Midsummer Moon

Midsummer Moon

Track Listings

1. Red Haired Boy

2. Midsummer Moon

3. Solitude

4. Songline to Skye

5. Wintertide

6. Wild Mountain Thyme

7. Phooka

8. Chase the Moon

9. Little Evan

10. Amy's Tears

11. Beauty Spot

12. New Moon

13. Fairies' Waltz

14. White Island

15. Evolution

Tracks:

Sheep May Safely Graze - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Aria (Air On The G String) - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Air - Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - Richard Farnes
Canon in D major - Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Bridal Chorus - Stephen Cleobury
The Prince Of Denmark's March - Michael Laird Brass
Trumpet Tune And Air - Peter Hurford
Panis Angelicus - Luciano Pavarotti
Ave Maria - Wandsworth School Boys' Choir, National Philharmonic Orchestra and Luciano Pavarotti
Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165 - Leontyne Price
Water Music - Stephen Cleobury
Wedding March - Peter Hurford
The Lord's My Shepherd - Huddersfield Choral Society
Laudate Dominum - Wren Orchestra
Let The Bright Seraphim - Dame Joan Sutherland
Abide With Me - Anthony Way
Ombra Mai Fu - Anthony Way
On Wings Of Song - Utah Symphony Orchestra
Toccata - Stephen Cleobury
Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven - Richard Farnes

Tracks:

My Heart Will Go On - James Horner
I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton
Love Theme - Nino Rota
Up Where We Belong - Will Jennings
As Time Goes By - Herman Hupfeld
Take My Breath Away - Giorgio Moroder
Can You Feel The Love Tonight? - Elton John
Evergreen - Barbra Streisand
Love Is All Around - Reg Presley
Maid Marian At The Waterfall (Everything I Do) I Do For You - Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Moon River - Henry Mancini
Where Do I Begin - Francis Lai
When A Man Loves A Woman - Andrew Wright
The Way We Were - Marvin Hamlisch
Unchained Melody - Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

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Sweet Dreams
Beautiful nocturne

Moon, Wind and Stars

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

Sweet Dreams.......2005-11-23

This type of album would not be released today. All of the arrangements are impeccably done...I have read many a book at night with this playing in the background. It's a shame that Morton Gould gets lumped into the "elevator music" category by today's so called music critics that can't reference anything before 1980 that wasn't spoon fed to them by Rolling Stone or MTV. It's worth it for the Living Stereo recording alone!

Beautiful nocturne.......2005-06-28

Wow, I'm glad I bought this when I did! Evidently it's gone out of print again... Kudos to RCA for releasing it on CD in the first place. I bought the vinyl years ago, and spent many a pleasant evening fading into dreamland listening to Mr. Gould's orchestra working through "All Through the Night" etc... Even if it weren't for the beautiful music within, this one would be worth it for the artwork on the front and back covers alone. A beautiful effort from one of America's great 20th century composers and conductors, Richmond Hill's own Morton Gould

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Clarke & Ives Piano Trios

Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B00004TZSF
Release Date: 2000-08-22

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Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: I. Moderato ma appassionato
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: II. Andante molto semplice
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: III. Allegro vigoroso
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: I. Moderato
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: II. TSIAJ. Presto
Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano: III. Moderato con moto
Midsummer Moon For Violin Ad Piano: Poco andante
Lullaby For Viola (Or Violin) And Cello: Andante, Very Simple

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Wedding music

The Ultimate Classical Wedding

Manufacturer: Denon Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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Wedding music.......2007-05-15

I purchased this for a friends wedding.It really does have wonderful music.If you are looking for traditional wedding music,This CD is a winner.

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Warm, creative guitar-based Celtic music

Midsummer Moon
Al Petteway
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The Red-Haired Boy (Traditional Irish)
Midsummer Moon
Solitude
Songline To Skye
Wintertide
Wild Mountain Thyme (Traditional Irish)
Phooka
Chase The Moon
Little Evan
Amy's Tears
The Beauty Spot (Traditional)
New Moon
Fairie's Waltz
White Island
Evolution

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Warm, creative guitar-based Celtic music.......2001-04-15

This is the only Al Petteway cd I own, so I can't compare it w/ his other releases. But I can tell you that it is a very accomplished collection of songs. Most are slow, reflective 'aires' (if that's the right word) which are beautiful. Most are built around Al's guitar playing, often accompanied by bagpipes. Rarely do things 'heat up.' And, finally, there are some sublime, melancholic moments...highly recommended.

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Great renditions
excellent representation of an unknown 20th century master

Rebecca Clarke: The Cloths of Heaven

Manufacturer: Guild
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ASIN: B0000542IP
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Great renditions.......2004-11-10

The execution on this CD is excellent from all participants. Extremely musical, well thought out, just gorgeous, understandable from all perspectives.

excellent representation of an unknown 20th century master.......2004-02-24

From www.rebeccaclarke.org
The songs on this disk represent a wide range of Clarke's output, from the earliest mature songs ("Tears," "The Cloths of Heaven," ca. 1912) to her last completed work ("God Made a Tree," 1954, according to the catalogue by her estate manager, Christopher Johnson), and music both published (some from the 1994 collection reprinted by Boosey & Hawkes) and still unpublished ("Tears," "Tiger, Tiger" and "The Donkey"). 53 songs by Clarke survive (mostly for solo voice and piano, and also several other combinations including the songs arranged for voice and violin).

John Masefield was not yet Poet Laureate of Great Britain when Clarke met him in 1925 to discuss her settings of his writings. "June Twilight" and "The Seal Man" both evoke undulating scenes of nature, but there the similarities end. "June Twilight" is rapturous in its joy of a country scene, wistful only at the temporal finiteness of that beauty. A prose text from Masefield's A Mainsail Haul, Clarke set "The Seal Man" in 1922. Based on the Celtic myth of the seal who takes on the form of a man in order to lure women to their death in the sea, the legend reverses the genders of the Greek myth of the Siren. This declamatory prose setting is one of which she always spoke of as being one of her favorites.

W. B. Yeats was a favorite poet of composers of Clarke's generation. She dedicated "Shy One" "The Cloths of Heaven" to the famous English tenor Gervase Elwes, who was one of the first to champion her music, and who sang her music in New York City just days before his 1921 death in a Boston train accident. Clarke's setting of "Shy One" is warmly tinged with modal flavor and a strongly profiled melody; yet the Musical Times attacked its use of dissonance.

With its imagery of flowers and romance, Anna Wickham's poem "The Cherry Blossom Wand" might at first glance seem to be cheerful, but closer reading reveals a dark cynicism. The poem was widely read when it was first published in 1915, but although labeled "To be set to music" (Wickham herself trained as a singer), Clarke's is the only setting. Clarke knew the poet through their mutual friend, cellist May Mukle.

Clarke would go on to set three more works by women poets to music, the resulting songs a small but distinct part of her output. Ella Young, an Irish poet and novelist, settled in California in 1925. Clarke's setting of Young's "Greeting" is a small but strongly chiseled lyrical expression. Starting with rolling waves and buoyant melody, the mention of a lost love darkens the mood and leads to harmonic twists and shifts of texture.

The poet of "God Made a Tree," Katherine Kendall, is unknown in literature and was a British friend of Clarke, and a devout Catholic. Rebecca and her siblings were raised "in the strictest irreligion," as one of her nieces recalls, but did gain an informal interest in western religion and Christianity as shown by her Psalm settings of the early 1920s, and this setting of the Kendall text, and also the setting of Chesterton's wry but profound Palm Sunday text, "The Donkey"; interestingly, none of these religious-themed works were published. Clarke dedicated "The Donkey" to the Danish dramatic soprano Povla Frijsch in 1941. Frijsch had long championed Clarke's songs, naming her in a Musical America interview as among her favorite American composers. Frijsch's release of "Shy One" on a recording, the first of Clarke's music, may have motivated the dedication.

Clarke's setting of Psalm 63 was one of the works she showed to Gustav Holst in 1921 in order to receive his opinion and advice. It reveals the influence of Ernst Bloch, as well as Clarke's exposure to Jewish chanting through her London friends the Bentwiches.
While many of Clarke's British contemporaries set texts from A. E. Housman's early publication A Shropshire Lad, Clarke was the first to turn to his Late Poems, from which "Eight O'Clock" is drawn. Clarke illustrates the concise text in a work of devastating impact.

The anonymous poem "Tears" (labeled by Clarke as "Old Chinese Words") reveals Clarke's fascination with the Far East, which had grown since encountering a Javanese Gamelan at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900. The spacious span of its opening, and its use of wholetone scales create an austere and exotic atmosphere.

"Come, O Come my Life's Delight" offers a rapturous view of love. Based on words set by the seventh-century Thomas Campion, Clarke based this 1924 song on her own earlier choral setting. Claude Flight, author of "The Aspidistra," was an artist and friend of Clarke's. Parodying the conventions of the Victorian Parlour, "The Aspidistra" is a bold statement in its outrageous humour.

The Blake settings "Cradle Song" and "Infant Joy," evoke the traditional maternal position. Since Clarke had no children, these works might be understood as a musical expression of her perceived feminine role. "Cradle Song" employs clarity of structure and rhythm, and accessible poetic scansion; these are enriched by the impressionist vocabulary of chordal parallelism. Also a Blake setting, "Infant Joy" is a gem, a radiant outburst of devotion. Clarke also wrote several instrumental lullabies, with one for violin and voice included here.

"Tiger, Tiger" also sets Blake, a text that Benjamin Britten would turn to in the 1960s in his much more reserved setting. Clarke's work is her darkest song, with swirling chromaticism bordering on the expressionist, matching the text's evocation of the erotic and the unknowable subconscious realm. Clarke probably wrote "Tiger, Tiger" with John Goss in mind, as she relentlessly revised it during her romantic entanglement with him (ca. 1929-1933); she was also discouraged by a publisher's rejection of the work; they no doubt preferred lighter fare, especially from women. The disturbing power of "Tiger, Tiger" suggests that Clarke deserves consideration as a major composer of twentieth century song.

Like most violists, Clarke started on the violin as a child, switching to the viola while at the Royal College, and at the suggestion of Stanford. Yet, she sometimes still played the violin, in family or informal settings, or in her role as a versatile freelance musician. A former teacher and suitor, Percy Miles, died in 1922 leaving Clarke a Stradivarius violin, which she occasionally played in subsequent years.

"Midsummer Moon" was dedicated to Adila Fachiri, with whom Clarke often performed in ensemble concerts in England. "Starting a fiddle piece using some old scraps," she wrote of the work in February of 1924, a vivid description reflecting Clarke's hobby as an avid sewer. The Musical Times noted the brilliance of the work, while determined to consider it only as representative of the "'new' woman composer."

The arrangements of Old English Songs, and Irish Folk Songs for voice and violin were among Clarke's most popular pieces, which she sometimes played for pleasure as well as in concert settings. Their folk and traditional themes remind us that Clarke should be squarely placed in the mainstream of the English Musical Renaissance, since they both suggest her influence by Holst's settings of the same unusual combination, and her possible influence on Vaughan Williams who would write for voice and violin in 1928.

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Lullaby - Lorraine McAslan/Ian Jones
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Lullaby - Lorraine McAslan/Ian Jones
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excellent collection.......2006-08-14

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)was a great composer, and this recording is an excellent example of her work. Highly recommended.

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Music of David Liptak

Manufacturer: Bridge Records, Inc.
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Release Date: 2005-07-01

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Ancient Songs - II. Aiken Drum
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Serenade for alto saxophone and strings
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Serenade for alto saxophone and strings
Serenade for alto saxophone and strings
Serenade for alto saxophone and strings

Product Description

This CD presents premiere recordings of four works by the gifted American composer, David Liptak. Liptak's music builds large detailed structures from small and simple means. Frequently, a simple rhythmic gesture will generate an entire movement or a melodic figure will often transform itself, becoming a flower from a seed. Broken Cries was composed for the Tarab Cello Ensemble, which performs it here. The composer writes that "I imagined a kind of of music that was filled with hesitation. Pauses and silences break the flow of sounds, as a voiced cry is sometimes broken by a breath, or perhaps, a sudden thought." Liptak's stunning Ancient Songs takes most of its texts from ancient oral traditions of various cultures- the Passamaquoddy Indian tribe from Maine, the Papago Indian tribe from the southwest, the African Gabon pygmy culture, and a Scottish nursery rhyme. At the end of the cycle, a poem by the American poet James Wright provides a remarkable apotheosis.! The songs are sung with intensity by the work's dedicatee, the wonderful American baritone, William Sharp. The composition of Liptak's hauntingly beautiful Serenade was begun at the composer's summer home in Denmark, and Liptak writes that it "represents the warmth and ease of a Danish summer evening." The five extremely varied movements of this serenade run from simple and meditative to dance-like and highly energetic. The closing work is certainly this disc's simplest and most direct- a short Forlane for solo guitar. Guitarist David Starobin is the performer of this hypnotic little gem. Music of Tom Flaherty Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) Vorarlberg Resonance (1991) for two pianos, Karl and Margaret Kohn, pianos; Timeflies (1996) for guitar and cello, Peter Yates, guitar, Tom Flaherty, cello; Trio for Cello and Digital Processor (1991), Tom Flaherty, cello; Semi-Suite (1990) for solo cello, Tom Flaherty, cello; Quartet for Viola, Cello and Digital Processor (1991), Cynthia Fogg, viola, Tom Flaherty, cello; Time to Travel (1996) for two pianos, Karl and Margaret Kohn, pianos.