| 1. Hunting High And Low |
| 2. Millennium |
| 3. Neon Light Child |
| 4. Hunting High And Low (Demo Version) |
| 5. Millennium (Demo Version) |
Editorial Reviews
Japan only 5 track mini album from Finnish heavy metal act,including demo versions of 'Hunting High and Low and'Millennium'. 2000.
Hunting High & Low,Stratovarius,5-Inch CD Singles
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Hunting High and Low
a-ha Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002L7Y Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Take On Me
- Train Of Thought
- Hunting High And Low
- The Blue Sky
- Living A Boy's Adventure Tale
- The Sun Always Shines On T.V.
- And You Tell Me
- Love Is Reason
- I Dream Myself Alive
- Here I Stand And Face The Rain
Customer Reviews:
...for a place in America.......2007-07-05
Yes, before Aqua, there was the strangely similar-sounding A-ha, and this was an otherwise perfectly ordinary album where their one shining star (which I always suspected became popular mainly due to the unbelievable range on the chorus part) came from.
Not much else to say. Typical, ordinary synthpop, what I'd call "waiting room music". The singer, despite his best efforts, has some trouble with the English language. I've heard a lot worse, but it's no surprise why A-ha never could find its niche here.
Not just a one hit wonder.......2007-05-21
Take On ME had a breakthrough video, it's one of those that are probally labeled by _______ Thriller as one of the greatest breakthroughs. Train Of Thought is a song that belongs in the _______ future. A lot of the songs would be the music of the future, since it was released when the world was predicted would have flying cars and the other future ____ ala the Jetsons. There is a ballad song, a dark samba beat, some rock, and a ____load of electronic sounds, but dosen't totally make it sound cheesy. You will hear it at the best times you can. This is how pop in the 80's should sound, not that ________ Bangles or the horrid hair metal. In fact, the whole cd has so much _______ atmosphere, and it never sounds polished. IT's more like a totally _______ awesome space age enivronment.
IT's a bit of a shock to any _____head like Bjorn Everfrost (you call me a poser, you get the unfair comparisons too, you ___________. Calling Squash a metalhead? For shame!), but you shouldn't just forget about it. If this band would get more credit than they deserve, then I would be fine. This is one of the most underrated pop records ever. The 80's actually wasn't too bad. Just looked bad with some of the horrible ____.
9.0/10
A great debut album! .......2007-02-16
I bought them because, as an artist, when I saw the music video for 'Take On Me', I just couldn't help but wanting to know more about this amazing band. This CD gave me exactly what I wanted: more fantastic music from a very talented trio!
The songs are very inspiring and sometimes a little sad, like the title track (which sounds a lot different than it does remixed on Headlines and Deadlines... I like that version better than the one on this. Oh well!) and 'Living a Boy's Adventure Tale', full of things that really make you think about life and what's surrounding you. The music in general, Magne and Pal's songwriting and instrumental skills, brings you out of this world! But then again, I do have a strong love for synthesizers and keyboards. Not to mention the angelic vocal talents of Morten! WOW! He could sing opera if he wanted to; he's that good.
Some great tracks besides the hits/singles: The Blue Sky, Living a Boy's Adventure Tale, Here I Stand and Face the Rain.
I'd definitely recommend this to anyone that wants to feel inspired and witness one of the greatest (and underappreciated) bands in history, and also to fellow artists and anyone who loves great synth music. Even 22 years later...
Where it all started.......2007-02-08
a-ha, at their finest hour.......2006-08-27
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Trilogy: Hunting High and Low/Scoundrel Days/Stay on These Roads
A-Ha Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BW9V9I Release Date: 2006-02-27 |
Tracks:
- Take on Me
- Train of Thought
- Hunting High and Low
- Blue Sky
- Living a Boy's Adventure Tale
- Sun Always Shines on T.V.
- And You Tell Me
- Love Is Reason
- I Dream Myself Alive
- Here I Stand and Face the Rain
Tracks:
- Scoundrel Days
- Swing of Things
- I've Been Losing You
- October
- Manhattan Skyline
- Cry Wolf
- We're Looking for the Whales
- Weight of the Wind
- Maybe, Maybe
- Soft Rains of April
Tracks:
- Stay on These Roads
- Blood That Moves the Body
- Touchy!
- This Alone Is Love
- Hurry Home
- Living Daylights
- There's Never a Forever Thing
- Out of Blue Comes Green
- You Are the One
- You'll End Up Crying
Album Details
Triple CD Box Set with the First Three A-ha Albums Grouped Together: "Hunting High and Low", "Stay on These Roads" and "Scoundrel Days".
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Ian Bostridge Sings Britten
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000K4F6 Release Date: 1999-09-14 |
Tracks:
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: I Prologue
- II Pastoral
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: III Nocturne
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: IV Elegy
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: V Dirge
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: VI Hymn
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: VII Sonnet
- Serenade For Tenor, Horn And Strings, Op. 31: VIII Epilogue
- Folksong from Somerset, Arr. Britten: O Waly, Waly
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: I Prologue
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: II Rats Away!
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: III Messaline
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: IV Dance of Death (Hawking for the partridge)
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: V Epilogue and Funeral Music
- Oliver Cromwell (Nursery rhyme from Suffolk, arr. Britten)
Customer Reviews:
a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-03-25
Gripping, delightful, terrifying, hilarious, beautiful!.......2002-02-09
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Man with the Wooden Flute
Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001Q9E Release Date: 1993-08-31 |
Tracks:
- Lament For James Moray Of Abercarney
- Father Dollard's Favorite
- The Flail
- Guzzle Together
- Isle De Madeleine
- Point Au Pic
- Jacques Cartier
- Bavaglie's Plaid
- The Cradle Song
- I Won't Do the Work
- Thousand Pipers
- The Road To Skye
- Man Of Constant Sorrow
- Chinkapin Hunting
- King Of Naples
- The Belle Of the Stage
- The Fairy Queen
- High O'Donnell
- Dry N' Dusty
- Rochester Schottische
- Frosty Morning
- Shuffle About
- The Wounded Hussar
- Prince Charles'
- The Prague
- Mozart's Favorite
- Northern March
- Richard Dwyer's
- High Road To Linton
- Sleepy Waltz
- An Irish Lullaby
- Suo Gam
Customer Reviews:
He's one of a kind.......2000-10-12
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Ian Bostridge ~ Britten - Our Hunting Fathers · Quatre Chansons Françaises · Folksongs · Simfonia / Harding · Britten Simfonia
Benjamin Britten , Daniel Harding , Ian Bostridge , and Britten Simfonia Manufacturer: EMI Records [All429] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000GCAI Release Date: 1999-01-12 |
Tracks:
- O Waly, Waly
- Quatres Chansons Francaises: I. Nuits de juin
- Quatres Chansons Francaises: II. Sagesse
- Quatres Chansons Francaises: III. L'Enfance
- Quatres Chansons Francaises: IV. Chanson d'automne
- French Folksongs -: Quand j'is chez mon p
- French Folksongs -: Eho! Eho!
- Sinfonietta, Op. 1: I. Poco presto ed agitato
- Sinfonietta, Op. 1: II. Andante lento
- Sinfonietta, Op. 1: III. Tarantella: Presto vivace
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: I. Prologue
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: II. Rats away
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: III. Messalina
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: IV. Dance of Death (Hawking for the Partridge)
- Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8: V. Epilogue and Funeral March
- Nursery Rhyme from Suffolk: Oliver Cromwell
Amazon.com
Benjamin Britten wrote songs throughout his life, starting at age 14 (Quatre chansons françaises) and ranging from his settings of English and French folk songs (represented here by two in each language) to longer and more complex works. The centerpiece of the disc (apart from the early and very Schoenbergian Sinfonietta op. 1) is the five-part song cycle Our Hunting Fathers. The cycle, written in 1936, was devised by W.H. Auden and reflects in obscure and disjointed fashion the polemical pacifism of the time. The episodes alternate between drama and lyricism and are generally more declamatory than melodic, using the kind of heightened speech sometimes termed sprechstimme. The settings and orchestration are strong and imaginative, and the result is very effective. Ian Bostridge (whose recording of Schubert Lieder is not to be missed) has a beautiful voice: silvery, sweet, expressive, and capable of considerable dramatic impact. His articulation in English is impeccable, less so in French (those lazy vowels!), and while his interpretations sometimes seem a little overrefined, that's the nature of the music itself. Daniel Harding and the Britten Sinfonia provide excellent accompaniments, and the sound is very good. An interesting recital, especially for Britten fans. --Alex MorinCustomer Reviews:
A 2nd opinion - a striking CD.......2001-05-05
A revelation!.......1999-01-27
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Britten: Les Illuminations; Our Hunting Fathers; Quatre Chansons Françaises
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002TNGY6 Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
Album Description
The medium of the orchestral song-cycle is one that much attracted Britten. His concept of an anthology of sometimes diverse texts, unified by a common literary or poetic theme was a favourite device to which he returned several times. The very early yet astonishingly mature Quatre Chansons Françaises and the still relatively unknown Our Hunting Fathers are coupled on this first volume with one of Britten's great masterpieces, Les Illuminations which still startles in its vivid pictorial strokes and aching sensuality. Many composers had passed over Rimbaud's poems considering them too surrealist for lyrical settings. Britten, however, relished the opportunity to respond to their visionary, violent and sexual images. The vocal line closely follows the diversity of the text, by turns starkly declamatory, lyrical and heated.Customer Reviews:
Stunning........2004-10-06
If this disc only had the 22 minutes of Felicity Lott's Les Illuminations, it would still be worth Naxos' asking price three times over.
Les Illuminations, a ten part song cycle with Orchestra composed in 1939, must be among the most gorgeously sensual compositions of all time, and Lott, Bedford and the English Chamber Orchestra bring it off perfectly. I can't think of any other Britten composition I enjoy more, not even the Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - which is saying something!
Our Hunting Fathers (1936; 28 mins) is, I think, a bit underrated. It's performance here is adequate (Phyllis Bryn-Julson takes the vocal part) but I think I was somewhat spoiled for it by the brilliance of Ian Bostridge on the EMI set (with a close-as-humanly-possible-to-perfect Serenade). Still, this will be a good enough recording for you to work out if you like it.
Quatre Chansons Francaises (1928; 12mins) were a real discovery for me. I enjoyed them so much when I first played the disc I immediately went back to listen to it again twice more! Then I was gobsmacked to discover Britten wrote it when he was fourteen! It shows an incredible ability to set French texts sensitively for one so young. What a prodigy!
Again, Felicity Lott is wonderful, clearly treating it as seriously as everything else she sings. You can hear a lot of borrowed influences in Britten's orchestral writing, most obviously Wagner, but it is a fascinating insight into where Britten came from musically. And it is a downright enjoyable piece of music in its own right.
Wholeheartedly recommended. A box of delights at a bargain price. And with astonishing generosity, Naxos have included a 16 page booklet with full texts and translations, career information for those involved, and an informative essay by Lloyd Moore! Is there anything that company can't do?
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Hunting High & Low
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000IJ7J0W Release Date: 2006-11-28 |
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Hunting
Manufacturer: Henry Morgan & The High Grass Boys ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA30CS Release Date: 2004-08-24 |
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Hunting High & Low
ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004RBMN Release Date: 2000-02-01 |
Tracks:
- Hunting High And Low
- Millenium
- Neon Light Child
- Hunting High And Low (Demo Version)
- Millenium (Demo Version)
Album Description
Swedish 5 track EP from Heavy Metal act featuring two tracks from their forthcoming album 'Infinity', 'Hunting High and Low' and 'Millenium' as well as demo versions of both tracks. Also includes 'Neon Light Child'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.Customer Reviews:
Hail Stratovarius!.......2002-09-27
Finland rules. I recomend people not only to listen to Stratovarius, listen to Dreamtale and Sonata Arctica to, which is to other finnish bands.
Fast & energetic.......2000-07-04
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Hunting High & Low
A-Ha Manufacturer: Warner ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005HGD5 |
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