Where Time Stands Still

Track Listings

1. Aurora Whispers

2. Another's Waters

3. Mystique

4. Imagine

5. Fallen

6. The Stroke of Midnight

7. Daydreams

8. Endless Horizons

9. An Affinity of Souls

10. Beyond the Veil

11. A Heroine's Story

12. A Toast 2 Sorrow

13. Foreverone

14. Where Time Stands Still

15. Mother's Womb

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Amie began composing when vivid dreams beaconed her to the piano. Often finding music a healing therapy from a young age, she started performing in public to share her opinion. After several requests, at the age of 24, she released her debut album Spread Your Wings. Sold worldwide and on at least 3 continents, Amie became known as an artist who plays with heart. Others found that they could touch and express their own emotion by immersing themselves into the strands of Amie's melodies. Where Time Stands Still continues that vision as Amie begins her third album where she plans not to invite but portal you to another realm.

Product Description
Over 70 minutes of piano and synthesizer solos. With more thought provoking themes and flowing meditations. Based more upon experiences than dreams, Where Time Stands Stills invites you to capture the silence between each heartbeat. Allow your self to emerge.

Where Time Stands Still

Where Time Stands Still,Amie Ridley

Tracks:

First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
Instrumental Music: Galliard
Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
Instrumental Music: Comagain
Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

Lute Music: Preludium
Lute Music: Lachrimae
Lute Music: Can She Excuse
Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
Lute Music: Fantasia
Lute Music: A Dream
Lute Music: Almain
Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
Lute Music: Coranto
Lute Music: Resolution
Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
Lute Music: Almain
Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
Lute Music: Fantasia
Lute Music: Loth To Depart
Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
Lute Music: Pavan
Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
Lute Music: Aloe
Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
Lute Music: What If A Day
Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
Lute Music: [Jig]
Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
Lute Music: La mia Barbara
Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
Lute Music: Lachrimae
Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
Lute Music: Solus cum sola
Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
Lute Music: A Coy Toy
Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
Lute Music: [Almain]
Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
Consort Music: Almain a 2
Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
Consort Music: Pavan a 4
A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

The greatest songs ever?.......2007-07-26

I heard 'clear or cloudy', from this recording, on the radio recently and had to purchase it. It is strange but it is the sort of song that makes life prior to listening to it different from life after. I find it sad that so many people haven't heard it. There are also many other wonderful works in this collection. Given you get twelve well recorded CDs with top quality performances, this has to be one of the bargains of the age.

Please buy it.

A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).

Where Time Stands Still
Average customer rating:

I LOVE Howie

Where Time Stands Still
Howard McGillin
Manufacturer: Q&W Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009RXJ9
Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

My Romance/The Folks Who Live On The Hill
Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In The Rain)
Not While I'm Around/Good Thing Going
Power Of Two
Why Did I Choose You?
Music Of The Night/Unexpected Song
I'll Tell The Man In The Street
I Have Dreamed
All The Things You Are
Time
The Secret O'Life
Lucky To Be Me
Two For The Road
Where Time Stands Still

Customer Reviews:

I LOVE Howie.......2005-02-28

I love this recording so much that I am thinking of having mine framed and then buying another one...very stylish. I had seen Howard as the phantom over Christmas of 2003 and was in one of those "state of shock" moments after. Then, I found out that he had a CD and man...did I ever go through the roof! I bought the CD and I think it has been playing on my stero since then (Jan 2004) non-stop.

The only reason I rated this item 4 stars instead of 5 was because I had wished that there were more phantom songs on it...but enough about that.

On this CD he has combined two of my favorite songs "the music of the night" and "unexpected song" in a rather interesting way and I have no clue how, but it just really worked...very creative idea. Even if you haven't heard Howard sing, well then you should buy this album...and if you have...well then you should buy ten of his CD's and give them to all of your friends.

Not only does Howard have a beautiful voice he is a pretty snazzy looking guy and if your looking for some good pictures of him...buy the CD and if your like me everytime you open the case you practically faint. I have already scanned in the cover and made a 30inch x 30inch poster of him and put it in my room. So, see all of the things that you can do with Howard's CD besides listen to it over and over and over. Buy the CD NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian Asawa - The Dark Is My Delight And Other 16th Century Lute Songs / Tayler

Average customer rating:

Too Rushed, Low on Feeling
Beyond mediocre
Pretty voice sings pretty songs, but it's pretty mediocre...
HEAVEN!!!
HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian Asawa - The Dark Is My Delight And Other 16th Century Lute Songs / Tayler

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003G9X
Release Date: 1997-10-14

Tracks:

Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
His Golden Locks Time Hath To Silver Turn'd
Flow My Tears
It Was A Time When Silly Bees Could Speak
Sorrow, Stay!
Can She Excuse My Wrongs
A Shepherd In A Shade His Plaining Made
Time Stands Still
Go, Crystal Tears
I Saw My Lady Weep
Away With These Self-Loving Lads
Now Hath Flora Robb'd Her Bow'rs
Author Of Light, Revive My Dying Sprite
Come Let Us Sound With Melody The Praises
Oft Have I Sigh'd For Him That Hears Me Not
Turn Back, You Wanton Flyer
This Merry Pleasant Spring
There Were Three Ravens
The Dark Is My Delight
Willow Song
Miserere My Maker
Where The Bee Sucks
O Death, Rock Me Asleep

Amazon.com

As one of the leaders of an exciting new generation of countertenors, Brian Asawa benefits not only from his distinctive voice, but also from his record label's publicity machine, which has made his name and his first two recordings strongly recognized by critics and listeners. Asawa's success at the Metropolitan Opera Auditions in 1991 and his many opera performances in the United States and abroad certainly haven't hurt his career. The voice we hear is unquestionably pretty and technically refined, but its throaty, dark timbre sounds more like the efforts of a man trying to sound like a woman. He just doesn't have that uniquely male countertenor quality exemplified by three of Asawa's more engaging colleagues--Andreas Scholl, David Daniels, and Daniel Taylor. That's not to say that these performances of some of the 16th century's loveliest songs are not eminently listenable and occasionally sublime. Asawa's agile voice projects a strong character coupled with an effortless delivery that will appeal to many listeners. He has an annoying habit, however, of singing slightly behind the beat and gradually leaning into longer-held notes. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Too Rushed, Low on Feeling.......2006-03-04

I've really tried to like Brian Osawa but when I hear this CD, it sounds to me like he's faking his way through the songs, though I doubt he in fact is. It's passionless.Thankfully I bought this CD used for only $9.99 CDN. Regretably, I will likely be selling it back to the used CD store from which it came. Daniel Taylor and James Bowman's Love Bade me Welcome would be a much better selection, i bought it new and its worth every cent!

Beyond mediocre.......1999-08-26

Sorry, but this self-involved, primping prissy, gen-x "amerrican" version of lute song is a far cry from what I would have hoped to have heard from this supposed "promising" artist. The only promise we can hope for is that he stops inflicting this pap on us. If this is the future of opera, get me outta here.

Pretty voice sings pretty songs, but it's pretty mediocre..........1999-07-04

This album of 16th century songs was VERY highly recommended to me by a store clerk at my local music retailer. I did not preview the album before buying it, but was intrigued by the seeming popular nature of the albums production and promotion. As a 20th centuruy composer and performer, I have dealt extensively with the human voice, in all it's many guises and forms. Asawa's voice has a sweet and fairly clean alto character, but the desired strenth and passion of the counter tenor labeling is obviously lacking. I do not doubt that future albums, perhaps featuring a more complex instrumentation and format will show that Mr. Asawa's voice can be something more than a young alto with an overindulgent rubato complex. The album is not the worst I have heard utilizing "non-traditional" male voices, but the clarity of line and sensitivity needed to convey emotion in these songs is something that perhaps is better left to a more tenured voice. I am ooking forward to seeing what the future brings us from Mr. Asawa, but I do hope he will be braver with the timbres and colors in his voice. It is truly a shame not to let the emotive quality of the counter tenor voice lead the way over "technical" purity.

HEAVEN!!!.......1998-10-01

When you start the CD and sit back you will literally think you have died and gone to heaven! Brian Asawa is heaven on Earth!

If you have not heard anything from Brian, you are in for an extraordinary treat. Brian's voice is an incredible gift that every person should be exposed to. "The Dark is My Delight" is a wonderful display of Brian's range and vocal gifts. A collection of mostly 14th Century lute songs, it is a perfect subject for Brian's unique voice. "Come Again, Sweet Love" is a perfect opening song as it gives you his full range and style. In the beginning you cannot believe that this sweet, melodious voice can be coming from a human, muchless a male. You'll be thinking that throughout this wonderful CD.

There are few CDs that are so extraordinary but then again this is Brian's first CD. EVERYONE should listen and expose themselves to Brian Asawa's talents. He can only be looked upon as a rising countertenor star soon to be at the same level as the "great tenors!" I am not exaggerating. FIVE STARS and TWO THUMBS UP!!! There is nothing more I can say!

HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......1998-09-30

Brian Asawa is simply heaven on Earth! Nothing else can describe that wonderous voice of his. You literally feel like you have died and are hearing the angels welcome you to their kingdom. When you listen to the CD you'll understand!

The compilation of songs here are an excellent line-up for Brian. It allows him to, in a sense, tell you stories with excellent lute accompaniment. "Come Again, Sweet Love" was an excellent choice to lead off the CD as it showcases the extraordinary abilities of Brian. His sweet and melodic voice almost transports you back to the late 1500s when this song was written. In fact, you will probably get that feeling with every song on this CD but it is to Brian's abilities that we credit this.

There are very few CDs that I can/do recommend so highly. Brian Asawa is a rising star of countertenors to the same level as the "great tenors." I do not exaggerate when I say this. He has a vocal gift that must be shared with the world and the more people that hear him the better THEY are for it. FIVE STARS and TWO THUMBS UP!!! What more can I say!!!

Where Time Stands Still
Average customer rating:

really good cd

Unassuming, confidently soaring voice

Simply Terrific

In a Romantic Mood -- This CD is a Must-Have!

A Voice and Album Worth Hearing

Where Time Stands Still

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005U8UJ
Release Date: 2001-11-27

Tracks:

My Romance / The Folks Who Live on the Hill
Isn't This A Lovely Day (To Be Caught In the Rain)
Not While I'm Around / Good Thing Going
Power of Two
Why Did I Choose You?
The Music of the Night / Unexpected Song
I'll Tell the Man in the Street
I Have Dreamed
All The Things You Are
Time
The Secret O' Life
Lucky To Be Me
Two For the Road
Where Time Stands Still

Album Description

Songs of life and romance by some of the greatest songwriters of our time in the long-awaited debut solo CD of a singer who has been hailed as "the quintessential leading man for our time...in vocal brilliance and beauty." Broadway's current 'Phantom of the Opera' gives you his personal "Music of the Night" in an album of the best of Broadway and popular music.

Customer Reviews:

really good cd.......2004-07-20

Howard has a great voice. id recommend this cd to anyone. He has a great voice for broadway a nice storng and even singing voice that can be really emotional. Id highly reommend it

Unassuming, confidently soaring voice.......2004-01-04

Howard McGillin's album is show-tune vocal display. McGillin's trained voice reminds you of Matt Bogart, Simon Bowman, John Barrowman and Sean McDermott (all of these guys played Chris in "Miss Saigon" variously). The voice McGillin uses is unpretentious like the abovementioned gentlemen and can be touching in ways that will surprise you. Like his version of James Taylor's rarely performed "The Secret O' Life" and even the Indigo Girls' "Power of Two". His best moments are in showtunes like "I'll Tell The Man in the Street" and Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around;" the latter dovetailed into "Good Thing Going". He is less effective in older showtunes like Irving Berlin's "Isn't This a Lovely Day" -- one should not oversing this song because the wit might be dissipated. But the other older showtune he is more successful is "All The Things You Are" -- after all this song was first sung onstage by Gordon McRae, a baritone whose voice more than resembles McGillin's. On a personal level, I rarely find an album where my two favorite songs are sung (except in Andrea Marcovicci's "Sings Movies"): "Two for the Road" and "The Folks Who Live on the Hill". While there are other male crooners and theatre-trained singers whom everyone may like, McGillin will please almost everyone who likes their music free of melismatic vocal flights.

Simply Terrific.......2003-09-22

This is the type of recording that works its way into your unconscious, so that you begin hearing it in your head, and often at the oddest times. Howard McGillin is a Broadway veteran (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes, Phantom of the Opera) with a haunting tenor sound that caresses the notes, and an actor's insight that adds poignant depth to classics like "My Romance," "Not While I'm Around," "Lucky To Be Me," and especially "Why Did I Choose You?" Non-show songs include James Taylor's "The Meaning of Life" and two new (to me) gems, "Power of Two" and "Time." Outstanding in every respect--including the wonderful instrumental backing.

In a Romantic Mood -- This CD is a Must-Have!.......2003-07-05

My husband gave this CD to me for my birthday a couple of months ago and we can't stop listening to it. Howard McGillin's voice is so gorgeous and expressive. You just kick back and take a little romantic journey! The song selection is amazing, too! Not just Broadway love-songs, but some great pop songs too. The way he sings the lesser-known songs have made them instant classics in my eyes, and the better-known songs have been given a little twist so that he's kind of reinvented the wheel. Beautiful. One great example is "The Music of the Night" from The Phantom of the Opera. (I saw Howard McGillin star in that show on Broadway, and he blew me away. Talk about the Angel of Music!) The song is partnered with another big Andrew Lloyd Webber hit, "Unexpected Song" and it's so powerful the way to two songs play off of each other. I can't get enough. He makes you hear things in the music that you've never heard before.

My girlfriend is dancing to the "My Romance" track at her wedding. My husband and I dance to it in our living room. What can I say? The coolest thing is that my parents love the CD, my husband and I love the CD, and my 16-year-old niece loves the CD. It's a classic. It's too good not to share, so, though I've never posted a review before, I'm doing it now. I'm back to make my 8th order...my favorite gift for the people in my life. Get it for your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your Mom and Dad, your young buddy who wants to be an actor...they'll love it.

Now that Howard McGillin is starring in the new Stephen Sondheim musical, BOUNCE, can we look for an all-Sondheim CD soon? I'll be the first in line to buy!

A Voice and Album Worth Hearing.......2003-02-28

Residing half-way across the country from Broadway, I came across Howard McGillin's work by chance. Now, I can't stop playing this album. The stunning power and clarity of Mr. McGillin's voice are apparent with the first phrase sung. An appreciation of his phrasing and delivery soon follow and, since these are wonderfully emotive love songs, all of this pulls you pleasantly in.

Those familiar with Broadway music will appreciate Mr. McGillin's presentation of Sondheim, Rodgers and Hart, Hammerstein, Bernstein, Berlin and Kern. Also included, though, are captivating songs from Emily Saliers, James Taylor, Henry Mancini, and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Some of the less familiar pieces take a while to touch you. Once they do, the way Mr. McGillin offers them, they, too, won't let go. You have never heard these songs sung so well. With repeat playing you appreciate things you didn't even notice at first, the sign of what a good selection of material this is!

I mostly wanted to hear Mr. McGillin, as Broadway's Phantom of the Opera, sing "The Music of the Night." The song is not featured in its entirety here (a very minor and the only disappointment of the album) but mixed with another Lloyd-Webber piece, "Unexpected Song". The combination actually works nicely and makes those parts of "The Music of the Night" included even more impressive when contrasted and blended with the other. Personal favorites also include Stephen Sondheim's "Not While I'm Around" mixed with his "A Good Thing Going", Chapin-Carpenter's "Where Time Stands Still" and the enchanting rendition of the Michael Leonard-Herbert Martin song, "Why Did I Choose You?"

While this album may ideally be appreciated over a candlelight dinner for two in love, I will tell you from personal experience that it is also plenty enjoyable heard while driving to work in a snowstorm. Now there's a voice and album worth hearing!

Where Time Stands Still
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Music for the Mind and Heart

Breathe, Just Breathe

Where Time Stands Still

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004Z4KC
Release Date: 2000-08-27

Tracks:

Aurora Whispers
Another's Waters
Mystique
Imagine
Fallen
The Stroke of Midnight
Daydreams
Endless Horizons
An Affinity of Souls
Beyond the Veil
A Heroine's Story
A Toast 2 Sorrow
Foreverone
Where Time Stands Still
Mother's Womb

Album Description

Over 70 minutes of piano and synthesizer solos. With more thought provoking themes and flowing meditations. Based more upon experiences than dreams, Where Time Stands Stills invites you to capture the silence between each heartbeat. Allow your self to emerge.

Customer Reviews:

Music for the Mind and Heart.......2000-11-01

Amie pours her soul oh so gently into her music. It pulls you in and challenges you to listen with your heart. Always enjoyable.

Breathe, Just Breathe.......2000-10-04

This album is a creative extension of Amie Ridley's first album. The music explores the emotional depths of life. A pattern is illustrated wherein a song which is sad and mournful is replaced by one that is uplifting and hopeful.

The first and last songs are the only two songs which contain purely synthesizer music. The last song, "Mother's Womb," contains waves of lone notes in the background, almost like a child's heartbeat. It is an appropriate title and end to the album. Two of my favorite songs are "The Stroke of Midnight" and "Foreverone." "Midnight" is almost ten minutes in length and is the longest song on the album. I love the beginning as it uses the melody of high-pitched bells (almost like Christmas bells) to go along with the music. They occur again halfway through the song. There are moments of childlike energy and other times that seem more like a wedding at then end of any Shakespearean comedy. The song ends with the deep, echoing sound of church bells chiming twelve times. "Foreverone" is a love song, full of hope and happy tears. The piano notes create a wedding scene where lovers are joined as one. Very romantic. I should make mention of the song "Where Time Stands Still" since it shares its name with the album. This song illustrates the theme for the album. It plainly states it on the back cover: "For those whose soul is waiting to exhale." The music on the entire album is about letting go, starting anew, getting back to what's vital. Breathe, just breathe. For it's in that still moment when the world makes sense and your purpose is clear. It's an amazing album which delves into a gamut of emotions and leaves you breathless.

Where Time Stands Still: A Special Collection
Average customer rating:

Don't break the bank, but it's a nice mix off different CDs

Where Time Stands Still: A Special Collection
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005Q5B7
Release Date: 2001-11-27

Album Description

This limited edition maxi-single sub-titled 'A Special Collection' serves as a great introduction to some of Carpenter's finer moments. Tracks 'Superman', 'The Moon & St. Christopher', 'Come On Come On', 'Where Time Stands Still' & 'A Place In The World'. 2001.

Album Details

This Little Maxi Single Serves as a Great Introduction to Some of her Finer Moments.

Customer Reviews:

Don't break the bank, but it's a nice mix off different CDs.......2007-03-19

This 5-song CD was a "Borders Exclusive" released in 2001. The cover art is reminiscent of her Stones in the Road CD.
The first song is unique to this CD. It is called "Superman" and is not a song I'd consider a must have. "Tonight love is not a traitor but a friend..." I guess you could call it a song for a lover but it's a bit too somber and heavy on violin for me to call it a love song. It could be that it will take time to grow on me, like some of her others from the Stones in the Road/Place in the World era.
I like her voice and have all her CDs except her newest and "The Essential MCC" and I feel the other 4 songs here capture her essence well and sound good together. They have more of a sweet folky sound than country or pop to me.
Track 2 is "The Moon and St. Christopher" which has always been one of my favorites off Shooting Straight in the Dark (which is in my top 4 of the 9 MCC CDs I have).
Track 3 is the title track from Come On Come On, probably her most "pop" and most popular CD, though this is not one of the album's hit singles.
Track 4 is "Where Time Stands Still" off Stones in the Road. It deserves being the track the CD is named for since it captures the tone of the others well.
Track 5 is the title track off A Place in the World. I never felt that CD was as strong as the two after it but this song fits in well with the others.
I wouldn't but this just for "Superman" but if you don't own the CD's the four others are on and you can find it for a reasonable price it might be worth adding to your collection.

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The Delights of the Countertenor
Treasures to be discovered
Mismatching.....

English Lute Songs

Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00003ZAC9
Release Date: 2000-01-11

Amazon.com

This disc of 30 English lute songs and solos by 10 composers features divine singing from countertenor Robin Blaze and exquisite lute playing from Elizabeth Kenny. The music covers the first century and a half of modern English history--from the artistic flowering, which followed political emancipation from Rome, to the Restoration of the monarchy after which the lute became obsolete (until its revival by bearded Romantics in the 20th century). Some of the tracks are a little labored. The opener, Robert Johnson's "Full Fathom Five" from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," almost grinds to a halt. "Where the Bee Sucks" from the same source is similarly leaden, and Purcell's lute solo on "Lilliburlero" expects no one to dance. On the other hand, the duo's measured approach perfectly suits Dowland's "Time Stands Still," and the same composer's most beautiful song, "In Darkness Let Me Dwell," features the singer's most expressive singing. Blaze's haunting tone is deathly cool. Besides those mentioned, the disc includes songs by Campion, Lawes, Danyel, Reggio, Banister, and Blow. Blaze lights up on Matthew Locke's air, "The Delights of the Bottle," which is the most eccentric track on the album. Of the six tracks by Henry Purcell, "'Tis Nature's Voice" is the most grippingly performed. Blaze moans so vividly that one almost does not know where to look. --Rick Jones

Customer Reviews:

The Delights of the Countertenor.......2006-07-12

Robin Blaze has a very sweet voice that is somewhat smaller than that of other notables in his field. It is exactly this type of voice that lends itself well to the genre of intimate music represented on this CD. There is nothing harsh or grating about Blaze's interpretations. On the whole this is a highly listenable and pleasant compilation of songs. I recommend this disc to anyone looking to expand, or start, their library of English song.

Treasures to be discovered.......2000-09-11

As much as I love Robin Blaze, I was a little reluctant to buy this CD, thinking: yet another disc of lute songs? - I already have a dozen. But as soon as I saw the track listing, I had no further doubts. The selection is wonderful. By combining the well known songs such as Dowland's In Darkness Let Me Dwell with the rarely performed songs by Robert Jones, Matthew Locke and John Banister, this disc is sure to satisfy both the connoisseur and the novice. Most of the songs are short - with one short melody following another, 70 minutes seems to fly by in a blink of an eye. Blaze's singing is splendid. His voice, with that inimitable woodwind quality and sweetness, is so good that it would sound good even singing drones, but there is more to it than just the beauty of tone. Blaze shows himself capable of a remarkable range of expression: from flamboyant (e.g., The Delights of the Bottle), to dramatic (e.g., 'Tis Nature's Voice or Why so pale), to lyrical (e.g., In Darkness Let Me Dwell or Can Doleful Notes), to stately (Be Welcome Then, Great Sir). In this regard, the selection here is more balanced that the selection on Daniel Taylor's Tears of the Muse, and the variety works to Blaze's advantage because, comparing the melancholy pieces alone, Taylor comes out a winner (in my opinion, of course). The most magical piece on this disc is Henry Purcell's By Beauteous Softness. "Magical" is the word. There is something about Blaze's singing of Purcell that captures the very essence of Purcell's style. In fact, the best three minutes of countertenor singing I've ever heard in my life was Blaze singing Purcell's Crown the Altar (no, it's not included here - I wish). In sum, this disc is a treasure. -- gggimpy@yahoo.com

Mismatching............2000-09-07

It is very important to balance between music and poet in English Lute Songs. And one more important thing is to make feelings based on language rather than based on music.

Blaze and Kenny are try to make expression of feelings more plentiful and vivid recitation of poet. But they fail in this point. Relationship between vocal and performer because combination of poet and music are required vocal's expression and impromptu and momentary variation of rhythm and tempo.

This performance don't have any technical problem externally. But, Blase and Kenny are making excessive expression of feeling and performers are going with rhythm and tempo but not following their expression of feeling.

But several solo lute performances are very well i think. For example, Henry Purcell's "Sefauchi's Farewell" is played by lute. This is usually performed by harpsicord, but in this album, they are making good performance with lute.

I would like to recommend Deller. Have you ever heard Dowland's "Happy" in "flow my tears" and Purcell's "touch" in "strike the viol"? He was excellent of many counterteners.

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