Sounds of the Far East

1. Ayaz (Improvisation) - Egschiglen

2. Yu Ge (Song of the Fishermen) - Li He

3. Flowers in the Moonlight in a Spring Night on the River - Pan Jing Ensemble,

4. Song of Heart - Zhou Yu

5. Peacock Dance

6. Chang'gu Dance (Dance Solo)

7. San Jo (Komun'go Solo)

8. Gekko Roteki (A Flute in the Moonlight) - Egschiglen

9. Maritsuki - Ayako Lister

10. Futatsu Noden-En-Shi, Pt. 2 (Pastoral) - Yamato Ensemble

11. Otoko-Koko-Ni Ariki (This Is the Man)

12. Malong-Taghing Baila - Fiesta Filipina

Sounds of the Far East,Various Artists,Arc Music,Int'l & World Music,Pop,V/A Compilations,World Beat Collections,World Music

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100 Hymns & Songs of Inspiration Manufacturer: Castle Music UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Arne | Arne, Thomas Augustin | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Duruflé, Maurice | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Monk, William Henry | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rutter | Rutter, John | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Sullivan | Sullivan, Arthur | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bruckner | Bruckner, Anton | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Compilations | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music | Contemporary Christian | Gospel Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Praise & Worship | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Pop | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Heritage of Hymns: Classic Recordings of the Great Songs of Faith and Inspiration Abide with Me and other favourite hymns Best Loved Hymns Praise to the Lord - Hymns From St. Paul's Cathedral Hymns Triumphant 1 & 2 ASIN: B00008GEKT Release Date: 2003-04-14

Tracks:

1. Love Divine All Loves Excelling - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
2. Father Hear the Prayer We Offer - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
3. Now Thank We All Our God - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
4. This Day, The First of Days - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
5. Stars of the Morning So Gloriously Bright - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
6. God Save the Queen - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
7. Day of Resurrection - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
8. God Rest You Merry Gentlemen - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
9. Of the Father's Heart Begotten - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
10. O Come All Ye Faithful - Choir Of Gloucester Cathedral
11. Awake My Soul and With the Sun - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
12. Thine Arm O Lord in Days of Old - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
13. All People That on Earth Do Dwell - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
14. Good Christian Men Rejoice and Sing - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
15. There Is a Green Hill - Choir Of Norwich Cathedral
16. Lord of Beauty - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
17. Rejoice Today With One Accord - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
18. New Every Morning - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
19. Lead Us Heavenly Father Lead Us - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral
20. O God Our Help in Ages Past - Choir Of Sheffield Cathedral

Tracks:

1. Morning Has Broken - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
2. Happy Are They - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
3. In Christ There Is No East or West - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
4. Silent Night - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
5. Be Thou My Guardian - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
6. Ye Servants of the Lord - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
7. At the Name of Jesus Every Knee Shall Bow - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
8. To Thee O Lord Our Hearts We Raise - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
9. Behold the Great Creator Makes - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
10. Rejoice the Lord Is King - Choir Of Marlborough College Chapel
11. Creator of the Stars of Night - Ely Cathedral Choir
12. He Comes With Clouds Descending - Ely Cathedral Choir
13. O Little Town of Bethlehem - Ely Cathedral Choir
14. Alleluya Alleyluya Alleyluya - Ely Cathedral Choir
15. This Is the Day the Lord Hath Made - Ely Cathedral Choir
16. How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds - Ely Cathedral Choir
17. Lord Thy Word Abideth - Ely Cathedral Choir
18. Jesus Lord We Look to Thee - Ely Cathedral Choir
19. O Lord Our God Arise - Ely Cathedral Choir
20. Lord of All Hopefulness - Ely Cathedral Choir

Tracks:

1. Soldiers of Christ Arise - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
2. Lift Up Your Hearts - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
3. Holy Father, Cheer Our Way - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
4. Maker of the Sun - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
5. O King Most High - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
6. O Praise Our Great and Glorious Lord - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
7. Forgive Our Sins as We Forgive - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
8. We Love the Place O God - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
9. Let Us With a Gladsome Mind - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
10. Give Rest O Christ - Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral
11. Come Holy Ghost Our Hearts Inspire - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
12. O Thou in All Thy Might So Far - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
13. O Christ, Who Art the Light and Day - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
14. O God Thy Soldiers' Crown and Guard - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
15. Strife Is O'er the Battle Done - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
16. O Christ Our Hope, Our Hearts' Desire - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
17. Jesus Shall Reign - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
18. God of Love My Shepherd Is - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
19. O Jesu Saviour of Mankind - Choir Of Truro Cathedral
20. Immortal Invisible God Only Wise - Choir Of Truro Cathedral

Tracks:

1. Ride on Ride on in Majesty - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
2. All Glory Laud and Honour - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
3. Come Rejoicing - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
4. God Is Love and Where True Love Is - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
5. Magnificat: The Great Advent Antiphons - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
6. Come, Christ's Beloved - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
7. Children of the Hebrews (Palm Procession) - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
8. Veneration of the Cross/The Reproaches (Veneratum and Reproaches) - Choir Of All Saints - Margaret Street, London
9. Once in Royal David's City - Choir Of Keble College
10. God Be in My Head - Choir Of Keble College
11. O Thou Who Camest from Above - Choir Of Keble College
12. Judge Eternal Throned in Splendour - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
13. Christ the Lord Is Risen Again - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
14. For All the Saints - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
15. Thy Hand O God Has Guided - Choir Of St Edmunsbury Cathedral
16. Christ the Dawn of Our Salvation - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
17. I Was Glad - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
18. Dear Lord and Father of Mankind - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
19. Locus Iste - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
20. Praise My Soul the King of Heaven - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel

Tracks:

1. Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus! - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
2. While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
3. O Worship the King - The Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury
4. O Heavenly Word of God on High - Choir Of The Collegiate Church Of St Mary
5. Praise to the Lord, The Almighty - Choir Of The Collegiate Church Of St Mary
6. Jesus Christ Is Risen Today - The Choir of York Minister
7. First Nowell - The Choir of York Minister
8. Abide with Me - The Choir of York Minister
9. Breathe on Me Breath of God - Choir Of Keble College
10. Rock of Ages - Choir Of Keble College
11. On This Day, The First of Days - Choir Of Keble College
12. Jesu Sweet and Mary - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
13. O Quam Gloriosum - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
14. Ye Holy Angels Bright - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
15. O for a Closer Walk With God - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
16. Prayer of St Patrick - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
17. Lord's Prayer - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
18. Blessed Be the God and Father - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
19. Day Thou Gavest Lord Is Ended - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel
20. Jerusalem (And Did Those Feet in Ancient Times) - Choir Of Eastbourne College Chapel

Album Description

Full Title - 100 Hymns & Songs Of Inspiration. UK box-set featuring 100 tracks performed by Britain's finest Cathedral Choirs including, Gloucester Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Sheffield Cathedral, & many more. Five standard jewel cases housed in a slipbox. Castle Pulse. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

The picture.......2006-12-11

I haven't purchased the CD but the picture of the inside of a church on the cover is not of a British church, like one would assume since it says its a recording of British choirs. This picture is of Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Just thought i'd let you know. I'll be honest; I'm one to judge things by it's cover and if the company took such care to choose a 'British' church for their British choir CD, I'm willing to bet the music is equally well selected... I'm being sarcastic. But I gave the product 5 stars because I didn't want to hurt its ratings just because i'm cynical. But check out the church if you're ever in Montreal, it's truly beautiful... here I'm not being sarcastic.

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Yeah Man! Ryan Hartt & Blue Hearts Manufacturer: Far Tone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: Wake Up and Worry ASIN: B0007GAELC Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

1. Rock All Night
2. Believe What I Said
3. Oh Espanada
4. Boogie Guitar
5. Drop Anchor
6. Two Gizzards and a Neck
7. What's the Matter Baby
8. I Thought You Went
9. Hangover Blues
10. Deep to Left
11. Doubt My Love
12. Do Unto Others
13. Yes It Is
14. Too Much Love
15. Sonny Boy Nighthawk

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Everlasting Dreams Manufacturer: Neil Pham ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Relaxation | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA41CG Release Date: 2003-03-04

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Belly Dance: Sounds of the Far East Various Artists Manufacturer: Orpheus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000067UOK Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

1. Lawrence Of Arabia
2. Hava Nagila Araby
3. Turkish Armenian Medley
4. Medley 1
5. Topkapi
6. Shifte Armany
7. Mountain Dance
8. Medley 2
9. Greek Medley
10. Turkish Arabic medley
11. Unhappy Wanderer

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Naked in a Trailer Al Rose Manufacturer: Whitehouse Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000004B0Z Release Date: 1996-05-28

Tracks:

1. Visionary Tractor Man
2. Channel To Channel
3. Naked In A Trailer
4. Mister Bigger
5. Vote For Me
6. Everything Is Flexible
7. Delirium Exacto
8. 21st Of June
9. Slow Low Rise Style
10. Wander Blind
11. Reasons To Bleed
12. Sun On Black Vinyl
13. Hurry Back

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Essential Sounds from the Far East ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009A490I Release Date: 2005-08-09

Album Description

Japanese pressing includes the bonus tracks 'Fuu Chuu' & 'Wild Hue'. Avex. 2005.

Average customer rating: kinda bland, not original....

Dance, Dance, Dance: Deep House Sounds from the Far East Yoshito Manufacturer: Hot Productions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Techno-House | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001QZH Release Date: 1995-03-06

Tracks:

1. Lift You Up (Club Mix)
2. Trapped (Vocal Mix)
3. Oh Baby (Underground Mix)
4. Tonight (Late Nite Mix)
5. Come Into Your Heart (Believe Love Mix)
6. Sayonara (Good Bye) (Lite House Mix)
7. Come On (Smooth Mix)
8. Dance Dance Dance (Funky Club Mix)
9. Nite Of Rose
10. Nite Of Groovin
11. Dreamy Song (Club Mix)
12. Why Can't We See (Nite Mix)
13. In Love (Club Mix)

Customer Reviews:

kinda bland, not original...........2002-08-19

The first time I heard this CD, I really enjoyed it. However, the more I listen to it, the blander it becomes. Don't let the "Far East" in the title allow you to think that this is some novel blend of house and Oriental music conventions. If you want a CD full of mediocre house to have playing in the background while you are doing something important, then this is okay. I plan to use this CD while I'm on the treadmill. However, if you want to dance your butt off, you will not find a sufficient amount of grooves on this work.

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Sounds of the Far East Various Artists Manufacturer: Arc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000AKQNN Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Ayaz (Improvisation) - Egschiglen
2. Yu Ge (Song of the Fishermen) - Li He
3. Flowers in the Moonlight in a Spring Night on the River - Pan Jing Ensemble,
4. Song of Heart - Zhou Yu
5. Peacock Dance
6. Chang'gu Dance (Dance Solo)
7. San Jo (Komun'go Solo)
8. Gekko Roteki (A Flute in the Moonlight) - Egschiglen
9. Maritsuki - Ayako Lister
10. Futatsu Noden-En-Shi, Pt. 2 (Pastoral) - Yamato Ensemble
11. Otoko-Koko-Ni Ariki (This Is the Man)
12. Malong-Taghing Baila - Fiesta Filipina

Average customer rating: imaginative and powerful Great arrangement of a classic work!

Far East Suite Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra Manufacturer: Asian Improv Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music International Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Monk's Moods Rhapsodies ASIN: B00004DTMB Release Date: 1999-07-15

Tracks:

1. Tourist Point of View
2. Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)
3. Isfahan
4. Depk
5. Mount Harissa (Prelude)
6. Mound Harissa
7. Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)
8. Agra
9. Amad
10. Ad Lib on Nippon

Amazon.com

Of all the compositions Duke Ellington rolled out during his 1960s tenure on the U.S. State Department international touring circuit, Far East Suite was clearly the jewel in 1966--and has remained so since. The Ellington orchestra's famed recording of the work is cited as the best of his '60s material. And perhaps he could have imagined the suite as it appears in the thriving context of percussionist Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra. Brown spirits the work away, keeping central parts extra-Ellingtonian, with flourishes from different band sections running headlong across each other, especially on "Ad Lib on Nippon." Brown's band is incredibly resourceful, making a dozen players frequently sound like a much fuller orchestra. Jon Jang plays a double-take-worthy rendition of the original's piano parts, sprucing them with big keyboard blasts here and there but otherwise remaining largely faithful to the score. The horn soloists step out from the tight arrangements in stunning fashion, especially Hafez Modirzadeh's tenor solo on "Mount Harissa" and Melecio Magdaluyo's growling baritone on "Agra." The band interpolates several traditional Asian melodic additions into the Ellingtonian foundation, adding Chinese wind instruments beautifully to "Blue Pepper" and enlivening the overall piece with elements that make it in many ways even more compelling than the original. Brown has been nominated for a 1999 Grammy Award for this work, recognition of a flawless nod to and updating of an Ellington classic. It's one of the most thoughtful and creative tributes to the Duke on record. --Andrew Bartlett

Album Description

This recording of the FAR EAST SUITE is the culmination of a ten-year-long endeavor, the fulfillment of a marriage between a research project and a dream. The idea of blending Asian and Middle Eastern instruments and sensibilities into the multicultural melange of Duke Ellington and collaborator Billy Strayhorn's musical travelogue first occurred in 1989 while I was a doctoral research fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's newly acquired Duke Ellington Collection. During the fellowship, I was able to examine many of the thousands of original and copied manuscripts, scores, sketches and band parts as yet uncataloged in the archives. In 1991, I premiered a precursory project, a new version of Ellington's 1928 Cotton Club "jungle music" classic, "The Mooche," at the tenth anniversary of the Asian American Jazz Festival at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum. After completion of my doctoral coursework at UC Berkeley in 1992, I was hired by the Smithsonian to direct the Jazz Oral History Program, serve as curator of musical culture and assist in the completion of the Duke Ellington traveling exhibition, Beyond Category: The Musical Genius of Duke Ellington. Thus, the heretofore dream of first-hand accessibility to Ellington's musical magic was realized during my four years at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.

A similar albeit more extensive process of intensive research and study was conducted for a new FAR EAST SUITE. The nine-movement Ellington-Strayhorn original is a musical portrait of the countries and people who welcomed them and the Orchestra on their tours in the 1960s. This new arrangement was originally conceived as a fitting commemoration of the Duke Ellington centennial, a celebration of his homage to Asia and the Middle East. The FAR EAST SUITE seemed ideally suited as a musical mirror of today's global community, a scintillating tapestry of contrasting moods, compositional styles, approaches to modality and tonality, and always the blues. There is only one commercial release of the Ellington Orchestra performing the FAR EAST SUITE, although various versions of "Ad Lib on Nippon" and the July 1963 recording of "Isfahan" (originally titled "Elf") are currently available on CD. Through examining original manuscripts, orchestral parts and subsequent transcriptions, and by creating a score reduction from the original 15- to a 12-piece orchestra with the invaluable arranging and copying assistance of Dan Nielsen, a blueprint for a new interpretation was constructed. The process now involved creating an arrangement incorporating and showcasing the distinctive talents of the members of Asian American Orchestra.

Customer Reviews:

imaginative and powerful.......2003-04-12

It's hard to describe the way this music builds from Ellington's foundation and adds a layer of interpretations that truly underscores it ability to cross cultures. The Orchestra is a unique gathering of talents -- certainly preofessional and capable in jazz and indigenous instruments. But the performance is infused with a special energy, as we imagine the piece has a special meaning to these artists. The work has that feeling of a personal and summary statement that jazz can bring these seemingly disparate musical traditions together. Get the CD, but see them live if you get the chance!

Great arrangement of a classic work!.......2000-02-09

Words cannot really describe this rendition by the Asian American Orchestra. The original was wonderful. In the spirit of Ellington, Anthony Brown and the AAO have taken this piece to the next level. They just didn't perform it, but interpreted this work from their own experiences. Bravo!

Average customer rating: A fine introduction to various Asian styles

Sounds of the Far East Various Artists Manufacturer: Arc Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00009MGRL Release Date: 2003-05-20

Tracks:

1. Ayaz (Improvisation) - Egschiglen
2. Yu Ge (Song of the Fishermen) - Li He
3. Flowers in the Moonlight in a Spring Night on the River - Pan Jing Ensemble,
4. Song of Heart - Zhou Yu
5. Peacock Dance
6. Chang'gu Dance (Dance Solo)
7. San Jo (Komun'go Solo)
8. Gekko Roteki (A Flute in the Moonlight) - Egschiglen
9. Maritsuki - Ayako Lister
10. Futatsu Noden-En-Shi, Pt. 2 (Pastoral) - Yamato Ensemble
11. Otoko-Koko-Ni Ariki (This Is the Man)
12. Malong-Taghing Baila - Fiesta Filipina

Customer Reviews:

A fine introduction to various Asian styles.......2003-07-05

An excellent introductory sampler drawn from several earlier Arc Music albums, including some Japanese taiko drumming by the Wa Daiko Matsuri Za ensemble, Chinese classical performances, and folkloric music from Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia and the Philippenes, all sliding from style to style with relative ease. A nice, listenable set!

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