Tremble [CD-single]

1. Tremble [Original Radio Edit]

2. Tremble [I Love Trance Edit]

3. Tremble [Safri Duo Remix]

4. Tremble [CJ Stone Remix]

5. Tremble [Saints and Sinners Mix]

6. Tremble [Jan Driver Remix]

7. Tremble [Riva Remix]

Tracks:

Hold On Slow Down
First Instant Last Report
The Hidden Track
Sounds
The Valley People
All They Ever Do is Talk
A Bell and a Whistle
Broke the Furniture
Unintentional Tape Manipulations
Heaven Adores You
808 Crickets
Tell the Truth Parts 1 & 2
It's Okay to Think about Ending

Album Description

Earlimart's second full-length for Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures, titled "Treble & Tremble," is filled with the warm vocals and expansive, orchestral rock arrangements that earned the band's 2003 releases "The Avenues" E.P. and "Everyone Down Here" critical praise from journalists and peers alike.

Customer Reviews:

Smiling through the tears..........2005-09-05

The first time I heard this cd, I was minding my own business at a bookstore in Houston. I was suddenly hit with 'Hold On Slow Down' which generated an intense sadness as I too had just lost a very good friend to drugs. I was trying to sip hot coffee as well but you tend to shake a little when the tears are swelling up in your eyes. Ouch! Burned hands. 'First Instant Last Report' is my favorite though because it IS the smile shinning through those crocodile tears. I recommend it! (Not crying and burning your hands but buying this cd.)

Not a Clone, Despite Popular Opinion.......2005-03-22

Forget what you've heard about Earlimart's "Treble & Tremble" being a rip-off of Elliott Smith and forget the Pixie past. Earlimart has something better than that for you in "Treble & Tremble"

T&T is certainly in the same vein as Elliott's soulfull, heartwrenching, lyrical piano and acoustic driven songwriting. But it is no clone. Earlimart instead works within the genre Smith pioneered to produce something familiar, yet still original. Songs such as "All They Ever Do Is Talk" and "Heaven Adores You" are the most remeniscent of Smith's style on the album, yet they are good in their own right: not as immitation but homage.

Though Aaron Espinoza is certainly lyrically talented, he can of course in no way replace or compare with Elliott's significance and style. But he is willing to bring an experimental element listeners should find to be significant in the development of a unique style for the band. Particularly fascinating to me are two songs: "Sounds" which is a great rock-out piece echoing a bit of Pedro the Lion. But most intriguing is "Unintentional Tape Manipulations," a crazed mix of distortion, noise, acoustic guitar, and haunting vocal filtering that makes for something truly original and fascinating to listen to.

Amazing Follow Up.......2005-01-26

I enjoyed Everyone Down Here so much and felt it was a very worthy debut for this band. They took some leaps and bounds to create this beautiful record.

It aches my stomach with how great "The Hidden Track" is, complete bliss and sets you up for a good feeling on the rest of the album. Where as the rest of the album clicks and misses upon first listening. But I find the best stuff is when you hear it a couple of times, usually when a great album sinks in it gets flooded.

No matter how many times I hear "The Hidden Track" I just go to pieces. This is quite the masterful follow up if you ask me.

First for me from Earlimart.......2005-01-12

First off, I know nothing about this band or the guy who died who has been mentioned in other reviews, so I can't compare this cd to their past works. This cd was being played in my local Barnes & Noble one day and piqued my interest so much I decided to buy it.

I am a collector of 80's cd's of tecno/goth/new wave etc... and this cd had alot of that sound. Musically it has the sound of Love & Rockets. The vocals sound alot like The Jesus & Mary Chain. I am always looking for new stuff with an 80's sound to it and this cd didn't disappoint me in that aspect.

The major problem that I have had with it was that many of the songs sound the same. Out of the first 5 or so tracks I have a hard time telling one from the next. Maybe that is just a matter of giving this cd more plays.

If you enjoy haunting vocals with a distortion sound of quitars you may want to check out this cd from Earlimart.

Beautiful, truly makes me tremble.......2004-12-06

This album is magnificent. Earlimart has gone from college echoe rock to beautiful piano enriched indie space rock. I can see the Grandaddy influences from the producer, adn Elliot Smith's influences also.

I am a fan of Smith's and was actually at the last live performance he ever gave before he died at the University of Utah Redfest last year. This album truly makes me weep. Anybody who has lost somebody will be tocuhed by this music. It is not overly depressing either, in fact it is kind of hopeful and positive. Even the Tape Manipulations song isn't as bad as many have said. It helps add dimension to this album.

Overall this is a very well thought out and executed album that resonates with agony, beauty, and hope.

Average customer rating:

Not that shaky (but still pretty good)
Rough, but excellent
Another winning album from Paul
That's not a road
more heart than you know what to do with

Come Feel Me Tremble
Paul Westerberg
Manufacturer: Vagrant Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Dead Man Shake
Eventually
14 Songs
Suicaine Gratifaction
Open Season

ASIN: B0000D1D5H
Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

Dirty Diesel
Making Me Go
Hillbilly Junk
Soldier Of Misfortune
My Daydream
What A Day (For A Night)
Wild & Lethal
Crackle And Drag (Original take)
Crackle And Drag (Alt Version)
Never Felt Like This Before
Knockin' Em Back
Pine Box
Meet Me Down The Alley
These Days

Customer Reviews:

Not that shaky (but still pretty good).......2006-01-21

Come Feel Me Tremble is the wrong title for this cd, and this miscalculation on the choice of title phrases doesn't bode well for an album that has its fair share of beautifully guttery rock n' roll.

On the album cover, that title appears beside a picture of a wreckless Paul looking like he's given up trying to put himself together and instead has let himself go.

And this combination of words and picture would seem to indicate that listening to the album would shed some light about a soul who's on the verge of a breakdown because he's too real of a person to live in a phony-filled world, or something desperate along those lines, which would ring true.

And though there is some great rock n' roll to be had here (from time to time), it's not the place to go if you're looking for 'desperate.'

Songs like 'Making Me Go,' and song 7 (can't remember title) are good rock n' roll songs that includes tinges of expressionistic achiness but are for the most part pretty straight-ahead rock numbers. Intermingled with pretty good songs like these is a bunch of adult-sounding boredom that comes across about as rascally and loose as doing your homework. Some of these songs, including the cover of 'These Days' (And I love the original), seem to be most listenable while staring at your plate of eggs and bacon, with your lover sitting across from you at a diner, both feeling too stale on this particular Saturday morning to escape the absorption of the self-conscious mind to dig into those eggs!

Despite too much seriousness and poetry and not enough shakiness and pill-popping, this album includes a couple of gems, 'Hillbilly Junk' and 'Pine Box.' I could listen to this lazy, raucous, and sensitive 'Junk' about a thousand times in a row.

And though 'Pine Box' has a searing political message, it trembles pretty vivaciously and did get me thinking that an actual nervous breakdown may be around the corner.

Rough, but excellent.......2005-08-22

Rejecting studio glossiness in favor of being authentic and honest is all well and good in theory. But if you take it too far, you stop gaining authenticity and honesty and just start coming off as needlessly sloppy and uninterested in giving the songs what they deserve. On this album, Westerberg threatens to drive all the way over the cliff into sonic garbageland, then thinks better of it and jumps out of the car seconds before it plunges downward. Although he would probably benefit from a little editing and polishing here and there, the roughness of Westerberg's execution generally enhances the songs (particularly lonesome shouts from the wilderness like "Meet Me Down The Alley"). Heck, I have even grown to view his clumsy drumming as rather charming.

There's a lot to love here. "What A Day (For A Night)" sparkles with its sharp lead guitar. "My Daydream" has a winning melody. "Wild & Lethal" swaggers nicely. And the Jackson Browne cover "These Days" is a thoughtful way to close out the proceedings.

Of the two versions of "Crackle & Drag," I'm going to have to cast my vote wholeheartedly for the alternate take. The original version is a little too uptempo and forceful for a meditation on suicide. "Pine Box" would have been twice as good if it were half as long. And "Never Felt Like This Before" is so pretty that I wish it were twice as long.

It's mildly irritating that the track listing on the back of my CD does not actually match the order on the actual album ("Hillbilly Junk" is listed at No. 3 but is, in fact, the No. 9 song). And, while I'm on the subject of the packaging, all of the pictures are substandard, like they were taken with some wretched cell-phone camera. Fortunately, none of this takes away from the high quality of the songs inside.

Another winning album from Paul.......2004-09-22

Much like the simultaneously released "Dead Man Shake", this album is loose and Paul is just letting it flow. However, the songwriting here seems more focused, so I like this one better. The two takes of "Crackle & Drag" (about Sylvia Plath's suicide) are the ones that really stand out on this album and make my hair stand on end. I love that back-to-back pairing. I'd get this album just for those two. Recommended.

That's not a road.......2004-05-04

Every time I listen to this cd it reminds me of the time my cousin and I were driving around the back roads of Forks, Washington and when I turned around, my rig slid off the road next to a culvert. Well that caused us to sleep out in the rain all night and around 5am this fellow comes along and pulls us out, but before he does he reminds us one thing about the culvert:"That's not a road." That's what this album means to me and it could mean something else to you.

more heart than you know what to do with.......2004-04-12

I certainly don't pretend to be an expert on Westerberg or the Replacements, truth is i only own three of their/his records, but i know quality when i hear it.
People have complained on this page of the recording quality, don't listen to them. A guy like Paul Westerberg doesn't need some multi-tracked wonder to be able to capture the spirit of his music, and with this collection of songs we are able to sit in the basement with an artist who has so much more heart/soul and spirit than any other person on this planet. The fact that this album sounds the way it does is because it's not pretending to be anything other than what it really is - an honest portrait of one of the finest songwriting talents there has ever been, playing a solo performance - just for you.

Average customer rating:

I never tire of this CD
Relaxing, Beautiful and not overdone
Suprise.
Ambient Austrialia Grooves
Rivertribe: Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble

Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble
RiverTribe
Manufacturer: Inpop
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | International | Styles | Music

World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music

Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Journey
Christmas

ASIN: B0000636CL
Release Date: 2002-03-26

Tracks:

I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
Northwest
Shout To The North
Gathering
Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble
Northeast
Pour Out Your Spirit
Open The Eyes Of My Heart
Homeward
Morning Prayer
Journey

Customer Reviews:

I never tire of this CD.......2004-11-14

I have owned this CD a little over a year now, and I have played it literally several hundred times. In my massage practice, I pop a CD in to the player in the morning, push the repeat button, and listen to the same CD all day long. By the end of the day, I want to fling the CD out the window. Not so with this CD. In fact, I have left it in days on end. This is the most interesting, beautiful music I have ever heard. I even have it loaded onto my i-Pod and listen to it on my own time. It is very soothing and centering and just makes you feel so good.
After all this time, I had no idea it was a Christian CD until I just read it on this review list. Thank goodness I didn't know that beforehand, or I never would have ordered it and would have missed out on owning my favorite CD of all time. Really, it's that good.

Relaxing, Beautiful and not overdone.......2004-04-12

Only after I had gotten this CD did I know that any of the songs were Christian. Despite the fact that I am not a Christian it is one of the most inspiring CD's I've ever owned. An awsome tribal feel, relaxing, meditative and unique sound that I have not heard of anywhere else.

I had first seen them at the Toronto Buskerfest a few years back, and had really badly wanted the CD and had no cash, I also knew it would be hard to find anywhere else. But after I talked to them and told them how much their music ispired me they offered to give me a CD for free. Thanks to all the band members for their wonderful hearts. I want them all to know how much I appreciate it.

Suprise........2003-05-22

Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble, I Could Sing of Your Love Forever, Shout to the North, etc. - if you're Christian, you've probably heard the one-million-and-one reditions of these. Like some carols, there's an immediate reaction of, "Something fresh please." So when I saw those titles on this cd, I sighed and looked elsewhere, except I stumbled upon a copy years later and discovered a treasure! Melancholy and meditative, this is a nature store kind of remix, and it's plenty fresh.

Ambient Austrialia Grooves.......2003-04-04

Taking a busker's street show and sucessfully recording it on a CD is no easy task, but Rivertribe has done just that. They've completely captured the mood of their street performances. If you've never listened to them, they are a group of 4 Austrailians, playing a variety of traditional and contemporary instruments. Featuring the percussive drone of the didgeridoo, the ghostly breath of the low whistle, the distinctive whine of the violin, and a mix of percussion and keyboards. Their music is a combination of interpretations of current Praise music, as well as peices of their own composition. They started gigging as buskers (street-performers), but recently have started playing concerts and recording CDs. Though at the heart of it is still their desire to engage people directly through music. The songs on this CD vary from mellow ambient peices to upbeat agressive grooves. Having almost no lyrics, (it does have a few samples looped-in) most of the attention is directed to the main instruments exploring melodic themes. This CD is great for nice background music, but also is interesting enough to be listened to while driving or to un-wind after a long day. There is no one I would not reccomend this album to.

Rivertribe: Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble.......2002-06-14

Rivertribe's uniquely Australian indigenous-soul-tribal music has seen them gain a reputation as one of Australia's premier world music acts, winning audiences wherever they perform. David Gleeson and Mike Lane bring together instruments from around the world to produce a rich, multicultural sound that is beautiful, worshipful and deeply reflective. The ancient textures of the didgeridoo blend with a soundscape of violins, Native American flutes, Irish whistle, African drums, piano, Armenian duduk and sounds of the Australian native forests. Also, Rebecca St. James guest vocals on one of the songs.

Susan Graham - Mozart & Gluck Arias ~ Il tenero momento

Average customer rating:

Wonderful Voice, Great Selection
Extremely competent but not a permanent addition
An album that is very dear to my heart
Bland & Sleepy
Another American Singer That Shines

Susan Graham - Mozart & Gluck Arias ~ Il tenero momento
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Susan Graham , Harry Bicket , and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Manufacturer: Erato
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Arias | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Susan Graham ~ Berlioz - Les nuits d'été
Susan Graham - La Belle Époque (The Songs of Reynaldo Hahn)
Susan Graham at Carnegie Hall
Artist Portrait: Susan Graham
Poèmes de l'Amour

ASIN: B000056BEZ
Release Date: 2001-02-06

Tracks:

Paride Ed Elena: Oh, Del Mio Dolce Ardor
Le Nozze Di Figaro: Non So Piu Cosa Son, Cosa Faccio
La Clemenza Di Tito: Parto, Ma Tu, Ben Mio
Iphigenie En Tauride: Non, Je N'espere Plus... O Toi Qui Prolongeas Mes Jours
Iphigenie En Tauride: O Malheureuse Iphigenie!
Iphigenie En Tauride: Non, Ect Affreux Devoir... Je T'implore Et Je Tremble
Le Nozze Di Figaro: Voi Che Sapete
La Clemenza Di Tito: Deh, Per Questo Istante Solo
Orphee Et Eurydice: Qu'entends-je? Qu'a-t-il Dit?... Amour, Viens Rendre A Mon Ame
Idomeneo: Non Ho Colpa
Orphee Et Eurydice: J'ai Perdu Mon Eurydice
Lucio Silla: Dunque Sperar Poss'io... Il Tenero Momento

Amazon.com

The "tender moment" of this collection's title comes from a stunning scene in an opera Mozart wrote as a teenager, Lucio Silla. It refers to the heightening of sensitivity and expectation that love, above all else, instills. But the Mozart example (with which the album ends) might also be taken as a metonym for the way in which the most powerful emotions, including love in all its guises, from ardor to lament, can intensify the moment. It's a process that opera itself tries to replicate through the wonderful alchemy of music, text, and character. In her second recording for Erato (following the extraordinary Ned Rorem anthology), American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham focuses on the "tender moment" as depicted by Mozart and Gluck. These two masters of opera aren't often paired, though each in his highly distinct, individual way insisted on elevating the genre beyond the level of frivolous entertainment and display that the century they shared found so tempting. Graham's program of six scenes from each suggests some striking moments of common ground in terms of the larger classical aesthetic, though the success of the whole enterprise is mixed. Certainly, Graham makes a case for the radiant beauty of Mozart's opera seria writing (her own operatic debut was in Lucio Silla), which still tends to be undervalued--as though it were simply a case of the composer being enchained by excessive genre "conventions." There's a magical balance between form and content, substance and decoration in "Parto" from La Clemenza di Tito (notable enough for Antony Pay's melting basset clarinet obbligato), and in the lengthiest selection (the last one, from Lucio Silla), though Graham here exposes the instability of her lowest register.

But to whatever extent Mozart and Gluck might intersect in sensibility, the latter conjures a remarkably different universe when he depicts love's loss and abandon. Somehow the scenes from Iphigénie and, especially, Orphée et Eurydice (in its French version here) don't register as stylistically different enough and they lack that strange, altogether Gluckian combination of objective purity with emotional extremity. And as Mozart's adolescent Cherubino, the kind of intensity that Graham conveys so convincingly on stage comes across a tad too contrived. On disc alone, not all of the selections can capture the spell Graham typically casts in live performance through her combination of singing, "emotional intelligence," and stage presence. Still, it's an intelligent program, and Graham has proved to be a winning exponent of period performance style (as in 2000's superb Alicina). The match here with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is a happy one. --Thomas May

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Voice, Great Selection.......2007-01-10

This is one of the best vocal CDs released in the last several years. If you don't know Susan Graham's gift, this CD is the best introduction. I'd also recommend it if you're not especially an opera fan, but are interested in a very listenable introduction to top-notch singing. I've listened to this over and over, and have not filed the CD away for months.

The balance of material between Gluck and Mozart works surprisingly well. Graham eschews the showy and flashy, yet sings with extraordinary power and passion. The accompaniment is excellent, never getting in the way. The recording is almost perfect.

In short, a pleasurable CD that will improve the quality of your life.

Extremely competent but not a permanent addition.......2004-12-16

Very well-focalized, and an evenly produced sound (granted, there is no special color, nor low register) --- but the problem is the anonymous quality of the interpretations. If you want to truly understand Iphigenie's predicament in her aria 'O malheureuse Iphigenie', seek Janet Baker. Not a generalized torment beautifully sounded -- but a moment of tormented grandeur.

An album that is very dear to my heart.......2002-07-22

First my Dad dies unexpectedly and the September 11th attack happens two weeks later. A very unhappy and distressing time in my life. I spent much of this time alone at my parent's home sitting in their big garden on Sunday afternoons listening to this CD and drinking some wine. It helped me make sense of the world around me and my own world at the time - beauty and truth continue to exist even after the worst happenings. "Ô malheureuse Iphigénie!" perfectly reflected my feelings at the time.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is fabulous, expressive and colourful - you'd never want to hear this music on modern instruments again after hearing them! Susan Graham's voice is expressive and has much pathos - without ever becoming melodramatic.
The repertoire is well selected and there is a very tasteful blend of known and less well known arias. I hope that Ms Graham makes another CD with the OAE again soon! I could stand another disc like this one!

This disc is also the perfect disc to buy with the Cecilia Bartoli Gluck disc. Ms Bartoli tackles Gluck's earlier opera seria arias - while Ms Graham mainly delves into the later reform opera arias - as well as some Mozart. I cherish both discs.

Please consider this CD for your collection.

Bland & Sleepy.......2002-01-02

I enjoy Susan Graham in performance and on CD (her Ned Rorem CD is excellent). This time I was disappointed by the bland and nearly featureless impression this left me with. It is pablum start to finish to my ears. And too...her weak lower register is exposed unflatteringly in this repertoire.

For a study in opposites, try Ewa Podles in the same repertoire and buckle yourself in for the ride.

Another American Singer That Shines.......2001-12-23

Susan Graham has wondeful mezzo voice and she has choosen a repertoire that suits it to a tee. Her creamy and pure tone illuminate the Gluck and Mozart arias in a such beautiful way. If you enjoy this you may want to try her recording of the Berlioz les Nuits d'ete, another group of songs that suit her voice so well. Ms. Graham represents along with Renee Fleming and Ruth Ann Swenson the best of the new American opera singers.

Gibbons: Consort and Keyboard Music; Songs and Anthems

Average customer rating:

One of the Finest Recordings of Gibbon's Music
Behold, thou hast made my day
More than a bargain
Okay but no texts

Gibbons: Consort and Keyboard Music; Songs and Anthems

Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Galliardes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Pavanes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music

4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music; Songs and Anthems
Gibbons: Choral and Organ Music
William Lawes: Consort Music for Viols, Lutes & Theorbos
Dowland: Consort Music
Tomkins: Consort Music for Viols and Voices; Keyboard Music

ASIN: B0000013UO
Release Date: 1994-11-29

Tracks:

Pavan
Galliard
Behold, Thou Hast Made My Days
The Lord Of Salisbury His Pavan And Galliard - Timothy Roberts
Fantasia No. 1 For Two Trebles
I Weigh Not Fortune's Frown - Tessa Bonner
I Tremble Not At Noise Of War
I See Ambition Never Pleased
I Feign Not Friendship Where I Hate
Preludium In G - Timothy Roberts
Go From My Window
Dainty Fine Bird - Tessa Bonner
Fair Is The Rose
Fantasia No. 3
Fantasia No. 5
The Fairest Nymph - Timothy Roberts
Lincoln's Inn Mask
Allmaine In G
Fantasia No. 1 For The Great Double Bass
Galliard
The Silver Swan - Tessa Bonner
In Nomine
Glorious And Powerful God

Customer Reviews:

One of the Finest Recordings of Gibbon's Music.......2006-02-19

The music of Orlando Gibbons represents the English response to radical changes that stemmed largely from Italy in the age of the birth of opera and a move away from the contrapunctal complexities of previous centuries. Whereas the Italian tended to write gradiose and radical works such of those by Monteverdi, the English tended to write music that was stylistically old-fashioned by the standards of the times, unostentatious with its preference for the sounds of the viol consort that helped make it so intimately poetic and evocative. The madrigal The Silver Swan is one of the most famous examples of English music of its time.

We really should rejoice over the fact that Naxos has this superb recording in its catalog. The music making here is first rate in every possible way. Of course Tesser Bonner is a regular with none other than the Tallis Scholars, testifying to the fact that Naxos is above all a quality label. In particular I really do love the way Bonner uses period pronounciation of the texts whereas Emma Kirky sadly modernises the pronounciation in music of this period. Thus the word 'bird' is pronounced more like 'beard'. I feel this helps to evoke the sense of the recreation of a lost world. The instrumental pieces too are unfailingly fine with excellent ensemble work by Red Byrd.

A superb recording recommendable in every possible way.

Behold, thou hast made my day.......2004-01-26

to misquote slightly the first vocal number on this disc. This is a really superlative production in every respect except that the words are not provided for the vocal items (the words of the anonymous The Silver Swan are worth knowing!). Even the liner note, by John Bryan, is excellent, which proves what I had never doubted, namely that the thing can be done on a budget label.

There are nearly 70 minutes of music here, and the plan seems to have been to give as broad a representation as possible of the output of this notable composer. There are 23 items in total, featuring music for accompanied solo voice and 5-part ensemble, keyboard compositions played on three different types of instrument, and items for viol ensembles of 2,3,4,and 6 instruments. Thought and care has obviously gone into the sequencing of the pieces, and the recital ends powerfully with a 5-part anthem `Glorious and Powerful God' led off by a gent with a truly terrific bass voice. One notable inclusion is an In Nomine for 4 viols. An In Nomine is actually a musical form, and a specifically English one, consisting of a free fantasia on a canto fermo deriving originally from plainsong via a mass by John Taverner. Solo status is accorded to Timothy Roberts who performs the three keyboard numbers, and to Tessa Bonner the soprano soloist in the seven pieces of that nature. I had the opportunity to compare her in The Silver Swan with Rachel Elliott on another outstanding Gibbons disc, by a group calling themselves Concordia (director Mark Levy), and you may actually prefer, as I do, the way Concordia do it. The piece benefits from Concordia's slower tempo, and my personal preference is for Elliott's voice, although she does use a modicum of vibrato, so this preference will not be shared by everyone. Their disc goes under the title Go From My Window, which is not a song but a set of 10 variations on a `ditty' by that title. In this piece I have to give my vote to Concordia again, as they give it with colossal panache and virtuosity - I'm not surprised they elected to call the disc after it. In fact the two recitals have another 4 pieces in common, and in these I can find nothing to choose between the two groups, so fine do both seem to me.

Enthusiasts for music of this period, and anyone even curious about it, are also recommended a keyboard recital , by John Kitchen, of works by the Scottish composer Kinloch, music that surprised even me (Scottish myself) by its outstanding quality. Long may enterprises like these continue.

More than a bargain.......2002-12-18

This is a handsomely played and beautifully recorded disc. The Rose Consort of Viols aptly catches the inherent melancholy of Gibbons style while Tessa Bonner sings ethereally as usual. With singing of Bonner's purity, as in "Silver Swanne", who needs texts? This is more than a bargain; it is a wonderful introduction to the deeply touching music of Orlando Gibbons.

Okay but no texts.......1999-01-24

As the title says mainly viol consort and keyboard music, but the highlights are the two english anthems for 5 voices, and three solo pieces with Tessa Bonner - including the famous "The Silver Swan". So why no texts? Playing time 68'24".

Average customer rating:

Never Mind the Walkmen...
The best EP I've ever found
Tremble Under the Perfection
Tremble Under the Perfection
Essential.

Tremble Under Boom Lights (5 song EP)
Jonathan Fire Eater
Manufacturer: Medicine Label
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Wolf Songs for Lambs

ASIN: B00000585W
Release Date: 1996-05-07

Tracks:

The Search For Cherry Red
Make It Precious
Give Me Daughters
The Beautician
Winston Plum: Undertaker

Customer Reviews:

Never Mind the Walkmen..........2005-02-16

Here's Jonathan Fire*Eater...You ain't no punk you punk...you want to talk about the real junk...this is it. Leave the Walkmen behind and buy all of the Jonathan Fire*Eater CD's today.

The best EP I've ever found.......2002-05-11

This is, hands-down, the finest extended play record I've ever heard. Every track is an excersise in original, dark, atoal songwriting. Walter's Organ and Paul's tremeloed guitar mesh over Matt and Tom's rhythm. Great drumming, spare, haunting, heavy bass. Finest tracks are one, three and four, but the others are just about as excellent. This short-lived but unparalleled band released several stellar eps, but the Dreamworks album and this are all that are left on the market. Do not pass this release by.

Tremble Under the Perfection.......2001-04-13

This CD is fun and addictive. Tremble Under Boom Lights is one of the best songs ever recorded. How I wish that there were more than 5 songs on this CD. The songs will be circling in your head for days, and you'll have a smile on your face the whole while.

Tremble Under the Perfection.......2001-04-13

Essential........1998-07-18

An absolutely stunning 5 song disc. "The Search For Cherry Red" and "Give Me Daughters" are destined to be classic. Walter Martin's organ and Stewart Lupton's vocals are the best 1-2 combo in music today. This EP is perfect.

Average customer rating:

Lebendige Vergangenheit: Mado Robin

Manufacturer: Preiser Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Mado Robin Sings Lakmé

ASIN: B0006OPX2K
Release Date: 2005-04-26

Average customer rating:

Cerquetti's Abigaille
Good soloists, mediocre chorus, mono recording
Blistering Vocalism
Glorious Cerquetti in very good Nabucco
Verdi at the most exciting way!

Nabucco [Highlights]

Manufacturer: Gala
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music

4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Cherubini: Gli Abencerragi
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera live 1955) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Carlo Maria Giulini, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan

ASIN: B000001XMU
Release Date: 2000-06-06

Tracks:

Nabucco: Part One - Introduzione
Nabucco: Part One - Recitativo e cavatina
Nabucco: Part One - 'D'Egitto la sui lidi'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Qual rumore?'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Come notte a sol fulgente'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Guerrieri e presto il Tempio'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Io t'amava!'
Nabucco: Part One - Corco - 'Lo vedeste?'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Finale ''Viva Nabucco!'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Che tenti?'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Tremin gl'insani del mio furore'
Nabucco: Part One - O vinti'
Nabucco: Part One - 'Mio furore'
Nabucco: Part Two, Scene One - Scena ed aria
Nabucco: Part Two, Scene One - Anch'io dischiuso un giorno'
Nabucco: Part Two, Scene One - 'Chi s'avanza'
Nabucco: Part Two, Scene One - 'Salgo gia deltrono aurato'
Nabucco: Part Three, Scene One - 'Donna,chi sei?'
Nabucco: Part Three, Scene One - 'Oh,Di qual'onta aggravasi'
Nabucco: Part Three, Scene One - 'Ah, qual suon!'
Nabucco: Part Three, Scene One - 'Deh, Perdona'
Nabucco: Part Three, Scene Two - Coro e profezia (Introduczione - Introduction)
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene One - 'Dio Di Giuda'
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene One - 'Porta fatale, or t'apriral!'
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene One - 'Cadran, cadranno i perfidi'
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene Two - Finale ultimo 'Oh,dischiuso e il firmento'
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene Two - 'Ah, torna Ieraello'
Nabucco: Part Four, Scene Two - 'Immenso jeovha

Customer Reviews:

Cerquetti's Abigaille.......2003-09-06

First off, it should be known to the potential buyer that these are HIGHLIGHTS only. The mono sound is acceptable. Orchestra and chorus are average at best. The focus clearly is on Anita Cerquetti and her rendition of Abigaille. Even though in the booklet listing of tracks her name is omitted on the last cue point. I never heard this singer live. My first encounter with her voice was the studio GIOCONDA with del Monaco and Simionato and I liked it very much. As Abigaille I find her less convincing. The voice is beautiful and even. But she cannot convey Abigaille's high flying ambitions. She sounds noble most of the time. Never aggressive or infuriated or spiteful or menacing. Her repentance/dying scene is superficial. Which makes me wonder how often Miss Cerquetti may have had the chance to sing this role during her brief career and develop a feeling for it. At times she unexpectedly breaks a phrase to catch her breath, which I find somewhat irritating. And some climax seem "rushed". It's also a bit disappointing to me that the "Salgo gia" cabaletta gets no repeat. Guess such were the customs in those years, even for concert performances. I am pleased with Messrs. Dondi (in the title role) and Trama. Aside from their vocal qualities I find them very much in character. Also the singers of Fenena and Ismaele made me prick up my ears. Taken all in all, it's worthwhile to have this document. It will nicely supplement your studio NABUCCO. It's been a guilty pleasure of mine to compare Anita Cerquetti to Elena Suliotis and Dino Dondi to Tito Gobbi. And I wish that one day the Metropolitan Opera's NABUCCO with Leonie Rysanek under the baton of Thomas Schippers will appear on CD.

Good soloists, mediocre chorus, mono recording.......2002-10-24

The soloists are very good, but the chorus (key in this opera) is not on the same level. "Va Pensiero", the famous chorus piece, is very weakly done. The mono recording is only just adequate, OK for the soloists but flat and dull for stage presence and orchestration.

Blistering Vocalism.......2001-02-23

I first heard this rare pearl over 20 years ago on some faded third-generation cassette. Despite the dim sonics, I was thrilled to hear a diva who could actually negotiate the scorching roulades of Abigaille's music while still sounding like a singer and not some wounded forest creature howling in pain. Apart from Callas' live performance, we've had precious little to celebrate in recorded Abigailles. Sure, Scotto lit a few fires with her EMI pressing, but who wouldn't with a microphone clenched betweeen her teeth and the volume control nailed in place at the top of the control panel? For Heaven's sake, most of the current generation of half-wit dimpled divettes and "sound-enhanced" melody muffins could come off like an Abigaille with the right studio wizards calling the shots.

Cerquetti was the REAL thing. Like Margharita Roberti (listen to her in Christoff's ATTILA recording), Caterina Mancini and Fedora Barbieri, she came from a school of barnstormers who could shake the foundations of San Carlo or La Scala with truly schooled, crafted voices that emanated from the viscera and not the top of the larynx. Cerquetti was one of the Queens of Can Belto, and this new release in great sound is one of the treasures among re-releases of the past decade. I cast aside all conservatory terminology and call this type of performance a ripsnorter for the ages. With Callas, Cerquetti, and Dimitrova on disc, and the rare likes of Linda Roark-Strummer performing the role onstage, the other studio bunnies can turn their attention to gentler repertoire and give the rest of us a break.

Glorious Cerquetti in very good Nabucco.......2000-07-19

With the exception of the famous Hebrew's choir 'Va pensiero', the number of recordings of 'Nabucco' is notably low. One possible reason is the extraordinary vocal demand of the female leading role, King Nabucco's daughter Abigaille. Very few sopranos have succeeded with this difficult role: Maria Callas, Elena Suliotis, Renata Scotto, Ghena Dimitrova (arguably the best). Now we have a live recording of the great Italian soprano Anita Cerquetti, and she is probably so good as Dimitrova. Cerquetti was one of the greatest sopranos of the century, although she had an astonishingly short carreer (she retired at the age of 30!). Most of her (scarce) recordings are live performances, so having any single piece of recording of her extraordinary voice is a real must. This Nabucco was one of the last documents of her operatic carreer, and here she sounds so splendid that it remains a mystery why she decided to give up singing so soon afterwards. The rest of the cast is very good, especially the bass Ugo Trama as the High Priest Zaccaria. Dino Dondi is a good Nabucco, but his interpretation of the title role is not a reference. The orchestra sounds well, and the choir efficiently provides the necessary support. The quality of sound is good for the time (1960). To Summarize: This incredibly low priced recording has an adequate combination of the elements needed for a good Nabucco: A very good choir, an excellent bass (Trama), a good baritone (Dondi) and a star of stars as princess Abigail: the great soprano Anita Cerquetti. Enjoy it!

Verdi at the most exciting way!.......2000-01-05

You have to buy this recording! Cerquetti is our and Verdi's dreams Abigaille! If you really are an opera fan or have any concern about Verdi you need this recording. Go for it!

Average customer rating:

Another feast for Handelians
Excellent music

Handel: Saul
John Eliot Gardiner , Ruth Holton , Lynne Dawson , John Mark Ainsley , Donna Brown , Derek Lee Ragin , English Baroque Soloists , Philip Salmon , and Neil Mackie
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000412J
Release Date: 1991-09-12

Customer Reviews:

Another feast for Handelians.......2003-12-25

Here's another astonishing piece for all Handelians. Many of Handel's great pieces have sadly been neglected - just like many of Richard Strauss' operas which have only recently received attention from people like Botstein, Korsten and Sinopoli (deceased). Thankfully, Gardiner and his team took the trouble to record this astonishing masterpiece. I simply love this piece - Saul!! The Monteverdi choir is the best in the world - listen to their stunning virtuosity here. Thank you, Gardiner!!

Excellent music.......2003-09-14

Saul is one of those lesser known works by Handel. I certainly prefer Solomon, the Messiah or Israel in Egypt. Nevertheless, there is plenty of glorious music in Saul. The Monteverdi sings with their customary virtuosity. Casting of solo parts is superb. A bit on the pricey side but this is an investment that will yield rich dividends over a long period of time. Instead of listening to the Messiah all the time, or Solomon or Jephtha, why not be more daring and explore this lesser known work by Handel?

Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (Highlights)

Average customer rating:

Pobre sonido

Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride (Highlights)

Manufacturer: Gala
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005LZRA
Release Date: 2001-06-26

Customer Reviews:

Pobre sonido.......2005-06-22

Esta grabación es, evidentemente, pirata y sorprende mucho que,siendo de 1.973, pueda tener un sonido tan pobre. Uno no deja de sufrir un tanto (no demasiado) a lo largo de su escucha pues parece estar perdiéndose todos los detalles sutiles. Las interpretaciones, en sí, son buenas y yo destacaría un excelente rey Thoas y, también, un sentido del "pathos" que nunca me ha parecido habitual en Gardiner (muy bien aquí en ese sentido); la grabación es en vivo (toses incluídas); buen disco complementario.

Album Review:

Album Review

album review

Album Review

Chillout Areas [Box set] [Import]

En Garde! A Midsummer Night's Fantasy: Music by William Penn

Knaifel: Scarry March

Music CD: Daylight Again

My Summer of Love [Soundtrack]

Halflife [EP]

Hotel California

In Your Room [CD-single] [Import]

Full Circle [Import]

Fleur Du Jura/French Accordion Music

Fuori Servizzio [Import]

Inseparables

Hard Time Realaz

Paint the Town Red

The Best of the Statler Bros.