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1. Shades of Brown 2. Insomnia 3. Snapshots 4. Wish You Would 5. Never Go Back 6. Cold Town 7. The Grand Scheme 8. Forsaken in Paradise 9. Sing To Me 10. Last Ditch 11. I See Only Shadows 12. Gratitude

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Average customer rating: Excellent performances of one of our greatest symphonists. Unbelievable Sound Quality A Tale of Two Eighths Best "Sinfonia Antartica" Currently Available Pure music

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 7 "Sinfonia antartica" & 8 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | 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 General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Symphonies | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Symphonies | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Symphonies | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Vaughn Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9 Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet/String Quartets 1 & 2 Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 2; The Wasps Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (original 1913 version) / Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Pastoral" & No. 6 ASIN: B00000AELD Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

1. Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7): Prelude: Andante maestoso - Lento - Poco animato - Piu mosso - Tranquillo - Andante moderato con moto - Largamente
2. Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7): Scherzo: Moderato
3. Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7): Landscape: Lento -
4. Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7): Intermezzo: Andante sostenuto - Allegretto - Pesante - Tempo primo tranquillo
5. Sinfonia Antartica (Symphony No. 7): Epilogue: Alla marcia, moderato (non troppo allegro) - Andante maestoso
6. Symphony No. 8 In D Minor: Fantasia (Variazioni senza Tema): Moderato - Presto - Andante sostenuto - Allegretto - Andante non troppo - Allegro vivace - Andante sostenuto - Largamente - Tempo primo ma tranquillo
7. Symphony No. 8 In D Minor: Scherzo alla Marcia (per stromenti a fiato): Allegro alla marcia - Andante - Tempo primo
8. Symphony No. 8 In D Minor: Cavatina (per stromenti ad arco): Lento espressivo
9. Symphony No. 8 In D Minor: Toccata: Moderato maestoso
10. Movement Superscriptions For Sinfonia antartica: Prometheus Unbound: Prelude: 'To Suffer Woes Which Hope Thinks Infinite' (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
11. Movement Superscriptions For Sinfonia antartica: Book Of Common Prayer, Psalm 104: Schezro: 'There Go The Ships'
12. Movement Superscriptions For Sinfonia antartica: Hymn Before Sunrise, In The Vale Of Chamouni: Landscape: 'Ye Ice Falls!' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
13. Movement Superscriptions For Sinfonia antartica: The Sun Rising: Intermezzo: 'Love, All Alike,' (John Donne)
14. Movement Superscriptions For Sinfonia antartica: Message To The Public: Epilogue: 'I Do Not Regret This Journey;' (Captain Robert Falcon Scott)

Customer Reviews:

Excellent performances of one of our greatest symphonists........2004-04-28

The posthumous fate of Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) has not always been a kind one. After his death, his music passed through a prolonged period of being deeply unfashionable. Stodgy, tweedy Vaughan Williams--who could get into that?! But, like Elgar, whose music is also cast in a stuffy, stereotypically "British" light, there is much more to Vaughan Williams than one might think.

First, the man was a superb melodist. He was not a mere tunesmith, to be sure, but crafted works that are primarily conceived in terms of melodic development, and this makes his work immediately appealing. Second, he was a highly original thinker who used his colossal technique (he had a doctorate in composition and studied with Ravel) for surprisingly modern ends. His music can at times sound like a mixture of Bach and Debussy, but it is always unmistakably Vaughan Williams. He had a penchant for modal counterpoint, and his streams of parallel chords place his work squarely in the 20th century.

Vaughan Williams' unique talent for scoring is evident throughout this excellent recording of his 7th and 8th symphonies. The "Sinfonia antartica" is based upon a film score he supplied for a film about the explorer Robert Scott. It is by turns brooding and wistful--an ideal introduction to this magnificent composer. Symphony No. 8 is a more eclectic affair, brighter in temperament overall, but a rewarding example of the surprises that lurk around every corner of RVW's work.

Was he the greatest symphonist of the 20th century? The jury's still out. He certainly created a body of symphonic work that is second to none in its richness, diversity, and consistency. Mahler, Sibelius, and Shostakovich are usually considered the most important symphonists of the last century, but for those who seek other fare, you can't do better than Vaughan Williams.

Unbelievable Sound Quality.......2002-03-17

The "Antarctica Symphony" portion of this disk has been called "the best digital recording ever made", and is often recommended for use as a demonstration disk on high-end audio equipment. One listen and you'll understand why...this is truly a sonic marvel.

Not a bad accomplishment for budget-price label Naxos!

A Tale of Two Eighths.......2001-07-30

I think many listeners (and reviewers) will focus more on the seventh symphony; so I leave the seventh to them, although I greatly enjoy this recording of the seventh, and am even modestly grateful that the recited superscriptions are included at the end, where they do not interrupt the sequence of the symphony itself.

The Vaughan Williams eighth symphony exhibits a few interesting parallels with the eighth symphony of the composer whose oeuvre established the "rule of nine" in the writing of symphonies: Beethoven.

Beethoven's Opus 93 strikes some listeners as both "a step backwards" from the rambunctious and expansive seventh (with its electrifying "double scherzo" and achingly intense theme-and-variations slow movement), and a mystification before the grandiose Opus 125. It is something of a look back towards Haydn; it is charming, and elegant, and seems to do entirely without the dramatic musical rhetoric of which Beethoven's third, fifth and seventh symphonies provide ample and potent illustration. It is the sort of thing which "musical progressivists" say we composers cannot do; you can almost hear the phrase spoken, "you can never go back."

Yet, in his eighth symphony, Beethoven succeeds, marvelously and musically; he does, and does not, "go back." Vaughan Williams does something of the same, in his eighth. Even though Vaughan Williams' seventh was composed originally as film music, and then adapted as a symphony in his `cycle' (or perhaps because of this), the eighth seems like a deliberate step away from musical dramtization, and into the realm of abstract, `pure' music, a music which functions on its own, not driven by any extra-musical `program.'

Now, the `point' to which Beethoven does and does not go back, is Haydn; the generation before, and a composer with whom Beethoven had taken lessons. The `point' to which Vaughan Williams does and does not go back, is musical Impressionism, and specifically Ravel. Vaughan Williams had taken some lessons with Ravel; and the `return to pure music' in the eighth is doubly apt here, as part of Ravel's Impressionism is a sort of `romantic neo-classicism' exemplified in "Le Tombeau de Couperin" and the piano concertos.

That Vaughan Williams made his eighth with the Beethoven-parallel in mind, seems to me confirmed in the opening of the second movement. Vaughan Williams' all-winds scherzo begins with too much of a `metronomic' gesture for this to be coincidental. This parallel does not become burdensome, because the `metronomic piece' functions differently in the two eighth symphonies: it is the slow movement in the Beethoven Op. 93, followed by the lovely Menuet and Trio (good heavens! didn't Beethoven realize how passé this was?), while in Vaughan Williams' eighth it serves as a scherzo followed by a richly beautiful slow movement for strings alone (in timbral balance of the string-less scherzo).

Where Vaughan Williams `does not go back' is, about two-thirds into the first movement, where, after some moments of trumpet-&-string doublings which seemed to evoke the sound-world of Prokofiev, the relatively smooth calm of most of the movement yields to the sort of orchestral menace normally associated with Shostakovich. This fury lasts but a moment, and gives way again to the idyllic calm of the opening material, but here is a musical point at which you wonder if it is really possible to `go back' ....

The last movement of the Vaughan Williams' eighth is bright and resplendent. It is almost mis-labeled; `toccata' traditionally means a `touched' piece, a keyboard work with figurations more characteristic of two hands at a keyboard, rather than a large ensemble of single-line instruments. But Vaughan Williams has a history of adapting the idea of the Toccata, as in his Toccata Marziale for band; and my musicological quibble does not get in the way of the piece, which reminds me more of a jubilant carillon.

--Karl

Best "Sinfonia Antartica" Currently Available.......2000-10-24

The classic recorded performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Sinfonia Antartica" (completed 1952) is Sir Adrian Boult's on EMI from the mid-1960s; a slightly later performance on RCA led by André Previn boasted superior sound but misjudged by prefacing each movement with spoken versions of RVW's epigraphs. (Thus interrupting the musical continuity in a score that depends heavily on a seamless transition from one mood to another.) Bernard Haitink (also on EMI) issued an "Antartica" about fifteen years ago, very close to Boult's in merit, but - in this day of classical-music démorale - "no longer available." Haitink's countryman, Kees Bakels, has "burned" a CD cycle of the RVW symphonies for Naxos, with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and one entry therein couples the Eighth with the "Antartica" (ordinally the Seventh). As James Day notes in his book on RVW, the "Antartica" calls on the largest orchestra that the composer ever stipulated, with parts for organ, wind-machine, an enormous percussion battery, and wordless soprano-solo with female choral vocalise. The "Antartica" shares with the "Pastoral" and the Sixth the evocation of inhuman nature and of human courage pitted (heroically but vainly) against such nature. Boult grasped this aspect of the work, but the limited capacity of mid-60s analogue recording took its toll on the realization of his understanding. (The vinyl pressings also posed an obstacle. I owned the American Angel pressing as well as an EMI import; neither struck me as adequate.) Bakels, like Boult, sees that this is a grim account, a genuine sequel to the tragic E-Minor Symphony of 1947. Notice how he takes the crescendi in the Prelude, with the great climax at 1.50: It's truly "majestic," as the score says it should be; the ensuing Lento, with prominent xylophone and wordless voices, sounds very icy and haunted indeed. The Scherzo presents the danger of sounding too comical; Bakels avoids this pitfall. Of the symphony's core, the "Landscape" (Third Movement), Bakels makes just the inhuman, implacable, frigid monster that RVW must have had in mind, although the organist (beginning at 8.30) does not achieve quite the hard-edged quality that I recall from Boult. The Eighth Symphony is a less monumental score, but possesses a playful seriousness all its own. The Finale can become a welter of sound, as it did unfortunately in the Boult/EMI; but here it sounds forth in all its polyphonic glory, with the tuned percussion caught with great definition by the engineers.

Pure music.......1999-07-26

As with Beethoven each of Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies has a distinct character of its own. the eighth is the most lighthearted one, ranging in mood form energetic to festive to downright comical, with a measure of gentle melancholy thrown in for contrast.The 2nd and 3rd movements- a funny march for winds and a beautifull cavatina for strings- show VW at his best.So what if he does not grab fate by the throat in this symphony? This is music in its best and purest form. The other work on the CD-Symphonia Antarctica- has its moments but it remains essentially what it is: a glorified movie-score.Director Kees Bakels proves again that he is one of the best Vaughan Williams interpreters of this time.

Average customer rating: yes meets jimi hendrix Shame about the vocals Nice early YES-like band

Unbound Ring of Myth Manufacturer: Kinesis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DFPH Release Date: 1999-04-06

Tracks:

1. Presence
2. A Transforming
3. Wising For The Truth
4. Liquid Dream Cascade
5. Only A Dream
6. Thief Of Light
7. Messenger
8. Seeds Of Soul
9. Moonbaby
10. Eyes On The Hemisphere

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yes meets jimi hendrix.......2001-11-12

This is a great album. Imagine Yes on amphetamines. Imagine Yes in a trainwreck with Jimi Hendrix. That's what you've got here. The whole album is quite long but doesn't seem so because the songs are so frantic (with a few exceptions). Their structure is clearcut and intricate, however, so you will probably have to listen a few times to get it. If you like Yes and/or Jim Hendrix, you will probably like this.

Shame about the vocals.......2001-07-10

To be fair, I only heard the song "Messenger"; the musicianship is outstanding, as were the song dynamics. However, the vocals were atrocious! They sounded off-key falsetto, and drove me nuts.

A real dilemma, since the music is first class. Just hope that the rest of the CD is instrumental.

Nice early YES-like band.......2001-04-20

I came across this band while looking for some more complex prog and I must admit that they know how to play. Who looks at these reviews usually wants to have some reference: this is a trio (keys, drums guitars) and to me they sound like the early YES, a little psychedelic but already capable of creating complex musical structures (perhaps my judgement is also influenced by the voice of Danny Flores who recalls Jon Anderson). Definetively worth to enter in you prog collection. I do not give them five stars because in my view there are simply better groups (like Porcupine Three, Iluvatar, Flower Kings just to give you an idea of my taste)

Average customer rating: Like Whoa! Rhymes with reason UnBound is Great superb political compilation Conscious Hip-Hop Collected

Unbound Project, Vol. 1 Various Artists Manufacturer: Ground Control ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: No More Prisons A Blow to the State Slam: The Soundtrack Amethyst Rock Star Steal This Double Album ASIN: B00004T20Y Release Date: 2000-06-13

Tracks:

1. The Human Element - Talib Kweli/Hi-Tek
2. Social Policy Derelicts - Mike Ladd
3. Full Court Press - Medina Green
4. Ms AmeriKKKa - Aceyalone
5. Degregation - J Rocc
6. Soul In Flesh - Blackalicious
7. Soon - Ursula Rucker
8. Lincoln's Lie - Mums The Schemer
9. Slaves In America - Poor Righteous Teachers
10. Us Kids Are Doing It - J Rocc
11. Caution - Rakaa-Iriscience
12. Strata - Jerry Quickley
13. The Objective - J Rocc
14. Dance Of The Dead - Saul Williams
15. Mumia 911 - The Unbound Allstars
16. Feb. 4th 1999 (For All Those Killed By Cops) - Mike Ladd

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Featuring a stellar cast of progressively minded hip-hop artists, The Unbound Project is dedicated to Philadelphia activist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal and is conceptually centered on the meaning of freedom. Scenarios range from Reflection Eternal's lively present-day analysis on "The Human Element" to acclaimed Philly spoken-word poet Ursula Rucker (whose words have closed each of the Roots' albums) revisiting the horrors of slavery on the eerily ambient "Soon." With additional contributions from veterans Chuck D and Poor Righteous Teachers, and relative newcomers such as dead prez and Talib Kweli (of Black Star and Reflection Eternal), The Unbound Project brings together politically conscious hip-hop artists of different eras, providing evidence of a burgeoning grassroots resurgence. Its primary function, however, is as a compelling critique of U.S. socio-economic conditions and the criminal (in)justice system. --Del F. Cowie

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Like Whoa!.......2001-02-13

This CD is one of the illest collections of hip hop culture I own (and I have about 800 CD's) This is blazing HOT, not only is the message socially conscious, but the display of MC skills is top notch. The album is setup to create a cresheno effect as each track builds upon the intensity of the previous one. The whole album is a perverbial highlight reel, but the album highlights are (in my opinion) Mumia 911 (featuring EVERBODY), Human Element (Talib Kweli), Slaves in America (Poor Richeous Teachers), Lincoln's Lie (Mums the schemer), Ms AmeriKKKa (aceyalone) but seriously, I have not listened to anything else since I bought it 2 weeks ago, it's THAT GOOD!

Rhymes with reason.......2000-10-01

Lemme tell yall kids the real deal. I've been a HIP-HOP fan for almost fifteen years and seen all the "trends", but I believe releases like the Unbound Project Vol. 1 and others similiar are HIP-HOP's true calling. Sure, rappers sell millions of CD's spittin bout guns and hoes, but really, WHAT DOES IT MEAN? NUTHIN, besides the fact that our society has gone to hell. But anyways, about the music, I can't think of anyone in their right mind could front on such electic pieces of art such as "Miss Amerikkka" by Aceyalone or "Human Element" by Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek. The spoken word joints are so full of emotion, it's almost like you are the speaker. The Poor Righteous Teachers also come out the woodwork with an excellent track entitled "Slaves in America". Nice to hear from them again. And, if you haven't heard "Mumia 911", you are missin' a true HIP-HOP gem, as artists like Chuck D, Dead Prez, Tre, etc... pull political punches over a tight Diamond D track. I recommend this to EVERYONE! This is rhymes with reason. This is HIP-HOP at it's truest form.

UnBound is Great.......2000-10-01

The Unbound CD is dope music and a real eye opener. There's a little booklet that comes with it that tells you the real deal about how all us kids get locked up. It's mad political and mad cool. I'm really feeling the track Caution by Rakkaa Iriescienc (from Dialated People). And the bomb track from Aceyalone. I'm surprised that the tracks that really blew me away are from people I'd never heard of before. Mike Ladd has 2 tracks, his second one is really great. Medina Green has got a great track too. But the one that really blew me away was Strata by Jerry Quickley. Who the heck is this guy and where'd he come from. It's the best thing on the record. It's like some new hip hop you can't even describe. And really funny, but scary. And there's all these instruementals from a DJ called J Rocc. There're awesome. Especially when he puts some old black comedians in the mix. The posse track, Mumia Allstars, is full tilt off the hook. You've got to check out this record and let the music and the real message sink all the way in. Really. It's great.

superb political compilation.......2000-07-20

There a some big names here that will make you want to get this disc: Talib Kweli, Zack de la Rocha and Chuck D (as part of The Unbound Allstars), Poor Righteous Teachers, Blackalicious and Aceyalone. All of their songs are aces. Plus there are some good tracks by folks I'd never heard of: Ursula Rucker (with a haunting piano loop and intelligent R-rated lyrics; more female rappers!), muMs the Schemer (doing "Lincoln's Lie") and Mike Ladd with some hardcore political diatribes. Plus great political essays in the CD booklet. Did I mention this disc is political?

Conscious Hip-Hop Collected.......2000-06-17

Current hip-hop looks like an iceberg. 10 percent is visible above the surface, where it floats safely with limited sounds, styles and subject matter. Meanwhile, 90 percent thrives beneath the surface -- a dense mass encompassing everything from virtuosic old-school to abstract new flavors, usually delving into parts of life not involved with bringing pain, getting paid or getting laid. On its most basic level, The Unbound Project is a money-and-awareness-raising benefit for death row dissident, convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, so politics will largely determine who buys this disc. But on an artistic basis, these meditations on freedom -- many of which don't mention ABu-Jamal -- present a scenic view of hip-hop at its most accomplished form. Here, with the top and bottom in solidarity, the synergy's enough to melt the polar caps entirely.

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Music Of Surrealism: Desire Unbound Manufacturer: Museum Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007WOPSO

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This CD is a companion to the exhibition "Surrealism: Desire Unbound," held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Tate Modern, London.

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From Museum Music.......2006-01-27

"The desire, passion, power and innovation of Surrealism are captured in this exhilerating CD. Commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a companion to a major Surrealism exhibition appearing at Tate Modern in London and the MET, this CD features influential works by Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Bela Bartk and other composers having strong associations with Ren Magritte, Jean Cocteau, Andr Breton and other leaders of the Surrealism movement. Included are rousing renditions of Bolro and the theme to one of the most famous surrealistic films of all time, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Release No. MM116
Music Genre: Classical
Running Time: 55:45
$16.95"

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Unbound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock & Metal | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000FVQN3W Release Date: 2006-08-08

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jazz recidivists unbound Manufacturer: tapestry ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000B26T

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Unbound Manufacturer: M.J. Baby & The Last Word ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAEZM2 Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

1. Shades Of Brown
2. Insomnia
3. Snapshots
4. Wish You Would
5. Never Go Back
6. Cold Town
7. The Grand Scheme
8. Forsaken In Paradise
9. Sing To Me
10. Last Ditch
11. I See Only Shadows
12. Gratitude

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In Pursuit of the Sacred ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0009STZJU

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Unbound Manufacturer: Elise Osner ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAK4MW Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Turning Point Unbound Manufacturer: Unbound ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKGJI Release Date: 2005-04-26

Tracks:

1. Life Lately
2. I Am
3. Then Again
4. I'm Dying
5. Mundo Te Dare'

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