Evening in the Country

1. Fantasia No. 10

2. Gavotte I and II (Cello Suite VI)

3. Minuet in D

4. Preambulo and Gavotte

5. Afro-Cuban Lullaby

6. Grand Overture Opus

7. Evening in the Country

8. Mysterious Barricades

9. Girl With the Flaxen Hair

10. Muneira from the Suite Compostelana

Evening in the Country,Stuart Weber,Bridger Records,Contemporary Instrumental,New Age,New Age / Meditation

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Average customer rating: Great CD Simply the Best Inconsistent, but mostly excellent "Celebration" is not strong enough a word A maginificent evening, a magnificent album

Sondheim - A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (1992 Concert Cast) Stephen Sondheim , Betty Buckley , Paul Gemignani , Patti LuPone , Liza Minnelli , and Bernadette Peters Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Hadley, Jerry | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Side By Side By Sondheim (1976 Original London Cast) Sondheim Evening: A Musical Tribute (1973 Concert Cast) Send in the Clowns: The Ballads of Stephen Sondheim Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall / Liza Minnelli, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Glenn Close Sondheim, Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall ASIN: B000003FDW Release Date: 1993-02-23

Tracks:

1. Symphonic Sondheim: Sweeney Todd--orchestra, Jerry Hadley ("Johanna"), Eugene Perry,Herbert Perry ("Pretty Women")
2. Evening Introduction--Bill Irwin
3. Loveland/Getting Married Today--Ensemble, Jeanne Lehman, Mark Jacoby, Madeline Kahn
4. Waiting for the Girls Upstairs--George Lee Andrews, Michael Jeter, James Naughton/Love, I Hear--Michael Jeter/Live Alone and Like It--James Naughton
5. Someone Is Waiting--Richard Muenz/Symphonic Sondheim: Barcelona--orchestra
6. Being Alive--Patti LuPone
7. Good Thing Going--The Tonics
8. Losing My Mind/You Could Drive a Person Crazy--Dorothy Loudon
9. Our Time--Boys Choir of Harlem/Children Will Listen--Betty Buckley
10. Anyone Can Whistle--Billy Stritch
11. Water Under the Bridge--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch
12. Back in Business--Liza Minnellli, Billy Stritch, Ensemble

Tracks:

1. Symphonic Sondheim: Comedy Tonight--Bill Irwin, orchestra
2. Sooner or Later--Karen Ziemba
3. Pretty Lady--Mark Jacoby, Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry
4. Green Finch and Linnet Bird--Harolyn Blackwell
5. The Ballad of Booth--Patrick Cassidy, Victor Garber
6. Broadway Baby--Daisy Eagan
7. I Never Do Anything Twice--BETTY
8. With So Little to Be Sure Of--Jerry Hadley, Carolann Page
9. Not a Day Goes By--Bernadette Peters
10. Remember?--Ron Baker, Peter Blanchet, Carol Meyer, Bronwyn Thomas, Blythe Walker (Quintet)/A Weekend in the Country--Kevin Anderson, George Lee Andrews, Mark Jacoby, Beverly Lambert, Maureen Moore, Susan Terry, Quintet
11. Send in the Clowns--Glenn Close
12. Old Friends--Liza Minnelli
13. Sunday--Bernadette Peters, Broadway Chorus

Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2006-08-06

This is a wonderful double CD of fabulous musical numbers performed by theatre greats and directed by a legandary musical director.

Simply the Best.......2005-06-29

First, to the person who criticizes the recording b/c of "Broadway Baby." Daisy Egan (who sings in in this recording) sounds like she's 10 becuase she IS young. She had just appeared on Braodway in Secret Garden and won a Tony for it. It's a joke...Broadway BABY...hello, it's a joke.

In a compilation of songs like this you're always going to have tracks that you prefer over others, but the majority of the renditions in this CD are great. This is simply one of the best collections of Sondheim out there. You get interpretations that span from "classical" (Green Finch), to bordering on insane (Anything Twice). This is to demonstrate how versatile this composer really is.

In my opinion, some of the best renditions are "Not a Day Goes By," "Anyone Can Whistle", "Girls Upstairs Medley," "Losing My Mind/Drive a Person Crazy," and "Weekend inthe Country." Makes me wish I had been there to witness it first hand.

If you love Sondheim and enjoy hearing Broadway performers, get this CD. A great recording.

Inconsistent, but mostly excellent.......2004-03-21

I am sure no knowledgeable person would deny how absolutely perfect all these songs are. However, the performances on this album are extremely inconsistent. It will go from an excellent rendition (Waiting for the Girls medley, Sunday, With So Little To Be Sure Of, Sooner or Later, Green Finch, Send in the Clowns, Pretty Lady) to the weird (I never Do Anything Twice), to the bad (Broadway Baby, Our Time). I still have absolutely no idea how they managed to butcher one of the best songs ever written--Good Thing Going--and turn it into smooth jazz elevator music. Why would they give Broadway Baby to someone who sounds like she's 10? That said, Liza Minelli, Glenn Close, Karen Ziemba, Dorothy Laudon and the "Waiting for the Girls" performers are all very good. And ending with Bernadette Peters and "Sunday" ends the set on a absolutley fabulous note.

"Celebration" is not strong enough a word.......2003-04-30

This review is by Crosley.

I have been a major Sondheim fan for quite some time, and I finally obtained a copy of this album. I was blown away by the excellent cast and phenomenal selection of music. It is obvious how much work went into this production, considering that this is the live recording of a one time show, and it's flawless. The songs cover all of his shows with the exception of "Passion," which was released 3 years after this show. Also, the shows for which he wrote only lyrics are ommited, like West Side Story, Gypsy, etc. Thus, you can find material from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone can Whistle, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Merrily we Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins.

There are two striking things about this CD (besides the music and performers themselves). First of all, some of the songs are completely stylistically reworked. The most obvious are "Good Thing Going" and "I Never do Anything Twice." Both are traditionally very ballady with a piano accompaniment, but here they have been redone as jazzy tunes. The result is excellent. Such reworkings demonstrate that Sondheim writes music for virtually any style, and in these cases, across several styles. It's a great example of his variety. The other interesting thing is how many songs have overlapping melodies of songs from different shows. Case in point, "Our Time" and "No one is Alone" are sung seperately by the Harlem Boys Choir and Betty Buckley (the original Grizabella in Webber's atrocious "CATS," although Buckley was excellent) respectively, and then combined. Putting these two songs together offer different meanings to each, and the music is only enhanced. Another example, the trio of "Waiting for the Girls Upstairs," "Love, I Hear," and "Live Alone and Like It" are sung in that order, and then the latter two are combined. Again, the meanings of the songs change, this time in an almost narrative style, and offering different takes on love in the same montage. Lastly (at least for this review, there are more), Dorothy Laudon's (the original Ms. Hannigan in Annie) combination of "Losing my Mind" and "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" is brilliant. Those who are familiar with these songs will wonder how exactly they fit, but trust me, they do. She swtiches back and forth between melodies to create a number that starts poignant and beautiful, and soon moves to become uproariously funny. Both the song reworkings and overlapping melodies of unrelated songs are all for the better.

I recommend this recording to anyone wanting to get better acquainted with some of Sondheim's best work, or those already familiar who want to hear a tour de force of phenomenal music. It has been said that Sondheim is a masterful lyricist (which he is), but lacks real talent for music. This CD is the final proof that such critics are wrong. His music may take a few listenings to get into, contrary to Webber or Wildhorn, but unlike those two, he doesn't cater to the audience. He challenges them to think outside of traditional musical theater in a glorious repertoise of shows that reach for a smarter, more sophisticated form.

A maginificent evening, a magnificent album.......2001-12-16

There's something to be said for the first concert you ever see at Carnegie Hall. I was fortunate enough to have this be my first. This entire evening was devoted to his genius and the performers did not disappoint.

This wonderful double CD shows off the best and brightest of the musical theatre composer and it is, as one person put it, "an embarassment of riches." With songs from his finest works done in amazing arrangements (listen to that harmony in "We Had a Good Thing Going"!) combined with fabulous performers this is a Sondheim lovers delight.

My favorite song is, without a doubt, Dorothy Louden and her wonderful medley of "Losing My Mind" into "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" followed very closely by the recently departed Madeline Kahn singing "Getting Married Today."

Average customer rating: Somewhat disappointing

Hymns Through the Centuries 2 Recorded Sound , R. Osborne , J. Reilly Lewis , and Cathedral Choral Society Manufacturer: Gothic Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Hymns Through the Centuries Hymns Triumphant 1 & 2 Be Still My Soul: The Ultimate Hymns Collection Best Loved Hymns Abide With Me ASIN: B00007K2GE Release Date: 2003-01-07

Tracks:

1. Peal Bells
2. Jesus, My All, To Heaven Has Gone
3. Our Thanks We Give For Love And Hope
4. In The Bleak Midwinter
5. Creating God, Your Fingers Trace
6. Rejoice, Ye Pure In Heart!
7. Let All The World In Every Corner Sing
8. Ar Hyd Y Nos (Organ Solo) - Eric Plutz
9. Of The Father's Love Begotten
10. Come Down, O Love Divine
11. Spirit Of God, Descend Upon My Heart
12. God Is Love
13. What Wondrous Love Is This!
14. All My Hope On God Is Founded
15. Leoni (Carillon Solo) - Edward M. Nassor
16. O God Of Our Divided World
17. Christ, Mighty Savior, Light Of All Creation
18. Breathe On Me, Breath Of God
19. I Vow To Thee, My Country
20. The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended
21. Lord Of All Hopefulness
22. O Brightness Of The Immortal Father's Face
23. O Praise Ye The Lord!
24. Hyfrydol (Bagpipe Solo) - John G. Sprague

Customer Reviews:

Somewhat disappointing.......2005-09-25

There are some unique and interesting songs of this album. Unfortunately the performance does not shine. I found the singing and accompaniment a bit slow and monotonous and uninspired. Furthermore, it was difficult to understand the words at times (indistinct enunciation). There are a few exceptions: tracks 3, 4, 9, 20, 21 I gave 3 stars in iTunes; all the rest got two stars or less. If you want beautiful, traditional choral music, I recommend any of the albums featuring the Cambridge Singers over this collection.

Average customer rating: Evening in Paris

Wine Country Collection: Evening in Paris Various Artists Manufacturer: North Star ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: An Evening in Tuscany ASIN: B0007KIGF4 Release Date: 2005-02-01

Tracks:

1. I Love Paris
2. Sous le Ciel de Paris
3. Summer Knows
4. Vie en Rose
5. Goulante du Pauvre Jean
6. April in Paris
7. Swan
8. Last Time I Saw Paris
9. Michelle
10. Man and a Woman
11. Claire de Lune

Customer Reviews:

Evening in Paris.......2007-07-11

Awesome CD! My husband and I have almost worn it out. You'll feel like you're sitting outside a Parisian bistro. Includes some great familiar tunes (I Love Paris) but with a modern flair. One of our all time favorite CDs that we highly recommend.

Average customer rating: American Piano Music Copland's Growing Musical Style great music

Copland: The Young Pioneers (The Complete Music for Solo Piano) Aaron Copland , and Leo Smit (piano) Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Nocturnes | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Passacaglias | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Copland the Modernist Copland: Music For The Theatre/Piano Concerto Copland: Symphony No3; Symphony The Copland Collection: Orchestral Works, 1948-1971 American Classics: Barber: COMPLETE PUBLISHED SOLO PIANO MUSIC ASIN: B000002AR2 Release Date: 1994-08-23

Tracks:

1. Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse (1920)
2. Piano Variations (1930)
3. In Evening Air (1966)
4. Passacaglia (1922)
5. Piano Sonata (1939-1941): I. Molto moderato
6. Piano Sonata (1939-1941): II. Vivace
7. Piano Sonata (1939-1941): III. Andante sostenuto
8. Midday Thoughts (1944-1982)]
9. Proclamation (1973-1982)
10. Three Moods (1920-21): 1. embittered (November 14, 1920)
11. Three Moods (1920-21): 2. wistful (January 8, 1921)
12. Three Moods (1920-21): 3. jazzy (July 1921)

Tracks:

1. Petit Portrait (1921)
2. Sentimental Melody (1926)
3. Piano Fantasy (1926)
4. Four Piano Blues (1955-57): 1. Freely Poetic
5. Four Piano Blues (1955-57): 2. Soft and Languid
6. Four Piano Blues (1955-57): 3. Muted and Sensuous
7. Four Piano Blues (1955-57): 4. With Bounce
8. Midsummer Nocturne (1947)
9. The Young Pioneers (1935)]
10. Sunday Afternoon Music (1935)
11. Down a Country Lane (1962)
12. Night Thoughts (Hommage to Ives) (1972)

Amazon.com

Most of this set was recorded for LP in 1978, but Leo Smit returned to the studios in 1993 to add some recently discovered short pieces. Smit, a friend of Copland and a composer himself, plays all of Copland's piano music with great comprehension. He sustains the flow throughout the difficult half-hour Piano Fantasy, though he doesn't create as much excitement in the Piano Variations as the composer did in 1935 on 78s (now on Pearl GEMM CD 9279). Much of Copland's piano music is occasional works or pieces for students, but the major works in the set make it well worth hearing. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

American Piano Music.......2007-02-12

It was a pleasure to hear the complete piano music of Copland. Pianist Leo Smit brings pleasure and enlightment to the listeners ear. Who better than an American pianist to interpret the music of Copland.

Ellis L. Marsalis, Jr

Copland's Growing Musical Style.......2001-11-06

Leo Smit has done more than just give us a complete collection of the piano music of Aaron Copland. In doing so, he has also given us a sizeable record of Copland's growth as a composer stretching from the angry tones of the Passacaglia and the Piano Variations, to the majestic and sometimes poetic Piano Fantasy, and beyond. The two CD's also showcase Copland in his many moods, sometimes light hearted and fun as in the Scherzo Humoristique and the second movement of the Piano Sonata, or sometimes nostalgic as in Down a Country Lane or the third movement of the Piano Sonata. This is a must-have for all Copland fans.

great music.......2000-06-03

A great buy for anyone who loves Copland or American contemporary music. Absolutely beautiful.

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Peaceful Evening David and Steve Gordon Manufacturer: Sequoia Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Environmental | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Nature | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Misty Forest Morning Garden of Serenity Soothing Sanctuary Garden of Serenity II Sanctuary ASIN: B000008QVT Release Date: 1998-08-25

Tracks:

1. Dusk
2. Changing Hues
3. Under A Painted Sky
4. Amethyst And Amber
5. Deepening
6. Circle Of Warmth
7. Nightflyer
8. Gentle Breeze
9. Radiant Sea
10. Healing
11. Evenglow

Album Description

This soothing music surrounds you with the deeply calming moods of a perfect sunset. You experience a warm quiet feeling of grand piano, acoustic guitars and wooden flute along with actual sounds of early evening in the country. The music and nature sounds transport you to magical places of serenity under painted twilight skies. The harmonious interplay of David's Piano and Steve's acoustic guitar brings quiet majesty and healing relaxation of nature's most cherished moments into your life anytime you want.

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The Piano Music of Aaron Copland Manufacturer: EROICA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Passacaglias | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Copland: The Young Pioneers (The Complete Music for Solo Piano) ASIN: B0002EP34C Release Date: 2004-06-09

Tracks:

1. Piano Sonata
2. Piano Sonata
3. Piano Sonata
4. Down A Country Lane
5. In Evening Air
6. Scherzo: Le Chat Et La Souris
7. Sunday Afternoon Music
8. The Young Pioneers
9. Sentimental Melody (Slow Dance)
10. Four Piano Blues
11. Four Piano Blues
12. Four Piano Blues
13. Four Piano Blues
14. Passacaglia

Tracks:

1. Night Thoughts (Homage To Ives)
2. Piano Variations
3. Piano Fantasy

Average customer rating: A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!

The Story of American Classical Music Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Adams | Adams, John | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Antheil, George | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beach | Beach, Amy Marcy Cheney | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Carter | Carter, Elliott | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gottschalk | Gottschalk, Louis Moreau | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Griffes | Griffes, Charles T. | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glass | Glass, Philip | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hovhaness, Alan | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ives, Charles | ( I ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by MacDowell | MacDowell, Edward | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Piston | Piston, Walter | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schuller | Schuller, Gunther | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schuman | Schuman, William | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sousa | Sousa, John Philip | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Torke | Torke, Michael | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Overtures | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Ives, Charles | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | 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 | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: American Classics Sampler Virgil Thomson: Symphony No 1-3 John Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur/My Father Knew Charles Ives Voice of the Violin Happy Feet (Full Screen Edition) ASIN: B0009JMELK Release Date: 2005-06-21

Customer Reviews:

A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!.......2005-07-12

Many reasonably sophisticated American and European musiclovers still think there are really no American classical music composers of note other than perhaps Gershwin and Copland. It is to the credit of the Naxos label, via their 'American Classics' series, that the lie is put to that notion. Each month there are new issues from Naxos containing music by American composers. And it was a brilliant idea for them to take selections from their dozens of releases of this music to put together this sampler of such music to illustrate a 100+ page essay on the subject by an eminent writer on music, Barrymore Laurence Scherer. The combination of 2 CDs of music tracks, Scherer's essay, a chronological outline, suggestions for further listening, even a map showing where various composers were born helps the 'student' learn much about our nation's musical heritage.

There are selections by twenty-eight composers stretching from the amazing Wagnerian 'Macbeth' Overture by William Henry Fry (1813-1864) to the very recent 'Rapture,' a percussion concerto by Michael Torke (b. 1961). Some selections are complete movements, others are shorter passages from larger works. Included are such gems as the first movement of Arthur Foote's Piano Quartet, the third movement of Henry Hadley's Fourth Symphony, Charles Ives's 'The Unanswered Question,' 'King Cotton' by John Philip Sousa, 'Maple Leaf Rag' by Scott Joplin, a passage (the exciting Spanish Waltz) from Walter Piston's 'The Incredible Flutist,' the finale of Copland's 'Billy the Kid,' the opening of Samuel Barber's luminous 'Knoxville - Summer of 1915,' 'Tonight' from Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' the opening of George Rochberg's masterful Violin Concerto, and John Adams's incredibly popular 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine.' Plus selections by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Wakefield Cadman, George Gershwin, George Antheil, Zez Confrey, William Schuman, John Cage, Gunther Schuller, Alan Hovhaness, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass. The performances are more than acceptable and in some instances ('Knoxville,' Rochberg's Violin Concerto) definitive.

I would heartily recommend this set (especially at its superbudget price) to anyone wanting to know more about the history of American classical music -- Scherer is a master of cogent, clear prose -- and wishing to hear examples of the broad range it has taken over the past couple of centuries. I can easily imagine this set being used in a music appreciation course. And I am sure it will spark interest in the newcomer to this branch of classical music.

2 CDs TT=ca. 160 mins.

Scott Morrison

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It Takes Two Bart Schneemann Manufacturer: Channel Classics Nl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000069CUI Release Date: 2002-08-13

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Piano Music for Children Manufacturer: Divine Art ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bartók, Béla | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Khachaturian | Khachaturian, Aram | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stravinsky | Stravinsky, Igor | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Webern | Webern, Anton von | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Improvisation | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Nocturnes | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001J3U02 Release Date: 2005-02-22

Average customer rating: An absolutely tiptop collection of piano miniatures

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Tracks:

1. Six Little Preludes: Prelude In E Major BWV 937
2. The Little Keyboard Book: Preambulum In G Minor, BWV930
3. Book of Harpsichord: Le Coucou (The Cuckoo)
4. Variations On 'Ah Vous Dirai-je Maman', K265
5. Fur Elise, Wo059
6. Wilder Reiter (Wild Rider)
7. Volksliedchen (Little Folk Song)
8. Album for the Young: Frohlicher Landsmann Von der Arbeit Zurrend (The Merry Peasant Returning From Work)
9. Nocturne In C Minor, Op Posth
10. Excercices dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, G136: Etude No. 1,
11. Exdercices dans tous les tons majeurs et mineurs, G136: Etude No. 2, G136
12. Jeux d'Enfants (children's games): La Toupie (The Top), Arr Lucien Garbon
13. Dolly: Berceuse (Cradle Song) Op 56, Arr Alfred Cortot
14. Album For The Young, Op.39: Maman
15. Album for the Young. Op.39: Tchaikovsky - Valse from op 39
16. Prole do bebe , Book 1 (The baby's Dolls): O Polichinello (Punch)
17. Prole do bebe, Book 1(The Baby's Dolls): A Pobresinha (The Rag Doll)
18. Prole do bebe, Book 1(The Baby's Dolls): Moreninha (The Paper Doll)
19. Chansons naives: Jolivet - Chansons naives No 1
20. Chansons naives: Jolivet - Chansons naives No 3
21. Music for Children: Waltz, from op 65
22. Children's Corner: Dr Gradus ad Parnassum
23. Children's Corner: The Little Shepherd
24. Le Petit Negre (The Little Black Boy)
25. Ten Easy Pieces: An Evening in the Country
26. For Children, Book 1: Andante
27. For Children, Book 1: Swineherd's Song
28. For Children, Book 1: Moderato
29. For Children, Book 1: Jest
30. Three Pieces: Danse Noble
31. Three Pieces: Nostalgie du pays (Homesickness)
32. Three Pieces: Chant des moissons (Song of the Harvests)
33. Minature Variations

Customer Reviews:

An absolutely tiptop collection of piano miniatures.......2000-02-25

It amazes me that Livia Rév is not better known. These are performances that are not showy, not virtuosic, but RIGHT. And the repertoire is, of course, dear to the hearts of most of us.

Meditation Music:

1. Exotic Voices and Rhythms of the South Seas
2. Felt Mountain
3. Flight of the Eagle
4. Glastonbury 1971 [Live] [Original recording remastered] [Import]
5. Heart of the Rainforest
6. Heart of the Rainforest
7. Images Of Romance
8. Intruding on a Silence
9. Invisible Rhythm
10. Journey With the Whales

Meditation Music

meditation music

Meditation Music

East & West [Import]

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 [Box set]

Conducts Brahms Symphonies 2 & 4

Music: Dixon Brothers, Vol. 3: 1937-1938

Citizen of the World

Comfortably Numb [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]

Aznavour 92 [Import]

Creative Differences

Brazilian Nights

Cabaza Percussion Quartet, Vol. 2

Conflict

Asian Garden: the World of Asian Grooves

Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk

I Told You So

Live from Blue Note Tokyo