Further Than You Know

Track Listings

1. Sometime

2. Dreamcatcher

3. Sea of Dreams

4. Real Time

5. Coco Loco

6. Further Than You Know

7. Bad Boy (Redemption Song)

8. This Could Be Like Heaven

9. Rain Talk

Further Than You Know,Pete Bardens,Miramar [Dead],Adult Alternative,Jazz Music,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Progressive Electronic,Rock

Tracks:

Sometime
Dreamcatcher
Sea of Dreams
Real Time
Coco Loco
Further Than You Know
Bad Boy (Redemption Song)
This Could Be Like Heaven
Rain Talk

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

Average customer rating:

A touching English Butterfly

Puccini - Madam Butterfly / Cheryl Barker, PO, Yves Abel [in English]
Giacomo Puccini , Yves Abel , Cheryl Barker , Paul Charles Clarke , and Simon Birchall
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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Turandot (Chandos Opera in English)
Puccini - La bohème / Haymon · O'Neill · Opie · McLaughlin · A. Miles · Dazeley · Shore · PO · Parry
Verdi: La Traviata
Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Te Kanawa · Hampson · Rosenshein · Gedda · Sir Charles Mackerras [in English]

ASIN: B00005QF3K
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

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

Tracks:

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

Amazon.com

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

Customer Reviews:

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

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

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

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

Tracks:

Sometime
Dream Catcher
Sea Of Dreams
Real Time
Coco Loco
Further Than You Know
Bad Boy (Redemption Song)
This Could Be Like Heaven
Rain Talk

Customer Reviews:

This is not a Christian album - but good anyway........2005-10-26

I was intrigued by the previous reviewers assertion that this is a sneakily written Christian album. Well, being that I am both a Pastor AND a Camel/Bardens enthusiast I thought - this is perfect! Well, I can honestly say that there isn't a Christian element in this album other than the title 'Redemption song'. Still, it is a somewhat spiritually flavored release with spiritual elements that are common to all or most major religions. Doesn't really matter either way because the music contained herein is inspired. If you like Bardens already, then you'll love most of this disc automatically. The songs that are weaker are Coco Loco (Cool Jazz flavor) and the aforementioned Redemption Song. Both are pretty un-Bardensish if you ask me. Still, for just 2 bucks used and some shipping, you can hear what the late, great Pete Bardens was up to circa 1996.

diverse tracks.......2004-06-01

This cd reflects Pete long resume-he gets pasted as prog, but thats only part of what he did.On this cd he seems to revisit the various genres he has played, and he played from pop to jazz, and everything in between, and here he does everything but blues. Some of the songs are simple in structure, like 'sometimes', but the sound is so lush that its my favorite song on the album. Pete was great at taking something simple, and making it sound like a symphony, it shows here. nothing shatteringly original, but a nice album to listen to and relax.

Bardens catches the groove.......2002-03-13

I cannot say I was totally surprised by the material on Further than You Know. Pete had been in a jazzy/new-agey territory ever since the Keats project completed. A progression from the previous "Water Colours" is evident but with the relative proportions of vocal and instrumental ingredients this time tipping in favor of voice. The singing, songwriting and instrumentation are all somewhat trite and, for want of a better term, cheesy. The messages are generally spiritual and inoffensive in nature. No great adventurousness is in evidence and at times it all seems rather smug. Yet for some reason, this CD calls back to me from the rack more than would appear to be warranted. There is an undeniable infectiousness, optimism, and collectedness permeating every note of the title track, "This Could be Like Heaven", and the ultimate new age road trip song "Real Time". The use of female backing vocals and dissonant harmonies may be dismissed at first, but really falls little short of genius, and as always Bardens' own voice rises way beyond its limitations to become your trusted friend with repeated listens. Cheesy maybe, groovy...DEFINITELY. Buy.

Subtle Christian Messages.......2000-12-16

This is a sneaky album with hidden Christian messages.

Peter Bardens is a progressive rock/new age jazz keyboardist. He stared doing session work and played with Them (Van Morrison's first major band). Bardens put out one solo album in 1969 of mostly high energy progressive rock instrumentals. He and Andrew Latimer formed Camel, easily the ugliest band from England (even uglier than the early Who). Camel started out as a fantastic progressive rock band, but evolved into a new age band. Bardens left Camel in the late seventies after fighting with Latimer.

After Bardens left Camel, he started his solo career and released several albums of new age rock/jazz. Further Than You Know, released in 1993, is at least his fifth solo album. Some of his solo albums are out of print and hard to find.

Further Than You Know is very similar in style to all of the other Bardens albums, but has more vocals. About half of the tracks are songs and the other half instrumentals. The last few songs are basically religious tunes spouting Christian values. The whole religious theme is basically hidden and sort of sneaks up on you. There is no indication from the cover or liner notes that this is a Christian album (only mention is that this is a new direction for Bardens). The whole first half of the CD is either typical Bardens instrumentals or nondiscript songs. Even the Christian songs don't sound like religious songs in the beginning. They start with a laic theme and then end with a Christian moral.

If you don't mind the subtle Christian messages, this is actually the best of Bardens new age work. The songs are good and there is more energy and emotion in the music.

Note that Bardens has a new group called Mirage (name of Camel's second album) and released a live album of old Camel songs. I haven't heard it and I don't know how good it would be.

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