House of the Dead [Soundtrack] [Import]

House of the Dead [Soundtrack] [Import]

Track Listings

1. House Of The Dead

2. Raveline

3. Sly Dog

4. Kingdom Come

5. Cry

6. Whenever I Fall

7. Bitter Tears

8. Jordan

9. Suicide Serenade

10. Angst

11. This Is Real ( Club Version)

12. This Is Real ( Film Version)

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The Constant Gardener
Average customer rating:

Beautiful Score

Only track 13

Great Service

A nice reminder of a very moving movie

it captures the spirit of the movie

The Constant Gardener
Alberto Iglesias
Manufacturer: Higher Octave
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Constant Gardener (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B000A7DVPY
Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

Tessa's Death
Roadblock
To Germany
Tessa In The Bath
Jomo Gets An HIV Test
Dicholo - Ayub Ogada
We'll Both Be Dead By Christmas
Motorbike
To Airport
Funeral
Three Bees Testing
Sandy Goes To The Hospital
Kothbiro
Justin Returns To The House
Raid
Destruction
To Loki
Kindergarten
Hospital
Kenny Curtis
Landing In Sudan
Justin's Breakdown
Justin's Death
Dropped Off At Turkana
Roadblock II
Procession

Album Description

Featuring original music composed by Alberto Iglesias. Adapted from the best-seller John le Carre's romantic thriller, two-time Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz head the cast of "The Constant Gardener." In a remote area of northern Kenya, the dedicated activist Tessa Quayle (Weisz) is found brutally murdered. Her travelling companion, a local doctor, appears to have fled the scene and the evidence points to a crime of passion. Sandy Woodrow (Danny Huston), Sir Bernard Pellegrin (Bill Nighy), and other member of the British High Commission assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered colleague Justin Quayle (Fiennes) will leave the matter to their discretion. They could not be more wrong... Featuring music performed by acclaimed Kenyan percussionist and Real World recording artist Ayub Ogada, Alberto Iglesias' ("La Mala Educacion," "The Dancer Upstairs," "Todo Sobre Mi Madre") lush score evokes the film's compelling African and European landscapes.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful Score.......2007-04-24

For someone like me who purchases soundtracks for the score to use for dance & skating programs, this soundtrack definitely made it into my collection. My only minus to the soundtrack is that there isn't much variety among the many tracks. But I am still able to work around it.

Only track 13.......2007-03-31

In my opinion, only track 13 is worthy of buy this CD. Track 13 is beautiful, other than that extremely depressing music...... Once again track 13 is the most beautiful adn touching music that I have ever heard!

Great Service.......2007-02-12

My CD was delivered in a very timely manner and the product was in great shape upon arrival.

A nice reminder of a very moving movie.......2007-01-12

Favorite songs are the ones by Ayub Ogada. I think it's wonderful that we found his music through this film.

it captures the spirit of the movie.......2006-11-10

I like this soundtrack because it reminds me of the movie, which I loved. I am not sure I would appreciate it much if I hadn't seen the movie and didn't have pictures in my mind for each theme. It is redolent of Africa though and that in itself is satisfying.

Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration

Average customer rating:

A good value
The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann
Good mix of film music
A mixed collection of movie music
Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens

Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Paramount 90th Anniversary Collection: Scores
In Session: Film Music Celebration
The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection
Jerry Goldsmith: 40 Years of Film Music
Music In Film (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)

ASIN: B00008WI90
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland)
The Winds of War (Bob Cobert)
Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)
Witness (Maurice Jarre)
Raising Arizona (Carter Burwell)
Pee Wees Big Adventure (Danny Elfman)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Charles Bernstein)
The Fly (Howard Shore)
RoboCop (Basil Poledouris)
The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
Brainstorm (James Horner)
Peggy Sue Got Married (John Barry)
My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein)
The Dead (Alex North)
Stanley & Iris (John Williams)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)
Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

Tracks:

Steel Magnolias (Georges Delerue)
Unforgiven (Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood)
Raggedy Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Grifters (Elmer Bernstein)
Green Card (Hans Zimmer)
City Slickers (Marc Shaiman)
Father Of The Bride (Alan Silvestri)
While You Were Sleeping (Randy Edelman)
Babe (Nigel Westlake)
The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Laurence Rosenthal)
The Secret Garden (Zbigniew Preisner)
A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
Iron Will (Joel McNeely)
Memphis Belle (George Fenton)
Eye Of The Needle (Mikl)
Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
Back To The Future Part III (Alan Silvestri)

Tracks:

To Die For (Danny Elfman)
The Player (Thomas Newman)
Black Robe (Georges Delerue)
Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
2001 (Alex North)
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (Joel McNeely)
The Crow (Graeme Revell)
Blade (Mark Isham)
The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
Scream (Marco Beltrami)
The Sixth Sense (James Newton Howard)
Xena: Warrior Princess (Joseph LoDuca)
Air Force One (Jerry Goldsmith)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
The Matrix (Don Davis)
The Iron Giant (Michael Kamen)
Youve Got Mail (George Fenton)
A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
Pleasantville (Randy Newman)

Tracks:

Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)
Rounders (Christopher Young)
The Score (Howard Shore)
The Replacements (John Debney)
Gone In 60 Seconds (Trevor Rabin)
The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
Rush Hour 2 (Lalo Schifrin)
XXX (Randy Edelman)
Die Hard (Michael Kamen)
The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones)
Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon)
The Mists Of Avalon (Lee Holdridge)
Cleopatra (Alex North)
Life As A House (Mark Isham)
Emma (Rachel Portman)
In The Bedroom (Thomas Newman)
Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
One True Thing (Cliff Eidelman)
Unfaithful (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
Ice Age (David Newman)
Shrek (Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell)

Customer Reviews:

A good value.......2007-05-17

I wasn't expecting to have 4 discs for this price, and the music is a quality selection of film music, giving a good scope of the genre, and a very listenable transfer.

The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann.......2006-07-25

This collection is bound to capture your heart and evoke a tin ear on successive tracks. I found much to like and some duds - easy to skip over.
Very good value.

Good mix of film music.......2006-07-02

Good mix of films!
I'm a big fan of this soundtrack music and will be looking for more CD's like this.

A mixed collection of movie music.......2006-02-23

For the price, this CD is a great bargain. The musical selections, as you might expect, are mixed in quality ranging from extraordinary to so so, the balance being worthwhile and interesting. Sonically the CD is excellent.

Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens.......2006-01-06

I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of listening pleasure. Don't pass this one up

Average customer rating:

Good stuff...
One of my top 5 albums of all time
One of the top 10 cd's ever produced
Better Than Great
!

Dead Cities
The Future Sound of London
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
ProductGroup: Music
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ISDN
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Accelerator

ASIN: B000003RY8
Release Date: 1996-10-29

Tracks:

Herd Killing
Dead Cities
Her Face Forms In Summertime
We Have Explosive
Everyone In The World Is Doing Something Without Me
My Kingdom/Max
Antique Toy
Quagmire
In A State Of Permanent Abyss
Glass
Yage
Vit Drowning/Through Your Gills I Breathe
First Death In The Family

Amazon.com

This U.K. duo's landmark ambient techno album Lifeforms (1994) explored lush jungle vistas. Its follow-up opts for a much darker urban nightmare motif that makes it an ideal soundtrack while reading William Gibson. Progressive rockers by any other name, FSOL are highly respected innovators who rate with Orbital as the genre's leading exponent. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

Good stuff..........2007-01-07

For those with a narrow musical mind, (i.e. the 'top 40' variety) this would be an unbearable CD to have to sit through, but for those with more open musical tastes, particularly in the lineage of ambient, acid techno , then this CD is for you. The soundscapes and musical textures on this masterpiece are eerie, haunting, beautiful, intricate, complex and dark. Hats off to Dougans and Cobain , the musical geniuses behind this production. I particularly enjoy the track 'Glass'. But the songs as a whole fit perfectly together and mesh well. For those looking for something similar, try Tangerine Dream's 'Ricochet'. This is the only album I can compare it to in terms of eerie, haunting, beautiful, intricate , complex and dark. And TG did it back in the 70's...live! Even the album cover , like Dead Cities, is ominous. Good stuff.....

One of my top 5 albums of all time.......2006-01-09

Even though I bought this album almost a decade ago I have to express how wonderful of an album it is. The brilliance of this album lies in the conjured images it leaves in ones mind after listening to it. It seems the music was composed for a noire sci-fi film yet to be made. One moment its hostile the next its absolutely beautiful. Each track fades into an other weaving in and out of you're subconcious. If you're to get one electronica album its this one. A timeless masterpiece of epic proportions. FSOL's most surreal album to date.....do yourself a favor and get it while you still can.

One of the top 10 cd's ever produced.......2005-10-10

There's some good songs on ISDN and some good ones on Lifeforms, but this entire album is creme de la creme. It is definitely one of my favorites of all time. Each track has it's own identity, you never know where the next one is going. In a good way.

Better Than Great.......2005-09-06

What's more to say about what may be the best "rock" album ever (especially if you consider the "My Kingdom" EP to be the second disc in a two disc set)? The most emotionally wide-ranging album from one of the best bands ever. Who else has ever made music like FSOL? The Beatles and Fripp&Crimson are the only possible contenders. I've never heard anything that does a better job of juxtaposing the terrifying and the unbearably beautiful. If I could pinpoint the one disinguishing feature of all FSOL/AA releases, it would be (as a line in "The Isness" goes) "...[a longing for] inexhaustible ecstasy." It's all the more poignant on this album because of its being interwoven with themes of terror, paranoia and a sense of unrecoverable loss of something without which life isn't worth living. It sounds hokey, but just opening up the booklet while listening to "Her Face Forms in Summertime" and reading the scrawled message "things are getting f*&ked up round here" makes my eyes a little watery. My CD developed a 2 second glitch and I just ordered another one--this is so incredible that nothing less than perfection will do.

Just a few points of note: if you're wondering why you spent all that money on your two channel stereo and you haven't heard this album yet, pick it up and turn it up. I've heard recordings with more bottom end and slam, but none with more depth, nuance and musicality. I've also found that one of the true tests of a Masterpiece is whether it's possible to really enjoy listening to anything else after its over. Play Coltrane's "Ascension," Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor Op. 132, or Bruckner's Ninth and see what I mean. I played Dead Cities last night and everything to which I tried to listen sounded hopelessly trivial afterwards. In the early 80s, a lot of my friends used to speak of The Clash as "the only band that mattered." At the time, I didn't think any band had mattered all that much since '72. To my now-much-older ears, FSOL fits that description more accurately than any band to the last 35 years, and this is probably their best work (every single one of them is a desert island disc, however). One of the very few utterly timeless classics of modern music, and a record that belongs in the collection of anyone with ears.

!.......2005-03-08

For me, this is my favorite FSOL record. Leans heavily on trip hop flavors and does not sound like Lifeforms at all. Well performed and intellegently written.
Great spin!

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This song is not dissing James Brown or his music!
True rave classic
Slave to the Rave
Just when you thought it was over.......

James Brown Is Dead
L.A. Style
Manufacturer: Arista
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DE4M
Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

James Brown Is Dead [7" Version of Original Mix - Without Rap]
James Brown Is Dead [7" Version of Original Mix - With Rap]
James Brown Is Dead [Rock Radio Mix]
James Brown Is Dead [Crossover Radio Mix]
James Brown Is Dead [Original Mix][Version]
James Brown Is Dead [Original Mix][Take]
James Brown Is Dead [Deadly Remix]
James Brown Is Dead [Wide Awake Remix]
Take Outs

Customer Reviews:

This song is not dissing James Brown or his music!.......2003-01-29

"The hardest working man in show biz is alive so...
Don't be misled, cause the newsman said..."

The reviews are wrong. The only song on this CD is about a goofed announcement on TV that James Brown was dead. Check out the lyrics before panning the song.

True rave classic.......2002-12-12

Sometimes it feels like I'll never get tired of this song and the remixes of it, although I never really liked that Scooter ripped it off and named it "Call Me Manana". >:\
I believe that "James Brown Is Dead" is about the music that Brown makes is dead, not him as a person.

Slave to the Rave.......2002-04-18

My cousin told me about this song. I absolutely love it and was lucky enough to find the full CD it came from. Although the tracks on this single reflect the same song, they each have their own spin and deserve your attention. I couldn't find this CD and had to get it [online], you should buy this here while you're lucky enough to find it.

Just when you thought it was over..............2001-05-16

It's back! I can't believe it. I bought this single in 1992 on CASSETTE! (Remember- "Cassingles"?) Of course, it being on tape it wore out in like a year but, then so did this song! Now, almost 10 years later I find it's back!! This classic is a MUST HAVE for anyone that went to old skool raves back in the day. In Philadelphia, I went to a rave and it was the first time I heard this song. (1991) It was also my first time hearing classics like PRODIGY'S "Out Of Space", SMART E's "Seseme's Treet", BIZZARE INC. "Playing With Knives, and don't forget OPOTHEOSIS "O'Fortuna"!! It'll "take your brain to another dimension"! Also, look for other ARISTA RECORDS RE-releases like, SNAP's "The Power" and ROBERT MILES' "Children" which were also OUT OF PRINT until now!!! I truly hope other lables will start RE-releasing older, hard to find stuff. ESPECIALLY OLD SINGLES! (HINT! HINT!) over and out.....

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When Crows Refuse to Fly
Woodstock Nation
Country blues at it's best
Woodstock Nation

Woodstock Nation
Big House
Manufacturer: Dead Reckoning
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Back to the Well

ASIN: B00004T4AS
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

Geronimo's Moon
Buck These Haggard Blues
River Town
Girl Can't Help It
Praying To Live
Lonely Shade Of Blue
I'm Moving On
Woodstock Nation
Don't Do Me Any Favors
He Don't Need To Know
Walk Alone

Customer Reviews:

When Crows Refuse to Fly.......2003-08-07

Big House's first 2 CDz rocked out with some definite gems. On their 3rd recorded set for Dead Reckoning, they again reach the stratosphere on several tracks. The opener "Geronimo's Moon" is a midtempo toe tapper with a plaintive lyric, "If there's blood in the sky & the crows refuse to fly, I can already tell there's a rumble down in hell; you can hear the sounds of hounds on my trail." One of my favorites is "Buck These Haggard Blues" which may be a nod to Merle, "Brother, you don't know what's hot when day to day is all you've got & the company's been renting you the shade." "Girl Can't Help It" is a perky tongue-in-cheek track with Steve Vines' frisky bass bouncing joyfully. My very favorite track is "Praying to Live" with its insistent beat Monty Byrom's funky electric lead guitar, "When you try to forgive, you better start with yourself; we're all praying to live & dyin' for a little help." Besides Hank Snow who wrote it, "I'm Movin' On" has been recorded by Ernest Tubb, Ike & Tina Turner, Steppenwolf, Emmylou Harris, Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones. In the hands of Big House, it rolls through like a freight train at cruising speed. The title track is a rather serious ode to the loss of innocence. "He Don't Need to Know" is a jaunty little country track about faithlessness. "Woodstock Nation" is a good set filled with little jewels. The feel of the playing is loose and flowing rather than sharp and tight, certain fun. Enjoy!

Woodstock Nation.......2002-05-21

Their first two CD's were a clean stripped down sound, this one is fuller and full of great lyrics and solid beat!

Country blues at it's best.......2002-01-11

Big House gives such a rich texture to their music. You can't help but feel this music. It will make you want to dance, sing, cry, smile, laugh. The strong rythm instruments in the background build a solid foundation that the lead instruments and vocals turn into a master work. It has been in my CD changer since I bought it and will probably never be removed.

Woodstock Nation.......2000-06-13

Big Houses latest release "Woodstock Nation" is some of the best music out today. In a country music industry of George Stait and Garth Brooks wanna be's, it is refreshing to have a band with a sound and groove all it's own. This album consists of music ranging from country like the track: He Don't Need to Know About Me, to ballads like River Town, to the blues influenced Buck these Haggard Blues and Praying to Live. There is also a hidden track at the end of the CD that is just a rockin instrumental in the tradition of Carlos Santana and ZZ Top. Big House is truly an awesome house band and in my opinion, one of the best kept secrets in the music industry.

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Lives up to the rave review by Mr. Hollingsworth
Serebrier at his finest: The best Janacek discs!

Janácek: Orchestral Works

Manufacturer: Reference Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005RDB2
Release Date: 2001-10-30

Tracks:

Sinfonietta: Fanfares
Sinfonietta: The Castle
Sinfonietta: The Queen's Monastary
Sinfonietta: The Street
Sinfonietta: The Town
Lachian Dances: Starodavny
Lachian Dances: Pozehnany
Lachian Dances: Dymak
Lachian Dances: Starodavny II
Lachian Dances: Celadensky
Lachian Dances: Pilky
Taras Bulba: The Death Of Andrei
Taras Bulba: The Death Of Ostap
Taras Bulba: Prophecy And Death Of Taras Bulba

Tracks:

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The Cunning Little Vixen - Ste: Part Two
Jealousy (Original Prld To Jenufa)
From The House Of The Dead: Prld
The Makropulos Case: Act I
The Makropulos Case: Act II
The Makropulos Case: Act III

Customer Reviews:

Lives up to the rave review by Mr. Hollingsworth.......2003-01-24

I've become a recent devotee of Janacek's music, in particular with regards to his most folk-inspired works (Lachian Dances and Rakos Rakoczy). I'm always on the lookout for worthy recordings of the Lachian Dances and the previous review seemed positive. I was not disappointed. Compared to the Decca Double Decker with Mackerras and Huybrechts, Srebenier extracts a bit more verve and fun from his players. The Decca recording is indeed impressive in its own right (I'd give it 4-and-a-half stars), but the Czech State Philharmonic and Srebenier seem to be genuinely enjoying themselves playing on "home turf" as it were. In other words, although the Decca recording sounds more polished from a technical standpoint, the playing sounds a little stately or "officious" (for lack of a better word) compared to the Reference recording. If you already have the Decca recording, by all means, go for this one as well.

Serebrier at his finest: The best Janacek discs!.......2002-07-19

For decades, Mackerras' recording of Janacek's Taras Bulba and Sinfonietta has been deemed the best in the catalogue, against which all others have been measured. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (VPO), which knows as much of Janacek as they do of Bruckner, played the works with authority and with real feeling. The strings are of real bloom and weight, the woodwinds crispy, the brass blazen and glorious, and the percussion mesmerizing. Sir Charles Mackerras, among the best of Janacek's interpreters (along with Bretislav Bakala, Frantisek Jilek, & Vaclav Neumann earlier), gives the renditions of vividness and imagination and the phrasings are as genuine and ideal as expected.

But,...here comes this recording! Let me say upfront that Serebrier measures up to Mackerras in every way. And the Czech State Philharmonic (of Brno) is as authoritative as the VPO, with every bar & every detail so well caught and conveyed even at higher levels than its Viennese rival. Furthermore, the Czech State Philharmonic brings out more authenticity of these works, thanks in some part to the recording. For example, listen to the second movement of Sinfonietta "The Castle." Notice how a sense of mystery, after, say 1'35", becomes compellingly restraint and haunting (the strings and woodwinds must be credited for this, as well as Serebrier, who conveys these dimensions more successfully than even Belohlavek). How about the third movement "The Queen's Monastary", which is played with real beauty and eloquence, with a certain feeling of nostalgia and sadness. Exemplary, even in regards to the other works like Taras Bulba and the Lachian Dances. I would hesitate to replace my Decca recording of the Lachian Dances well served by Francois Huybrechts and the London Philharmonic, especially since it's coupled with Janacek's Vec Makropulos-which London Decca foolishly deleted-along with other Janacek's operas extremely well executed by Mackerras, the VPO, and its wonderful casts (remember Elisabeth Soderstrom?). Instead, Serebrier's edition is well worth having: it has plenty of vitality and enjoyment. And the way Serebrier brings out the tragic menance and drama of Taras Bulba is idiomatic and purely exciting. The closing of Taras Bulba is done triumphantly and with appropriate grandioseness, although the organ should have more of an imposing presence.

Reference Recordings (RR), which compiled the original 1995-1996 recordings of these works, includes the second disc (under the two for the price of one scheme). This disc contains selections from Janacek's popular operas: Suite from "The Cunning Little Vixen", preludes to "Jenufa" (entitled "Jealously") and "From the House of the Dead", and Serebrier's Symphonic Synthesis of "Vec Makropulos." This second disc is as every bit enjoyable as the first disc containing Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, and the Lachian Dances. The "Cunning Little Vixen" Suite (in the Talich/Smetacek edition) is done with upmost vividness and flair. But the Vec Makropulos synthesis is every bit as paradigmatic. Serebrier, a very successful composer in his own right, confessed the challenge he faced in coming up with the synthesis, which no one has done before. Well, it pays off. The synthesis upholds the essence of Janacek's very demanding opera, while not minimizing its emotional and musical impact. Moreover, the Czech State Philharmonic comes up huge again (the prelude comes off well and with fire under their musicianship).

So, an highly enjoyable two-disc set that in many ways outshine Mackerras' Decca recording. As alluded to earlier, the quality of the recording is part of this album's success. The sound is more "Czech" in feeling and extremely well focused. You might be tempted to buy Belohlavek's Chandos recording of especially the Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba. Chandos likewise offer, for the price of one, a two-disc (compiled) set of these works, plus Fiddler's Child as well as Idyll and Suite (both for Strings idiomatically played by Gregory Rose and the Jupiter Orchestra), but minus the "House of the Dead" prelude and "Vec Makropulos." The Chandos album is well worth having, though Belohlavek's approach to Sinfonietta and Taras Bulba is not as ideal as Serebrier or Mackerras (the brass of the Czech Philharmonic is surprisingly not as glorious and blazen as the Czech State Philharmonic or the VPO and their strings lack tonal radiance and body comparatively speaking). Otherwise, Belohlavek is better on the other works, like Fiddler's Child and the "Cunning Little Vixen" Suite.

But, Serebrier's recordings of Janacek's masterpieces can now be deemed as the benchmark recordings against which all others will be measured! Will Serebrier record Janacek's operas as a just compensation for the deleted Decca/Mackerras recordings (still held as the best in the catalogue)? Oh boy I dare hope so!

Out of This World
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Failed Ideas

Simply Exquisite

Out of This World
Harold Arlen , Herbert/ Arlen, Harold ("Hal") Stothart , Allan Schwartzberg , Joe Beck , Cyro Baptista , James Saporito , Jeffrey Harris , and Mike Renzi
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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive/Get Happy
It's Only a Paper Moon
Let's Fall in Love [*]
Sleepin' Bee
Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead
Optimistic Voices [*]
Over the Rainbow
Let's Take a Walk Around the Block
Don't Like Goodbyes
Right as the Rain
Out of This World
Man That Got Away/Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)/Blues in
My Shining Hour

Customer Reviews:

Failed Ideas.......2004-12-09

Maureen McGovern is a national treasure. Her Naughty Baby CD to me is the 2nd coming of Christ. By comparison Out of this World is quite disappointing. Mostly either Harold Arlen or MM's uninspiring interpretations and/or Renzi's arrangements don't seem to suit MM on this CD. The drums and percusion are sometimes schlocky. The screechy sax is always terrible. Also not working for me are the electric keyboard/synthesizer, the electric guitar and the cello. Even Renzi's piano playing is sometimes a let down. Jay Leonhart's great bass work seems to be the only thing that you can depend on here. Did MM do this to herself or is Renzi mainly responsible? Spend your money instead on: Naughty Baby, The Music Never Ends, The Pleasure of his Company and Christmas With MM. All wonderful music.

Simply Exquisite.......2003-12-01

I'd forgotten what a beautiful, supple vocal instrument McGovern has. Here, she sings blues- and jazz-flavored tunes, torchy ballads, and more--all Harold Arlen--including "It's Only a Paper Moon," "Over the Rainbow," "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block," "The Man That Got Away" and "Come Rain or Come Shine." Her "Optimistic Voices" (from The Wizard of Oz) is worth the price of the entire CD. It is simply exquisite, like a fine jewel, polished and gleaming with feeling.

Janacek - From the House of the Dead / Mackerras

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Definitive performance of original score
Outstanding
Great Opera Recording of Authorative Edition
Una de las mejores Operas del Siglo XX
Please Put it in Production, Somebody

Janacek - From the House of the Dead / Mackerras

Manufacturer: Decca
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ASIN: B0000041XT
Release Date: 1991-09-12

Tracks:

Prelude - Sir Charles Mackerras/Vienna PO
Act One: Privedou dnes pana! - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
Act One: Jak te nazyvaji? - Antonin Svorc
Act One: Neuvidi oko jiz tech kraju - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
Act One: Aljejo, podavej nitku! - Jiri Zahradnicek
Act Two: A...a... - Zdenek Svehla
Act Two: Alexandr Petrovic, bude prazdnik - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
Act Two: Presel den, druhy, treti - Ivo Zidek
Act Two: Dnes bude muj posledni den! - Jaroslav Sousek
Act Two: Pantomime o Pekne mlynarce - Sir Charles Mackerras/Wiener Phil
Act Two: Pekne hrali, co? - Jaroslava Janska

Tracks:

Act Three: Scene 1: Isaj, prorok bozi - Jaroslava Janska
Act Three: Scene 1: Ma detatka mila - Beno Blachut
Act Three: Scene 1: A ja byl, bratricku, az do svatby zpit! - Vaclav Zitek
Act Three: Scene 1: S Filkou jste se opet spratelili? - Zdenek Svehla
Act Three: Scene 2: Petrovici! Ja jsem te urazil - Antonin Svorc
Mladi: I. Andante - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
Mladi: II. Moderato - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
Mladi: III. Allegro - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
Mladi: IV. Con moto - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
Rikadla - London Sinfionetta Chor/Clive Wearing

Customer Reviews:

Definitive performance of original score.......2005-08-18

How do you make an uplifting opera out of a group of exhausted, demoralised, malnourished prisoners stuck in the Nineteenth Century equivalent of a Stalinist Gulag? Let Janacek show you how.

This is a piece where practically nothing happens. A new prisoner arrives, there's a bit of aimless brutality, the prisoners put on a ramshackle show, a caged eagle is given its (symbolic) freedom and...er...that's about it. The most interesting action happens in a series of long narratives, life-stories told by prisoners to while away the endless time spent in this hellhole.

Yet this is throughout edge-of-the-seat stuff. Janacek, in the last opera of his Indian Summer, uniquely captures that 'spark of humanity' to be found in even the most degenerate of men - both musically and emotionally. Just listen to the Prelude for a taste of what is to come - the chain-clanking drudge of prison life; the manic, soaring, screaming violin cadenza taken from an unfinished Violin Concerto; the brief brassy moments of uplifting hope and thoughts of freedom. And these harsh juxtapositions are clothed in a brutal, spare, blackboard-scraping instrumenation that seems to push Janacek's unique orchestration methods to its limits.

This is especially true in Mackerras's riveting performance, for he will accept none of the later attempts to smooth out Janacek's searing textures, made under the pretext that he left the work unfinished at his death. Mackerras, greatest of all Janacek conductors, presents us with the cruel unwavering truth of the composer's vision. He is abetted by a cast of top singers, Czech nationals all (including the wonderful veteran Beno Blachut), who bring the range of low-life characters vivdly to life.

This is an opera unlike any other in the repertoire and a masterpiece to boot. And Mackerras, wearing his copious research as lightly as ever, delivers a definitive performance of it.

Outstanding.......2004-05-16

This is a superb recording of this rarely performed work. Janacek was never afraid of violating convention and this opera is no exception. Dramatized from Doestoevsky's novel, it lacks a conventional plot with a single dramatic action and clear primary characters. Instead, From The House of the Dead is a series of episodes treating the themes of crime, punishment, and expiation. The structure is mirrored in the structure of the music, which has sort of a theme and variations structure. The score has been reconstructed to approximate Janacek's original intentions, dropping accretions added after his death by some of his well intentioned disciples. The result is also atypical with orchestration featuring a relatively small orchestra and ensemble, as opposed to star-oriented, vocal parts. The result is certainly unconventional and features some of Janacek's most powerful music.

Great Opera Recording of Authorative Edition.......2003-08-10

This is a very important and fine recording of Janacek's final and most remarkable opera. It is done in a very authorative edition based on the copied autograph score the way Janacek left it, undoing virtually all of the changes and additions to the orchestration his disciples Chlubna and Brekala made, which unfortunately softens the power of this opera.

This results in an edgier, harsher, rougher, chamber-like sound which is truer to Janacek's intentions. It also heightens the power of this work and shows the uniqueness of the composer's voice. Mackerras and John Tyrell must be commended for the tremendous amount of musicological work to restore the work to it's original intended glory.

The two chamber works also serve as wonderful complement to this great work.

Una de las mejores Operas del Siglo XX.......2002-12-09

Sin duda, esta ópera es una de las más grandes que se hayan escrito en el Siglo XX. Esta grabación raya casi en lo perfecto: Sonido, balance, dirección orquestal, intérpretes, etc.
Sir Charles Mackerras es sin duda el mejor exponente de Janacek hoy día, logra captar a la perfección las sutilezas orquestales de Janacek y en todo momento mantiene la música con la tensión necesaria que se necesita para comentar situaciones de la vida diaria en una prisión. Los personajes crecen a lo largo de la obra y cada uno de ellos en sí vive su propio drama.
El sonido del preludio es glorioso, con sus tremendos agudos en las cuerdas y las ásperas disonancias, logra crear la atmósfera necesaria. Una joya, sin lugar a dudas. Recomiendo ampliamente ésta grabación, la que en mi opinión, tardará muchos años en ser igualada.

Please Put it in Production, Somebody.......2002-06-13

This is a stunning piece of music, a rich symphony of voices, a pleasure to sit and listen to! Not all operas bear listening to, dare I say, without the support of staging. Janacek's late style is complex and bold, but comprehensible without reference to musical theory. "From the House of the Dead" is relatively short, for an opera; I for one feel that I couldn't ask for more of such acoustical and emotional intensity. The two chamber pieces that fill out the second disc are wonderfully eccentric and original.
My real question is, why doesn't some company seize the chance to produce this great opera? The audience IS ready!

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An overgrown path to the opera suites
An overgrown path to the opera suites

Janácek: Opera Suites

Manufacturer: Supraphon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-10-01

Customer Reviews:

An overgrown path to the opera suites.......2001-02-28

Janacek opera suites present an unexplored new era because actually Janacek never have considered to write orchestral suites even to one of his seven operae

Janacek used to regard his operae as entities with a whole content of their own who did'nt need any refinement for orchestral listeners .

Idiosincrastic and Whimsical are only few titles which tried to depict Janacek music. Dvorak did'nt even try to disclose his sheer detest of what he heard in it.

We need however to admit that Janacek had managed to plant in our minds the seeds of affection and wonder eventhough from the first glimpse his music is not easy to digest.

The opera suites emerged to the concert halls thanks to the courtesy of the famous Czech conductors Tallich, Jilek and Smolka who skillfuly arranged all these almost forgotten treasures which probably would have been lost in provincial Czech Opera casts without their fertile work. .

An overgrown path to the opera suites.......2001-02-28

Janacek opera suites present an unexplored new era because actually Janacek never have considered to write orchestral suites even to one of his seven operae

Janacek used to regard his operae as entities with a whole content of their own who did'nt need any refinement for orchestral listeners .

Idiosincrastic and Whimsical are only few titles which tried to depict Janacek music. Dvorak did'nt even try to disclose his sheer detest of what he heard in it.

We need however to admit that Janacek had managed to plant in our minds the seeds of affection and wonder eventhough from the first glimpse his music is not easy to digest.

This CD from the label of "Supraphon" Czech recording company, makes the best of these opera suites under the skillfull button of Jiri Belohlavek . It's only fault is that the sound as in most cases of "Supraphon" records is not in the highest level.

The Egyptian
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A true, enduring masterpiece!

The Egyptian

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

Prelude/The Ruins
Crocodile Inn/Thebes
Chant for Dead Pharaoh
Chariot Ride/Pursuit/Akhnaton/Put Them in Chains
Throne Room
Taia
Party's End/The Offering/The Harp Player
Deed/The Harp and Couch
Perfection of Love/Violence
House of the Dead/The Burial
Valley of the Kings
Homecoming
Hymn to Aton
Nefer's Farewell/Sights, Sounds and Smells
You've Been in My Prayers
Live for Our Son [From "The Egyptian"]
Am I Mad?
Princess/The True Pharaoh/The Tomb
Danse Macabre
Death of Merit
Death Potion
Death of Akhnaton
I Am Pharaoh/Horemheb's Victorious Entrance
Exile and Death

Customer Reviews:

A true, enduring masterpiece!.......2005-09-01

There have been many milestones in film music history that have resonated through the decades finding new audiences and inspiring new recordings.

Unique among them is "The Egyptian," a major collaboration between uber-composers Bernard Herrmann (to whom the film was assigned) and Alfred Newman (20th Century-Fox Music Department head and all-time great composer/conductor). While Herrmann got the initial assignment, the allotted time was inadequate for him to do justice to the film. Newman stepped in and developed thematic materials which Herrmann incorporated into his own desginated sections of the film, while Newman the rest.

In my opinion, "The Egyptian" -- as a film -- stands well above most epics of the 50s, but it has some serious detractors who, for whatever reasons, find no value in the authentic atmosphere, fantastic sets, stunning cinematography and brilliant music underscoring. Add to that some solid performances from Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov and Michael Wilding (plus a stolid, if uninvolving leading performance by Edmund Purdom) and you really get a stunning piece of entertainment that holds the attention, dazzles the eyes and ears and becomes emotionally involving. Wilding, as the pharaoh, has the film's -- and one of filmdom's -- best moments near the end of the film. Newman's underscoring for that scene -- called "Death of Akhnaton" -- is an example of what film scoring is all about. It also heightens awareness of what seems to be missing from many of today's film composers resumes -- intensive education in music theory, counterpoint, harmony and exposure to all forms of music. The scene is breathtaking, heartbreakingly performed and musically overwhelming, although the music is always "under" the scene rather than rampaging over it.

There are so many wonderful pieces of music in this film that I acknowledge my inadequacy to present a case for them. The proof is in the listening. From the awe-inspiring opening to the exquisite theme for "Merit" to the sinuous, hypnotic theme for "Nefer", Herrmann and Newman have created a musical palette of stunning splendors. There is no other soundtrack album like it.

I cannot overstate its importance, the splendiferousness of its performance on this recording by the 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra as conducted by Alfred Newman, and the glorious choral work of Newman's right-hand man, Ken Darby.

This is film music history. Any collection without it is hollow.

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