Look at Yourself

Look at Yourself

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Hip-Hop and Hard Rock personify The Almighty Grind. While the group has undergone various line-up changes, the core members of TAG have remained: Fernando Navarro on guitars, Tomas De Long on bass and Tony Duran on vocals. The latest additions include Ahmad Dillard (a.k.a. ADS) on vocals, Kevin McPherson on drums and reintroducing former TAG member, Mike Reynaud, who handles back up guitars and special effects.

For five years The Almighty Grind has been building momentum as well as a large following, both as a performing and a recording group. The band has played at such well-known venues as The Roxy, The Whisky, The Key Club, The House of Blues and many others in both the LA Basin and in the Inland Empire. The Almighty Grind has capitalized on opportunities to perform with, and learn from, bands like (hed)PE, Burning Star, Zebrahead, The Guano Apes, Pensativa and Shuvel. TAG has also continued to play shows in their hometown Inland Empire area with local bands like All She Wrote, Affliction, Substance A, Second Chance and The Backyard Pimps. And, with the creation of many sites on the Internet catering to independent bands, TAG has enjoyed continued success as their music has become available to the world. Their songs have climbed the charts on sites like Garageband, MP3.com, and Soundclick, while their ambitious live shows have earned recognition from such an astute organization as the Los Angeles Music Awards (2002 Nominees: Best Live Performance, Best Male Vocalist and Best Drummer). The Los Angeles Music Awards recently nominated TAG for Independent Rock Album of the Year for 2003, to be held on November 22nd. This success reflects The Almighty Grind's dedication to their music, and commitment to their fans.

For more information regarding the band, or to arrange a performance or press interview, please contact Trevor Carlson, President, Little Fly, Inc.

Product Description
The Almighty Grind combines bone-jarring alternative rock with beat-flowin' hip-hop. If you like Cypress Hill, Limp Bizkit or Linkin Park, then you will love this release!

Tracks:

Look At Yourself
I Wanna Be Free
July Morning
Tears In My Eyes
Shadows Of Grief
What Should Be Done
Love Machine

Album Description

1996 remastered reissue from Castle of the band's 1971 albumfor Mercury with two bonus tracks: 'Look At Yourself' (Single Version) and 'What's Within My Heart'. Nine tracks total. Also features faithfully restored artwork and is a limited edition picture disc.

Customer Reviews:

Look At Mott.......2006-07-21

There has been a band going under the 'Uriah Heep' banner now since 1969, and no one can take away their influence on hard rock music, only Mick Box survives from the original line up. But combining his undeniable popularity, with musical skill on his chosen musical weapon the modern electric guitar, a great vision of what the customer wants, and an incredible faith in his ability to succeed within the band, he has kept the band going through all the sticks and arrows that have been thrown at them. (A certain journalist from America's prestigious rock magazine 'Rolling Stone' said she would commit suicide if the band made it, when she reviewed their debut album. Fortunately for her after millions of album sales later including 19 studio albums and countless live albums and compilations, playing concerts to thousands of adoring fans all over the world, the band has not held her to her word).
The line up of the band today, Mick Box on lead guitar, Trevor Boulder(ex-David Bowie's Spiders from Mars, and Wishbone Ash) on bass guitar, Phil Lanson on keyboards, Bernie Shaw on lead vocals and Lee Kerslake on drums (Lee has been with the band since the fourth album only missing one along the way after a spat with keyboardist Ken Hensley, but when he left the band it left an easy way for Lee to come back as he had just been evicted from 'Ozzy Osborne's Blizzard of Oz')Have now been together for over twenty five years but it certainly was not like that at the beginning.
In their early days 'Uriah Heep' were one of the main bands who gave the inspiration to the 'Rockumentary' Spinal Tap, one of the finest comedies ever made about rock culture, with it's self combusting drummers, revolving stages, and dramatic band break ups.
'Uriah Heep' had five different drummers before their fourth album, to be fair the fifth was Lee Kerslake, who became the fifth and seventh drummer after Chris Slade stepped in for the 'Conquest' album, before going off to 'The Firm' with Paul Rogers and Jimmy Page. Throughout their career 'Uriah Heep' have had five lead singers, four keyboard players, six bass players, but only one lead guitarist good old Mick Box who today looks more and more like one of the wrestlers from the American wrestling series than ever, although he still plays a mean guitar.
'Uriah Heep' were formed in 1969 by taking the four members of the band 'Spice' David Byron on lead vocals, Paul Newton on bass, Alex Napier on drums, Mick Box on lead guitar, and adding Ken Hensley on keyboards to add an extra dimension to the instrumentation and the writing skills of the band. Ken Hensley had been in 'Toe Fat ' with Cliff Bennett and a certain Lee Kerslake.
Their first album 'Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble' (1969) had a very good cover! It also contained the opening track 'Gypsy' which is still in the live set list today, which does have a certain appeal in it's opening riff, but then rather fades away as an excuse for a long complicated keyboard solo, which to be fair it still is today. After that things rather went downhill with the rest of the album searching for direction and including an ill advised blues work out imaginatively titled 'Lucy Blues' a cover of 'Come Away Mellinda' which would of been better left in the hands of a Tom Jones wannabe, and some other assorted plod rockers. Six months later the band came out with their second album (and third drummer, second drummer Nigel Olsson got an offer from Elton John, which he could hardly turn down) 'Salisbury' (1970) (Even the cover was awful). This started in fine style with a song called 'Bird Of Prey' with it's harmony vocals, excellent soloing from both guitars and keyboards, giving hints as to what the band were capable of. This was then followed by a rock ballad which had a very stop start rhythm, clever but a bit confusing for the new fan, then it was back to hard rock for the flat out 'Time To Live', next was the now classic 'Lady in Black' an acoustic sing-a-long which had wonderful harmonies, and was great for a sing song at concerts, then when you turned the album over (Ah The good old days of vinyl) there was another rocker in 'High Priestess' before a sixteen minute piece which was the title track, it had brass sections, sweeping violins, you name it 'Uriah Heep' added it onto the song, listening to it now it really was a mess. Leaving the record buying public in complete confusion.
Things had to be put right, and ten months later that year they were. `Look At Yourself' (1970) still is to many the ultimate Uriah Heep and hard rock album. The cover is great, it's a mirror, look at yourself! Get it? Opening with the title track it hurtles out of the tracks like some demented heavy metal demon, Hensley and Box thrash out the songs riff before the wonderfully strong voice of David Byron calls his brethren to the cause, the rest of the band harmonizing behind him, then after a rampaging guitar solo, the riff is picked up again to bring the song to a rousing crescendo with the percussionists from 'Osibisa' brought in to add their sound to the climax, this time the session musicians were used to good effect. The pace is not let up by the following song 'I Wanna Be Free' as the chorus is driven along by a pounding beat, but with sympathetic vocals, and fine musical flourishes, with all the guitars in the band standing out. At track three is probably Uriah Heep's most famous song 'July Morning' a song that no version of the band could ever contemplate going on stage and not playing before they leave, it must of also been licensed out to every 'Best of Hard rock albums' ever made. After Ken Hensley's strident organ chords open the song up, Mick Box takes the song to a higher level with some truly rockin' guitar, before the whole thing is brought down to allow the vocals of David Byron to take over, the song is a loving ten minutes long, showing the full range of all the soloist's, building to many crescendo's before reaching a dramatic conclusion with everybody having a go at the solo's and Manfred Mann brought into the studio to add his deft touch on the moog syntherziser, a classic rock song.
The following songs on the album are not an anti-climax 'Tears In My Eyes' is a great little rock 'n' roll song lots of loud guitars, and the harmony vocals would not do shame to any of the great American vocal groups of the Fifties. 'Shadows Of Grief' is another epic song that perhaps never gets the recognition of some of it's peers, maybe this is because there just was not room for it in the live set with all it's twists and turns, but it is like a hidden treasure on the album. It has aged very well even though it still glorifies in the use of stereo with all the instruments and vocals switching from one speaker to the other in dramatic fashion, as if the band had found a new toy to play with. Finally the band drop the pace a little as if needing to catch their breathe, with the beautiful ballad 'What Should Be Done' there is nothing wrong with having one ballad on a rock album as long as they do not dominate proceedings. The album is brought to a rollicking conclusion by 'Love Machine' a number that just rocks, bringing the music to a conclusion as it did Uriah Heep's live set at the time. A job well done, 'Look At Yourself' was the first 'Uriah Heep' album to break into the American Top 100 and the British Top 30. Of course the band would hit pay dirt with the next years 'Demons and Wizards 'album but would it all of been possible with out a good look at yourself?
Over the next thirty years 'Uriah Heep' did make some awful yawn inducing albums (Like 'Fallen Angel' in 1978). But make no mistake 'Look At Yourself' is a diamond hard jewel
Mott The Dog.

Criminally underrated, indeed...........2006-01-12

Uriah Heep was my very first concert!! 1973 Magician's Birthday tour in Boise. WOW!! Talk about a lasting impression: great show, Dave Byron was fantastic, and the songs...well, if you're a fan, I don't need to tell you. I think they opened with Sweet Lorraine - - can it get much better??

Back then, my brother & I didn't have a lot of money for records, but we bought every one of theirs, including Look At Yourself, which is undoubtedly one of their heaviest, while still being melodic...July Morning being a stellar example.

By the 80's, it was a guilty pleasure if you liked Uriah Heep, because they were not considered cool ('course, if someone else's only sampling of them was Ken Hensley's truly sorrowful solo effort, "Proud Words On a Dusty Shelf", who could blame 'em for thinking Heep probably sucked, as well?)

It's great to know there are so many other Heep fans out there, still. Dave Byron's singing inspired me later to become a professional singer myself, and the indelible mark this band left on me had a big impact on my preference to this day for melodic, hard rock and progressive/European influences with a bit 'o fantasy thrown in.

This album, their first with Gypsy, Demons and Wizards, and Magician's Birthday are their best efforts. Buy 'em all and enjoy a trip back in time with a band who managed to write some true classics in spite of what the nasty critics said, and gave us a classic singer many of us thankfully can never forget.

A little excessive for my tastes.........2005-10-29

The first two songs 'Look At Yourself' and 'I Wanna Be Free' fall in the ranks of pure hard rock genius for the early 70s; sizzling guitar solos, heavy hammond playing that puts Jon Lord to shame (IMHO) and solid explosive drumming that holds everything together. What's more, David Byron is at his finest exhibiting great vocal range and dynamics without one embarassing moment.

However, after these two songs, the whole thing slowly slides into a horrible art rock nightmare. July Morning sounds like it was building into something strong with the instrumentals getting progressively intense and when you think the climax is about to happen, it turns into a ballad. Tears in My Eyes actually has a good slide guitar riff and some catchy 'LA LA LA' vocals from Mr. Byron. But there is still an odd feel to the song. Shadows of Grief has a real akward if not grating operatic hook which repeats itself tiresomely throughout the whole song. What should Be done is a nice funky little soulful mellotron ditty which gives us a break from the artsy dronings. Lastly, Love Machine doesn't fit with this album at all. It's your basic boogie-rock baby baby song with nothing interesting happening. Why they would think to lump this 'foghat' type thing into an art-rock album is beyond me.

I would still get this album for the first two songs, but for good solid albums, I would recommend Sweet Freedom, Magician's Birthday, and even the first self titled one. In my opinion, those albums contain better composed hard rock / progressive experiments. STAY AWAY FROM SALISBURY!! WHAT A DISASTER THAT WAS!

Underrated Classic - Perfect for a July Morning!.......2005-05-08

Look At Yourself (1971.), Uriah Heep's third studio album

Uriah Heep, in the early 1970's were very much the band which everyone but the fans of the band themselves, loved to hate. They got loads of stick from critics often calling the heavy rock band the 'Poor Man's Deep Purple'. However, in my opinion, these are particularly unfair criticisms on a band who have produced some excellent music during their career and 'Look at Yourself', Uriah Heep's third studio album, released in 1971 stands as one of their finest and most accomplished efforts.

Its particularly sad that this band is so underrated, because, if this album made sales based on the quality of the music, it would have sold quite a few million copies. The tag which Uriah Heep gained of being very similar to Deep Purple is a little unfair. I will not deny that they are in a very similar mold to the great Deep Purple, employing a thick hammond organ and heavy guitar style but nevertheless, Uriah Heep have their own trademark sound and I would not waste a second in dispelling any claim that they were Deep Purple rip offs. Instead, what you have with Uriah Heep is a group of excellent musicians who, certainly with this album made some amazingly powerful music. Dave Byron, the lead singer with Uriah Heep at the time is an excellent and much underrated vocalist, as is the guitar playing of Mick Box and the diverse instrumental abilities of Ken Hensley, who also proves himself to be a great songwriter on this album. 'Look at Yourself' is a masterpiece from start to finish, with loads of explosive moments of power.

Thankfully also, the 'Look at Yourself' album has undergone an excellent remaster by Sanctuary Records. I would definitely recommend the deluxe issue over the standard 7 album track issue. The deluxe edition is one of the best remaster efforts I've seen. The original tracks are of excellent quality but what you also get are 7 bonus tracks, giving you double the music from this fruitful time for Uriah Heep. The bonus tracks include BBC session versions of the 'Look at Yourself' title track and 'What Should Be Done'. Theres alternate versions too of these two tracks and an extended version of 'Tears in my Eyes'. However, perhaps the best additions are the two session outtakes which have only been discovered in the last 15 years. 'Whats Within My Heart' is one, an excellent acoustic track and 'Why' is a remarkable 12 minute jam. The liner notes within the CD sleeve are also excellent with pictures, interviews and lyrics all included. So, the deluxe version is definitely the way to go if its available readily and is of a reasonable price.

The seven tracks on the album are masterpieces in their own right. The album opens with the title track, 'Look At Yourself', a blasting, guitar and keyboard heavy rock song with a great chorus build up. 'I Wanna Be Free' is a bit more like a ballad but is just as heavy as the first track. 'July Morning', the 10 minute epic, is worth the price of the album alone, often acclaimed as Uriah Heeps best song, its a killer from start to finish. The band themselves recorded it on the first take - some great lyrics sung with heart by Byron builds into a long keyboard and guitar interlude which is brilliant. 'Tears In My Eyes' is another great rock song and 'Shadows of Grief' is a more unusual, 8 minute epic, with a heavy vocal sections and an interesting harmonising finish over lots of keyboard. 'What Should Be Done' is a piano based, lighter track - written in quick time, this is no filler, its one of the best tracks on the album. 'Love Machine' is a 4 minute hard rocking finish to the album in typical Heep style.

'Look at Yourself' deserves much more recognition than it deserves. I often say Deep Purple are criminally underrated but this band are even more so. It always amazes me how this album stayed in the charts for just 1 week and reached only #39 - its a classic with plenty of great songs within. Any fan of heavy rock should not overlook Uriah Heep's music and especially not this masterpiece album.

Didn't disappoint.......2005-01-23

I was a young college student when this was released, and am in agreeement with other reviewers that this is a classic! I might be a little biased in reminiscing to a different generation, but think that newcomers will appreciate this too. "The more things change, the more they remain the same."

Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter & Rodgers & Hart

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A really Fine Romance
A Musical Treat

Menuhin & Grappelli Play Berlin, Kern, Porter & Rodgers & Hart

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ASIN: B000002SDR
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Cheek To Cheek
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
The Piccolino
Change Partners
Top Hat
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
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The Way You Look Tonight
Pick Yourself Up
A Fine Romance
All The Things You Are
Why Do I Love You?
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Night And Day
Looking At You
Just One Of Those Things
My Funny Valentine
Thou Swell
The Lady Is A Tramp
Blue Room

Customer Reviews:

A really Fine Romance.......2007-07-05

It doesn't get any better than these two playing these guys! Some of it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios. Use your imagination... It's all just swell.

A Musical Treat.......2006-01-08

"The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments." ~ Charles-Auguste De Bériot ~

Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grapelli together had made some of the most beautiful music ever-recorded. And I believe that this is one of the many successful albums they recorded together. In this recording, both violinists have showed their excellent musicianship and interpretative eloquence as well, making it one of my most cherished CDs from my collection.

These are the main ingredients of a perfectly-made CD for your listening pleasure: mix violins, piano, bass and drums together, combine two terrific violinists, season with the best melodies in the 20s, 30s and 40s from Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter and Rodgers & Hart. Add the musical talents of Nelson Riddle, Max Harris, Martin Taylor, Eddie Tripp, Alan Clare and the rest of the studio musicians. Now all you have to do is to sit back, relax and savor these stunning melodies coming from your CD player. Listen to it in full-volume and fill your music room with the sheer beauty of these classics.

One of my favorite musical instruments is violin. With its four strings, it gives a whole wide range of musical versatility and I simply love the fascinating sound it produces.

My personal highlights are the best tunes from Jerome Kern - "The Way You Look Tonight" (Nelson Riddle arranged this particular track and conducted the Woodwind and Brass section), "A Fine Romance," "Pick Yourself Up," "Why Do I Love You?" and "All The Things You Are."

My choices from Irving Berlin's gems are - "Isn't It A Lovely Day?" featuring the great artistry of Nelson Riddle in arranging and conducting, "Cheek To Cheek" and "I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm."

The Cole Porter repertoire represented his musical sophistication in "Night And Day," "I Get A Kick Out Of You" and "Just One Of Those Things."

The choice cuts from the talented and creative team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart are "My Funny Valentine" and "Thou Swell."

Listening to this CD is so delectable and equivalent to having my favorite dessert - be it Tiramisu, New York Cheesecake, Black Forest Cake, Chocolate Soufflé, Créme Brulee, Chocolate Mousse or Chocolate-Coated Strawberries! ;)

A musical treat.

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Most beautiful music

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ASIN: B0002Z83LG
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Tracks:

Fascinatin' Rhythm
Soon
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Embraceable You
Liza
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'S Wonderful
The Man I Love
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He Loves And She Loves
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Cheek To Cheek
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
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I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Heat Wave
The Way You Look Tonight
Pick Yourself Up
A Fine Romance
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Night And Day
Looking At You
Just One Of Those Things
My Funny Valentine
Thou Swell
The Lady Is A Tramp
Blue Room
Jealousy
Skylark

Customer Reviews:

Most beautiful music.......2005-08-17

This is happy music.
Just plain happy, instrumental music.
Highly recommend to everyone.

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Underrated Classic - Perfect for a July Morning!

Look at Yourself
Uriah Heep
Manufacturer: Sanctuary UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002ADY10
Release Date: 2004-11-01

Tracks:

Look at Yourself
I Wanna Be Free
July Morning
Tears in My Eyes
Shadows of Grief
What Should Be Done
Love Machine
What's Within My Heart [*][Outtake]
Why [*][Outtake]
Look at Yourself [Alternative Single Version][*]
Tears in My Eyes [Extended Version][#][*]
What Should Be Done [Original Studio Version][*][Outtake]
Look at Yourself [BBC Session][#][*]
What Should Be Done [BBC Session][#][*]

Album Details

2004 Reissue of the Classic Heep Album Augmented by Seven Bonus Tracks.

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Underrated Classic - Perfect for a July Morning!.......2005-05-08

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Music of Jerome Kern

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Pick Yourself Up (From Swingtime)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (From Roberta)
Showboat (From Showboat)
Lovely to Look At (From Roberta)

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English is an asset and a drawback
You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English
A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!
I love Carmen!

Carmen (Sung in English)
Bizet , Bardon , Gavin , Plazas , Magee , and Parry
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ASIN: B00007JGRN
Release Date: 2003-03-11

Tracks:

Prelude
In The Plaza
Just Look At That Delicious Morsel
Here Come Our New Soldier Boys
Jose! There Was A Girl Here Looking For You Just Now
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Corporal! Sir!
We Have Heard The Bell Summon Us To Meet Here
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Love's A Bird Wild As Any Rebel
Carmen! We Will Follow You High And Low!
The Cheek Of It!
Give Me News Of My Mother!
Your Dear Mother And I Were Leaving Church This Morning
I See My Mother's Face!
Wait A Moment - I'm Going To Read The Letter
Come And Help
So, Corporal: Tell Me What Happened
Well, Carmencita: What Do You Have To Say For Yourself?
Where Are You Taking Me?
There's An Old Bar In The City
Careful - It's Lieutenant!
Entr'acte
From Far Away Mysterious Sounds
Bravo, Bravo! More! Keep Dancing!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
Who's That? It's Escamillo, The Bullfighter From Granada
Hurrah! Hurrah! The Torero!
You're Most Kind
We'll Come With You, Senor Torero
Toreador, Be Ready!
At Last! We Got Rid Of Them As Quickly As We Could
There's A Little Job That We're Starting!
Being In Love Is Not A Reason

Tracks:

To Bid You Welcome To Our Bar
La La La La La La La La...
Back To Camp!... Go At Once!
That Flow'r You Threw To Me I Treasured
No, It's Not Love At All!
Hello! Carmen!
Lieutenant Fair, It's True
The Sky Above The Open Road
Entr'acte
Keep Going, Dear Old Friend, Kep Going!
Right! Let's Stop For A While
Shuffle! Cut Them!
In Vain You Would Avoid The Bitter Things They're Saying
You're Back!
As For That Man, It Should Be Easy!
Is This The Place?
I Say That There's Nothing To Fear
It's Him! I'm Sure It's Him Over There!
Escamillo Is My Name, And I Come From Granada
She Had A Lover Here
Hola! Hola! Jose!
You Should Take Care, Carmen
Alas! Jose, Your Mother Is Ill
Entr'acte
A Few Cuartos! A Few Cuartos!
Here They Come! Here They Come!
If You Love Me, Carmen
It's You! It's Me!
Viva! Viva! What A Corrida!

Customer Reviews:

English is an asset and a drawback.......2004-07-20

The best thing about this recording of Carmen is the libretto. Conductor David Parry penned this facile and dramatic English translation. He avoids the pitfalls of literal translation to achieve an idiomatic flow that matches the rhythm of the original lyrics. I use this as a reference libretto for any of the French Carmens.

Unfortunately, the performance suffers from being sung in English. The singers declaim their parts with such proper British diction that Carmen comes across as a school marm. The spoken dialog is delivered beat for deliberate beat and is dripping with reverb. It makes the plaza, tavern and mountain pass all sound like a sewer pipe.

This is a good first Carmen for someone trying to understand the work. The libretto itself is a good investment for further listening. For an enjoyable performance with an emphasis on character and action, I recommend Regina Resnik on the London Double Decker set.

You Will Love Opera After Hearing Carmen In English.......2004-02-09

What a perfect introduction to opera. This newly released recording will surely get you hooked into opera. Carmen, a French opera by Georges Bizet, is the most recognizable and most popular in the opera world. It's famous melodies- the overture, the Habanera, The Toreador Song have all been featured in everything from cellular phone ring tones to Superbowl Commercial (last year's Superbowl with The "Opera In English" label has been making Italian operas into English for a number of years now. Also on the market are Verdi's La Traviata in English (with soprano Valerie Masterson as Violetta) Handel's Julius Caesar with Janet Baker and even Wagner's epic Ring Of The Nibeling sung in English. This is a terrific recording and I highly recommend it if you want to get into opera. Listen to this version first and then try the real, original French version Bizet had written. Patricia Bardon is sensational, sexy and dramatic as Carmen.

The real strength of this version is the dynamic drama. With the advantage of being sung in English, we get better insight on characters' emotions and motives, and we understand the drama a lot better. Carmen is all about great drama. Bizet drew the plot from the French writer Prosper Merimee's dark short story. Carmen is the ultimate femme fatale- a devil-may-care, sexy Gypsy living in Spain, seduces the conservatively raised soldier Don Jose, stealing him away from his fiancee, the passive Micaela, living a life of underground smuggling and rowdy taverns. "Habanera" and "The Gypsy Song and Dance" are very expressive of Carmen's extraordinarily liberal lifestyle. Don Jose, however, has fallen deeply in love- as he shows us in his song/aria "The Flower Song". But Carmen soon becomes tired of his constancy. Don Jose wants a committed, monogamous relationship with Carmen. But Carmen will not submit to love, since she is first and foremost a carnal creature. Eventually, she falls for the handsome Toreador Escamillo. Don Jose, consumed by jealousy, stabs Carmen at a bullfight after Carmen declares her love for Escamillo and rejects Don Jose's love. Don Jose's crazed, obscessive personality shines through in the English version as well. This tragedy has been done in English before so don't think this is the first time. Back in the 50's, there was a film, starring black actors "Carmen Jones" which was treated the same way as this opera- more like an English Broadway musical and with the dubbed singing voice of Marilyn Horne as Carmen. All in all, this recording is excellent.

A wholly credible "Carmen" -- finally!.......2003-09-17

This recording really sells "Carmen" as a drama. Although I have two other recordings of this opera and have seen it performed several times, it never quite worked for me dramatically. But thanks to the fine performances, conducting, and translation here, I've become a "Carmen" convert. Producing a good English-language performance of a foreign opera, especially a warhorse like "Carmen," is much more difficult than it might appear. You need performers who not only can sing the parts (of course) but also can sing *English* and make it halfway intelligible and make it sound like English and make it dramatically convincing to English-speakers. The singers on this recording do an excellent job all around. Don't be put off if you don't recognize their names -- they are up to the task musically and (especially) in their acting. Admittedly, as with *all* English-language recordings, some passages are very hard to understand without reading along, but most of the time the words are clear and effective. I would recommend this recording to any opera beginner or opera lover, even those who normally turn up their noses at performances in translation.

I love Carmen!.......2003-08-15

I do. I can think of no other opera with more melodic inventiveness, and few others with so sure a dramatic pulse. Carmen is popular and it thrills me to say that it is also a very good opera - not always true of popular things.

And what of this recording? Carmen sits well in English, so it is good to hear in translation, although some of the detais in the text jar. Escamillo refers to Jose as "my dear", which sounds rather peculiar, and the guide's line to Micaela: "it's not exactly inviting, is it?" sounds distinctly Middle England rather than Rural Spain. Some of the performers, not least Carmen herself, make the words work, although there are long tracts, especially with the chorus, where the language is distinctly indistinct.

The soloists are, by and large, strong. Patricia Bardon's deep, Handel-friendly voice adapts well to Carmen and she colours the music with phenomenal detail, sounding sexy and provocative from the start with an edge of pride and anger that emerges as the show goes on. She is out of her depth above the stave, though, and some extra top notes in the second act don't show her off to her best advantage. I have previously said that Julian Gavin is poorly served by recordings, though here he sounds much more even and gives a thrilling and musical performance (but his wooden spoken lines let him down). Mary Plazas is a lovely Micaela, rich-voiced and sincere (and word-perfect), but Garry Magee sounds miscast as Escamillo, lacking the ballast at the bottom of the voice to do justice to this tricky role.

The supporting cast is good (Mary Hegarty seems to do nothing but Frasquita these days!) but the really treasurable thing is the conducting. Stepping out of Italian Ottocento, David Parry turns his hand to this French Comedie with an appropriate lightness of touch. His pacing and handling of the set pieces is exemplary and the enrtractes go with a real swing.

Tracks:

Fascinatin' Rhythm
Soon
Summertime
Embraceable You
Liza
A Foggy Day
'S Wonderful
The Man I Love
I Got Rhythm
He Loves And She Loves
They Can't Take That Away From Me
They All Laughed
Funny Face
Our Love is Here to Stay
Lady, Be Good
These Foolish Things
Laura
April In Paris
Autumn Leaves
Autumn In New York

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Cheek To Cheek
Isn't This A Lovely Day?
Change Partners
Top Hat, White And Tails
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm
Heat Wave
The Way You Look Tonight
Pick Yourself Up
A Fine Romance
All The Things You Are
Why Do I Love You?
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Night And Day
Looking At You
Just One Of Those Things
My Funny Valentine
Thou Swell
The Lady Is A Tramp
Blue Room
Jealousy
Skylark

Customer Reviews:

A strange experience..........2003-11-03

They're both brilliant violinists but in very different genres, and Menuhin by his own admission never learned to improvise (unlike many of today's classical performers): he was trained in the post-Liszt, pre-jazz window when improvisation had died out in classical music and even cadenzas followed the score strictly (if Beethoven didn't write one, play Kreisler's). And it shows, rather painfully. He achieves a brilliant tone but that's about it: he plays these Broadway tunes completely "straight", and any student could do that equally well.

The CD is worthwhile for its curiosity value, but you'd get much better musical value buying Grappelli's jazz and Menuhin's classical recordings separately.

Menuhin&Grappelli.......2002-08-17

Music just does not get any better than this CD! I am a musician and hearing these two artists is a thrill. This is a CD for all music lovers. You will not be sorry if you purchase this CD

always a winning pair.......2001-01-29

You simply can't go wrong with a combination of two of the most talented violinists of our time. This cd is a wonderful showcase for them both and the choice of music is the greatest classics. It's a fun, winner of a cd.

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Criminally underrated, indeed....
A little excessive for my tastes..
Underrated Classic - Perfect for a July Morning!
Didn't disappoint

Look at Yourself
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Customer Reviews:

Look At Mott.......2006-07-21

Criminally underrated, indeed...........2006-01-12

A little excessive for my tastes.........2005-10-29

Underrated Classic - Perfect for a July Morning!.......2005-05-08

Didn't disappoint.......2005-01-23

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Look at Yourself
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ASIN: B000M3458S
Release Date: 2007-03-05

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Acknowledged as the All-time Greatest Scottish Accordian Player, Jimmy Shand was Hugely Popular Throughout the British Isles and the Commonwealth During the '50s and '60s. Known in Scotland as "The Modest Legend", Shand is Still Fondly Remembered for his Hogmanay TV Specials with Other Scots Stars Such as Andy Stewart.

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Release Date: 2002-10-21

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Customer Reviews:

The Best.......2003-06-02

This is a great CD and I recommend that everybody should buy it. You will enjoy it ... So Buy It Today!

One of the best bands you haven't heard.......2002-12-21

Sewing With Nancie is one of Canada's best kept secrets. These guys create a punk style that will keep you singing along the whole cd. Ranging from pop-punk to new school to melodic and hardcore, these guys go all over and every song will be stuck in your head. I highly recommend this disk to anyone who wants a fast, sing-a-long punk cd.

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