Tryst

About the Artist
The core members of Tryst began performing together in Paris, France in the mid 90's. They moved to New York City in 1997 and debuted as a full band with the release of their first EP (produced by Chris Collingwood of Fountains Of Wayne). Since then they have been playing regularly in New York, with occasional return tours to Paris. The band has spent much of the past year producing its first full-length CD, now released by the independent label M&H Records.

Band Members:
Tim Cohan- Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Ellen Highstone- Vocals, Keyboards
Sam McIlvain- Guitar
Marc Giordano- Drums

Product Description
Offering a tasty blend of driving pop and catchy rock, with touches of earnest folk and a trace of faux jazz, the diverse tracks of Tryst's debut CD are united by witty, intelligent lyrics and sweet vocal harmonies.

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Average customer rating: A triumph of the human spirit!

Evelyn Glennie: Veni, veni emmanuel Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by MacMillan | MacMillan, James | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Percussion | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Glennie, Evelyn | ( G ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Street Songs Evelyn Glennie a Luxembourg Her Greatest Hits Evelyn Glennie: Drumming Der Gerettete Alberich / Violin Concerto / Rapture ASIN: B000003EL4 Release Date: 1993-09-14

Tracks:

1. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Introit - Advent
2. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Heartbeats
3. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Dance - Hocket
4. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Transition: Sequence I
5. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Gaude, Gaude
6. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Transition: Sequence II
7. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Dance - Chorale
8. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel: Coda - Easter
9. After the Tryst
10. '...As Other See Us...': Henry VIII
11. '...As Other See Us...': John Wilmot
12. '...As Other See Us...': John Churchill
13. '...As Other See Us...': George Gordon - William Wordsworth
14. '...As Other See Us...': Thomas Stearns Eliot
15. '...As Other See Us...': Dorothy Mary Hodgkin
16. Three Dawn Rituals: Larghetto
17. Three Dawn Rituals: Allegro moderato
18. Three Dawn Rituals: Andante
19. Untold

Customer Reviews:

A triumph of the human spirit!.......2000-05-29

I recently had the opportunity to see Evelyn Glennie perform Veni, Veni, Emmanuel with my local symphony orchestra. I was, to put it mildly, flabbergasted. The piece requires equal parts musician and track star, as Ms. Glennie ran all over the stage playing various percussion instruments. My awe of the performance was compounded by Ms. Glennie's deafness. As I listened to the intricate part work, I spent more time marveling at Ms. Glennie's feat (and feet) than I did paying attention to the music itself. This disc let me hear what I missed. The music is intense, beautiful and moving. As a bonus for me, this disc allowed me to hear several other works by MacMillan, all of which are worth hearing.

Average customer rating: Interesting Small Gem in Wes's Treasure Chest A Miracle faux-lk Stellar Brit folk

Songs of Misfortune The Love Hall Tryst , John Wesley Harding , Kelly Hogan , Nora O'Connor , and Brian Lohmann Manufacturer: Appleseed Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD British Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Misfortune It Happened One Night & It Never Happened at All Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Trad Arr Jones Front Parlour Ballads ASIN: B0009VBTJQ Release Date: 2005-07-26

Tracks:

1. Do Not Fear the Dark
2. Joan of Arc (The Ballad of La Pucelle)
3. Lord Bateman
4. Female Rambling Sailor
5. Lord Lovel
6. The Sanguinary Butcher
7. Shallow Brown
8. Lambkin
9. The Lady Dressed in Green
10. The Abandoned Baby
11. Jack in the Green
12. Do Not Fear the Dark (electric)
13. Lord Bateman (electric)

Amazon.com

In a beguiling bit of cross-promotion, this motley madrigal quartet of ringers performs a largely a cappella selection of songs mentioned in Misfortune, the debut novel by Wesley Stace (better known in musical circles as John Wesley Harding). Supporting Harding's reedy tenor in the Love Hall Tryst are the bass voice of Brian Lohmann and the soaring duo of Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor, who adapt their interpretive styles to suit the musical source. Most of the material is traditional British folk balladry as adapted by Harding, though a lovely reading of Leonard Cohen's "Joan of Arc" is a highlight. The results fall somewhere between unplugged, unaccompanied Fairport Convention and the Elizabethan era's Mamas and the Papas. Confirming that the modern era has no monopoly on murder songs, the bloodlust and body count on Songs of Misfortune rival that on any gangsta rap CD. --Don McLeese

Album Description

Why are British expatriate singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, U.S. country/jazz/folk solo artists Kelly Hogan and Nora O'Connor and actor-vocalist Brian Lohmann singing traditional British folk songs in a converted bank?

In 1987, Wesley Stace, soon known as John Wesley Harding (a.k.a "Wes"), thought up the opening lines for a song about a foundling baby boy raised as a girl. Six years later the song was completed as "Miss Fortune" and frequently performed by Harding before and after its release on his 1998 CD, "Awake." But, says Harding, "When you sing a song for years onstage…you think about the song. The one thing I thought about that song is that I never ended it. What about that character?"

Wes answered his own question by writing a huge 19th Century historical novel, "Misfortune," published under his original name in 2005 to acclaim in USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, and other publications.

The book is studded with traditional British folk songs adapted by Harding, and some camouflaged original compositions. These songs "demanded to be sung in a very specific way," says Wes, so he convened The Love Hall Tryst, a mostly a cappella quartet comprising himself, friend and occasional collaborator Hogan, her favorite singing partner, O'Connor, and bass singer Lohmann. They used the Troy, NY, Savings Bank, a cavernous recording hall with incredible natural reverb.

Like its source, "Songs of Misfortune" isn't exactly a romp in the Victorian meadows. Wes says, "None of (the old songs) have happy endings." Greed, envy, treachery, and murder are on full display here. But redeeming these tales are the ringing voices of the Tryst - cascades of mesmerizing harmonies surround the melody lines shared by all four singers. Even the grimmest scenarios are enlivened by the beauty of the vocals and the authenticity of presentation. Two songs appear in both unaccompanied and blazing, Fairport-ish electric versions, the latter provided by The Minstrel in the Galleries, Harding's occasional "mediaeval rock" band of Seattle musicians.

Whether or not you've read Harding's novel, "Songs of Misfortune" stands on its own as a daring, rewarding adventure in musical scholarship, sublime arrangements and the eternal strength of the human voice.

Customer Reviews:

Interesting.......2007-02-18

Interesting mix of songs and styles, in a good way. While most of the album is vocals only, i also enjoyed the two songs at the end that he sang with instrument accomppanyment.

Small Gem in Wes's Treasure Chest.......2006-03-02

If this CD and the Misfortune book were the only thing John Wesley Harding ever did, it would be enough to label him a modern artistic genius. His wit and humor made me a big fan 12 years ago. Check out his CD's..start with "Why We Fight" or if you enjoy "Songs of Misfortune" try "Trad Arr Jones". He also has free downloads of music on his web site. Better yet catch a live show.

A Miracle.......2005-11-15

I just loved this record. I didn't really know much about it going in, though I had read the novel to which it is attached - but this is simply a beautiful record of well-arranged and wonderfully recorded A Capella music. These are mainly traditional folk songs, but also some fake old songs (found in Misfortune) and a haunting cover of Leonard Cohen's superb Joan of Arc. This CD really took my by surprise.

faux-lk.......2005-10-18

A cappela madrigals about the unfortunate demises of a variety of doomed peasents. The songs are full of strikingly poetic betrayal, murder, forboding dreams, ghosts, stabbing, hanging. Lines like "High above the wedding guests, he hung the ashes of her wedding dress" and "If he was fire, she must be wood" abound.

The ridiculous contrast between the sweet vocals and grotesque lyrics by itself is entertaining enough to justify buying this album.

Stellar Brit folk.......2005-08-08

I can't add much to the editorial review. This is maybe a surprise but a great folk album, in okay 'retro' style-- but so 'old' it's new again! They do remind of The Young Tradition (& just a bit of The Weavers), but in some
ways the vocals even better. And Harding's bonuses w. band do kinda channel Fairport Convention if with slightly modern twists too. And very nice to hear Nora O'Connor & Kelly Hogan singing a different repertoire.
Surprising, but very engaging project-- I hope they record again!

Average customer rating:

Grieg: Peer Gynt; Piano Concerto; Songs Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bartok: Violin Concertos, Viola Concerto, 6 Duo for 2 Violins, Violin Rhapsodies; Yehudi Menuhin ASIN: B0002XV2XY Release Date: 2005-02-15

Tracks:

1. Prelude: In The Wedding Garden - Joachim Ulbricht
2. The Bridal Procession Passes - Staatskapelle Dresden
3. Prelude: Abduction, Ingrid's Lament - Leipzig Radio Chorus
4. In The Hall Of The Mountain King - Leipzig Radio Chorus
5. Dance Of The Mountain King's Daughter - Staatskapelle Dresden
6. Aase's Death - Staatskapelle Dresden
7. Introduction: Morning - Leipzig Radio Chorus
8. Arabian Dance - Leipzig Radio Chorus
9. Anitras Dance - Taru Valijakka
10. Solveig's Song - Taru Valijakka
11. Prelude: Peer Gynt's Journey Home - Taru Valijakka
12. Solveig's Cradle Song - Taru Valijakka
13. I. Allegro Molto Moderato - John Ogdon
14. II. Adagio - John Ogdon
15. III. Allegro Moderato Molto E Marcato - John Ogdon

Tracks:

1. Enticement - Geoffrey Parsons
2. Mountain Girl - Geoffrey Parsons
3. Bilberry Slopes - Geoffrey Parsons
4. Tryst - Geoffrey Parsons
5. Love - Geoffrey Parsons
6. Kids' Dance - Geoffrey Parsons
7. Evil Day - Geoffrey Parsons
8. At The Mountain Stream - Geoffrey Parsons
9. Hor' Ich Das Liedchen Klingen Op.39 No.6
10. Der Fichtenbaum Op.59 No.2
11. Wo Sind Sie Hin? Op.4 No.6
12. Das Alte Lied Op.4 No.5
13. Gruss Op.48 No.1
14. Ich Stand In Dunklen Traumen Op.2 No.3
15. Abschied Op.4 No.3
16. Eingehullt In Graue Wolken Op.2 No.2
17. Mein Sinn Ist Wie Der Macht'ge Fels Op.5 No.4
18. Des Dichters Letztes Lied Op.18 No.3
19. Des Dichters Herz Op.5 No.2
20. Sie Ist So Weiss Op.18 No.2
21. Morgenthau Op.4 No.2
22. Jagerlied Op.4 No.4
23. Lauf Der Welt Op.48 No.3
24. Zur Rosenzeit Op.48 No.5
25. Ein Traum Op.48 No.6
26. Dereinst, Gedanke Mein Op.48 No.2
27. Dein Rat Ist Wohl Gut Op.21 No.4
28. Herbststimmung Op.26 No.5
29. An Sie II Op.59 No.4
30. An Sie I Op.59 No.3
31. Der Jager (1905)

Average customer rating:

Sycamore Tryst Manufacturer: I-Town ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: These Four Walls ASIN: B00007E9DR Release Date: 2003-01-14

Tracks:

1. What I Don't Tell You
2. Good Thing It's Only In My Mind
3. Black Butterfly
4. Admit It
5. I Guess That She Left You
6. Goin' Back To Moline
7. I Think About You
8. Nine Days In Texas
9. Sunny Day In Terre Haute
10. Another Minute More
11. Carry Me There
12. Sweet Home
13. You Can't

Album Description

SYCAMORE TRYST is the 2nd full-length CD from award winning singer-songwriter Patti Witten, her first on I-Town Records.

Grammy®-winner Rosanne Cash contributes to the liner notes: "All too often in folk-based music, there is a preciousness or affected vulnerability that sours the song, no matter how poetic. Patti is completely free of such affectations, both as a singer and as a writer. She is not derivative. She inhabits herself and her music, alive and present, whole and beautiful."

Heaven Magazine (Holland) echoes Cash's sentiments. "We are dealing with a major talent here. If you can imagine a cross between Joni Mitchell, in the days of "Blue," and Lucinda Williams, you will get a good idea of Witten's music."

Four tracks have won songwriting awards (Billboard, Mid-Atlantic, SIBL Project, and Woody Guthrie song contests). Produced by Rich DePaolo, with performances by DePaolo (electric guitar, background vocal, bass, baritone guitar, keyboards, more), Doug Robinson (bass) and Bill King (drums). Guest artists include Robby Aceto (Tom Tom Club), Eric Aceto (Tai Tai Chickapea), Uniit (Sim Redmond Band).

With SYCAMORE TRYST Witten demonstrates that she is more than a consummate folk artist. In 'Good Thing It's only In My Mind,' 'What I Don't Tell You' and 'I Guess That She Left You' there is a blunt, arch humor reminiscent of Aimee Mann, while the sophisticated twang of 'Black Butterfly,' 'Nine Days In Texas' and 'I Think About You,' and ballads like 'Admit It' and 'Goin' Back To Moline' recall the intimacy and power of Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams. Witten fearlessly broaches the political hot-topics of terrorism and capital punishment with 'Sunny Day In Terre Haute,' and makes personal loss universal with 'Carry Me There,' 'Another Minute More' and 'You Can't.'

Average customer rating: Cheerful Piping

Tryst Iain MacInnes Manufacturer: Greentrax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Scottish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Scotland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B00003W0XA Release Date: 2000-02-22

Tracks:

1. Eliza Ross
2. Fair Lad
3. Quicksteps
4. Victoria Ross
5. Vatersay Bay
6. Highland Lassie
7. Jamie MacInnis
8. Miss Fergusson
9. Lowlands
10. Highland Brigade
11. Dr. MacInnes's Fancy

Customer Reviews:

Cheerful Piping.......2001-04-06

I just received this CD a few days ago along with 4 others and have to say that this one is my favorite. The piping is exceptionally clear and cheerful. Many of the tunes have a real Irish feel to them which made it even more appealing. I have been studying piping for the last 6 months and after listening to this CD, I have become more convinced that the scottish smallpipes are definitely the instrument for me.

Average customer rating: Christian Music

MacMillan: Veni, Veni Emmanuel Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by MacMillan | MacMillan, James | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Glennie, Evelyn | ( G ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Macmillan: Symphony No. 3 'Silence'; The Confession of Isobel Gowdie MacMillan: Mass and other sacred works Her Greatest Hits ASIN: B00069I6QK Release Date: 2005-02-22

Customer Reviews:

Christian Music.......2007-02-09

MacMillan is striving for truly 'Christian' music--NOT music that simply mirrors the current cultural trends and differs only in its pious lyrics or intentions (think CCM), but music that is itself shaped by the Christian story. The Christian story has its own set of harmonies, its own set of tensions and resolutions, its own silence, its own rhythm. Truly Christian music, then, is schooled by these harmonies, tensions, and releases. MacMillan's music is no doubt jarring, but this, perhaps most of all, makes it Christian music. It does not try to over-realize itself or its 'Christian-ness' by grapping at cheap 'all-is-ok' motifs, rather, he holds his music open to the jarring story of Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday. And precisely in this jarring story is found the basis for a truly Christian aesthetic where Christian redemption may be witnessed to. MacMillan is a musician of the cross, in contrast to so many other "Christian" musicians who are musicians of glory i.e., musicians whose music is not crucified and raised by the Gospel, but rather pushed ahead to Easter by bypassing Good Friday and Holy Saturday. MacMillan's music is broken apart (quite litteraly) by the cross, and only because of this is it a fitting witness to the Gospel of God's severe love.

Average customer rating: Amazing! Gorgeous Amazing!

Chacona: Renaissance Spain in the Age of Empire Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Partsongs | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004TVAN Release Date: 2000-07-11

Tracks:

1. Dance 1: Gran Chacona
2. Love: Tres Morillas M'Enamoran En Jaen
3. Love: Kursi From Nuba Ghrib
4. Love: Una Matica De Ruda
5. Love: Si Te Quitasse Los Hierros
6. Love: O Voy
7. Love: Yo Me Soy La Morencia
8. Love: La Perra Mora
9. Exile: Paseavase El Rey Moro
10. Exile: A Tierras Agenas
11. Exile: Fantasia Mira Tus Montes
12. Exile: Israel Mira Tus Montes
13. Canarias: Flerida Para Mi Dulce Y Sabrosa
14. Canaries: Endechas De Canaria
15. Canaries: En La Gran Canaria
16. Canaries: Canario
17. El Romance De Conde Claros: Intro - Conde Claros In Love
18. El Romance De Conde Claros: Quiero Dormir Y No Puedo
19. El Romance De Conde Claros: Part 1 - Conde Claros And Clara Nina
20. El Romance De Conde Claros: No Me Hableys Conde
21. El Romance De Conde Claros: Si Te Vas A Banar
22. El Romance De Conde Claros: Mano A Mano Los Dos Amores
23. El Romance De Conde Claros: Part 2 - The Tryst
24. El Romance De Conde Claros: Covarde Caballero
25. El Romance De Conde Claros: Part 3 - The Discovery And The Sentence
26. El Romance De Conde Claros: Juizio Fuerte Sera Dado
27. El Romance De Conde Claros: Diferencias Sobre Conde Claros
28. El Romance De Conde Claros: Part 4 - The Market Square
29. El Romance De Conde Claros: Diferencias Sobre Conde Claros
30. Dance II: Villano
31. Dance II: Oy Comamos Y Bebamos

Customer Reviews:

Amazing!.......2007-03-12

If you have any interest in really, really good music...buy this CD! The music and performances are absolutely amazing. Buy it!!!

Gorgeous.......2007-01-07

A lushly produced presentation of interrelated songs that tell a story, Chacona is one of those recordings in which something new seems to emerge every time one listens. Phenomenal intrumentation, beautiful vocals, and emotional performances make Chacona a joy. I only wish I understood Spanish!

Amazing!.......2000-11-29

Having seen Ex Umbris perform the works on this incredible recording in concert about a year before the CD came out, I waited in eager anticipation for its release. It was worth the wait! The production is great, the engineering fine, and the performances beyond superlatives. Joined by a wonderful selection of guests (including the incredible voice of Nell Snaidas), this is one CD you won't want to pass up. In a word: amazing.

Average customer rating: One of opera's legendary figures sings lieder.

Kirsten Flagstad, Volume 4 Manufacturer: Simax ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Delius, Frederick | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | 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 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 Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flagstad, Kirsten | ( F ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Detroit Symphony Orchestra | ( D ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Barber, Samuel | A to B | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Wagner, Richard | U to Z | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Sibelius, Jean | Q to T | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Elgar, Edward | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Grieg, Edvard | C to G | Featured Composers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000454Y Release Date: 1996-10-01

Customer Reviews:

One of opera's legendary figures sings lieder........2001-08-17

The Norwegian Kirsten Flagstad was the pre-eminent Wagnerian soprano of the 20th century, but she also gave hundreds of lieder and song recitals, the pick of which bejewel this ravishing double CD. the first offers three complete song-cycles, Grieg's rippling 'Haugtussa', all pastoral maidens and brooks, Flagstad singing as light as a breeze; Wagner's 'Wesendonck-Lieder', that ghost of his masterpiece 'Tristan and Isolde', my favourite lieder cycle - this is the best interpretation I have ever heard, passionate, yearning and, in 'Im Treibhaus' and 'Traume', genuinely spine-tingling. Sibelius' enchanting songs complete the CD, with 'The Maiden's Tryst' unexpectedly lush and romantic.

The second disc of Anglo-American songs may be less demanding, but are no less delightful. Highlights include Landan Ronald's operettish 'O Lovely Night', Frank Bridge's rollicking 'Love Went A-Riding', Bax's hushed 'The White Peace', Elgar's hymn-like tribute to his vocation 'Speak Music', Delius' rapturous 'Love's Philosophy', as well as a tantalisingly muffled 1937 recording of Stephen Foster's 'Old Folks at Home'. There are also no less than four lullabies, which attests to the Victorian hangover on bourgeois tastes in the middle of the last century.

Most of these recordings date from the 1950s, so the sound is relatively clear, and if Flagstad is past her operatic prime, her ability to express intense passion with an imperiously cool technique would put most modern singers to shame. her regular accompanist, Edwin McArthur, is a model of self-effacement, quietly playful and inventive in the background. My only complaint is that, at this price, surely a lyric sheet could have been provided. There is, however, a fascinating biographical piece, detailing, amongst other things, the soprano's dubious wartime conduct.

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Sibelius festival Manufacturer: Ondine ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sibelius | Sibelius, Jean | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Elegies | Requiems, Elegies & Tombeau | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000K37O Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

1. The Birch, Op.75/4 - Ralf Gothoni
2. The Spruce, Op.75/5 - Ralf Gothoni
3. Romance, Op.78/2 - Pekka Kuusisto/Raija Kerppo
4. Rondino, Op.81/2 - Pekka Kuusisto/Raija Kerppo
5. Mazurka, Op.81/1 - Pekka Kuusisto/Raija Kerppo
6. To Evening, Op.17/6 - Karita Mattila/Ilmo Ranta
7. The Diamond On The March Snow, Op.36/6 - Karita Mattila/Ilmo Ranta
8. Black Roses, Op.36/1 - Karita Mattila/Ilmo Ranta
9. Elegia, Op.27/1 - Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam
10. Did I Just Dream?, Op.37/4 - Jorma Hynninen
11. The Tryst, Op.37/5 - Jorma Hynninen
12. Fool's Song Of The Cross-Spider, Op.27/4 - Jorma Hynninen
13. The Tempest, Op.109: The Oak Tree - Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
14. The Tempest, Op.109: Caliban (Interlude) - Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
15. The Tempest, Op.109: Miranda (Interlude) - Finnish RSO/Jukka-Pekka Saraste
16. Lemminkainen Legends, Op.22: The Swan Of Tuonela - Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam
17. Lemminkainen Legends, Op.22: Lemminkainen's Return - Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam
18. Finlandia, Op.26/7 - Helsinki PO/Leif Segerstam H

Average customer rating: ...Promising start

Confessions of Isobel Gowdie/T Manufacturer: Koch Schwann (Germ.) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by MacMillan | MacMillan, James | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001SPI Release Date: 1994-09-15

Tracks:

1. The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie
2. Tryst

Customer Reviews:

...Promising start.......2002-08-08

This extraordinary work from one of Britian's most promising composers had a unlikely start in it's premeir. It was placed between Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and Sibelius Violin Concerto at the London Promenade Concert 1990. It seemed like an odd choice giving the reasons that "The Confessions Of Isobel Gowdie" had only been written the previous year and very little had been known of James Macmillan at that point. Isobel Gowdie scored a triumph for MacMillan, the impact on the audience was far wider than expected.

"The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie" draws its inspiration on the 1662 execution of Isobel Gowdie, who had confessed herself into being a witch after being undescribable tortured. This was the time of the English Reformation and witch hunting was a daily occurrence, executions were cheered on. The reasons for a conviction could be something totally absurd. "The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie" has a Stravinsky "The Rite Of Spring" approach that begins slowly than escalates into a sudden burst of energy. The whole work is divided into musical quotes, a Scottish ballad (The Cruel Mother), a Gregorian chant (Lux aeterna). The Lux aeterna section of the work intensifies with trombones and percussions that become quite erratic, the illusion of ritual barbarism is conjured up.

Tryst, a longer work but smaller in scale was written the year before, 1989. It grew from life out of a violin and piano composition called "After The Tryst" based upon William Sontar's love poem. It is again one continous movement broken up in five sections which center upon faith, love and hope. The musical pattern is much the same as "The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie" swirling winds of sounds that cascade into unformular territory, a territory that draws you into a magnetic field. Tryst begins violently that transends into a slow mediation in the middle and back again to being violent at the end.

"The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie/ Tryst" on the Koch label was conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk with the BBC Scottish Orchestra, the same very person and orchestra that performed "The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie" at the London Promenade.

One major problem I had with the disc, not so much with the performance or the music itself...is that Koch elected to leave each work as single tracks, two tracks in total and not clearly divide the works up into their respected sections as they were intended for.

James Macmillan may appear to some as new music and a bit of a challenge, "The Confession Of Isobel Gowdie/Tryst" to me is his easiest to listen to, your transported into a dark age that as a whole the music is supposingly representing.

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