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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: This is Truly a Masterpiece and Best album ever! 10 stars 10432747365 times better than Hours Lame is the only word to describe this why the haters? A very overrated album by an amazing band

Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation Funeral for a Friend Manufacturer: Ferret Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Welsh Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hours Things Aren't So Beautiful Now Say Hello to Sunshine Stories and Alibis Discovering the Waterfront ASIN: B0002IQ9T6 Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

1. Rookie Of The Year
2. Bullet Theory
3. Juneau
4. Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings
5. Escape Artists Never Die
6. Storytelling
7. Moments Forever Faded
8. She Drove Me To Daytime Television
9. Red Is The New Black
10. Your Revolution Is A Joke
11. Waking Up

Customer Reviews:

This is Truly a Masterpiece and Best album ever! 10 stars.......2006-06-23

This CD is so amazing. It shows the soft and alot more of the heavier side of FFAF. Bend your arms to look like wings has such a awesome beat and is so meaningful. Every song on this CD kicks a** and is the best album ever
Great art work visually and Emotionally!
MASTERPIECE!
10 STARS*********

10432747365 times better than Hours.......2006-05-24

I thought this album was awesome. Hours sucked horribly. They sold out just like everyone else. Their "drunk" screamer is what made this band. Not some lame super emo cd. This is a screamo album so if you dont liek screaming dont listen to it. I thought the screams brought good contrast to this cd. In my opinion if you liked teh EP's then buy this. If you are one of these kids who hates any screaming and loves bands who sell out then check out Hours. So basically if u think ur cool because u got on the FFAF Hours bandwagon dont waste your time with this.

Lame is the only word to describe this.......2006-05-22

Now don't go discounting my opinion because I usually listen to harder music. I very much like emo LIKE this. Just not this CD in particular.

This is one of those typical run-of-the-mill emo releases (release, not "effort" it hardly seemed like they tried at all) that's not very catchy, interesting or even good for that matter. The only reason it gets 3 stars from me is for two ABSOLUTELY AMAZING tracks.

Bend Your Arms to Look Like Wings is definitely NOT standard of the rest of the CD. This song is actually good. Even the title suggests something meaningful. Aside from being catchy it has a melody and actually progresses through to the end. And what an end it is!! The outro is so beautiful. The interval at which the notes are played just strikes a chord inside of me, it makes me want to cry and scream at the top of my lungs.... at the same time.

Rookie of the Year. One of the greatest songs ever written. Period. It's a powerful, beautiful track about friendship and how you can care about someone so much. You can't beat that. You couldn't ask for a better song.

I obviously like this kind of music or otherwise I probably wouldn't like those two songs. Like I said, I like emo because I like good, well written, powerful music. Unfortunately that DOESN'T describe the rest of this CD. If you like lame, totally uninspired music like Taking Back Sunday, Brand New or A Thorn for Every Heart go ahead and get this you'll probably like it. But if you actually like good, well written music you'll download those two songs and go someplace else and not waste your time with the rest of this CD.

why the haters?.......2006-05-17

I actually prefer this album to Hours. I guess that puts me in the minority. I thought Casually had more of an edge to it than Hours, grimy if you will. Hours was a good album, but seemed more polished in a slicked up production sense. Some people prefer that as you can see from the reviews, but don't be deterred, Casually is an excellent album.

A very overrated album by an amazing band.......2006-03-17

I should of listened to Forest from ISU. I bought "Hours" and was so floored, I figured I would give "Casually..." a try. What a mistake. This album is so spotty it boggles the mind that this band made the work of art "Hours". This album should be called "Casually Overated & Deep in Mediocrity". This band is absolutely amazing, dont get we wrong, but this album was just a stepping stone to get noticed and produce better work. The effect of this album makes you want to listen to it less and less. "Hours" gets better and better every listen. I find myself waking up with songs from "Hours" stuck in my head. Everything about this album is a few notches below "Hours". From the substandard vocals, to the plain guitars, to the average drums. Now maybe I wouldnt be so critical of this album if I didnt hear Hours but I guess this pales in comparision so much, its laughable. If you want to buy this album, do it in support of a great band getting better and dont expect to get much more out of it than that.

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Tracks:

1. Largo Al Factotum - Gino Bechi
2. Udite, Udite O Rustici - Ezio Pinza
3. Im Heimlichen Dammer - Maria Reining
4. Mag Der Himmel Euch Vergeben - Helge Roswaenge
5. Ach So Fromm - Richard Tauber
6. The Last Rose Of Summer - Amelita Galli-Curci
7. Non So Piu - Amelita Galli-Curci
8. You Are My Heart's Delight - Lauritz Melchior
9. Voices Of Spring - Ada Sari
10. Drinking Song & Golden Days - Robert Merrill
11. You And You - Robert Merrill
12. I'll Follow My Secret Heart - Lily Pons
13. The White Dove - Lawrence Tibbett
14. Deep In My Heart - Lauritz Melchior
15. Merry Widow Waltz - Helen Traubel
16. Serenade - Lauritz Melchior
17. Stout-Hearted Man - Helen Traubel
18. Russian Song - Lawrence Tibbett
19. Wanting You - Lawrence Tibbett
20. Oh What A Beautiful Morning - Helen Traubel
21. Una Voce Poco Fa - Luisa Tetrazzini

Tracks:

1. Wer Uns Getraut - Jussi Bjorling
2. The Blue Danube - Lily Pons
3. Ich, Hab' Kein Geld, Bin Vogelfrei - Jussi Bjorling
4. My Hero - Rosa Ponselle
5. Kiss Me Again - Rosa Ponselle
6. When You Walk In The Room - Robert Merrill
7. Song Of The Vagabonds - Robert Merrill
8. O Luce Di Quest'Anima - Toti Dal Monte
9. Dans Le Service D'Autriche - Hyppolite Belhomme
10. Tales From The Vienna Woods - Marcella Sembrich
11. Per Viver Vicino - John McCormack
12. Charmant Oiseau - Amelita Galli-Curci
13. Cancion De La Espada - Miguel Fleta
14. De Espana Vengo - Conchita Supervia
15. Aimons, Il Faut Aimer - Hyppolite Belhomme
16. Com'e Gentil - Chorus
17. Quel Guardo Il Cavaliere - Amelita Galli-Curci
18. Tornami A Dir Che M'Ami - Tito Schipa
19. Im Mohrenland Gefangen War - Peter Anders
20. Oh, Wie Will Ich Triumphieren - Wilhelm Hesch
21. Modern Travel, An Opera Parody On Donizetti, Gounod, Verdi, Bizet & Dvorak - Lauritz Melchior

Average customer rating: Worst Celly album I've heard Ok 4th solo album From Celly Cel CELLY CEL IZ BACK BETTER THAN EVER! biooootch...... respect it

Deep Conversation Celly Cel Manufacturer: Realside Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music West Coast | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Similar Items: The G Filez Heat 4 Yo Azz Celly Cel - Rap Life: Behind the Scenes The Last Dance Killa Kali ASIN: B00004U94L Release Date: 2000-06-20

Tracks:

1. I'm Back
2. Return of the Real Niggaz - Celly Cel, WC
3. Game Ain't Blind
4. You Know Me
5. Stressin'
6. When Yo Man Get Sleepy
7. What U Need
8. Dog in Me - Celly Cel, Kurupt
9. Which One Is U?
10. Nasty - Celly Cel, Grip
11. Make Um Bounce - Celly Cel, Young Bleed
12. Broken Home
13. Listen to My "9"

Customer Reviews:

Worst Celly album I've heard.......2005-08-05

There is not one good song on this album. Its a total disappointment from Celly and a waste of money. I expected much more from this great artist but unfortunately he doesn't deliver on this one. Even the song with Kurupt is lackluster. Try getting G Filez or Its Real Out Here from Celly, they are much better and what you would come to expect from him.

Ok 4th solo album From Celly Cel.......2005-06-27

After 2 years since his last relases and leaving Jive/Sick Wit it Records he returns with an ok album. My least favorite of his first 4 solo albums. As always his lyrics are ok but the production on this one isn't really up to par either. Of the 13 songs, I skip 1, 4 are pretty good, and the others are ok. Production is handled by G-Man Stan on 3 songs, Charlie Doyle on 8 , and D.J. Fingaz, and Bosko each do 1. Guests are on 4 songs rapping and do the hook on 2 others. If you're a huge fan of his check it out, otherwise I'd pass it up, it's not his best work.

#1 - short intro w/ a little bit of rapping
#2 - 7 (f/ WC)
#3 - 8
#4 - 7.5
#5 - 8
#6 - 7 (f/ J.R.)
#7 - 7
#8 - 8 (f/ Kurupt)
#9 - 7
#10 - 6 (f/ Grip)
#11 - 7 (f/ Young Bleed)
#12 - 8 (f/ J.R. -- good story line)
#13 - 7

b. Marcellus McCarver -- Vallejo, CA

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CELLY CEL IZ BACK BETTER THAN EVER!.......2000-12-16

After more than 2 years Celly Cel is back with a new album. This time it's on his own label Realside Records. He left his former label "Sick Wid It" where he dropped his first 3 albums. You might think that not being on a major label would hurt Cel. However, his new album is his best ever! He comes out better than ever, you can feel the hunger and motivation he has for success. Celly Cel brings you the Bay Area flave all over the album and his lyrics about hustlin', gangbangin', women and the rap game will always hold your attention. His voice is one of the most unique in the rap game, and this combined with his sick flow and lyrics give you one of the top rappers these days. The album is a perfect one - a short album with 12 songs, but unlike many albums these days, all the tracks are flawless - no inferior and supperior songs on this album. You can see Celly Cel put A LOT of work on this album. The beats on the album are some of the best I've heard in a while. Kurupt, WC, Young Bleed and Grip all drop some nice appearences, yet still get outshined by Cel. Get this album which is one of the best ones this year and support the independent Bay Area Rap game.

biooootch.............2000-10-02

yo, wussup!!!! I juz wanna let y'all know that CELL got sum heat fo' yo' azz... Thiz album should be yours, aight!!! Thiz album includes sum nice lyricz and beatz, bay area fo' real...

respect it.......2000-08-16

It's been two years that I waited celly cel album, having no news from him since he did not appeared on the latest sick wid it releases, so I wa quiet disspointed before listening this album but now I can tell U one thing : this album is dope too. All the songs have a bay area flava, celly cel keeps his orginal flow and there are less guets than in the g filez and that's better. few guests are Dub C, kurupt and young bleed and all did their jobs. THis album reminds me "killa kali" but with a more introspective and serious celly. That's the G filez best album.

Average customer rating: GET IT the best of british The best thing to come out of England since The Beatles Funeral for ALL MY FRIENDS!! Easiest album to recommend ever...

Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation Funeral for a Friend Manufacturer: Warner Music UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Welsh Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Emo | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Hardcore | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000DD997 Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. Rookie of the Year
2. Bullet Theory
3. Juneau
4. Bend Your Arms to Look Like Wings
5. Escape Artists Never Die
6. Storytelling
7. Moments Forever Faded
8. She Drove Me to Daytime Television
9. Red Is the New Black
10. Your Revolution Is a Joke
11. Waking Up
12. Novella

Album Description

Full Title - Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation. The Welsh hard rock act's 2003 debut album includes the hit single 'Juneau'. Infectious.

Album Details

Critically Acclaimed Band who Take their Name from the Famous Opening Number of Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road".

Customer Reviews:

GET IT.......2005-08-30

I think the title of this review says it all its amazing and you'd be stupid not to have it.

the best of british.......2005-02-01

Listening to bands such as Taking Back Sunday, Atreyu and other such quality US acts, i thought i might listen to FFAF , and quite frankly ,am i glad that i did. This 11 track release is simply the best UK album for many a moon. Not so highly touted as fellow Welsh rockers Lost Prophets, FFAF are streets ahead when it comes to class,originality,talent,musicianship and all other aspects that go to make up top notch rock acts in this genre. This follows on from the earlier album Seven Ways ....(which has a couple of tracks carried over onto this full-length album). The album moves effortlessly into the groove with opener Rookie Of The Year , and really bites into an evener higher gear with the truly magnificent Juneau( one of the albums real killer tracks).Other barnstorming tracks keep on coming (including the phenomenal Escape Artists Never Die---and this track/band certainly never will). Even the beautiful ballad Your Revolution Is A Joke is so magnificently performed/carried off and full of heartfelt emotion that as soon as the tracks have finished it leaves you with an irresistable urge/need to play them again.
As i am British, it is great that we now have a band that can actually stand comparision with the many superb US/Canadian bands in this field (and i cannot wait for their next tour/follow up record to this beauty.

The best thing to come out of England since The Beatles.......2005-01-01

When I first heard of this band, it was in their early stages forming on the highly influential indie record label Ferret Records (think A Static Lullaby, Killswitch Engage, FATA). They have only improved since. As one fan states on FFAF's UK website, "I love FFAF like i love toast." And the English do love their toast. FFAF comes at the listener full force with all the trappings of metal, emo, hardcore, punk, and even throws in the occasional acoustic melody. The lead singer, Matt Davies, exhibits a full range of vocal capability ranging from the metal like sing-screaming in "The Getaway Plan" (on their first U.S. ep, "Seven Ways to Scream Your Name") to achieving barbershop harmonies in "Your Revolution is a Joke." The rest of the band is technically perfect in their execution, and unlike most bands of their genre (if you must give them a genre), the chorus' are executed using riffs void of the usual powerchords, instead substituting complicated arpeggios at times when the listener least expects it. The added fact that the rest of the band sings as well only adds on to the enjoyment you can expect from listening to this band. I have never really known exactly why i derive pleasure from listening to music, but by listening to this album, the answer seems in closer reach than it has ever been. I would recommend this album to anybody who is ready to experience something different from the norm of popular indie culture and be transported to a land where music has no boundries except for the ones that are set. In short, FFAF is the best thing to come out of England since the Beatles.

Funeral for ALL MY FRIENDS!!.......2004-11-14

FFaF is an amazing band their sound is awesome the guitar work is great and the vocals are beautiful they are so f***ing awesome live and you should stop reading this review and get their cd

Easiest album to recommend ever..........2004-10-24

This an awesome CD, the drum work on this record is perfect, the guitars are strong and emotive and the vocals are perfection, this Welsh group shows the American guys how its done. If you get te oppertunity do not miss these guys live.

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Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation Funeral for a Friend Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00015M8F4 Release Date: 2004-03-01

Tracks:

1. Rookie Of The Year
2. Bullet Theory
3. Juneau
4. Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings
5. Escape Artists Never Die
6. Storytelling
7. Moments Forever Faded
8. She Drove Me To Daytime Television
9. Red Id The New Black
10. Your Revolution Is A Joke
11. Waking Up
12. Novella
13. This Year's Most Open Heartbreak (Bonus Track)
14. Kiss & Makeup (Bonus Track)

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

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Reflections In the Light Manufacturer: Open Window Porductions LLC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music Jazz | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000AKGBD0 Release Date: 2005-07-21

Tracks:

1. Reflections in the light
2. Dreams if Hope
3. Indigo Blue
4. A Brighter Light
5. Dancing on Ice
6. Close Your Eyes.
7. Harvest Time
8. Beyond the Horizon
9. Send in the clowns
10. Where is Love
11. Distant River

Product Description

Quiet solo piano meditations to relax with and warm your heart.

Average customer rating: Not representative Teyte Joy and melancholy

Maggie Teyte Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Brahms | Brahms, Johannes | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Delius, Frederick | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Gibbs, Cecil Armstrong | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romberg, Sigmund | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Robert Schumann | Schumann, Robert | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | 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 General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music ASIN: B00005NY7B Release Date: 2002-01-15

Tracks:

1. La Perichole: Tu N'es Pas Beau... Je T'adore
2. Veronique: Petite Dinde! Ah! Quel Outrage!
3. Veronique: Ma Foi! Pour Venir De Provence
4. Apres Un Reve
5. Si Mes Vers Avaient Des Ailes
6. Humoresque, Op.101 No.7: Christina's Lament
7. Songs My Mother Taught Me, Op.55 No.4
8. Sir Roger De Coverley: Sweet Mistress Prue
9. Sir Roger De Coverley: Carefree
10. The Student Prince: Deep In My Heart Dear
11. The Lilac Domino: What Is Done You Never Can Undo
12. Conversation Piece: I'll Follow My Secret Heart
13. Conversation Piece: Nevermore
14. Der Nussbaum, Op.25 No.3 (Myrten)
15. Auftrage, Op.77 No.5
16. Die Mainacht, Op.43 No.2
17. An Die Nachtigall, Op.46 No.4
18. Meine Liebe Ist Grun, Op.63 No.5
19. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
20. Indian Love Song
21. The Fields Are Full Of Summer Still
22. E'en As A Lovely Flower
23. The Nightingale Sings To His Mate In The Tree
24. Wander-thrist

Customer Reviews:

Not representative Teyte.......2005-08-29

Maggie Teyte is known, for the most part, for her French Art Song recordings. This Decca 'Singers' edition, while entertaining, is not representative of her best, or indeed, her most iconic work. For that, you'll need to turn to her EMI recordings. All that said, these recordings show her in marvellous voice, and a couple of the performances, the Hahn and the Dvorak 'Songs my mother taught me' are very special.

Joy and melancholy.......2002-02-07

I wonder how many English singers, born as long ago as 1888, have been resurrected on CD in the year 2001. Dame Maggie Teyte can claim two CDs! This one forms part of the series "The Singers". All the recordings on this CD date from the 1930s. That those years were "lean years" for British singers, is also to Maggie Teyte's credit. Beggars cannot be choosers, of course, and what is here is not necessarily always her best work. The first three tracks show her at her best; elsewhere there are some quaint and queer items. In "Sweet Mistress Prue" you will hear "the sky is blue" and "how I love you" and every possible rhyming line ad nauseum. Eleven of the tracks derive from 1937 broadcasts she gave with the accompanist Rita Mackay. One of them is issued here for the first time, replacing another - a song by Hugo Wolf - that was included in a first issue of this collection on LP in the 1970s.

The singer puts her stamp on everything, conveying a sense of joy mixed with a tinge of wistful melancholy. Her admirers will welcome this CD with joy. That her voice never recorded well, and that these recordings were never the best of their day, might induce a slight feeling of melancholy.

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Casually Dressed & Deep In Conversation Funeral for a Friend Manufacturer: Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00016ZPHG Release Date: 2004-03-01

Album Details

Japanese Release featuring a Bonus Track

Average customer rating: I play this CD nearly every day...

West Of The Fire: Soundtracks for Photographs, Volume Two Stu Jenks Manufacturer: Fezziwig Music and Photography ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Distance ASIN: B000BGQXIG Release Date: 2005-07-28

Tracks:

1. Abajo Mountain Hoop Dance
2. The Open Circle Cairn
3. Molino Falls Blue
4. Aspens Ascending
5. If There's a Heaven, This is Heaven
6. West of the Fire
7. Rimpoche Allison Jones
8. Death Valley Hoop Dance
9. Canelo Lullaby

Product Description

"There is a place where sound and image enter a holy conversation; where human eyes and ears become like an ocean tide surrendering to a distant shore. Stu Jenks' powerful work is a vehicle for taking us to such a place. The deep longing flow of his soundscapes initiate us into a fluidity of heart, while his mysterious images --alluring photographs that express the potent and healing themes of nature and the soul's journey-- beckon us to take the next step; woven together, the work of this wizard of sound and space will transform you." --Frank MacEowen, Celtic wisdomkeeper, author of The Mist-Filled Path and The Spiral of Memory and Belonging

Customer Reviews:

I play this CD nearly every day..........2006-06-26

Not everyone sees the beauty in the desert. For some it is all bleak and dry and empty wasteland. Others, like Stu, who have the fortitude to take long and difficult treks down dusty roads, who have the patience to hold still until the sun moves a little lower in the sky, who see not just what's before the face but what's peeking from the corner of the eye - those lucky fey-touched few - see shimmering vistas and hear the desert breathe.

West of the Fire starts with such stillness that I wondered if my CD player was working. Abajo Mountain Hoop Dance (image) (story) is the sound of the lunar eclipse seen from an aspen forest. I find myself reaching for this sound over and over. I press the PLAY button and stretch into yoga. I press the PLAY button and let my fingers fly over the keyboard. I press the PLAY button when the stress builds and I need, desperately need to take a walk with Stu down some desert track that he knows.

Each one of the cuts on this CD is a brief journey. The sounds are simple and soothing. The Open Circle Cairn slows your heartbeat and footfall for careful consideration of sacred space. Sound echos as it does in tombs and cairns and caves. Cool. Still. Centered. When the mind enters here, the spirit follows.

Stu is an artist who wants to affect all sensory points. Many of his photographs and musical compositions are also accompanied by creation stories. Ride along with the intrepid Mr. Jenks in his 4 x 4, hike into the canyon, onto the cliff face, along the river bank. Stand just behind him (and a little way from the cigarette smoke) while he makes his mojo. At Molino Falls Blue shapeshift from man -- to bear -- to man opening the shutter -- to bear navigating waterslick rocks -- to man a mile away.

Aspens Ascending is a double image of aspens in snow and the trunks rising to the heavens. The music that goes with these photos and the stories, evokes the feeling of determined and steady travel. Step. And step again. Find your rhythm. Keep your pace. Who is walking with you even when you walk alone?

I believe that everyone will get the heaven or hell that they perceive they have earned. The triptych of images that make up If There's a Heaven, This is Heaven give you a glimpse into Stu's idea of paradise. There is a dimension of scope that only he remembers, but this is the next best thing to being in Coalmine Canyon Flats.

The views and sounds for West of the Fire diptych were discovered on a journey of a Million Steps. This is what reverence sounds like. This is serenity and a heartfelt desire as Stu puts it to "make my spirit bigger." Look at this image, listen to this tune, and feel quiet satisfaction.

Not all of Stu's images are desert landscapes. There is no story written (yet) about Rimpoche Allison Jones but I'm eager to read it when it gets written. I want to know more about this person behind the smiling, wrinkled face. And I very much want to know what are those rows in the far distance. Irrigation? Trees? I can't tell. But Mr. Jones's friendly face is focused on another horizon. And I'm sure that Stu will tell me when he reads this. I'll pass it along.

I scoured Stu Jenk's web site searching for a photo captioned Death Valley Hoop Dance and couldn't find it. I did, however find this "hoopdance," and it matches the fire dancing around the circle below a slowly dying sunset.

Canelo Lullaby is a cottonwood breeze at the end of the day, a warm cup of tea, and a lover's embrace. Comfort. Contentment. Closure.

Dance Music:

1. Electromagnetic Waves
2. Family Ties [Explicit Lyrics]
3. Family Ties [Explicit Lyrics]
4. Flying High #1 [Import]
5. Forgot About Dre Pt. 2 [Import]
6. G4
7. H II [Import]
8. Hip Hop Assasins [Import]
9. Houston Hard Hitters, Vol. 4 [Clean]
10. L' Esprit du Sound [Import]

Dance Music

dance music

Dance Music

Complete Eighties [Import]

Herman Berlinski: Return & Sinfonia No. 10

Great [Import]

Bossa Nova Soul Samba [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Item [Import]

Greatest Hits

In a Soulful Mood [Import]

George Crumb: A Haunted Landscape / William Schuman: Three Colloquies for Horn & Orchestra - New York Philharmonic / Arthur Weisberg / Zubin Mehta

Generation Y

Free

Hamburg: Port of Call

I Want You [Import]

El Leon [Limited Edition] [Import]

Piano Trios

Live in Stereo at Marion (June 8, 1957)