| 1. Ready for Us |
| 2. R.F.O. |
| 3. Thin Air |
| 4. Blue Movie |
| 5. Overflow |
| 6. Cheval Noir |
| 7. Chunk |
| 8. Fairweather Friend |
| 9. Prophet |
| 10. El Diablo |
| 11. Shrewd Movements |
Editorial Reviews
House: 'Ready for Us' is their debut album & together they have created a live sound with influences ranging from the composer Bartok to Chicago house styles.
Ready for Us,Fug,Nuphonic [Studio],Dance,House,Pop,Rock
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Carmen (Sung in English)
Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00007JGRN Release Date: 2003-03-11 |
Tracks:
- Prelude
- In The Plaza
- Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
- Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
- Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
- Off With You Old Soldier Boys
- Corporal! Sir!
- We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
- Ah, Just Look!
- But Why Hasn't She Come, Our Carmencita?
- Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
- Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
- The Cheek Of It!
- Give Me News Of My Mother!
- Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
- I See My Mother's Face!
- Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
- Come And Help
- So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
- Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
- Where Are You Taking Me?
- There's An Old Bar In The City
- Careful - It's Lieutenant!
- Entr'acte
- From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
- Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
- Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
- Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
- Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
- You're Most Kind
- We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
- Toreador, Be Ready!
- At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
- There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
- Being In Love Is Not A Reason
Tracks:
- To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
- La La La La La La La La...
- Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
- That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
- No, It's Not Love At All!
- Hello! Carmen!
- Lieutenant Fair, It's True
- The Sky Above The Open Road
- Entr'acte
- Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
- Right! Let's Stop For A While
- Shuffle! Cut Them!
- In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
- You're Back!
- As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
- Is This The Place?
- I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
- It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
- Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
- She Had A Lover Here
- Hola! Hola! Jose!
- You Should Take Care, Carmen
- Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
- Entr'acte
- A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
- Here They Come! Here They Come!
- If You Love Me, Carmen
- It's You! It's Me!
- Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!
Customer Reviews:
English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20
Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.
This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.
You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09
The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.
A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17
I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15
And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.
The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.
The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.
A pleasure, then, for the Carmen naive or a novelty for the Carmen-acquainted. I nearly wrote Carmen-weary - but I don't think it's possible.
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Ready for Us
Fug Manufacturer: Nuphonic [Studio] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000056H3I Release Date: 2001-02-23 |
Tracks:
- Ready for Us
- R.F.O.
- Thin Air
- Blue Movie
- Overflow
- Cheval Noir
- Chunk
- Fairweather Friend
- Prophet
- El Diablo
- Shrewd Movements
Album Details
House: 'Ready for Us' is their debut album & together they have created a live sound with influences ranging from the composer Bartok to Chicago house styles.Customer Reviews:
Da Bomb.......2005-03-20
5 out of 5.......2001-05-02
A step forward.......2001-04-04
people get ready.......2001-03-24
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Ready for Eddie...Plus
Eddie Taylor Manufacturer: Castle Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007TKFTK Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
Tracks:
- I'm a Country Boy
- Seems Like a Million Years
- Gamblin' Man
- After Hours
- Sloppy Drunk
- Ready for Eddie
- You Don't Love Me
- Too Late to Cry
- You'll Always Have a Home
- Playboy Boogie
- My Little Machine
- Cross Cut Saw
- I Used to Have Some Friends [*]
- I Know My Baby [*]
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Bizet: Carmen (Highlights)
Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00009KHY7 Release Date: 2003-09-02 |
Tracks:
- Prelude
- Love Is Like An Elusive Bird
- Tell Me Then Of My Mother
- Close By The Ramparts Of Seville
- Sirs, Your Toast
- All Our Plans Are Ready
- See Here Your Flower
- No, You Do Not Love Me
- Holla, Carmen!
- Shuffle! Cut Them!
- I Said Nought Would Frighten Me Here
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Vaughan Williams: The Poisoned Kiss [Hybrid SACD]
Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000DIGLL Release Date: 2003-11-25 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- No. 2. Opening Chorus: 'Secret Are The Sounds...'
- No. 3. Scena. Gallanthus: 'What's That?'
- No. 4. Scena. Angelica: 'Day Is Dawning'
- No. 5. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's Really Time...'
- No. 6. Ensemble. Hob, Lob And Gob: 'Here We Come...'
- No. 7. Duet And Chorus. Dipsacus: 'I'm A Sorcerer Bold'
- No. 8. Duet. Amaryllus: 'It's True I'm Inclined...'
- No. 9. Ensemble. Tormentilla: 'Hush, Lovely Cobra'
- Amaryllus: 'Desist, Lest You Die!'
- No. 10. Duet. Amaryllus: 'I Know We See...'
- Amaryllus: 'Blue Larkspur In A Garden'
- No. 11. Ensemble. Dipsacus: 'Who's In My Forest?'
- Dipsacus: 'North Wind, South Wind'
- Tormentilla: Angelica?
- Amaryllus And Gallanthus: 'O, Come To Our Arms'
- No. 12. Song. Tormentilla: 'O, Who Would Be...'
- No. 13. Finale. Dipsacus: 'All Is Ready!'
- No. 14. Introduction
- No. 15. Chorus: 'Here We Come'
- No. 16. Song And Chorus. Angelica And Flower Girls: 'By All The Powers...'
- No. 17. Trio. Lob: 'Ho There!'
- No. 18. Duet. Angelica: 'It Does Not Apear...'
- No. 19. Trio. Third Medium: 'If You Want To Escape'
Tracks:
- No. 20. Chorus: 'Tormentilla! Tormentilla!'
- No. 21. Song And Duet. Tormentilla: 'There Was...'
- No. 22. Ensemble. Amaryllus: 'Twas Here It Bade...'
- No. 23. Serenade. Amaryllus: 'Dear Love, Behold...'
- No. 24. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Sleeping Or Waking'
- Tormentilla: 'You Must Not Kiss Me'
- No. 26. Finale. Tomentilla: 'Too Dark For Me...'
- No. 27. Introduction
- No. 28. Trio. Mediums: 'Behold Our Mystic...'
- No. 29. Ensemble. Empress: 'Monstrous Vision!'
- No. 30. Ballad. Empress: ' When I Was Young...'
- No. 31. Ensemble. Empress: 'You Can Leave Us'
- No. 32. Duet. Tormentilla: 'Is My Love Alive?'
- Empress: 'Love Breaks All The Rules...'
- No. 33. Invocation. Empress: 'Imps And Demons'
- No. 34. Ensemble. Empress: 'Come, O Gentle Powers'
- No. 35. Duet. Empress: 'Can You, Can You Remember'
- No. 36. Quartet. All: 'Love In A Hut...'
- No. 37. Sextet. First Medium: 'Horrid Monster!'
- No. 38. Duet. Gallanthus: 'It's The Proper Thing To Do'
- No. 39. Finale. Chorus: 'Love Has Conquered!'
Customer Reviews:
Urgently recommended despite some production missteps.......2007-01-07
The Poisoned Kiss is a romantic comedy, a fairy tale about the triumph of true love over revenge. The opera is not through-sung; rather, the dramatic action is carried forward by dialogue in a manner reminiscent of Gilbert and Sullivan or the West End. At times, the witty, good-naturedly sarcastic text and playful rhyme schemes are reminiscent of Noel Coward.
The musicians are just about ideal. Hickox leads a luscious performance, capturing by turn the music's pastoral beauty and (not very threatening) irony. The singers are of uniformly high quality, with the characterization and fresh voices of James Gilchrist and Janice Watson as the young lovers deserving special mention. Anne Collins's fruity, wide-vibratoed contralto at times seems to be a musical caricature, but it works nicely in the role.
The production has two major flaws. First, the sound image is placed rather distant from the listener. I felt as if I were sitting towards the back of the auditorium and wanted to move up closer to the stage. The SACD's surround mode did add compensatory perspective and body to the sound, as well as a little extra punch to the thunder, cat shrieks, and other fairy-tale sound effects. The two-channel version sounded significantly flatter and more distant. Second, almost all of the dialogue has been omitted. It would have been enjoyable to hear the music in its dramatic context. Indeed, the abrupt juxtaposition of musical numbers that in performance would be separated by dialogue and a shift of dramatic tone is sometimes jarring. With less than an hour on each disc (and with singers who display such fine diction and acting skills), this is a major missed opportunity. Fortunately, the dialogue is printed in the libretto.
Despite these quibbles, this set is still urgently recommended!
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Feel Dat Records: Are You Ready for Us
Big 7ven & Cain Manufacturer: Feel Dat ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000A2GCL4 Release Date: 2004-03-16 |
Tracks:
- I Told Yah
- Scholars
- Another Me
- Get Outta Town
- Do It
- We Them
- Do It (radio mix)
Product Description
A native of Louisville, KY, Big 7ven has been rapping for a long time. He has had many trials and tribulations but is proud to announce his break through album release, Are You Ready For Us on his new label, Feel Dat Records.
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Ready for Eddie Plus
Eddie Taylor Manufacturer: Sbme Castle Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000084TRQ Release Date: 2003-02-04 |
Tracks:
- I'M A COUNTRY BOY
- SEEMS LIKE A MILLION YEARS
- GAMBLIN' MAN
- AFTER HOURS
- SLOPPY DRUNK
- READY FOR EDDIE
- YOU DON'T LOVE ME
- TOO LATE TO CRY
- YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE A HOME
- PLAYBOY BOOGIE
- MY LITTLE MACHINE
- CROSS CUT SAW
- I USED TO HAVE SOME FRIENDS
- I KNOW MY BABY (BONUS TRACK)
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O Praise the Lord of Heaven
Manufacturer: Priory ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003WJN Release Date: 1991-02-08 |
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Part of the charm and musical value of this magnificent series is hearing the unique choral sound and varied interpretive approaches of 10 different first-rate English cathedral choirs--and the particular acoustical character of the different spaces in which they perform. Each of the 10 volumes features a different choir performing the uniquely Anglican style of harmonized plainsong--Anglican chant--in various musical settings of the Psalms. The expert Wells Cathedral Choir singers have a pleasingly bright sound that allows the chant tunes--by composers such as Boyce, Howells, Stainer, and Wesley--to soar distinctly above the accompanying harmonies. This volume covers 22 Psalms, including "O come let us sing unto the Lord," "Hear my prayer, O God," and "By the waters of Babylon." --David Vernier
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Anthems & Motets
Manufacturer: Gothic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003J8R Release Date: 1995-01-25 |
Tracks:
- Introit: O God, My Heart Is Ready
- Advent: I Look From Afar
- Christmas: The Cherry Tree Carol
- Christmas: Sussex Carol
- Epiphany: Surge, Illuminare
- Epiphany: O Nata Lux
- Epiphany: I Will Set His Dominion In The Sea
- Lent: Call To Remembrance
- Lent: Hide Not Thou Thy Face
- Lent: Lord, Let Me Know Mine End
- Easter: Magdalen, Cease From Sobs And Sighs
- Easter: Arise, My Love
- Easter: Easter Carol
- Pentecost: Grieve Not The Holy Spirit
- Trinity: Duo Seraphim
- Corpus Christ: Draw Us In The Spirit's Tether
- Corpus Christ: O Jesus, Joy Of Loving Hearts
- All Saints Day: O How Glorius
- Christ The King: Inherit The Kingdom
- Choral Grace: Eternal Light
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Are You Ready for Us
FDR Manufacturer: Feel Dat Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CAJGQ2 Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
Tracks:
- I Told Yah
- Scholars
- Another Me
- Get Outta Town
- Do It
- We Them
- Do It [Radio Mix]
- Tuck Boys
- Who You Run Wit
Album Review:
- Return of the Cyklops
- Saint [CD-single]
- Samba Pra Burro [Import]
- Shake Me [CD-single] [Import]
- Singles of the 90s [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Situation [CD-single] [Enhanced] [EP] [Import]
- Soulmates
- Stolen, Pt. 1 [CD-single] [Import]
- Stronger [Import]
- The Acid Lounge in Space [Limited Edition] [Import]
Album Review
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Music CD: Father of Rhythm N Blues & Rock N Roll [Import
From Russia with Love [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [Original recording remastered]
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