Tolerance [Import]

Tolerance [Import]

Track Listings

1. Mama

2. Is Anything Changing?

3. 1812

4. When I'll Be Back

5. It's Up To You

6. In Comparison With Us

7. To The Son

8. Camera

9. Go The Way Ones More

10. Somewhere

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Russian Hard Rock A-La Whitesnake/Van Halen.

Tracks:

Set No. 1 (10): I. Scherzo: The See'r
Set No. 1 (10): II. A Lecture
Set No. 1 (10): III. The Ruined River
Set No. 1 (10): IV. Like A Sick Eagle
Set No. 1 (10): V. Calcium Night Light
Set No. 1 (10): VI. Allegretto sombreoso ('When The Moon')
Set No. 2 (11): I. Largo: The Indians
Set No. 2 (11): II. 'Gyp The Blood' Or Hearst!? Which Is Worst?!
Set No. 2 (11): III. Andante: The Last Reader
Set No. 3 (12): I. Adagio sostenuto: At Sea
Set No. 3 (12): II. Luck And Work
Set No. 3 (12): III. Premonitions
Set For Theatre Orchestra (20): I. In The Cage
Set For Theatre Orchestra (20): II. In The Inn (Pot-pourri)
Set For Theatre Orchestra (20): III. In The Night
Set No. 5: The Other Side Of Pioneering, Or Side Lights On American Enterprise (14): I. The New River - London Voices
Set No. 5: The Other Side Of Pioneering, Or Side Lights On American Enterprise (14): III. Charlie Rutlage
Set No. 5: The Other Side Of Pioneering, Or Side Lights On American Enterprise (14): IV. Ann Street
Set No. 6: From The Side Hill (15): I. Mists
Set No. 6: From The Side Hill (15): II. The Rainbow
Set No. 6: From The Side Hill (15): IV. Evening
The Pond (40)
Set No. 7: Water Colors (16): The Pond - Remembrance
Set No. 1: I. The See'r (343) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 1: II. Tolerance (377) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 1: III. The New River (308) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 1: IV. Like A Sick Eagle (288) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 1: VI. The 'Incantation' - Susan Narucki
Set No. 2: The Indians (283) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 2: Ann Street (211) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 2: III. The Last Reader (286) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 3: I. At Sea (213) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 3: II. Luck And Work (293) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 3: III. Premonitions (328) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 5: III. Charlie Rutlage - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 6: I. Mists (II) (301) - Susan Narucki
Set No. 6: II. The Rainbow (So May It Be!) (330) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 6: IV. Evening (244) - Alan Feinberg
Set No. 7: III. Remembrance (322) - Alan Feinberg

Customer Reviews:

A "Must" for Ives fans.......2002-07-21

I could go on and on about Ives, but it would be rather pointless in this case. The bare-bones facts of the matter is that this is an excellent disc and is a must for those whose Ives collection needs fleshed out with some of the smaller and more elusive works.

Ives, the Recycler.......2001-11-06

It is a well-known fact that many composers have gotten into the habit of rewriting and/or recycling older compositions as something new. For example, Handel recycled a lot of his organ concertos as concertos for harp and/or harpsichord, as well as a number of recorder sonatas. Ives was very keen on recycling his own works in different formats. One only has to peruse certain of the Ives songs, for instance, to realize that some of that material showed up in his symphonies. His fourth symphony alone sports two movements which were recycled: one from the first string quartet, and one from a song.
It is refreshing to see, at last, a collection which demonstrates so thoroughly Ives's process of recycling not only his own tunes but other people's as well. In particular I was pleased to see that this recording includes "Calcium Light Night" which uses George F. Root's "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" Also we have what is perhaps the first recording on CD of The Pond, which Ives wrote as a tribute to his father who used to play "Kathleen Mavourneen" on the trumpet at a pond near their home in Danbury, Connecticut. I was surprised to learn that Ives had rewritten The Pond not just once but twice.
I find myself in agreement, by the way, with the other reviewer concerning the omission of the song "The Cage" which is a lovely and very brief song. However, this particular song is available on other recordings of Ives's work, such as the recording of Ives songs by Jan deGaetani and Gilbert Kalish, so I didn't miss it that much.

Ives at his best.......2001-06-14

I finished listening to this CD a little while ago and I'm still glowing. It's a creative bit of programming in a well-performed, well-engineered reaslization. First come Ives's pieces for chamber orchestra, grouped as he intended into his idiosyncratic "sets." Then come the same pieces again, in the same order, in their versions for voice and piano. Some of the orchestral music. such as "Evening" was unknown to me. Others, like "Charlie Rutledge," I knew only as songs. (The orchestral arrangement of "Rutledge" is an eye-opener--it's like Copland by way of Varese.) Loveliest of all is the voice of the soprano Susan Narucki. Her interpretation of the Se'er (Set No. 1) seemed rather strident on first hearing, but in the softer, slower songs she gave me chills, esp. "Like a Sick Eagle" and "The Indians." The CD also includes a fine rendition of the Set for Theater Orchestra. Conductor Richard Bernas and his ensemble do well by the broken, sad-yet-happy ragtime of "In the Inn." The only omission in the collection is a vocal performance of "In the Cage"--the first of the three pieces. The other two don't have vocals counterparts, but "In the Cage" does, and one wonders why Bernas and company decided not to include it.

I have always believed that some of Ives's best music can be found in his pieces for chamber orchestra, in which, surprisingly, he uses his signature quotation technique only sparingly. Most of the tunes are original. The music is undiluted Ives, and it is wonderful.

Good programing, great performances.......2001-05-11

Yes, Ives was nuts. He composed brilliant songs, then orchestrated the music, leaving out the words, calling the result "Sets for Theater Orchestra". Or vice versa. This is the first CD that includes alterantive Ives versions side by side, giving you both the songs and the orchestra music. The comparisons are fascinating and the performances are terrific. Sandford Sylvan is a great American singer and the orchestra is right on top of things.

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Lovely, delicate and sparse

Room Full of Easels

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Release Date: 2004-06-15

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Lovely, delicate and sparse.......2006-08-14

Ruben Garcia is a pianist whose style and timbre is similar to Harold Budd. If you are a fan of "The Plateaux of Mirror", then you will enjoy being taken away by this recording. The last track, unfortunately, is not a graceful or illuminating, but still a gorgeous CD. Long songs. Like angel feet on thin ice, the wind tracing its speech on the water, this is not dark ambient,but makes the sun shine inside me.

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True Story re: this album
There should be a 0 star rating...
I have a theory about this one
Creative license to tickle the soul -- the map is not the territory
Wait... What?

Zero Tolerance for Silence
Pat Metheny
Manufacturer: Umvd/Ryko
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Customer Reviews:

True Story re: this album.......2007-07-11

The townhouse next door to mine was for sale. The realtor brought a very unsavory-looking couple to look at it and I thought, "Oh, I hope THEY don't move in!" Suddenly, I had a brainstorm! I opened all the windows to my house, inserted Zero Tolerance in the CD player- and cranked it up!!!
Needless to say, the prospective buyers left very shortly thereafter and were never seen again.
I love Pat Metheny and I would buy any of his albums without a listen prior to the release of this monstrosity.

There should be a 0 star rating..........2007-06-23

I can't imagine how this got as many stars as it did. It's not texturally, rhythmically, melodically, or harmonically beautiful in any possible way. Listening to it is physically painful - and don't try to tell me that has its own kind of beauty! Someone with no musical sense at all, who had never before seen a guitar, could make better "music" than this. I can't believe it got recorded! I can only think that the gifted Mr. Metheny is laughing hysterically because "Zero Tolerance for Silence" is being taken seriously by anyone.

I have a theory about this one.......2007-03-22

I think it was an experiment: "Can I make an album of outside guitar playing ... using my FEET?

Creative license to tickle the soul -- the map is not the territory.......2006-08-12

It's not surprising that there are critics who can't, or at least don't, seem to understand the aesthetic of these pieces (especially someone who claims to have 3 music degrees and might need a 4th). I believe they contain an enormously welcome degree of beauty and freedom -- texturally, rhythmically, melodically, harmonically.

It appears that worship of the conventional is a trap that mauls the possibilities of what exists outside of our limited experiences, and this album is not conventional by any means. Yet there is a convention in this recording which is personal to Pat Metheny, whether it was an intended output, coalesced into abject musical anger in the heat of disgust, or evolved into a perverted joke's punchline.

One doesn't justifiably say that Derek Bailey is full of crap and a musical preschooler, or Eugene Chadbourne is sloppy and doesn't know anything about how to get a decent tone out of an axe. Roscoe Mitchell - Have you ever heard his tirades of notes, the several minutes of all-out circularly breathed otherworldly soprano sax bliss? He's Mick Barr of the reeds. There are others, as well, who are scrutinized under the microscope of convention, yet are masters whose advanced souls holographically express in everything they play; their dynamics, hidden polyrhythms and melodic patterns, musical "accidents."

Pat Metheny, likewise, holds a mastery which derives its own personality, and in that regard, exudes something multidimensional and way deeper than the surface noise that some people can't get beyond. He has, as does anyone, a license to change mind about what convention is, in any given moment, and flow with it, even if it flows backwards.

I think it would be great if Pat Metheny would more frequently offer a recording of equally daring creative expression, to demonstrate his evolution of aesthetic.

It's all there; the perfect beauty in the malformation, the extreme bliss of a frenetic interpretive dance. This album goes where no other goes.

IMHO, those that say it goes in the trash don't seem to get the point.

Wait... What?.......2006-08-04

Wow. When I first started listening to this album, I knew the huge amounts of controversy behind it. It is just Pat, playing over himself in huge amounts of disonance and noise. Part One to me just seemed like the same noise over and over again for almost twenty minutes, and I didn't get much listen out of that. Parts Two-Five however seem much more interesting to me. I am an avid Metheny fan, and although I have no degree in music, I understand it very well. I have played jazz trumpet for eight years and listen to the rest of his works as a means of escape from standard, strait-ahead jazz. His manipulation of rhythmic meters and styles that set him apart from the rest of the jazz world are just facinating to me, along with his outstanding ability to pump out an amazingly musical improvised solo.

This work however, is unlike anything I've ever heard. I'm not sure if you would call it jazz or rock or anything for that matter. It's at such an extreme to the musical spectrum that it is in its own way... facinating. It's definitely not something that I would listen to every day, but the disonance and occasional out of tune notes along with the melodies and countermelodies of raw, noise improv are still cool at times.

I read that this was Pat's way of saying "F-you" to his record label... whos contract forced him to come out with a new album of sorts that he did not want to do. Despite its craziness, I still believe that Pat Metheny is a genius, and even at his rawest and angriest form, still pumps out a very interesting and unique album.

I don't recommend this to avid Metheny listeners, but to those who are bent on completing their collection and finding what this album is all about... I say go for it.

The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2

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The Complete Songs of Charles Ives, Vol. 2

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Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: I Travelled Among Unknow Men
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Allegro
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Feldeinsamkeit
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Harpalus
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: The Light That Is Felt
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Du Alte Mutter
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: God Bless And Keep Thee
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Du Alte Mutter
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Slugging A Vampire
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Tarrant Mass
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Karen
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Dreams
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: The World's Highway
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Because Of You
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Romanzo Di Central Park
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Because Thou Art
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: I Knew And Loved A Maid
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Her Gown Was Of Vermilion Silk
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Flag Song
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Spring Song
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Ich Grolle Nicht
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Widmung
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: We Melodien
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: There Is A Lane
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Elegie
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Evidence
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Berceuse
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Rough Wind
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: South Wind
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: No More
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: On Judge's Walk
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: A Night Thought
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Song Of The Dead
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Where The Eagle
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Tolerance
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: The Love Song Of Har Dyal
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Omens And Oracles
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Those Evening Bells
The Complete Songs Of Charles Ives: Fruhlingslied

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R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner. Thanks for your music and vision.

Zero Tolerance
Chuck Schuldiner
Manufacturer: Candlelight
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R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner. Thanks for your music and vision........2005-09-20

This double CD of loose ends by Chuck Schuliner is a miss mash of early and late Death & Control Denied demos and live stuff. I personally really enjoyed this release and appreciate the fact they DID NOT polish the original demos. The rawness lets me picture how they originally sounded like in the 80's to record execs contemplating signing Death. A major con is the liner notes written by I don't know who but he spouts negativity over the struggle to release this material after Chuck's passing. I am not an insider but however brutal Death's music was and became, Chuck's overall message evolved into and about positive energy and hope. I don't see how Chuck can be happy with the negative liner notes which left me cold and on top of that the grammar and spelling is horrible!!! How can that happen? Shame on the liner note writer but props to the natural sounding collection of demos for me to own and cherish.

.......2005-09-04

What can you do when you have the choice to purchase a 2-disc compilation comprised of unreleased Control Denied material but you know that such material was released against the wishes of the Schuldiner family? It could be a hard decision to make, especially when you consider the legacy of this Metal legend and the well-documented tribulations he went through before his passing. Anyhow, four rehearsals, vocal-less tracks of unreleased Control Denied material begin this compilation, and it pretty much showcases Chuck's vision of progressive power metal with the Death touch. Next, we have Death's 1985 "Infernal Death" demo, 1986's "Mutilation" demo, "Death by Metal" demo and "Reign in terror" demos-all raw and unpolished in their own way but very enjoyable. A young Chuck spews forth demonic verses of perversity and malignancy. Finally, we have a live show recorded during the "Spiritual Healing" tour, and it is the essential Death show. All in all, this is a nice package that should please fans of Chuck, especially his early years but at the same time it makes you wonder whether the Control Denied should have just been kept behind doors until the Schuldiner family felt it was the `right' time for its proper release. Not a nice way to glorify Chuck's pioneering; one can only hope there wasn't any ulterior motives behind this release.

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Tolerance

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Z-Ro Tolerance
Z-Ro
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Start your collection now
creative electric violin and percussion

Tolerance for Ambiguity
Caryn Lin
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Customer Reviews:

Start your collection now.......2003-12-30

Caryn Lin's CD is a blend of soft dream-scapes and energetic rhythms. Her sound is much more organic than synthesizer especially with the good use of percussive elements in tandem with the electric violin. Each song is distinctive which will only draw you in further.

Her live shows are quite magical and her latest CD, "No one to blame", comes closest to capturing that magic. Start your collection now.

creative electric violin and percussion.......2000-06-25

Track samples here don't do justice to the disc's entrancing rhythms and intriguing electric violin play. (Only two tracks have vocals.) Some tracks are upbeat, percussive and funky. A couple have hooks that can run in your head for hours. Others are spare, bleak. You might call them "depressing" and avoid them or you might call them "haunting" or just "moody."
I prefer Caryn Lin's Honour the Rain to this CD because it's a little warmer and its title track is an incredibly evocative five minutes of percussion, melody, and changing landscapes.

A Song - For Anything: Songs by Charles Ives

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One of the best recitals of 2005
Near Definitive Ives Songbook Handled with Dexterity and Subtlety by Finley and Drake
31 of 114... (please do them all!)
The Finest Charles Ives Song Collection Available!

A Song - For Anything: Songs by Charles Ives

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One of the best recitals of 2005.......2006-06-09

Over the years, the sparkling, quirky, haunting songs of Charles Ives have been interpreted by many of the world's great singers. I first encountered many of them through Jan DeGaetani's still-moving recording with Gilbert Kalish, which remains one of the best ever of some of these gems.

But now we have a stunning new collection from baritone Gerald Finley, with his fine pianist Julius Drake. They have created not only one of the most definitive readings of Ives' songs to date, but one of the finest recitals of the year, period. The pleasures and surprises are almost too many to list, beginning with Finley's mellifluous voice, immaculate diction, and theatricality that helps shape these songs with unusual clarity. As just one example, consider the first part of "Memories" called "Very Pleasant," evoking the anticipation of sitting in the audience, waiting for a performance to begin. As the final word, the singer blurts out, "Curtain!" and Finley is the only one I've heard who throws his voice far away, as if the shout is coming from one of the stagehands, waiting in the wings. Not only does this make the ending more prototypically "Ives-ian," but the song makes more sense with the unexpected change in point of view.

Some of the quieter songs are just ravishing, such as "Ich Grolle Nicht" and "When stars are in the quiet skies," both with intimacy and control to spare. One of my personal favorites, "Like a sick eagle" (text by Keats), shows Finley's exquisite precision in navigating quarter-tones, creating a languid image of a dying bird slowly circling in the air. Drake is more than just an accompanist in all of these, in piano parts that are often fiendishly complex, such as "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" or the marvelous "The Cage."

The winsome "Ann Street" and poignant "The Greatest Man" both end abruptly, with tiny offhand phrases that Finley nails perfectly. And there are treasures such as the rarely recorded "Slugging a Vampire" -- as swift as the title might indicate -- and the equally delightful "1,2,3."

One could go on and on in endless detail about the entire array of 31 songs (chosen from the 114 available), but the best thing is just to get to the most pleasant part: listening. If I have a small quibble (and make no mistake, it is very small), it is that Hyperion's gorgeous, rather tranquil cover art gives no clue to Ives' wild imagination, and to the blazing work by his two outstanding interpreters here. (It looks more like a cover for something by Delius.) But it hardly matters, when both of these artists are in such rapturous form -- and captured so effectively by Hyperion's engineers. The sound, recorded in All Saints Church, East Finchley (London) is a model for projects of this kind. A release that is sure to go down as one of the finest Ives recordings ever.

Near Definitive Ives Songbook Handled with Dexterity and Subtlety by Finley and Drake.......2006-04-21

I have to admit I've had exposure to relatively unheralded American composer Charles Ives' work only twice in the past - the first was baritone Nathan Gunn's vibrant sampling of three Ives compositions on his 1999 debut recital CD, "American Anthem", and the second was soprano Deborah Voigt's recent recital disc, "All My Heart", in which she impressively opens the recording with seven hymn-like selections. With his acute dramatic sense and unobtrusive masculine tone, Canadian baritone Gerald Finley manages to bring his own impressive vocal shadings and consequently turns out to be the ideal muse for Ives' eclectic and unique song selection. Thirty-one of the composer's over 100 songs are covered here, some as short as 28 seconds ("Slugging the Vampire"), but each very individual in feeling and character.

Expertly accompanied by the accomplished Julius Drake on piano, Finley deftly performs an immensely diverse range of material from the traditional lied format of "Feldeinsamkeit" and "Ich grolle nicht" to the haunting pastoral images of "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" to the youthful zeal of "The Greatest Man" to the swooning romanticism of "When Stars are in the Quiet Skies" to the funereal dirge of "Thoreau". The adventurous sequencing of the tracks also provides the right dynamic to the program. For example, a Brahms-inspired lullaby ("Berceuse") is followed by a passionate diatribe against poverty ("West London"), which is then followed by a sentimental war ballad ("Tom Sails Away"). In one selection, the tonal change occurs midway through the song - the aptly titled "Memories (A) Very Pleasant; (B) Rather Sad" starts out as a jaunty account of an exciting night at the opera, while the second half becomes a wistful piece of nostalgia using the same tune.

My favorite performances on the disc are the stunning evocation of a French chanson, "Elegie"; the highly dramatic poem, "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven", full of jarring of rhythms and shouts of "Hallelujah!" to evoke the religion-fueled stanzas; "Charlie Rutledge", in which Finley evokes a bit over-the-top Texas twang to bring a blackly comic touch to an oddly tragic story; and the touching title song which closes the disc - a moving ballad consisting of three verses from three different sources - a love poem, a psalm and a Yale song - yet together quite compatible. I was quite impressed with Finley's portrayal of Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams' "Doctor Atomic", staged by the San Francisco Opera last fall, and also his moving performance as the title character in Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave" (a 2001 cinematic production on DVD). This recording shows that he is able to translate his dramatic skills with dexterous ease into a recital setting.

31 of 114... (please do them all!).......2005-11-20

I have always wondered why there aren't a few readily-available recordings of the complete 114 songs of Charles Ives. Not just that it would be cheap to produce (piano and vocal only, filling up about 3 CDs), and not just that this is one of the most significant collections of American songs ever written (along with Gershwin's), and not just that these songs loom large in the overall Ives canon along with the Symphonies and Piano Sonatas.... It's mostly that they are just plain enjoyable to listen to and some of the most "accessible" Ives there is. Interestingly, it's a Canadian baritone and a British pianist coming through here with a great selection of 31 Ives songs covering the wide range of moods -- nostalgic, experimental, free-wheeling, silly, profound -- found in these miniature masterpieces. Let's hope they keep going and record the entire 114 (and that Hyperion survives the absurd legal trouble they find themselves in -- help them out by buying some of their CDs this month!)

The Finest Charles Ives Song Collection Available!.......2005-10-17

Charles Ives, that wondrous American iconoclast, wrote 114 songs, songs that vary in content from comedic to nostalgic to patriotic to German lieder (!) to operatic. Here brilliant baritone Gerald Finley and his gifted piano collaborator Julius Drake have selected a fine range of that output in 31 songs that not only demonstrate the spectrum of Ives' creativity, but also give notice that Canadian Gerald Finley may just be the foremost authority on how Ives' songs should be performed.

Included in no particular order (except thoughtful programming!) are such very familiar songs as 'General William Booth Enters into Heaven', 'When stars are in the quiet skies', 'Serenity', 'Tolerance', and 'Ann Street' along with the lesser known early German lieder composed in his early formative years. One of the revelations on this elegant recital is 'The Housatonic at Stockbridge' which lends text to the extraordinary last movement of Ives' orchestral 'Three Places in New England'.

Finley's diction is impeccable and his baritone voice is pliant throughout his wide range. He conveys the essence of these texts as well as any interpreter ever has. Julius Drake provides exemplary piano accompaniment. This is one of the finest recordings released this year. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, October 05

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Zero Tolerance
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