Carter II

Track Listings
1. Tha Mobb
2. Fly In
3. Money on My Mind
4. Fireman
5. Mo Fire
6. On tha Block #1
7. Best Rapper Alive
8. Lock and Load - Kurupt, Lil Wayne,
9. Oh No
10. Grown Man - Currency, Lil Wayne,
11. On tha Block #2
12. Hit Em Up
13. Carter II
14. Hustler Musik
15. Receipt
16. Shooter
17. Weezy Baby - Lil Wayne, , , Nikki
18. On tha Block #3
19. I'm a Dboy - Birdman, Lil Wayne,
20. Feel Me
See all 22 tracks on this disc

Tha Carter, Vol. 2,Lil Wayne,Cash Money,Dirty South,Pop,Rap,Rap & Hip-Hop,Southern Rap,United States of America

Carter II

Carter II
Essential Purcell
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Mad about Baroque
  • The beauty of the songs brings tears to my eyes
  • Brilliant
  • Be Welcome then, great Sirs (and Mesdames).
  • Brilliant Purcell Disc
Essential Purcell
Henry Purcell , New College Choir Oxford , King's Consort , Robert King , Roy Goodman , Charles Daniels , John Mark Ainsley , James Bowman , Peter Buckoke , Jane Coe , Rogers Covey-Crump , Gillian Fisher , Michael George , Miles Golding , Jane Norman , Barbara Bonney , Mark Caudle , William Carter , King's Consort Choir , Helen Gough , Paul Nicholson , Angela East , Barry Guy , Tessa Bonner , Jerome Finnis , Rupert Bawden , Lucy Howard , Richard Campbell , Susan Addison , James O'Donnell , and Stephen Saunders
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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ASIN: B000002ZDU
Release Date: 1995-04-10

Tracks:

  1. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol. 5: Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn. Symphony And Opening Chorus
  2. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol. 3: Be Welcome Then, Great Sir
  3. Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.1: Oh, Fair Cedaria
  4. The Choir Of The King's Consort: Hear My Prayer, O Lord
  5. Great Baroque Arias: When I Am Laid In Earth ('Dido's Lament')
  6. Complete Anthems And Services Vol.1: Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears (Part 1)
  7. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.4: The Sparrow And The Gentle Dove
  8. Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.1: If Music Be The Food Of Love (First Setting)
  9. Complete Anthems And Services Vol.5: Rejoice In The Lord Always ('The Bell Anthem')
  10. Complete Anthems And Services Vol.3: Hosanna To The Highest
  11. Complete Anthems And Services Vol.7: Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets Of Our Hearts
  12. Mr. Henry Purcell's Most Admirable Composures: Fairest Isle, All Isles Excelling
  13. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.6: Mark, How Readily Each Pliant String
  14. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.8: Sound The Trumpet
  15. Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.3: She Loves And She Confesses Too
  16. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.8: O How Blest Is The Isle
  17. Complete Anthems And Services Vol.3: Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences
  18. Complete Anthems And Services Vol. 11: An Evening Hymn
  19. Complete Church Music Vol.2: Vouchsafe, O Lord, To Keep Us This Day
  20. Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.2: With Rapture Of Delight... Hail Bright Cecilia

Amazon.com essential recording

The "Essential" Purcell? Well, you could get a bunch of critics to argue about that for a few days, but in the meantime, here is a sampler of highlights from the King's Consort's three admirable Purcell series: the Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Complete Anthems and Services, and Complete Secular Solo Songs. There are, of course, some of Purcell's most-performed pieces (which probably are "essential"): Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, "Sound the trumpet" from Come, ye sons of Art, Rejoice in the Lord alway (the "Bell Anthem," named for the string figure at the opening that sounds like pealing bells), the gently patriotic "Fairest isle, all isles excelling" (sung by a miscast James Bowman), and a selection from the funeral music for Queen Mary. There are also some delightful surprises--particularly among the little-known secular songs and church music. The plaintive "O fair Cedaria" gets a lovely performance by Barbara Bonney (a singer not usually associated with Purcell); tenor Rogers Covey-Crump (possibly the ideal high tenor for Purcell) sings the enchanting "If music be the food of love"; the church anthems "Let mine eyes run down with tears" and "Remember not, O Lord, our offences" have some startling harmonies as daring as any Monteverdi ever wrote. If you're unfamiliar with Purcell, this reasonably priced disc is a good place to start exploring without a big initial investment. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Mad about Baroque.......2007-02-12

This is a terrific CD. The music is breathtaking. Just buy IT !!!!!

5 out of 5 stars The beauty of the songs brings tears to my eyes.......2002-08-21

Absolutely beautiful baroque music! The arrangament, singing and instrumentation is superb. It is too bad that Henry Purcell is not as widely known as Bach, because he should be recognized equally well."The Sparrow and the Gentle dove" is alone worth the price of the album! I can not stop playing it!

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2001-10-31

Like in his renditions of Handel's oratorios, Robert King manages to bring a freshness and strenght to Purcell's music that I had seldom heard before. This CD also features some of the best performers of early music in the world. My favourite tracks are Oh, Fair Cedaria, sung by the multi-talented Barbara Bonney; Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, sung by Gillian Fisher; She Loves and she Confesses too, sung by the wonderful Susan Gritton; and Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn, sung by Rogers Covey-Crump. The only track I didn't find absolutely wonderful is Fairest Isle, sung here by James Bowman. Don't get me wrong, I generally love Mr Bowman, I think that his performance in Mr Purcell's Most Admirable Composures (also conducted by Robert King) makes it another essential Purcell recording; but I find that Fairest Isle was much better done elsewhere, particularly by Christopher Hogwood and Barbara Bonney.

These songs aren't only beautiful, they're also poignant, sweet and unpretentious. I think that it will be very clear to anyone who listens to this recording that Mr Purcell was one of the finest composers that ever lived.

5 out of 5 stars Be Welcome then, great Sirs (and Mesdames)........2001-10-20

If anyone has benefitted from the reversion in the last three or so decades to period instruments and historical reconstruction, it is Henry Purcell. Before, he was merely great, the peerless word-setter in the English language, a virtuoso of boundless range, a professional composer whose offical commissions were always imbued with personality and invention. But period instrumentation has added to this a greater depth, an other-worldly texture of sound. With his intricate, multi-part vocal writing, his preference for low, rumbling instruments such as the bass viol and the strange and remarkable theorbo, as well as his often sombre and low-key subject matter and treatment, Purcell creates a round, glowing, humming sound as pregnantly full as dub reggae.

This has an extraordinary effect on the listener. Whereas Bach, with his mathematical abstractions, sounds universal and timeless, Purcell's music takes the listener back 300 years, back to different ways of thinking about, feeling about and addressing things we still think etc. about today - death, love, friendship. The emotion is timeless, but the music's beauty is alien, THEIRS, hence its preciousness.

A lot of intelligence has gone into the unity of this compilation, beginning with two Welcomes (to the dawn and to the listener, in this case a King), and ending with thoughts of evening, death and a Baroque 'Thank you for the music'. These are bright, fanfare-like works, but the predominant mood is slow, ruminative, quiet. The selection covers the wide range of Purcell's oeuvre, from opera and funeral marches to secular songs and odes, and includes his most famous vocal works - Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, sung by Gillian Fisher, and never more evocative of pagan loss and death; the massive 'Bell Anthem', with its ingenious opening symphony and joyful antiphon; and a miraculously serene 'Evening Hymn', Dido's opposite, death indicating hope, the treble voice swirling over the heavy ground bass like the soul released from the inert body.

it might seem quixotic to choose highlights from an exemplary collection of highlights, but the entry of the strings washing over the serene repetition of 'Be Welcome then, great Sir' always makes my heart stop still, while the musical picture of 'Bold Honour', the 'noisy Nothing, stalking shade', blocking the poet's amorous intentions in 'She loves and confesses too', adds a chilling hint of life's transience to a bouyantly bawdy song.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant Purcell Disc .......2000-11-30

With this album director and Purcell expert Robert King provides the listener with an excellent introduction to the composer's vocal works. The pieces presented here were taken from Mr. King's recordings of 'The Complete Odes and Welcome Songs', 'The Complete Anthems and Services', 'The Complete Secular Solo Songs' and diverse anthology discs. King, his wonderful soloists and musicians do the brilliance of Purcell's music fully justice. Whether he was commissioned by royalty, the church or theatre, Purcell shone in all areas. This disc certainly demonstrates the variety and originality of his craft, not to speak of his uncanny ability of setting words to music.

An outstanding Purcell offering. With a beautiful perfomance by Barbara Bonney of 'Oh, fair Cedaria'. Susan Gritton is equally captivating in 'She loves and she confesses too'. Gillian Fisher's rendition of the famous 'Dido's Lament' is haunting and poignant. Further an intelligent and brilliant 'Hosanna to the highest' by Michael George. James Bowman and Michael Chance sparkle in the countertenor duet 'Sound the trumpet' (from 'Come Ye sons of Art away'). And I should not forget to mention the joyous, luminous performance of the beautiful 'Bell Anthem'. To name but a few favourites, only James Bowman's 'Fairest Isle' was a disappointment.

Those who are familiar with Purcell's music will get an excellent disc with some of his most beloved works. If you are new to Purcell, this is, as already said a great introduction. Which might be the incentive to further explorations of Purcell.

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Tha Carter II: Chopped & Screwed
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Very Very good coming from Watts
  • Double the Pleasure
  • A perfect way to butcher a good album
  • Mo Fire to a Hot CD
  • WEEZY F BABY THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE EVEN WHEN CHOPPED N SCREWED
Tha Carter II: Chopped & Screwed
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ASIN: B000EF5NEE
Release Date: 2006-03-07

Tracks:

  1. Fly In
  2. Tha Mobb
  3. Money on My Mind
  4. Best Rapper Alive
  5. Fireman
  6. Oh No
  7. Shooter
  8. Mo Fire
  9. Weezy Baby - Lil Wayne,
  10. Lock & Load - Kurupt, Lil Wayne
  11. Hustler Musik
  12. Watts Scratch
  13. Receipt
  14. Grown Man - Currency, Lil Wayne
  15. Hit Em Up
  16. Carter II
  17. I'm a Dboy
  18. Feel Me
  19. Get Over - Lil Wayne,
  20. Fly Out

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Very Very good coming from Watts.......2006-07-17

From owning and Listening to both the regular and the chopped and screwed version, I can cleary say that the chopped and screwed version is very good but not as good as the other albums that watts has chopped. However the carter 2 C&S is way better than the Carter 1 C&S which was also done by watts.

The album has it good songs that are, clear and understandable. (Fly in, Best Rapper Alive, Shooter, Hustler Musik, Grown Man). Most of the endings to the songs are blended to the beginning to the next song to allow smooth transition for the next track.
Husler Musik is my Favorite chopped track on the album.

Since the songs are already Slowed(Screwed) They allow the listner to understand what Weezy is saying better than the regular version would allow.

Watts Chopping style seems to be more of chopping certain words in the lyrics to allow more impact to the words, instead of just chopping every syllable like most amateur dj's do



There are some problems with album as well, I know Track# 8 ("Mo Fire") Could have been chopped alot better. It doesn't sound bad but the choppin in this song is kinda akward. Like it wasn't chopped in the right places. Track#9 (Weezy Baby feat. Nikki) sounds great...The only problem is it's way to short! It's only 1:25! Why did it have to be cut so short? Track#12 (Watts Scratch) Is watts showing of his scratchin' skills before Track#13 (Receipt) It's not bad either but to some listners (not including me) it might slow the pace to the next song. Last, Track# 20 (Fly Out)fades out (no pun intended) very early, almost in the middle of the song making it only 2:11 long.

All these things aside, tha Carter 2 C&S is very good if you are into chopped and screwed music. But if you're not then stick with the Excellent Regular version.



lastly to all the people who don't like Chopped and screwed music. If you hate "Chopped and Screwed"... Then why are you buying/listening to it? Why are you complaining about it on Amazon if you hate it? It does not make any sense to get something that you already know you're going to dislike.

5 out of 5 stars Double the Pleasure.......2006-05-18

I've been listening to Houston underground since 1996, and SwishaHouse has always held it down since the late great Screw!!
The best rapper alive....definetly! And to make it even clearer, Watts slowed it down to make you hear and pay attention to his words. If you don't know anything about the screwed and chopped movement....don't buy the album!

1 out of 5 stars A perfect way to butcher a good album.......2006-05-11

Chopped and Screwed is by far the worst butchering of good albums I've ever heard. It figures that Michael Watts would be affiliated with that wack Swishahouse label since they have put out some of the worst hip hop in the past couple years. Thank God that Chamillionaire and Slim Thug left, since they were the only talented members. Anyways this album is terrible. The original was the 2nd best album of the year but this is just a terrible butchering of it. Just listen to Fireman on here and listen to it on the original and you'll notice a big difference. Also they also screwed up Wayne's voice too, just like they do with all the other artists who's albums are butchered by this crap. Go buy the original instead and stop supporting the butchering of good music!

5 out of 5 stars Mo Fire to a Hot CD.......2006-04-06

Michael Watts was the right man to call for the job. He put that extra stank on it making it able to be smelt right through the bag. Pick it Up. Peace

5 out of 5 stars WEEZY F BABY THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE EVEN WHEN CHOPPED N SCREWED.......2006-03-27

THIS ALBUM IS SICK EVEN WHEN CHOPPED N SCREWED, SO SIP THAT PURPLE AND GET YA LEAN ON WHILE LISTENING TO THE BEST RAPPER IN THE GAME. IM SO SO GLAD MANNIE FRESH LEFT. NOW THE BEATS ARE SICKER. WEEZY'S FLOW IS THE SICKEST IN THE GAME. HIS LYRICS R EVEN SICKER. WHEN WEEZY SPITS YOU CAN TELL HE BE IN THE ZONE AND IS IN LOVE WITH THIS ISH. PLEASE IF U LOOKING FOR MORE OF THOSE FIREMAN TRACKS ON THIS ALBUM YOU WONT FIND IT, SO GO BUY SOMEBODY ELSES CORNY ALBUM LIKE TI. THIS IS A ALBUM NOT FOR THE SOFT HEARTED. THIS IS A CERTIFIED CLASSIC AND HIS BEST ALBUM TO DATE. I CANT WAIT FOR THE CARTER 3 WHICH WEEZY SAID IS EVEN GOING TO BE BETTER. MAN THIS DUDE GOT IT ON LOCK
Shall We Gather  - American Hymns and Spirituals
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent
  • Brilliant
Shall We Gather - American Hymns and Spirituals

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005QK6L
Release Date: 2001-09-25

Tracks:

  1. Libert Hall (Lord, In Thy Presence)
  2. Rise, Shine, For Thy Light Is A-Comin'
  3. Welwyn (O Brother Man)
  4. Pisgah (The Lord's My Shepherd)
  5. Poor Rosy
  6. I've Just Come From The Fountain
  7. Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler
  8. Nettleton (Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing)
  9. Wondrous Love (What Wondrous Love Is This)
  10. Gospel Train
  11. Shining Shore (My Days Are Gliding By Swiftly)
  12. More Love
  13. In Mercy, Lord (In Mercy, Lord, Incline Thine Ear)
  14. Beautiful River (Shall We Gather At The River)
  15. Some Of These Days
  16. The Old Ship Of Zion
  17. St. Peter (In Christ There Is No East Or West)
  18. Missionary Chant (Awake, Our Souls)
  19. Old Ship Of Zion (What Ship Is This?)
  20. Inching Along
  21. Watchman (Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night)
  22. Hurry, On My Weary Soul
  23. Morning Trumpet (O When Shall I See Jesus)
  24. He's A Mighty Good Leader
  25. Hold On
  26. Resignation (My Shepherd Will Supply My Need)
  27. We Shall Walk Through The Valley

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent.......2007-05-09

The best "Sacred Harp" or "Shape Note" type singing that I've heard. The various renditons are clear and harmonious.
None of that tuning up, barking, la-la's or other cacophonous sounds here.

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2003-09-22

I couldn't recommend a CD more highly. As a musician I was amazed at the variety of the music here and the truly exceptional performances. It's seems we can always rely on Albany to put out the most interesting and highest quality recordings.
From the Steeples and the Mountains
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Great American Music
  • Some stunning lesser known american pieces
From the Steeples and the Mountains

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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ASIN: B00000JPZ6
Release Date: 1999-08-10

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great American Music.......2003-04-18

I originally purchased this for the Ruggles, but I'm very pleased to have recordings the other composers. Wonderful cd.

4 out of 5 stars Some stunning lesser known american pieces.......2001-07-30

The standouts are the Harris organ and brass piece, available nowhere else that I know of. Organic development of motifs to a massive climax. The two Ives pieces are also firstrate. "From the steeples to the mountains" lives up to Ives' description: And then the rocks began to shout. "Let there be light" sounds as though it could have led to his parting ways with the church he was organist for in the early 1900s.

The other pieces are pretty minor. The Carl Ruggles piece is interesting.
Baby Girl: A Tribute to My Father, Carter Stanley
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • They keep it mountainous!
Baby Girl: A Tribute to My Father, Carter Stanley
Jeanie Stanley , Dr. Ralph Stanley , Ralph Stanley II , and Clinch Mountain Boys
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  1. Shine On

ASIN: B0009OL83U
Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

  1. Baby Girl
  2. Who Will Sing For Me
  3. The Fields Have Turned Brown
  4. The Memory Of Your Smile
  5. She's More To Be Pitied
  6. How Mountain Girls Can Love
  7. Harbor Of Love
  8. White Dove
  9. Train
  10. The Angels Are Singing In Heaven Tonight
  11. Two Sides To A Story
  12. Jesus Is Precious
  13. The Lonesome River
  14. Dream Of A Miner's Child

Product Description

1. Baby Girl
2. Who Will Sing For Me
3. The Fields Have Turned
4. Brown
5. The Memory of Your Smile
6. She's More To Be Pitied
7. How Mountain Girls Can
8. Love
9. Harbor of Love
10. White Dove
11. Train 45
12. The Angels Are Singing
13. In Heaven Tonight
14. Two Sides To A Story
15. Jesus Is Precious *
16. The Lonesome River
17. Dream of A Miner's Child
These two songs were written by Carter Stanley but never recorded. This is the first time they have ever appeared on record.


Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars They keep it mountainous!.......2005-10-24

Playing Time - 43:36 -- Subtitled "A Tribute To My Father Carter Stanley," this project features the lead singing of Jeanie Stanley who was only four years old when her father passed away on December 1, 1966 at age 41. Life on the road was hard, and the emotional and physical strain took its toll. Until his end, Carter sang with strength, feeling and conviction, and those same qualities are what his daughter Jeanie builds into her singing. Jeanie's uncle (Ralph Stanley) and cousin (Ralph Stanley II) also sing lead on a couple numbers. Vocal accompaniment is by Joe Isaacs (a long-time family friend who also produced the album), Stacy York (a member of Joe Isaac's band) and John Rigsby (former mandolin and fiddle player for Dr. Ralph Stanley). This recording includes two songs written by Carter Stanley which have never been recorded entitled, "Two Sides To A Story" and "Jesus Is Precious." The latter is sung acappella by Ralph Stanley. The album closer, "Dream of a Miner's Child" has Jeanie's voice mixed with her father's which was recorded live at the 1961 Chicago Folk Festival. Some favorite selections are the trios (like "The Fields Have Turned Brown") that have Jeanie singing with Ralph Stanley and John Rigsby. Stacy York and Joe Isaacs also sing harmonies on other cuts. "Harbor of Love" is the only quartet. I'm sure glad that Jeanie chose the mournful "Lonesome River" and "The Angels are Singing." I wouldn't have minded if she had included the classic "A Vision of Mother." Jeanie agreed with me that was one song that she wished now she had included, even if it had to make a 15th song.

The instrumental accompaniment is provided by the Clinch Mountain Boys, and they do a fantastic job. They feel it and play it in the old-time mountain way. Stacy York provides some solid harmonizing. The 16-page CD booklet has liner notes by Gary B. Reid, as well as many interesting photographs. None is as touching as the cover photo of Carter and Jeanie as a toddler, and when she closes with "O daddy, dear daddy please don't go away, I never could live without you." Ralph had to prove it could be done, not only with the passing of Carter but another of his lead singers, Roy Lee Centers, a few years later. Now resting in the old Smith Family graveyard in McClure, Va., Carter Stanley is a guardian from on high.

Ralph Stanley provided emotional support, encouragement and wisdom to help Jeanie realize this dream. Ralph says "I'm proud of it. It's good, it's a piece of history and people are gonna' love it." Carter would have been so proud of his "baby girl," and the tribute album also acknowledges the role that Jeanie's mother, Mary, played in remembering Carter and his music. Jeanie sings with rustic mountain twang and powerful delivery that reminds me a bit of Rose Maddox. I'm sure that it was moving experience for all of the musicians to work on this tribute album. The timeless music's sung right, done right, and has the proper feeling for a daughter's tribute to her eloquent songwriting, guitar-picking and singing father. With mountain soul, this album hits you right in the gut. As Jack Cooke would say, they keep it mountainous. (Joe Ross, staff writer, Bluegrass Now)
Just Guitars: Microtonal Music for Guitar
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • The only record of its kind, and well-done
  • inconsistent, directionless, some great material
Just Guitars: Microtonal Music for Guitar

Manufacturer: Bridge
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  1. Just West Coast
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ASIN: B000096JH4
Release Date: 2003-05-05

Tracks:

  1. Carter Scholz: Rhythmicon
  2. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
  3. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
  4. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
  5. Lou Harrison: Tandy's Tango
  6. Lou Harrison: Cinna
  7. Lou Harrison: Palace Music
  8. Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
  9. Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
  10. Lou Harrsion: Serenado por Gitaro
  11. Harry Partch: Letter from Hobo Pablo
  12. Harry Partch: December 1942
  13. Harry Partch: December 1942
  14. Harry Partch: December 1942
  15. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
  16. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
  17. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
  18. Terry Riley: Harp of New Albion
  19. Terry Riley: Harp of New Albion
  20. John Schneider: Lament

Album Description

This recording features the premiere recordings of works by the late Lou Harrison and the legendary Harry Partch. John Schneider, guitarist and Los Angeles radio personality performs on a wide variety of guitars using such instruments as Partch's microtonal Adapated Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Fender guitars, a National Resophonic Guitar, and other instruments that feature tuneable fretboards for various types of Just Intonation. Lou Harrison (1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for National Steel guitar, custom fretted in Just Intonation. The Scenes from Nek Chand uses a six-note mode and is based on the sculpure and architecture of Nek Chand in northern India. Harry Partch worked on the adapatation of guitars in the 1930s, using one for his Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions (1941) (available on BRIDGE 9041). The opening of Partch's long lost song cycle, December 1942, begins with a setting of the jester's song "Come Away Death" from Shakespearre's Twelfth Night. Three Intrusions (1949) are the first compositions to use Partch's newly invented Diamond Marimba and the Adapted Guitar 2. Both of these works feature Schneider singing and intoning the vocal parts, as well as performing on copies of Partch's Adapted Guitars.

Also available: Just West Coast, John Schneider guitars, BRIDGE 9041

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The only record of its kind, and well-done.......2006-01-10

While I too have some criticisms, I can't imagine anyone having the time to do all the unique things that had to be done to realize this album and still have time to get every little thing perfect. This stands beyond many albums in terms of performance and artistry. It is unique and varied. It is definitely a bit jolting in terms of consistency, from the electric-sounding track 1, to the Partch, whereas the rest is more normal guitar playing. But it is all worthwhile. Schneider's singing may not sound like Partch, but his inflection and interpretation are suberb in terms of following the composer's intent. His playing is technically brilliant. It is not fair but to view this as an early recording in a basically yet-to-be-explored field. I hope this album inspires many to build on the ground that Schneider and a few others are working to lay down.

2 out of 5 stars inconsistent, directionless, some great material.......2005-10-15

The reason this recording is important is because it has several important pieces which are on record for the first time, a few by Lou Harrison, a few by Harry Partch. The performances are technically excellent but some truly lack soul. The album is for the most part consistent until we reach the Harry Partch material which seems out of place (this is when it takes a turn and makes the listener cringe), John Schneider sings on the Harry Partch tracks, the singing is very sub-par. He sings about being a hobo and riding a train but the voice sounds far too crisp and clean. But it's hard to complain because these are their first time on record and our only way to hear them. You need to close your eyes and Imagine a gruff, hairy, hobo singing them. Also, the piece written by John Scheider feels a little too melodic and peaceful for this record. This disk has some great material on it, but purchase with an informed mind.
Hail Mary
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    Hail Mary

    Manufacturer: Guild
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    ASIN: B000B9DAS4
    Release Date: 2005-12-27
    Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Great collection of mostly late Carter
    • the 1990s chamber works are phenomenal
    • What Bob Dylan Meant by "Forever Young"
    Elliott Carter: Quintets and Voices

    Manufacturer: Mode
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    ASIN: B0000CABCG
    Release Date: 2003-12-09

    Tracks:

    1. Fragment II * (1999)4:31)
    2. Quintet for Piano & Strings * (1997)14:56)
    3. Syringa (1978)19:11)
    4. Tempo e Tempi (1998)
    5. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    6. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    7. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    8. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    9. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    10. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    11. Tempo e Tempi (1998)JJJ
    12. Quintet for Piano & Winds (1991)22:08)
    13. Retrouvailles (2000)1:51)

    Album Description

    Released to celebrate the 95th birthday of Elliott Carter this year - an amazing figure who remains one of America's most active and vital composers. This collection combines two of his quintets with two major works for voice(s) and ensemble, and two recent, extraordinary miniatures. SPECIAL FEATURES: * The recordings were made by artists who have had a long association with Carter's music. * Elliott Carter supervised all of the recordings. * The Quintet for Piano & Strings was recorded by its dedicatees immediately after its premiere tour. * Fragment II was specially written for The Arditti Quartet as a gift by Carter in honor of their winning the prestigious Siemens Prize. * Liner notes by Carter specialist Paul Griffiths. * Debut recording of one of New York's finest new music groups, Ensemble Sospeso.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Great collection of mostly late Carter.......2006-06-27

    This disc is one of a growing number to feature the recent chamber music of Elliott Carter, showing the considerable interest in his work that many musicians now have. Of most interest to Carter fans will be the world premiere recordings of Fragment II and the Quintet for Piano and Strings, both written for the Arditti Quartet, but it's also good to have fresh takes on the other works on this disc.

    The disc opens with the brief Fragment II, written for the Arditti Quartet to celebrate their winning the Siemens Prize. Like the original Fragment, also written for the Ardittis, this is a predominantly slow-moving, atmospheric piece, making much use of glacial harmonics. More substantial is the following Quintet for Piano and Strings, played by Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet. Like many of Carter's more substantial later works, this is in a single multi-sectional movement that encompasses a wide range of moods, with the strings and the pianist having distinctly different material: the piano brusquely atonal, the strings more lyrical.

    The disc continues with two vocal works. Syringa, from 1978, is the earliest work on the disc, and in some ways from a different Carter. The music here is much more complex and abrasive, with two poems being set simultaneously, and the spiky ensemble including much use of an almost soloistic guitar part. This recording probably has somewhat less immediacy than the Speculum Musicae performance on Bridge, though arguably it has more warmth and tenderness, which helps to put a human face on what is rather austere music.

    I doubt many people could complain about austerity in relation to the next work, the 1999 song cycle Tempo e tempi. This work, for soprano, violin, oboe, clarinet and cello, has to be one of Carter's most sensuous and tender, eight Italian poems (many very short) mostly of a nature more lyrical than dramatic. The whole work is written with a superbly light touch and contains some of Carter's most beautiful melodic writing--who says atonal music has to be joyless and academic? In a similar manner to the reading of Syringa, the performance here is perhaps less immediate than the rival Speculum Musicae reading, yet it is if anything warmer and more tender.

    In contrast to Tempo e tempi, the Quintet for Piano and Winds is one of the most vigorous and dramatic of Carter's late works. As with the quintet with strings, the musical material varies between the instruments, the piano more vivacious (yet often brusque too), the horn more lyrical, the oboe, clarinet and bassoon playing a third type of material that lies somewhere in between those extremes. The whole work is conversational (in the sense that Ives' second quartet is), though the conversation often gets extremely animated and sometimes one participant almost totally takes over for a while. The work gets a fine reading, one that is particularly welcome given that the excellent recording with Andras Schiff, Heinz Holliger and others appears to be no longer available.

    The disc is rounded off with a piece that effectively acts as a programmed-in encore: the brief Retrouvailles, a two-minute piano homage written for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday.

    Overall, this is a very welcome disc that shows off late Carter in a very good light. Fans will already have snapped it up for the first two pieces on the disc, but anyone wondering why Carter's music gets so much attention could do worse than start here (Tempo e tempi is a particularly fine introduction to late Carter, and the coupling here is much meatier than in the rival Bridge recording of it).

    4 out of 5 stars the 1990s chamber works are phenomenal.......2005-08-07

    This state-of-the-art Mode recording of (mainly) recent chamber works by Elliott Carter is phenomenal. Included are three outstanding works, the "Quintet for Piano and Strings" (1997 -- 14'56), the "Quintet for Piano and Winds" (1991 -- 22'08), and "Tempo e Tempi" (1998 -- 16'16) for a quintet of soprano, oboe, clarinet, violin and cello. Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet perform the "Piano Quintet" beautifully. It is a great example of the clarity and (relative) simplicity of the late Carter -- truly remarkable. It was a tour performing this piece that led to the recording of this disc. The piano/winds quintet was written at the request of oboist Heinz Holliger, on the model of Mozart's K.452. The music is a rapid dialogue of three lines -- piano, horn, and reed trio. It's light, witty and engaging, very much in the spirit of Mozart. Finally, "Tempo e tempi" (Time and Times) sets to music the poetry of Eugenio Montale, and is Carter's tribute to Italy, where he has spent much time over the years. The eight short sections are sung by Lucy Shelton -- absolutely lovely.

    Also included are two shorter works, "Fragment II" for string quartet, and "Retrouvailles" for piano, and both are charming. There is only one less-than-stellar element for me, and that is "Syringa," the 1978 vocal work for soprano (in English), baritone (in Greek), and ensemble, based on the story of Orpheus. The John Ashberry poem which is sung by the soprano is quite clever, archly modernist and self-conscious, but I don't find the music compelling.

    This disc is a testimony to all involved, documenting at the highest level the astoundingly prolific Elliott Carter, who celebrated his 95th birthday in 2003!

    4 out of 5 stars What Bob Dylan Meant by "Forever Young".......2003-12-14

    After what seems like years of delay, Mode has released this CD of chamber and vocal music in time for Elliott Carter's 95th birthday, which fell on Dec. 11, 2003. It was worth the wait. The Quintet for Piano and Strings (1997) is one of the two or three pinnacles of Carter's prolific eighties. Though undeniably an example of the his late style, it harks back to the First Quartet (1951!) in its long-lined writing for strings. The music is expansive and concise, light-hearted and dramatic all at once, and it is played to perfection by Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, the performers for whom it was written. The Arditti also provides the first recording of the brief, haunting Fragment II for string quartet (not to be confused with the FIGMENT No. 2 for solo cello). For the rest, there is a fine performance of the Quintet for Piano and Winds (the third recording and just as good as either of the others), and two vocal pieces: Tempo e tempi from 1998, and Syringa from 1978, one of Carter's most powerful works, written when he was a young man of 69. Tempo e tempi, settings of eight texts in Italian, contains some of the loveliest, most sensuous music Carter has ever written. To my ear, soprano Lucy Shelton is not as warm or expressive as Katherine Ciesinski in Syringa (Bridge 9014), or as Susan Narucki in Tempo e Tempi (also Bridge, No. 9111), but the engineering on this recording is superb, and the clarity of instrumental detail alone makes these performances worth owning.
    Catch the Brass Ring
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • This Merry-Go-Round Doesn't Break Down!
    • Saluting the Wurlitzer 165
    • A must-have for anyone who loves band organs!
    • For certain ambient moods....
    • The happiest music on earth!
    Catch the Brass Ring

    Manufacturer: Klavier
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    2. Carousel Memories

    ASIN: B00000DUWQ
    Release Date: 1987-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. Alexander's Ragtime Band
    2. Beside a Babbling Brook
    3. You Gotta See Mamma Every Night
    4. Old Reliable March
    5. Missouri Waltz
    6. Beer Barrel Polka
    7. Yes, We have no Bananas
    8. Barney Google
    9. Boston Commandery March
    10. When My sugar Walks Down the Street
    11. Oh Katherina
    12. Paddlin' Madeline Home
    13. Always
    14. Alley Cat
    15. Doo Wacka Doo
    16. King of the Air March
    17. Show Me the Way to Go Home
    18. I Love My Baby, By Baby Loves Me
    19. Me and My Shadow
    20. Louise
    21. American Patrol (March)
    22. All Alone
    23. Bye Bye Blackbird
    24. The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down
    25. Agravatin'Papa
    26. Yes sir That's my Baby
    27. Roses From the South
    28. Ja Da
    29. Heaven's Artillery March
    30. Waltz
    31. Goodnite Waltz

    Album Description

    Old-fashioned Merry-Go-Round music including favorites such as "The Beer Barrel Polka", "Bye-Bye Blackbird", "The Missouri Waltz" and 28 others.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars This Merry-Go-Round Doesn't Break Down!.......2005-04-12

    Since several other reviewers have given very good descriptions of this CD, I won't re-hash here, but simply say I agree with what they've said. I will add my two cents on a few points not mentioned, though.

    Since the Wurlitzer 165 band organ upon which these musical selections are played is in such good condition, we get a musically idealized version of what we once heard at the merry-go-round. The sonic reality often was quite a bit less, with imperfectly working instruments and the sound of the drive motor as it pumped away to turn the carousel, not to mention the noise of the crowd and the children shouting and squealing. This is no criticism of the CD, though, since it only purports to present the music; it would take a lot more than a CD to present a realistic facsimile of the total experience.

    The liner notes are brief, but provide some interesting background on the origin of carousels and the words themselves. I think the writer, Tupper L. Turner, deserves credit for his/her efforts.

    I was surprised to see Track #30 listed as "Waltz (Title unknown)" when opera lovers will immediately recognize it as two tunes from Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore" (The Troubadour). The first tune is the soprano/tenor duet in the Miserere scene of Act IV; the second is the baritone aria "Il balen del suo sorriso." In any case, neither is a waltz proper, for both are in 6/8, not 3/4 time.

    The selection of tunes, of course, depends on availability of the paper rolls which encoded them. I liked most of the tunes, familiar and otherwise, pretty well, and with 31 tracks there's quite a bit of all kinds there, including "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down."

    Overall, then, I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the CD and the appropriateness of its content. There are several other CDs of this nature available, I know, but I'm not familiar enough with them to offer any comparisons. I just know that I like this one and am happy to have it in my collection. And I suspect that little children will love it!

    4 out of 5 stars Saluting the Wurlitzer 165.......2004-12-30

    It's a toughie reviewing this album - I don't know quite how to rate it for the everyday listener, seeing as how band organ music is definitely an acquired taste. However, that said, if you happen to be a band organ nut, you're in for a treat with this CD. It's about as good as it gets.

    Kudos to Klavier records for making a recording of this wonderful Wurlitzer 165 band organ - it sounds like a dream, and has transferred relatively well to CD format. My only complaint is that the glockenspiel sounds rather abrasive, and gets really grating when recorded onto a cassette tape. Otherwise, the album is pristine.

    The tunes featured are all classic band organ offerings, and the rolls used are in splendid shape. The organ's mechanism performs beautifully - whatever "prominent Midwestern collection", as the liner notes read, it comes from is taking very good care of it.

    Basically, this, alongside its sister album "Catch Another Brass Ring", stands as an ideal representation of what a Wurlitzer 165 should sound like. Band organ lovers will adore it. The average Joe? Hard to say...but it's certainly worth a try.

    5 out of 5 stars A must-have for anyone who loves band organs!.......2003-05-17

    This is the real thing,not some [poor],boring pipe organ imitation.You'll feel like you're really at the fair again when you listen to this CD!

    4 out of 5 stars For certain ambient moods...........2002-10-13

    Play this CD on a system in another room, at low volume, for that ineffable feeling that there's a tumble-down old-fashioned trolley park just over the next hill.

    4 out of 5 stars The happiest music on earth!.......2002-09-17

    This is the perfect antidote for the blues! It is absolutely impossible to feel down once you begin listening to this CD! I use it to give me a lift whenever I need it. I DARE you to not giggle with glee upon pressing the "play" button! If you have fond remembrances of carousel music as a child, you will get goosebumps and feel warm and fuzzy all at once when you listen to this! Why take anti-depressant drugs when you can cure the blahs quickly and naturally with this CD? An exceptionally clear recording, I bumped it down to four stars ONLY because I liked the musical selection slightly better on their follow-up album, "Catch Another Brass Ring."
    The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • Carter continues to impress
    • Fantastic from the first piece
    • Vive le Carter!
    The Music of Elliott Carter, Volume Five - Nine Compositions (1994-2002)

    Manufacturer: Bridge
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    5. The Music of Elliott Carter, Vol. 1: Vocal Works (1975-1981)

    ASIN: B00009OLTI
    Release Date: 2002-06-01

    Tracks:

    1. Steep Steps
    2. Two Diversions
    3. Two Diversions
    4. Oboe Quartet
    5. Figment No. 2 (Remembering Mr. Ives)
    6. Au Quai
    7. Of Challenge and of Love
    8. Of Challenge and of Love
    9. Of Challenge and of Love
    10. Of Challenge and of Love
    11. Of Challenge and of Love
    12. Figment No. 1
    13. Retrouvailles
    14. Hiyoku

    Album Description

    Steep Steps* (2001) Virgil Blackwell, bass clarinet; Two Diversions (1999) Charles Rosen, piano; Oboe Quartet* (2001) Speculum Musicae; Figment No. 2 "Remembering Mr. Ives"* (2001) Fred Sherry, cello; Au Quai* (2002) Maureen Gallagher, viola, Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Of Challenge and of Love (1994) Tony Arnold, soprano; Jacob Greenberg, piano; Figment No. 1 (1994) Fred Sherry, cello; Retrouvailles (2000) Charles Rosen, piano; Hiyoku* (2001) Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima, clarinets

    *Premiere recording

    Volume Five of Bridge's ongoing Elliott Carter series contains five premiere recordings, including Carter's bracing Oboe Quartet of 2001. Performed by many of the leading Carter advocates of our time, this recording is a must for those interested in keeping up with the undimmed imagination and constant creative impulse of this American master, now well into his tenth decade. Also featured on this CD is a new recording of Carter's song cycle Of Challenge and of Love, performed by the brilliant young American soprano Tony Arnold, the recent first prize winner of the Gaudeamus International competition for interpreters of contemporary music. Rounding out this CD are a series of instrumental miniatures played by dedicatees Virgil Blackwell, Charles Neidich, Ayako Oshima and Fred Sherry. In addition, the pianist Charles Rosen adds on to his earlier (almost) "Complete Piano Music of Carter" CD (BRIDGE 9090) with the Two Diversions, and Retrouvailles.

    Volume one: BRIDGE 9014
    Volume two: BRIDGE 9044
    Volume three: BRIDGE 9090 (Grammy nomination)
    Volume four: BRIDGE 9111 (Grammy nomination)

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Carter continues to impress.......2006-06-27

    This disc, containing seven short works and two longer ones dating from Carter's late eighties and early nineties, continues Bridge's invaluable series of recordings of works by this modern American master. As with all Bridge's recordings, the performers are almost always musicians with a long history of performing Carter's music (here including the group Speculum Musicae, the cellist Fred Sherry and the pianist Charles Rosen), and this certainly helps to give the performances an authoritative air.

    The disc starts with a bang--Carter's bass clarinet solo Steep Steps (so titled because of the importance of leaps of a twelfth in the composition). This is a vigorous and highly enjoyable work that provides an ideal disc opener. More dry are the Two Diversions, two pieces for the advanced piano student. These two works complement each other well; the first simpler, the second rhythmically complex.

    The Oboe Quartet is one of Carter's more important recent scores. Written in a single multi-section movement, it alternates between tutti passages and duets for pairs of instruments, and demonstrates (as does much of Carter's recent music) that a strictly atonal style need not reduce a composer's capacity for lyricism. If I'm not sure that Speculum Musicae's performance here quite matches the intensity of Holliger and friends on ECM, this is still a fine reading of a significant work.

    The disc then returns to a couple of miniatures. Figment No 2 for solo cello is one of a series of works in which Carter pays homage to musical figures important to him when he was younger, and though there are no obvious stylistic references to Ives, the work does include fragmentary quotations and hints of hymnic writing. Au Quai, by contrast, is a tribute to a composer and conductor who has done so much for Carter's own music--Oliver Knussen, on his 50th birthday. Written for the unusual combination of viola and bassoon, this is a delightful, charming miniature with a wonderfully sense of timing.

    Returning to major works, once again, Of Challenge and of Love is one of Carter's many recent song cycles (though the only mature work of his for voice and piano). A setting of five poems by John Hollander, this builds to an expressive climax in the lengthy fourth poem, Quatrains from Harp Lake, before the almost anticlimactic close, End of a Chapter. Having only heard this work though Lucy Shelton's premiere recording on Koch, I found much more warmth in it in this reading, with the fine Tony Arnold the soprano soloist, though I don't think it will ever rank amongst my favourite late Carter works.

    The disc ends with three more miniatures. Figment No 1 for solo cello is one of Carter's finest short works, ranging over the whole expressive gamut despite being based entirely on one short idea. Retrouvailles is a brief and comparatively simple (for Carter, at least) study for piano, written for Pierre Boulez's 75th birthday, while Hiyoku, a duet for two clarinets, effectively explores the contrast between the two instruments playing similar and different material.

    This is another impressive release in Bridge's Carter series. Lovers of the composer's music will not hesitate to snap it up.

    5 out of 5 stars Fantastic from the first piece.......2006-01-22

    Carter lets the bass clarinet show off every bit of its range in Steep Steps, from soulful low bass lines, through a smoky lower-midrange area, to an almost sax-like upper register.

    All the cellos pieces are great, and the oboe quartet? The other reviewer nailed it; it's like the oboe is playing the lead violin line.

    5 out of 5 stars Vive le Carter!.......2003-07-07

    The fifth offering in Bridge's indispensible series of the music of Elliott Carter contains nine compositions written from 1994 to 2002, when the composer, incredibly, was between the ages of 85 and 93. There are the usual short gems for various instruments that Carter has made a specialty in recent years. The disk begins with the fascinating "Steep Steps" for solo bass clarinet, an instrument Carter has exploited to great effect in his Piano Concerto and Triple Duo. Fred Sherry delivers a haunting rendition of "Figment No. 2" for solo cello. Subtitled "Remembering Mr. Ives" (Carter first met Ives as a teenager), the piece conveys a nostalgia rare in Carter's work, with short phrases evoking, though not quoting, the kind of hymns Ives used in his music. The Two Diversions for Piano are more transparent than some of Carter's other piano pieces, and rightfully so, since they were written for the Millenium Piano Book for pianists of intermediate skills. Charles Rosen, a long-time Carter champion, provides tender and beautiful readings. Soprano Tony Arnold's rendition of the song cycle "Of Challenge and of Love" seems softer and less forced than Lucy Shelton's premiere recording, which is all to the good, but for me the highlight of the disk is the Oboe Quartet, a major 14-minute work that shows Carter at the top of his instrumental game. Despite its unrepentant modernist idiom, this composition has a classical elegance, a romantic sensuousness, and a Baroque richness of counterpoint that doesn't showcase the soloist as much as make him a first among equals. It is as though the composer had written a new string quartet with the oboe subbing for the first violin. I could not wish for a better performance.
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