| 1. Introducing |
| 2. Sights and Sounds of My Gym |
| 3. Wax Job/Mermaid |
| 4. Pet Names |
| 5. Grandma's Fables |
| 6. Black T.V. |
| 7. Problem With Braids |
| 8. Street Rules |
| 9. Time I Met Oprah |
| 10. Man Worth Singing For |
| 11. With Friends Like These... |
| 12. And Then There's Momma |
| 13. My Life as an Anthropologist |
| 14. Aren't Kids Wonderful? |
Mermaid,Ellen Cleghorne,Uproar,Pop,Spoken / Comedy / Radio Shows,Standup Comedy
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Little Mermaid
Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000FZDIL8 Release Date: 2006-10-03 |
Tracks:
- Fathoms Below
- Main Titles Score
- Fanfare Score
- Daughters of Triton
- Part of Your World
- Under the Sea
- Part of Your World (Reprise)
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Les Poissons
- Kiss the Girl
- Fireworks Score
- Jig Score
- The Storm Score
- Destruction of the Grotto Score
- Flotsam and Jetsam Score
- Tour of the Kingdom Score
- Bedtime Score
- Wedding Announcement Score
- Eric to the Rescue Score
- Happy Ending
Tracks:
- Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale
- Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers
- Part of your World - performed by Jessica Simpson
- Under the Sea - performed by Raven-Symone
- Music Video - Poor Unfortunate Souls - performed by Jonas Brothers
- "Making Of" Music Video - Kiss The Girl - performed by Ashley Tisdale
Amazon.com essential recording
Before Broadway was Disneyfied and Times Square became a mall, the best Broadway musicals were being written for Disney animated features by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Their songs for The Little Mermaid created the mold from which their even more popular work (Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin) would be cast. Almost every tune in Mermaid has its (slightly inferior) counterpart in Beauty, for example. But there's no topping the Oscar-winning calypso show-stopper, "Under the Sea"--in which a Caribbean crab convinces you that "Darlin' it's better/Down where it's wetter." Other songs, just as delightful, are even more impressive in the context of the movie. The rapturous "Kiss the Girl" accompanies a scene in which, despite the whispered urgings of creatures all around, the romantic hero does not act on the title's advice! That's the kind of abstract dramatic (OK, comedic) conceit you'd expect from Harold Pinter rather than Disney. And the gruesomely hilarious "Les Poissons" gives us a fisheye view of a kitchen where the seafood chef is a sort of French Ed Gein--a sadistic murderer who brutally tortures and chops up his victims, then eats them! Who says Disney never did black comedy? "...I stuff you with bread/It won't hurt, 'cause you're dead/And you're certainly lucky you are...." Lyricist Ashman may not have been Cole Porter, but he was the next best thing. --Jim EmersonCustomer Reviews:
Loved it then. Loved it now........2007-04-10
Under da Sea.......2007-03-05
little mermaid soundtrack.......2007-02-21
a brilliant rebirth in film and song.......2006-11-24
alan menken's first of four academy award winning scores is a musical gem. the intense flourishes on the main titles and in the happy ending finale are truly beautiful but the fun lighter tone that the majority of the score takes on is great to hear. the score really lightens up the piece and gives it an airiness (ironically enough) and allows the whole piece to really take on a fun fresh sound that is crucial for the film to work
SCORE 5 out of 5
as far as the songs go, this may just be the most consistanly good soundtrack all the songs are fun and fresh but advance the story well. no other album really contains as many sure fire hits as this one. menken and ashman made great songs here that utilize the necessary carribean influences that are truly wonderful.
FATHOMS BELOW - this is a fun opener that provides a great sense of nautical mythology and fun. it sets the film up well for the following songs that are obveously meant to juxtapose it. originally, the song was longer, but jeffery katzanberg required that ashman shorten the lyrics, the original extended version can be found on the special edition 2006 dvd.
5 out of 5
DAUGHTERS OF TRITON - this short little snipet introduces all of ariel's sisters. its pretty bland and dry and thankfully its quick. if it were longer it would definately bring the entire soundtrack down, but luckilly its short and over with quickly
3 out of 5
PART OF YOUR WORLD - this is ariel's only real song and it is truly beautiful. her song of longing is emotional and jodi benson's vocals take to a whole other level. many have covered this song, but none have topped benson's heartfealt version that combines longing and real sorrow. A+
5 out of 5
PART OF YOUR WORLD (REPRISE) - here is that trademark mermaid-on-rock scene from the movie and the fact that benson gets to belt out the ending bars makes this a real treat even though its so short, but this definately ranks right up there with the full version, and possibly tops it.
5 out of 5
UNDER THE SEA - this fun song was the oscar winner for best original song and it combines great carribean rhythms and sounds wiht fun fresh and witty lyrics to epitomize the fun and freshness that the little mermaid brought to the screen. the infecteous song is one that jsut stays in your head and wont leave too, but its all ok since this is such a great song.
5 out of 5
POOR UNFORTUNATE SOULS - this is ursula's big number and pat caroll is amazing at it. this song is wickidly entertaining and great. the darkly comic tone and cabaret feel make this a great vilian song and a great song in general. the incredable rollar coaster of intensities make this an impressive number that never loses the audience's interest impressively enough.
5 out of 5
LES POISSONS - this song has gotten a lot of credit for its comedic strengths, but really this is the weakest song on the whole soundtrack. it's just too comical and goes too far over the top. it fits well in the film, but feels mildly disjointed on the soundtrack itself.
4 out of 5
KISS THE GIRL - this is the second oscar nominated song and it is possibly the best of all. the combination of soft vocals provided by samuel e wright and the great soft tropical rhythms make this song an unexpected winner. on paper, these combinations are strange for a defining love song, but it all comes together with great ease.
5 out of 5
SONGS OVERALL 5 out of 5
this entire piece brings an impressive combination of airiness and emotion to make a musical soundtrack that is truly spectacular. menken and ashman showed for the first time their true greatness when working together. this piece isn't their greatest, but it was a great starting point that revitilized what a movie musical and disney film could truly be. this timeless classic is a wonder to hear and never gets old or tired.
JUST like the movie!.......2006-10-25
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Mermaid Avenue
Billy Bragg & Wilco Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000007NC0 Release Date: 1998-06-23 |
Tracks:
- Walt Whitman's Niece
- California Stars
- Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key
- Birds And Ships
- Hoodoo Voodoo
- She Came Along To Me
- At My Window Sad And Lonely
- Ingrid Bergman
- Christ For President
- I Guess I Planted
- One By One
- Eisler On The Go
- Hesitating Beauty
- Another Man's Done Gone
- The Unwelcome Guest
Amazon.com's Best of 1998
A ghost, a band, a troubadour. Easily the strangest co-op project ever, and easily one of the finest and most evocative albums of the year. British socialist and folkie Billy Bragg was given unprecedented access to Woody Guthrie's unrecorded lyrics. Teaming up with alt-country band Wilco and quoting from more than 50 years of country, folk, and rock music, Billy and company bring Guthrie's politics, poetry, and morality to the end of the century and prove he's as necessary now as ever. --Tod NelsonAmazon.com essential recording
When you first heard that Billy Bragg and Wilco were teaming up to set some Woody Guthrie lyrics to music, you knew it'd be an interesting project. But did anyone realistically think Mermaid Avenue would also wind up being one of 1998's finest albums? That's exactly what it is, a distinction it pulls off by simultaneously honoring Guthrie and blasting away any folksy expectations we might have of his music. Walking Guthrie's World War II-era lyrics into the 20th century's second, rock & roll half, Bragg and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy take turns on lead vocals, and the entire group collaborates on a sound that draws on folk- and country-rock, from Bob Dylan and the Band to Gram Parsons and Uncle Tupelo. The results are nearly flawless, ranging from yearning laments and playful children's rockers to horny ballads and brave protest songs that are not merely political but also profoundly moral. Like all of Guthrie's work, Mermaid Avenue is music to live better by. --David CantwellCustomer Reviews:
Maybe my favourite record.......2007-06-01
All I wanted to say is that this is a very special record for me. I listen to a lot of music and own several hundred CDs but this one is really outstanding. I think that this record is really emotional but in a pleasent kind of way. A lot of songs on the album bring tears to my eyes everytime I hear them. The whole project was a great idea and one can feel that the participators put all their heart and love into it.
In short: Mermaid Avenue is one of the records that makes live worth living for me.
I'm a fan of Wilco but I love this one better than any of their studio-albums.
Thanks Nora! Great Idea.......2007-05-19
Walt Whitman previously unrecorded.......2007-04-24
An incredibly productive colloboration...........2007-04-08
There are some real jewels here.......2007-03-01
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Disney's Greatest 3
Various Artists Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006EXKT Release Date: 2002-08-20 |
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Cynical types will accuse Disney of milking the "greatest" concept until it's drier than Tinkerbell's fairy dust ("Supercalafragilisticexpealidocious," "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Da," and "Heigh Ho" were hits off of Vol. 1; "Bare Necessities," "It's a Small World," and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" stole the show on Vol. 2), but a glimpse of this installment's track listing is all it'll take to squash their suspicions. Once again running reverse-chronologically, Vol. 3 opens with Jonatha Brooke's gorgeously achy ballad "I'll Try," from 2002's arguably not-so-great Return to Neverland, and gradually reaches back through the years to re-raise the curtain on Toy Story 2 ("When She Loved Me," performed by Sarah McLachlan), The Lion King ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight"), Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews's classic "A Spoonful of Sugar"), Pinocchio ("Give a Little Whistle"), and a bundle of treasured others, bottoming out at 1933's "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" from The Three Little Pigs. Vol. 3 is not without its weak moments--would a G-rated movie-goers' poll produce Beauty and the Beast's "Gaston" or The Hunchback of Notre Dame's "Topsy Turvy" on a hits list? Seems unlikely. Still, the bulk of these tracks are, as the included Little Mermaid song goes, "Part of Your World," and the spread of decades they represent proves their staying power. Don't expect Disney to latch the lid on its inexhaustible archives until a dozen or so of these records, each as strong as the next, beckon you back for more. --Tammy La GorceCustomer Reviews:
Disney's greatest hits, volum 3.......2007-05-13
above 18 but still have some kid in them
Timeless Disney Music.......2007-05-07
Disney songs are the best.......2006-03-18
Great Disney Music.......2006-02-21
Not as good as Vol 1 and Vol 2.......2005-09-11
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The Little Mermaid: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Little Mermaid Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001M3Z Release Date: 1997-10-14 |
Tracks:
- Fathoms Below
- Main Titles
- Fanfare
- Daughters Of Triton
- Part Of Your World
- Under The Sea
- Part Of Your World (Reprise)
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Les Poissons
- Kiss The Girl
- Fireworks
- Jig
- The Storm
- Destruction Of The Grotto
- Flotsam And Jetsam
- Tour Of The Kingdom
- Bedtime
- Wedding Announcement
- Eric To The Rescue
- Happy Ending
Amazon.com essential recording
Before Broadway was Disneyfied and Times Square became a mall, the best Broadway musicals were being written for Disney animated features by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman. Their songs for The Little Mermaid created the mold from which their even more popular work (Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin) would be cast. Almost every tune in Mermaid has its (slightly inferior) counterpart in Beauty, for example. But there's no topping the Oscar-winning calypso show-stopper, "Under the Sea"--in which a Caribbean crab convinces you that "Darlin' it's better/Down where it's wetter." Other songs, just as delightful, are even more impressive in the context of the movie. The rapturous "Kiss the Girl" accompanies a scene in which, despite the whispered urgings of creatures all around, the romantic hero does not act on the title's advice! That's the kind of abstract dramatic (OK, comedic) conceit you'd expect from Harold Pinter rather than Disney. And the gruesomely hilarious "Les Poissons" gives us a fisheye view of a kitchen where the seafood chef is a sort of French Ed Gein--a sadistic murderer who brutally tortures and chops up his victims, then eats them! Who says Disney never did black comedy? "...I stuff you with bread/It won't hurt, 'cause you're dead/And you're certainly lucky you are...." Lyricist Ashman may not have been Cole Porter, but he was the next best thing. --Jim EmersonCustomer Reviews:
The Little Mermaid music delivers!!! .......2007-01-27
Winner of 2 academy awards, this cartoon movie has excelled and reached heights a lot of other movies wanted to reach..
This soundtrack is kinda short but the music in it is just AWESOME!
(and by the way, I added the music to my iPod with no problem)
Wonderful Part of the Sea!.......2006-07-27
I suppose many girls' favorite song in this soundtrack is "Part of Your World". I love this song very much. It still feels so classic even though almost 20 years went by. In this song, Ariel showed that she was so eager to go up to the land. Though the tune is tender and slow, we can feel Ariel's heart and her dreams were so strong, feel how much she believed that her dreams would come true someday. Beautiful and glorious instrumental music, lovely lyric with sweet and dreamy lady vocal, all these made this song so classic and will always be classic. The reprise version of "Part of Your World" is so great as the original version. The tableaux of this reprise version are most unforgettable to me in this movie. "I don't know when, I don't know how, but I know something's starting right now." I'm deeply attracted by this song when every time I listen to it. After I listened to this song, I began to pay more attention to songs that created by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken or performed by Jodi Benson. The song "Under the Sea" is really famous to every Disney fan, though it's not my favorite in the movie. This song is a typical song for the sea in my opinion. It's full-filled with Caribbean feelings, spirited tune, comical lyric and Sebastian's wonderful vocal. At first, I thought Sebastian's voice was strange, and I always skipped "Under the Sea" when every time I listened to this soundtrack. But now, I love his voice very much, then I bought the album "Sebastian from The Little Mermaid" and often listen to it. "Les Poissons" is really a strange but very comical song. When I first listened to it in the movie with my cousin, we couldn't help laughing very loudly. "Poor Unfortunate Souls" is a wonderful song too, it reflected Ursula's ambition. "Kiss the Girl" is a lovely song too, Sebastian's performance and the chorus are great!
Besides all these songs, there is something that made the movie so great, the scores. All these scores are very beautiful, the musical instruments in the scores have been placed perfectly. The scores made the movie very dramatic. I love the track "Main Title" very much, the principal melody in this track is that of "Part of Your World". It's really beautiful, feels just like Ariel's magical stories. The track which I can't help listening to over and over again is "Happy Ending". I always be attracted by the chorus at the end of this track. "Now we can walk, now we can run, now we can stay all day in the sun..." Some other scores are glorious too, and some of them feels just like symphony.
I think that this soundtrack is one of the best of Disney. All the songs were performed by wonderful leading vocals and lovely chorus, all the scores are very beautiful. Well, some of my friends consider that Disney movies and music are only for little kids. I don't agree with this absolutely. Because I think Disney music have not only kids' innocence but also adult thoughts, music in "The Little Mermaid" is a good example. This wonderful soundtrack can be accepted by kids easily, and can be loved by many adults. So, if you're a Disney fan or a person who love music very much, this glorious soundtrack shouldn't be missed by you!
I loved this movie!.......2006-06-05
Other classics not to forget about are:
Mary Poppins
My Fair Lady
The Wizard of Oz
Chitty Chitty Bang Band
The first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Sound of Music
Oliver
West Side Story
Fiddler on the Roof
Singing in the Rain
The Wiz
Little Mermaid
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
Grease
The King and I
Oklahoma
The Music Man
South Pacific
My Voice Students are always asking me for recommendations so I though I'd post it for all! We can't forget about these great musicals!
Works with iPod.......2006-03-14
I love Little Mermaid.......2006-03-04
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Bedtime Stories for Pirates
Captain Bogg & Salty Manufacturer: Scabbydisc Music (Bmi) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00003GO0I Release Date: 1999-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Recruitin the Crew
- I'm a Singin Pirate
- Deedle Dee Toe (Tale & Tune)
- Cat O Nine Tales
- Scurvy
- Weather Eye
- Billy Bones (Tale & Tune)
- Manatee
- The Pollywogg
Album Description
Songs and Stories for Buccaneers of all ages! Weigh anchor with Captain Bogg & Salty for rollicking adventure on the high seas! Children and adults alike will enjoy this album for its pirate jigs, galloping rock and mermaid lullabies. Tales and tunes guaranteed to shiver your timbers!Customer Reviews:
Entertaining Stuff!!!.......2006-09-09
Awesome!.......2005-04-18
Fair Trade Winds to Ye All!.......2005-03-24
Again, AWESOME! This CD is great fun with its ingenious dialog scripting and sound effects, as well as fantastic vocal harmonizing. The songs are catchy and fun and even as a parent, I find myself singing along! My children (boys 3 & 5) LOVE the song "Scurvy" and laugh each time they hear Salty say "Bunny rabbits!". My personal favorite is "Billy Bones", a wonderfully clever and very creative sea tale and song.
Check out their website at www.eatalime.com.
Great fun - Enjoy!!
Great for kids, Great for adults!.......2005-03-02
ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!.......2005-02-22
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Disney's Karaoke Series: Little Mermaid
Karaoke Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000CCU7BS Release Date: 2006-10-03 |
Tracks:
- Part of Your World
- Under the Sea
- Les Poissons
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Kiss the Girl Plus Tracks from Ariel's Friends
- Home Belle
- Colors of the Wind
- God Help the Outcasts
- Part of Your World
- Under the Sea
- Les Poissons
- Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Kiss the Girl Plus Tracks from Ariel's Friends
- Home Belle
- Colors of the Wind
- God Help the Outcasts
Product Description
Title: Part Of Your World; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 1| Title: Under The Sea; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 2| Title: Les Poissons; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 3| Title: Poor Unfortunate Souls; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 4| Title: Kiss The Girl; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 5| Title: Home; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 6| Title: Colors Of The Wind; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 7| Title: God Help The Outcasts; Artist: Various Artists; Track: 8| Title: Part Of Your World; Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 9| Title: Under The Sea; Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 10| Title: Les Poissons; Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 11| Title: Poor Unfortunate Souls; Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 12| Title: Kiss The Girl; Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 13| Title: Home (Belle); Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 14| Title: Colors Of The Wind (Pocahontas); Artist: Various Artists w/Vocal; Track: 15|
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No Mermaid
Sinéad Lohan Manufacturer: Fontana Interscope ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000009QNG Release Date: 1998-08-11 |
Tracks:
- No Mermaid
- Don't I Know
- Whatever It Takes....
- Loose Ends
- Whether Or Not
- What Can Never Be
- Believe It If You Like
- Out Of The Woods
- People And Tables
- Disillusioned
- Hot On Your Trail
- Diving To Be Deeper
Amazon.com
Sinéad Lohan discounts any Irish or folk influences in her music, but they remain a propulsive force behind the contemporary pop sheen of her U.S. debut album, No Mermaid. Her tunes have the immediate simplicity of folk anthems, but her quixotic lyrics delve deeply and sometimes dramatically into the '90s psyche. Weaned on Top of the Pops, Sting, and Paul Weller rather than jigs and reels, Lohan never sacrifices originality and character within her creatively populist approach. She is well served by a creative production (from Daniel Lanois associate Malcom Burn), weaving a swirling, textured backdrop of funky folk and electronica that perfectly compliments her wryly personal observations on life and love. --Derek RathCustomer Reviews:
Still great after all these years~.......2007-05-30
Over 5 years and still my favorite CD!.......2006-06-14
Sinead Lohan CD - No Mermaid.......2005-12-19
Have loved it for years..........2005-05-30
Holds up beautifully over time..........2005-02-13
As others have observed, this is an album (can I still say 'album' these days?) that is brimming with A-list tracks. There's not even one weak, "filler" track. Her voice is sublime. Some other reviewers have compared it to Sarah McLachlan's, but I don't hear her in Lohen's voice (although I do hear her in the writing). I would compare Lohen more to Eleanor McEvoy with smaller measures of Beth Orton and Annie Haslam mixed in. The production on "No Mermaid" is superb: tight and so organic you won't notice it unless you *want* to. The pacing is wonderful, speeding up and slowing down so naturally, as if this were simply the way it was *meant* to be.
Buy "No Mermaid" today. Take it home. Play it. You, too, will fall in love with it (and with Sinead Lohen).
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The Magical Music of Disney
Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003D0K Release Date: 1995-04-18 |
Tracks:
- Suite From The Lion King: This Land-Circle Of Life
- Suite From The Lion King: I Just Can't Wait To Be King
- Suite From The Lion King: Hakuna Matata
- Suite From The Lion King: Be Prepared
- Suite From The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight
- Suite From The Lion King: King Of Pride Rock
- Suite From Aladdin: Arabian Nights
- Suite From Aladdin: One Jump Ahead
- Suite From Aladdin: Friend Like Me
- Suite From Aladdin: A Whole New World
- Suite From Aladdin: Prince Ali
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Introduction
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Part Of Your World
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Under The Sea
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Poor Unfortunate Souls
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Les Poissons
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Kiss The Girl
- Suite From The Little Mermaid: Happy Ending
- Suite From Beauty And The Beast: Prologue
- Suite From Beauty And The Beast: Belle
- Suite From Beauty And The Beast: Be Our Guest
- Suite From Beauty And The Beast: Gaston
- Suite From Beauty And The Beast: Beauty And The Beast
Customer Reviews:
Disney.......2004-11-30
Wonderful Orchestrals.......2002-02-11
under the sea.......2000-04-30
under the sea.......2000-04-30
I believe!.......2000-01-29
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The Yellow River Concerto
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00001NTMT Release Date: 1999-09-28 |
Tracks:
- The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Prelude: The Song Of The Yellow River Boatmen
- The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Ode To The Yellow River
- The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): The Yellow River In Anger
- The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Defend The Yellow River
- Colourful Clouds
- Happy Loso
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Elegy
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Friendship
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Nostalgia
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Grassland Love-Song
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Children's Dance
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Sorrow
- Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Dance
- The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Ginseng
- The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Coral
- The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Waterweed
- The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Wedding Scene
- Red Lilies Crimson And Bright
- Three Variations On An Ancient Chinese Melody
Customer Reviews:
Composer, premiere player, soloist - Yin Cheng-zong's authentic Yellow River Concerto.......2007-07-03
Lang Lang recently made a new recording of this piece with DG.
I heard master Yin play this piece (in Lang Lang's stead) last evening in Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and he moved me to tears.
Yin Cheng-zong is over 60 years old now. He lived through the various turmoils of China. It requires life experience and patriotism to interpret this piece, so very sorry, I haven't heard any foreign pianist playing this piece yet, let alone on record.
HOWEVER, Yin Cheng-zong did made a recording of this piece with Claudio Abbado, but the recording has never been released by the PRC official broadcasting agency. Yin himself claims that this was one of the most memorable performances he had of this piece - Abbado understands the piece so well that Yin was highly amazed!
The foremost player and interpretor of this piece remains Yin Cheng-zong, but I must say that ALSO hearing Lang Lang playing this piece a couple of days ago (also in Hong Kong), Lang's playing of this piece is vastly improving.
something missing and deadly wrong here.......2006-11-07
but the composer of this 'yellow river' was educated in the chinese communist system, his composition was still dominated subjectively by the blind chinese revolutionary passion, the concerto from the very beginning sounds like listening to a cultural revolution marching song, banging and pounding so headstrong against almost all the foreign elements, condemning so viciously and so mercilessly with hatred, like revolutionary army at wars, like those stupid formula musicals, songs and plays created in the cultural revolution era to please the butcher chairman mao. there's almost no big difference here. when you listen to this concerto, only a small part and portion make you feel like something good and wonderful offered by the river, most part of it sounds too clueless military.
we all knew that the chinese civilization and it's culture was originated from the yellow river, it's like a mother of china. yes, yellow river is always unpreditable and changing, its inevitable floodings in the history caused a lot of deaths and tragedies, but a river could never be always so merciless and vicious. this concerto and this music is not an appropriate interpretation of the yellow river but a chinese communist revolutionary marching song by a die hard communist composer. it's a very bad concerto actually.
Contains many piano solo treasures.......2006-03-26
Trust me~ You will never get tired of it........2004-08-07
Very nice Music.......2003-01-15
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Heigh-Ho! Mozart
Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000709 Release Date: 1995-06-16 |
Tracks:
- Colors of the Wind in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
- Heigh-Ho! In the Style Of - Shanghai Quartet
- Beauty and the Beast in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
- Second Star to the Right in the Style Of - Voices of Ascension
- Under the Sea in the Style Of - Millar Brass Ensemble
- I Wanna Be Like You in the Style Of - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Can You Feel the Love Tonight? - English Chamber Orchestra
- With a Smile and a Song in the Style Of - Carol Rosenberger
- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? [In the Style Of] [In the Style Of... - English Chamber Orchestra
- Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
- Main Street Electrical Parade [in the Style Of Mozart] [In the Style of - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
- Feed the Birds [In the Style Of...] - Shanghai Quartet
- Little April Shower in the Style Of - Anthony Newman
- Winnie the Pooh in the Style Of - Shanghai Quartet
- Prince Ali in the Style Of - Millar Brass Ensemble
- When You Wish upon a Star in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
Customer Reviews:
Delightful Disney Music.......2007-03-28
Uncle Walt would be quite honored!.......2006-12-20
Well, Donald Frasier and a bevy of musicians have compiled a wonderful collection of interpretations of familiar Disney tunes, many from Walt's time, along with a few latter day compositions.
Every selection is a winner, destined to make the listener reflect and recall the films from which they came. And if one is familiar with composer whose musical style is "copied" here, the album is a treasure.
Fabulous CD.......2006-10-04
Each song is in the style of a different classical composer, and usually in the style of one of their more specific songs. One with a trained ear will hear chords and melodies in almost perfect similitude of the original.
I can listen to this CD over and over and never get bored. How could you be bored when you're hearing all of your favorite old Disney songs in a new exciting way?
sleeping to Disney.......2006-07-30
this is a treasure.......2003-05-11
Mexican Music:
- Minnesota Timberwolves: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- More Clower Power
- Muhammad Ali: An Audio Tribute
- Mutha Is Half a Word [Explicit Lyrics]
- Neither Bought for Gold Nor to [Import]
- New York Knicks: Go New York Go, Vol. 1
- No Looking Back [Live]
- Norwegian Tales of Enchantment
- Nuff Said
- Odd Times - Workout in "Odd" Time Signatures
Mexican Music
Saint-Saens, Bach, Kreisler and others
The Safari Records Singles Collection, Pt. 1: 1979-1981 [Import]
Tejanisimo: 15 Canciones Favoritas
To Lefty From Willie [Enhanced] [Original recording remastered]