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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: Archeophone's "Real Ragtime" Second Edition

Real Ragtime: Disc Recordings from Its Heyday Manufacturer: Archeophone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Classic Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Ragtime | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocalists | Compilations | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot The 1890s, Volume 1: Wipe Him Off the Land Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry 1891-1922 The Greatest Ragtime of the Century The 1890s, Volume 2: Wear Yer Bran' New Gown ASIN: B000BKP5K4 Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

1. Florida Rag (Vess L. Ossman)
2. When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo (Arthur Collins)
3. Booster Fox Trot (Victor Military Band)
4. Berkeley March (Cullen and Collins)
5. Hu-la Hu-la Cake Walk (Sousas Band)
6. Dill Pickles Rag (Chris Chapman)
7. Cakewalk (John J. Kimmel)
8. Everybody Rag with Me (American Quartet)
9. Creole Belles (Columbia Orchestra)
10. By the Sycamore Tree Medley (Ossman and Hunter)
11. The International Rag (Collins and Harlan)
12. Silver Heels (Fred Van Eps)
13. Canhanibalmo Rag (Arthur Pryors Band)
14. A Coon Band Contest (Vess L. Ossman)
15. Youre Talking Rag-Time (Arthur Collins)
16. Sugar Plum (Samuel Siegel and Roy Butin)
17. Whipped Cream (Fred Van Eps)
18. Deiro Rag (Guido Deiro)
19. Old Folks Rag (Van Eps Trio)
20. Ragged William (Metropolitan Orchestra)
21. Ragtime Temple Bells (Billy Murray)
22. Russian Rag (Earl Fullers Rector Novelty Orchestra)
23. Hungarian Rag (Pietro Deiro)
24. Wild Cherry Rag (Eddie Morton)
25. The King of Rags (Arthur Pryors Band)
26. The Darkies Awakening (Vess L. Ossman)
27. Cohans Rag Babe (Arthur Collins)
28. Some Baby (Van Eps Banjo Orchestra)
29. Ruff Johnsons Harmony Band (Gene Greene)

Product Description

From the introduction: This CD is the second edition of Archeophone’s very first release, which established our mission of providing detailed, scholarly, and unabashed reissues of the early recording industry’s product in attractive and generous packages. With this newly remastered, freshly annotated edition, we are bringing our first and favorite release to the standards that you expect from the leader in acoustic-era reissues. To some music fans, the title of Real Ragtime sounded like a battle cry of authenticity, but the aim of the collection was and remains a simple one, grounded in the history of record buying a century ago: to show that the ragtime consumers were likely to find on records for more than 20 years was not the kind of ragtime we think of today. They were more likely to find banjos and brass bands playing ragtime than pianos, and their collections of disc recordings almost certainly had numerous examples of watered-down ragtime—the Tin Pan Alley knock-offs that really had no ragtime but called themselves “rags” just for the added marketability such a designation would bring. Ragtime was as much about a musical mood, a general feeling in the air, as it was about what scholars would identify as real ragtime. It was a trope that defined the early recording industry and pervaded the entire culture for a generation. These are the recordings people listened to, whether they were really ragtime or not—and they were thought of, no doubt, as the genuine item.

Customer Reviews:

Archeophone's "Real Ragtime" Second Edition.......2005-10-09

This is the second edition of this CD to be released by Archeophone Records. It contains one additional tune and one substitution. The selections have been remastered, and the sound which was good the first time, has even been improved this time. Some of these recordings are over one hundred years old, and have no right to sound this good! This disc offers a good cross section of the music that was popular between 1898 and 1918. The booklet is done with a real attention to detail, and a lot of information is included along with photographs and first class graphics. This disc, along with the others from this company (I have them all), can stand tall alongside any other reissues by anyone!

Titles I especially enjoy are "Booster Fox Trot" by the Victor Military Band; "Dill Pickles Rag" by Chris Chapman; "The International Rag" by Collins and Harlan; "Cohen's Rag Babe" by Arthur Collins; and "Ragtime Temple Bells" by Billy Murray.

By the way, the substitution mentioned is a different version of "Dill Pickles Rag". The original version by Chris Chapman (1908), is included here, while the version by William H. Reitz (1922), was featured in the first edition of this CD. The additional tune is "Sugar Plum" by Samuel Siegel and Roy Butin.

For those who enjoy original recordings of the first quarter of the twentieth century, this disc is a good place to begin. Archeophone Records is the premier company reissuing this material, and I can recommend their CDs highly. They have released discs featuring Bert Williams, Billy Murray, Art Hickman, and The Benson Orchestra of Chicago; along with over twenty more titles, all of the highest quality sound that modern remastering will allow.

Average customer rating:

National Anthems of the World Manufacturer: Madacy Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kuhlau | Kuhlau, Friedrich | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Smith, John Stafford | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | 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 General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Soundtracks | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00027JZ6G Release Date: 2004-05-25

Tracks:

1. Star Spangled Banner
2. Oh! Canada
3. Marseillaise
4. Inno de Mameli
5. God Save the Queen
6. Patriotic Song
7. Patriotic Song
8. Marcha Real
9. Kimigayo
10. Hatikvoh
11. National Anthem
12. Deutchesland Lied
13. National Anthem
14. Hino Nacional
15. Advance, Australia Fair
16. Diestem Van Suid Afrika
17. Libertad!
18. Himnusz
19. Ja VI Elsker Dette Landet
20. Ukraine Is Still Alive
21. Gloria Al Bravo Pueblo
22. Brabanne
23. Wilhelmus Van Nassouwe
24. Still Alive
25. Land Der Berge
26. Himmo Nacional
27. Imnul de Stat
28. Kde Domov Nuj?
29. Bjorn Bjornson
30. Dear Fatherland
31. Mamme
32. Kong Kristian
33. Independence March

Average customer rating: Very Good album from Bizzy A Step Back In The Right Direction ROCKS Another solid one from B! The kid

The Midwest Cowboy Bizzy Bone Manufacturer: Real Talk Ent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thug Stories The Story The New Revolution Thugs Revenge Cleveland ASIN: B000FVQLFM Release Date: 2006-07-11

Tracks:

1. We Come Right Away
2. Around The World
3. It's The Light
4. Lovey, Dovey
5. The Music
6. Thugs Need Love Too
7. If The Sky Falls
8. Wit A $20 Dolla Bill
9. Lessons Of Life
10. I Must Fess Up
11. All We Can Be
12. Doin' It Wrong
13. Blown Away
14. What Do We Say?
15. Come, Go, See, Know

Customer Reviews:

Very Good album from Bizzy.......2007-05-07

Bizzy comes up with a dope album. I admit I wasn't really feeling his other solo albums, but on this one he comes hard with good lyrics, flow, and content. The production also helps make this album even better. I feel that the one thing Bizzy needs right now are some good producers, and Playalitical does the job here.

Highlights of Midwest Cowboy include "Around The World", "Thugs Need Love Too" "Thugs Need Love Too", "What Do We Say?" and "All We Can Be". But honestly, I love every song on the album.

Bizzy harmonizes well like always, but I'm just disappointed that he mostly sticks to his slower flow; there's not as much of his rapid-fire flow as before. He does it at times, but not as much as some Bone fans like me would like. I'm not complaining though.

Anyways, this is a great album, in my opinion about as good as Heaven's Movie and The Gift. I just hope that Bizzy can stay consistent, and keep working with good producers. Everyone should buy this album.

A Step Back In The Right Direction.......2006-10-01

This is hard for me to say, but this is probably Bizzy's second best cd. The beats (for the most part) bang, and Bizzy sticks to doing what he does best: spit between well-sung choruses. Okay, the Christian overtones have (thankfully) taken a backseat on this cd. Playalitical does a good job providing Bizzy unique and dope backdrops to do his thing. The first song is really dope, but too short. Also, the inclusion of skits (including one that seems to be drug-induced rambling about Jesus) doesn't help the cause of an album that's only 15 tracks deep (including both skits and the short intro/song). "Around the World" has to be the albums high-point as it showcases the best of Bizzy. Playalitical likes to mess with the way Bizzy records his vocals, and I think it's very original and adds a lot to the "evolution" of Bizzy, as sometimes it seems as though he's rapping like it's 1998. The influence of the album's producer is evident all over this album (and that's a GREAT thing). I don't think the direction-less Bizzy found on previous albums could do the great harmonizations as seen on "Thugs Need Love Too" or the amazing chorus from "What Do We Say?". The artistic growth leads to some more good ol' confusing and confounding hypocrisy with tracks like "Lovey Dovey" finding their sonic and moral opposites in songs like "$20 Bill" and "Doin It Wrong". The pleading to Bizzy's ex-wife to see his child on "I Must Fess Up" are deeply personal and a great addition to Bizzy's repetoire of songs. This is a good cd, but it's a tad short and "If the Sky Falls" doesn't tell us anything we haven't heard from Bizzy before. "Blown Away" doesn't match the caliber of weed-smoking anthems Bizzy's capable of. Bust mostly it's the off-kilter electric piano melody throwing me off, as well as the pointless guest appearance. All in all, this is a good album, and I hope Bizzy continues evolving and even working with Playalitical (it seems Bizzy pumps out alright albums every few months, each on a different lable with different producers and artists...prolific, but disappointing).

ROCKS.......2006-08-21

I listened to c couple of tracks in this album and i had to go buy another pair of speakers in COMPUSA because 2 of them blew up at the sametime LMAO!!!. Bone thugs just rocks the music industry... people have their eyes closed. I swear you guys gotta buy this album. I first downloaded to check it out, but ended up buying it in virgin records just like thugs revenege album lol. Very nice F*****g album.

Another solid one from B!.......2006-08-04

This is another breather album. I'm glad and proud to say that Bizzy still continues to do what is from the heart.Listening to B's last few albums has kept my love going for REAL hip hop. Though the production was lacking in his past albums; like most have criticized. I myself am able to look past that and see that this man is making music from the soul. If you listen to his music for what corporate rap has to offer you will be greatly dissapointed. Listen to his heart as he is able to spill it to those whom want to listen.

The kid.......2006-07-15

i like this album. a huge step up in sound production. lyrics are ill as always. the remixes are dope cuz the flow is altered making it a whole lot easier to catch the lyrical content. its strange how with bizzy, i feel as a listener always ready for more. it may be cuz his flow is very current and evolving in the moment along with the world(jihad). i hear his new album is highlighting the koran and the truth of allah. peace another good contribution to the culture of faith music. oh yea...playalitical did a good job here with production and not a bad emcee. usually i'm not feelin the guest performances besides alpha/omega. aiight yo 1

Average customer rating:

The Hardcore Baby Boom Compilation 1 Don Escobar , G-Town Madness , DJ Mad-E-Fact , The Dark Raver , B.S.E. , Black Night , Radical to React , Mister DJ , DJ Isaac & The Viper , and Boombastic Manufacturer: So Real Music Group - Italy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000L9DILI

Product Description

Don Escobar - Heart 2. The Dark Raver - Thundergod 3. B.S.E. - Good Old Days 4. Black Night - Back to the 'O' School 5. Radical to React - Eliminating Suckers 6. Mister DJ - Freakin It 7. DJ Isaac & The Viper - Freak That Sh*t (Bass D & King Matthew Remix) 8. B.S.E. - Virgin 9. Mr DJ vs Boombastic - A Little Louder 10. DJ Mad-E-Fact - The Hustle 11. G-Town Madness - Locked Down4.

Average customer rating: Large collection for the price, but not perfect excellent selection & quality sound

National Anthems of the World: Swarovski Orchestra Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Kuhlau | Kuhlau, Friedrich | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Smith, John Stafford | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | 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 | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Collections of National Anthems, Vol. 1 World Anthems The World of National Anthems The Complete National Anthems of the World National Anthems of the World ASIN: B00029J1XQ Release Date: 2004-07-27

Tracks:

1. Algeria
2. Arab Emirates
3. Argentina
4. Armenia
5. Australia
6. Egypt
7. Barbados
8. Belgium
9. Bolivia
10. Brazil
11. Germany
12. Bulgaria
13. Denmark
14. Ecuador
15. England
16. Estland
17. Europe
18. Finland
19. France
20. Georgia
21. Greece
22. Iraq
23. Iran
24. Ireland
25. Iceland
26. Israel
27. Italy
28. Japan
29. Cameroon
30. Canada
31. Colombia
32. Cuba
33. Latvia
34. Luxembourg

Tracks:

1. Lithuania
2. Malta
3. Morocco
4. Mexico
5. Mozambique
6. Moldova
7. Monaco
8. Mongolia
9. New Zealand
10. The Netherlands
11. Norway
12. Oman
13. Austria
14. Peru
15. The Philippines
16. Poland
17. Portugal
18. Romania
19. Russia
20. San Marino
21. Saudi Arabia
22. Sweden
23. Switzerland
24. Singapore
25. Slovakia
26. Slovenia
27. Spain
28. South Africa
29. Syria
30. Thailand
31. Czech Republic
32. Tunisia
33. Turkey
34. Hungary
35. Uruquay
36. United States
37. Venezuela
38. Vietnam
39. Zimbabwe

Customer Reviews:

Large collection for the price, but not perfect.......2006-07-30

As with these sorts of all-inclusive collections, there are issues to be had with 'National Anthems of the World' as performed by the Swarovski Orchestra. Primary--to me--is that these performances and arrangements come off as being rather sterile and bland, though it's perhaps not surprising since I doubt very much that most of the nationalities of the nations represented here have citizens actually in the Swarovski Orchestra. There's little of the passion that a national band or orchestra would have in playing their own nation's anthem, much like listening to a generic studio band play play a collection of college fight songs (and there ARE CDs of those out for sale as well).

That said, this 2-disc CD set does offer a wide spectrum of national anthems, though it does a far better job of covering European nations more so than any other region. For instance, Central America is poorly represented in this collection as is Africa which, aside from Cameroon, the heart of that continent is conspicuously ill-depicted. But the biggest omission is China; neither the mainland or Taiwanese anthems are included in this set. Considering that The People's Republic of China is the most populous nation on earth, as well as a global political and economic force to be reckoned with, even in 1996 (this CD set dates from 2004, but at least one online database list the contents from the mid-1990s), this is a glaring oversight in my opinion.

The final gripe deals with the included documentation. Each of these anthems DO have titles to them, none of which the producers of this collection ever bother to mention and provide. One has to go to Wikipedia or some other resource to look up the actual name of the anthems included here. This is information that is relatively cheap to research and out of courtesy to the consumer should've been provided for this set, especially since this collection has been around in some form for over a decade already.

For the money, it's a fairly good buy for those who want a collection of national anthems. But the producers could've done a better job of compiling the contents of this collection, and what music there is would've certainly benefitted from a bit more impassioned play.

excellent selection & quality sound.......2005-08-27

Swarovski Orchestra did an excellent job in this compilation. I work in Foreign Service & I use this CD to play US anthem & the host country anthem during events. Unlike other compilations which shorten the pieces, this offers full-length pieces saving me from embarrassment.

Average customer rating:

An Introduction to Schubert's Piano Quintet "Trout" Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Saint-Saëns, Camille | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | 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 | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Spoken Word | Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 ASIN: B000076FX6 Release Date: 2003-01-21

Average customer rating:

The Story Bizzy Bone Manufacturer: Real Talk Ent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thugs Revenge The Midwest Cowboy The Gift Alpha and Omega Thug Stories ASIN: B000E6ESLW Release Date: 2006-03-21

Tracks:

1. Truth
2. All Day, All Night
3. Play It Again
4. When I See
5. So What Cha' Sayin
6. Bizzy's Story
7. It's Only Me
8. They Don't Know
9. Gone
10. Maybe You Can Hold Me
11. Future Thugs-N-Harmony
12. My Vengeance
13. One Time
14. Represent

Average customer rating: An artistic lowpoint Gotta be honest Straight in words. A true Artist He is doing the right thing.

The Story Bizzy Bone Manufacturer: Real Talk Ent ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Thugs Revenge The Midwest Cowboy Thug Brothers Alpha and Omega The Gift ASIN: B000E6ESLM Release Date: 2006-03-21

Tracks:

1. Truth
2. All Day, All Night
3. Play It Again
4. When I See
5. So What Cha' Sayin
6. Bizzy's Story
7. It's Only Me
8. They Don't Know
9. Gone
10. Maybe You Can Hold Me
11. Future Thugs-N-Harmony
12. My Vengeance
13. One Time
14. Represent

Customer Reviews:

An artistic lowpoint.......2006-10-01

When I first popped in Bizzy Bone's 6th solo album I didn't know what to expect. I mean, it had been mere months since his last album dropped, and I really wasn't expecting a new Bizzy disc for quite sometime. Although I was worried about the value of said material, I went ahead and bought the disc on the strength of Bizzy's abilities. The first thing that I noticed on this disc was the inclusion of religious messages on EVERY SINGLE song. This is not only repititive, it's preachy, contradictory, and hypocritical. The only song on here not laced with Christian overtones is "Bizzy's Story", a remake of "We Want Eazy" where Bizzy the Kid goes over his career and personal life over the past few years. I also noticed the lack of real verses, which really bothered me. Bizzy is a very talented singer, and I appreciate his vocal abilities when matched by passionate spitting, but he really underwhelmed me by the lack of lyrics on this cd. Also, "So What Cha Sayin" is really the only up-tempo track on the cd. "Future Thugz-N-Harmony" is terrible. The verses are a straight jack of "All My Life" from Thug's Revenge, and half of the chorus is also ripped off from "Thug'z Prayer" from the same cd. The beats aren't that bad, but they're not very distracting from the constant barrage of religious material and really carry a lot of the tracks from medocrity. Also, is it just me or are "The Truth" and "Represent" the same song? Aren't they really just an intro and an outro? Aren't the same beat? If so, why are two seperate producers credited with the same music? I don't understand. This is Bizzy's most confounding project since Heaven'z Movie, except it has none of the redeeming qualities. The ONLY reason I gave this album three stars is because it's Bizzy bone, the beats are alright, and when Bizzy does get around to spitting it's usually worth listening to. I heard Bizzy converted to Islam (recently, after this album was recorded), I wonder if he'll play ANY of these songs live considering they all reference Jesus Christ as the son of God. I guess this album has another good contributing factor, ironic hilarity.

Gotta be honest.......2006-08-08

I've been a Bone fan for 12 years and Bizzy's first 3 solos are classics in my opinion. However, all of the fears that Speaking In Tongues brought to my mind were confirmed by this release. I still think that Bizzy's a uniquely talented and spiritual man, but he seems to have surrounded himself with wack producers and low expectations. The repetative hooks and sparse verses are particularly disappointing.

Straight in words........2006-07-26

Bizzy solos are great. He writes what in his heart and you will rarely find that in any rapper and he has a good singing voice with the addition to rapping which is a rare thing to find with rappers. I would buy any of his albums. He just keeps it real. Buy it you maybe shock in what you hear from him.

A true Artist.......2006-07-24

I think this album is masterfully put together. Real Talk Entertainment gets my acknowledgement for some nice studio work with Bryon. It is just ironic maybe that messages this deep and spiritual are playing in my life right now. Nice beats and great lyrics from the master song writer.

"There is only One True God"

He is doing the right thing........2006-07-18

This album is not bad at all. He just released 2 albums. 1 straight gansta "thugs Revenge" and this one "The Story" is everything that comes from his heart. He has to realise that the guys who talk crap about him is the devil trying to get into his head. You found god already nothing else should be bothering you. Both albums are very nice. People gotta realise its his life, and he is doing a darn fine job. Who can preach yet be a gangsta at the sametime? Bizzy has that gift.

Average customer rating: Good CD It's real out here - that's real talk A Solid CD Celly Cel=Gangsta Wow this cd has got style

It'z Real Out Here Celly Cel Manufacturer: 33rd Street 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 General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Callin All Shots Slaps, Straps and Baseball Hats Neva Look Back Bandanas, Tattoos & Tounge Rings Heat 4 Yo Azz ASIN: B0007IO69G Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

1. Neva Leave You Again (Intro)
2. Thugged Out
3. Whatugonedo?
4. Jealous
5. Who Iz That?
6. I Told Yall
7. No Tomorrow
8. It'z Real Out Here
9. Scrape Wit Me
10. D-Boyz
11. Seniorita
12. Real Ni**az
13. They Go 2 Wayz
14. When I Ride
15. I Want You
16. Not Tha Average
17. Keep it Real

Customer Reviews:

Good CD.......2005-12-02

celly cell came pretty tight on this album. I only gave it four stars because it is'nt as good as the G files or Heat 4 yo azz. But his new one did a good job of coming with some new sounds on some tracks, and the same gansta old school style on some other tracks. If you like celly cell definately buy this cd, it's worth it. check out tracks 4,5,10,14,and 16.

It's real out here - that's real talk.......2005-06-27

I'm a huge Celly Cel fan, so I was really glad when after a long wait (almost 5 years) Celly Cel dropped his 5th solo album. I've got to admit I am a little bit dissapointed, cause all of his albums till now are classics to me, and the main reason is that I felt that the production on this one wasn't as consistant as on previous albums. Some of the beats are really good, but some just fail to impress. In terms of lyrics, Cel has always been humble, never got into that ghetto fabulous sh**. He makes music from the streets, for the streets. His flow and voice sound tight as always. Guest on the album include E-40 (who's on the best song on the album), Juvenile, WC (on a song that it's actually just a remix of a song they did on his last album "Deep Conversation"), his crew the Hillside Stranglaz (they don't impress that much) and a few others. On this album Cel shows a lot of maturity, he talks about his life, his career, to go along with the usual gangsta topics (which Celly Cel is pretty good at). It's less hard-core than his previous ones. Overall, I thought the album turned out nice, but some of the beats are lacking or didn't suit Celly Cel's style. He deserves to work with some hotter beatmakers than the one he could afford here. I think the title of the album suits it's content perfectly, and as a loyal Celly Cel fan (ever since he was on Sick Wid It) I enjoyed hearing from his once again...

A Solid CD.......2005-03-27

I had to special order this CD, but it was worth the wait. If you are not into west coast rap, you probably wont like it. If you are into the South stuff, he's got a little something on there for you. He has some bangin' songs like tracks 9&10. The others are also very good too. He is still an innovator in the game, and has that certain flavor to him that makes him hot. This is also the deepest i've ever heard Celly's lyrics, with his final track talking about the death of his father. This is a good CD, i'd recommend that you pick it up.

Celly Cel=Gangsta.......2005-03-08

This cd is off the hook. Celly Cel is an OG and he straight drops it this album. It reminds me of myself back in the day, any true gangsta should pick this up, or any music fan for that matter.

Wow this cd has got style.......2005-03-04

Celly Cel back again in 2005 with nice album. This tru West Coast Music which have got synthesizer bass sound and a lot of great gangsta rhymes, thise man is OG and he from Bay Area this is gangsta getto where black people shut each other and they are exploitation from white goverment in the USA.( Bloods & Crips and the other gangs wchich are situated in all Cali)But Celly Cel don't give up and try to make a good cd. The effect is great. Becouse he is from Sicc Wic Record and cooperate with great mc like Spice1 E-40 B-Legit C-bo, and great producers like Mike Moesly and Studio Ton. Effetc is great. If you are west coast fan oh no If you like good music with a lot of bass sound and gangsta lyrics this album is for you. This is good alternative to MTv

Dance Music:

1. Real Slim Shady [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]
2. Romeo Must Die [Explicit Lyrics] [Soundtrack]
3. Run Come
4. San Quinn Presents: Fully Loaded: Millennium Attitude
5. Screwing Around, Vol. 2 [Explicit Lyrics]
6. Sex Money Murder Mayhem [Explicit Lyrics]
7. Space Age Gangsta [Explicit Lyrics]
8. Straight from Nowhere
9. Straight from the South
10. Survival of the Fittest [Explicit Lyrics]

Dance Music

dance music

Dance Music

Plagiarhythm Nation, Vol. 2.0

Orff - Carmina Burana / Jo, Kowalski, Skovhus, London Phil., Mehta

Sea Breeze [Import]

Kiss & Tell

John Farnham - Anthology V.2 (Greatest Hits 1967-1986) [Import]

Rock N Roll Roots: the Blues Influence [Import]

Somewhere Down The Road

Silenced Voices

Swell

Pure Swing: Jivin' Jams

Reunión Cumbre (Summit)

State of Mind [Import]

Recuerdos y Algo Más

These Things Too

The Complete Village Vanguard Sessions