Voice of Wilderness [Enhanced]

Voice of Wilderness [Enhanced]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Korpiklaani captures the essence of Finnish life and embeds it in their music. Their second album, Voice of Wilderness, brings the listener into the Finnish woodsmen's traditional world. Korpiklaani deliver quality Folk Metal that tells ancient tales and praises beer. The coarse romance of this album turns any peaceful evening before the fireplace into a roaring celebration. Finntroll fans delight!

Tracks:

Cottages & Saunas
Journey Man
Fields In Flames
Pine Woods
Spirit Of The Forest
Native Land
Hunting Song
Ryyppajaiset
Beer Beer
Old Tale
Kadet Siipina

Album Description

Korpiklaani captures the essence of Finnish life and embeds it in their music. Their second album, Voice of Wilderness, brings the listener into the Finnish woodsmen's traditional world. Korpiklaani deliver quality Folk Metal that tells ancient tales and praises beer. The coarse romance of this album turns any peaceful evening before the fireplace into a roaring celebration. Finntroll fans delight!

Customer Reviews:

Very good.......2007-07-25

Thrashy folk metal with pipe and fiddles. Very good. I tend to like thrash, speed metal and power metal and I really enjoy this even though its different than other groups I've heard. The only other fold metal I,ve bought is Skyclad but this sounds heavier to me, but I still like the Skyclad I've heard too.

NOT THEIR BEST.......2007-05-06

I'm a very picky person, unlike some who hand out 5 stars as if they were candy. With that being said, I enjoyed Korpiklaani's latest album "Tales Along this Road" much better than this one, "Voice of Wilderness". I'll explain why.

"Voice of Wilderness" starts off strong with the catchy "Cottages and Saunas" (and I can't help but smile when I hear them try to pronounce "saunas"). But sadly, the next great song, "Spirit of the Forest", doesn't appear until several tracks later. "Beer Beer" almost found its way into my picky music library, but for one problem: "Happy Little Boozer" from their latest album is much better.

The rest of the songs do their job of creating that fireside folksy ambience, but that's about all. I didn't find them all that catchy.

If you like folk metal I also recommend the Estonian folk metal bands Raud-Ants (female fronted) and Metsatoell (male fronted).

Absolutely jaw-dropping........2006-03-29

This is the second review I'm writing for these guys, the first review having been a quick one for Spirit of the Forest, based on my first impressions. On many further listens, I maintain that this music is positively stunning. This album is every bit as perfect as Spirit. I know a lot of people refer to this as some happy - party - drunken type music, and to some extent this is true, but for me this music really touches the nature spirit, it makes me yearn for dark forests and native wisdom like nothing else! It is powerful, emotional, so full of energy, and touches my soul to the core.

Maybe this is just my reaction, I don't know, but for anyone else who feels it, Korpiklaani has 2 other albums under the name Shaman that also have this amazing nature energy, and I recommend them wholeheartedly. Over the few months that I've been listening to them, those 4 albums put together are rapidly becoming my most cherished among *hundreds* of CDs! Straight-up metalheads beware though, the Shaman albums are not that heavy at all, and emphasize the folk part even more - including a lot of really amazing native chanting... of course it's not in English, but this does not matter to me, the music and chanting are Magickal without having to be understood in a literal sense...

Drunken Finnish Folk Metal.......2006-02-01

This album is a celebration of all things good about beer. Just the "mood" of the music, if you will, just seems like you've had a happy few pints under your belt. Also I was quite impressed with the band's innovative combination of instruments: heavy guitars and drums like you'd expect from any metal band, but then there's the pipes, fiddles, jaw-harps, etc., that really lend the music a folkish, tavernish mood. The vocals are pretty good too, they have a raucous, almost drunken and very "manful" mood about them and they're also very clear. None of the Hansi Kursch type screams or death metal growls, just good clear powerful singing. Most of the songs are in English but the last track is in Finnish, sort of a ballad, and I thought it made an especially good addition to the album. Actually I could almost characterize Korpiklaani as a metal version of Dropkick Murphys, just Finnish instead of Irish. All in all pretty awesome, I will probably put it in the CD player next time I decide to have a happy few pints of beer.

Finns rule!!.......2006-01-25

At first I did not like this album as much as their last, but after listening to it over and over, I now consider it equal. It is, as some stated before, a lot heavier and faster and the vocals aren't sung much, they're a lot grittier. The melodies are still here, which is the most important part. I don't think Korpiklaani sound that much like Finntroll, they're a lot more melody oriented and use traditional instrumentation in favor of cheesy sounding keyboards, and they don't have that whole black metal sound going for them. Every song is unique, and full of traditional sounding Finnish folk blended with melodic metal touches. Don't listen to the person who said all the songs are written in the same key, they're not. Korpiklaani are one of the most original and innovative bands around in today's metal scene, and this album is very good. I would recommend this to fans of anything from Frigg to Finntroll, people into medieval music will probably enjoy this also.

Complete Songs of Samuel Barber ~ Secrets of the Old / Studer, Hampson, Browning, Emerson String Quartet

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Absolutely fantastic, but...
Well,its about time!
The best song-CD EVER released! etc.
A Complete Joy

Complete Songs of Samuel Barber ~ Secrets of the Old / Studer, Hampson, Browning, Emerson String Quartet

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

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American Classics: Barber: COMPLETE PUBLISHED SOLO PIANO MUSIC

ASIN: B000001GH2
Release Date: 1994-04-12

Tracks:

Secrets Of The Old: A Slumber Song Of The Madonna - Moderato
Secrets Of The Old: There's Nae Lark - Moderato
Secrets Of The Old: Love At The Door - Allegro
Secrets Of The Old: Sereandes - Andante con moto
Secrets Of The Old: Love's Caution (Moderato)
Secrets Of The Old: Night Wanderers (Without Tempo Indication)
Secrets Of The Old: Of That So Sweet Imprisonment - Con moto
Secrets Of The Old: Strings In The Earth And Air - Moderato
Secrets Of The Old: Beggar's Song - Andante - Allegro moderato
Secrets Of The Old: In The Dark Pinewood
Three Songs, Op. 2: 1. The Daisies: Allegretto con grazie
Three Songs, Op. 2: 2. With Rue My Heart Is Laden: Andante cantabile
Three Songs, Op. 2: 3. Bessie Bobtail: Andante, un poco mosso - Adagio
Three Songs, Op. 10: 1. Rain Has Fallen: Moderato
Three Songs, Op. 10: 2. Sleep Now: Andante tranquillo
Three Songs, Op. 10: 3. I Hear An Army: Allegro con fuoco
Four Songs, Op. 13: 1. A Nun Takes The Veil: Broad And Sustained, In Exact Rhythm
Four Songs, Op. 13: 2. The Secrets Of The Old: Allegro giocoso
Four Songs, Op. 13: 3. Sure On This Shining Night: Andante
Four Songs, Op. 13: 4. Nocturne: Andante, un poco mosso
Four Songs, Op. 13: Dover Beach, Op. 3: Andante, un poco mosso

Tracks:

Two Songs, Op. 18: 1. The Queen's Face On The Summery Coin: Andante con moto
Two Songs, Op. 18: 2. Monks And Raisins: Allegro
Secrets Of The Old: Nuvoletta Op. 25: Allegretto
Melodies Passageres, Op. 27: 1. Puisque tout passe: Moderato
Melodies Passageres, Op. 27: 2. Un cygne: Moderato
Melodies Passageres, Op. 27: 3. Tombeau dans un parc: Lento e sereno
Melodies Passageres, Op. 27: 4. Le clocher chante: Non troppo allegro
Melodies Passageres, Op. 27: 5. Depart
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 1. At Saint Patrick's Purgatory: Allegretto, In Steady Rhythm
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 2. Church Bell At Night: Molto adagio
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 3. St. Ita's Vision: Recit. - Andante con moto
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 4. The Heavenly Banquet: Lively, With Good Humor
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 5. The Crucifixion: Moderato
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 6. Sea-Snatch: Allegro con fuoco, surging
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 7. Promiscuity: Sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Sostenuto
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 8. The Monk And His Cat - Moderato, Flowing
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 9. The Praises Of God - Un poco allegro
Hermit Songs, Op. 29: 10. The Desire For Hermitage: Calmo e sostenuto
Despite And Still, Op. 41: 1. A Last Song: Moderato
Despite And Still, Op. 41: 2. My Lizard: Fast And Light
Despite And Still, Op. 41: 3. In The Wilderness: Flowing
Despite And Still, Op. 41: 4. Solitary Hotel: Like A Rather Fast Tango In 2
Despite And Still, Op. 41: 5. Despite And Still: Fast And Darkly Impassioned
Three Songs, Op. 45: 1. Now Have I Fed And Eaten Up The Rose: Moderato
Three Songs, Op. 45: 2. A Green Lowland Of Pianos: Allegretto con grazia
Three Songs, Op. 45: 3. O Boundless, Boundless Evening: Tranquillo, un poco mosso

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely fantastic, but..........2005-06-10

Though being a professional singer, I've only recently discovered Samuel Barber's songs. I'm glad I did it, because Barber wrote some of the most beautiful art-songs I've ever heard in my life. From the earliest to the latest song, it's all pure quality, with few - if any - exceptions.
This recording is a great acquisition, not only for the fact that it includes *all* the songs Barber wrote, but also for Thomas Hampson's magnificent and moving performance.
Unfortunately, the female singer (Cheryl Studer) almost manages to completely spoil this pleasant experience: her artificial, dull, often-completely-out-of-tune (?) singing is the reason for my 4 out of 5 rating. Otherwise, it would definitely be a five star recording.

Well,its about time!.......2002-04-05

Finaly,a compleat edition of these wonderfull songs by this wonderfull and sadly underrated composer.
The songs are varied and span the composers entire creative years.
They range from the romantic,child-like youth compositions(the daisies)threu his almost brahms sounding period( sleep now,nocturn,sure on this shining night)to his tragic,disenchanted
older years.
The hermit songs&the French ones are a particular delight.We all know just how wonderfull Hampson is ,but Studer is also fine & pure sounding-A total joy!

The best song-CD EVER released! etc........2000-04-16

I'm not even kidding. This really is the best song-CD ever released. Don't laugh until you hear it... then you'll see for yourself. Where to begin! Barber-- his orchestral works are great for the most part, the Knoxville setting for Orchestra and soprano is mediocre, the piano sonata is also great BUT: the heart of this composer is in his songs. And here they ALL are, including the 10 unpublished songs from his youth. There's Nae Lark is one of only three songs I've ever heard that made me burst into tears on FIRST listening... Barber was around 17 when he wrote it! Bessy Bobtail could make a person drop dead in the right mood. The Joyce settings are so true to the poet's intentions! And the final 3 songs...especially A Green Lowland of Pianos show that Barber NEVER EVER lost his musical voice and razor-sharp talent. This compilation also includes the sincere and depressing On Dover Beach setting-- few if any composers besides Barber have ever managed a successful setting of Arnold's multilayered poem. OK... what if you don't like Thomas Hampson... I know there are some out there who think he's an odd singer... too much rubato, too much bravura? I promise you, you'll like him here, you may even grow to love the guy... if Hampson's ever been sincere and if there's ever been a composer whose music is well suited to his voice, it's Barber...guaranteed. I think this compilation also proves (ok, arguably, I'll admit) that complex tonal song settings pose many more compositional challenges than any of the atonal song-music produced in this century. I can't think of any atonal composer outside of Webern who could shake a stick at the harmonic ingenuity of Barber here. (Just so lightning doesn't strike me... Sir Michael Tippett is also a fine song composer, but he's NEVER been atonal, just EXTENDED tonal.) Barber, Barber, Barber... buy this now. These songs are so powerful that I can remember as vividly as yesterday exactly where and when I first heard every one of these songs and what I was feeling... they quite literally imprinted themselves in my mind. Don't cheat yourself out of this experience... buy this now!

A Complete Joy.......1999-12-01

When I bought this record I had not heard any of the Barber songs before, but what a pleasant surprise they proved to be. These are beautiful romantic songs, and Studer and Hampson perform them very well. The recording sound is also very good. Warmly recommended.

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Great cello playing

Decca Recordings, 1950-1956

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

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The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Zara Nelsova - Grand Dame of the Cello (B&W)
Zara Nelsova
The 1950s Concerto Recordings
The Complete 1950s Chopin Recordings

ASIN: B00067R3C0
Release Date: 2005-02-08

Customer Reviews:

Great cello playing.......2005-02-13

These are the very best recordings ever made by Zara Nelsova. This is great cello playing: total control and musicianship. Some of this stuff hasn't been available for 30-40 years, like the Beethoven sonatas, the Dvorak with Krips, the Lalo, and others. It also has some amazing pieces by Bloch, including her best recording of Schelomo, Voice in the Wilderness, and Jewish Life with the composer at the piano. The sound is good, mono, but still high quality. One drawback is that you can often Nelsova's fingers hitting the fingerboard. The intensity and personality really comes through though, and I can't recommend this collection of outstanding cello playing highly enough.

Berlioz: Harold In Italy; Bloch: Voice In The Wilderness [Australia]

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Berlioz: Harold In Italy; Bloch: Voice In The Wilderness [Australia]
Benyamini , Starker , Mehta , and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music
ASIN: B000060MDO
Release Date: 2002-01-28

Tracks:

Harold In Italy- I. Harold In The Mountains
March Of The Pilgrims Singing Their Evening Prayers
Serenade Of A Mountaineer Of The Abruzzi To His Msitress
Orgy Of Brigands
Voice Int He Wilderness

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Songs of the Nightingale

Manufacturer: Centaur
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Tracks:

The Wren
The Maiden and the Nightingale
To the Nightingale
The Discreet Nightingale
Nightingale
Songs for the Birds: The Wounded Dove
Songs for the Birds: The Little Blue Pigeon
Songs for the Birds: The Blue Bird
Songs for the Birds: The Little Caged Canary
The Twittering Swallow
O Charming Bird
The Nightingale in the Lilacs
The Nightingale
With Sweet Emotion the Little Nightingale Sang
The Russian Nightingale
The Rose Captivates the Nightingale
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Silver Swan
The Bird
The Bird of the Wilderness
Green Finch and Linnet Bird
The Nightingale and the Star

BLOCH : Poems Of The Sea - Violin Concerto - Voice In The Wilderness

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BLOCH : Poems Of The Sea - Violin Concerto - Voice In The Wilderness

Manufacturer: Capriccio
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00078X1RO
Release Date: 2004-12-28

Album Description

Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)

Poems Of The Sea

Violin Concerto

Voice In The Wilderness

Matthias Wollong

Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt

Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin

Vladimir Jurowski

Fabrice Bollon

Tracks:

Hamlet: O vin, discaccia la tristezza (O vin, dissipe la tristesse)
Roi de Lahore: Aux troupes du Sultan... Promesse de mon avenir
Herodiade: Ce breuvage pourrait... Vision fugitive
Faust: O sainte medaile... Avant de quitter ces lieux
Andrea Chenier: Nemico della patria
Ballo In Maschera: Alla vita che t'arrida
Ballo In Maschera: Eri tu, che macchaivi
La Traviata: Di provenza il mar
Il Trovatore: Tutto e deserto... Il balen del suo sorriso
Tannhaeuser: Blich' ich umher
Tannhaeuser: Wie Todesahnung... O du mein holder Abendstern
Tote Stadt: Mein Sehnen, mein Waehnen (Pierrotlied)
La Barcheta
Dank sei Dir, Herr
The Two Grenadiers (Die Beiden Grenadiere)
On The Road To Mandalay
Danny Deever
Come To The Fair
Three For Jack

Tracks:

Brockes-Passion: Chi sprezzando (Die ihr Gottes Gnad')
Floridante: Alma mia
Muzio Scevola: Volate piu dei venti
Auf dem gruenen Balcon
Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen?
Lied vom Winde
Op. 32, No. 1: Ich trage meine Minne
Op. 19, No. 4: Wie solten wir geheim sie halten
Das Huhn un der Karpfen
Op. 43, No.2: Die Mainacht
La vague et la cloche
La Vie anterieure
La pas d'armes du Roi Jean
Op. 23, No.1: Les berceaux
Op. 23, No. 2: Fleur jetee
Les Anes du Caire
Beauty, Passing Beauty
Songs Of Travel: The Vagabond
Songs Of Travel: Bright Is The Ring Of Words
Songs Of Travel: The Roadside Fire
Gifts
The Bird Of The Wilderness
The Donkey
The Next Market Day
A Ballynure Ballad
Old Mother Hubbard (a la Handel)
Border Ballad
Op. 22, No. 4: A Banjo Song

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Alma Gluck

Manufacturer: Marston
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Czech | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Russian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000004BOD
Release Date: 1997-10-14

Tracks:

ATALANTA: Come, my beloved (Care selve)
SEMELE: Oh sleep, why dost thou leave me?
ZEMIRE UND AZOR: Rose softly blooming
THEODORA: Angels ever bright and fair
HIPPOLYTE ET ARICIE: Rossignols amoureux
LA SONNAMBULA: Ah! non credea mirarti
LA BOHJEME: Donde lieta usci
I PAGLIACCI: Qual fiamma avea nel guardo ... Stridono lassu
CARMEN: Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante
SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix
LOUISE: Depuis le jour
HANSEL UND GRETEL: Suse, liebe Suse
HANSEL UND GRETEL: Der kleine Sandmann bin ich
HANSEL UND GRETEL: Juchhei, nun is die Hexe tot
TZAR'S BRIDE Lyubasha's air
SNEGUROCHKA (SNOW MAIDEN): To the Thunder called the Flying Cloud
SNEGUROCHKA (SNOW MAIDEN): Aller au bois
HUBIKA (THE KISS): Ukolebavky (Cradle Song)
NATOMA: I list the trill in golden throat
LA TRAVIATA: Libiamo, libiamo

Tracks:

Le Nil
L'Heure Exquise
Le Bonheur est Chose Legere
Chanson Hebraique ('Mejerke, main Suhn,')
Hatikvah
Two Folk Songs of Little Russia
The Rose and the Nightengale (Eastern Romance)
Have You Seen but a Whyte Lillie Grow?
As a Beam O'er the Face of the Waters
Canzonetta
The Monotone (Ein Ton)
Passage-birds' Farewell
La Colomba
Tu
Sylvelin
Parla!
Serenata
The Braes O' Balquhidder
Comin' Thro the Rye
Red, Red Rose
Sing Me to Sleep
Will-o-the-Wisp
The Bird of the Wilderness
Irish Love Song
Long Ago, Sweetheart Mine
A Maid Sings Light
From the Land of the Sky Blue Water
Dawn

The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 & 4 Transcriptions and Waltzes

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This is Balakirev, not Glinka

The Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 & 4 Transcriptions and Waltzes

Manufacturer: Essay
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000083H
Release Date: 1994-07-26

Tracks:

Mikhail I. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
Mikhail I. Glinka: Ne Govori
Frederic Chopin: Pno Con No.1 in e, Op.11: Romance
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Str Qt No.13 in b flat, Op.59 No.2: Cavatina
Ludwig Van Beethoven: Str Qt No.8 in e, Op.59 No.2: Allegretto
Zapolsky: Reverie
Mily Balakirev: Pustinya
Hector Berlioz: La Fuite En Egypte: Intro
Mily Balakirev: Impromptu On The Themes Of Two Prlds By Chopin
Mikhail I. Glinka: Jota Aragonesca

Tracks:

Valse Di Bravura (No.1) in G
Valse Melancholizue (No.2) in f
Valse-Impromptu (No.3) in D
Waltz No.4 in B flat (Valse De Concert)
Waltz No.5 in D Flat
Waltz No.6 in f#
Waltz No.7 in g#
Polka
Tarantella
Valse-Caprice No.1 in A flat (After A.S. Taneyev)
Valse-Caprice No.2 in D flat (After A.S. Taneyev)

Customer Reviews:

This is Balakirev, not Glinka.......2002-08-17

This CD set is just fine, and nice to see, since Balakirev can be hard to find. But the composer is all Balakirev, not Glinka, Chopin, Beethoven, etc. Whoever wrote the notes was confused by what "Transcriptions" are. They are Balakirev's compositions based on Glinka, Chopin, etc.