Crimson Red

Track Listings

1. Life Givin' Love Givin'

2. Run To The Father

3. Gotta Find Love

4. You've Got A Friend

5. The Invitation

6. It Is Well With My Soul

7. I Am Not Ashamed

8. Lullaby

9. The Storm

10. Crimson Red

11. A Divine Appointment

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
"I am so grateful for this past year and all the great musicians I had the privilege to work with on this CD. Al, at Lamp Post Studio (lamppoststudio.com), you were an asset to this project and a real gem! Well, we did it! I couldn't have completed this without the help of so many gifted friends. Thanks guys!"

Product Description
CrimsonRed; the eclectic collection is a unique mix of today's adult contemporary music and Karin Paparelli's debut album as singer/songwriter. Her vulnerability and depth in songwriting are the result of a young life lived hard and fast. Enduring hardship and loss at a tender age, she spent many years tossed by life's circumstances, before finding hope in the discovery of life's greatest purpose. This CD was birthed from that discovery.

Crimson Red,Karin Paparelli,BTKM,An ecelectic collection of upbeat, soulfilled music created to inspire and delight with everything from a smooth, back porch, country duet to cool, bluesy vocals and a few screamin', electric guitars.

Crimson Red

Crimson Red

Red 30th Anniversary Edition Remastered
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The most authentic form of Progressive Rock

I first heard this on vinyl.

Crying for an Angel Dying

Music worth the challenge

Red Rocks!

Red 30th Anniversary Edition Remastered
King Crimson
Manufacturer: Discipline Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00065MDSQ
Release Date: 2004-11-22

Tracks:

Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
Providence
Starless

Customer Reviews:

The most authentic form of Progressive Rock.......2007-07-16

For lots of fans this album is considered "the best" of King Crimson. Although I am a little cautious while calling "the best"; something for sure, this is the most authentic progressive rock music. You can taste the most original progressive rock embodied in rhythm, form, harmony, and melody. That is unbelievable that the album was released in 1974 (Let me double check!). Let's give them five stars as they paved the way for the bands that day by day, elevate the concept of creativity in rock music: Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Spock's beard, The Flower Kings, Tool, and...

I first heard this on vinyl........2007-07-13

King Crimson made good records throughout the late 60's and through the 70's. This is their best record in my opinion. Buy it, you won't be disappointed.

Crying for an Angel Dying.......2007-07-01

King Crimson's IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING (1969) and RED (1974) share some similarities. Both contain only five tracks. Both kick off with a furious aural assault ("21st Century Schizoid Man" and "Red", respectively). Both end with an extended, dramatic epic ("In the Court of the Crimson King", "Starless"). Both contain an interesting but ultimately rather pointless jam (most of "Moonchild", "Providence"). And both mark pivotal moments in the band's history. For while IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING was the group's debut and kick-started the progressive rock movement, RED was their final album before guitarist and bandleader Robert Fripp suspended King Crimson indefinitely (or until 1981 anyway).

But for what similarities there are between the two albums, the King Crimson of RED is very different from the King Crimson that had debuted only five years earlier. Only Fripp remained from the original lineup, joined by bassist/vocalist John Wetton (later of Asia) and drummer extraordinaire Bill Bruford (formerly of Yes) and augmented by familiar players Ian McDonald (sax), David Cross (violin), and Mel Collins (sax). Where that earlier band reveled in lush, melancholic Mellotron soundscapes, this incarnation was leaner, meaner, pounding out angular, metallic riffs and attacking their material with the ferocity of a much less "sophisticated" outfit. The first vinyl side ("Red", "Fallen Angel", "One More Red Nightmare") is irreproachable, and the aforementioned "Starless" is amazing, magnificently building tension from a moody COURT-like beginning through a Spartan, jagged middle into a positively vicious climax that renews the opening theme with symphonic accuity. Only the overlong improvisation "Providence" - and the band's complete lack of a sense of humour, which can be very important when it comes to self-conscious, overblown prog rock - holds RED back from true greatness. But even in imperfect form, there's much to enjoy from King Crimson's last hurrah before a seven-year hiatus that would result in a fundamental change in the band's sound and direction.

Music worth the challenge.......2007-06-23

King Crimson's "Red" is an album that does require a few plays to grow on you. But it eventually scores a hit and captivates you. My only possible quibble with the album is the somewhat meandering "Providence" and the instrumental break in "Starless" that, had I been in the editing room at the time, would have reduced it by a minute or three.

The highlight of the album for me is the layered guitar work on "Fallen Angel." The closing song "Starless" is fantastic (again, if they had only cut that plodding guitar riff in the middle of the song short).

If you are into progressive rock and enjoy music that is challenging, give this one a try.

Red Rocks!.......2007-05-14

Truly one of the best prog rock albums and certainly one of the best prog rock bands of all time. Bruford, Fripp and Wetton set a level that current bands are still trying to attain. Sounds fresh after all of these years. This band has influenced more musicians than most people realize.

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a great album
Wetton/Fripp/Bruford
Red lined on the VU meters
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Mind-Blowing Material

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Manufacturer: E.G. Records
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Release Date: 2000-10-17

Tracks:

Red
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One More Red Nightmare
Providence
Starless

Album Description

24 bit digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album by the legendary British prog group. Five tracks, including 'Starless'. Standard Jewelcase.

Customer Reviews:

a great album.......2007-06-22

King Crimson's Red album has been said many times to have influenced Nirvana. No, not the 60's band Nirvana, the influential grunge rock band from the 90's. I tend to believe there's some truth to that.

There's not many bands back in the mid 70's who rocked with so much power and talent quite like this album. It's *extremely* guitar heavy with a very muddy and garage-rock sound. I love it.

The title song is melodically a bit weak thanks to the way it's written- a few guitar riffs repeating over and over for several minutes.

"Fallen Angel" really is a major jump in another direction. It's closer to a ballad. A haunting ballad, that is. Very good vocals. The return of those dangerous and threatening guitar riffs come back with a vengeance on "One More Red Nightmare". The saxophone solo towards the end is GREAT.

I don't have a problem with "Providence" at all. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the first several minutes feature really melodic violin playing. Truthfully, it's a great song. Though I don't think the build-up to a noisy and messy jam at the end of the song is very attractive, but it's alright.

"Starless" is supposed to be the best song on the album. Is it? Maybe. It sure is great. It's written with such skill and perfection. Awesome tune.

You need this album if you want to learn about 70's rock.

Wetton/Fripp/Bruford.......2007-04-21

Original, Inspiring, Epic! A true masterpiece......................

"Starless" Still sends shivers down the spine after all these years.

Red lined on the VU meters.......2007-02-06

This album is best played loud and red lined! This is the best crimson since the debut and a great way to end the first phase 69-74.
It's ironic that this is mainly a three piece band after David Cross's leaving prior, he left us his best work "Providence" another amazing live improv.

risk a life to make a dime.......2006-07-08

A definitive statement not just of the end of the Golden Age of Progressive Rock, but of the 1960s-style countercultural maelstrom of experimentation that spawned the genre whilst simultaneously changing so much about the greater world forever.

This plays like a wake for "the sixties" in many ways, most clearly and poignantly on the stunning climactic masterpiece "Starless," which is just uber-cinematic in scope and execution. The horns of the departed Crimson Kings Mel Collins and Ian MacDonald make this almost like the ribbon bow tied on this genre-defining band, like Crimsons past and present colliding in perfect alignment to make a grand, perfect statement of summation about everything this group stood for in its time.

Perhaps more than any other group outside of the Beatles, this band symbolized the ethos of anything-goes experimentation and boundary-shattering creativity that characterized the end of the Piscean Age and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, i.e., the late 1960s and early 1970s, when old and obsolete modalities of life and living were falling onto the dustbin of history faster than in any other previous cultural revolution in human history.

This group made such an impact with so little observable compromise largely because, beginning when it came on the scene as "the next Beatles" in early 1969, it continually proved that what everyone thought was possible in Rock Music was only the tip of the proverbial iceberg, and that indeed the only limitation on the breadth of what could be aspired to by the musicians was the inestimable power of their own imaginations. With each incarnation KC has altered the musical DNA in a certain way, and this album is no exception.

There is nothing to be said about this music that hasn't already been said by the articulate and passionate people who wrote about it previously. Yes, the compositions are tritonally heavy (that's why it's called "Red," as the smoking VU meter on the back cover with its needle pushed all the way to the right attests). Yes, the vocals of John Wetton never sounded better or had more conviction. Yes, the drumming is perhaps the greatest ever achieved on a Rock album and proof positive of why Bill Bruford is one of the greatest ever on his instrument in any genre. But beyond the specifics this is a valedictory for an unprecedented and important period, all too brief and fleeting, in which Music in particular and Humanity in general seemed to be trying to cast off the chains in so many ways.

Bottom line: if you have never discovered this group, you have lucked out because they might be, in terms of creativity and challenge to existing musical structures within the pantheon of Rock, the greatest of all time. You should buy all of their albums and dive right in, but this masterpiece is surely a fine place to begin.

Mind-Blowing Material.......2006-07-05

This is still one of my favorite KC discs, and deservedly so. Not much I can say can expand significantly beyond what others have already written here. This is a classic, and to those who say this is just "noise" (especially regarding "Providence"), I say this: Just go back to your Britney Spears records and leave us prog rock people alone, okay?

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Composer, premiere player, soloist - Yin Cheng-zong's authentic Yellow River Concerto
something missing and deadly wrong here
Contains many piano solo treasures
Trust me~ You will never get tired of it.
Very nice Music

The Yellow River Concerto

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The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Prelude: The Song Of The Yellow River Boatmen
The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): Ode To The Yellow River
The Yellow River Piano Concerto (Original Version): The Yellow River In Anger
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Colourful Clouds
Happy Loso
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Elegy
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Friendship
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Nostalgia
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Grassland Love-Song
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Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Sorrow
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Dance
The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Ginseng
The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Coral
The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Waterweed
The Mermaid Ballet Suite: Wedding Scene
Red Lilies Crimson And Bright
Three Variations On An Ancient Chinese Melody

Customer Reviews:

Composer, premiere player, soloist - Yin Cheng-zong's authentic Yellow River Concerto.......2007-07-03

I owned this disc for more than 12 years already. The CD cover was already the third one.
Lang Lang recently made a new recording of this piece with DG.
I heard master Yin play this piece (in Lang Lang's stead) last evening in Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and he moved me to tears.
Yin Cheng-zong is over 60 years old now. He lived through the various turmoils of China. It requires life experience and patriotism to interpret this piece, so very sorry, I haven't heard any foreign pianist playing this piece yet, let alone on record.
HOWEVER, Yin Cheng-zong did made a recording of this piece with Claudio Abbado, but the recording has never been released by the PRC official broadcasting agency. Yin himself claims that this was one of the most memorable performances he had of this piece - Abbado understands the piece so well that Yin was highly amazed!
The foremost player and interpretor of this piece remains Yin Cheng-zong, but I must say that ALSO hearing Lang Lang playing this piece a couple of days ago (also in Hong Kong), Lang's playing of this piece is vastly improving.

something missing and deadly wrong here.......2006-11-07

when i listened to this concerto, the first impression was something deadly wrong. if you want to portray and describe a river, the best way is to start from its origin, it might be just a trickle of dripping water and a small stream at first, then when going down, meet and entwine with other small streams, it gradually evolving into a great river all way down to the ocean. that's the way how you use the music to portray a river.
but the composer of this 'yellow river' was educated in the chinese communist system, his composition was still dominated subjectively by the blind chinese revolutionary passion, the concerto from the very beginning sounds like listening to a cultural revolution marching song, banging and pounding so headstrong against almost all the foreign elements, condemning so viciously and so mercilessly with hatred, like revolutionary army at wars, like those stupid formula musicals, songs and plays created in the cultural revolution era to please the butcher chairman mao. there's almost no big difference here. when you listen to this concerto, only a small part and portion make you feel like something good and wonderful offered by the river, most part of it sounds too clueless military.
we all knew that the chinese civilization and it's culture was originated from the yellow river, it's like a mother of china. yes, yellow river is always unpreditable and changing, its inevitable floodings in the history caused a lot of deaths and tragedies, but a river could never be always so merciless and vicious. this concerto and this music is not an appropriate interpretation of the yellow river but a chinese communist revolutionary marching song by a die hard communist composer. it's a very bad concerto actually.

Contains many piano solo treasures.......2006-03-26

The most important thing about this CD is its beautiful solo piano music from classical Chinese literature. You'll be amazed and delighted.

Trust me~ You will never get tired of it........2004-08-07

This is an excellent album that worth adding to your collection. Moreover, such great music for such low price, there is no reason you shouldn't buy it.

Very nice Music.......2003-01-15

I've heard The Yellow River Cantata for long time before I got this CD, this CD would be a very nice CD on your collection. And when I came to Yellow River (Hoang He) in the summer and spring, I knew this concerto said the trust: The river is always changing, savage and quiet. There is enough Asian spirit on this CD. As you know, every old chinese word and song are based on a story (called Gu dian, means classical) and if you know much about chinese stories you will feel completly this CD. One of famous Gu Dian is the fighting of Chinese people against the flood every year at the river's banks, for thousand years. You can find more information and "Gu dian" about this river in Chinese histories or stories.

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A Treasury of English Song

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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a great album
Wetton/Fripp/Bruford
Red lined on the VU meters
risk a life to make a dime
Mind-Blowing Material

Red
King Crimson
Manufacturer: Virgin
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Release Date: 2001-03-01

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Album Description

24 bit digitally remastered reissue of 1974 album by the legendary British prog group. Five tracks, including 'Starless'. Standard Jewelcase.

Customer Reviews:

a great album.......2007-06-22

Wetton/Fripp/Bruford.......2007-04-21

Original, Inspiring, Epic! A true masterpiece......................

"Starless" Still sends shivers down the spine after all these years.

Red lined on the VU meters.......2007-02-06

risk a life to make a dime.......2006-07-08

Mind-Blowing Material.......2006-07-05

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Very Little To Say

Red
King Crimson
Manufacturer: Jvc Japan
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2006-03-06

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Red
Fallen Angel
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Album Description

2006 Japanese reissue of the 1974 album, presented in miniature LP sleeve with obi-strip. WHD.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

Very Little To Say.......2007-03-25

There's almost nothing to say about this album. Really. I will therefore make only two statements concerning it. One, it's one of the BEST albums of all time. BY ANY BAND. EVER. I will not argue about it, nor will I respond to those who disagree. My statement is a hard, cold, measureable scientific fact. Any dissenting opinions are just that. Opinions.

Second statement. This ALBUM is NOT for EVERYONE. Not everyone will understand it. NOR ARE THEY MEANT TO. Not everyone understands Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Cole, or other musical genii of their caliber. THIS ALBUM comes straight from the artist, WITHOUT passing through the preprocessed, pasteurizng, plasticizing, domesticizing, neutering cookie-cutter castrator of the Modern Music Industry- somehow, it managed to avoid getting snapped up by the Musical Sterilization Machine that has been slicing and dicing music into bite-sized, convenient and easily digestible individually wrapped bites that Mom can guiltlessly slip into your lunch box on your way out to school every morning, safe in the assurance that it has been fortified with ADA approved vitamins and minerals. This MEANS that this ALBUM is DANGEROUS TO THE STATUS QUO. IT IS RAW AND UNFETTERED IN ITS EMOTION, it is pure, raw unadulterated ROCK that delves into the fear and darkness in the human psyche, and lays it open for all to see. IF you CANNOT DEAL WITH THAT, if you HAVE ACCEPTED that all music MUST sound a certain way, AND CANNOT ABIDE BY THE RAW, UNRESTRICTED ENERGY and IDEAS pouring directly into YOUR brain from Fripp and Co. via this album; If you are fearful and timid, and have allowed yourself to be musically castrated by the *&^%$! on the radio, then YOU WILL NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM.

PS just because something has a lot of screaming, cussing, is deliberately Satanic and/or is denigrating to women doesn't make it raw and energetic like this album- this album confronts pure darkness on a level that would make these "rappers" and "metal bands" responsible for the list of above musical nusiances run screaming, with tears in their eyes, for Mooommmy.

THATS ALL. NUFF SAID.
-Courtney Patricia 'GamerGirl' Parsons

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Red
King Crimson
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
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ASIN: B00013YRO6
Release Date: 2004-02-03

Tracks:

Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
Providence
Starless

Album Description

Japanese 24-bit remastered reissue of 1974 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve, features five tracks. Universal. 2004.

Album Details

24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.

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Best of 72-74 line-up
Gatefold remaster even better
Get this while still available

Red
King Crimson
Manufacturer: Dicip
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000050AMB

Tracks:

Red
Fallen Angel
One More Red Nightmare
Providence
Starless

Album Description

24 bit digitally remastered Japanese reissue of 1974 album by the legendary British prog group packaged in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only. Five tracks, including 'Starless'. 2000 release.

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring an LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing. 24 Bit Digitally Remastered.

Customer Reviews:

Best of 72-74 line-up.......2003-10-24

This just has to be the best album the 72-74 line-up produced (although David Cross had already left KC when this came out - he's still on at least 1 track though). Another reviewer has already described starless in detail and I couldn't impove on his description of that track (certainly one of my favourite pieces of music ever!).
I like Fallen Angel a lot too - great melody, great vocals, powerful music - wonderful deep growling basenote to start the song of! Red is also an absolute power piece. Still performed by current KC line up! You can't go worng with this album.

Gatefold remaster even better.......2001-08-02

After a powerful and unforgettable tour, David Cross left the group, for the same reasons that Ian McDonald did in 1969. Fripp has said that is better to rest after one exhausting tour before taking regretabble decisions. Less than one week later, the trio of Fripp, Wetton and Bruford got in the studio for another album. Few bands falling apart have obtained a record so concise and powerful as Red. An idea that does not seem good in the paper, but functioned as magic: the rollback of old members, such as Ian McDonald, as guests. The result is a fusion of the elements that had formed King Crimson, since 1969. Mel Collins' sax is the star of the brutal "One More Red Nightmare", accompanied by Bruford's curious percussions and Wetton's devastating bass. Marc Charig, who has shone in the end of "Islands", loans his conrnet to "Fallen Angel". Even the heavy instrumental "Red", with its circular structure benefits from a cello solo. The improvisation "Providence", recorded in the second to last concert of the 74 tour, still with David Cross, is one of their most interesting, counting with a somber introduction in the violin. The band develops it into a furious number, and the abrupt end must be given to the fact that the original recording lasted 3 minutes longer (it can be found in the box The Great Deceiver). And to finish, the great triumph not only of the album, not only of this lineup, but all of King Crimson: "Starless". It starts with a sad melody in mellotron, graced with drenching saxophone, violin, guitar and deep vocals of John Wetton. The piece then converts to an agonizing experimental section, with uncommon percussions, driving bass and a nervous guitar solo. Fripp repeats the same notes, and slowly magnifying the tension. The release comes: McDonald's sax enters in the explosive and complex final section. Robin Miller enters with the oboe to reaffirm the main melody, and after that mellotron. To describe something so intense, cathartic and emotive in words would only result in empty conjectures. Live versions featured intersting arrangement variations and different lyrics, and were generally more furious and exciting, and consequently less concise. I strongly recommend checking it out on The Great Deceiver box set. "Red" was played live with the lineups that followed. Soon after the announcement of the album, Fripp decided to disband Crimson - which was preparing to a new tour with Ian McDonald. Sad but true.

The new gatefold 24-bit remaster is much better. The booklet with photos from the last gig and newspaper clippings is priceless.

Get this while still available.......2001-05-28

I've never been a fanatic of King Crimson. Any era. But Red has always been my favourite. Not just the music, but the players did played a remarkable playing. Now, once again, this album is released in a special format and 24-bit remastered. The package is very beautiful. Cardboard sleeve like most Japanese LP-mini sleeve releases. Lyrics, which was not included in the regular edition. Rare photos, well I'm not very impressed since lots of documentaries can be found anywhere in the 'net. Newspaper clips, now this is what I'm looking for. You can read news and interviews about Red, King Crimson and rumours around their breakup from that year.

About the 24-bit itself, I don't know exactly how to impress since my player is still a 18-bit. Got to get a 24-bit player in the future. Meanwhile, you can sweep these newly remastered King Crimson albums while they still exist.

The Yellow River: Piano Concerto
Average customer rating:

Beautiful Piano concerto coupled with bland piano pieces

The Yellow River: Piano Concerto

Manufacturer: Marco Polo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000045XR
Release Date: 1992-12-17

Tracks:

'The Yellow River' Pno Con: Prld: The Song Of The Yellow River Boatman
'The Yellow River' Pno Con: Ode To The Yellow River
'The Yellow River' Pno Con: The Yellow River In Wrath
'The Yellow River' Pno Con: Defend The Yellow River
'The Yellow River' Pno Con: Colourful Clouds
Happy Loso
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Elegie
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Friendship
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Nostalgia
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Grassland Love Song
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Children's Dance
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Sorrow
Inner-Mongolian Folk Songs: Dance
The Mermaid Ballet Ste: Ginseng
The Mermaid Ballet Ste: Coral
The Mermaid Ballet Ste: Waterweed
The Mermaid Ballet Ste: Wedding Scene
Red Lilies Crimson And Bright
3 Variations On An Ancient Chinese Melody

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful Piano concerto coupled with bland piano pieces.......2000-06-21

The "Yellow River Concerto" is a work of genious. Each movement describes the river with ease and clarity. The concerto opens with a sweeping view of the majestic river, followed by a cheerful description of the fisherman. It is interluded with a thoughtful tribute to the riches the river provides to the fisherman. The ode to the Yellow River is a beautiful track in ballad style. It is very peaceful with a tint of lament. The Yellow River in Wrath opens with the peaceful river and then follows to the river in storm, portrayed by heavy piano chords and excessive orchestration. Defend the Yellow River concludes the concerto with a triumphant battle and march scene to bring an end to this concerto illustrating the Yellow River, and ultimately Chinese river life. The short piano works that couple the concerto are rather uninspired and tasteless. A few of the works have their short moments but the rest of the short piano tracks end up being tiresome.