Track Listings
| 1. Good Morning Vibration |
| 2. Life Is a Melody |
| 3. Blooming Kiss |
| 4. Melancholy of Sunset |
| 5. Taste of Dawn |
| 6. Beauty of Swamp |
| 7. Secret of Darkness |
| 8. High Moon in Red |
| 9. Purling Nature and the Flute |
Life Is a Melody,G.E.N.E.,Innovative Commun.,Contemporary Instrumental,Jazz Music,New Age,New Age / Meditation
Life Is a Melody
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André Rieu - La vie est belle (Life is Beautiful)
Manufacturer: Sin-Drome Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005NNOW Release Date: 2001-09-04 |
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The Viennese waltz is never far from violinist Andre Rieu's heart, but you won't find a single work from Johann Strauss on Life Is Beautiful. This time around, Rieu is globetrotting for his hummable, danceable melodies--to solid results. "Ole Guapa" is a tango featuring accordion; "Kalinka" is a familiar Russian tune; and "Amazing Grace," "Snow White," and Rieu's "Glenn Miller Melody" are tried-and-true American. Throughout, Rieu and his orchestra perform these works with plenty of style and polish; it's easy to see why he's such a hit with public-television audiences. His shortened version of Bolero may not be the sexiest available, but it is fun. --Jason VerlindeCustomer Reviews:
Romantic.......2003-09-10
I feel the best tracks on this album are the russian-themed ones, like the title track (which I listen to on REPEAT when I am looking through my russian countryside or Romanov family album books). I feel that this and "Lara's Theme" (Maurice Jarre's love theme from the film DR. ZHIVAGO (a wonderful book and DVD)! conveys the passion for homeland which I strongly feel beats strongest in the hearts of all russians, more than than any other people). These compositions are so beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes if one surrenders oneself to them.
andre rieu.......2002-09-04
Andre Rieu.......2001-09-28
Music is beautiful.......2001-09-11
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Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music
Manufacturer: Five Souls Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000172L72 Release Date: 2003-12-03 |
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The modern-day traditional Jewish music revival is filled with artists exploring klezmer's Eastern-European roots, but you'll hear no clarinet and little violin on cantor/educator Richard Kaplan's Life Of The Worlds. Although these are traditional songs, there is a broad range of the Diaspora represented on his second album, including Afghani, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian traditions. Kaplan dives into the sacred and the secular, the prophetic and the exultant, finding commonalities amongst different tribes and fusing them together. Musical accompaniment comes in the form of an occasional flute, piano, and violin as well as Moroccan clay drums, oud, dumbek, and other pre-modern-era instruments, but the instrument at the center of each song is Kaplan's voice--his high baritone majestically soars, quavers with sensitivity, and rings out with joy. To hear him sing solo versions of traditional Niggiun is to hear a world-class master savor the multifaceted nuance of each note and transcend the concept of song, turning it into religion and high art. --Tad HendricksonAlbum Description
A remarkable collection of vocal performances of Jewish sacred music from the Middle East, Andalusia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - songs of exultation, longing, love, and Divine immanence - accompanied by an ensemble of masterful musicians.Instruments include: oud, ney, kanun, Egyptian accordian, violin, mandolin, dumbek, doira, riqq, Yemenite can, tar, saz, clarinet, mey (Turkish duduk), tilinca (Rumanian shepherd's flute), piano, string bass, balaban (Klezmer drum set), cimbalom, and a chorus of voices.
Among many special songs, the CD features an 'eco-lament' (ecological lament) based on lament melodies for the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is called "Lament on the Destruction of the Garden of Eden" (Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden), and updates the use of these tunes to mourn the wounding of our larger temple, Gaia - Mother Earth.
LIFE OF THE WORLDS contains 18 songs, 77 minutes of music, and contains a 32-page booklet which includes informative song descriptions; all texts are provided in transliteration, English translation, and in Hebrew or Yiddish.
This CD was three years in the making, and presents the first recordings in North America of several songs from the treasure-chest of Jewish sacred music.
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Holocaust Cantata
Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000031VRF Release Date: 1999-11-23 |
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The Holocaust Cantata uses the words and music of actual concentration camp inmates to create a wholly original and powerful work. Using material found within the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata traverses one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Yet the piece also evokes a sense of music's life-affirming power, even in the face of absolute despair, to express what words alone cannot.McCullough discovered the material within the vast Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum's archives. Kulisiewicz himself had performed as a kind of camp troubador during his own incarceration at Sachsenhausen, and, after the war, spent several years interviewing fellow survivors about music in the camps, gathering together the scattered remnants of this music.
As McCullough painstakingly sifted through this material-much of which was uncatalogued-the arresting melodies and compelling testimonies that make up the Holocaust Cantata gradually began to emerge. "I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, explaining his decision to set the choral texts and spoken testimonies in English, and his hope is that the piece may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." The Washington Post, reviewing the world premiere in March 1998, called it "an experience that should linger long in the audience's memory and should be regularly revived."
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A Timely Performance.......2001-11-18
Outstanding; a soon to be classic.......2000-05-04
Uninspired tedium.......2000-04-28
Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art.......2000-01-07
An excerpt from my liner notes..........1999-11-25
Notes on the Music
It is well-known that during the Holocaust inmates wrote music while incarcerated in concentration camps. Much of it has since been recorded. At Theresienstadt, for instance-the infamous "Paradise Ghetto"-the Nazis organized an orchestra made up of young musicians who had studied under such luminaries as Leos Janacek and Arnold Schoenberg. Most of these musicians, among them such promising students as Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, perished during the Holocaust, leaving behind but a few pieces, composed under duress and co-opted by the Nazis for their own propaganda purposes. What might they have eventually accomplished had they survived? Such classical music-beautiful as it is-was the product of formally trained musicians. What about the music of the common man-music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission-music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates' innermost feelings, of mourning, or resistance, or patriotism? Was there other Holocaust music, akin to the spirituals that sprang from slavery in America, that spoke with the same startling immediacy to express the agony of the victims of the Nazi regime?...
McCullough's [quest to answer this question] began with a call to Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who revealed the existence of the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum archives. Kulisiewicz had traveled about Europe during the postwar period collecting and preserving what he could of the music that had emerged from the Holocaust concentration camps, but little was known about the music itself.
McCullough's first task, then, was to immerse himself in the collection, playing through the hundreds of tunes. He was encouraged to find that they contained some compelling melodies, and for the first time he began to wonder whether a choral cantata-perhaps reflecting the role of music in the camps or evoking the daily lives of these people-might emerge from the material. But he still had no idea what lay within the accompanying text.
At some point, someone had added a rough, English-language index to the collection, but the materials themselves were mostly in Polish. Marcin Zmudzki, a young Pole, was engaged to sift through the mountain of texts. McCullough told the translator that he was interested in anything that had to do with camp life, especially as it related to music. As he recalls, "It was my good fortune that not only was Marcin an excellent translator, but also he had a sense for poetry and thus grasped, very quickly, the type of material I was seeking."
In addition to music, Kulisiewicz also collected interviews, articles, and letters that had anything to do with camp life. With this wealth of material, McCullough decided to place between each musical arrangement readings that also spoke of life in the camps. After considering and rejecting literally hundreds of documents, he finally decided that he had what he needed from the archives. But in a sense, the real work was just beginning. "Because I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, "I thought it should be sung in English. But before I could arrange a single note of it, I needed to have singable translations. Here I employed the talents of lyricist Denny Clark, who at first worked with Marcin, getting a word by word translation. Knowing which words appear on which notes is important in keeping the overall impact of the song." A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task....
A few words about the structure of the Cantata. As you listen you should not look for a plot, as such. Because each song and reading represents a different person, a different place, and a different time in the Holocaust experience, you should be wary about viewing the entire piece as a streaming narrative. Nonetheless, certain common truths will begin to emerge, and no doubt others will come to you with each successive hearing. Among these is the certainty that these are nakedly honest responses to the most unthinkable of acts. Sometimes the responses are jarring; who could find humor amid such horror? And yet humor-albeit dark in nature-undoubtedly exists within this work. Nevertheless the inmates' responses never sink to the level of triteness. For them, music functioned as something much more than just a light in the darkness; its very existence was a form of spiritual resistance in an environment where such resistance risked instant extermination.
McCullough's hope is that this work may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." In the end, for me, the work flows inexorably back to its source: it is the voice of humanity, crying out to be heard.
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British Film Music, Vol. 3
Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000058A00 Release Date: 2001-04-24 |
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The Soul of Eternal Russia: Russian Orthodox Hymns and Chants
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DNFR Release Date: 1996-03-12 |
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Sing to the Lord New Songs!
Manufacturer: Pro Organo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000AA4L78 Release Date: 2005-08-30 |
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La Vie Est Belle (Life Is Beautiful)
Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004XQK9 Release Date: 2004-03-23 |
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Life is Beautiful thru music.......2006-12-29
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Life Through Lyric and Melody
London Street Manufacturer: P3 Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA2PSS Release Date: 2005-12-20 |
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Mountains
Gaye Albright-Rock Manufacturer: Oasis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007MVHTY Release Date: 2004-11-14 |
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The album is classified as "Adult Contemporary", geared for people with a bit of living behind them. You won't find a single "I want you baby, I need you baby" song in the bunch. Instead, you will find a collection of life experiences spanning 20 years. There are blues selections, country rock, and piano/vocal arrangements on a variety of subject matters: divorce, death, civil liberties, and Spirit love. Some numbers are arranged for five piece rock band ensemble, and some are simple folk arrangements for voice and keyboard. All are permeated by the flowing and heartfelt vocals of the artist. The album was recorded as a healing project for both the artist and its listeners.
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Unfiltered 2003
Unfiltered , Caroline , Stratosphere Sound , and Nettwerk Manufacturer: Caroline Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000U8VQ6O |
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Track Listing: 1. - Ivy - "Get Enough" 2. Ivy - "This is the Day" 3. Brookville - "Walking on Moonlight" 4. Brookville - "Sweet Sensation" 5. Paco - "Lie". Limited Edition Compilation EP.Pop Music:
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