I Really Love You Lord

Track Listings

1. Don't Leave Me Jesus

2. I Really Love You Lord

3. Holy Ghost Guide Me

4. Amen

5. Jesus Is Everything

6. Lord You Been So Good

7. I Never Knew Love

8. Show Me The Way

9. Thank You Jesus Christ

10. Worship Him

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Charles J. Lawrence, better known and loved by many fans worldwide as Charlie Brown, has performed with many notable Gospel groups including Robert Blair and the Fantastic Violinaires, The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and many more. To hear Charles Brown sing is to hear true perfection, on this album, with crispy highs and raspy, soulful lows, he (accompanied by The Saints) makes his way through ten uplifting Gospel compositions. This Record is a "must have" for any fan of Charlie Brown!

I Really Love You Lord,Charlie Brown & The Saints

Tracks:

Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - Introduction
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - What You Once Were, What You Now Are (Octavian, Marschallin)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - The Field Marshall Is In The Croatian Forests (Octavian, Marschallin)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - My Bosom Armed (Singer)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - So There He Goes, The Wretched Puffed-Up Fellow (Marschallin)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - Ah, There You Are Again (Marschallin, Octavian)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 1 - Time Is A Strange Thing (Marschallin, Octavian)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 - Eh Bien, May I See Faninal To (Sophie, Marschallin)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 - O Lord, It Was No More Than A Charade (Sophie, Marschallin, Octavian)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 - Today Or Tomorrow Or The Day After That (Sophie, Marschallin, Octavian)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 - Trio: Marie Theres'! ...I Choose To Love Him (Sophie, Marschallin, Octavian)
Der Rosenkavalier: Act 3 - It Is A Dream, Cannot Be Really True (Sophie, Marschallin, Octavian)

Customer Reviews:

A Lovely Version with Less To Complain About...........2006-12-17

I don't see what all the complaints are about.

This is one of my favorite Rosenkavaliers.

True, I prefer the Crespin recording with Solti above all the rest. And a close second is Szell's sublime live 1949 recording with Reining--sounding fresher than she later does in the studio for Kleiber (although Sena Jurinac is never anyone to sneeze at). But this is a respectable third place for me--in a very crowded field.

The sound of this Gala release is not as bad as some on this site complain. I have an equalizer in my mp3 software =--it's free in Winamp--and that adjusts quite nicely for the somewhat muffled quality of this 1978 live recording. There are clearer sounding live recordings, even some made 30 or more years earlier! But there's less sound of stage business than in most live recordings.

Von Dohnanyi has a mostly lyrical approach to the music. He doesn't emphasize the dissonance the way von Karajan does--yet he is not overly sentimental as Karajan also is. Von Dohnanyi plays more with the tempi: he's not as rhythmically propulsive as Szell. But he keeps things moving well enough. And the dynamics are lovely and appropriate--to my ears, anyway.

If you ask me, Janowitz is a bit off her game here--most at the outset. It's like she's warming up a bit. And I hear the bad note that Popp sings towards the end. There are two actually. The first is harsh but not atrocious. I've heard worse in other recordings of this same opera. The second is just the wrong pitch, and it also seems like a problem of vocal control, too.

But hey, ladies and gentlemen, it's live on stage, and things happen up there.

Isn't it kind of sublimely human?

--E. R. O'Neill

A Marred Gem.......2006-05-29

Great singing by all the principals.... to the next to last note. Sound quality is rather bad, tho. This is a live recording and it sounds like it was recorded from out side the dress circle! Sound engineering is so needed that 1 1/2 stars are omitted on that account. I wish they had editted out some of the background noise since the singing is so exquisite here. The 3 female voices are distinguishable from each other and they mesh so well in the trio and duets.

Another half a star is lost sadly due to a rather pronounced miss by the usually wonderful Lucia Popp. Tho I admire her gut in holding the bad note, so it doesn't sound that bad if you aren't very familiar with how the music goes (if you are, tho, she missed it quite noticeably low on the last note where any mistake would jump out like a sore thumb). Even with that the ending still retains a very nostalgic sounding (it is possible to interpret the off-tone note as Sophie losing herself in love). And if anything it might be a motivation to buy this recording.... How many bad notes had Lucia Popp ever been caught recording? This might well be the only one! It is a bargain recording. There are better ones of Der Rosenkavalier out there, to be sure.

The opera is sung in German... just in case you get curious about the track details in English above.

CD NOT TO BUY.......2006-03-14

The quality of this CD is terrible and horrible

Just to remove from your list

OK, but..........2002-08-31

Just a quick review from me.

This recording is seriously marred by the bad audio quality. It is indeed stereo but any sense of high frequencies is completely missing. It has an extremely muffled texture. It is exhausting to listen to because one has to struggle to hear the individual musical lines. I have both the highlight cd and the complete version.

I love Gundula Janowitz but she never recorded Rosenkavalier comercially. This version has too big bloopers by Janowitz in the last act. It sounds so atrocious it turns out to be hysterically funny. The CD might be worth it for that alone.

If you want Janowitz then check out the newly issued live version recorded 9 years earlier on Opera D'oro. She is in much better voice, the sound is better and the conducting is more exciting.

Superb version! Superb Janowitz! But..........2001-10-01

Yes, this version is very worth buying and loving as previously described! But first of all wait for the complete issue already available in Europe under "Gala" label in 3 cds. The sound in there is spacious (not at all ugly as earlier said) and in true stereo!
Then Janowitz is wonderful as the Marschallin although I'm personally not 100% fan of her voice in opera, always lacking some warmth. But I must recognize she's astonishing here.
Minton is ardent but not as much as Fassbaender. However she does not encounter any problem with the part even in the high tessura. Popp is much better recording than in the set of Myto from The Scala with Kleiber Jr. conducting. The voice is full of pure silver. If only she did not miss her very last up note at the very end sounding really too low!!
Moll as Ochs has the voice of the role but he doesn't know it perfectly yet. Obviously he would be fantastic a few years later (and he will with Karayan or Kleiber again).
Counter-parts are interesting indeed with Pavarotti, Gutstein but not memorable though.
A recording not to miss in any case, one of the first three of that opera (along with Kleiber/Myto and Kraus/Melodram hard to find but with Reining in full voice, della Casa admirable, Gueden perfect as Sophie and Boehme exciting as Ochs).

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete); Iolanthe (Highlights)

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A Wonderful Performance
ARTICULATE MIKADO
Finally, a worthy recording of the Mikado!

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Mikado (Complete); Iolanthe (Highlights)

Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us
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Binding: Audio CD

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Gilbert & Sullivan: H.M.S. Pinafore / Mackerras, Welsh National Opera
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Double Indemnity (Universal Legacy Series)

ASIN: B00009KHY0
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

Overture - John Holmes
Act 1: If You Want To Know Who You Are - John Holmes
Act 1: Gentlemen, I Pray You Tell Me - John Holmes
Act 1: A Wand'ring Minstrel, I - John Holmes
Act 1: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man - John Holmes
Act 1: Young Man, Despair - John Holmes
Act 1: And Have I Journey'd For A Month - John Holmes
Act 1: Behold The Lord High Executioner! - John Holmes
Act 1: As Some Day It May Happen - John Holmes
Act 1: Comes A Train Of Little Ladies - John Holmes
Act 1: Three Little Maids From School - John Holmes
Act 1: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret - John Holmes
Act 1: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted - John Holmes
Act 1: I Am So Proud - John Holmes
Act 1: With Aspect Stern - John Holmes
Act 1: Your Revels Cease - John Holmes
Act II: Braid The Raven Hair - John Holmes
Act II: The Sun, Whose Rays Are All Ablaze - John Holmes
Act II: Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day - John Holmes
Act II: Here's A How-De-Do! - John Holmes
Act II: Miya Sama, Miya Sama - John Holmes
Act II: A More Humane Mikado - John Holmes

Tracks:

Act II: The Criminal Cried - John Holmes
Act II: See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot - John Holmes
Act II: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring - John Holmes
Act II: Alone, And Yet Alive - John Holmes
Act II: Hearts Do Not Break - John Holmes
Act II: On A Tree By A River A Little Tom-Tit - John Holmes
Act II: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast - John Holmes
Act II: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum - John Holmes
Overture - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: None Shall Part Us From Each Other - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: Loudly Let The Trumpet Bray! - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: Nay, Tempt Me Not...Spurn Not The Nobly Born - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: When I Went To The Bar As A Very Young Man - Elizabeth Harwood
Act I: When Next Your Houses Do Assemble - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When All Night Long A Chap Remains (Sentry Song) - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Strephon's A Member Of Parliament - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When Britain Really Ruled The Waves - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Oh, Foolish Fay - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Love, Unrequited, Robs Me Of My Rest - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: When You're lying Awake With A Dismal Headache (Nightmare's Song) - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: If You Go In, You're Sure To Win - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: If We're Weak, Enough To Tarry - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: My Lord, A Suppliant At Your Feet I Kneel - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: It May Not Be - Elizabeth Harwood
Act II: Soon As We May, Off And Away - Elizabeth Harwood

Customer Reviews:

A Wonderful Performance.......2007-03-31

This is an an authentic, accessible, entertaining, and deeply satisfying performance. Although I like all of the principal singers, my two favorite are Clive Revill as Ko-Ko and Jean Allister as Katisha. For me, the key to a successful Gilbert and Sullivan performance is that it is not only funny, but also touching. In my opinion, Revill and Allister score high in both departments. In their final scene together, they are both vulnerable and hilarious at the same time. One small detail about this recording that bothers me slightly is that the overture has been rewritten. It is a nice medley, but I miss the original. I understand that Sullivan did not write it, but it is based on his tunes and I've always liked it. But don't let that stop you from getting this recording. I consider it to be the best Mikado on record.

ARTICULATE MIKADO.......2007-01-31

Articulate - both in diction and in musical interpretation - this re-release of the 1960's Sadlers Wells recording of Gilbert and Sullivan's MIKADO is quite delightful. The care and loving detail, which were the keystones of SWO's productions of G & S and operettas in the 1960s onstage, are preserved here in Alexander Faris's splendidly gutsy interpretation of the most popular of all the Savoy Operas; if his speeds are at times too leisurely, all can be forgiven just to hear the superb soloists; the expert diction of Denis Dowling as Pooh-Bah; the heroic tones of John Wakefield as the Wandering Minstrel; Marion Studholme singing the best "Sun Whose Rays" you will ever here on disc; Jean Allister as a correctly dominating Katisha, (hurray - a real contralto!), with a superb glissando in "Beauty and the Bellow"; the glorious Pat Kern as Pitti-Sing making so much more of the traditional soubrette; John Heddle Nash giving a singing and acting lesson with Pish-Tush's only solo; and the droll Clive Revill so completely at ease in the comic role of Ko-Ko, (though it is strange that his running out of breath at the end of his verse in the Act Two trio was not corrected!) I have to say that this recording of THE MIKADO puts all other D'Oyly Carte and Glyndeboune recordings in the shade, and the inclusion of highlights from Sadlers Wells IOLANTHE from 1962 is just an added bonus - the overture in this is simply stunning, and how good to hear Eric Shilling, Heather Begg, and Elizabeth Harwood obviously enjoying themselves so much singing Sullivan's most musical of scores.

Finally, a worthy recording of the Mikado!.......2004-03-03

It really does make a difference, when performing Gilbert and Sullivan, to use singers who can act rather than the other way round. Every soloist here utilizes a very forward, "in-the-mask" vocal placement, which not only reduces the need to force, but helps to render their diction crystal-clear. Sample Jean Allister's Katisha. No plummy, oratorio contralto tones for her. Here is all the waspish, incisive malevolence that is already there in the writing; she just reveals it by singing and pronouncing the texts in a light and unforced manner. This approach helps to restore the vim and vigor to an opera that can often seem tired and "played-out" to modern ears. If the recording has any weakness, it may possibly be found in the Yum-yum and Nanki-Poo. Marion Studholme is perhaps more shrill than is necessary, while John Wakefield seems to have wandered in from a performance of Dream of Gerontius. These are minor quibbles, however. The overall excellence of the performance quells any doubts, with Alexander Faris' conducting a model of transparent clarity. The Iolanthe excerpts are also well-done, but it's Mikado that is the jewel here. Don't hesitate; buy it today!

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I Really Love You Lord

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006499C
Release Date: 2002-03-01

Tracks:

Don't Leave Me Jesus
I Really Love You Lord
Holy Ghost Guide Me
Amen
Jesus Is Everything
Lord You Been So Good
I Never Knew Love
Show Me The Way
Thank You Jesus Christ
Worship Him

Album Description

Charles J. Lawrence, better known and loved by many fans worldwide as Charlie Brown, has performed with many notable Gospel groups including Robert Blair and the Fantastic Violinaires, The Original Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and many more. To hear Charles Brown sing is to hear true perfection, on this album, with crispy highs and raspy, soulful lows, he (accompanied by The Saints) makes his way through ten uplifting Gospel compositions. This Record is a "must have" for any fan of Charlie Brown!

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The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004SSJR
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

The Mikado: Overture
The Mikado: A Wandering Minstrel I
The Mikado: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man
The Mikado: Young Man, Despair
The Mikado: Behold The Lord High Executioner!...Taken From The County Jail
The Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen
The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School Are We
The Mikado: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
The Mikado: I Am So Proud
The Mikado: The Sun, Whose Rays
The Mikado: Here's A How-De-Do!
The Mikado: Miya Sama (Entrance Of The Mikado)
The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado Never
The Mikado: The Criminal Cried
The Mikado: See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot
The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
The Mikado: Alone, And Yet Alive!...Hearts Do Not Break!
The Mikado: On A Tree By A River
The Mikado: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
The Mikado: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum
Trail By Jury: The Learned Jungle
H.M.S. Pinafore: I'm Called Litttle Buttercup
H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew...I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was A Lad I Served A Term

Tracks:

H.M.S. Pinafore: Fair Moon, To Thee I Sing
H.M.S. Pinafore: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
H.M.S. Pinafore: The Hours Creep On Apace
H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
The Pirates Of Penzance: Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
The Pirates Of Penzance: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
The Pirates Of Penzance: Poor Wandering One!
The Pirates Of Penzance: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
The Pirates Of Penzance: When The Foeman Bears His Steel
The Pirates Of Penzance: Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine
The Pirates Of Penzance: When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment
The Pirates Of Penzance: With Cat-Like Tread
Patience: The Soldiers Of Our Queen...If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery
Patience: Am I Alone And Unobserved...If You're Anxious For To Shine
Patience: Sad Is That Woman's Lot...Silvered Is The Raven Hair
Patience: A Magnet Hung In A Hardware Shop
Patience: Love Is A Plaintive Song
Patience: So Go To Him And Say To Him
Patience: When I Go Out Of Door
Patience: After Much Debate (Finale Act 2)
Iolanthe: When I Went To The Bar As A Very Young Man
The Lady Of My Love...(Finale Act 1)