She's been dubbed "the Madonna of the Desert," and this record is the reason why. Haza came out of her '80s folk-fan circuit and returned to her beloved Israeli disco-pop with this highly produced set of songs that were clearly designed for the mainstream. She's got an incredible set of pipes, and they are readily in evidence here. Haza is a charmer when she sings, soaring above even the most trivial studio dubs and musical overloads that exemplify the backing tracks. There are more traditional recordings available from Haza, both predating and following this one, that accent her Israeli and Yemenite heritage. Desert Wind is for those looking for a heavier beat, a harder pop edge, and exotic samples rather than deeper roots. --Louis Gibson
Desert Wind,Ofra Haza,Sire / London/Rhino,Club/Dance,Dance-Pop,Ethnic,Int'l & World Music,Israel,Jewish Music,Middle East,Middle Eastern Pop,Pop,Popular Music,Rock/Pop,Worldbeat,Yemen
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Sounds of Nature Sampler
Suzanne Doucet , and Chuck Plaisance Manufacturer: Only New Age Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009XFIX2 Release Date: 2005-07-12 |
Tracks:
- Ocean Waves
- Southern Swamp
- Rainstorms
- Desert Oasis
- Forest Morning
- Mountain Ranch
- The River
- Pine Forest
- Thunderstorm
- At the Lake
- Summer Nights
- Song of the (Humpback) Whale
- The Rainforest
- Bubbling Creek
- Rolling Thunder
- A Night in the Canyon
- Before the Storm
- Walk at the Beach
- Waterfall
- Wetlands
Album Description
The sounds for this series were recorded in 3D by Chuck Plaisance. His recording system is designed to simulate human hearing, using a binaural head microphone to capture depth, height, width, as well as directional movement. No special equipment is needed to get 3D sound from traditional stereo speakers. In fact, these albums will make your system - speakers or headphones - sound like it never has before. You are the experience.All pieces contain compositions of pure Nature Sounds produced, arranged, edited and mastered by Chuck Plaisance and Suzanne Doucet. (aka Virtual Audio Environment).
Customer Reviews:
Perfect To Fall Asleep To.......2006-07-20
3-Dimensional Pure Nature Sounds.......2005-11-21
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Desert Wind
Ofra Haza Manufacturer: Sire / London/Rhino ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002LIK Release Date: 1990-01-05 |
Tracks:
- Wish Me Luck
- Ya Ba Ye
- Middle East
- I Want To Fly
- Slave Dream
- Taw Shi
- Mm'mma (My Brothers Are There)
- In-ta
- Fatamorgana (Mirage)
- Da'asa
- Kaddish
Amazon.com
She's been dubbed "the Madonna of the Desert," and this record is the reason why. Haza came out of her '80s folk-fan circuit and returned to her beloved Israeli disco-pop with this highly produced set of songs that were clearly designed for the mainstream. She's got an incredible set of pipes, and they are readily in evidence here. Haza is a charmer when she sings, soaring above even the most trivial studio dubs and musical overloads that exemplify the backing tracks. There are more traditional recordings available from Haza, both predating and following this one, that accent her Israeli and Yemenite heritage. Desert Wind is for those looking for a heavier beat, a harder pop edge, and exotic samples rather than deeper roots. --Louis GibsonCustomer Reviews:
A Rare Treasure.......2006-11-20
Middle East Music Meets Mainstream Pop With Excellent Result.......2003-11-06
and mainstream pop. The music on this cd is both interesting and
exciting. Ofra Haza's singing is consistently superior in every respect to most other female pop vocalists. Her technical excellence, clarity of tone and pureness of pitch are at least equal to the best efforts of the best: Celine Dion, Sarah Brightman, Barbra Streisand. Ofra Haza poured
great depths of emotion into all her singing. With the majority
of her songs it is easy to discern that her soul is on full display, that she put her heart into her singing, and that the feelings expressed are genuine. She wrote much of her own music and most of her own lyrics. In "Desert Wind" the booklet provides a brief explanation of what each song is about. For example, the song "Fatamorgana" (Mirage), one of the best on this CD, tells the story of Ofra's mother traveling on foot through the desert to escape oppression in her native country. The CD provides a well balanced mix of fast paced and slower songs. The two standout fast paced songs are "Wish Me Luck," and "Middle East." Ofra typically put one or two very good songs at the end of her albums, and in this CD it is the excellent,relective "Kaddish." Overall, this is a very satisfying CD, and like almost all Ofra Haza's music, it
is worthy of many multiple listenings.
The worst of Ofra Haza........2003-09-19
World-beat pop masterpiece.......2003-06-20
Following "Fifty Gates" in 1987, Ofra Haza turned to a dance beat in "Shadday" (1988), an album, in my opinion, of derivative western dance-track sounds and only two stand-out songs. Then, a year later, she turns out "Desert Wind", this stunning, hook-laden, beat-driven, authentically Middle-Eastern album of passionate, meaningful songs, juxtaposing Hebrew and English verses, almost all written or co-written by her. Best are the danceable "Ya Ba Ye", "Middle East", "I Want to Fly" and "Taw Shi", and the gorgeous "Fatamorgana", "Da'asa" and "Kaddish". That's a lot of favorites for one album, but that's the kind of album this is. "Slave Dream" and "In Ta" take some getting used to, but even they turn into winners once you've managed to absorb them. "Kaddish" left hardly a dry eye in the house when she performed this in concert. "Middle East" has ironically the least middle-eastern melody of the dance tunes (i.e. it's in a major key), and it is a rousing song of hope for peace - even a love offering to the Palestinians. Ofra seems to put one such song on every album. Tragically, Ofra is gone, and we're all still waiting to hear popular songs of peace from the Palestinian side. Ofra would probably say keep hoping.
Less of the loud accompanyment please!.......2002-08-07
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Complete Flanders & Swann
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000006T4S Release Date: 1997-04-30 |
Tracks:
- Warthog, The (The Hog Beneath The Skin)
- The Sea Horse
- The Chameleon
- Whale, The (Mopy Dick)
- Je Suis Le Tenebreux
- Songs For Our Time
- A Song Of The Weather - Flanders & Swann
- The Reluctant Cannibal
- Greensleeves
- Misalliance
- Kokoraki
- Madeira M'Dear?
- Too Many Cookers
- Built Up Area
- In The Bath (From 'At The Drop Of A Hat')
- Sea Fever
- The Hippopotamus Song
Tracks:
- The Gas Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Los Olividados
- In The Desert
- The Sloth
- The Rhinoceros
- Kangaroo Tango
- Jaguar
- Dead Ducks
- The Elephant
- By Air
- Slow Train
- A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
- The Humming Bird
- The Portuguese Man-Of-War
- Sea Fever
- The Hippopotamus Song
Tracks:
- The Gas Man Cometh
- Sounding Brass
- Los Olividados
- In The Desert
- The Sloth
- The Rhinoceros
- Kangaroo Tango
- Jaguar
- Dead Ducks
- The Elephant
- By Air
- Slow Train
- A Song Of Patriotic Prejudice - Flanders & Swann
- The Humming Bird
- The Portuguese Man-Of-War
- The Wild Boar
- The Ostrich
- The Wompom
- Twice Shy
- Commonwealth Fair
- P** P* B**** B** D******
- Paris
- Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Cha Cha Cha
- The Hundred Song
- Food For Thought
Album Details
Fantastic Triple CD Box Set of the Recorded Works of One of Britain's Most Popular Comedy Duos. Their Keen Observations of Everyday British Life and Abilities to Exemplify them in Song Made them the Darlings of the UK. Cleverness, Wit and Absoute Hilarity were the Order of the Day, in Just About Any Style of Music. Pure Comic Genius on Three Discs!Customer Reviews:
Return to Sanity.......2005-07-27
Have Some Madeira.......2005-07-06
"Have some Madeira, m'dear" is an all-time favorite.
British humour at its best.......2003-03-15
If you haven't heard this..........2003-01-16
After being told to take up singing as a means of strengthening his polio-weakened lungs, the wheelchair-bound Flanders teamed up with pianist Swann and proceeded to write such classic songs as "The Hippo Song (Mud Mud Glorious Mud)", "The Gasman Cometh", "The Gnu Song", "A Transport of Delight" and many others. As well as a gently satirical spirit, all these songs feature the sublime wordplay and interplay of both men.
The first two discs of this box set are actual concerts - "At The Drop Of A Hat" and its successor "At The Drop Of Another Hat". Recorded at the height of the duo's popularity and form, the sound quality is surprisingly good for recordings this old.
"At The Drop Of A Hat" opens with three of the Flanders and Swann classics. "Transport Of Delight", a song in praise of the "97 horsepower omnibus" features the wonderful harmonies of the duo on lines like "any more fares" and Flanders' dead-on impression of a London busdriver "Geddardait, we're full right up inside". "Song of Reproduction" deals with the new, as it was then, stereo technology and features Flanders delivering an incredible monologue using every conceivable piece of audiophile jargon. "The Gnu Song" (in which "gnu" is pronounced phonetically) is a real treat. The audience's reaction to the reappearance of the gnu is superb.
As well as this opening trio, the disc features Flanders' snippets of "Songs For Our Time" (in which he experiments with conventions of hit songs), "Song of the Weather" (a rundown of English weather throughout the year), "The Reluctant Cannibal" (featuring Swann in the tititular role and the chorus "I can't eat people/I won't eat people/eatin' people is wrong"), Swann's foray into Greek folksong "Kokraki" and the justifiably famous "Madeira M'Dear". The performance ends with a rousing version of "The Hippo Song".
Flanders is in fine voice throughout and his comments introducing each song are delivered with deadpan accuracy. The story behind "The Gnu Song" is an absolute masterpiece. Flanders' monologue about the creation of "Greensleeves" is also superb - "'Greenfleeves'. That's an interesting name for a fong" (referencing old English script) being just a taste.
"Another Hat" begins in equally fine form with "Gasman Cometh" and "Ill Wind". "Gasman", presaged as "a tale of unending domestic upheaval", is sure to have most people who've ever dealt with unreliable tradesmen nodding in agreement, while "Ill Wind" is Flanders' attempt at setting words to a French horn concerto featuring the immortal lines "I lost that horn/lost that horn/lost that horn/found that horn/gorn". The performance continues with Swann's Russian/English song "In The Desert", the ending of which is truly side-splitting. "All Gall" (a reinterpretation of "This Old Man" to fit then-French President Charles de Gaulle) is a little dated but very cleverly done. "Song of Patriotic Prejudice", with its introduction and opening lines grabbing the audience's attention is another triumph, while the "Hippo Encore" is a great end to the performance.
Again Flanders is at his peak. His loving description of the Spanish olive-stuffers ("Olividados") and his superb story about flying ("By Air") are both brilliant examples of the shaggy dog story.
My favourite from both of these discs would have to be "First and Second Law". Flanders decides to educate Swann in elementary science and picks on the first and second laws of thermodynamics ("heat is work and work is heat" and "heat cannot of itself pass from one body to a hotter body") and the repetition of these phrases in time to Swann's barely-there piano accompaniment is one of the finest moments in British comedy.
The third disc is largely forgettable. It begins with a series of animal-related songs performed in a studio and without much of Flanders' rambling introductions. "Warthog" has its moments, while the others were clearly not performed in front of an audience for a reason. "Wompom" is also mildly diverting, presenting a story about a made-up substance which is the answer to everything.
The rest of the disc is then filled out with much earlier material in a rather poorly-recorded concert. "20 Tons of TNT" (related to the calculation the pair had done which gave that as the amount of TNT per person on the planet at the time) provides food for thought, but little more.
Is this box set for everyone? No. Much of the humour both within and without the songs does require a bit of background knowledge to what was going on in Britain and Europe at the time (1960s), John Profumo is referenced a few times as well as Charles de Gaulle and the Common Market, while a smattering of classical music knowledge can help out a bit with Swann's work and "Ill Wind". The fact that my grandfather (who's in his late 70s) recalls hearing these songs and laughing may give an indication as to the age of some of the subject matter. Equally the fact that "First and Second Law" references an awful lot of physics might do the same.
Nevertheless, for anyone who loves British humour done in a gentle manner or who is interested in the source of "mud mud glorious mud/nothing quite like it for cooling the blood", give these CDs some serious consideration.
Gentle Satire.......2002-04-03
Here are some samples of Michael's verbal wit.
Wordplay:
- "A Transport of Delight," their song of the pleasures of the double-decker bus "has recently been adopted as the theme song of the Underground resistance movement."
- Speculating that Henry VIII wrote Greensleeves: "and the royalties go to royalty."
- About a tennis referee late in the day: "the umpire upon whom the sun never sets."
- Explaining how he was hoisted in his wheelchair onto airliners by a fork lift: "Why they need a great machine like that to lift forks I do not know. Well, they're only plastic, now, aren't they?"
- On status symbols: "The object is to Gunga Din your neighbor: 'I'm a better man than you' is the acid test," and, "let's bang our status cymbals with the best."
- To a disenchanted cannibal: "You used to be a regular anthropophagi."
- Of a lecher: "And he said as he hastened to put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps," while the girl "lowered her standards by raising her glass, her courage, her eyes, and his hopes."
- At the corrida d'olivas (the Andorran festival of olive stuffing, not to be confused with the Spanish corrida de toros, or bullfight): "And a great cry goes up of Ole! He has made an 'ol."
- "It's no good going up to a scientist and saying to him like you would to anybody else, 'Good morning, how are you, lend me a quid, and so on.' He'll just glare at you, or make a rude retort."
Throw-aways
- During the height of the cold war the Soviet Union sent the Moscow Ballet on a world tour. Donald sang one chorus of the Hippopotamus Song "mud, mud, glorious mud - nothing quite like it for cooling the blood" in Russian. Michael: "That should improve our cultural relations."
- During the 1963 Mandy Rice-Davies and Christine Keeler scandal: "None of that going around saying no smoke without fire. Nil cumbustibus, Profumo." Also, from "Friendly Duet," "such models of friendship are precious and rare, while the friendship of models is not."
- "Now if you're writing a musical, as I'm sure practically all of you are, . . ."
- Of Donald: "You know that no one has a higher regard for your music . . . than you do yourself. I merely meant that you are not great because you are not dead. If you wish to be great you must stop composing and start decomposing."
- "We never found a rhyme for (Soviet Premier Nikita) "Kruschev" until he was dead: Did he die or was he "pushed off"?"
- "We spent two dreadful, uh, delightful years, entertaining the Americans whose need, let's face it, is greater even than yours. Of course, when we're over there we say that the other way 'round."
- "No matter what you may say about the Germans, and who doesn't . . ."
- "Some of the songs that have made our names a household word, like slop-bucket . . ."
- "They've started testing cars now. They started at 10 years, then 5, now three. There's even some talk of having them tested before they leave the factory."
Absurdities
- "I'm delirious about our new oven fitted with the eye-level grill. This means that without my having to bend down the hot fat can squirt straight into my eye."
- A spectator during the construction of Stonehenge: "So, it's not going to be lived in. Well, that's something anyway. So what is it, then? It's a what?! A calendar?! A bit big for a calendar isn't it? You'd look pretty foolish with that on your desk."
- "Donald knocked himself out this morning. Got one of those new pop-up toasters. Nasty things."
Incredible multiple rhymes:
- "The fair hippoptama he aimed to entice from her seat on her hilltop above, as she hadn't got a ma to give her advice, went tip-toeing down to her love."
- Of Josephine: "Nonsense, said Bonaparte. She lives on her own, apart, in her own apartment."
- "Oh let us be married if our parents don't mind. We'd be happy and inseparable. Inextricably entwined. We'd live happily every after, said the Honeysuckle to the Bindweed."
- "And you'll always see a single lace-less left-hand leather boot. A bootless British river bank's a shock. We leave them there at midnight, you can track a member's route by the alternating print of boot and sock."
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Forever in Love
Manufacturer: Compendia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000BM6 Release Date: 1997-04-22 |
Tracks:
- Prelude: Air For The 'G' String - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Prelude: Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - St. Louis Brass Quintet
- Prelude: On Wings Of Song - Nancy Enslin
- Prelude: Bach's Arloso - St. Louis Brass Quintett
- Prelude: Bach's Prelude In C Major - Christiane Jaccottet
- Prelude: Large From 'Xerxes' - London Festival Orchestra
- Seating Of The Mothers: Schubert's Ave Maria - Nancy Enslin
- Seating Of The Mothers: Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria - Nancy Enslin
- Seating Of The Mothers: Sheep May Safely Graze - Philip Brunelle
- Processional: Bridal March From 'Lohengrin' (A. K. A. 'Here Comes The Bride') - Lubljana Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chorus
- Processional: Pachelbel's Canon In D Major - Collegium Aureum
- Processional: Trumpet Voluntary - Lyn Larsen
- Processional: Trumpet Tune In C Major - Carlo Curfey
- Lighting Of the Unity Candle: O Perfect Love - Nancy Enslin
- Prayer (After The Exchange Of Vows And Rings): The Lord's Prayer - Karyn List/Nancy Enslin
- Recessional: Wedding March From 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - London Festival Orchestra
- Recesionnal: Finale ('Ode To Joy') From Beethoven's Symphony No.9, 'Choral' - Nancy Enslin
- Recessional: Le Rondeau ('Masterpiece Theatre' Theme) - Collegium Aureum
- Recessional: Alla Hornpipe From 'Water Music' Suite - London Festival Orchestra
Tracks:
- Prelude: When I Fall In Love (Sleepless in Seattle) - Spectrum
- Prelude: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - Spectrum
- Prelude: Unchained Melody 'Ghost' - Van Craven
- Prelude: Endless Love - FLORIDA SYMPHONIC POPS
- Prelude: The Wind Beneath My Wings (A. K. A. Hero) From 'Beaches' - Van Craven
- Prelude: Through The Eyes Of Love From 'Ice Castles' - Karyn List/Nancy Enslin
- Seating Of The Mothers: Forever In Love - Spectrum
- Seating Of The Mothers: Save The Best For Last - Spectrum
- Processional: A Time For Us From 'Romeo And Juliet' - Nancy Enslin
- Processional: Vangeli's Hymne - Nancy Enslin
- Lighting Of The Unity Candle: I Love You Always Forever - Spectrum
- Lighting Of The Unity Candle: One Hand, One Heart From 'West Side Story' - FLORIDA SYMPHONIC POPS
- Lighting Of The Unity Candle: The Wedding Song (A. K. A. There Is Love) - FLORIDA SYMPHONIC POPS
- Lighting Of The Unity Candle: All I Ask of You From 'The Phantom Of The Opera' - Van Craven
- Lighting Of The Unity Candle: Whither Thou Goest - Karyn List/Nancy Enslin
Customer Reviews:
Pleased.......2006-07-31
A wedding minister's review.......2000-01-16
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Return to the Goddess
Manufacturer: Desert Wind Records/Goldenrod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000A2H97U Release Date: 2002-01-01 |
Customer Reviews:
Goddess Music.......2007-06-27
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World Dance
Desert Wind Manufacturer: Desert Wind ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000028TXL Release Date: 1997-09-30 |
Tracks:
- Sahara
- Celt-itelli
- Temple Dancer
- Diaspora from Spain
- Byr Demet
- River of Life
- Lotus Dancer
- Passion Drums
- Ancient Nights
- Sage Dancer
- Desert Rain
- Raj Drums
- Tree of Life
- Desert Breeze
- Mystic Dancer
- East of the Sea
- Power Flute
Tracks:
- Wind Drums
- Unity
- River Dancer
- Tabla Rocka
- Mirage
- Tribal Waltz
- Amazing Grace
- We're the Dancers
- Om Tara
- Sarasvati
- La Llorona
- Mother of Light
- Your Light Comes Through
- I Am
- Metaphysical Blues
Album Description
This 2-CD set contains over two and a half hours of beautiful original American music with Middle Eastern influences. It is a fabulous tool for dance teachers and students alike who can refer to the CD back for a quick reference to the length and rhythm of each song. Desert Wind is famous for world beat music with jazz, classical, and progressive rock influences. This CD set was made in response to dancer requests, and the rhythms include chiftitelli, ayoub (zaar), maqsoum, bolero, slow, medium and fast beladis, funky ayoub, masmoudi, maqsoum, khaleegy, slow and fast karsilama, saidi-swing, libi-rock, celtic jig, saidi-rock, India slow 7/4, tribal waltz, etho-rock, Mid-East funk, and Latin 6/8.
With an amazing blend of instruments and rhythms, this music is both uplifting and relaxing! Whether for dance or listening, Desert Wind's "World Dance" is work of art. This album includes a special guest appearance by violinist Doug Adams from Light Rain. It features awesome drum solos, passionate world rhythms, enchanting melodies and exquisite flute work. CD one is exclusively instrumental in response to dancers' requests, and there are songs with moving lyrics on CD 2. This CD set is not for dancers looking exclusively for the pure Egyptian genre. Yet hundreds of modern dance and belly dance professionals have acclaimed the World Dance (2 CD Set) as a "highly recommended" and "must have" addition for any music collection.
Customer Reviews:
New Age Fusion at best.......2006-05-26
I have to agree with the other reviewer, NOT very dancable. Maybe a veil piece here or there and a drum solo for a beginner dance class, but not for the intermediate or advanced dancer.
It is new agey music with ME drum rhythms forced together.
Maybe useful as background music at a hafla (party) when everyone is eating but not for when they want to dance.
Just not for me.
Awesome World Dance CDs from Desert Wind.......2006-04-26
Exercise to the Music of Desert Wind.......2006-03-25
Desert Wind's World Dance.......2006-01-30
Moving - In More Ways Than One!.......2005-12-14
The rhythms are somewhat slow - not a lot of 'shimmy 'til your butt falls off' drumming here although there are some great medium/fast beats and an out of this world drum solo! The beats are strong and very easy to dance to. It is perfect for warm-ups and for taxim and slow moves with the veil or sword. I really love this music for spiritually focused dance or moving meditation. Best of all, it's suitable for just listening. It's both relaxing and uplifting at the same time.
The music on this CD moves the soul as well as the body. It is deep, beautiful and glorious - especially CD #2, which actually has a Middle Eastern rendition of Amazing Grace! If you're into or open to the Goddess, songs such as "Om Tara," "Sarasvati," "Mother of Light" and "Your Light Comes Through" are all incredible for devotion or for just feeling immersed in spirit. "I Am" is also very nice and the dramatic haunting beauty of "La Llarona" can not be put into words. It can bring one to tears, especially if you are familiar with the legend.
Desert Wind ends the collection with the hilarious, bluesy "Metaphysical Blues." There are over two hours of music for the price of one CD here. Highly recommended for moving body, mind and soul!
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Sure on This Shining Night: 20th-Century Romantic Songs of America
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002ZYW Release Date: 1997-04-10 |
Tracks:
- The Children
- The Year's At The Spring
- When Stars Are In The Quiet Skies
- Orpheus With His Lute
- Rose Marie
- Ives
- Song To The Witch Of The Cloisters
- Sure On This Shining Night
- Sigh No More, Ladies
- Come Away, Death
- On Hearing 'The Last Rose Of Summer'
- Echo
- If I Could Tell You
- The Collection
- The Lord's Prayer
- Nature, The Gentlest Mother
- The Tiger
- Never More Will The Wind
- Little Elegy
- One Alone
- Do Not Go, My Love
- To A Stranger
- When I Have Sung My Songs
- These, My Ophelia
- An Old Song Re-sung
- Ah! Sweet Mystery Of Life
- June Night
- Triolet
Customer Reviews:
A Spectrum of Romance in American Musical Composition.......2006-01-15
Here are songs well known and not so well known by familiar and not so familiar composers, and in the hands of tenor Robert White and pianist Samuel Sanders they all come across as important. Included are rarities by composers such as Amy Beach, Theodor Chanler, Isabelle Firestone, Eric Ewazen, Albert Hay Malotte, Marc Marder, John Musto and Richard Hageman, with popular composers Rudolf Friml and Sigmund Romberg, along with the greats: Ives, Schuman, Hindemith, Barber, Thomson, Korngold, Copland. Rorem, Bolcom, Corigliano, and Griffes. It is a huge spectrum of work and while some are less successful than other, they all are given respectful and loving renditions by White and Sanders. It is great fun to hear Firestone's famous 'If I could tell you' that opened the Voice of Firestone for so many years along side Samuel Barber's gorgeous 'Sure on this shining night' and Aaron Copland's settings of Emily Dickinson's poems.
This a rare treat for connoisseurs of lieder and for lovers of beautiful songs. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06
a rare gem of a CD.......2002-07-08
There is a universality to the longing involved in Romanticism. These songs capture this feeling perfectly. From the first song to the last, these songs do one thing perfectly: evoke an emotional response.
This is due in no short measure to the wonderful performance Robert White gives. Rather than being merely technically accurate, White actually gives each of these songs a life of their own. He achieves this effect by getting inside not only the words, but the feelings involved.
Some of the highlights for me are: the lovely and memorable "Rose Marie," Ewazen's setting of Blake's "The Tiger," a moving version of "The Lord's Prayer" and the haunting "Never More Will the Wind."
Samuel Sanders is a worthy musical companion to White. His playing is reciprocally lovely and introspective. The notes are extensive and informative as well.
Even though it may be an acquired taste in our postmodern age, I give Sure On This Shining Night my full recommendation.
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Holidays & Epiphanies
Ron Nelson , and Jerry Junkin Manufacturer: Reference Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000015AC Release Date: 1996-10-22 |
Tracks:
- Rocky Point Holiday
- Sonoran Desert Holiday
- Passacaglia
- Courtly Airs And Dances: Intrada
- Courtly Airs And Dances: Basse Dance
- Courtly Airs And Dances: Pavane
- Courtly Airs And Dances: Saltarello
- Courtly Airs And Dances: Sarabande
- Allemande
- Lauds (Praise High Day)
- Aspen Jubilee
- Chaconne (In Memoriam...)
- Epiphanies (Fanfares and Chorales)
Customer Reviews:
Ron Nelson - My Favorite Composer.......2004-08-06
Incredible!! The Best Ron Nelson Collection Around!!.......2003-11-14
Band Music to Treasure.......2001-05-01
HIFI sound and more.......2000-04-20
A Sonic Blockbuster!.......1999-02-04
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Shekhina, Hebrew Goddess (Restoring the Balance)
Desert Wind Manufacturer: Desert Wind ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000087 Release Date: 1996-08-10 |
Tracks:
- Goddess Of Peace
- Erev Shel Shoshanim (An Evening Of Roses)
- Osah Shalom (She Who Makes Peace)
- Moonrise, Sunrise
- L'Chah Dodi (Welcome Sabbath Queen)
- At Midnight
- Spiderwoman (Changing Woman)
- Goddess Of Twilight
- Angel Of Ancient Times (Sacred Dancer)
- Hine Ma Tov (Dwell In Peace)
- Olam Haba (World To Come)(3-Part Dance Cycle)
Customer Reviews:
A love song.......2003-11-20
Somehow, It feels like a love song to me
from the Divine Feminine Spirit.
See if it affects you the same way!
This is an excellent CD.......1999-05-13
Incredibly wonderful, I love it!.......1999-03-06
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Kali Ma: Dances of Transformation
Manufacturer: Desert Wind Records/Goldenrod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000A2H93E Release Date: 2002-01-01 |
Rock Music:
- Dinner In Italy
- Drum Medicine
- East/West Highway: The Best of Shahin & Sepehr [Extra tracks]
- Easy Tempo
- Encantamento
- Exuma, Vol. 1 [Import]
- Felona E Sorona [Import]
- Flamenco
- Focus [Import]
- Friday Night Live [Live]
Recommended Music:
Taking It To The Millenium And Beyond
Damien: Omen 2 [Original recording remastered] [Soundtrack]
California Jam 1974 [Import] [Limited Edition] [Live]
Best of Latin America: Change the Rules
David Oistrakh Plays Violin Sonatas By Beethoven & Mozart