Out There-Wild & Wondrous Roots of Rock N Roll [Import]

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The influence of the blues and country on rock'n'roll has been well covered but this new release from Viper stands out thanks to the breadth of styles included. The rhythms of rock are illustrated in the North American Indian tribal dance of the Yaqui Tribe's Pascola Dance while Tunde King & his Group's 1936 African blues Oba Oyinbo traces the roots all the way back to Africa. And the 1951 boogie piano of Cecil Gant and Rock Little Baby is the blueprint for every piano player from Jerry Lee to Fats Domino. Fascinating, exciting, educational and thoroughly enjoyable, these are the roots that support every branch of popular music. 2004.

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Average customer rating: Harnoncourt's Bruckner, a viable alternative to Karajan? Depends what you consider good Terrific performance! Unconvincing performance; interesting commentary Harnoncourt roars, but Wildner rages

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (with the Documentation of the Finale Fragment) [Hybrid SACD] Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Harnoncourt, Nikolaus | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra | ( V ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bruckner | Bruckner, Anton | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (with Excerpts from the Rehearsals) [Hybrid SACD] Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Sibelius: The Symphonies [Hybrid SACD] Bruckner: Symphony 8 Great Orchestral Highlights from The Ring of the Nibelungs / Szell, Cleveland Orchestra (SACD) ASIN: B0000AF1IG Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

1. Warum Hat Man Eigentlich 100 Jahre Lang Gedacht, E - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
2. Finale. T. 1-278 - Wiener Philharmoniker
3. Gegen Ende Eine Extreme Dissonanz In Den Trompeten - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
4. Nach Dem Ende Der Durchfuhrung Folgt Eine Wilde Fu - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
5. Finale. T. 279-342 - Wiener Philharmoniker
6. Quasi En Schreckensbild Des Todes - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
7. Finale. T. 343-478 - Wiener Philharmoniker
8. Danach Fehlen 16 Takte; Dazu Ist Nichts Zu Erklare - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
9. Finale. T. 479-510 - Lucke/Fehlender Partiturbog - Wiener Philharmoniker
10. Why Did We Think For Over Hundred Years That Nothing... - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
11. WAB 109: Finale. MM. 1-278 - Wiener Philharmoniker
12. Extreme Dissonances In The Trumpets Towards The End - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
13. At The End Of The Development A Wild Fugue Begins - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
14. Finale. MM. 279-342 - Wiener Philharmoniker
15. A Sudden Vision Of Death - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
16. Finale. MM. 343-478 - Wiener Philharmoniker
17. Then There Are Sixteen Bars Missing. We Will Just... - Nikolaus Harnoncourt
18. Finale. MM. 479-510 - Gap/Missing Score Bifolio - Wiener Philharmoniker

Tracks:

1. I. Satz. Feierlich; Misterioso - Wiener Philharmoniker
2. Scherzo. Bewegt; Lebhaft - Trio. Schnell - Scherzo - Wiener Philharmoniker
3. Adagio. Langsam; Feierlich - Wiener Philharmoniker

Customer Reviews:

Harnoncourt's Bruckner, a viable alternative to Karajan?.......2006-03-19

Even Karajan's detractors, except for the most severe, generally concede that he was supreme in Bruckner. His various performances of the Ninth Sym. with the Berlin Phil. are commanding in their huge scope, yet Karajan was also capable of delicate phrasing and had an intuitive grasp of how to organize these gigantic, sprawling movements. No one has quite reached that magistreial level since. To his credit, Harnoncourt doesn't try to. This is, for him, a straightforward performance that relies on some qualities Karajan's Bruckner doesn't possess.

First of all, Harnoncourt has his own instincts about phrasing and organizing the music. Contrary to a reviewer below, he doesn't exploit extreme rubato or sudden tempo changes. There are some quirky moments where the tempo speeds up unexpectedly, but overall, Harnoncourt's timing of 58 min. is dead center among various recordings (as much as I admire Giulini, his 68 min. traversal drags). Harnoncourt favors brash outbursts from the brass, particularly in the Scherzo, my least favorite movement here. But his main intent is to keep Bruckner simple, to impose himself far less than Karajan did with his ultra-control. This Bruckner Ninth is a bit plain at times, but it always breathes.

As to the recorded sound, I have only heard the regular two-channel CD, which is quite clear; the Vienna Pphil. is placed a bit far back on a wide soundstage. I would have liked to hear the solo winds up closer, but that's a quibble. This Bruckner Ninth satisfied me as much as the great accounts by Walter, Klemperer, Giulini, and Boulez. I sitll feel more thrills from Karajan's analog reading from the Sixties, yet Harnoncourt provides a viable alternative in itnerpretation.

In theory it was an exciting notion to provide a free bonus CD containing Harnoncourt's defense of Bruckner's surviving sketches for a fourth movement, never completed. Could it really be that his ocntemporaries were wrong and that Bruckner left us pages of great music begging to be revived? Harnoncourt's talk is highly persuasive, but when the Vienna Phil. actually plays what survives of the finale, it proves as sorely disappointing as its reputation would lead one to believe.

Depends what you consider good.......2004-06-14

Harnoncourt has done some great things for music in his career, but I would not consider this one of them. He achieves an "authentic" performing style from the Vienna Philharmonic with a thin string sound and little or no vibrato. So anyone expecting that sweet Vienna sound will be disappointed. But his conducting does not meet that goal of authenticity, because he varies tempos too much. It draws attention to itself and weakens the cohesiveness of the work as a whole.
There are other versions, many of which are mentioned by the other reviewers below (Giulini, Karajan, et al.), which communicate this great work more simply and effectively. They are also unique and full of interesting details (some attention to detail is good). In light of them, Harnoncourt's view is radically different. Experience has taught me that subtle differences in interpretation give pleasure with repeated listening. Radical differences are OK in a live performance (which this is), but do not stand the test of time. So I do not recommend this as a first recording to have of Bruckner's 9th.

Terrific performance!.......2004-02-25

The symphony recording is damn good, and the extras are very interesting (to hear Harnoncourt speaking German and English, to hear the sketches of the last movement). In my mind, this ranks among the very best -- with Celibidache on EMI, Giulini on DG, Bernstein on DG, and don't forget the second movement of the Jochum on EMI.

Unconvincing performance; interesting commentary.......2004-01-15

First off, I do not like the performance. Harnoncourt's tempi are erratic, particularly in the adagio (where he speeds up the second theme-group to the point he cheapens it).

Secondly, I found his commentary on the 4th movement "chunks" informative. They could easily have been printed in liner notes; instead, we have each of the chunks played twice, followed first by commentary German, then in English.

Thirdly, I see no reason why he should not have recorded the full movement as completed by someone -- by William Carragan (Chandos: Yoav Talmi, Oslo Philharmonic); by Nicola Samale & Giuseppe Mazzuca (Teldec: Inbal, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orch [with the 5th Symphony]); or by Samale, Mazzuca, and John A Phillips (Camerata: Eichhorn, Linz Bruckner Orch). My first choice is the Carragan: though the Oslo band takes third place among those in these recordings, it is good enough and I find Carragan's completion the most convincing.*

(In January 1984 I went to New York and Carnegie Hall to hear the American Symphony Orchestra perform the premier of the 9th with Carragan's finale. The performance was reviewed the next day in the Times. I immediately wrote Joel Flegel, editor of Fanfare, asking if he knew whether a recording was planned. Joel was dubious and dismissive: "If that college professor really....")

As Carragan noted in his program notes for the ASO "premier," the finale includes the greatest of Bruckner's chorales. That magnificent theme cannot be understood or appreciated by hearing it only in Harnoncourt's chunks. It needs to be heard in context -- and that context can only be provided in a "performing version."

In my opinion, Harnoncourt does a disservice to Bruckner and to listeners by not offering a completed finale. There is certainly room for one in this two-disk set.

* But Carragan will either produce a new version or be superseded as pages not available to him have since been found -- and as still more come to light.

Harnoncourt roars, but Wildner rages.......2004-01-05

As the other reviewers note, this release is essential for anyone interested in this work, for the workshop and documentation of the currently surviving material from the final movement of the symphony. Another important aspect of the release is the use of a new "critical edition" of the initial three movements of Bruckner's 9th, which contains a number of very evident modifications, particularly in orchestration. All the same, it is a concert recording, and, at least in the usual CD format, balances aren't always optimal, trumpets and trombones often too forward, at the expense of the Vienna Phil's strings and (especially) glorious horn section, and timpani are somewhat reticent, especially in the first movement. Harnoncourt also tends to push a bit hard, lacking the natural plasticity in tempo that marks the greatest performances of the first three movements of this work. The impression is one of roaring power, building and receding throughout. Of the 4th movement sketches, Harnoncourt plays exactly what survives, except he omits the 50-odd bars of three coda fragments that have turned up.

Just a few months ago, a recording of the 9th including a reconstruction/completion of the 4th movement, based on the same body of fragments and sketches (including the coda) and prepared by the same editors, was released on Naxos(8.555933-34). The orchestra is the New Philharmonia of Westphalia (Germany) and the conductor is Johannes Wildner. Now, finally, we can hear this work in a form tantalizingly close to the way Bruckner intended. Furthermore, unlike Harnoncourt's Vienna Phil performance, Wildner and his astonishiingly capable Westphalians present what I can only describe as a ferocious performance, with horns and timpani cutting through the fabric of the orchestra at key points, and effectively flexible tempos. It's a performance unlike any I've heard since Furtwangler's furious and terrifying recording made in Berlin during the darkest days of World War II. If you've gotten the Harnoncourt (or even if you haven't), you have to get the Wildner, too.

As an aside, these recordings render superfluous the 1986 Chandos recording by Yoav Talmi and the Oslo Phil of a 4-movement version of Bruckner's 9th. That documented a brave effort by William Carragan to reconstruct a finale. Unfortunately he had barely 3/4 of the body of sketches to work with that we have now, and nothing of the coda at all.

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Emily Dickinson in Song: Dwell in Possibility Manufacturer: Gasparo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hoiby, Lee | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Larsen, Libby | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | 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 Similar Items: Grand Larsen-y: Vocal Music of Libby Larsen Mystery: Songs of Lori Laitman Lori Laitman: Becoming a Redwood Song: A Guide to Art Song Style and Literature ASIN: B00029LNV4 Release Date: 2004-06-29

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A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad, Complete in verse and song Alan Bates , Anthony Rolfe Johnson , and Graham Johnson Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music | Allemandes | Courantes | Gigue | Sarabande All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005S85Q Release Date: 2001-12-11

Average customer rating: True Sweethearts

1930-1941 Manufacturer: Great Movie Themes ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B0000042KV Release Date: 1997-08-20

Tracks:

1. Indian Love Call - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
2. Rose-Marie - Nelson Eddy
3. Song Of Love - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
4. Waltz
5. I'm Falling In Love With Someone - Nelson Eddy
6. Italian Street Song
7. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Along The Highway) - Nelson Eddy
8. Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life (The Dream Melody) - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
9. A Little Love, A Little Kiss
10. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
11. The Kerry Dance
12. Smilin' Through
13. Lover Come Back To Me
14. One Kiss
15. Who Are We To Say? (Obey Your Heart) - Nelson Eddy
16. Isn't Romantic
17. Beyond The Blue Horizon
18. Will You Remember - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
19. Farewell To Dreams - Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy
20. Sweethearts Waltz

Customer Reviews:

True Sweethearts.......2000-10-16

This CD offers some of Jeanette Macdonald and Nelson Eddy's most beloved songs from their movies. Their natural chemistry is apparent in songs like "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" and their individual talents are shown in the solos that they sing. These two legendary performers draw the audience into their songs and each is a special memory of the movie that it came from. Macdonald and Eddy were made to sing together. It is surprising that they were not sweethearts off screen after hearing their voices and seeing their movies. Their passion and tenderness towards each other is something out of a fairy tale. This CD has all the fun, romance, and innocence that was epitomized in their movies. It is a true treasure and a favorite in my music library.

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak Dvorak Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 ASIN: B000069HGK Release Date: 2002-09-17

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Emily Dickinson a Different Slant of Light Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000649OX Release Date: 2002-04-30

Tracks:

1. Mucicians Wrestle Everywhere - Cary John Franklin
2. This Is My Letter To The World - Robert Greenlee
3. This Little Rose - William Rose
4. Two Butterflies - Robert Baksa
5. I'm Nobody - Robert Baksa
6. Going To Heaven! - Aaron Copland
7. I Shall Keep Singing - William Goldberg
8. Wild Nights - Wild Nights! - Richard Pearson Thomas
9. A Night - Brian Banks
10. The Heart Asks Pleasure First... - Earl George
11. I Died For Beauty - Ethan Haimo
12. Much Madness Is Divinest Sense - Donald Betts
13. My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close - Donald Betts
14. There's A Certain Slant Of Life - Robert Baksa
15. I Heard A Fly - Ken Langer
16. A Soul Selects - Beth Wiemann
17. Wild Nights - Wild Nights - Dave Aperans
18. Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart? - John Duke
19. I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed - John Duke

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Out There-Wild & Wondrous Roots of Rock N Roll ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000633472 Release Date: 2004-11-30

Album Description

The influence of the blues and country on rock'n'roll has been well covered but this new release from Viper stands out thanks to the breadth of styles included. The rhythms of rock are illustrated in the North American Indian tribal dance of the Yaqui Tribe's Pascola Dance while Tunde King & his Group's 1936 African blues Oba Oyinbo traces the roots all the way back to Africa. And the 1951 boogie piano of Cecil Gant and Rock Little Baby is the blueprint for every piano player from Jerry Lee to Fats Domino. Fascinating, exciting, educational and thoroughly enjoyable, these are the roots that support every branch of popular music. 2004.

Average customer rating: Baroque Christmas Songs Flawless Singing Matched by Exquisite Musicianship

Out of the Orient Crystall Skyes Manufacturer: Wild Boar Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Charpentier | Charpentier, Marc-Antoine | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Michael Praetorius | Praetorius, Michael | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Alessandro Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B000005VWM Release Date: 1993-12-08

Tracks:

1. Natus Est Jesus
2. In Dulci Jubilo
3. Ach Mein Herzliebes Jesulein
4. Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen
5. Villancico De Nadal: Recitative And Aria
6. Out Of The Orient Crystal Skies
7. There Is No Such Rose Of Virtue
8. Coventry Carol
9. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sang
10. In Nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum: Nolite Timere, Pastores
11. Quem Vidistis, Pastores?
12. Salve, Salve Puellule
13. Cantata Pastorale Per La Nativita Di Nostro Signore Gesu Cristo

Customer Reviews:

Baroque Christmas Songs.......2005-03-29

The works on this recording:

1. Natus est Jesus
Philipp Boddecker (1607-1683)

2a. In dulci jublio
Michael Praetorius (c1569-1621)

2b. In dulci jublio
Bartholomaus Gesius (d.1613)

2c. In dulci jublio
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

3. Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
Melchior Schildt (c1592-1667)

4. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
Praetorius

5. Recitat and Aria from "Villancico de Nadal"
Pedro Rabassa (1683-1767)

6. Out of the orient crystal skies
Anonymous / arranged by William Byrd (1543-1623)

7. There is no rose of such virtue
Anonymous

8. Coventry Carol
Anonymous

9. Sweet was the song the Virgin sang
Anonymous

10. Nolite timere, pastorale
Marc Antoine Charpentier (c1634-1704)

11. Quem vidistis, pastores?
Ludovico Viadana (1560-1627)

12. Salve, salve puellule
Giacomo Carissimi (1605-1674)

13. Cantata Pastorale per la Nativita
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

Flawless Singing Matched by Exquisite Musicianship.......1999-12-01

A crystal voice to sing the crystal skies...Nancy Zylstra's artistry and musicality are nobly matched by her vocal technique. The first note of the first track ("Natus est Jesus") is a textbook example of a *messa di voce* perfectly executed. Yet hers is a warm, real voice, not simply a hooty "boy soprano" sound that characterizes so many early music recordings. Always expressive, always tasteful, she makes this one of my favorite Christmas recordings. The selection of repertoire beautifully balances familiar tunes ("In dulci jubilo," "Coventry carol," "Es ist ein Ros,") with less-well-known works by Charpentier, Carissimi, and a wonderful cantata by Scarlatti. Her compatriots are no mean players either---she is ably accompanied by the flawless continuo playing of Margriet Tindemans, gamba, and Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord, as well as baroque strings and a viol consort for the larger works. This is a CD of international caliber that every soprano and every vocal-music lover should own.

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