Chillingworth is arguably the most eclectic and most resourceful of the slack-key kings. He cites Portuguese, Puerto Rican, and Mexican influences, as well as those of country, blues, ragtime, and jazz. Over an ever-changing bass line, his intricate melodies and improvisations seem to hang in the air, even as the next line is being played. And his voice, particularly his falsetto, bends and sways and snaps back into place like a centuries-old palm tree in the tropical breeze. This is what the Hawaiians call "chicken-skin" music, the phrase referring to what mainlanders dub "goose bumps." --John Morthland
Sonny Solo,Sonny Chillingworth,Windham Hill Records,Hawaii,Hawaiian,Hawaiian Music,Int'l & World Music,Pop,Slack-Key Guitar,World Music
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Haunted Heart
Paul McCartney , Gustav Mahler , Joni Mitchell , Emile Paladilhe , Arthur Schwartz , James ("Jimmy") Van Heusen , Various Composers , Heitor Villa-Lobos , Jimmy Webb , Richard A. Whiting , Stevie Wonder , Guy Wood , Bill Frisell , Fred Hersch , and Renée Fleming Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007Z9QUS Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
Tracks:
- Haunted Heart
- River
- When Did You Leave Heaven?
- You've Changed
- Answer Me
- My Cherie Amour
- In My Life
- The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
- Wozzeck/The Midnight Sun
- Liebst du um Schit
- My One And Only Love/This Is Always
- Can do Amor
- Psych
- Hard Times Come Again No More
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While countless fans flock to see soprano Renee Fleming's performances of the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro because she's got the voice and the dramatic ability to handle such meaty roles, the versatile singer throws her fans a curveball on Haunted Heart, singing popular standards and ballads as well as a few altered classical pieces. In her liner notes, Fleming calls this album a "look back at the road not taken" -- she played a weekly gig in a jazz club while in school. Nonetheless, her feel for the material here is undeniable. Interestingly, she drops her voice a full octave from her usual tessitura, and the change reveals a robust gospel-oriented approach filled with dramatic breaths and moans. The lyrical Fred Hersch (piano) and the idiosyncratic Bill Frisell (guitar) provide support, and both are adventurous jazz players who create subtle and uniquely haunting backdrops. It adds up to an interesting cross-section of ideas well carried off by the generous talents of all involved. --Tad Hendrickson
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Interview with Renee Fleming
Renee Fleming speaks about recent projects, including her memoir The Inner Voice and her recent Handel CD, in our interview.
Customer Reviews:
Sublime and ridiculous.......2007-06-13
The ridiculous: Fleming ended the majority of most phrases in most of the songs with a guttural of some sort which for me becomes irritating to the point of distraction. These punctuations are mostly quite awful: really tasteless, clumsy, and overused big time and I'm amazed at how this ever got released. Without these ersatz testifyin' noises this CD would be stunning.
So, if you have the ability and inclination to edit out this garbage from your perception as you listen I think you'll be glad you experienced these artists at work together. (Unfortunately I'm not up to it).
Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwww.......2007-06-06
Better than I thought it would be.......2007-04-10
I think this is the most artistically successful recording of Pop/Jazz by a classical singer. I enjoyed it even better than the Anna Sophie Von Otter'/ Elvis Costello CD.
The perspective I am coming from is that of a classical singer who started out as a pop singer/songwriter. I perform and teach cross-genre but love a world class instrument such as Flemming's
I wanted to get the perspective of a friend who used to sing jingles and is also a trained singer but is usually critical of any attempts that opera singers make at crossing -over.
My friend is very familiar with Flemming's voice, but did not recognise it in this context when I played the CD for her. Her reaction was very complimentary, although she did comment that the diction was a bit strange.
She then played it for her brother a well known jazz singer and arranger who had a somewhat negative reaction.He found the singing to be overly dark and round. He prefers a cleaner more 'spoken' approach to this style of singing. I understand this perspective and therefore personally prefer Ella to Sarah as well, but let's not get too picky. Obviously, Rene Flemming is of the Sarah Vaghan School of jazz singing, which is not too shabby.
I will continue to enjoy this CD and will wait for another opera diva to top this one. But, somehow I think the next really good CD of Pop/ jazz from an opera star will also come from Rene.
To those who have been unreasonably mean and negative towards her, I can only say you are not fit to polish her shoes!
Brava Renee.......2007-04-09
I hope Renee keeps recording whatever catches her fancy because I'll certainly always listen.
Art is always new. .......2007-03-10
I welcome Renee's elan demonstrated with her recent recordings, Love sublime with Brad Mehldau, and Haunted Heart with Fred Hersch and Bill Frissell. Bravery, fun, and talent combined by artists and for people who are listening. Hearing long time favorites Mehldau, Hersch, and Frissell is all the more sublime.
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Casanova
Manufacturer: Hollywood Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BYR9YK Release Date: 2005-12-20 |
Tracks:
- An Untold Story: Assaggio No.1 In G Minor - Johann Helmich Roman
- The Legend Of Casanova: Tambourins I/II From Daro - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- I Yield To Love: Cello Concerto No.3 In D Minor - Leonardo Leo
- Eternal Damnation: Overture From Les Fetes De Polymnie/Overture From Platee/Overture From Zoroastre - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- The Doge's Decree: Concerto In C Major - Antonio Vivaldi
- A Venetian Virgin - Alexandre Desplat
- San Cremori At Dawn: Concerto In C Major For Harpsicord And Strings - Giovanni Paisiello
- A Lover's Duel: Overture From La Madrilena - Vicente Martin Y Soler
- A Terrible Mistake: Concerto A 5, Op.9, No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- A Secret Lover?: Sinfonia From The Opera Farnace - Antonio Vivaldi
- Marriage Is A Safe Haven: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- Trailing Guardi: Sonata For Violin And Bassocontinuo, Op.5 No.11 In E Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- The Noble Pig: Concerto Per Quartetto No.8 - Francesco Durante
- Paprizzio's Arrival: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.2 In D Minor - Tomaso Albinoni
- Inquisitor Pucci - Alexandre Desplat
- : Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 - Tomaso Albinoni
- A Big Idea: Harpsicord Concerto In B Flat Major - Francesco Durante
- A Nom De Plume/Carnivale!: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.6 In G Major/Bouree From Les Plaisirs Champetres - Tomaso Albinoni
- The Plume's Nom Is Casanova! - Sonny Kompanek
- Dancing At The Doge's Ball: Riguadon From Water Music Suite, No.3 In G Major/Bouree From Music For Royal Fireworks/Loure From Tafelmusik1 - George Frideric Handel
- One Step Closer To Heaven: Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 In A Major - Tomaso Albinoni
- Casanova's Confession: Sonata Op.5 No.7 In D Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- The Hanging: Violin Concerto 'Il Cimento Dell'Armonia E Dell'INvenzione' Op.8 No.11 In D Major - Antonio Vivaldi
- A Great Escape: Overture From Zais/Overture From Nais/Overture From Achante Et Cephise Ou La Sympathie - Jean-Philippe Rameau
- My Place Is With Casanova: Overture From Le Temple De La Gloire/Overture From Zais/Sonata For Violin And Bassocontinuo, Op.5 No.7 In D Minor - Arcangelo Corelli
- All's Well...:Concerto A 5, Op.9 No.4 In A Major - Tomaso Albinoni
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The action in this tale about the 18th century adventurer and (at least in popular lore) seducer is set in Cassanova's native Venice in the mid-1700s, so it makes sense that the soundtrack would be loaded with Baroque pieces. The Venice-based Tomaso Albinoni is featured prominentaly, along with heavyweights such as Antonio Vivaldi, Jean-Baptiste Rameau, and George Frideric Handel, and lesser-known composers such as Arcangelo Corelli, Francesco Durante, and Alexandre Desplat. Er, actually Desplat is a contemporary French film composer who also released his score for the couldn't-be-more-different Syriana shortly after Casanova came out. Of the two pieces he penned here, "A Venetian Virgin" is in pure Baroque style, while "Inquisitor Pucci" betrays a more modern film-music vibe. Meanwhile, orchestrator Sonny Kompanek rearranged a couple of the tracks and authored the tense "The Plume's Nom Is Casanova," which doesn't sound embarrassing sandwiched between pieces by Albinoni and Handel. Overall, it would have been nice to get longer excerpts from the pieces--many feel chopped into too-small fragments--but the music's innate grace and elegance can't be beat for a period film. Or for any film, really: Vivaldi's Concerto in C Major ("The Doge's Decree") will be familiar to buffs, who will remember it featuring prominently in the Dustin Hoffman-¬Meryl Streep showdown Kramer vs. Kramer back in 1979. --Elisabeth VincentelliCustomer Reviews:
Sheer Beauty for the Ears.......2006-07-25
The disc walks you through the movie with no changes that I could tell from the original score. The only omission I found was that the song dubbed "Casanova's Theme" is played in much greater length in the closing credits, and that didn't seem to make it to the CD. Not a terrible loss.
Authenticity can sound great as well!.......2006-07-11
The producers of this film fortunately went to the trouble of hiring some of the top period performance musician-specialists in the country (perhaps in the entire world) to record the soundtrack to Casanova. I know, because several of them were faculty members of the Oberlin Conservatory Baroque Performance Institute who went AWOL to Hollywood in June 2005 for the recording sessions. We all forgave them, and were actually quite excited that period music performance was having its day on the silver screen.
Do not miss this exquisite potpourri of wonderful baroque composers' works performed as closely as humanly possible to the way that they heard their works during their lifetimes! The film may not have been intended to be historically accurate (part of the fun), but the music certainly ended up that way. Not only that, but it sounds heavenly (unlike Casanova's antics) and up-to-date, not musty and old as if it were sealed in a museum case.
a little world of baroque sound.......2006-02-26
put together in dramatic sequences that add zest and
class to the listening experience. Also wonderful to
play in auto while driving thru boring country or in
slow moving traffic!
This CD will get a lot of play from me.
5 Stars!
Wonderful relaxing music........2006-02-25
-.......2006-02-18
The original version of each may be better.
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0006SSQ7U Release Date: 2005-01-04 |
Tracks:
- First Season End Title
- Vulcan Affair (Suite No. 2)
- Iowa-Scuba Affair
- Shark Affair
- Deadly Games Affair (Suite No. 2)
- Meet Mr. Solo
- Giuoco Piano Affair
- King of Knaves Affair: Suite No. 2
- First Season Main Title [Revised]
- Deadly Decoy Affair
- Spy With My Face
- Second Season Main Title
- Alexander the Greater Affair
- Ultimate Computer Affair
- Very Important Zombie Affair
- Dippy Blonde Affair
- Seadly Goddess Afair
- Moonglow Affair
Tracks:
- One of Our Spies Is Missing
- Third Season Main Title
- Sort of Do-It-Youself Dreadful Affair
- Galatea Affair
- Pop Art Affair
- Come With Me to the Casbah Affair
- Off-Broadway Affair
- Concrete Overcoat Affair
- Napoleon's Tomb Affair
- Alternate Fourth Season Main Title
- Fourth Season (End Title)
- Test Tube Killer Affair
- Prince of Darkness Affair
- Seven Wonders of the World Affair
Customer Reviews:
Another great trip down the MFU memory lane.......2005-10-19
My only problem is that THE CDs ARE COPY PROTECTED! Considerable work is needed to get the music onto your iPod, if you really want the music in your mp3 collection. This is a major hassle and a surprise, since the first set in the series was not copy protected.
The best of the three Double CDs ORIGINAL soundtrack release.......2005-07-12
Indeed, this is an unbelievable collection of three double CDs packages with the complete series soundtrack, and I mean the complete music, not a tune is missing.
And this is the ORIGINAL Man From Uncle music. Let me stress the point: this is the four years ORIGINAL soundtrack with the original recordings as they were heard throughout the series, not a no-name orchestra doing personal versions of the stuff. The audio transfer is very, very good, the music from late episodes is even in stereo.
Each individual CD carries over 70 minutes of music. All in all there you have the four TV seasons main titles and all, absolutely all of TMFU unforgetable music.
This is not a chronological release, meaning, all CDs have a mix of music from all four TV seasons. Volume 1 is heavier on early TV seasons stuff, fans of Jerry Goldsmith will love it. Those of us who prefer what Gerald Fried and later Richard Shores did with TMFU music, then volume 2 is mandatory. If you are a fan, you can't miss any of these six CDs. However if buying all three double packages is too much for you, you must go with Volume 2, no questions asked. Volume three is the weakest of them as it brings "suites" and a whole CD with "The Girl From Uncle" soundtrack, but you have a bonus "Open Channel D" beeper.
Each package is gorgeous, each with a glossy color booklet with extensive liner notes with details on how each tune was written to a specific TV series episode and how it was used onwards. You have bios on the composers, on how the recordings were made, even an overview on how many instruments were available in each of the years the music was recorded.
So, throw away your Hugo Montenegro Man From Uncle CD, this is the REAL thing.
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Canadian Brass Live!
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000260N Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- The Marriage Of Figaro: Overture
- Canzona per sonare No. 4
- The Four Seasons: l 'Spring' - Spring Has Come - Song Of The Birds - The Brook Flows - Thunderclaps - Song Of The Birds - ll - 'Autumn' - Sleeping Drunkards - lll - 'Summer' - Unlikely Summer Weather
- The Dog-Gone Blues
- Tuba Tiger Rag
- Pete Meets The Beat
- Kanon
- Swan Lake: Tribute To The Ballet - Fanfare - Main Theme - Love Theme - Russian Dance
- The Saints' Hallelujah
- Boy Mozart
Customer Reviews:
A Canadian Brass fan.......2000-12-23
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Sonny Solo
Sonny Chillingworth Manufacturer: Windham Hill Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000030LT Release Date: 1994-04-26 |
Tracks:
- Moe 'Uhane (Dream Slack Key)
- Pua Lililehua
- Kaula 'Ili
- Ho'omalu Slack Key
- Pua Tuberose
- Hi'ilawe
- Hula Medley
- Wai Ulu
- Charmarita/Malasadas (Portuguese Folk Song)
- Ka Wai Lehua 'A 'Ala Ka Honua
- Papakolea
- Maori Brown Eyes
- Kukuna O Ka La
- Let Me Hear You Whisper
Amazon.com
Chillingworth is arguably the most eclectic and most resourceful of the slack-key kings. He cites Portuguese, Puerto Rican, and Mexican influences, as well as those of country, blues, ragtime, and jazz. Over an ever-changing bass line, his intricate melodies and improvisations seem to hang in the air, even as the next line is being played. And his voice, particularly his falsetto, bends and sways and snaps back into place like a centuries-old palm tree in the tropical breeze. This is what the Hawaiians call "chicken-skin" music, the phrase referring to what mainlanders dub "goose bumps." --John Morthland
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Favourites, Vol. 1
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004YYW7 Release Date: 2001-02-20 |
Tracks:
- The Kerry Dance
- The Rose Of Tralee
- A Pair Of Blue Eyes
- The Garden Where The Praties Grow
- I Hear You Calling Me
- Sonny Boy
- Wearing Of The Green
- Silver Threads Among The Gold
- Roses Of Picardy
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Little Boy Blue
- All Alone
- Kashmiri Song
- Macushla
- Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac Time
- Kathleen Mavourneen
- Just For Today
- Ireland, Mother Ireland
Customer Reviews:
An interpreter's magic that is spell-binding........2001-04-13
This CD of "Favourites" provides songs he recorded between 1912 and 1940. The sentiments may be passé (patriotism, nostalgia, piety, the praise of women and the sorrow of parting) but the sincerity and charm transcend fashion. There is also an interpreter's magic evident in the dramatic monologue "Kathleeen Mavourneen" and the jaunty recounting of what happened in "The Garden Where the Praties Grow" that is spell-binding.
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Bryn [Double Album Special Edition]
Manufacturer: Polygram Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007OQDGO Release Date: 2005-03-28 |
Tracks:
- Toreador Song
- Shenandoah
- Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn
- Pearl Fishers' Duet (Ft Andrea Bocelli)
- Lord Is My Shepherd
- Danny Boy
- Bella Notte
- Goin Home
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Home Sweet Home
- Ave Maria (Ft Sissel)
- Il Mio Cuore Va
- At The River
- None But The Lonely Heart
- If I Can Help Somebody
- Lullaby
- Abide With Me
- Lazybones
- Impossible Dream
- Plaisir D'amour
- Granada
- God Bless The Child
- Amazing Grace
- Tua Bethlehem Dref
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Shenandoah (Video)
Album Details
From the Platinum Selling Album 'bryn' Comes this UK Special Edition Double Album. Tracks Include "The Impossible Dream", "Plaisir D'amour", "Granada", "God Bless the Child", "Amazing Grace (From "Songs of Praise"), "Tua Bethlehem Dref" and "o Come all Ye Faithful". Terfel is Joined by Andrea Bocelli for "The Pearl Fishers' Duet" and Sissel for Schubert's "Ave Maria".
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Lush Life
Manufacturer: Tudor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00007KKME Release Date: 2006-02-14 |
Tracks:
- I'm Beginning to See the Light
- Lush Life
- My Man's Gone Now
- Corcovado
- Oleo
- My Foolish Heart
- Variations About a German Lullaby
- Very Early
- I'm Old Fashioned
- Song Is You
- Wave
- My Funny Valentine
- Velas
- I Mean You
- Elm
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Music for Entertaining
Manufacturer: Intersound Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000006NJX Release Date: 1998-06-02 |
Tracks:
- Allegro from 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' - Camerata Aca
- Minuet from Str Qnt in E, Op.13, No.5 - John Arpin/Palm Court Trio
- Vivace from Con for Two Vn(s) & Orch, 'Double' - German Bach Soloists
- Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from 'Solomon' - Toronto Sym
- Allegro from 'The Spring' from 'The Four Seasons' - Camerata Aca Salzburg
- Allegro from 'Brandenburg' Con No.5 - Collegium Aureum
- Minuet & Badinerie from Orch Ste No.2 - London PO
- Allegro from Divertimento No.1 - Vienna Chm Orch
- Allegro from Vn Con - J. Brezina
- Molto allegro from Sym No.40 - London Festival Orch
- (Rondo) Alla Turca - Sylvia Capova
- Intro from Sym No.4, 'Italian' - London Festival Orch
- Excerpt from 'On the Beautiful, Blue Danube' - Vienna Folk Opr Orch
- Waltz from Ser for Str(s) - London Festival Orch
- Tritsch, Tratsch Polka - Vienna Folk Opr Orch
- Pizzicato Dance from 'Sylvia' - Munich Sym
Tracks:
- It Had to Be You - Van Craven
- I've Got You Under My Skin - Van Craven
- Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) - Van Craven
- Midnight Sun - Van Craven
- Misty - Van Craven
- Night & Day - Van Craven
- Star Dust - Van Craven
- Unforgettable - Van Craven
- My Funny Valentine - Van Craven
- Moon River - Van Craven
- They Can't Take That Away From Me - Van Craven
- Body & Soul - Van Craven
- In the Wee-Small Hours of the Morning - Van Craven
- I'll Be Seeing You - Van Craven
Tracks:
- Old Devil Moon - Tommy Dean/Joe Gransden/Gary Motley Trio
- Prld in e - William Noll Qt
- Can't We Be Sweethearts Again? - Ronnie James & Jez Hot Swing Club
- Rozanova - Gary Burton/Igor Butman/Ryan Kisor/Louis Scherr/Partners In Time
- Wave - Dan Estrem & John Holmquist/Phil Hey
- In a Sentimental Mood - John Dankworth/Rochester Pops
- Sabrosa - John Basile Qnt
- Siciliano - William Noll Qt
- Bewitched - Alfreda Gerald/Gary Motley Trio
- Come Sunday - Barry Lee Hall/Rochester Pops
- The Beast & the Blossom - Gary Burton/Ryan Kisor/Louis Scherr/Partners In Time
- Under the Influence - John Basile Qnt
Tracks:
- Ricky's Prayer - Todd Nystrom
- Camarua - Todd Nystrom
- Rio Purus - Todd Nystrom
- Manisua - Todd Nystrom
- Dancing in the Sun - Todd Nystrom
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Solo Featuring Edna McGriff
Sonny Til & The Orioles Manufacturer: Sequel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000PSO Release Date: 1995-02-21 |
Tracks:
- My Prayer
- I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody)
- Fool's World
- You Never Cared For Me
- For All We Know
- Blame It On Yourself
- Proud Of You
- No Other Love
- The Night Has Come
- I Only Have Eyes For You - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- Once In A While - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- Good - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- Pic-A-Dilly - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- That's How I Feel Without You - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- Lovebirds - Sonny Til/Edna McGriff
- Congratulations To Someone
- (Danger) Soft Shoulders
- Have You Heard
- Lonely Wine
- Come On Home
- The First Of Summer
- Panama Joe
- Night And Day
- Shimmy Time
- So Long
Rock Music:
- Sunda Song
- The Best of Hawaiian Style Band
- The Best of Paolo Conte [Extra tracks] [Import]
- The Holy Ground
- The Quest for King Arthur (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Soundtrack]
- The Rough Guide to Fado
- The Yamasuki Singers
- The "Yeh-Yeh" Girl from Paris [Import]
- Too Much Fun
- Traditions (Hammered Dulcimer Traditions/Hammer Dulcimer & Guitar)
Recommended Music:
Voices: Music by Herbert Bielawa
Hotel Costes, Vol. 2: La Suite [Import]
Unforgiven [CD-single] [Explicit Lyrics]
Vow: An Irish Wedding Celebration
Turina: Danzas gitanas Op55/1-5; procesión del Rocio Op9/1&2