Music for an Evening at Home

Track Listings

1. The Music Of The Night

2. Summertime

3. Take A Look At Me Now

4. Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana

5. Wind Beneath My Wings

6. Edelweiss

7. Over The Rainbow

8. Moon River

9. Evergreen

10. Pachelbel's Canon

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Whether you want to surround yourself with the beauty of music, or are trying to create the perfect atmosphere, or just need a few moments of "Me Time", Lifestyles has the music for you. Lifestyles: your mood, your life, your style.

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Tracks:

Guide Me O Thou Great Redeemer (CWM Rhondda) - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
Land of My Fathers - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
Dies Irae
Men of Harlech
You'll Never Walk Alone
Cadwyn O Emyn Donau Cymreig: Joanna (Trad./Elfion Wyn)/Crugybar (Trad.
Old Folks at Home
Il Liza Jane
Faust/Soldier's Chorus - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
Vergine Degli Angeli
Ballard of Rourke's Drift - Cwt-Y-Collen Choir
My Hero
God Bless the Prince of Wales - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
German Mass/Gloria
German Mass/Sanctus
Misbles/Master of the House/On My Own/Drink with Me/Empty Chairs at
All Through the Night - Caerphilly Make Voice Choir
Arwelfa
Invictus
Softly as I Leave You

Tracks:

Diolch l'R L
Hine E Hine (Maori Lullaby)
Pererin Wyf (Amazing Grace)
Tribute to the USA: America the Beautiful (Ward/Bates)/God Bless ...
Memories of Martha
I Lombardi/The Crusaders' Chorus - Treorchy Male Choir
Myfanwy - Treorchy Male Choir
Tales of Hoffman/Barcarolle
Creation's Hymn
In the Spirit!
Shall We Gather at the River
Nos a Bore
Very Best Time of Year
Soon Ah Will Be Done
Thanks Be to God
Flower That Shattered the Stone
Rhys - Treorchy Male Choir
Where Shall I Be?
Bywyd y Bugail
Lord's Prayer

Tracks:

Ave Maria
Pearl Fishers/Divine Brahma
She Was Beautiful (Cavatina) - Treorchy Male Choir
Cymru Fach
Nidaros
Jacob's Ladder - Treorchy Male Choir
Watching the Wheat
Pan Ddaw y Saint (When the Saints Go Marching In)
Misbles/Stars
Rachie
Pirates of Penzance/With Cat-Like Tread - Treorchy Male Choir
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Rise Up Shepherd and Foller
My Lord, What a Mornin'
Bryn Myrddin
Jesus Christ Superstar/Medley: Jesus Christ Superstar/Hosanna/The Last
Finnish Forest (Suomen Salossa)
Nabucco/The Glory of Israel
Ride the Chariot
Tydi a Roddaist - Treorchy Male Choir

Tracks:

Y Nefoedd
Phantom of the Opera/Think of Me
Morte Christe (When I Survey the Wondrous Cross)
By Babylon's Wave
I'm Gonna Sing
Where Could I Go But to the Lord?
Holy City - Treorchy Male Choir
Mefistofele: Ave Signor, Degli Angeli
Senzenina (Zulu Chant)
That's All I Want from You
Deep Harmony - Treorchy Male Choir
Give Me Jesus
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
My Wish for You
Jeptha/Waft Her Angels
Mose in Egitto/Prayer
Be Still My Soul (Finlandia Hymn)
God's Choir in the Sky
Floral Dance - Treorchy Male Choir
Smilin' Through

Tracks:

Calon Lan
True Love
Mor Fawr Wyt Ti (How Great Thou Art)
Aberystwyth
Comrades in Arms
Cats/Memory
They Led My Lord Away
State Fair/It's a Grand Night for Singing
When I Fall in Love
Let's Face the Music and Dance
Windmills of Your Mind
How Soon
Non Nobis Domine
Rhythm of Life
Kalinka
Sound an Alarm
Neapolitan Trilogy: It's Now or Never (Di Capua/Schroeder/Gold)/Mo ...
Turandot/Nessun Dorma
Christus Redemptor
Ann Evening's Pastorale

Album Details

Choirs Include the Morriston Orpheus Choir, the Pontadrddulais Male Voice Choir, the Caerphilly Male Voice Choir, the Cwrt-y-gollen Choir, the Treorchy Male Choir and the Lucknow Male Voice Choir.

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The Brass Band Marches on with Ives
A great collection

Remembrance: A Charles Ives Collection

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000001SG3
Release Date: 1995-01-25

Tracks:

March III - With The Air (Old Kentucky Home)
Ann Street
Calcium Light Night
Holiday Quick Step
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: On the Counter
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Side Show
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Slow March
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Tarrant Moss
Fugue in Four Keys (On The Shining Shore)
The Unanswered Question
Remembrance
Evening
Mists
A Brass Serenade: The Circus Band
A Brass Serenade: Romanzo di Central Park
A Brass Serenade: Scherzo (All The Way Around And Back)
A Brass Serenade: Scherzo (Over The Pavements)
A Brass Serenade: Gyp the Blood
A Brass Serenade: Adagio Sostenuto
A Brass Serenade: Tone Roads No. 1
A Brass Serenade: Tone Roads No. 3
A Brass Serenade: March II -With The Air (Son Of A Gambolier)
A Brass Serenade: The See'r
A Brass Serenade: Luck and Work
A Brass Serenade: Like a Sick Eagle
A Brass Serenade: Hallowe'en

Customer Reviews:

The Brass Band Marches on with Ives.......2005-05-28

The concept of transcriptions of music originally written for various instruments, orchestras, voices, piano etc goes back a long time. Ensembles comprised solely of winds, or brass, or strings gather various transcriptions (at times those of the composers who wrote the original score!) and make their repertoire more varied in adding such new insights. Such is the case with the Detroit Chamber Winds under the direction of H. Robert Reynolds and this very interesting CD is devoted to the music of Charles Ives.

Ives had great respect for brass ensembles and wrote music expressly for them. These are included as are a number of works for chamber orchestra etc. The collection is played beautifully and the recorded sound is excellent. With some reservations this 'Remembrance: A Charles Ives Collection' is not only successful but a fine addition to the Ives recordings.

Perhaps just returning from a performance of 'The Unanswered Question' performed by the LA Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting where the mystery and spirit of Emerson's poem "The Sphynx" which inspired Ives to write this brief 6-minute piece colors this listener's full appreciation of these transcriptions. Originally scored for strings, four flutes, and trumpet (in the wondrous Disney Hall acoustics Salonen stood alone on the stage conducting the off stage strings, the flutes in the organ loft and the trumpet in the highest balcony in a three way conversation that seemed to come both from within the bodies of the audience and the ether of the universe, this work fails to hold the importance of the solo brass instrument playing against a brass ensemble. A small quibble perhaps, but some of Ives' works were specifically designated for certain instruments and defy tampering.

In all a recording to add to the Ives Collection and one that is certainly well performed. Grady Harp, May 05

A great collection.......2003-05-12

A great collection of wind pieces by Charles Ives arranged, transcribed, edited, and realized in a number of fashions. The songs run the gamut of Ives's career and his many styles, the latter half of the disc dedicated to selections from his Brass Serenade.

Many of these pieces, most in fact, are difficult to find anywhere else, and are of enormous interest. One of Ives's earliest pieces, "Holiday Quickstep," for instance. There are also engaging interpretations of his more esoteric and mysterious works (The Unanswered Question, Ann Street), personal pieces written for piano and soprano (Remembrance, Evening, Mists), tone poems, and more lively, sometimes comic, sketches (Gyp the Blood or Hearst, Tarrant Moss). The performances, by the Detroit Chamber Winds, are energetic and gratifying. For most of the stuff on this disc, however, there is very little to compare it to.

Tracks:

The Music Of The Night
Summertime
Take A Look At Me Now
Mascagnis Cavalleria Rusticana
Wind Beneath My Wings
Edelweiss
Over The Rainbow
Moon River
Evergreen
Pachelbels Canon

Product Description

Whether you want to surround yourself with the beauty of music, or are trying to create the perfect atmosphere, or just need a few moments of Â“Me TimeÂ”, Lifestyles has the music for you. Lifestyles: your mood, your life, your style.

Customer Reviews:

Mucking up perfectly good songs!.......2007-03-13

The orchestra that plays these songs is REALLY bad!!! No sense of rhythm or any idea how to make a song come alive.
yuk.
These people shouldn't be allowed to play this music.

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

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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.

This won't replace the classic Butterfly recordings, but in the absendce of any new ones recently, and for acceptable diction in an English version, it is certainly worth the (not very high) price. Recommended.

Grieg: Lyric Pieces
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Grieg, Edvard | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000002SCW
Release Date: 1997-01-21

Tracks:

Book I, Op.12: No.3 Watchman's Song
Book I, Op.12: No.5 Popular Melody
Book I, Op.12: No.7 Album-leaf
Book I, Op.12: No.8 National Song
Book II, Op.38: No.1 Bercuse
Book II, Op.38: No.3 Melody
Book II, Op.38: No.6 Elegy
Book III, Op.43: No.1 Butterfly
Book III, Op.43: No.2 Lonely Wanderer
Book III, Op.43: No.3 In the Native Country
Book III, Op.43: No.4 Little Bird
Book III, Op.43: No.5 Erotic
Book III, Op.43: No.6 To the Spring
Book IV, Op.47: No.1 Valse-Impromptu
Book IV, Op.47: No.2 Album-leaf
Book IV, Op.47: No.3 Melody
Book IV, Op.47: No.4 Norwegian Dance (Halling)
Book IV, Op.47: No.5 Melancholy
Book IV, Op.47: No.6 Spring Dance
Book IV, Op.47: No.7 Elegy
Book V, Op.54: No.1 Shepard Boy
Book V, Op.54: No.2 Noregian March
Book V, Op.54: No.3 March of the Dwarfs
Book V, Op.54: No.4 Nocturne
Book V, Op.54: No.5 Scherzo
Book V, Op.54: No.6 Bell-ringing
Book VI, Op.57: No.1 Vanished Days
Book VI, Op.57: No.2 Gade
Book VI, Op.57: No.3 Illusion
Book VI, Op.57: No.4 Secret

Tracks:

Book VI, Op.57: No.5 She dances
Book VI, Op.57: No.6 Home-sickness
Book VII, Op.62: No.1 Sylph
Book VII, Op.62: No.2 Gratitude
Book VII, Op.62: No.3 French Serenade
Book VII, Op.62: No.4 Brooklet
Book VII, Op.62: No.5 Vision
Book VII, Op.62: No.6 Homeward
Book VIII, Op.65: No.1 From Early Years
Book VIII, Op.65: No.2 Peasant's Song
Book VIII, Op.65: No.3 Melancholy
Book VIII, Op.65: No.4 Salon
Book VIII, Op.65: No.5 Ballad
Book VIII, Op.65: No.6 Wedding Day at Troldhsaughen
Book IX, Op.68: No.1 Sailor's Song
Book IX, Op.68: No.2 Grandmothers Minuet
Book IX, Op.68: No.3 At Your feet
Book IX, Op.68: No.4 Evening in th Mountins
Book IX, Op.68: No.5 At the Cradle
Book IX, Op.68: No.6 Melancholy Waltz
Book X, Op.71: No.1 Once upon a Time
Book X, Op.71: No.2 Summer Evening
Book X, Op.71: No.3 Puck
Book X, Op.71: No.4 Peace in the Wood
Book X, Op.71: No.5 Noregian Dance (Halling)
Book X, Op.71: No.6 Gone
Book X, Op.71: No.7 Remembrances

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Songs from the Heart

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000049OW
Release Date: 1995-12-01

Tracks:

The Scotch Fir
The Weeping Willow
Silver Birch
The Tree Of Knowledge
Day Dreams
Dear Eyes
Forest Lovers
The Little Rugged Path
The Evening Of Life
June
Jeunesse
The Flower That You Gave Me
The Fleeting Hour
A Complaint
His Voice
Home They Brought Her
My Jeanie
The Joy Of Life
It Was A Lover And His Lass
A Boat Song
Because I Love You
The Image Of The Moon At Night
Many A Beauteous Flower
A Coodle Doon Song
Alone I Wander
How Do I Love Thee
The Last Dance
April

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Grieg: Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1

Manufacturer: Vox (Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Home Sweet Home: Parlor Music from the Civil War

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Home Sweet Home: Parlor Music from the Civil War
Jan Boland And John Dowdall
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Tracks: