Black Winter Day [EP]

Black Winter Day [EP]

Track Listings

1. Black Winter Day

2. Folk of the North

3. Moon and Sun

4. Moon and Sun, Pt. 2: North's Son

Tracks:

Ah Robin (Round)
And Let Me The Cannikin Clink
And Will He Not Come Again
Be Merry, Be Merry
Black Spirits
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
Bonny Sweet Robin
But Shall I Go Mourn
Can'st Thou Not Hit It
Come Away
Come Away, Hecate
Come Live With Me
Come O'er The Burn
Come Thou Monarch (Version 2)(Round)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
A Cup Of Wine
Farewell, Dear Heart
Fathers That Wear Rags
Fear No More
Fie On Sinful Fantasy
Fill The Cup (Round)
Flout 'Em And Cout 'Em (Round)
Fools Had Ne'er Less Grace
For I'll Cut My Green Coat
The Friar And The Nun
Full Fathom Five
The George Alow (Version 1)
Get You Hence
The God Of Love
Hark, Hark The Lark
Have I Caught My Heavenly Jewel
Heart's Ease
Hold Thy Peace (Version 2)(Round)
Honor, Riches
I Am Gone Sir
I Loathe The I Did Love
It Was A Lover And His Lass
Jepha
Jog On
Jolly Shepherd (Round)
King Stephen Was A Worthy Peer
Lawn As White
Love, Love, Nothing But Love (Version 2)
The Master, The Swabber (Version 2)
No More Dams
An Old Hare Hoar (Version 1)
O Mistress Mine (Version 1)
Orpheus With His Lute
O Sweet Oliver
Pardon Goddess Of The Night
Roses Their Sharp Spines
Sigh No More, Ladies
Some Men For Sudden Joy (Version 1)
Take, O Take Those Lips
Tell Me, Where Is Fancy Bred
That Sir Which Serves
There Dwelt A Man In Babylon (Version 1)
There Was Three Fools
Three Merry Men (Round)
Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day
Under The Greenwood Tree
Up And Down (Round)
Urns And Odours Bring Away
Walsingham
Was This Fair Face
Wedding Is Great Juno's Crown
What Shall He Have (Round)
When Arthur First In Court
When Daffodils Begin To Peer
When Daisies Pied
When Griping Grief
When Icicles Hang By The Wall
When That I Was And A Little Tyne Boy
Where The Bee Sucks
While You Here Do Snoring Lie
Who Is Silvia
Why Let The Strucken Deer
Willow, Willow (Version 1)
Will You Buy Any Tape
The Woosel Cock
You Spotted Snakes

Tracks:

Awake, Awake
Battle Of Agincourt
Bride's Goodmorrow
Broom
Callino
Carmen's Whitle
Chi Passa
Come Kiss Me, Kate (Round)
Come Thou Monarch (Version 1)
Cup Of Wine (Version 1)
Damon
Daphne
Diana (2 Versions)
Dulcina
Eglamore
Eighty-Eight
Fortune My Foe
George Alow (Version 2)
Glass Doth Run
Goddesses
Go From My Window
Greensleeves (2 Versions)
Guy Of Warwick
Hem Boys (2 Versions)
Hey Ho for A Husband (2 Versions)
Hobbyhorse
Hold Thy Peace (Versions 1 & 3)
Hunt's Up
I Cannot Come Every Day (2 Versions)
In Crete
In Peascod Time
Jack Boy (Round)
King Cophetua
King Lear
King Solomon
Light O Love
Loath To Depart (2 Versions)
Love, Love (Version 1)
Master, Swabber (Version 1)
Mounsier Mingo
Mounsieur's Almaine
My Mind To Me
Nutmegs (Of All The Birds)
Nutmegs (Wooing Of The Baker's Daughter)
O Death (2 Versions)
Old Hare Hoar (Version 2)
O Mistress Mine (Version 2)
O' The Twelfth Day Of December
Oyster Pie
Peg A Ramsey (2 Versions)
Phillida (3 Versions)
Please One
Pyramus
Queen Dido (2 Versions)
Ratcatcher
Rich Jew
Robin Goodfellow
Robin Hood
Rogero
Rowland
Sellenger's Round
Shore's Wife (2 Versions)
Sick, Sick (3 Vesions)
Some Men For Sudden Joy (Round)
There Dwelt A Man (Version 2)
Titus Andronicus
Tom A Bedlam (2 Versions)
Troilus
Troy Town
Wellady
Whenas We Sat In Babylon
Where Is The Life
Whoop
Why Let The Strucken (If Care Do Cause)
Willow, Willow (Version 2)
Will Ye Buy A Fine Dog
With A Fading

Average customer rating:

PURE GENIUS
Must have for any Amorphis fan
Well worth the money
From Amorphis's best era
wonderful

Black Winter Day
Amorphis
Manufacturer: Relapse
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Progressive Metal | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music

Death Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music

Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Chapters
Far from the Sun
Elegy
My Kantele

ASIN: B000001128
Release Date: 1995-01-31

Tracks:

Black Winter Day
Folk Of The North
Moon And Sun
Moon And Sun Part II: North's Sun

Customer Reviews:

PURE GENIUS.......2002-04-05

Any true Amorphis fan must own this cd. Yeah i don't like paying money for 4 songs but these 4 songs are amazing. Black Winter Day is from Tales from 1000 lakes. Folk of the North is a beautiful instrumental and Moon and the Sun parts 1 and 2 both demonstrate the great writing talent that Amorphis possess. This album is like a mellow version of Tales from 1000 lakes. I suggest this to anyone who appreciates brilliant music.

Must have for any Amorphis fan.......2001-06-03

This EP features one song ("Black Winter Day") pulled from their previous effort, "Tales From the Thousand Lakes" and a few tracks left from that recording session. The best song is the grinding yet mellow "Moon and Sun Part II: North's Sun," their best song on any recording!

If you are a fan of "Tales From the Thousand Lakes," or atmospheric death metal in general, this must be included in your collection.

Well worth the money.......2000-07-23

I am not a huge fan of EP's. Lets face it, who likes paying $... for 4 or 5 songs? But let me tell you, this is worth it. After hearing Tales... and Elegy, and falling in love with them, I took a chance on this EP. I love all the songs on it. All these songs were performed during the Tales... sessions. If you thought Tales... lacked some keyboards then you need to get this. These songs are definitely not lacking in the keyboard department. For any diehard Amorphis fan or a fan of good solid death metal.

From Amorphis's best era.......2000-07-16

For me, _Tales from the Thousand Lakes_ was the best Amorphis album. Not as epic as Elegy, but it was as thoughtful, with the most dense, heavy, and rich texture they have ever achieved.

The Black Winter Day EP contains songs written during that time. These songs are even more focused on the feel of the folk tales. The keyboard work on these songs is as central to these songs as it is on Black Winter Day (the song).

I usually hate keyboards, but the keyboard/moog parts are especially effective in these songs and blend as well with the guitars as the guitar leads do.

Basically, this is more from the keyboard-driven side of _Thousand Lakes_.

wonderful.......1999-12-04

this is a wonderful album,awesome atmosphere to it the track black winter day has some neat instrumental work in it and other tracks as well but the album cover is just plain goregeous the art work is great

My Native Land: A Collection of American Songs

Average customer rating:

Very Good Intro to American Art Songs
Excellent recording, lots of photos, partial texts.
Terrific Songs, Great Artistry

My Native Land: A Collection of American Songs

Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Larmore, Jennifer | Divas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, Vaness, Asawa
But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972
A Month In The Country
All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs
Stefano Donaudy: Amor mi fa cantare

ASIN: B000000S9V
Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

He's Gone Away
The Little Horses
Ching-a-Ring Chaw
At The River
Zion's Walls
In The Fields
Bessie Bobtail op 2, no 3
I Hear an Army, op 10
Sure on this Shining Night op.13, no 3
Rain Has Fallen, op.10
To Say Before Going To Sleep
White in the Moon
The Leather-Winged Bat
Barb'ry Allen
Sleep Now
Winter Song
Twentieth Century
A Letter
The Astronomers
T'is Winter Now
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day
Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace
Black is The Color of My True Love's Hair
Soldier, Soldier
Heart! We Will Forget Him!
Richard Cory
Fee Simple
My Native Land
The Things Our Fathers Loved
Memories

Customer Reviews:

Very Good Intro to American Art Songs.......2006-04-02

'My Native Land', a collection of 30 pieces sung by mezzo soprano Jennifer Larmore, accompanied on piano by Antoine Palloc is an excellent tutorial in the American art song. As the introduction states, the art song is as much or more at home in America than any other form of 'classical' music. This became quite clear to me the moment I realized that Stephen Foster's songs were as much of the style of Shubert as they were of native American gospel songs.

This makes it especially odd that there are no Stephen Foster songs on this album. I take this to be an effort on the part of the artist and her producers to focus on less familiar material and thereby educate us about Jake Heggie, Lee Hoiby, John Duke, Richard Hundley, Lora Aborn, John Jacob Niles, Robert Abramson and Charles Naginski and thereby concentrating on 20th century composers joining the better known Charles Ives, Samuel Barber, and Aaron Copeland.

Larmone is not my favorite mezzo and, like another reviewer, have found her doing things I did not totally enjoy, but it seems as if the material in this album fits her to a Tee. It makes me wish she would do a Stephen Foster album.

Recommended.

Excellent recording, lots of photos, partial texts........2005-06-09

I defer to the excellent review below, and to that in the December 1997 Gramophone 12/1997. Just a brief note for purchasers that, for reasons not totally justified by copyright concerns, only nine of the thirty sung texts are reproduced in the original Teldec release booklet - and none at all in the Elatus reissue. Generous total timing 74'58.

Terrific Songs, Great Artistry.......2000-09-25

In an effort to promote American culture abroad, I purchased this CD as a gift for a European friend. After two weeks of previewing it in my home, I'm keeping it for myself! Simply put, I can't remember the last time I have enjoyed a disc of songs as much as this one. No one is more surprised than me, since in the past I haven't always warmed to Larmore's singing, live or on record. Even here there are times when her vocal idiosyncrasies get in the way of what she wants to do. The lower register often takes on a strangely occluded quality, while some of her high notes slice the air with piercing shrillness. It's a highly accomplished voice that, to my ears, lacks consistent beauty. But to be fair, for much of this disc she sounds perfectly fine: a handsome, pleasingly dark sound, notable for its flexibility and legato.

What earns her five stars, however, is her artistry. She brings an arrestingly broad range of responses to this music. Like the nation that produced them, American songs are highly diverse, drawing from folk, European, religious, and pop idioms, to name just a few. Larmore is in full command of this diversity and alters her tone and delivery to bring each number home. Furthermore, she seems really to have read and thought about the texts. Every word counts. When the music can handle it, she lays it on thick and "acts" her way through the song, such as in Copland's "Ching a Ring" or Heggie's "Barb'ry Allen." But she wisely knows when to to hold back and let the melody carry the point, as in Barber's famous "Sure on this Shining Night" or Ives's "My Native Land." (Many accomplished Lieder singers never learn this lesson.) Once or twice she's a little off target (the first track, unfortunately), but this disc gave me a new respect for her art.

It helps that she's chosen such a fascinating group of songs. The Copland and Barber are well known, and recently Heggie is on everyone's lips, but much of the rest rarely makes it to disc. I particularly liked the gorgeous Aborn numbers, with their wistful sentimentality, and the quirky Duke pieces. Hundley's "Astronomers" is a haunting, unforgettable piece. Her inclusion of three Ives songs reminds us that it's time singers of her caliber returned to his oeuvre. Many of her choices stress different kinds of longing, that most American of emotions, but there's enough of a variety to prevent sameness. She also shines in several "patter songs," delivered with lightning wit. Palloc performs his role admirably.

I enthusiastically recommend this disc. Brava Jennifer!

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