| 1. Deity |
| 2. Miyaku |
| 3. Liyuu |
| 4. Egnirys Cimredopyh An Injection |
| 5. Hydra |
| 6. Hotalubi |
| 7. -Kr-Cube |
| 8. Berry |
| 9. Macabre |
| 10. Audrey |
| 11. Rasetukoku |
| 12. Zakuro |
| 13. Taiyounoao |
Macabre,Dir En Grey,Sony,Rock/Pop,World Music
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Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000041QC Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Introduction And Royal March Of The Lion
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Hens And Cockerels
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Wild Asses
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Tortoises
- The Carnival Of The Animals: The Elephant
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Kangaroos
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Aquarium
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Persons With Long Ears
- The Carnival Of The Animals: The Cuckoo In The Depths Of The Woods
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Aviary
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Pianists
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Fossils
- The Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan
- The Carnival Of The Animals: Finale
- Phaeton, Op.39
- Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op.31
- Danse macabre, Op.40
Customer Reviews:
Carnival of the Animals.......2007-01-10
Carnival..........2005-07-26
This is a Carnival of Fun.......2005-06-29
Sensational! Who can't love the Romantics?
Musical Playfulness at it's finest.......2005-02-20
Magnificent.......2002-01-31
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Saint-Saëns: Greatest Hits
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002C61 Release Date: 1995-11-14 |
Tracks:
- Samson et Dalila: Bacchanale
- Carnival Of The Animals (Chamber Version): No. 13. The Swan
- Carnival Of The Animals (Chamber Version): No. 14: Finale
- Dance Macabre, Op.40
- Suite algerienne, Op. 60: Marche militaire francaise
- Introduction and Rondo capriccioso, Op.28
- Samson et Dalila: 'Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix'
- Concert Piece For Horn & Orchestra, Op.94
- Romance, Op.37
- Piano Concerto No.2 In G Minor, Op.22: III. Presto
- Symphony No.3 In C Minor, Op.78 'Organ': II. Allegro moderato - Presto - Maestoso - Allegro
Customer Reviews:
the most sensetive music ever.......2005-10-26
Cool Camille.......2003-03-06
RIGHT AWAY!!!
-Nick
Astounding!!!.......2000-10-06
Great Selections, So-So Collection.......2000-06-23
This Sony recording supposedly collects his best. It does and it doesn't. The "Danse Macabre"--a perennial Saint Saëns fave--is definitely better than any others on the market--crisper, livelier, and ... er... creepier. And the Bacchanale is also superbly done. (Don't take my word for it though--you can compare these yourself from the various samples.) But as great as these individual pieces are, Sony failed to bring to the "Swan" the rest of the zoo from "Carnivale des Animaux," and, worse, they forgot the "Aquarium," too! Plus, the "Organ Symphony" *must* be heard in its entirety to sound like the serious piece of music that it is.
I haven't found the noumenal Saint-Saëns collection yet. But this one surely isn't phenomenal.
Classical is the best.......2000-06-22
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Darklore Manor
Nox Arcana Manufacturer: Monolith Graphics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006OHMRY Release Date: 2004-03-20 |
Tracks:
- Legend
- Darklore Manor
- Threshold Of The Dead
- Trespassers
- Veil Of Darkness
- Sanctuary Of Shadows
- The Grande Hall
- Remnants
- Phantom Procession
- Belladonna
- Nursery Rhyme
- Music Box
- The Forgotten
- Nightmare
- No Rest For The Wicked
- Omen
- Seance
- Beyond Midnight
- Darkness Immortal
- Incantation
- Resurrected
Album Description
Enter Darklore Manor, where creatures of the night lurk in shadows and ghostly sounds echo through unhallowed halls. Nox Arcana invites you to embark on a musical journey throughout a legendary haunted mansion with a dark and sinister history. This gothic soundscape contains 21 tracks of haunting melodies, eerie voices, Latin chants, and foreboding orchestrations to create a perfect dark and moody atmosphere.Customer Reviews:
remaster.......2007-05-25
Nox Arcana keeps getting better.......2007-05-12
They are the best at what they do and this CD is just one more example. You cannot go wrong with any Nox Arcana CD
A Stunning Debut!.......2007-04-17
Nox Arcana: The project that truly represents Halloween and for people who simply love classical-oriented Gothic instrumentals.......2007-04-09
I was told, by a mysterious voice in the night, that I should seek Nox Arcana and await further instructions. But it all began years ago with the discovery of the Midnight Syndicate. So, I did the obvious and entered "Midnight Syndicate" in my computer search engine, and the lone website introduced itself to me. All went dark and quiet, and the room got cold, and I could see my breath as I panted in fear, and I heard laughter amongst terrifying screams, but yet, I was alone. This was only my introduction to the Midnight Syndicate and soon to follow was the birth of something even better, the nightmareish apparitions of Nox Arcana. I was compelled to bring Nox Arcana into my world, and so I've been in the dark ever since. But, then again, it became a blissful absence from the norm. Although, Halloween is never really mentioned with any of the Nox Arcana CD's, it does seem that everyday is Halloween in my world, and for the past four years, I've always feared that I've sold my soul somehow. I believe that I sacrificed my soul the day I got out my credit card and asked the cyber spirits to bring my first Nox Arcana CD into my home. It was this CD: "Darklore Manor"
Something became different about me. My very presence wasn't acknowledged in any normal way anymore. Was I being ignored, or am I even in the room at all? Something just wasn't right. I've had days that I've stared into the mirror, but somehow, I wasn't there. When I speak to strangers in the street, I don't think that they even acknowledge me. I speak with just a small hiss of words, and people respond as if they've just been pushed by a cold wind. My loved ones speak of me, as if I've departed from this world, but yet, I am in the room. Only when I laugh, do people respond as if they've heard something. They cuddle together, in fear of their safety, and cry out my name, in a past tense, as if I am torturing them. This wasn't fun anymore. It wasn't fun, THEN, anyway.
I wander aimlessly, finally coming to terms with this apparition that I have become. My only consolation, deep into the night, is to take some of my Nox Arcana CD's and my mini-CD player, to the cemetery and lay against a tombstone, and watch the wind swirl up the leaves in a satanic dance before my eyes, while the music plays and eats away at my scruples of logic. I feel a cold embrace of many condemned angels who've cast off all their inhibitions and indulged in lustful passion upon my defenseless mortal flesh. I am consumed into their ritual with reckless abandon. Returning to reality is all nonsense now. My only fear, is that the batteries in my CD player will weaken and diminish this clash of passion of my psychological pleasure and terror.
I am so glad that Nox Arcana has entered my once typical, pop culture world. However, I feel now, that if I should ever die, I may not know the difference. I've been enjoying this nocturnal bliss for a couple of years now and there's no going back. I walk this world in a cold absence where I question if my presence is perceived at all.
If you'd like to share in this experience with me, start off with this CD of "Darklore Manor". Then get "Necronomicon", "Winter's Knight", "Transylvania", "Carnival of Lost Souls", and their latest (as of 2007) called "Blood of the Dragon".
This music is not heavy metal. It's not satanic music. It's just a mix of classically-influenced instrumentals with various snippets of dark poetry and ghastly effects. You'll hear tormented screams, deathly bell tolls, sinister laughter, grandfather clocks, howling winds, and other little clever effects with piano, organ, and harpsichord, supported by rich strings and a mellotron sound, that promote a uniquely beautiful, but yet, horrifying terror that may claim your soul. It's a small sacrifice for the sake of a dark happiness.
Alas, here's one more way that I have benefited from the music of Nox Arcana. By listening to these CD's through headphones at the cemetery, alone, late at night, in the cold dark, there is a terror that I've experienced that has actually helped me lose weight. To be so terrified that my heart pulsated so intensely that I feared my heart would just burst! That, and the accidental soiling of myself, helped me lose about three pounds. Who would have thought that terror could promote weight loss?
So, if it's dark and disturbing, it has a place in my heart.
A well-woven dark tale.......2007-02-22
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Danse Macabre
The Faint Manufacturer: Saddle Creek ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005NF1H Release Date: 2001-08-21 |
Tracks:
- Agenda suicide
- Glass Danse World
- Total Job
- Let The Posion Spill From Your Throat
- Your Retro Career Melted
- Posed To Death
- The Conductor
- Violent
- Ballad Of A Paralysed Citizen
Amazon.com
The old saying goes that if you pretend to be something long enough, you'll eventually become it. If this is true, then the men of the Faint must have spent a lot of time between their rocking debut album, Media, and their third full-length, Danse Macabre, practicing their Duran Duran, Cure, and Depeche Mode impressions. In the process, they have become all that is, was, and probably ever shall be good about new wave music, combining arty electronics with smart social commentary to create an album that is sublime in its ability to recall more goth-rock times while still coming across as entirely original. Songs such as "Posed to Death" and "The Conductor" take on sounds of the band's contemporaries--in these cases, Marilyn Manson and Daft Punk, respectively--but their doing so seems rooted in clever reclamation of new wave sounds appropriated by current artists. In making angular, passionate, and hypnotic music, the Faint are not out to give a history lesson but rather to move a languorous generation of indie kids. And whether mentally or physically or both, Danse Macabre will do just that. --Sarah A. SternauAlbum Description
2003 album and third so far from Nebraska's electo-rockers. Highly recommended, NME gives the album 8 out of 10. City Slang.Customer Reviews:
Such A Beast.......2007-05-27
Honestly, this record is loads of fun. It makes you want to dance around the room and sing along like a fool. Plus, their lyrics touch on themes not usually addressed in your usual dance rock fare (see: The Conductor, Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen).
It gets five stars based on its sheer fun quotient.
Incredible.......2006-07-26
1. Glass Danse
2. Your retro career melted
3. Agenda Suicide
4. Let the poison spill from your throat
5. Total Job
Dance of the Dead.......2006-04-16
never gets old.......2005-12-02
not even close to 80's wannabe's.......2005-09-10
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Warsaw Concerto
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000060DC Release Date: 1998-05-12 |
Tracks:
- Dangerous Moonlight: Warsaw Concerto
- The Case Of The Frightened Lady: Portrait Of Isla
- Spellbound: Spellbound Con
- The Glass Mountain: The Legend Of The Glass Mountain
- Murder On The Orient Express: Theme And Waltz
- Love Story: Cornish Rhap
- Hangover Square: Con Macabre
- While I Live: The Dream Of Olwen
- Midnight On The Cliffs: Midnight On The Cliffs
Customer Reviews:
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL FILM PIANO MUSIC.......2007-04-11
Warsaw Concerto.......2005-10-09
Classic Movie Pieces.......2003-10-04
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.......2003-02-07
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Classics from the Crypt
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003FAI Release Date: 1992-09-08 |
Tracks:
- Toccata & Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565
- Danse Macabre
- Funeral March Of A Marionette - Arthur Fiedler
- Night On Bald Mountain
- Symphonie Fantastique - March To The Scaffold - Georges Pretre
- Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - In The Hall Of The Mountain King
- Mephisto Waltz - Fritz Reiner
- The Sorcerer's Apprentice
- Symphonie Fantastique - Dream Of A Witches' Sabbath - Georges Pretre
Customer Reviews:
Classic Scary Music.......2007-01-10
Used this in a haunted maze in our basement, and it helped freak the kids out fairly well.
Classical and great.......2006-11-28
Great collection, but they missed one.......2006-06-10
But how could the series producer leave off Ravel's Pavane For a Dead Princess? It's preferable to Symphonie Fantastique - March to The Scaffold, plus Berlioz already makes an appearance with Dream of a Witches' Sabbath. If there was room, Verdi's Requiem would have been a nice addition too.
So I have to go with 4 stars only.
The Perfect Halloween-Themed Classical Album.......2005-10-17
Spooky Classical Music That Is Great For Halloween Or Anytime Of The Year!.......2005-10-16
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The Ligeti Project I: Melodien / Chamber Concerto / Piano Concerto / Mysteries of the Macabre - Schönberg Ensemble / ASKO Ensemble / Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert De Leeuw , and Schonberg Ensemble Manufacturer: Teldec ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000059QW8 Release Date: 2001-06-19 |
Tracks:
- Melodien - Schonberg Ens/Reinbert De Leeuw
- Chm Con: I. Corrente (Fliessend) - Schonberg Ens/Reinbert De Leeuw
- Chm Con: II. Calmo, Sostenuto - Schonberg Ens/Reinbert De Leeuw
- Chm Con: III. Movimento Preciso E Meccanico - Schonberg Ens/Reinbert De Leeuw
- Chm Con: IV. Presto - Schonberg Ens/Reinbert De Leeuw
- Pno Con: I. Vivace Molto Ritmico E Preciso - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Pno Con: II. Lento E Deserto - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Pno Con: III. Vivace Cantabile - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Pno Con: IV. Allegro Risoluto, Molto Ritmico - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Pno Con: V. Presto Luminoso - Pierre-Laurent Aimard
- Mysteries Of The Macabre - Peter Masseurs
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
This first of a projected five-disc series of Ligeti's music is a perfect introduction to the sound-world of the man who is arguably our greatest living composer. It opens with Melodien, a one-movement, 13-minute piece that begins with swirling, high-pitched winds whose sinuous lines turn into a flowing stream of iridescent instrumental colors. The Chamber Concerto, completed a year earlier, is for 13 instrumentalists treated as virtuosic soloists. Each of its four movements has a distinct profile, from the polyphonic first movement, where the instruments play at different speed, to the chorale-like second, hammering third, and the final presto that builds from a menacing ostinato to the siren squeal of the clarinet at the close. Aimard is the superb soloist in the Piano Concerto. He just about owns this piece, having recorded it with Boulez and Eotvos a decade ago. It's in five movements of endless inventiveness, particularly the second, which moves from desolate quietude to energetic outbursts and peters out with a quiet wind phrase. Mysteries of the Macabre is a reworking for solo trumpet and chamber orchestra of arias from Ligeti's opera, Le Grand Macabre. An essential disc of indispensable music, brilliantly performed and recorded. --Dan DavisCustomer Reviews:
Great Project, great CD........2006-06-15
Teldec continued some years ago Sony series of Ligeti music, a break that didn't suffer too much of that change, adding enormous artists like those you can listen in this CD. All the series is an outstanding thing, an some performances are really the best. This was the first CD they launched and it was a really surprise because of the very good performances we can listen, the great recording and the marvellous presentation. Anyway, it was a broken way, because, although Ligeti's series continued till the end, with the 5 volumes, New Line is a project that didn't work very well, with a few CDs released only.
Melodien has the best performance I know in this CD. We had a very interesting one on Atherton hands with the London Sinfonietta, in a very hard to find CD in Decca label, now re-released on DG 20 21 Echo, but I really think this one is much more better, with the enormous precision the Schoenberg Ensemble use to have, and with the taste of the contemporary groups, that really have this works as they basic language. Very good performance of an interesting work, that is not between my favourites of Ligeti.
Kammerkonzert is a piece I really love, from I time in which the Hungarian master was composing some of his most impressive compositions, like his Requiem or the Cello Concert. This Chamber Concerto tries to explore different sound combinations, densities, instruments research, tone limits, mechanical rhythms, etc; in a way very close to his Second String Quartet. The performance we listen here is fluid, technical and beautiful, probably a bit more natural than Ensemble Modern one, that is more sharp and direct, but still my favourite. My rank for this concert nowadays would be: 1. Ensemble Modern / Peter Eötvös (Sony). 2. Schoenberg Ensemble / de Leeuw (Teldec). 3. Ensemble InterContemporain / Pierre Boulez (DG).
The Piano Concerto (1988) is a work from Ligeti's final period (now we finally know it's the final one), a part of his catalogue I really don't like so much like the `50s, `60s and `70s one. Influenced by Nancarrow and the piano studies of the American, Ligeti works again with reminiscences of the folk tunes and the popular rhythms, researching poly-rhythms and breaking the lines he was following during many years, reinventing himself in some way, something that received critics from other composers, like Lachenmann's words on this `turning back' of Ligeti. Anyway, this Concert has very interesting moments, even terrifying, like the second movement, which really seems a walk on the night through the Transylvanian paths, with the sound of the wolves around us. The performance by Aimard and the ASKO Ensemble is superb, outstanding; Aimard do it so well like he did with Boulez (DG), and the ensemble playing is marvellous in all the senses. The colours, the instruments, the atmosphere... all is perfect.
Mysteries of the macabre is a work I don't like really very much compared with other works by Ligeti. There's a very good recording on DG, with Boulez, but this one, with the outstanding player Peter Masseurs is really wonderful.
Perfect recordings, really natural, clear and precise, in an outstanding CD you should buy, like the complete series on Sony and Teldec, if you want to know deeply Ligeti. He is lucky of having those two marvellous series, together with some other marvellous CDs by Eötvös, Boulez, Atherton, etc.
A Brilliant Recording of Some of Ligeti's Finest Works.......2006-01-19
Beginning with the ethereal 'Melodien' the Schönberg Ensemble as conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw plays with such transparent clarity that it feels as though the listener is in the midst of the orchestra. The 'Chamber Concerto for 13 Instrumentalists' is aptly titled as Ligeti gives utterly equal importance to each of the 13 players in their solo portions: keyboards include harpsichord, organ, piano and celesta; strings - two violins, double bass, viola and cello; trombone, horn, bass clarinet, clarinet, oboe/English horn/oboe d'amore; flute/piccolo. The four movements evolve naturally and inventively. Seeing this work performed is half the glory, and a recent performance by the LA Philharmonic New Music Group conducted by Alexander Mickelthwate was a revelation.
The Piano Concerto is brilliant as a work and here played with total authority and style by Pierre-Laurent Aimard with the ASKO Orchestra. It would be difficult to imagine a more perfect reading. The 'Mysteries of the Macabre' is an interesting transcription of arias form Ligeti's opera, here performed by trumpeter Peter Masseurs and the ASKO Orchestra. The opera succeeds on every level: the transcriptions, while of great interest, don't maintain the impact of the voice as focal point.
In all, this is a very important CD and one that encourages us to continue with the entire cycle. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06
Current Favorite.......2005-06-15
In fact, I feel as though I am hearing quotations of Beethoven in the cadenza right near the end of the Concerto, but I just can't place them.
The rest of the disc is just as good. These pieces have all been recorded before; even though "Mysteries of the Macabre" is a orchestral premiere, I've got a Roland Pontinen/Hakan Hardenberger version for piano/trumpet I might prefer. But the other performances are the best I've ever heard of these works. Well-recorded too.
A collection of excellent chamber works.......2004-06-24
The opening "Melodien" is an ironic piece. While early Ligeti works, such as "Musica Ricercata" resisted the creative vacuity of Hungary's Stalin-imposed socialist realism, this 1971 piece rebels against the excesses of his own avant-garde fellows. While many contemporary composers where eschewing melody, Ligeti gives us here over 10 minutes of pure melodies, with a beautiful colour which Ligeti has called "iridescent and metalic". The highs get higher and the lows get lower, and the work eventually diffuses into nothingness. I find this performance by the Schoenberg Ensemble slightly unimpressive, preferring the superb 1970's London Sinfonietta performance recently rereleased in DG's Echo 20/21 series.
The "Chamber Concerto" was written at the end of the 1960's, and is clearly linked to the bulk of Ligeti's micropolyphonic work of that decade, especially his "Atmospheres". The opening is aggressive, with stewing melodies and a hammering outburst. The third movement is rhythmic like clockwork, and extremely reminiscent of Ligeti's second string quartet. Ultimately the work doesn't hold my interest as much as other pieces from the same time.
The "Piano Concerto" of 1988 is probably the high point of the disc. Throughout the 1980's Ligeti was fascinated by new means of rhythmic expression, an outgrowth of his studies of African music and jazz piano. Stylistically this concerto is related to his "Trio for Horn, Violin, and Piano" and first book of Piano Etudes, but it is far more frenetic than both. The playing of Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Ligeti's favourite pianist, is what strikes the listener first. However, repeated listenings have made be very appreciative of the players of the ASKO Ensemlble, especially their trumpet player Peter Masseurs.
Finally, "Mysteries of the Macabre" is a light-hearted excerpt from Ligeti's bizzare opera "Le Grande Macabre", set for chamber orchestra. The version here uses a trumpet and piano, though there also exists a thrilling setting for coloratura soprano. At first I thought the trumpet version lackluster, having fond memories of Sybille Ehlert's vocal performance on Gyorgy Ligeti Edition 4: "Vocal Works". The more I listen to the trumpet, though, the more I find I like it, and am beginning to see it as prototypical of Peter Eotvos' recent jazz-like compositions. The performance here can be considered definitive, and is much more captivating than a performance recently rereleased by DG in its Echo 20/21 series.
The liner notes are generally excellent, featuring some words from Ligeti himself on the origin of the pieces, and also an enlightening commentary by Aimard on approaching the Piano Concerto, which Aimard calls the composer's masterpiece.
This is a great coverage of some of Ligeti's larger chamber works, and is highly recommended. This is perhaps not the ideal place to start, one might try instead The Ligeti Project IV with his famous "Requiem" or Gyorgy Ligeti Edition 1: String Quartets and Duets. However, this is all essential music, and worth getting early in one's acquaintance with Ligeti's music.
A good mixture of Ligeti works.......2003-11-21
Melodien is one of the finest of Ligeti's mid-period works. The musical material is--as the title would suggest--a collection of melodies, which are contrapuntally set against each other in a dense weave. Ligeti then starts to clarify the harmonic material until at the midpoint of the work it clears into wide open octaves. Following this, the process is reversed and the music becomes more and more complex again. The performance here is very good, but Atherton's 1970s recording--recently reissued in DG's 20/21 series--is slightly preferable.
The Chamber Concerto is one of Ligeti's most popular works. It is in four movements, the first of which burbles up melodies as if from underwater; in contrast, the second, slower movement is more focused on harmony. The third movement is a hilarious sequence of clockwork rhythms and melodies, some of which go horribly wrong, while the finale takes the ideas of the first movement to insane levels of virtuosity. The disc here is in direct competition with Boulez's recording on DG--I prefer Boulez's interpretation which (despite generally faster speeds) gives the work more space to breathe: on the other hand, the sound is greatly superior here and the playing is marginally more accurate.
The Piano Concerto seems to be one of Ligeti's most popular pieces. I've never totally agreed with this view--though I know I'm in the minority--finding the odd-numbered, faster movements to be slightly routine, containing similar material to the Etudes without quite the same aural imagination or harmonic interest. I've got no complaints about the second and fourth movements, though--the second is an astonishing, bleak, powerful elegy and the fourth is a remarkable exercise in near-fractal orchestral writing. This is Pierre-Laurent Aimard's second recording of the work--if you already have his DG recording you probably don't need this one, even if it is fractionally cleaner and more lucid.
The disc ends with a minor out-take from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre. Mysteries of the Macabre is an arrangement by Elgar Howarth (who premiered the opera and was the first to record it) of the three coloratura arias from it. Peter Masseurs is an excellent trumpet soloist, but this arrangement does not add anything to the original work.
A good collection, then, but with good rival recordings available of all of the major works on the disc, it is not an essential buy in the way that later volumes in the series are.
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Infernal Violins
Manufacturer: Analekta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00015EDL6 Release Date: 2007-04-03 |
Tracks:
- Danse Macabre
- Allegro Con Fuoco - Lento - Allegro Vivace - Andante
- Allegro
- I. Larghetto Affettuoso
- II. Allegro Energico / III. Grave - Allegro Assai
- Les Beautes Du Diable
- Pantomima
- Danza Ritual Del Fuego
- Mephisto Waltz No.1
- Le Diable Matou
- Caprice No.24
- Le Reel Du Diable
- Andante Sostenuto
- Allegro Con Molto
- Paint It Black / Sympathy For The Devil
- Once Upon A Time... The Devil
Amazon.com
Angèle Dubeau is a remarkable violinist, and here, she and her all-woman, 12-strong (including herself) group, La Pieta, tackle some of the showiest---and most interesting---virtuoso pieces composed or transposed for solo violin and strings, in various combinations, and occasionally featuring a piano. The violin tone at the start of Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre has a warmth which stays with us throughout the disc, despite the fact that so many of the pieces are razzle-dazzle. Hearing the delicious can-can from the overture to Orpheus in the Underworld so thrillingly played, with as much emphasis on the piano as the violin, is a treat, and the "Fire dance" from El amor brujo positively throbs. There's great skill---even daring---in the Tartini "Devil's Trill" sonata and a Boccherini Sonata, but the string tone never turns strident. And as a complete surprise, Dubeau and her group offer an arrangement of The Rolling Stones' "Paint it Black" which teases and riffs before getting into the melody, then plays it in the lower reaches of the instrument, and is then joined by the piano, allowing it to reach upwards and jazzily improvise---and then she throws in a moment or two of "Sympathy for the Devil" (!) before it concludes with the original melody. There are other joys on this CD as well---this is not your everyday violin bon-bon recital. It's all highly recommended. --Robert LevineAlbum Description
This mischievious recital celebrates works inspired by the Devil: from Tartini's Devil's Trill, written after the composer dreamt that he had sold his soul to the Devil, to the infernal whirlwinds of Saint-Saën's Danse Macabre and Dompierre's Les Beautés du diable, composed specifically for La Pietà. It also pays homage to Paganini, the famed violinist who once confided to a friend that the Devil led him by the hand. This program shows an impish sense of humor as well... it features a unique arrangement of The Rolling Stones' Paint it Black and Sympathy for the Devil! Angèle Dubeau is one of Canada's most prominent recording artists. belonging to the exclusive group of Canadian classical soloists who can boast of having attained "gold" sales status. She is also the founder and director La Pietá. This CD is packaged with a bonus DVD featuring video clips and live concert excerpts.Customer Reviews:
FABULOUS!.......2007-02-15
I disagree with the reviewer who said you must love violin music to enjoy this. I do enjoy the violin, but I think the CD's power and reach go far beyond violin lovers.
The CD also includes a DVD of concert excerpts.
Give this CD a try. I'm so glad I did.
Eduardo Carlos Leon.......2007-02-01
Unique and pleasant........2006-12-23
Not the same old interpretations sped up or slowed down. But a genuine new groove down a familiar road.
She is a great violinist and has a knack for interplay with the rest of the band. It's not a flashy highly technical performance like you may expect from Perlman or Mutter. But not on the emotional ragged edge like Sonnenberg. But something in between with a new twist.
Emotional, Powerful, Fizzy.......2005-05-19
I'm so besotted, I had a couple of 13-year old boys (my son and a friend) listen to it in the car one day. They were bug-eyed after a couple of cuts, and not with horror. Now they ask for it, and yell with glee when the musical tension breaks over their heads in crashing chords.
Can I add a few more stars?
Infernal Violins.......2004-04-12
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Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso in Am; Danse macabre Op40
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000041V6 Release Date: 1992-05-12 |
Tracks:
- Danse macabre
- Phaeton
- Le rouet d'Omphale
- Introduction et Rondo capriccioso
- Havanaise
- La jeunesse d'Hercule
- Marche heroique
Customer Reviews:
A Classic Dutoit/Saint-Saens Disc.......2007-06-14
The more familiar pieces--Danse Macabre, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise, and Le Rouet d'Omphale--are given authoritative, compelling readings, making it okay to add yet another Danse Macabre to your collection. Yet what delights me are the unknown pieces, all of which are phenomenal: Phaeton, full of great melodies and orchestral color, and the extended fantasy Jeunesse d' Hercules, which is a Lisztian symphonic poem on the verge of becoming Strauss. The concluding march (I forget the name at the moment--something "heroic") is also beautiful, noble, and sentimental all at once.
I've owned this CD for well over a decade, and while my interest in Saint-Saens waxes and wanes (but mostly waxes), this disc is one of my great treasures. It's a great into to classical music if you're still searching for a way in, and it's a great comfort after years of extraordinary delights. In short, another reason why Dutoit remains one of my favorite conductors, particularly in French & Russian repertoire.
Halloween Madness.......2007-01-04
nightmarish masterpiece.......2000-08-23
the danse macabre is one of my favorite classical pieces.......1999-10-05
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Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 'Organ'; Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Manufacturer: Erato ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005MO9U Release Date: 2002-09-17 |
Customer Reviews:
THE Performance of this Symphony.......2007-05-20
The Glory That Was France.......2006-04-03
This is really a wonderful album, deeply felt, the Gallic flavor quite intense. It is NOT just an organ CD: "Le Rouet D'Omphale" and "Danse Macabre" are included as well as the two signature works - the Third Symphony by Saint-Saens and the Concerto for Organ in G Minor by Poulenc. In an ironic turn, the (in my opinion) inferior Saint-Saens has triumphed in the public mind over the far superior Poulenc. When one considers the treatment of the organ and orchestra, there is no contest. Also, the work by Poulenc had a striking originality - from the gargantuan theme to the "merry go round" finale (what a stroke of genius).
Although the Third Symphony pales slightly by comparison, Alain gives her 110% as she does on all her recordings. She has stated in the past that she has no national preference but undeniably she arises to the occasion when performing Widor, Vierne, Franck or any works by her own famous relatives. This CD is an easy five star. PLEASE - if you want to hear the organ in all its glory (it's the famous Saint Sulpice), purchase GREAT TOCCATAS with Ms. Alain - a stunning work of incredible virtuosity.
Outstanding in every way.......2005-05-07
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