is unfailingly idiomatic, from the simple, canon-like exercises at the start to the demanding Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm that crown the cycle. The mono engineering is thin but acceptable. Suffice it to say that the composer would have been proud of what his pupil achieves here. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

The slender difference that makes the great difference!.......2006-09-29

At the actual moments it's hard to find out that unusual and missed way of play Bartok with these well known dissonant inflections, for all of us who had the immense privilege to watch this legendary pianist twice in Caracas in the seventies and eighties. To this reviewer, it will be absolutely impossible to forget his egregious presence and powering [...], steeled phrasing hovered by that special reverberation and acidic lyricism at the moment to play Out of doors that cold night of December 9, 1982.

Without another intention in mind, but intending to illustrate and motive the newcomer listener, I would say that in just few counted occasions (Richter and Prokoviev, Ravel and Cortot) there has been such chemical rapport between composer and performer.

At least in my case, I have not heard about any other pianist able to sound so sarcastic, reverberating and genuinely Hungarian as Gyorgy Sandor did it.

So I really hope you to keep in mind all these previous considerations at the moment to make this wise choice. Go for this record without any shadow of doubt.

This album is now part of the mythic legend of the treasures for keyboard.

No other pianist will sound so astonishingly as Sandor does.

Average customer rating:

Melody of Question Anandí Manufacturer: Lake Lady Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002534XI Release Date: 2003-05-27

Tracks:

1. Lee
2. Way
3. Melody of Question
4. Shadows
5. Solitaire

Average customer rating:

Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Sz.107/44 Duos for 2 Violins, Sz.98 Manufacturer: Hungaroton ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Improvisation | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000308I Release Date: 1994-04-18

Amazon.com

Complete recordings of Mikrokosmos are relatively common these days, but aside from guiding students I wonder what purpose they serve. This is a series of piano study pieces starting at the most basic level, and the music with genuine listening interest really begins only with Book 3 (of 6). Similarly the duets are mostly teaching pieces, and though they make for good listening in small groups, the entire series becomes tiresome. Bartók wrote magnificent music, and the later books of Mikrokosmos are filled with superb little pieces. But though the performances in this set are all excellent, not much of the music is basic Bartók. --Leslie Gerber

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