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Last Century Modern by DJ-programmer Towa Tei (formerly of Deee-Lite) is a truly cosmopolitan extravaganza, featuring influences, guest artists, and languages from all over the world. Hard-driving programmed beats and bass lines are in full force, but many songs, such as "Let Me Know" and the title track, make extensive use of live musicians and singers. Tei propels "Angel" and "Butterfly" with mercilessly fast rhythms while angelic female vocals provide a joyful contrast. Trumpeter Tom Browne plays on his own "Funkin' for Jamaica," a stylish remake featuring rapper and Beastie Boys collaborator Wizdom Life as well as the French vocal group Les Nubians. Other tracks, such as "Stretch Building Bamboo" and "CHATR," are inventive sound expressions, the latter employing the cutting-edge speech synthesizer of the same name. "A Ring" and "Congratulations!" join exotic jazzy riffs with obscure spoken-word fragments, complementing Tei's trademark quirky sense of humor. --Mark McCleerey

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Tracks:

1. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
2. Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
3. We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
4. Hungarian Dance No.7
5. The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
6. Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
7. But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
8. The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
9. The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
10. Csardas Music
11. The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
12. The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
13. Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
14. The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
15. Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
17. The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
18. Tzigane
19. Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
20. Caprice No.24
21. The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
22. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
23. Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
24. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
25. Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
26. The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
27. The Violin Muted
28. Clair De Lune
29. The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
30. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
31. The Pizzicato Violin
32. Pizzicato Polka
33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
34. Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
35. Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
36. The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
37. The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
38. Hungarian Dance No.4
39. Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
40. The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
41. Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
42. Bolero
43. Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
44. Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
45. Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
46. Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
47. Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
48. Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
49. And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
50. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
51. The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
52. Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
53. The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
54. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
55. Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
56. The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
57. Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
58. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
59. Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
60. The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
61. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
62. Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
63. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
64. Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
65. Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
66. To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
67. Elfenreigen

Tracks:

1. Introduction To The Viola
2. Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
3. Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
4. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
5. Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
6. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
7. The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
8. Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
9. The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
10. Cypresses (No.9)
11. The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
12. Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
13. The 'Period' Viola In Bach
14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
15. The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
16. Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
17. Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
18. Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
19. Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
20. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
21. In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
23. But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
24. Elfentanz, Op.39
25. Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
26. The Protecting Veil (Opening)
27. A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
28. Flamenco
29. Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
30. Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
31. It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
33. It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
34. Symphony No.9 (Finale)
35. Introduction To The Double-Bass
36. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
37. But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
38. Elegy No.1 In D Major
39. The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
40. Capriccio Di Bravura
41. Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
42. The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
43. Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

1. The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
2. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
3. The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
4. Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
5. The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
6. Sa'Dawi
7. Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
8. Chamber Music No.II
9. The Piccolo - Aptly Named
10. La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
11. From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
12. Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
13. A Variety Of Techniques
14. Chamber Music No.II
15. Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
16. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
17. From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
18. Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
19. An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
20. Naelden, Naelden
21. The Bachian Oboe
22. Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
23. Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
24. Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
25. The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
26. The Swan Of Tuonela
27. The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
29. Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
30. Bolero
31. The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
32. Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
33. As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
34. Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
35. The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
36. The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
37. The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
38. ...And Quite Low.
39. Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
40. The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
41. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
42. But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
43. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
44. Introduction To The Saxophone
45. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
46. The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
48. The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
49. Bolero
50. The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
51. Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
52. The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
53. Sax-O-Phun
54. The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
55. Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
56. The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
57. Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
58. Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
59. And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
60. Bolero
61. The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
62. Symphony No.3 (Opening)
63. The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
64. The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
65. Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
66. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
67. The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
68. Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
69. The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
70. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
71. The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
72. Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
73. Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
74. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
75. The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
76. Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

1. The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
2. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
3. The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
4. Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
5. The Ceremonial Trumpet
6. Fanfare For The Common Man
7. Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
8. Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
9. The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
10. Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
11. The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
12. Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
13. The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
14. Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
15. The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
16. Billy The Kid
17. The Trumpet As Character Actor
18. Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
19. The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
20. Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
21. The Birth Of The Trombone
22. Aenmerckt Nu Hier
23. The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
24. Canzon 12 In Double Echo
25. The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
26. Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
27. The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
28. Hosannah
29. The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
30. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
31. The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
32. The Trombone As Caricaturist
33. Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
34. The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
35. The Horn And The Hunt
36. Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
37. The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
38. Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
39. The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
40. Walter Music (Minuet 1)
41. The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
42. Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
43. Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
44. The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
45. Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
46. The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
47. Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
48. The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
49. Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
50. The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
51. Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

1. Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
2. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
3. At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
4. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
5. Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
6. Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
7. The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
8. The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
9. Den Hoboecken Dans
10. Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
11. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
12. No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
13. Gymnopedie No.2
14. The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
15. Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
16. More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
17. Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
18. Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
19. Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
20. A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
21. Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
22. The Birth Of The Bongo
23. Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
24. From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
25. Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
26. From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
27. Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
28. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
29. But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
30. Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
31. Taking Advantage Of Tunability
32. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
33. The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
34. Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
35. Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
36. The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
37. Ravel And The Xylophone
38. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
39. Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
40. Introducing The Vibraphone
41. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
42. The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
43. Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
44. Folk Dances
45. The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
46. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
47. Introducing The Tubular Bells
48. Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
49. A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
50. Carmen Suite (Introduction)
51. But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
52. Introducing The Celeste
53. The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
54. Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
55. Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
56. Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
57. A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
58. The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
60. The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
61. Petrushka (Russian Dance)
62. The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
63. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

1. Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
2. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
3. But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
4. Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
5. The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
6. An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
7. Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
8. Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
9. Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
10. Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
11. Mahler's Sleighbells
12. Symphony No.4 (Opening)
13. A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
14. Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
15. Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
16. Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
17. National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
18. And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
19. And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
20. The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
21. The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
22. The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
23. The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
24. The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
25. The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
26. The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
27. The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
28. There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
29. The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
30. Nocturnes
31. Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
32. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
33. The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
34. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
35. The Oboe As Duck
36. Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
37. The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
38. The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
39. The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
40. Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
41. Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
43. Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
44. The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
45. A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
46. Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
47. A Thunderstorm In A Million
48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
49. the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
50. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
51. Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
52. The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

1. The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
2. Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
3. A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
4. Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
5. Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
6. String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
7. The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
8. String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
9. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
10. String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
11. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
12. String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
13. The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
14. String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
15. The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
16. Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
17. Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
18. String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
19. The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
20. Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
21. Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
22. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
23. In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
24. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
25. In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
26. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
27. In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
28. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
29. Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
30. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
31. And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
32. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
33. The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
34. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
35. Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
36. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
37. A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
38. Octet In F (Mvt 3)
39. The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
40. Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
41. Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
42. Canzon 28
43. Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
44. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
45. From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
46. Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
47. Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
48. The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
50. When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
51. Images (Gigues)
52. A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
53. Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
54. The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
55. Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
56. Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
57. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
58. A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

The one complaint I have is the last CD. This deals with the orchestra. I wanted more of a tour of how the orchestra has been used through history up to the present. Instead, it was a tour of how different groups of instruments sound. I thought it could have been better. The other 6 CDs are excellent.

Average customer rating: too disjointed it's ok Lounge meets Dance meets Funk meets You get the idea what Sound Museum couldn't be I feel so fine!

Last Century Modern Towa Tei Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Techno | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Techno | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Dance General | Dance & DJ | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 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 4-for-3 New Age | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sound Museum Future Listening Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities Infinity Within Dewdrops in the Garden ASIN: B00004SSTQ Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

1. Last Century Modern
2. A Ring
3. Angel
4. Butterfly
5. Chatr
6. Stretch Building Bamboo
7. Congratulations!
8. Funkin' For Jamaica
9. Let Me Know
10. LCM
11. Butterfly (Cornelius Remix)
12. Let Me Know (Mighty Bop Remix)

Amazon.com

Last Century Modern by DJ-programmer Towa Tei (formerly of Deee-Lite) is a truly cosmopolitan extravaganza, featuring influences, guest artists, and languages from all over the world. Hard-driving programmed beats and bass lines are in full force, but many songs, such as "Let Me Know" and the title track, make extensive use of live musicians and singers. Tei propels "Angel" and "Butterfly" with mercilessly fast rhythms while angelic female vocals provide a joyful contrast. Trumpeter Tom Browne plays on his own "Funkin' for Jamaica," a stylish remake featuring rapper and Beastie Boys collaborator Wizdom Life as well as the French vocal group Les Nubians. Other tracks, such as "Stretch Building Bamboo" and "CHATR," are inventive sound expressions, the latter employing the cutting-edge speech synthesizer of the same name. "A Ring" and "Congratulations!" join exotic jazzy riffs with obscure spoken-word fragments, complementing Tei's trademark quirky sense of humor. --Mark McCleerey

Customer Reviews:

too disjointed.......2006-03-02

The problem with all of Towa Tei's releases is they're not very cohesive as a whole. He jumbles too many styles and types of music together ranging from lounge and reggae to dance and drum 'n bass. Not to say that any of his music is bad, it isn't. He's a very talented musician but jumbling too many styles together on one disc makes it a challenge to focus on his skills as a musician. Fortunately with all of his releases there is a handful of stand out gems. On Future Listening they are I Want To Relax, Batucada and Meditation with the lovely Lady Miss Keir on vocals. On Sound Museum we have the ptich perfect German Bold Italic with Kylie Minogue on vocals and with Last Century Modern we the Parisian lounge of the title track, the drum'n bass rhythms of Angel and the pure dance perfection of COngratulations.

This is an interesting disc but like another reviewer stated, it does get quickly boring and you'll find that only a few tracks will stand out for you.

it's ok.......2005-06-28

2. Ring - Pascale Borel
8. Congratulations - Cory Daye
12. Let Me Know [Mighty Bop Remix]
are my favorites! #12 especially! Her voice is soothing.
I think 2 and 12 would fall into a category of cafe/restaurant music while 8 would be good for a party.
The other songs in this cd are weird but enjoyable.

Lounge meets Dance meets Funk meets You get the idea.......2002-07-15

This is my first exposure to Towa Tei, purchased on a whim. At first I was a little surprised, I was expecting a bit more of a homogenous and fluid disc. Fortunately I was able to enjoy the variety that Towa explodes with after the first two or three tracks. Setting up with a little lounge music and bassanova, he goes all over the boards, brilliantly incorporating a diversity of musical genres without making the listener feel too transplanted. The only time I felt something out of place was one of the most enjoyable tracks on the album, Funkin' for Jamaica. The previous track, Congratulations!, was touted as the signature track on the album, but I did not find it to have superiority to the other cuts. In fact, it seems a little monotonous with too little change over the stretch of the track, although its quick climax at the end leaves one wanting more.

Overall, I'm happy with it, and I'm interested in looking into more from Towa Tei.

what Sound Museum couldn't be.......2001-11-23

With everyone one of his album, it looks like Towa Tei is trying to put you in a certain frame of mind as far as time periods go. His first solo record was named Future Listening, and the idea was apparent he was trying to make music for the future throughout the record. And it worked. His next record was Sound Museum which I imagine was supposed to conjure up sounds of ancient musicians, althrough the actual recording didn't serve the title at all. This time he's named his record Last Century Modern, music for the final years of the 20th century. It's more forward-looking than the look-how-far-we've-come idea that the name conjures though.

"Last Century Modern" is a song of accordions and Balanscu Quartet sounds whirring around your head in space. A Brazilian voiced singer only listed as "UA" sings the title over and over with the emphasis on "mo-darn." I must note however that it seems like UA is only a replacement for my beloved Bebel Gilberto, who does not make an appearance on this album. I guess now that she's making her own records, she doesn't have time for Towa. This is quite unfortunate as she can breathe life into even the deadest Towa Tei song.

A breathy French singer is in the spotlight of the glitch/lounge song "A Ring," something that warrants numerous listenings if only for the strangeness and sound effects that you don't expect. Al throughout the record however you can expect Towa's signature filler lyrics. About half the songs feature computer voices, "Last Century Modern" lists various media formats in its lyrics and "Angel's" lyrics are little more than "S-P-E-L-L A-N-G-E-L." He's quite the producer, but hardly ever a great wordsmith, that Towa.

There's also as usual the fair share of female-voiced American pop imitations, though they're more fleshed out and more successful than the posh on Sound Museum. "CHATR" is named after and was made with a new text-to-voice program that's been developed as the most realistic computer voice ever made. They gave Towa exclusive permission to use it for this song before the program was ever released, but that doesn't make it a great song. It's listenable fun though. The finest song may be "Stretch Building Bamboo," something created by Towa completely on his computer. It's pretty much all sound effects flying all around your head that all build into a totally funky psychedelic collage.

"LCM" brings back the sweet melody from "Last Century Modern" and leaves it up to the Balanscu Quartet and a children's chorus. It would make a sweet final track, but then we get two remixes. One is by Towa's rock-n-roll counterpart wizard, Cornelius. He doesn't do anything too magical to "Butterfly." I would think he'd be more cut-out to re-do "Stretch Building Bamboo" maybe. In the end, Last Century Modern hits all the points that Sound Museum tried to hit but couldn't. Even the rap works. It's funny when wants to be, poppy when it wants to be, and always smart.

I feel so fine!.......2001-06-20

This disc is your friend. Buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it, buy it. Okay, you get the idea.

Average customer rating:

The Complete Songs, Vol. 4 Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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 General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 3 The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2 The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 1 Charles Ives: Songs Charles Ives: Three Quarter-Tone Pieces; Five Take-offs; Hallowe'en; Sunrise ASIN: B0000049MN Release Date: 1995-08-10

Tracks:

1. The Innate
2. The Collection
3. Premonitions
4. Grantchester
5. Thoreau
6. West London
7. Serenity
8. On The Counter
9. Hymn
10. August
11. September
12. December
13. Cradle Song
14. 'Paracelsus': Excerpt
15. Disclosure
16. Maple Leaves
17. La Fede
18. The Indians
19. Two Slants: Duty
20. Two Slants: Vita
21. 'The Incantation': Excerpt
22. An Election
23. At Sea
24. The Last Reader
25. The Greatest Man
26. The Housatonic At Stockbridge
27. Resolution
28. Two Little Flowers
29. Evening
30. Immortality
31. Yellow Leaves
32. Ann Street
33. Peaks
34. The White Gulls
35. 1, 2, 3
36. Majority
37. Remembrance
38. The One Way
39. The Rainbow (So May It Be!)
40. The Side Show
41. A Sea Dirge
42. In The Mornin'

Average customer rating: Hit and miss Last Century Modern...IT"S COOL i wanna dance! Progressive Garage Towa Tei returns to form with this elegant century-closer.

Last Century Modern Towa Tei Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000K21T Release Date: 1999-09-14

Tracks:

1. Last Century Modern
2. A Ring
3. Angel
4. Butterfly
5. Contact
6. Chair
7. Stretch Building Bamboo
8. Congratulations
9. Funkin' For Jamaica
10. Let Me Know
11. Lcm

Album Details

New 1999 Release.

Customer Reviews:

Hit and miss.......2000-07-05

Other than his work with Deee-Lite, I first heard Tei with his "Luv Connection" single back in 1995. His 1998 CD "Sound Museum" showed Tei to be a genius at combining musical styles that have no business being in the same CD store with each other, let alone mixed into one song.

"Last Century Modern" gets even more risky, and winds up being very hit-or-miss. It starts out with accordians, harps, and strings to create a sort of wierded out lounge music with French lyrics. You sit there liking it and wondering why! Great stuff! Then Tei adds beats, keyboards, and Speak and Spell (yes, the toy) with "Angel" and "Butterfly" to create some smooth grooves with obvious remix potential.

Unfortunately, Tei's experimentation overtakes his songwriting for the next four tracks. A big deal is made out of the use of a speech synthesizer (on "CHATR"), and I'm not sure why. Who hasn't used one? "Contact" (with Die) overstays its welcome by about five minutes, not unlike all the cuts on Reprazent's "New Forms". These four tracks sound like Tei's just goofing around. With his whimsical grafting of musical styles absent, that's not very interesting.

The last several tracks work well by merging trumpets, beats, funk, retro, and vocals in French, English, and Japanese.

I couldn't classify Towa Tei to save my life, but whatever he is - he's good. Although "Last Century Modern" has great moments and thrills just by being so daring, "Sound Museum" is the more consistent and enjoyable offering. If Tei can manage to take "LCM"'s wild experimentation and mix it with the control of "Sound Museum", he'd have an instant classic!

Last Century Modern...IT"S COOL.......2000-02-23

If you love Towa Tei or not,,,these songs should get you moving. You can here the influences from his previous works (bossa nova and Hip Hop) but now is leaning more to the JUNGLE (drumnbass) side. If you know Towa from Deee-Lite and his later solo works...There's no doubt he would evolve to where He's at. L.C.M. is not Just a DANCE Album but a whole work of art...a complete story of Trance...Bass...and Sound!

i wanna dance!.......2000-01-22

towa is the modern day mozart. this album is so freaky fresh that it makes me want to bop forever. if mathematics had music, this would be it.

Progressive Garage.......1999-11-17

This album consists of genreless borderless 11 songs, featuring great performers like UA, Chara, Coba, Ayumi Tanabe, Les Nubian, Jampin' Jack Frost. Tei Towa organized these various types of artists so innovatively and skillfully. I went to a club in Nagoya, Japan in Aug 1999, where he played the DJ.He showed up late at night and started with Let Me Know then. As soon as he played the tune, floor people blasted off. He played Drum and Bass, House Classic, Dee Lite, and some tracks from this album then. He runs his own label called Akasic Records, which releases Jazclash as well. He is absolutely an innovator, who sustain the world of Japanese dance music.

Towa Tei returns to form with this elegant century-closer........1999-08-15

Towa Tei returns to form with an elegant, melodic, and romantic beauty of an album. There's retro-chic bossa nova, sophisticated female vocals, and even a couple of funky jams. Towa even brings back the wonderful vocalist Cory Daye on "Congratulations," a cut that recalls her glory days with Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band. At only 40-some minutes, one wishes for more, but that's what remixes are for, I guess, so, "dadadadada("A Ring")", buy this one if you loved "Future Listening."

Average customer rating: Music to get you through a bad moment or two

Love Manufacturer: Explore the Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Finzi, Gerald | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mahler | Mahler, Gustav | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Martin | Martin, Frank | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Scriabin, Alexander | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Scriabin, Alexander | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | 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 Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | 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 | Concertos | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Concertos | 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: Songs Of Praise ASIN: B000006DJ2 Release Date: 1998-03-31

Tracks:

1. Fanfare For The Common Man
2. The Planets, Suite For Orchestra, Op. 32 Mars, Bringer Of War
3. Fantasie In G Minor, BWV 542
4. The Fountains Of Rome: The Fountain Of Trevi At Mid-Day
5. Toccata & Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565
6. Symphony No. 10 In E Minor, BWV 565: Allegro
7. String Quartet In F Major, Op. 96: Finale
8. Apres une lecture du Dante
9. Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 In A Major
10. Te Duem: Tibi omnes Angeli
11. Estancia: Danza final
12. Symphony No. 2 In D, Op. 43: Finale
13. Symphony No. 3 In C Minor, Op. 78: Maestoso
14. Carmina Burana: Ave formosissima, O fortuna

Amazon.com

Like Allegro's "Power" album, this is apparently intended as a vehicle to sell other discs, on the Nimbus, Vanguard Classics, Carlton Classics, Dorian Recordings, and Collins Classics labels. Sure wish we could find out who the performers are, but they are not listed anywhere. All we see are teeny reductions of the album covers from which these cuts are recycled. We get Vaughan Williams's "Lark Ascending," of course, and the Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony, of course. The high point of the album is the Larghetto from Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Minor, featuring the legendary Karl Leister of the Berlin Philharmonic. This we know not because we can find any credits, but because Leister's distinctive sound is unmistakable. --Gwendolyn Freed

Customer Reviews:

Music to get you through a bad moment or two.......2001-02-07

I first heard the Finzi cut (Eclogue) from this CD while suffering through a miserable plane flight. I clamped on the headphones and listened to the Finzi time and again and was able to drift off into a semi-state of relaxation to make the time sandwiched in that sardine can pass more or less bearably.

Finzi, a 20th Century British composer who is sadly neglected in the US, wrote this Eclogue for a never-to-be-finished piano concerto. He realized it stood well on its own and it was published as a complete composition. One only regrets that Finzi did not write the entire concerto as this fragment is incredibly beautiful. Close your eyes and you will see rolling, green pastures, bubbling streams, birds floating on warm breezes, fleecy clouds. Anyway, that's what I see whenever I play it. It's heavenly.

All the music on this CD (which is poorly titled and has boring cheap graphics on the cover) are masterpieces. And the selections are appropriate for one another. But get it for the Finzi and you won't be disappointed. All in all, the whole cd is lovely music and nicely selected.

Average customer rating:

Benjamin Britten: Four Burns Songs from A Birthday Hansel Op.92 / A Charm of Lullabys Manufacturer: Et'Cetera ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000000NS Release Date: 2004-03-22

Tracks:

1. Four Burns Songs From 'A Birthday Hansel', Op.92: Afton Water - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
2. Four Burns Songs From 'A Birthday Hansel', Op.92: Wee Willie - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
3. Four Burns Songs From 'A Birthday Hansel', Op.92: The Winter - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
4. Four Burns Songs From 'A Birthday Hansel', Op.92: My Hoggie - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
5. Folksong Arrangements: The Ash Grove (Welsh Tune) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
6. Folksong Arrangements: The Trees They Grow So High (Somerset) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
7. Folksong Arrangements: O Can Ye Sew Cushions? (Scottish Tune) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
8. Folksong Arrangements: How Sweet The Answer (The Wren) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
9. Folksong Arrangements: The Last Rose Of Summer (Groves Of Blarney) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
10. Folksong Arrangements: The Minstrel Boy (The Moreen) - Yvonne Kenny/Tan Crone
11. A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41: A Cradle Song (William Blake) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
12. A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41: The Highland Balou (Robert Burns) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
13. A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41: Sephestia's Lullaby (Robert Greene) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
14. A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41: A Charm (Thomas Randolph) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
15. A Charm Of Lullabies, Op.41: The Nurse's Song (John Philip) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
16. Folksong Arrangements: The Salley Gardens (Irish Tune) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
17. Folksong Arrangements: O Waly, Waly (Somerset) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
18. Folksong Arrangements: Come You Not From Newcastle? - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone
19. Folksong Arrangements: Quand Jetais Chez Mon Pere (France) - Carolyn Watkinson/Tan Crone

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A Soundscape Exploration Into The Realm Of Dreams And Magic Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Delius, Frederick | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Holst | Holst, Gustav | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mahler | Mahler, Gustav | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Part | Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Respighi | Respighi, Ottorino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sibelius | Sibelius, Jean | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wagner | Wagner, Richard | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | 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 Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002SP1 Release Date: 1997-02-25

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Last Century Modern Towa Tei Manufacturer: East West Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000SM5SVQ

Product Description

Track list:~~1. Last Century Modern~~~2. A Ring~~~3. Angel~~~4. Butterfly~~~5. CHATR-German version~~~6. Stretch Building Bamboo~~~7. Congratulations!~~~8. Funkin' For Jamaica~~~9. Let Me Know~~~10. LCM~~~Bonus Tracks:~~11. Funkin' For Jamaica~~~12. Let Me Know.

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1. Love Inc. [Import]
2. Milk It: The Best of Death in Vegas [Import]
3. Mind Elevation [Limited Edition]
4. Ministry of Sound: Karma Collection (Limited Edition) [Limited Edition] [Import]
5. Modern Wild Dub: Dread Meets Disco Punk Rocker Downtown
6. Moonlight Shadow [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
7. My Salsoul [Import]
8. Navigator [Limited Edition] [Import]
9. New World Observer
10. Nikki Beach: Luxury Music [Limited Edition] [Import]

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Fairytale [Import]

Nielsen: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5

Outer Circles

Music: Sangokushi [Import]

Life on a Plate [Import]

Melon

Lotto Man

Music from the Valley of the Flowers

Jimmie Davis - Greatest Hits: Finest Performances

Late Night Sessions

Lil' Dub Chefin' [CD-single]

Hora Da Batalha [Import]

Macho Dance [Import]

Golden Classics

Moonstone