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Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill
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Medersa de Marrakech: Suivi de Rigueur et modernité, par Yves Pochy et Jacques Vignaud, L'image et la réalité de l'architecture, par Jean-Paul Saint-Aubin
Medersa de Marrakech: Suivi de Rigueur et modernité, par Yves Pochy et Jacques Vignaud, L'image et la réalité de l'architecture, par Jean-Paul Saint-Aubin
Authors: Hamid Triki, Alain Dovifat, Yves Pochy, Jacques Vignaud, Jean-Paul Saint-Aubin
Catalog: Book
Media: Relié
Release Date: 01 July, 1999
Publisher: Edisud
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terpreter today of Weill's songs plus works by other European composers for the musical and cabaret (See her album `City of Strangers'). Compared to even some of the greatest contemporary American female vocalists on the stage such as Streisand and Minelli, both Yanks have their strength, but they can't or don't try to achieve the same depth of feeling behind the European `Weltschmertz' you hear from Lemper and her forerunners. The closest may be Minelli's performance as Sally Bowles in `Cabaret', but even there, she can't seem to hide her American innocence.
Of the three albums, the first of the three, `Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill' may be the best introduction, as it includes two of Weill's best English songs, `I'm a Stranger Here Myself' and `Speak Low'. The third, `Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill Vol. 2' has two of Weill's most famous German songs outside of `Die Dreigroschenoper', `Bilbao-Song' and `Surabaya-Johnny'.
If you encounter this review and have never heard Ute Lemper, I strongly urge you to try one of these albums. If the German and French turns you off, try Lemper's recent album, `Punishing Kiss'.
Very highly recommended.
Ute dramatically renders the best of Weill and Brecht!.......2004-09-25 This album is full of many highlights, Zu Potsdam, Die Sexuelle Hoerigkeit, Wenn Die Man Sich Bettet, etc. From beginning to end it is a triumph and masterpiece by the international singing sensation Ute Lemper.
Voice non par excellence.......2004-03-18 It seems that everywhere you turn there is someone "with a unique voice." Usually we nod and upon hearing the voice in question shake our heads and head on to the next great talent. But the trite saying is, for this case, proven beyond a shadow of a doubt.
These interpretations are just incredible, ultra-clear, and just the way one would imagine these songs presented. Several of the selections are more suited to a smoky speakeasy rather than the stage which is just fine by me. Lemper runs the gamut from the catty growl to the ultra-lush to the quiet melancholy to the joyous Bronx of "I'm Just a Stranger Here Myself." The three languages presented absolutely no problems: The German was sufficiently guttural, the French erotic and the English - well, as only English can sound.
A near perfect recording by a near perfect artist.
Ute! She knows how to trill me!.......2003-11-17 I'd never heard of Ute Lemper until I received a brochure announcing her March concert at the Cleveland Museum of Art. I fell for her picture. I saw a women who oozed style, class, and sensuality; she had to be a great singer, right? So I purchased the "Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill" CD, and fired it up as soon as UPS delivered. I didn't know what to think. The music was strange, the singing was stranger. Foreign. Had I wasted my money? Did I fall for slick marketing and a pretty face? I listened again...and again...and again... Ute's way of singing these haunting, powerful melodies-her key changes, her haughtiness, her sarcasm, her way of emphasizing key words and phrases, her trills (Oh, those trills)-grabbed me by the throat and shook me in a way that I thoroughly enjoyed. I can't get the songs out of my head. I find myself singing the last two lines of "Caesar's Tod" and "Zu Potsdam unter den Eichen" and the chorus of "Nanna's Lied" at work, auf Deutsche. These songs don't let go! I can't wait 'til March.
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The Complete Ohio Sessions
Kai Winding & Carl Fontana's Cleveland Express
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ASIN: B00029R8KO
Release Date: 2004-05-31 |
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First time on CD for this septet, consisting of four trombones & a rhythm section, complete June 1957 live performance, featuring 13 tracks. Lonehill Jazz. 2004.
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The Complete Concert for the First Time Ever on CD.
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a trombone must!.......2007-03-13 this is a must have for any trombonist or anyone who loves the sound of the jazz trombone! you will not be disappointed. the sounds here are quite colorful and i always say there can never be too many trombones!
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- This is a film I saw again and again.
- Excellent cinematography, photography and lyrical music...!
- My Favorite Angelopoulos Film!
- Worst movie I have seen in 10 years.
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Eternity And A Day (1998 Film)
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Release Date: 1999-10-05 |
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- Eternity And A Day: Hearing The Time
- Eternity And A Day: By The Sea
- Eternity And A Day: Eternity Theme
- Eternity And A Day: Parting A
- Eternity And A Day: Depart And Eternity Theme
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Pris au mot
Pris au mot
Authors: Alain Fleischer
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Release Date: 01 July, 1999
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ing in the wind down the stark gray street, she gliding like a flower ("korfoula"): only her hands moving sinuously and her full snowy gown bobbing gracefully to rapid concertina music. Again Urania asks to go with him to hospital tomorrow. He smiles and merely compliments the bride's beauty. As he turns away, she lovingly pats the head of her new canine charge, and watches Alexandre go. All of this is key to (perhaps only) me. She and his doctor know he's dying, no one else.
Both are exiles: the kid with no one accepts him, listens to his tale of the poet who bought words, and Alexander sharing his last day, making him rethink (I think). One's journey is just beginning and the other's is just ending. Alexandre now understands how long time is: an eternity and a day.
Excellent cinematography, photography and lyrical music...!.......2002-07-29 The STORY of an aging writer, his encounter with a young boy, and memories of the past which this encounter evokes, An Eternity And A Day stars Bruno Ganz as the writer, with supporting roles filled by Isabelle Renaud (France), Fabrizio Bentivoglio (Italy), and from Greece Despina Bebedeli, Achileas Skevis, Alexandra Ladikou, Alekos Oudinotis , and Nikos Kouros. Making a special guest appearance in the film is Greek actress Tania Paleologou, who as a young girl played the leading role in Angelopoulos' Landscape In The Mist.
Veteran Italian screenwriter Tonino Guerra, together with Greek writer Petros Markaris collaborated with Angelopoulos on the script. The production reunites Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze team -- coproducers are Eric Heumann's Paradis Film (France), Giorgio Silvani's Intermedia Films (France), and Amedeo Pagani's Classic Films (Italy); producer is Phoebe Economopoulos.
Theo Angelopoulos creates a stunningly haunting, seamless fusion of reality, nostalgia, and dreams in Eternity and a Day. Using long takes and reverse tracking, Angelopoulos creates a visual metaphor for the isolation of the soul: the hallway shot of Alexandre after Urania's departure; a team of window washers descending on cars at a stop light; the framed shot of Anna by the gate of the summer house. Moreover, recurrent images of abandoned buildings, repeated flights of Albanian refugees across the border, and the unfinished poem, reflect Alexandre's regret over his own unresolved actions. Figuratively, Alexandre, too, is a stranger - longing to recapture an irretrievable past -unable to return home. The unique point of that film is the poetic dialogues, the excellent soundtrack and the photography that really captures another color of Greece and the Greek world. So good, masterpiece.
..."Alexandre..." After this movie this name with always reminds you poetry... L'éternité et un jour
My Favorite Angelopoulos Film!.......2002-06-27 Of all of the 4 films American audiences are allowed to see by Theo Angelopoulos, this is one my favorite. Angelopoulos' films offer the same elements in everyone. He's a bold director when compared to American directors, then again, all foreign directors are bold compared to American ones, even our best like Martin Scorsese, Coppola, or Woody Allen. Angelopoulos' films have long takes. With long single camera shots. And to some, his films are flooded with portentous dialogue. And, I must admit I am usually in awe at the beginning moments of any Angelopoulos film. But, after a while, after I've taken in the subtle charm of the cinematography, the beautiful visuals, and his way of story telling, I can't help but sometimes grow impatient. And, while yes, that happened to me while watching this movie, it's a film that now, after a year or moreso, I think back of fondly. I remember the beautiful scenes by the sea. How beautifully Angelopoulos set up these scenes. He really is a master of imagery.
"Eternity and a Day" tells a rather simple but yet deep and poetic story of a man's dying days, and one day he spends with a small lost boy (Achileas Skevis). The man is Alexandre (Bruno Ganz). Alexandre does not want to die. As the song goes, he has a lot of livin' to do. He now reflects upon his past. Memories of his wife, his mother. He even visit's his daughter whom he has not seen in some time. He wants to rectify all the wrong that has happened in the past. And he gets a chance to when he meets this boy. Here I suppose Angelopoulos is playing with the elements of time. Past, present and future. The more time Alexandre spends with the boy, trying to get him back home, the more he is reminded of his past. Not to mention the fact that he is dying.
"Eternity and a Day" is a film that I'm sure not all will be pleased with. It's too subtle of a film. It takes it's time telling a story. It's moves slow, but it means to. I'm not saying these are faults, but, I know today's society has no time to watch these types of movies. American audiences like fast movies. Filmmakers like Angelopoulos may never find their audiences. But, despite everything, one could not hide the beauty the film has. The script written by Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petro Markaris, & Giorgio Silvagni has moments that are as tender as I've ever seen in any movie. The cinematograhy by Yorgos Arvanitis & Andreas Sinanos is wonderful as well.
"Eternity and a Day" won the Cannes Film Festival's Golden Palm, an award Angelopoulos is no stranger to. His "Suspended Step of the Stork" was nominated before as was "The Hunters". And "Ulysses' Gaze", if I remember right, won second place at the Cannes behind "Underground". "Day" is a movie all foreign film fans should see. You'll be impressed by the simple things the film has to offer. Also, will someone please release "The Suspended Step of the Stork" on video already! And the rest of Angelopoulos' films!
Bottom-line:"Eternity and a Day" is admittedly a slow moving film and does take some patience to watch, but the film has startling imagery. It's subtle charms carry you under it's spell.
Worst movie I have seen in 10 years........2002-05-28 I kept waiting for something to happen that I could care about. But after 60 minutes of drivel, I had to bail.
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- "It makes me think of tubular bells by Mike Oldfield"
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Northern Lights: Music of Contemplation for a New Age
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ASIN: B000005IFQ
Release Date: 1995-11-14 |
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- Song Of The Watch - Uuno Klami
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je ne sais quoi.......2005-07-02 The music on this CD is hauntingly beautiful and much of it fills me with strange and wistful longings--a sort of "happy sadness," perhaps correspondent to the German concept of Sehnsucht.
Great CD.......2002-01-10 There was only one song on this CD that I did not enjoy. All the rest were great.
Northern Lights.......2000-06-28 Better than most "New Age" offerings, thanks to the overall choices and imagery the music conjures up. Northbound is first cut and gives actual feel of travelling very fast over snow and ice. Sounds like a well-crafted soundtrack. Well worth buying when you need a beautiful, lilting symphonic head-journey-or when you just need/want to hear musicians other than U.S./British-born artists.
Some of the cuts are quite moving, some sturm und drang, and others reminiscent of the best of classical artists. One friend told me he could almost hear the ice crackling underfoot in one track, and another said he thought of the time he saw flights of geese s
Quelques obscurcissements
Quelques obscurcissements
Authors: Alain Fleischer
Catalog: Book
Media: Broché
Release Date: 01 July, 1999
Publisher: Deyrolle - Verdier
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ns and arrangements to progress the piece, this is instead a study in pattern and melody, and (during City Life) the use of everyday sound. Being a rock fan as well as classical, I find it interesting to see the latter entering into classical music as well as where I've experienced it before (in Pink Floyd, Rick Wright, and other rock artists' works).
"Proverb" is a very interesting, mellow piece with a single lyric: "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life." This piece recalls the medieval forms such as the organum--but with rhythms and dissonances that the ancients would have never dared explore. The lyric itself seems to be a statement of the principles of minimalism...something upon which the listener is compelled to meditate during the course of this piece. "Nagoya Marimbas", while not the most striking statement is a very interesting study of patterns--the changes are subtle and occur just in time to prevent the piece from becoming monotonous. I imagine that to play this piece would require great concentration on the part of each player, to stay with their individual contribution to it.
By far, "City Life" is the most compelling piece, and the one I initially bought this CD for. The use of sampled sounds, combined with the textures of the music itself, truly evokes the image of New York City, from the frenzied rush of cars in the first movement to the brooding ambience of the harbor, and finally, the potential for disaster reflected in the last movement. I bought this CD in the fall of 2001, and it was quite chilling to realize that the recordings Mr. Reich used in the last movement were from the *first* World Trade Center bombing...but it could just as easily fit the more recent tragedy.
compelling.......2002-05-19 The first piece on the cd, Proverb, is 14 minutes that don't seem like more than 2. A step beyond Reich's earlier Tehillim, it seems to make use of the influence of medieval composer Perotin & modernise it by adding a minimalistic keyboard which serves mostly to give form to a driving rhythm (fast pace, not cars). This piece will turn the space its flowing sound envelopes into a sort of digital cathedral. Then, Nagoya Marimbas might bring you back to reality. It's a classic Reich fabric of repetition with deliberate & slow changes. Then the title piece, which spans 5 tracks from 3 to 7 on the cd for a total of 23:07, features, on top of sparse instrumentation, some great vocal loops & tapes that are almost reminiscent of his early Come Out but more compelling, to be sure. Great cd, diverse Reich, offers a sense of protean experimentation more than compositional evolution.
Composer-journalist's observations become chilling prophecy.......2001-09-17 For the past twelve years Reich has labored in the shadow of his unassailable masterpiece, "Different Trains." Both its concision and its monumentality made that sampling exposition of Holocaust testimony the standard for the work Reich has accurately if immodestly claimed he was "born to do."
His more recent recorded compositions such as "The Cave" and the three works on this disc-- less visceral and emotional, perhaps, but no less powerful of insight-- have been less uniformly well received. In particular, "City Life" has been marginalized by some as a found-sound exercise in banality, utilizing performance techniques that sounded dated when the piece premiered in 1995.
The reason critics need to give it another listen has little to do with the awful coincidence in Reich's climactic choice of the earlier World Trade Center bombing aftermath as a sample source. It has a lot more to do with the sobering atmosphere progressively achieved throughout the first four movements-- a precarious balance of despair and indifference, equipoise and terror. Had this music reflected the events of 2001 rather than 1993, its composer needn't have changed a note.
With almost surgical understatement, Reich distills his stylistic hallmarks-- crystalline architecture, slow-burn intensity, razor-sharp asentimentality, and inexhaustable rhythmic drive-- into a musical observation of urban rage, unsparingly linking individual discontent to mass destruction.
No sides are taken here. Often skeptical of a composer's entitlement to expression for its own sake, Reich has always despised and successfully avoided musical agitprop. And just as he has from "Come Out" to "Different Trains," in "City Life" he provides something better, something more necessary: an indelible reflection of the ghost face of violence at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Perhaps if one tenth of the people rushing to purchase Lee Greenwood's "American Patriot" listened carefully to Reich's "City Life," there might be a measurably clearer consciousness of what has changed life in the United States, and the resentments and complacencies that have fueled those changes.
Credit where credit is due..........2001-07-03 While I have listened to most of this cd and have thoroughly enjoyed everything I heard on it, this is mainly a response to the Good Doctor's comment about the piece Nagoya Marimbas. I would say he is correct in his description that upon hearing the piece, it isn't overly dynamic and it doesnt sound like there is much going on of abundant interest. However, a percussionist myself I started learning Nagoya to perform with a colleague later this year, and I must say the doctor may have been a bit narrowminded in his assessment. Nagoya Marimbas demands pinpoint accuracy in timing (the two contrasting parts are very easily confused, mainly because they are virtually the same at the core) and synchronization (or syncopation) with your fellow performer. When you actually put the music on the instrument, it also takes amazing accuracy, leaping from one register to the next with very little time and, of course, no room for error. So I urge the good Doctor, and anyone else, to think again before you brush aside this piece as being uninteresting. I think if you really look at what the piece entails and how it can be portrayed visually, not just musically, you could find a greater appreciation for this Reich opus. We may have a difference in opinion as to what qualifies as "virtuostic" (I am, after all, merely a college student persuing a life in music) but with the selectivity of attention one needs to be able to lock in with his or her colleague and perform Nagoya Marimbas well, it certainly is more difficult than one might initially believe. Kudos Mr. Reich!
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Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, Vol. 2
Kitaro
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ASIN: B0007CEX2W
Release Date: 2005-02-22 |
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- Koki
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- Inner Lights
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Shortly after 9/11, Kitaro began a pilgrimage to the island of Shikoku, which has 88 temples, each with its own distinct temple bells. The Japanese keyboardist has been recording those bells and working them into the fabric of The Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai, of which this is the second volume in a projected series. The first volume unlocked a new energy in Kitaro's music, with more open spaces and instruments like the erhu and pipa (Chinese violin and lute) lending his landscapes an organic immediacy. But Kitaro is a composer who doesn't know when to stop. He takes the freshest elements of his music, like the koto-erhu duet at the core of "Shining Spirit of Water," and buries them in the same choir pads, electronic squiggles, dripping strings, and whooping synthesizers that have been his sonic signature since 1978's Astral Voyage. Even the relatively austere meditation of "Peaceful Valley," featuring Native American flute, and the darker textures of "Ka-Non," get swamped as Kitaro gilds the lily and then dips it in a treacly bath sweeter than a glazed doughnut. The thought that Kitaro's Shikoku pilgrimage has already turned into a tedious trudge doesn't bode well. --John Diliberto
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Music for soul.......2007-02-08 For me it is favorite music for meditation and searching peace of my mind. This music is recommended to estimulate Alfa Waves generation into our brain. Very recommended music for all.
Technique de la peinture
Technique de la peinture
Authors: Jean Rudel, Que sais-je?
Catalog: Book
Media: Poche
Release Date: 01 July, 1999
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Grave Imant My Son
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Customer Reviews:
Superb, moving, melodic!.......2005-07-31 This little-heard Finnish opera about the agony of a mother (Mare) who has to choose between betraying her son (Imant) to save his life, and honoring his life by passively sitting by and watching him die a martyr, is powerful stuff. Based on the 1343 St. George's Night uprising in which peasants hid in grain sacks to gain entrance to the German castle Viljandi, the opera which premiered in 1953 was given only 12 performances, and wasn't heard from again until it was revived in Tallinn in 2004. Ondine deserves a big tip-of-the-hat for bringing this 2004 recording to life in a splendid 2-CD set that is hypnotic from beginning to end and a treasure to the auditory senses. If you like your operas serious, dark and somber, and the orchestration -- provided here by the Estonia National Opera and Chorus -- deep, rich and full, with plenty of emphasis on bass, cellos and moody laments, this is for you. With Kirsi Tiihonen, soprano, brilliantly singing the role of the fated mother, Mare, and Raimo Sirkia, tenor, singing the role of her equally fated son, accompanied by a full chorus and outstanding ensemble cast, this opera, completed during the war years of 1942-43 by 24-yearv old composer Tauno Pylkkänen (1918-1980), demonstrates the very best in compositional skill and understanding of the important interplay between vocal and instrument in opera, and the happy result you get when a composer writes for the pleasure of the audience. The comparisons to Puccini and Menotti's "old fashioned" sense of musicality are offered and are apt in the production notes. This is powerful stuff, taxing on the singers, to be sure, but inspiring, melodic and so fully developed that the libretto by Aino Kallas, and score are a seamless fit that just soars from one title to the next, culminating in a heart-wrenching climax that is emotionally draining and beautiful. The depth of Mare's lament, captured in Kirsi Tiihonen's glorious voice, before she joins her son in his watery grave [On summer nights the swans cried from the bay, on gloomy autumn eves the birds from your misty shores. Now, on a night in early winter, I step into your icy, cold embrace. Receive black waves the heart of a mother who sinned, but on whom God himself sought revenge and who fell beneath her burden. . . "] is potent writing. This 2-CD set is magnificent and beautiful and will give many hours of pleasure to those who own it!
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