Twelve String

Product Description
Melodic instrumentals featuring a 12 string guitar

Twelve String,John Bacon,Indie,Moving, melodic instrumentals featuring a 12 string guitar.

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Average customer rating: music so good you'll cry This is one for everybody should be accepted by any rational person as strong evidence for God's existence. Fill in your blank slate with some innovative music... Modern classical music that is beautiful

Tabula Rasa Dennis Russell Davies , Keith Jarrett , Gidon Kremer , Stuttgart State Orchestra , Tatiana Grindenko , Alfred Schnittke , and Twelve Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Part | Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concertinos | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Instrumental | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Alina - Arvo Part Lamentate Arvo Pärt Sanctuary Arvo Part: Te Deum / Kaljuste, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs" ASIN: B0000262K7 Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

1. Fratres
2. Cantus In Memory Of Benjamin Britten
3. Fratres
4. Tabula Rasa

Amazon.com essential recording

This seminal disc now almost seems like the manifesto for a whole new strain of minimalism that has found an enormously receptive audience. It represented a breakthrough for Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, whose music--like that of his European colleagues John Tavener and Henryk Górecki--pursues an austerely beautiful simplicity that suggests spiritual illumination. Fratres, given here in two versions, one for piano and violin and the other for 12 cellos, repeatedly intones a sequence resembling chant to convey a sensibility that seems at once archaic and beyond time. Violinist Gidon Kremer, for whom Pärt wrote the exquisitely contemplative and hypnotic title work, grasps the music's koan-like idiom, allowing an inner fullness to resonate through the most fragile, ethereal wisps of tone against the mysterious clangings of prepared piano. The tolling of the tubular bells in Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten is an emotionally charged lament, based on a simple minor descending scale, that introduces Pärt's fascination with what he calls "tintinnabulation": the literal and metaphorical sound of ringing bells. This recording is also famous for the acoustically warm presence produced by ECM's Manfred Eicher, which magnificently captures the mystical simplicity of Pärt's sound world. --Thomas May

Customer Reviews:

music so good you'll cry.......2007-04-21

I first heard one of the songs playing in a Starbucks and had to ask them what it was... I couldn't hear it very well, but I knew I needed to hear more. After I got home and listened to the previews on Amazon, I was hooked.

There is so much depth and sweetness to this music. It has literally brought me to tears. If you're looking for an album of chamber music that truely goes beyond the normal lulling sound and into the realm of true artistic expression, this is one to own. It is one of the prizes of my collection.

This is one for everybody.......2006-08-30

I'm not completely dug on classical and contemporanean music, ECM stuff included. Lygeti, Xenakis they make me sense, all along american minimalists like Reich or Cage. Electro-acustic is more ear-friendly for me (Ferrari, Parmegiani) but... All this speech just to say that thsi is one ECM record I own - the 1977's Tabula Rasa. The great Gidon Kramer (check out "Silence" from Nonesuch who has another version of tabula rasa) is here with all his magic, even the world-piano-star K. Jarrett plays piano, and everything makes sense. The music is so cold and complex, ethernal yet listenable for the common of mortals. Give a try, i did and i'm inloved with.

should be accepted by any rational person as strong evidence for God's existence........2006-06-20

arguably, it was THIS music by THIS composer that Manfred Eicher's label, ECM, was meant for. If an album was released on ECM, no doubt it sounds lovely, but when purpose is paired so perfectly with sound, even ECM attains something angelic and beyond. Arvo Part's non-modulating approach to harmony, great care and attention with so few notes, and the reverent spirit that carries through his efforts encompasses a catalogue of works so great and beautiful I'm not sure any 20th century composer can remotely compare.

This ECM disc is possibly the best of all. _Tabula Rasa_, first and foremost, is a masterpiece. A violin concerto of sorts, it flows through static haze and torrid whorls, with ghostly sounds of strings punctuated by the bell- and chime-like intonations on sounds of prepared piano. Divine and without momentum, this piece forever hovers between being and nothing. _Fratres_, performed in two versions here (for violin and piano, and for 12 cellos), features a chorale-like figure recurring over an ethereal drone. Radiant and simple, not a sound is out of place. the _Cantus_ is based on rich chords arranged in a variety of rhythmic patterns, so beautiful one kind of wishes it would last longer.

this is an excellent introduction to one of the best composers of the 20th century. i would really encourage you to hear this.

Fill in your blank slate with some innovative music..........2006-01-03

This CD started it all. In 1984 it introduced the then little known Arvo Pärt to a new western audience. Pärt had long before made his "tinntinnabulation" discovery (around 1976). Before this pivotal epiphany, the majority of Pärt's work fell into the serialist category. His early work shows all of the grinding atonal experimentation of the 1950s. It thus lies in stark contrast to his later work as presented on this CD (he shares this same evolutionary path with the Polish composer Górecki).

"Tabula Rasa" introduced a new music and a new style to the west. This music doesn't follow traditional harmonic or melodic forms. Listening to Pärt differs from listening to Sibelius or Stravinski. In Pärt, environment and setting are everything. The melodies and harmonies function to set a mood rather than to follow a path or a harmonic progression leading to an ultimate resolution. Subsequently, one experiences rather than listens to Pärt's work. The notes merely provide the structure. In this way Pärt's pieces represent frameworks for music (which probably explains, as related in the CD booklet, why the members of one orchestra asked "where is the music" upon seeing the score for "Tabula Rasa"). So Pärt not only presents beautiful and moving music but also helps listeners conceive of it in new ways.

The tracks on this CD provide the perfect showcase for Pärt's work. Beginners should start here. Two versions of the meditative "Fratres" appear, but each utilize such different arrangements that they sound like two separate works. "Cantus" remains one of Pärt's most moving compositions. It sounds like a slowly exploding wall of catharsis. The nearly half hour "Tabula Rasa" features incredible violin work and prepared piano (a la Cage). Overall, the mood of each piece on this CD veers strongly toward the meditative, mystical, and ethereal. As such it serves as a great introduction to the "late" Pärt and as a showcase of incredible musicianship.

Pärt remains more of a phenomenon on CD than in the concert hall. The lush rich sound of this CD, which will have your cochleas swimming, provides some evidence as to why. Not only that, the amount of quietude and silence utilized by Pärt must create difficulties for orchestra hall performance. Pärt's music, intimate and close, probably plays best in seclusion or in small venues. For the maximum experience, put on some headphones and listen to this CD. In this way listeners can experience all the subtle harmonics and nuances that make up the music of Arvo Pärt.

Modern classical music that is beautiful.......2005-10-23

Too many modern classical composers have sacrificed beauty for virtuosity and expermintality. Not so Part. This Baltic composer writes melodic music of outstanding lyricism and profound beauty. He has succesfully managed to write in the classical format while not sounding like a repetition of the great artists of yore. The music is melancolic, but not tragic, pensive but not unpenetratable. I had the great honour to listen to a live perfomance of works by Part by the Hilliard Ensamble at the Royal Festival Hall in London, UK. It was one of the few times I know of that the audience gave a standing ovation, and just did not want to stop. Mr Part was present and he almost started crying.
Part has contributed music to films as diverse as Les Amants du Pont-Neuf and Fahrenheit 9/11.

Average customer rating: Robert Craft & Stravinsky: 3 Ballets on Themes of Greek Mythology A Return to the Greeks a la Stravinsky Absolute Caftsmanship Very good rendition Fine Performances of Three Fine Stravinsky Ballets

Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets (Apollo, Agon, Orpheus) Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Instrumental | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Stravinsky: Pulcinella; The Fairy's Kiss Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex; Les Noces Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Symphony in 3 Movements Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne ASIN: B0008JEKCW Release Date: 2005-05-17

Tracks:

1. Prologue: The Birth Of Apollo - London Symphony Orchestra
2. Apollo's Variation - London Symphony Orchestra
3. Pas D'Action: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra
4. Variation Of Calliope - London Symphony Orchestra
5. Variation Of Polymnia - London Symphony Orchestra
6. Variation Of Terpsichore - London Symphony Orchestra
7. Variation Of Apollo - London Symphony Orchestra
8. Pas De Deux: Apollo And Terpsichore - London Symphony Orchestra
9. Coda: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra
10. Apotheosis: Apollo And the Muses - London Symphony Orchestra
11. Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
12. Double Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
13. Triple Pas De Quarte - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
14. Prelude - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
15. First Pas De Trois: Saraband-Step - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
16. Gaillarde - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
17. Coda - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
18. Interlude - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
19. Second Pas De Trois: Bransle Simple - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
20. Bransle Gay - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
21. Bransle Double (Bransle De Poitou) - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
22. Interlude - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
23. Pas De Deux/Piu Mosso/L'Istesso Tempo/Refrain - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
24. Coda/Doppio Lento/Quasi Stretto/Coda - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
25. Four Duos - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
26. Four Trios - Orchestra Of St. Luke's
27. Lento Sostenuto - London Symphony Orchestra
28. Air De Danse - London Symphony Orchestra
29. Dance Of the Angel Of Death - London Symphony Orchestra
30. Interlude - London Symphony Orchestra
31. Dance Of The Furies - London Symphony Orchestra
32. Air De Danse - London Symphony Orchestra
33. Interlude - London Symphony Orchestra
34. Air De Danse - London Symphony Orchestra
35. Pas D'Action - London Symphony Orchestra
36. Pas De Deux - London Symphony Orchestra
37. Interlude - London Symphony Orchestra
38. Pas D'Action - London Symphony Orchestra
39. Apotheosis - London Symphony Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Robert Craft & Stravinsky: 3 Ballets on Themes of Greek Mythology.......2006-12-20

Naxos is doing us all a most welcome favor by re-releasing the Robert Craft performances of Stravinsky (and some Webern, and some Schoenberg) that earlier passed through on labels like MusicMaster and Koch Classics.

On this disc we get three of the later ballets that the composer did, based on Greek themes in mythology.

The earliest of these works is the ballet, Apollo. Or Apollon musagete. (1928) Craft seems to have had a complex relationship to the master, part family, part soul-mated colleague, and maybe part worshipper of the muses. He leads a deft and balanced reading of Apollo with the LSO. Do not let yourself be misled by the mainly diatonic, or major-key based, nature of this neo-classically fresh music. It is euphonius, and transcends its analytical means.

After visiting for a day with the composer, the Russian impresario Diaghilev wrote to a friend, "...it is, of course, an amazing work, extraordinarily calm and with greater clarity than anything he has done: filigree counterpoint around transparent, clear-cut themes, all in a major key, music not of this world, but from somewhere above ..."

Diaghilev got it, then, and so do Robert Craft and the players.

Second comes the latest of these 3 ballets, Agon. (1957) By this time the master was going serial, or twelve-tone, in his very own special way. He finished Agon close to his 75th birthday, and there is little or nothing quite like it in most of the published twelve-tone literature. Somehow, Stravinsky finds the intense economies that we associate with Webern while staying true to himself. There is no published scenario to Agon, as if the music were its own reason for being a ballet. The Orchestra of St. Luke's is smaller than the LSO, but no less musically gifted. Yet again, Robert Craft's leadership is astute, and he seems to have an ear no less incisive than Pierre Boulez when it comes to pitch, texture, and rhythm. What he offers that Pierre Boulez sometimes does not, at least as recorded, is a certain warmth and involvement, a certain sensory richness and physicality.

The last ballet on this disc is the one written in between Apollo and Agon: Orpheus (1946). The choice of subject originated with Georges Balanchine who was much taken with the Orpheus myth, but ballet stage designer Isamu Noguchi also deserves credit for bringing the work to life as dance, as scene, and as total art work. Stravinsky's genius was supported and nourished by the other two, and so we get a sort of return of the younger composer, all that much wiser for being able to embrace sensuality again after having survived two world wars and ending up settled amid the posturing glitz of Hollywood and southern California. Craft leads the LSO in another fine reading.

Apollo and Orpheus were caught in Abbey Road, U.K., and Agon in an auditorium at SUNY, Purchase. The sound matches the clarity, brilliance, and sensual heft of these three performances. Never flashy. No kitsch. But generous and scintillating, nonetheless.

Check out the whole Robert Craft series of recorded Stravinsky. This disc is just one among a string of finely matched pearls, waiting for the black velvet of your listening room's expectant quiet.

A Return to the Greeks a la Stravinsky.......2006-06-24

This marvelous CD presents three Stravinsky ballets that deal with Greek mythology and span Stravinsky's output from 1927 through 1957 allowing us to hear the manner in which Stravinsky continued to grow with the musical changes of the times (if not invent them!). The conductor is Robert Craft, Stravinsky's longtime colleague and promoter and in these recordings, each made originally on separate sessions, he conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Lukes, both ensembles having an affinity for these works.

'Apollon musagete, ballet in 2 scenes for string orchestra' (1927) is probably the finest of his neoclassical period works for orchestra alone. It can be steely cool in other's hands, but here Craft draws an achingly beautiful sound from the London Symphony. It is meditative, serenely poignant and ethereal.
'Agon, ballet for twelve dancers & orchestra' (1957) is one of Stravinsky's twelve tone works that manages to go beyond the usual constrictions of that form to become an unusually melodic work. Craft and the Orchestra of St. Lukes offer a performance that gives all of the sixteen variations individual importance.

'Orpheus, ballet in 3 scenes for orchestra' (1947) concludes the recital with the admixture of both Stravinsky's neoclassicism with his early penchant for seething romantic melody lines. This is the work of the three that will find widest audience appeal for those not yet captivated with the Stravinsky 'cerebral works' and it makes a fine way to complete this exploration into Greek themes so cleverly programmed by the reconstructors of this first class CD. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, June 06

Absolute Caftsmanship.......2005-07-17

Robert Craft was one of Stravinkij's best friends and worked closely with him in several circumstaces over the course of the years until the composer died. Craft was almost like a borther for Stravinsky (he lived with the russian composer's family both in California and later in New York City, and shared with him many ideas and projects which eventually culminated in a artistic relationship. Crafts wrote the libretto for The Flood and became the major biogarpher and Stravinskij's scholar publishing several numbers of books and essays on Starvinsky's ouvres and asethetic.

In this recording Craft is actually the best interpreterof Starvinsky's ballet music. Before I listened to this extraordinary Naxos CD, I thought tha Ansermet went farther than anybody else did --even more than Stravinskij himself. Craft made me change my mind: when you listen to his intepretation of this music, you have the feeling that he is talking to his longstanding friend Igor while conducting his music.

This recording will mark a milestone in revealing the beauty of Stravibnskij's music. Buy it, you won't regret it!

Very good rendition.......2005-07-01

I am so glad to find all three of these ballets on one CD.

The performance is beautiful. I could find nothing wrong with the interpretation, and I can assure you I am quite picky.

Anyway, I highly recommend this CD.

Fine Performances of Three Fine Stravinsky Ballets.......2005-06-10

Whoever had the idea of putting these performances of three of Stravinsky's ballets based on classical Greek themes on the same CD should get a medal. They are plucked and combined from several Koch Classics releases of a few years ago. Naxos seems to be reissuing all of Robert Craft's Stravinsky performances from the Koch label, and that's good. Craft, who has an unwarranted reputation as a dry-as-dust conductor, actually puts quite a bit of juice in these lovely scores. Similar as they may be in thrust, these three scores are really quite different from each other. 'Apollo' (1927-28) is for strings alone and is quintessential neoclassicism. 'Orpheus' (1947), for full orchestra, mixes neoclassicism with old-fashioned lyrical romanticism; indeed it is Stravinsky's first work since 'Firebird' to use the marking 'espressivo.' 'Apollo' and 'Orpheus' are narrative ballets but 'Agon' (1957) is plotless. It is very nearly atonal and varies the orchestration for nearly all the sixteen variations; the full orchestra is never used for any of them. Yet, within a few notes anyone familiar with Stravinsky's sound will immediately identify the composer of any of these works. It's always seemed amazing to me that a twelve-tone work by Stravinsky still sounds like him.

In 'Apollo' (or 'Apollon musagète' as it is called in French) all violence and abrasiveness (as one might expect from the composer of 'The Rite of Spring') are eschewed. Rather the work coolly and lyrically limns the birth and life of Apollo in music that is like some 18th-century court ballet filtered through 19th-century French ballet composers like Adam and Delibes. Delicious. And deliciously performed here by the London Symphony under Craft.

'Orpheus' was commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein for George Balanchine who had suggested the subject. It was originally intended to be coupled with 'Apollo' in performance but in fact that did not happen at its première. Although narrative, it is intensely hieratic and uses neobaroque gestures including canon, other kinds of counterpoint, restless bass lines, ostinati and the like. It is more austere than 'Apollo' but lyrical nonetheless. It, too, is given a lovely, flexible, suave performance by the LSO.

'Agon' (Greek for 'contest') is essentially a dance contest before the gods. Not really quite atonal, but making use of a 12-tone row, it combines Renaissance dances (including a galliard in C major with a canon featuring harp and mandolin), coupled with what Stephen Walsh in Grove's calls 'high-speed stream-of-consciousness chromaticism.' Its première was conducted by Robert Craft, and here, conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke's, he leads a fast-moving performance that occasionally gets a little out of breath, but is energetic and energizing for all that.

There have been other recordings of these works, including those conducted by Stravinsky himself, but these are satisfying and in modern sound.

Recommended.

TT=77:45

Scott Morrison

Average customer rating: Only half the songs of the original set!! Its all Christmas A Good Basic Collection cd reviews Poor Quality

The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas Manufacturer: Time Life Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Herbert | Herbert, Victor | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Holiday Music | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Classic | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Time-Life Music: Treasury of Christmas - Holiday Memories Ultimate Christmas A Christmas Festival Now That's What I Call Christmas! Now That's What I Call Christmas! The Signature Collection ASIN: B00005NOZH Release Date: 2001-09-11

Tracks:

1. Home For The Holidays - Perry Como
2. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
3. Jingle Bells - Ella Fitzgerald
4. Do You Hear What I Hear? - Andy Williams
5. Carol Of The Bells/Deck The Halls - The Robert Shaw Chorale
6. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day - Harry Belafonte
7. Blue Christmas - Elvis Presley
8. My Favorite Things - Eddie Fisher
9. Joy To The World - Julie Andrews
10. Here We Come A-Caroling - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
11. March Of The Toys - The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
12. O Holy Night - Luciano Pavarotti

Tracks:

1. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry
2. It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams
3. The Twelve Days Of Christmas - Roger Whittaker
4. Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy - The Boston Pops Orchestra
5. Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte
6. I'll Be Home For Christmas - Elvis Presley
7. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee
8. Sleigh Ride - Johnny Mathis
9. Tennessee Christmas - Alabama
10. Baby's First Christmas - Connie Francis
11. The Little Drummer Boy - Harry Simeone Chorale
12. Auld Lang Syne - Guy Lombardo

Customer Reviews:

Only half the songs of the original set!!.......2007-01-17

Although I love the CDs, I was disappointed that there were only about half of the songs I thought there would be. I bought the original double cassette set back in the early 90's and when I found the CDs with the same name and cover, I thought I was getting the same thing only on CD. But the Cassettes had twice as many songs, including Let it Snow,Have Yourself a merry Little Christmas,The First Noel, Jingle Bells by Jim Reeves, The Christmas song by the Carpenters and so many others!!

Its all Christmas.......2007-01-09

It reminded me of Christmas as a child. I played this all throughout the holidays.

A Good Basic Collection.......2006-02-11

This is a good, basic collection of Christmas Music. As a general rule, Time-Life has selected what is probably the definative artist/arangement of each song.

My only complaints are that there are only 24 songs on two disks and one or two of them are not ones that I would have picked (not my style).

Overall, it's a good set that I would recommend to anyone who wants to start a collection.

cd reviews.......2006-01-15

this cd was very good, much recommended

Poor Quality.......2005-12-05

The only good thing about this collection is the inclusion of so many Christmas standards. I was very disappointed in the quality of the recordings, they obviously need digital inhancement.

Average customer rating: Little Known Masterpiece Genius at Work The Greatest of Blind Willie Listen to the roots of rock Great stuff

Atlanta Twelve String Blind Willie McTell Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Delta Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Traditional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music East Coast Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pig 'n Whistle Red Last Session The Classic Years 1927-1940 Avalon Blues : Complete 1928 Okeh Recordings The Complete Blind Willie Johnson ASIN: B000002ITB Release Date: 1992-02-25

Tracks:

1. Kill It Kid
2. The Razor Ball
3. Little Delia
4. Broke Down Engine Blues
5. Dying Crapshooter's Blues
6. Pinietope's Boogie Woogie
7. Blues Around Midnight
8. Last Dime Blues
9. On The Cooling Board
10. Motherless Children Have A Hard Time
11. I Got To Cross The River Jordan
12. You Got To Die
13. Aint't It Grand To Live A Christian
14. Pearly Gates
15. Soon This Morning

Amazon.com

Atlantic's short-lived Blues Originals series brought forth some real gems: not just Professor Longhair's New Orleans Piano, but this 1949 session by singer-guitarist McTell. What Bob Dylan heard in McTell, the title subject of one of his most fabled songs, is both easy and hard to catch, but there's something eerie in the almost cheerful delivery of songs such as "Dying Crapshooter's Blues." A grand album that forms yet another facet of the label's gemlike catalog. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Little Known Masterpiece.......2006-12-16

I was looking over the blues albums in a music store one day in hopes of finding a good one that I might not have (I have more blues cds than most of the stores, and that is not an exaggeration... and I mean real blues cds, not white celebrity-filled jam fests). When I came across this one, a Mctell that i did not own, I was excited. As excited as I was though, I was not expecting it to be as unbelievable as I discovered it to be. This may well be the man's greatest recording. His voice and playing had matured and taken on an chilling quality. Every song is excellent and distinctive...Mctell is truly unique. The twelve string playing is breath taking and the vocals full of power. Like I said, every track is great, but if I had to mention at least one highlight, his version of Blind Willie Johnson's "Motherless Children..." is haunting. This "album" gave me chills, seriously.

Genius at Work .......2006-05-09

One could assume that Blind Willie Mctell had to have all the markings of a blues artist from the 20's who recorded on 78's, recorded under "psuedo names" for different label, was poor, uneducated, lonley, depressed, a faliure, and to top it of was blind. Well truth is, his recordings, as most race records, diden't sell well and he was blind. But he was educated and real and write music in braile. He was supposidly very confident with the real world despite being negro and blind. I wonder how he would have felt if he knew actually how good he was, maybe he did, I don't know. But only three records exsist of Mctell with decent sound quality (Atlanta 12 String, Pig Whistle, Last Session). Its to bad he diden't record more because he lived to 59. Either way his records from the 20's and 30's were actually recorded quite well. One listen through this and you realize that Blind Willie is one of the most influental bluesman ever. He influenced Robert Johnson, who in turn influenced every rock muscian for years. Bob Dylan, who wrote a famous song about Mctell, copied Mctell nearly as much as Woody Gunthrie on "The Freewhilin Bob Dylan". Allman Brothers covered "Statesboro Blues". Jack White from the White Stripes at times sounds just like him, in fact, Jack White can't even get close to Mctell, but does try (they have covered his songs). These are only a few examples, but rather than listen to the decendents, listen to the real thing. He was a great singer, and guitar player, not to mention his diversity of styles. Of any of the old blues genius's have a fault, it is that some of them have little diversity. Not Mctell, here you have happy dancy tunes, dirge's, gospel, blues, ect...

The Greatest of Blind Willie.......2005-04-11

I bought this originally for the gospel cuts, which I fell in love with, but soon I started to listen to the blues closer, and everything has given me inspiration at the church house.

Listen to the roots of rock.......2004-02-23

I started llike everyone...Led Zep, Clapton, Rolling Stones,etc. Then i started to get complicated with jazz and prog rock. 20 years passed. When i got to free jazz and avant garde music i felt like i had reached a peak in musical investigation. Now i have come full circle to the beginning...and what a joy it is! Charlie Patton, Skip james, Muddy Waters, Blind Jefferson, Beefheart, Howilin Wolf, Robert Johnson, John Hurt, Leroy Carr, Son House and others are all worth checking out. But Blind Willie Mctell can really hit the soft spot in your soul if you are a real music lover. This and his early stuff are guranteed to send shivers up your spine. Music that seems simple in appearance...but, if you are willing to open up, you will be amazed at the richness of emotions this music can transmit. And this is a joy specially because of the good sound and choice of songs. Highly recommended to all those who love music and blues influenced music.

Great stuff.......2002-08-16

Fans of his music and the music of this period will enjoy a more mature Blind Willie.

Average customer rating: Depth Music Dissapointing performance Four Gut Strings, Unaccompanied scraping the surface A Catalog of Riches

Telemann: Twelve Fantasias for Violin Solo; Gulliver Suite for Two Violins Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Telemann, Georg Philipp | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Telemann, Georg Philipp | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Manze, Andrew | ( M ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pandolfi: Complete Violin Sonatas Biber: Violin Sonatas Tartini: The Devil's Sonata / Andrew Manze Violin Sonatas Op 5 Handel - Complete Violin Sonatas / Manze, Egarr ASIN: B0000007EP Release Date: 1996-02-09

Tracks:

1. Fantasia 1 in B flat
2. Fantasia 2 in G
3. Fantasia 3 in F-minor
4. Fantasia 4 in D
5. Fantasia 5 in A
6. Fantasia 6 in E minor
7. Fantasia 7 in E-flat
8. Fantasia 8 in E
9. Fantasia 9 in B minor
10. Fantasia 10 in D
11. Fantasia 11 in F
12. Fantasia 12 in A minor
13. Gulliver Suite : I Intrada
14. Gulliver Suite : II Chaconne of the Lilliputians
15. Gulliver Suite : III Gigue of the Brobdingngians
16. Gulliver Suite : IV Daydreams of the Laputians and their attendant flappers
17. Gulliver Suite : V Loure of the well-mannered Houyhnhnms & Wild dance of the untamed Yahoos

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Telemann's musical imagination and inventiveness are astonishing. He is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most prolific composer in history (over 7,000 pieces!). Yet even when he turned pieces out by the dozen, as he did here, each one had its own character and individual ideas. Andrew Manze plays each one stylishly, although I would no more recommend listening to all of them together than I would advise hearing all of Bach's music for solo violin. Try a few at a time. The little Gulliver Suite, which brings the timing up to 78 minutes, is a charmer. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Depth Music.......2007-07-23

If you ever listenned telemann's tafelmusik, I believe you would know what I mean. In past experenice, telemann was often argued lack of depth, and was famous of easygoing music, at least comparied with Bach. However, telemann fantasias had changed my image, it is a depth music, especial after that heard other his music. I don't think its value is lower than Bach uncompanied solo violin music.
Of course maybe it's Manze's technique give me this feeling, but finally, I could say I must reknow telemann and it's Manze's contribution. I recommand it to all.

Dissapointing performance.......2007-03-29

This smart and beautiful music for solo violin deserves a better performance. I don't like the weak projection and the
very tiny sound of Manze. Occasionaly there are too wide volume differences between the tracks. Clearly Manze has admirers. I am not one of them.

Four Gut Strings, Unaccompanied.......2006-07-11

These fantasias for unaccompanied violin by Telemann are solidly in the tradition of German polyphonic/chordal solo string music (for example, the Bach violin Sonatas and Partitas). Often in such music one's interest is held by the sheer textural legerdemain of composer and performer - the marvel of one ostensibly monophonic instrument creating the illusion of multiple voices. There is a whole baroque cosmos contained in these little pieces, a grand tour of baroque affects and styles from learned to GALANT: graceful sicilianas alternate with austere SONATA DA CHIESA-like movements, and quasi-fugal pieces are followed fast on the heels by gauche country-fiddle dances. Andrew Manze, the baroque violin superstar of our time, finds miles of expressiveness and wit in what seems on the page to be plain and conventional baroque rhetoric. His playing is sparkling and nimble. His astounding technique is married to a beautiful CANTABILE tone, a bold sense of fantasy and humor, and a sure feeling for the structure, timing, and placement of the tiny movements that make up the fantasias. This is an extravaganza not to be missed by any fans of baroque violin playing.

scraping the surface.......2005-12-22

Andrew Manze's playing, hailed by petty music critics all over the world as witty and brilliant, blah blah blah, certainly falls flat here. Yes, he's got chops, and he's made it his admirable quest to record everything under the sun, but these beatiful and fun (yes, fun!) Fantasias are rich with rhetorical sentiment, and Manze breezes mechanically and monotonously. If you're a Manze fan already, of course you're going to love this CD. You'll also love it if you have no idea what "rhetorical sentiment" is. However, if you know anything about early music or prefer other things to eat besides vanilla pudding, you may not want to waste your money. I wish one day we could live in a world where recording companies record good music, not just flashy names.

A Catalog of Riches.......2001-11-07

Telemann's 12 Fantasias for solo violin (1735) are intriguingly elusive. Their brief movements offer a whirlwind tour of European manners and styles. The player's resources are laid bare -- no overarching formal design (this isn't Bach), and few openings for virtuosic display.

Andrew Manze is a star of the period-instrument set. Lightning reflexes (and wits) and improvisatory flair are his strengths -- precisely what this music demands. His playing is a catalog of riches. Compare two concluding allegros -- No. 4, with its bustling near-orchestral accompaniment sharply set against the melody, and No. 11, all fantastic lightness. Or the Italianate curves of No. 6's graceful Siciliana. Caroline Balding seconds Manze impeccably in the encore, a playful suite inspired by "Gulliver's Travels."

The sound is typical of Harmonia Mundi's best -- a close, unimpeded perspective, as mellow as it is brilliant.

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Incredible Christmas Album Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rutter | Rutter, John | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | 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 General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Christmas Classics Romantic Christmas Traditional Christmas Classics A Family Christmas Ultimate Classical Christmas Album of All Time ASIN: B0000D1FKB Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

1. What Child Is This? - Vanessa Williams
2. Winter Wonderland - Ella Fitzgerald
3. White Christmas - Bing Crosby
4. The Christmas Song - Mel Torme
5. Silver And Gold - Burl Ives
6. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Perry Como
7. Silver Bells - The Ames Brothers
8. Mary's Boy Child - Harry Belafonte
9. The White Snows Of Christmas - The Kingston Trio
10. Koppangen - Anne Sophie Von Otter
11. Mary Did You Know - Hayley Westenra
12. We Three Kings Of Orient Are - Anadian Brass
13. The Homecoming - John Tesh
14. Shepherd's Pipe Carol Choir - Shoir Of St John's College
15. Carol Of The Drum - John Williams
16. Once In Royal David - Academy Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
17. Les Anges Dans Nos Campagne - Gheorghe Zamfir
18. Carol Of The Bells - Musica Sacra
19. I Saw Three Ships - Mantovani & His Orchestra
20. Sleigh Ride - Arthur Fiedler
21. The Christmas Waltz - THE LIVING STRINGS
22. Christmas Bells - Mantovani & His Orchestra
23. Patapan - London Symphony Orchestra
24. We Wish You A Merry Christmas - The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
25. Jingle Bell Rock - Bond

Tracks:

1. Adeste Fidelis (O Come All Ye Faithful) - Academy Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
2. O Holy Night - Luciano Pavarotti
3. O Tannebaum - Vienna Boys' Choir
4. Ave Maria - Luciano Pavarotti
5. Joy To The World - Joan Sutherland
6. Ding Dong! Merrily On High - John Rutter
7. Do You Hear What I Hear? - Anthony Way
8. O Little Town Of Bethlehem - The Choir Of King's College
9. Coventry Carol - London Symphony Orchestra
10. Away In The Manger - The Choir Of King's College
11. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Leontyne Price
12. Hark! The Hearld Angels Sing - Academy Of St Martin-In-The-Fields
13. Deck The Halls - London Symphony
14. Gesu Bambino - Luciano Pavarotti
15. The First Nowell - The Choir Of King's College
16. Still, Still, Still - Vienna Boys' Choir
17. King Jesus Hath A Garden - John Rutter
18. Child In The Manger - John Rutter
19. The Holly And The Ivy - The Choir Of King's College
20. In Dulci Jubilo - The Choir Of Kings College
21. God Rest Ye Merr yGentlemen - The Choir Of King's College
22. Jesu, Joy Of Mans Desiring - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
23. Good King Wencelas - John Tesh
24. Twelve Days Of Christmas - Anthony Way
25. Silent Night - David Willcocks

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The British Music Collection: Peter Warlock Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Warlock | Warlock, Peter | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | 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 General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Songs by Peter Warlock A Warlock Centenary Album Warlock: Capriol Suite; The Curlew; Six Italian Dance Tunes English String Miniatures 5 ASIN: B00005QDYO Release Date: 2004-03-09

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1. I. Basse Danse - Nicholas Kraemer
2. II. Pavane - Nicholas Kraemer
3. III. Tordion - Nicholas Kraemer
4. IV. Bransles - Nicholas Kraemer
5. V. Pieds-En-L'air - Nicholas Kraemer
6. VI. Mattachins (Sword Dance) - Nicholas Kraemer
7. Serenade For Strings - Nicholas Kraemer
8. Lullaby My Jesus (Transfer. Carter) - David Hill
9. Youth (Robert Weaver)
10. As Ever I Saw
11. There Is A Lady Sweet And Kind (Thomas Ford)
12. Whenas The Rye Reach To The Chin (George Peele)
13. Sigh No More, Ladies (William Shakespeare)
14. Sleep (John Fletcher)
15. Pretty Ring Time (William Shakespeare)
16. Jillian Of Berry (Fletcher Beaumont)
17. The Bayley Berith The Bell Away (Anon)
18. Passing By (Anon)
19. The Frostbound Wood (Bruce Blunt)
20. Robin Goodfellow (Anon)
21. Twelve Oxen (Anon)
22. Yarmouth Fair (Hal Collins)
23. Romance (Robert Louis Stevenson)
24. To The Memory Of A Great Singer (Robert Louis Stevenson)
25. After Two Years (Richard Aldington)
26. The Droll Lover (Anon)
27. Ha'nacker Mill (Hilaire Belloc)
28. My Own Country (Hilare Belloc)
29. The Birds (Hilaire Belloc)
30. Elore Lo (Anon)
31. The Fox (Bruce Blunt)
32. Fair And True (Nicholas Breton)
33. Roister Doister (N. Udall)
34. The Criketers Of Hambledon (Bruce Blunt)

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Mendelssohn: Twelve String Symphonies Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00030ERX8 Release Date: 2004-11-09

Average customer rating: A wonderful debut by an impressive young guitar player.

I Listen to My Feet Michael Young Manufacturer: Artist One-Stop ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002IQO2S Release Date: 2004-08-03

Tracks:

1. New Mexican Scar
2. Rosin
3. We Know
4. Empty Hallway
5. Remember The Blind
6. First Step
7. Wiggle Eye
8. Little Imp
9. Head, Point North
10. Canyon Club
11. I'm Cold
12. I'm Sad
13. Too Damn Happy
14. Broken Leg
15. From A Child To A Lion
16. I'm Tired
17. Where's Philadelphia
18. Bonus Track

Customer Reviews:

A wonderful debut by an impressive young guitar player........2004-08-13

A collection of folksy instrumental tunes, Michael Young's debut effort is fantastic. His talent allows him to sound as though he's playing more than one guitar at once. His songs range from moving, heart-wrenching ballands to upbeat, rock-ish tunes. The songs are melodic, hypnotizing, and often catchy. It's perfect background music AND foreground music. I can't stop listening to it. I'm very impressed (and you will be, too). Check it out.

Average customer rating: Spend your money elsewhere

British Choral Music of the 20th Century Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Tippett | Tippett, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walton | Walton, Sir William | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Viola | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Madrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Psalms | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Te Deum | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Box Sets | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005QX6V Release Date: 2001-11-13

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Spend your money elsewhere.......2006-01-26

I haven't even listened through the entire CD. I don't think I can bring myself to spend my time doing so. Where to begin. From the selections I've heard, the chorus sounds incredibly thin and weak, the organ overpowering them on numerous occasions. Part of the blame in that, however, goes to the mix...the choir not getting enough mic to balance out the instruments. That happens too often in chorus/instrument recordings and it drives me batty. The music selections aren't so inspiring either. You would do much better devoting your hard-earned dollars to Eric Whitacre's acappella choral works, or any of his contemporaries.

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