Great Turning

Great Turning

Track Listings

1. Who Says

2. You Shine the Light

3. The River

4. Why

5. It's So Fine

6. Shambhala

7. Handle With Care

8. Find A Way

9. Woman Don't You Lie

10. Great Turning

11. Ceremony

12. Finding Peace

Editorial Reviews
Brooke Medicine Eagle, author of The Last Ghost Dance
"I appreciate not only Leah's beautiful voice and songs, but as well, her obvious and heartful healing intent..."

Product Description
Soulful vocals, rich acoustic guitar, intricate harmonies and a unique variety of world percussion instruments are brought together in the original music of Leah Wolfsong. Sacred chant meets contemporary folk song in a musical offering of passion and power, reconnecting the listener with the Sacred in everyday experience. Calling on the feminine energy of the Earth Mother, Leah sings the message that our planet needs to share with us, a call to nurture our environment and those around us as well as ourselves. This music offers healing as it moves through us, lifting us up, reconnecting us with one another and reminding us that we are not alone in bitter sweetness of the human dilema. Leah uses her beautiful voice to create appealing melodies further enhanced by her exquisite harmonies and ensemble musical arrangements. Leah also plays a variety of percussion instruments on this recording. The album features the full, passionate and sometimes funky acoustic guitar style of Jud Caswell. Jud also plays bass on several tracks as well as adding saxaphone, Irish whistle and some beautiful harmony vocals on others. Other artists featured on this album are Nat Hussey (Bass & mandolin), Alfred Lund (percussion), Reinaldo Cortez (guitar, percussion & chant vocal), Barbara Gail (percussion), Ed Howe (violin) and Jaige Trudell (cello).

Great Turning

Customer Reviews:

happiness takes place in small piano tunes.......2001-07-24

these short piano pieces are simple, but absolutely not boring. gurdjieff and de hartmann wrote some of the most thoughtful and sincere music you'll ever hear. I found this CD over a year ago and it's one I return to over and over again.

Cacaphonic Harmonious.......2001-07-15

Truly an exposition of beautiful "objective" listening. This music will not put you to sleep. Transitions are abrupt and engaging throughout the score's entirity. I play the music whenever I find myself searching for something to do or am bored. This music will consume all negativity and poke the listner to begin a stirring sensation in their own mentation. The music is not sophisticated or eligant by no means, but has a way about it which will intrige one to listen again and again.

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A good collection
A Musician of Great Dignity and Style
Passed the "Opera in English" test with flying colors.

Great Operatic Arias

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Great Baritone Arias

ASIN: B0006SGF1Y
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

'Even Bravest Heart My Swell'
'I Am The Barber Everyone Wants, I Am!
'Must I Be Made To Suffer'
'Look Down, Oh Gentle Evening Star'
'You Have My Love And My Devotion
'Oh Wine, Deliver Me From Sadness' - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
'Marriage Is Sacred' - I Was Right To Be So Suspicious'
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Billy In The Darbies
'Though I'm Somewhat Out Of Practice' - Janice Watson
'Hello, Here's A Soldier Bold' - Janice Watson
'I Wonder What He'll Think Of Me!'
'In Visions, Illusions'

Customer Reviews:

A good collection.......2007-05-14

Unlike the huge names, collections by Allen are not many - plenty of his opera performances are recorded, but there are only a few collections. My voice teacher recommended I listen to him to understand better how to deliver power without weight, something we've been working on. Yes, it's all in English, but that's fine, and the quality of Allen's instrument comes through very well.

A Musician of Great Dignity and Style.......2005-07-27

Sir Thomas Allen is one of the enduring baritones who has been able to move throughout the operatic repertoire and the recital stage with intelligence, informed characterization, and immaculate musicianship. To have a recording of some of the roles he has inhabited at this point in his career is a gift (this CD was recorded in 2003). To have the added challenge of retaining the stature of the roles while sung in English translations at the request of Chandos is a credit to his abilities and communicative powers.

English is a difficult language to make musical, though saying that abruptly is countered by the fact that some of the most beautiful operas in history are by Benjamin Britten, a composer who truly understood his native tongue and kept it as fluid as the soaring melodies he wrote, as Thomas Allen proves here in 'Billy in the Darbies' from Britten's 'Billy Budd'. It is the other major arias from Korngold to Wagner to Tchaikovsky to Rossini, Bizet, Mozart, Gounod, Verdi, Thomas, Strauss, and Lehar that Allen proves that English translations do not detract at all from the performances!

For those purists who prefer opera sung in the original language (and for those who don't even need supertitles in the opera house!), then this recording may provide a temporary barrier to respecting Allen's singing. But once caught up in the ease with which he moves from style to style and comedy to drama, it is hard not to relinquish old preferences and not be wholly impressed with the beauty of the voice and the warmth and dignity of this fine musician. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, July 05

Passed the "Opera in English" test with flying colors........2005-07-04

For me, the test here was Figaro's Cavatina, from Rossini's Barber of Seville - sung in English, as is this entire compilation of 14 operatic favorites, sung by baritone Sir Thomas Allen. Could he pull it off? Could Chandos pull it off? The answer is an unequivocal, unqualified yes! The secret in singing classics in English, that were written and scored in another language, is in three things: pacing, vocal agility and appreciation for "fit", and what greater test for tongue and timing than Figaro? When you listen to this one song, you will understand why Chandos and its benefactor, Sir Peter Moores have such a passion for their Opera in English series. Sir Allen's voice is a matured unmistakably settled baritone voice that contains a lifetime's worth of understanding of the music and words he imparts through his magnificent delivery. For example, when he sings, Tchaikovsky's "You have my love and devotion" from The Queen of Spades, he delivers a smooth and deeply emotional rendition that lacks nothing in translation. Wagner's "Turning my gaze upon this proud assembly", from Tannhäuser is another example of how fine, full orchestration behind a seasoned voice that waxes eloquent with every phrase, can create a mood of relaxed familiarity with word and music, that may be lacking when sung in another tongue. Great Operatic Arias, serves up a smorgasbord of tunes that are familiar, made more so by the care and attention given to creating a place for the Opera in English series in every home library. The mood here is romantic, relaxed and with few exceptions consistent throughout. If you haven't heard Opera in English, this might be a good way to start, given the fact that the listener gets to sample how different composers might sound in other than German, Italian or French. You might be surprised to discover that when done with care, as is obviously the case here, the sound is about as good as it gets. As an added bonus, the booklet that comes with the CD is full of pictures, libretto in English, and biography that gives us a good insight into history of the singer and his identifying rolls.

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Great Turning
Leah Wolfsong
Manufacturer: Roots Town Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008YO8W
Release Date: 2003-03-17

Tracks:

Who Says
You Shine the Light
The River
Why
It's So Fine
Shambhala
Handle With Care
Find A Way
Woman Don't You Lie
Great Turning
Ceremony
Finding Peace

Album Description

Soulful vocals, rich acoustic guitar, intricate harmonies and a unique variety of world percussion instruments are brought together in the original music of Leah Wolfsong. Sacred chant meets contemporary folk song in a musical offering of passion and power, reconnecting the listener with the Sacred in everyday experience. Calling on the feminine energy of the Earth Mother, Leah sings the message that our planet needs to share with us, a call to nurture our environment and those around us as well as ourselves. This music offers healing as it moves through us, lifting us up, reconnecting us with one another and reminding us that we are not alone in bitter sweetness of the human dilema. Leah uses her beautiful voice to create appealing melodies further enhanced by her exquisite harmonies and ensemble musical arrangements. Leah also plays a variety of percussion instruments on this recording. The album features the full, passionate and sometimes funky acoustic guitar style of Jud Caswell. Jud also plays bass on several tracks as well as adding saxaphone, Irish whistle and some beautiful harmony vocals on others. Other artists featured on this album are Nat Hussey (Bass & mandolin), Alfred Lund (percussion), Reinaldo Cortez (guitar, percussion & chant vocal), Barbara Gail (percussion), Ed Howe (violin) and Jaige Trudell (cello).