Unrequited (Legacy) [Original recording remastered]

Unrequited (Legacy) [Original recording remastered]

Editorial Reviews
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As Loudon Wainwright points out in notes to this reissue of what was his final album for Columbia, the battle plan was to make a half-studio, half-live LP, the latter being where critics and fans felt the singer-songwriter did his best work. Unfortunately, Wainwright's desire to have it both ways failed on virtually all levels. Recorded in the mid-'70s as he was splitting from both his longtime manager and his wife (and then emerging performer) Kate McGarrigle, Wainwright sounds woefully adrift, especially on the genre-clashing studio tracks. The solo live cuts are a bit better, but psychosexual fantasies such as "The Untitled" (about an incest-filled visit to the YMCA by the Hardy Boys) and "Rufus Is a Tit Man" (about he and his then infant son co-breastfeeding) are about as unpleasant to hear as they are to describe. --Billy Altman

Tracks:

Sweet Nothings
The Lowly Tourist
Kings And Queens
Kick In The Head
Whatever Happened To Us
Crime Of Passion
Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
On The Rocks
Guru
Mr. Guilty
The Untitled
Unrequited To The Nth Degree
Old Friend
Rufus Is A Tit Man
Rufus Is A Tit Man (Alternate Version)
Over The Hill
Hollywood Hopeful

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As Loudon Wainwright points out in notes to this reissue of what was his final album for Columbia, the battle plan was to make a half-studio, half-live LP, the latter being where critics and fans felt the singer-songwriter did his best work. Unfortunately, Wainwright's desire to have it both ways failed on virtually all levels. Recorded in the mid-'70s as he was splitting from both his longtime manager and his wife (and then emerging performer) Kate McGarrigle, Wainwright sounds woefully adrift, especially on the genre-clashing studio tracks. The solo live cuts are a bit better, but psychosexual fantasies such as "The Untitled" (about an incest-filled visit to the YMCA by the Hardy Boys) and "Rufus Is a Tit Man" (about he and his then infant son co-breastfeeding) are about as unpleasant to hear as they are to describe. --Billy Altman

Customer Reviews:

Louden at his very best - a classic.......2006-08-24

This is the Louden I knew and loved - the one who didn't care about being politically or socially correct. "Rufus" and "The Hardy Boys At The 'Y'" are worth the price of the album. Unfortunately, Louden has gotten a bit too serious in his advanced age, and his concerts and albums don't even come close to measuring up to this - his best- album.
Robbie Bobby

I mostly agree.......2001-01-27

Personally, I think the studio tracks are typically weak for Loudon, but that was the era for him. The live recorded material is pricelss!

The Pinnacle of Loudon's First Phase.......2000-09-16

You can take everything Billy Altman says above and turn it upside down. The studio side with full band is probably the only genuinely succesful such side in all of Wainwright's recorded work -- "Kings and Queens" actually swings, while the reggae of "The Lowly Tourist" underscores the humor of the lyrics perfectly. The live side, his first ever, is priceless. "The Hardy Boys at the Y" and "Rufus . . ." are hilarious (and the latter is downright wise and daring). Ditto for "Guru," "Mr. Guilty" . . . There's nothing approaching a weak cut here, something that wouldn't happen again until Wainwright hit his mature stride with HISTORY.

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete); Iolanthe (Highlights)

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A Wonderful Performance
ARTICULATE MIKADO
Finally, a worthy recording of the Mikado!

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete); Iolanthe (Highlights)

Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us
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ASIN: B00009KHY0
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

Overture - John Holmes
Act 1: If You Want To Know Who You Are - John Holmes
Act 1: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me - John Holmes
Act 1: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I - John Holmes
Act 1: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man - John Holmes
Act 1: Young Man, Despair - John Holmes
Act 1: And Have I Journey'd For A Month - John Holmes
Act 1: Behold The Lord High Executioner! - John Holmes
Act 1: As Some Day It May Happen - John Holmes
Act 1: Comes A Train Of Little Ladies - John Holmes
Act 1: Three Little Maids From School - John Holmes
Act 1: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret - John Holmes
Act 1: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted - John Holmes
Act 1: I Am So Proud - John Holmes
Act 1: With Aspect Stern - John Holmes
Act 1: Your Revels Cease - John Holmes
Act II: Braid The Raven Hair - John Holmes
Act II: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - John Holmes
Act II: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day - John Holmes
Act II: Here's A How-De-Do! - John Holmes
Act II: Miya Sama, Miya Sama - John Holmes
Act II: A More Humane Mikado - John Holmes

Tracks:

Act II: The Criminal Cried - John Holmes
Act II: See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot - John Holmes
Act II: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring - John Holmes
Act II: Alone, And Yet Alive - John Holmes
Act II: Hearts Do Not Break - John Holmes
Act II: On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit - John Holmes
Act II: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast - John Holmes
Act II: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum - John Holmes
Overture - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: None Shall Part Us From Each Other - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray! - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: Nay, Tempt Me Not...Spurn Not The Nobly Born - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: When I Went To The Bar As A Very Young Man - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: When Next Your Houses Do Assemble - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When All Night Long A Chap Remains (Sentry Song) - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Strephon's A Member Of Parliament - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When Britain Really Ruled The Waves - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Oh, Foolish Fay - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Love, Unrequited, Robs Me Of My Rest - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When You're lying Awake With A Dismal Headache (Nightmare's Song) - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: If You Go In, You're Sure To Win - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: If We're Weak, Enough To Tarry - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: My Lord, A Suppliant At Your Feet I Kneel - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: It May Not Be - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Soon As We May, Off And Away - Elizabeth Harwood

Customer Reviews:

A Wonderful Performance.......2007-03-31

This is an an authentic, accessible, entertaining, and deeply satisfying performance. Although I like all of the principal singers, my two favorite are Clive Revill as Ko-Ko and Jean Allister as Katisha. For me, the key to a successful Gilbert and Sullivan performance is that it is not only funny, but also touching. In my opinion, Revill and Allister score high in both departments. In their final scene together, they are both vulnerable and hilarious at the same time. One small detail about this recording that bothers me slightly is that the overture has been rewritten. It is a nice medley, but I miss the original. I understand that Sullivan did not write it, but it is based on his tunes and I've always liked it. But don't let that stop you from getting this recording. I consider it to be the best Mikado on record.

ARTICULATE MIKADO.......2007-01-31

Articulate - both in diction and in musical interpretation - this re-release of the 1960's Sadlers Wells recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's MIKADO is quite delightful. The care and loving detail, which were the keystones of SWO's productions of G & S and operettas in the 1960s onstage, are preserved here in Alexander Faris's splendidly gutsy interpretation of the most popular of all the Savoy Operas; if his speeds are at times too leisurely, all can be forgiven just to hear the superb soloists; the expert diction of Denis Dowling as Pooh-Bah; the heroic tones of John Wakefield as the Wandering Minstrel; Marion Studholme singing the best "Sun Whose Rays" you will ever here on disc; Jean Allister as a correctly dominating Katisha, (hurray - a real contralto!), with a superb glissando in "Beauty and the Bellow"; the glorious Pat Kern as Pitti-Sing making so much more of the traditional soubrette; John Heddle Nash giving a singing and acting lesson with Pish-Tush's only solo; and the droll Clive Revill so completely at ease in the comic role of Ko-Ko, (though it is strange that his running out of breath at the end of his verse in the Act Two trio was not corrected!) I have to say that this recording of THE MIKADO puts all other D'Oyly Carte and Glyndeboune recordings in the shade, and the inclusion of highlights from Sadlers Wells IOLANTHE from 1962 is just an added bonus - the overture in this is simply stunning, and how good to hear Eric Shilling, Heather Begg, and Elizabeth Harwood obviously enjoying themselves so much singing Sullivan's most musical of scores.

Finally, a worthy recording of the Mikado!.......2004-03-03

It really does make a difference, when performing Gilbert and Sullivan, to use singers who can act rather than the other way round. Every soloist here utilizes a very forward, "in-the-mask" vocal placement, which not only reduces the need to force, but helps to render their diction crystal-clear. Sample Jean Allister's Katisha. No plummy, oratorio contralto tones for her. Here is all the waspish, incisive malevolence that is already there in the writing; she just reveals it by singing and pronouncing the texts in a light and unforced manner. This approach helps to restore the vim and vigor to an opera that can often seem tired and "played-out" to modern ears. If the recording has any weakness, it may possibly be found in the Yum-yum and Nanki-Poo. Marion Studholme is perhaps more shrill than is necessary, while John Wakefield seems to have wandered in from a performance of Dream of Gerontius. These are minor quibbles, however. The overall excellence of the performance quells any doubts, with Alexander Faris' conducting a model of transparent clarity. The Iolanthe excerpts are also well-done, but it's Mikado that is the jewel here. Don't hesitate; buy it today!

Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]

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A touching English Butterfly

Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]
Giacomo Puccini , Yves Abel , Cheryl Barker , Paul Charles Clarke , and Simon Birchall
Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B00005QF3K
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

Act I: Introduction - Cheryl Barker
Act I: 'So The Walls And The Ceiling...' - Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
Act I: 'I Think Your Honour's Smiling' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Stuart Kale
Act I: 'It Can't Be Much Further Now!' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
Act I: The Whole World Over - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
Act I: 'Fate Can't Crush Him' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
Act I: 'Is The Bride Very Pretty?' - Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor
Act I: 'True Love Or Fancy' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
Act I: 'See Them! They're Climbing The Summit Of The Hill!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
Act I: 'We Are Honoured' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
Act I: 'The Imperial Commissioner' - Stuart Kale/Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Simon Birchall
Act I: 'Oh, Indeed, My Friend, You're Lucky!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
Act I: 'Come, My Beloved' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker/Stuart Kale
Act I: 'My Fate I Have To Follow' - Cheryl Barker
Act I: 'Silence! Silence!' - Stuart Kale/Roland Wood/Cheryl Barker
Act I: 'Congratulations' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich/Frances Brett/Clive Bayley/Stuart Kale
Act I: 'Dearest, My Dearest, Weep No More' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
Act I: 'Evening Is Falling...' - Roland Wood/Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
Act I: 'Child, From Whose Eyes The Witchery Is Shining' - Ann Taylor/Cheryl Barker
Act I: 'Ah, Love Me A Little' - Cheryl Barker/Ann Taylor
Act II Part I: 'Izaghi Izanami' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: 'One Fine Day' - Cheryl Barker

Tracks:

Act II Part I: 'Come, Let's Enter' - Stuart Kale/Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: 'Yamadori, And Has your Unrequited Love Not Yet Released You? - Cheryl Barker/D'Arcy Bleiker/Gregory Yurisich/Stuart Kale
Act II Part I: 'Now, At Last!' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: 'Just Two Things I Could Do' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
Act II Part I: 'This Child! This Child, Then!' - Cheryl Barker/Gregory Yurisich
Act II Part I: 'Do You Know, My Darling' - Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: 'I Must Be Going' - Gregory Yurisich/Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
Act II Part I: 'Ah! Ah!' - Stuart Kale/Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: 'Look, It's A Man-of-war!' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part I: Flower Duet: 'Shake The Cherry Tree' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
Act II Part I: Humming Chorus - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Act II Part 2: Prelude - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part 2: Daybreak Over Nagasaki - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part 2: 'It's Morning' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part 2: 'Who Is It?...' - Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
Act II Part 2: 'I Know For Such Misfortune There Is No Consolation' - Gregory Yurisich/Jean Rigby/Ann Taylor
Act II Part 2: 'Farewell, Oh Happy Home!' - Ann Taylor/Gregory Yurisich
Act II Part 2: 'Then Will You Tell Her?' - Ann Taylor/Jean Rigby
Act II Part 2: 'Suzuki, Where Are You?' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
Act II Part 2: 'You, Suzuki, You're Always So Faithful' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby
Act II Part 2: 'Viper! I Want You To Answer' - Cheryl Barker/Jean Rigby/Gregory Yurisich/Ann Taylor
Act II Part 2: 'Your Little Fluttering Heart Is Beating' - Jean Rigby/Cheryl Barker
Act II Part 2: 'Death With Honour Is Better Than Life With Dishonour' - Cheryl Barker

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This performance, the only one available in English, is problematic. Best is Yves Abel's leadership of the orchestra, which sounds wonderful, imbuing Puccini's lush score with just the right exoticism and emphasis. But aside from Gregory Yurisch's fine Sharpless, the singers don't please. Paul Charles Clarke as Pinkerton is lacking stylistically and vocally, and as Butterfly, Cheryl Barker sounds under strain and never pretty. While she has the power and feeling for the big second-act climax (the sighting of the ship), she never for a moment sounds fragile or girlish, not even in the all-important early scenes. English or not, this set isn't in the running. Stick with Callas or Scotto in Italian, and follow the libretto. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

A touching English Butterfly.......2002-03-27

Anyone familiar with Cheryl Barker's Butterfly will be interested in hearing this recording. I have heard her in the role twice - in Auckland and London - and her voice has filled out as the years have gone on. She hasn't a large italianate soprano; the sound is too slender somehow. Yet there is the paradox - it has great carrying power and a decent cutting edge to make itself heard above the orchestral climaxes. What really impresses is the sense of vulnerability and moral strength she imparts, making sense of the big moments of the secong act. The sound in Act one is gorgeous (and a super D flat in theentrance aria) and she differentiates impressively between the child-bride and the embittered woman of the two acts.

She is surrounded by a mixed supporting cast. Jean Rigby is maternal, warm and affecting as Suzuki. Gregory Yurisich makes Sharpless' dilemma more understandable than usual, rather than being completely ineffectual. Paul Charles Clarke perhaps illustrates Pinkerton's arrogance with a degree of vocal swagger, but the sound is rough-hewn and unlovely save for some moments in the love duet. Stuart Kale's Goro is suitable ingratiating and oily.

Abel's conducting is the other chief draw of this set. That he has experience of the score in the theatre means that his pacing is really superb, and the lush orchestration is given its due, the potent intermezzo during the overnight vigil sounding suitably ominous.

Tracks:

A Wand'ring Minstrel 1
Behold The Lord High Executioner
Three Litttle Maids From School
Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
A More Humane Mikado
Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit
There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
When U Good Friends Was Called To The Bar
We Sail The Ocean Blue
I'm Called Little Buttercup
I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
When I Was A Lad I Served A Term
Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
Carefully On Tiptoe Stealing
He Is An Englishman
Oh Better Far To Live And Die
Poor Wand'ring One
I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
Then Fred'ric Let Your Escort, Lion Hearted When The Foeman Bares His Steel
When A Felon's Not Engaged
With Cat-Like Tread
I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery
So Go To Him And Say To Him
Loudly Let The Trumper Bray... Bow Ye Lower Middle Classes
Love Unrequited Robs Me Of My Rest.... When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal
If You Go In You're Sure To Win
My Boy You May Take It From Me
When The Night Wind Howls
When Maiden Loves She Sits And Sighs
When Our Gallant Norman Foes
I Have A Song To Sing, Oh!
Were I Thy Bride
List And Learn
In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
There Was A Time
Do Not Give Way... Then One Of Us
Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
Dance A Cachucha

Customer Reviews:

Excellent ... but ..........2007-02-07

As a vintage G&S listener, I appreciated this collection but I think it would mostly appeal to the specialist-completeist. A newcomer to the genre would do well to get a full operetta DVD. (I prefer the OK BBC performances to the tarted up & modernised Australian ones.)

Old-comers probably already have all these tracks as part of their collection of vintage full operetta recordings.

But don't let my idiosynchratic views deter you if you really like G&S... but not to the extent of buying all the vintage full operetta versions.

The Life and Works of Ludwig van Beethoven

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The Life and Works of Ludwig van Beethoven

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B00005MKG4
Release Date: 2001-07-17

Tracks:

Childhood And Youth - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Symphony No.7 in A (Finale) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Hammerklavier Sonata, Op.106 (Exc.) - Jeno Jando
Beethoven As A Pianist - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Sonata in C, Op.2 No.3 (Finale) - Jeno Jando
Beethoven As Pianist - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
German Dance, WoO 8, No.4 - Capella Istropolitana/Oliver Dohnanyi
Beethoven's Vienna - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Sextet in E Flat, Op.81b (First Movement) - Life And Works: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven As Friend, Pupil And Artist - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Trio in c, Op.1 No.1 (Finale) - Stuttgart Piano Trio
Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat (Finale) - Stevan Vladar
The Onset Of Deafness - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Appassionata Sonata (Finale) - Jeno Jando

Tracks:

The Crest Of The Wave - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Septet in B flat (Scherzo) - Life And Works: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Sonata Pathetique, Op.13 (Exc.) - Jeno Jando
Beethoven In Love - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Piano Sonata in C Sharp Minor, Op.27, No.2 (Exc.) - Jeno Jando
A Winning Streak - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Symphony No.2 in D, Finale (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven in Crisis: The Heiligenstadt Testament - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Eroica Symphony: Funeral March (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven And Heroism - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Eroica Symphony, Finale (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven The Revolutionary - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Razumovsky Quartet No.1, pp. 59 No.1, Adagio (Exc.) - Kodaly Quartet
Beethoven And Women - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Violin Concerto in D, Op.61, First Movement (Exc.) - Takako Nishizaki
Beethoven And Performer - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Emperor Concerto, Finale (Complete) - Stefan Vladar

Tracks:

Beethoven And Suffering - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Coriolan Overture - Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Stephen Gunzenhauser
Beethoven And Fate - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Fifth Symphony, First Movement (Complete) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Fifth Symphony, Finale (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven And The Transcendence Of Suffering - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Seventh Symphony, First Movement (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven, Goethe And Self-Pity - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Beethoven On His Method Of Composing - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Beethoven And Unrequited Love - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Serioso Quartet, Op.95, First Movement - Kodaly Quartet
The Immortal Beloved - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Violin Sonata in G, Op.96, First Movement - Takako Nishizaki/Jeno Jando
To The Brink Of Suicide - And Beyond - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck J
Battle Symphony (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Prisoner's Chorus from Fidelio - Life And Works: Ludwig Van Beethoven

Tracks:

Archduke Trio - Jeno Jando/Takako Nishizaki/Csaba Onczay
Beethoven 'Kidnaps' Karl - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Beethoven's Manner & Appearance - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Pastoral Symphony (Exc.) - Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia/Bela Drahos
Beethoven As A 'Parent' - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111 - Jeno Jando
Beethoven And Friendship - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
His Attitudes To Publication - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Beethoven As Conductor - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Ninth Symphony (Scherzo) (Exc.) - Hasmik Papian/Ruxandra Donose/Manfred Fink/Claudio Otelli/Nicholas Esterhazy Chorus
His Final Works - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
String Quartet in B flat, Op.130 ('Cavatina') - Kodaly Quartet
Beethoven's Death - Jeremy Siepmann/Bob Peck
Music: Ninth Symphony (Exc.) - Hasmik Papian/Ruxandra Donose/Manfred Fink/Claudio Otelli/Nicolaus Esterhazy Chorus

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This set is a fine introduction to Beethoven for a certain class of listeners. It is much too long, detailed, and serious for children. It is not for advanced musicologists, either. Author-narrator Jeremy Siepmann avoids musical analysis altogether, concentrating instead on biographical material about Beethoven and his friends and providing historical and social background. Siepmann's text is absorbing and is frequently illustrated with substantial music examples (usually complete movements) from the Naxos catalog. Unfortunately, the first such example (from the Seventh Symphony) sounds regrettably mushy, but otherwise, the performances are consistently rewarding. If Naxos has put together this set, with its very large booklet, partly to promote its catalog of Beethoven recordings, the company may well find listeners attracted by the examples offered. The complete reproduction of the spoken text seems like a waste of space and paper, but the remaining material in the booklet is intelligently written and useful. Even people generally familiar with Beethoven are sure to find something new and interesting here. --Leslie Gerber

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Unusually artful ars nova
Stunning performance!

Unrequited

Manufacturer: LU
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00027P9OI
Release Date: 2003-06-12

Tracks:

Felix virgo, mater Christi / Inviolata gentrix / Ad te suspiramis gemetes et flentes
Trop plus est bele que biaut Biautearde valour / Je ne sui mie certeins d'avoir amie
J'aim miex languir en ma dure dolour
Dame, ne regardes pas
Quant en moy vint premierement / Amour et biautarfaite / Amara valde
Donnez, signeurs, donnez a toutes mains
Martyrum gemma latria / Diligenter inquiramus / A Christo honoratus
Je ne cuit pas qu'oncques a creature
Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient
Qui es promesses de fortune se fie / Ha! Fortune trop sui mis loing de port / Et non est qui adjuvet
De ce que foul pense (P. des Molins)
Armes, amours / O flour des flours de toute melodie (F. Andrieu)

Album Description

An all-vocal recording of the beautiful ballades and motets of Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most prolific poets and composers of fourtheenth-century France. Also includes pieces by P. des Molins and the posthumous homage to Machaut by F. Andrieu.

Customer Reviews:

Unusually artful ars nova.......2007-04-23

Perfectly suited and well matched voices, and highly polished ars nova vocal technique! The very best CD of Machaut's chansons available, if not the only one worth hearing twice! Machaut is regarded as the last great poet to set his own poems to equally great music, but modern singers have had difficulty performing him plausibly, partly because of his rhythmic subtlety and partly because "pythagorean" tuning works better than tempered. This trio manages both problems.
A week later: I remembered an old disk, The Mirror of Narcissus sung by Gothic Voices. I dug it out and I must confess that it should have been forgotten. I don't want to withdraw my endorsement of "Unrequited" but I have to temper it. "The Mirror of Narcissus" is noticeably more exciting, especially in treatment of hockets and other rhythmic/rhetorical techniques so central to Machaut.

Stunning performance!.......2004-12-27

I heard this group in performance where I purchased this CD. The CD is everything I had hoped it would be having just heard a spectacular concert. These artists have superb voices and flawless technique. I only wish I had bought their second CD, Flyleaves.

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There's some bubblegum in my song.

Unrequited Hits
The Returnables
Manufacturer: Jettison Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00006JNCY

Tracks:

Gentlemen Prefer Them Gone
She Throws Punches
Julie, Did I?
Bubblegum
Summertime
Your Teenage Friends
Hey, Alice
Monica
Run, Run, Run
Girl from Eau Claire
Can't Find Me
(Letter To) Tomoko
Wonderland in Tokyo

Album Description

Infectious pop rock picking up where the Buzzcocks left off, the Returnables make good music. 2002.

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There's some bubblegum in my song........2003-08-04

One of Chicago's most underappreciated bands. Pop music heavily influenced by the Undertones, Real Kids and Plimsouls. Unlike a lot of power pop, the Returnables don't sound over-rehearsed or over-produced. It's loose and reckless without sounding amateurish. Clever lyrics and some refreshing harmonies that aren't slick but sound great. Buy it for "Bubblegum." You'll put it on every summer compilation you ever make again.

Ballads, Songs and Snatches: Vintage Gilbert and Sullivan

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Ballads, Songs and Snatches: Vintage Gilbert and Sullivan

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000AE7BN
Release Date: 2003-09-23

Tracks:

A Wand'ring Minstrel I
Three Little Maids From School
The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze
The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit (Tit Willow)
When I, Good Friends, Was Called To The Bar
We Sail The Ocean Blue
I'm Called Little Buttercup
I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
When I Was A Lad I Served A Term
Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
Poor Wand'ring One
I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
Then, Fred'ric, Let Your Escort ... When The Foeman Bares His Steel
When A Felon's Not Engaged
With Cat-Like Tread
I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be
So Go To Him And Say To Him
Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray (March Of Peers) ... Bow, Ye Lower Middle Classes
Love Unrequited Robs Me Of My Rest ... When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache
If You Go In, You're Sure To Win
When Our Gallant Norman Foes
I Have A Song To sing, O!
Were I Thy Bride
There Was A Time
Do Not Give Way ... Then One Of Us
Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
Dance A Cachucha

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A Gilbert & Sullivan Gala

Manufacturer: Cbc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000025VE6
Release Date: 1995-05-30

Tracks:

Ov to Iolanthe - Winnipeg SO
The Yeomen of the Gaurd: I Have a song to sing O! - Tracy Dahl/Richard Suart/Winnipeg Singers
H.M.S. Pinafore: The hours creep on apace - Tracy Dahl
H.M.S. Pinafore: Never mind the why and wherefore - Tracy Dahl/Torin Chiles/Richard Suart
The Pirates of Penzance: I am the very model of a modern Major-General - Richard Suart/Winnipeg Singers
The Pirates of Penzance: DIALOGUE - Winnipeg SO/Bramwell Tovey
The Gondoliers: In a contemplative fashion - Tracy Dahl/Donnalynn Grant/Torin Chiles/Richard Suart
The Pirates of Penzance: All is prepared - Tracy Dahl/Torin Chiles
The Pirates of Penzance: Stay, Fredric, stay - Tracy Dahl/Torin Chiles
Iolanthe: Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest (The Nightmare Song) - Richard Suart
The Mikado: Three little maids - Tracy Dahl/Richard Suart/Bramwell Tovey/Winnipeg Singers
Trial by Jury: Finale: O joy unbounded - Tracy Dahl/Torin Chiles/Richard Suart/Winnipeg Singers
Trial by Jury: DIALOGUE - Winnipeg SO/Bramwell Tovey
Iolanthe: O foolish fay - Maureen Forrester/G & S Society of Winnipeg
The Pirates of Penzance: Stop, ladies pray! - Torin Chiles/G & S Society of Winnipeg
The Pirates of Penzance: O is there not one maiden breast? - Torin Chiles/G & S Society of Winnipeg
The Pirates of Penzance: Poor wand'ring one - Tracy Dahl/G & S Society of Winnipeg
The Pirates of Penzance: DIALOGUE - Winnipeg SO/Bramwell Tovey
The Makado: As some day it may happen (The List Song) - Richard Suart/G & S Society of Winnipeg
The Mikado: The flowers that bloom in the spring - Tracy Dahl/Donnalynn Grant/Torin Chiles/Richard Suart/Derek Morphy
The Mikado: Alone and yet alive - Maureen Forrester
The Mikado: On a tree by a river a little tom-tit (Tit Willow) - Richard Suart
The Mikado: There is beauty in the bellow of the blast - Maureen Forrester/Richard Suart
The Mikado: For he's gone and married Yum-Yum (Finale) - Tracy Dahl/Donnalynn Grant/Torin Chiles/Richard Suart/All chors
The Gondoliers: Once more gondolieri - All

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Music To My Ears
Gina Forsyth--An Awsesome Newcomer

You Are Here
Gina Forsyth
Manufacturer: Waterbug Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music

General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00005K9W3
Release Date: 2001-06-19

Tracks:

You Are Here
Everywhere I Am
The Sweetest Sound
Somewhere Off The Foot Of This Mountain
Monday Morning Stretch
J'ai Fait Tout Le Tour De Grand Bois
Texas Waltz
The Lumber Song
Old Fashioned Waltz
My Name Is (Mud)
Hide Your Face
Don't Move Back
She's Looking For A Dave
Somewhere Off The Foot Of This Mountain
In The Corner Of The Room
Prayer

Album Description

Raised in Alabama, Forsyth grew up on hymns, country songs and old-time fiddle tunes. In 1983, she moved to New Orleans, where she studied classical and jazz violin under Ellis Marsalis and others at Loyola University. Calling herself "an adopted cajun," she moved to Lafayette for a time to steep herself in Cajun music. She toured with the Cajun rock band Mamou in 1989, and sang "Valse de la Vie" on the group's Ugly Day CD (Rounder, 1992). She currently tours with Bruce Daigrepont, appearing on his recent Rounder CD, Paradis. Songwriting Awards include Emerging Songwriter Winner at Napa Valley Folk Festival (1993) and New Folk Winner at the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival (1996).

"Musically, Forsyth's traditional folk sound encompasses a stylistic range that is much more of a roots gumbo than what the term 'folk' has come to represent in modern times Bluegrass, Cajun, country, gospel and New Orleans rhythm and blues influences can all be heard in Forsyth's polished but down-home sound." -Southern Voice

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Music To My Ears.......2001-11-27

If both folk and bluegrass move your soul, then you won't be able to get enough of this album. Gina's voice is beautiful, her lyrics are thoughtful and the picking and fiddling is the perfect accompaniment. I wish she had more albums out - I'd buy them without hesitation.

Gina Forsyth--An Awsesome Newcomer.......2001-11-21

It's not easy being a folksinger in New Orleans. The city of 1,000,000 has hundreds of jazz, blues, and Cajun music venues, but almost no place for acoustic musicians. Despite that, Gina has honed her talent, and her first CD is one of my picks for the Top 10 of 2001.

She is a great instrumentalist, with an expressive and powerful voice. But Gina can also spin a great melody--"Everywhere I Am" is as catchy as any Dixie Chicks single. The styles are eclectic--from a French Cajun song to blues, to electric folk-rock, to acoustic ballad.

I hope she gets discovered...but then again, maybe not. Big record labels tend to corrupt the music of talents such as this.

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