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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: pretty darn good follow-up for the veering group Beautiful experimental follow-up album

First Light's Freeze Castanets Manufacturer: Asthmatic Kitty ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Tanglewood Numbers Feels The Gulag Orkestar Takk... Fast Rise and Fall of the South ASIN: B000BCKFMA Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

1. (The Waves Are Rolling Beneath Your Skin)
2. Into the Night
3. Song Is Not the Song of the World
4. Good Friend, Yr Hunger
5. (We Drew Uncertain Breath)
6. Bells Aloud
7. First Light's Freeze
8. Evidence (A Mask of Horizon, Distortion of Form)
9. No Voice Was Raised
10. (Migration Concentric)
11. All That I Know to Have Changed in You
12. Dancing with Someone (Privilege of Everything)
13. Reflecting in the Angles

Album Description

A dark, mutant-country sound infused with strands of free-jazz and a late-70's Nashville big-radio strut hijacked by post-punk unravelers. The result is a beautiful mix of somber reflection, destination-unknown travelogue, and subversive anti-war boogie. "Freeze" confronts the mythology of war and friendship; the close proximity of things painful and pleasurable, and the complications of this as a paradigm for the world. Castanets suggest artistic geography as transcontinental as Merle Haggard, Albert Ayler, Television, and Richard and Mimi Farina.

Customer Reviews:

pretty darn good follow-up for the veering group.......2005-12-22

Castanets first album Cathedral was a surprise release that came out of nowhere with its unique style and knocked me back a bit. Raymond Raposa created an album that mixed folk and country with drone and free jazz in a way that seemed natural and it crept into my head and onto my year-end list. With First Light's Freeze, he retains many of those pieces, and also draws a touch of electronics into the mix. The overall result isn't quite as solid as his previous album, but nonetheless contains some of his best work to date.

Once again, there are shorter pieces of ambient drones that fill in the gaps between the longer pieces, and the album opens with one in "(The Waves Are Rolling Beneath Your Skin)" before the album starts in full with the desolate-sounding "Into The Night." The track mixes sparse, acoustic instrumentation with the buzz of streetlamps and haunting vocals (that touch on politics of war) into a track that sort of drifts like a dense fog. "A Song Is Not the Song of the World" drops a slightly fuzzy electronic beat behind strummed guitar and building vocals before the track skronks out about halfway through with some bursts of noisy guitar, synth bubbles, and organ.

From there, the album is even more mixed. "Good Friend, Yr Hunger" is a weird electronic stomp with banjo, droning e-bow guitar, and melancholy vocals from Raposa while "Bells Aloud" drops off into billowing alt country, a subdued track drenched in reverb and haunted with regretful vocals. Arriving in short bursts are hazy, short bursts of droning guitars that act more as chapter dividers than bridges between tracks. In places, the new instrumentation sounds a bit well-worn, such as the drum machine beats and guitar beginning of "No Voice Was Raised." Just about the time you think the track is going to be another electro-indie snoozer, though, Raposa drops a twist and the track turns into a full-on freakout complete with dense layers of howling guitars, pounding drums, and horns.

The best track on the entire release might be the more subdued "All That I Know To Have Changed in You," which seems to be the best blending of styles on the entire release as subtle electronics glint and flutter around a slow and heady track that pulses with reverb. Despite the great tracks, First Light's Freeze feels a bit more inconsistent than the great debut from the group. At just over a half-hour in running length, the sequencing (with the short tracks that don't really do much to hold it together) seems a bit strange, and the hodge-podge of genres is interesting but at times a bit distracting.

Beautiful experimental follow-up album.......2005-11-10

The Castanets are the perfect eclectic band. While they're on the Ashmatic Kitty label with Sufjan Stevens and the Danielson Famile, I can't help but mistake them for a Young God Records band. They take after the Swans and the Angels of Light in a big way, but unlike the former, they forego the long slow-metal dirges and focus their experimentation on diverse instrumental change-ups and likeable chanting vocal melodies, although you'd get the feeling they'd be quite comfortable covering the Swans or Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music.

The second album takes off just where the first left us. It is just as good and there are no major alterations to their sound. Like, say, D. Banhart's Rejoicing in the hands and Nino Rojo, or the two Franz Ferdinand or Interpol releases, they haven't changed much but manage to keep up the creativity. The Castanets are a good distance into the experimental side of modern music. They pay good attention to backing instrumentals as well as to vocals. They're dark, despite the vocalist's likeable tenor, and manage an honest, low-key and endlessly fascinating album, living up nicely to last year's debut, Cathedral. Good for fans of darker, complex, serious music.

My favorite song so far is No Voice Was Raised (if you're the single-downloading type or if you want to try it out)

Average customer rating: awesome, awesome, awesome

Moonlight and Castanets Overwhelming Colorfast Manufacturer: Headhunter Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk-Pop | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Two Words Overwhelming Colorfast Carnavas ASIN: B000008RFJ Release Date: 1999-11-11

Tracks:

1. Starcrunch
2. Mickey's Lament
3. Shiner
4. Rocky Road
5. Bag Artist
6. 7 Devils
7. Last Song
8. Margaritas For Two
9. 13 Reasons
10. How It Should Be
11. Mystery Date
12. Burning Question
13. She's In Antioch

Customer Reviews:

awesome, awesome, awesome.......2000-08-08

It's a shame these guys aren't huge, as they put out some of the best hard, crunching rock I've ever heard. There other albums are great too.

Average customer rating: Castanets: Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004) The Great Link . . . A masterpiece ! Pretty good This is probably not for everybody

Cathedral Castanets Manufacturer: Asthmatic Kitty ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Yellow House Ta Det Lugnt Sung Tongs Feels Stranded Under Endless Sky ASIN: B0002X6FA4 Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

1. Cathedral 2 (Your Feet On The Floor Sounding Like The Rain)
2. Just To Break Free From A Hundred Families
3. Industry And Snow
4. You Are The Blood
5. No Light To Be Found (Fare Thee Faith, The Path Is Yours)
6. Three Days, Four Nights
7. As You Do
8. Cathedral 3 (Make Us New)
9. The Smallest Bones
10. We Are The Wreckage
11. Cathedral 4 (The Unbreaking Branch And Song)

Album Description

Cathedral, the first nationally released album by San Diego's Castanets, introduces a unique new voice in avant-country. The core of the Castanets is the lyrical and musical talent of Raymond Raposa. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption, the delivery is potent and devoid of cliché or sentimentalism. Echoes of The Velvet Underground, No Neck Blues Band and delta blues harness a strain of ancient Americana that even today pulses through a subdivided and paved landscape; the result is what Raposa calls "derailed country psychedelia." Backed by the enchanting angelic voice of newcomer Bridgit DeCook and recorded mostly in a secluded cabin in the northern California woodlands, Cathedral illuminates architecture where faith and doubt clash in an often-ambiguous search for the divine.

Customer Reviews:

Castanets: Cathedral (Asthmatic Kitty, 2004).......2006-01-07

Step into the Cathedral of the Castanets and you will be ushered into an album that is coherent, beautiful, and well-crafted. Within the context of this album, one enters into the grand cathedrals of Raymond Raposa. Those cathedrals, if I am correct, are four in number. The first houses the entire album in all its complexity and simplicity (yes, contradiction in terms, but it seems to work here). The other three "cathedrals" ear-mark the disc at it's beginning, ending and after its mid-point. Housed at the center of the disc is the track, which clocks in as the longest on the disc: "No Light to be Found (Fare Thee Faith, The Path is Yours)." This brings weight to the center of the disc since it is a pivotal track, as I will mention below. Although boiling down an artist's work into comparisons never really gives one a true feel for what the artist is doing, I feel the need to give some indication of the sound to my readers. Castanets remind me of a hybrid of a few great artists: Sufjan Stevens (A Sun Came era), Deerhoof, mixed with alt-country and the stylings of Frank Lenz (Last Temptation style). Enough of the broader sense of the disc, lets get down to particular songs.

Cathedral opens with "Cathedral 2." It's a slow-tempo song with droning sax, sparse drums and sprinkles of acoustic guitar. There are female and male vocals and various sounds mixed in for good measure. Raposa is a master of imagery and that is apparent from the very first track. Water runs throughout "Cathedral 2" and gives the listener a sense, not only of it's ability to envelope us, but also its depth, movement and sound. The picture painted is puddles growing to lakes and rivers building at the bottom of the steps. The last line of the song leads into what follows on the album: "It's all right to want something more than this." "Industry and Snow" starts out with acoustic guitar and what sounds like a child's xylophone. It has a subtle alt-country feel and eventually becomes louder with looped feedback with odd guitar sounds and a mixture of other noise.

"You Are the Blood" is an upbeat song in its message. This has imagery in it that is possibly of a redemptive nature. The song itself begins with distorted horn and fades into simple drums and dreamy guitar. Vocally, the song reminds me of Frank Lenz' work on The Last Temptation.... "No Light Be Found (Fare Thee Faith, The Path is Yours)," is the longest track on the disc and occurs centrally, changing a bit of the tone of the disc until the end. Reminding me of Gary Murray's work on LN, the vocals are quiet with a very light acoustic accompaniment. This is a very honest song about faith, love and friendship that is melancholy in tone and looks forward to later songs that speak toward redemption. Because the lyrics of this song seem so pivotal to the album, I find they are worth quoting.




I got something that my baby wants
She's got something that I want too
Baby and I are through
I've been down to the bottom with a bad, bad man
Down to the bottom baby with a bad, bad man
Lay me down with her gentle hand
He said this darkness, it was untrue
That there was no light to be found in you
But I know Darl'n that's not true
I had a dream so dark that I could not tell
But that's just as well
But I don't know babe just where you've been
But I've hung myself heavy here
Babe, I don't know where the hell I am
I thought that man, babe, he might have something that I need
But he had no anger for you or for me
Babe, I swear that man didn't even know the sea
And some of these friends of mine, I miss them so
Good Lord, these sweat friends of mine, how I miss them so
But some of these others are driving me around on some cold, dark, and strange and deathly road
Bring me down to your river, I want to see how it runs
Down to your river darl'n, I wanna know just how it runs
That man waits on the path, but I know for good I'm done
I've got a feeling that that man, he's just begun



This song is followed by "As You Do," which seems to reference the relationship mentioned in "No Light" by proclaiming "I wish you loved me as you did." "No Light" feels so connected with this song that the album seems to flow right together at this point. Although "No Light" is a bit depressing, "As You Do" seems to end on a lighter note with the line "the closer we get, the lighter it sense/the louder it gets." Why this feels upbeat to me, I'm not quite sure, but the music seems to contribute to some of that. Following "As You Do" is the track entitled "Cathedral 3." This ushers the listener into another section of the disc that centers both on redemption and the relationship that seems to be involved with the woman mentioned in prior sections of the cd.

"The Smallest Bones" paint great imagery about our limited existence and our waiting for our meeting with the Eternal One. Raposa croons, "My God / it's an eternity waiting for thee / there's a cancer / in the smallest bones / in the smallest breeze / and our houses have not grown their wings." I find that Raposa paints great, simple imagery that is subtle and beautiful in his lyrical content. He ends the song with "And my Lord / It's an eternity / waiting for thee." "We Are the Wreckage" is the second to the last song that really ties up many of the themes on the disc. Female vocals make another appearance on this track and the relationship between Raposa and his ladylove makes another appearance. It seems that the relationship has never been made perfect, yet there are bright signs at the end of the song with organ and perhaps xylophone accompanying the singers. Hope is communicated at the end of this song, which leads the listener to the last of the cathedrals: "Cathedral 4". It seems that, as the new Cathedral is entered, the singer has resolved much of what he has encountered with the "bad man" and has come to terms with his relationships both with his lady friend and God. This song starts out simple and moves into a more poppy style song. It certainly shows that the melancholiness of "No Light" has been left behind and hope is now on the horizon.

On first listen, I didn't expect much from Castanets. Once I truly listened though, I was drawn into the story it tells and was taken to all the Cathedrals Raposa wished to usher me through. This disc is a true journey through hope, despair, and renewed vigor in life. I say "yay" for the Castanets and encourage all to listen for themselves.

The Great Link . . ........2005-11-03

If you ever watched Star Trek Next Generation and/or Deep Space Nine, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks and most recently, Lost, then you have seen some very good shows.

Actually, my point is about the concept of "Post-modern" expression. The presentation of the fragmentary, chaotic, paradoxical, fueled by opposites, non-linear, psychedelic true nature of existence. Yes, the deep and trippy. Nonsense makes perfect sense. Fragments are only part of one cohesive whole. Einstein or some other super brain said, "There is no matter, the divisions are only in our minds - There is only the field."

Raymond Raposa has created a post-modern sonic masterpiece with CATHEDRAL. His lyrical and musical proposition near album's end with "We Are the Wreckage" says it all. A "Happy Trails" guitar line leads into musings about the problem of mortality and the chorus, "I'll be just where you are." The song finishes with a one by one layering of keys, bells and things to create a melody of One-ness and then a full blast note of every instument in unison.

On DS9, the race of changelings existed on their home planet in a connected mass called the Great Link. The finale of Northern Exposure saw Dr. Fleishman epiphanize to Maggie O'Connel about some species of mushroom that is the larget connected entity on the planet - it blooms in different places around the continent, but, it is one thing - connected. I'll be just where you are . . .

This record is a grand slam although, if you're not a fan of avant/americana/slow/murky pop, you will think this cd wholly sucks and probably want to slap Mr. Raposa around.

A masterpiece !.......2005-10-17

I you like the early Leonard Cohen:The Partisan, teachers, bird on a wire..., you gonna love this.
Excellent lo-fi.

Pretty good.......2005-05-06

I thought this was pretty good. It's probably one of those albums that you really have to listen to, though. I don't think I realized its excellence until the second or third listening, that's about when it really connected with me. It's mostly very slow music, so if you don't like that kind of thing, be warned. And I suppose some people might have issues with the guy's voice. But that stuff's rather subjective, and I quite liked it regardless and indeed largely because of those things.

I'd definitely recommend it to most people.

This is probably not for everybody.......2005-01-29

I was suprised that many of the reviews here were not as good as I might have expected. Personally, I am continually intrigued by their very unique sound-- something like a cross between Devendre Banhardt and The Swans; it's a gloomier, soft-spoken indie-folk with meaningful lyrics and a heavy orchestration. It isn't something that'd go over well at parties, but perfect if you're in the mood to sit and listen. I'd recommend it to fans of the aforementioned Banhardt, Vetiver, et al. and esp. those interested in experimental stuff. Anyway, I highly recommend this as one of my favorites of '04.

Average customer rating:

Castanets Ray Mason Band Manufacturer: Wormco ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Man and His Silvertone ASIN: B00000IONJ Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

1. Castanets
2. It's All About You
3. Mailbox Blue
4. Heaven in a Jar
5. Breathing the Hopeful Rain
6. You'll Never Catch Me Out of Her Mind
7. True Love
8. Hosts for the Road
9. Sometimes in Love
10. Lock
11. Tell Me I Missed the Train
12. Weighing In
13. Pop Dreams

Album Description

Roots/rock/pop of the highest order. Chock-a-block with timeless, non-trendy new tunes. A definite kinship with NRBQ, The Band, John Hiatt, Jack Logan (to name a few).

Average customer rating:

Guitars & Castanets Patricia Vonne Manufacturer: Measured ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009WV2WY Release Date: 2006-04-07

Tracks:

1. Joe's Gone Ridin'
2. Texas Burning
3. Gitana de Triana
4. Rebel Bride
5. Lonesome Rider
6. Guitarras y Castanuelas
7. Long Season
8. Fiesta Sangria
9. Blood on the Tracks
10. Sax Maniac
11. Traeme Paz [*]
12. Traeme Paz [*][Multimedia Track]

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Guitars & Castanets Manufacturer: Redeye Distribution ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000N0U0S4 Release Date: 2005-03-08

Average customer rating: On the verge of stardom Vonne's defining voice and music provide exhilarating "Texas border rock" Tough twangy pop, sax-fueled barn-burners and Mariachi ballads

Guitars & Castanets Patricia Vonne Manufacturer: Corazong Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Patricia Vonne Silver City Vida Brotherhood Something After All ASIN: B0009MKE9Q Release Date: 2005-06-28

Tracks:

1. Joe's Gone Ridin'
2. Texas Burning
3. La Gitana De Triana
4. Rebel Bride
5. Lonesome Rider
6. Guitarras Y Castanuelas
7. Long Season
8. Fiesta Sangria
9. Blood On The Tracks
10. Sax Maniac
11. Traeme Paz

Product Description

1. Joes Gone Ridin 2. Texas Burning 3. La Gitana de Triana 4. Rebel Bride 5. Lonesome Rider 6. Guitarras y Castanuelas 7. Long Season 8. Fiesta Sangria 9. Blood on the Tracks 10. Sax Maniac *Bonus Track "Traeme Paz" from the motion picture "Once Upon a Time in Mexico"

Customer Reviews:

On the verge of stardom.......2007-02-18

I've been on this Robert Rodriquez (and friends) kick lately and his sister Patricia Vonne was featured on his "Mariachi and Mexico" compilation. Her voice on "Serverina" is awesome which led to the purchase of this album. While equally adept at singing Neo Country or a striking spanish song, she keeps things interesting with her energy and style. She's a talent and needs to stay on the road of "heavy Mariachi" and she'll be someone to reckon with. The more she can play with her brother, Del Castillo and Tivo, the better her sound will be. Regardless, this album is a keeper with numerous quality tracks that get better with each listening.

Vonne's defining voice and music provide exhilarating "Texas border rock".......2005-09-17

Playing Time - 40:58 -- Guitars & Castanets is Austin-based Patricia Vonne's second album. With contemporary Mexican and traditional rock influences, Vonne's music has been called "Texas border rock." A pounding beat and tastefully rendered electric guitar impart rhythmic force to Vonne's original music which always keeps her engaging voice front and center whether singing in English or Spanish. Following the ten tracks is a bonus video "Traeme Paz" from the motion picture "Once Upon a Time in Mexico," directed by her older brother Robert Rodriguez. Her songs are inspired by Joe Ely, Johnny Reno, homesickness for Texas, passion for flamenco, a motorcycle club, relationships, friendship, and survival. The title cut (co-written with her brother) is dedicated to Alejandro Escovedo, another hero of hers, with whom she occasionally joined on stage for Al's song "Castanets."

Produced by Carl Thiel, the album features some exceptional accompaniment from Joe Reyes (electric guitar), Scott Garber (bass), Rafael Gayol (drums), Vonne's husband Robert LaRoche (guitars, backing vocals), and others. Additional noteworthy Austin musicians include Charlie Sexton, Jon Dee Graham, Rick Del Castillo, Michael Ramos, Mark Andes, and Johnny Reno.

The two cuts featuring Vonne's castanets are those with a more acoustic feel ("La Gitana de Triana" and "Guitarras y Castanuelas"). With contemporary and commercial flavorings, this album displays impressive musicianship and emotionally-charged vocalizing. The result is a stirring journey that yields bountiful rewards with numbers like "Rebel Bride," which she calls a "sexy, rockin' wedding song."

Growing up in San Antonio family with ten kids, Patricia's mother would sing to them in Spanish and the children would harmonize. Her dad had been a drummer, and they often had mariachis visit their house. Now, her music has taken her on world tours numerous times, and she'd like to see more of her songs used in movies and on television. With Guitars & Castanets, Vonne's defining voice and music are exhilarating. (Joe Ross, Roseburg, OR.)

Tough twangy pop, sax-fueled barn-burners and Mariachi ballads.......2005-08-19

The trill at the edge of Vonne's voice can be as charming as a songbird's and as chilling as the shadow of a circling hawk. The Austin-based singer-songwriter opens her second album with an exhilarating tribute to Joe Ely that electrifies the dusty, noir atmosphere with a rock 'n' roll beat. Her delivery has a tough-girl flammability that brings to mind Shangri-La Mary Weiss, the theatrical drama of Cher, and the black-leather rhythm-guitar attitude of Chrissie Hynde. But unlike these women of rock, Vonne is steeped in Texas twang and Mexican folk tunes, slipping just as easily into mariachi-tinged ballads as she does the mid-tempo songs of a Gruene Hall Saturday night.

The entire CD has a dusty, Western edge -- not so much country as Americana that mixes country, pop, rock, and rockabilly. Vonne's barn-burning original "Sax Maniac" gives her early hero Johnny Reno an opportunity to wail on his horn, and "La Gitana de Triana" and "Fiesta Sangria" along with the Mariachi-flavored "Traeme Paz" add Spanish lyrics and South-of-the-Border flavors. The latter is accompanied by a Robert Rodriguez directed video which is nearly superfluous in illustrating Vonne's aurally cinematic performance. [Review by redtunictroll@hotmail.com]

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The Girl Group Sound, Volume Five (The Darlings of the 1960's) The Castanets , The Mermaids , Reparata & The Delrons , Ginny Arnell , Pat Powdrill , Robin Clark , Diane Emond , Musique & The Lyrics , Noreen Corcoran , and Babs Tino Manufacturer: Sha-Boom Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TUJOLC

Product Description

Song list: 1. I Love Him - Castanets, 2. Popsicles and Icicles - Mermaids, 3. Dumb Head - Ginny Arnell, 4. Daddy Daddy - Robin Clark, 5. Whenever A Teenager Cries - Reparata & Delrons, 6. Don't Make the Angel Cry - Maureen Arthur, 7. Second Best - Cannon Sisters, 8. Happy Anniversary - Pat Powdrill, 9. About My Baby (I Could Write A Book) - Pandoras, 10. Some One Cares For Me - McKinleys, 11. What Makes Little Girls Cry - Victorians, 12. Forgive Me - Babs Tino, 13. There Goes the Boy I Love With Mary - Donna Lynn, 14. The Beginning Of the End - Diane Emond, 15. My Love and Life - Musique & Lyrics, 16. Born Too Late - Shannons, 17. Close Your Eyes - Bonnie, 18. Why Can't A Boy and A Girl Stay In Love - Noreen Corcoran, 19. Baby Baby (I Still Love You) - Cinderellas, 20. He's Mine - Alice Wonderland, 21. Baby That's Me - Cakes, and 22. I Have A Boy Friend - Reparata & Delrons

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Allan Stephenson: Piano Concerto; Oboe Concerto; Toccata Festiva for Castanets Manufacturer: GSE Claremont ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music | Baroque | Classical | General | Modern & 20th Century | Romantic | Sinfonia | Sinfonia Concertante General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004TQVL Release Date: 2000-06-27

Christian Music:

1. Christmas Love Song [CD-single]
2. Christmas Waiting [Enhanced]
3. Concious Dream
4. Could I Have This Kiss Forever [CD-single] [Import]
5. Destiny
6. Don't Judge A Song By It's Title
7. Energy
8. Family Secrets
9. First Day in Love
10. Fond Memories

Christian Music

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Christian Music

Brooke Allison [Enhanced]

Berg: Chamber Concerto for piano & violin; Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No1

Bloodflowers

Songs for Mama: Country Style

Café del Mar: Ibiza, Vol. 3

Beautiful World

Alma Serena

Built From Scratch [Explicit Lyrics]

Bonnie & Clyde [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances; Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel

Ballads for Bass Clarinet [Import]

Amor de Telenovelas

Booty Phat Classics [Clean]

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 3, 6, 8

Next Generation