L' An 2005 [Import]

Product Description
Reissue of the Original Album Recorded for Braclay Label. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

L' An 2005,Dalida,Polygram Int'l,French Pop,Int'l & World Music,Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: SO GOOD :D Awesome buy Love this Musical!! great soundtrack First Time a Film has been as Good as the Original Musical

Rent (2005 Movie Soundtrack) Rosario Dawson , Wilson Jermaine Heredia , Taye Diggs , Idina Menzel , Adam Pascal , Jesse L. Martin , Anthony Rapp , and Tracie Thoms Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Similar Items: Rent (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition) Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast) WICKED: THE GRIMMERIE, A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast) Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B000AYEI4U Release Date: 2005-09-27

Tracks:

1. Seasons of Love
2. Rent
3. You'll See
4. One Song Glory
5. Light My Candle
6. Today 4 U
7. Tango: Maureen
8. Life Support
9. Out Tonight
10. Another Day
11. Will I
12. Santa Fe
13. I'll Cover You
14. Over The Moon

Tracks:

1. La Vie Boheme
2. I Should Tell You
3. La Vie Boheme B
4. Seasons of Love B
5. Take Me or Leave Me
6. Without You
7. I'll Cover You Reprise
8. Halloween
9. Goodbye Love
10. What You Own
11. Finale A
12. Your Eyes
13. Finale B
14. Love Heals

Amazon.com

It's not that surprising that Rent, a successful musical with a strong youth following, would have transferred from the New York stage to film. What is remarkable is that the material has aged very well and that most of the original cast have made the trip to the silver screen. This is no small feat since nearly ten years have elapsed since the show's Off-Broadway debut and the film's release. When it opened in 1996, Jonathan Larson's rock musical based on neobohemian life in the gritty East Village felt a bit hackneyed at times; now, Rent feels more like a Broadway fantasy about life on the edge, and that new element actually works in the show's favor. The two cast additions--Rosario Dawson (replacing Daphne Rubin-Vega as Mimi) and Tracie Thomas (replacing Fredi Walker as Joanne)--act well and with emotion, but aren't quite powerful enough. They are eclipsed by vets such as Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, and Taye Diggs, who of course had the chance to perfect their roles on stage and can also be heard on the original cast recording. It's a pleasure to hear these stalwarts New York performers strut their stuff again. This soundtrack will please the show's fans, and probably attract new ones. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Album Description

One of the longest-running shows (since 1996) in the history of Broadway, and one of its most beloved, RENT was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Based on Puccini's classic opera "La Boheme," Jonathan Larson's revolutionary rock opera tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic in New York's gritty East Village. Now the powerful musical marks its 10th year on stage by coming to the big screen, accompanied by RENT The Motion Picture Soundtrack, produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day, Goo Goo Dolls, Alanis Morissette).

Customer Reviews:

SO GOOD :D.......2007-08-02

Love the original stage show. Love the movie.

Soundtracks?
Love the movie soundtrack more.

Awesome buy.......2007-07-13

You can practically feel the scenes come to life through the sound track! Its that good. Any true rent head worth a salt to his or her name would have this in their collection. It is too good to pass up!

Love this Musical!!.......2007-06-20

I absolutely loved this in the movie form and would love to see the live show. But since that will be a while in coming; getting the soundtrack is the next best thing. These people can SING! This way I can hear the songs anywhere at anytime; not just watching the movie.

great soundtrack.......2007-04-26

I have own this soundtrack pretty much since it came out...

I have never been that big on musicals, but when the movie first came out my friend dragged me to the movies with him to see the movie, and right away I fell in love with it...and for the next week I had the songs stuck in my head, they just wouldn't go away...they haunted me in my sleep, but in a good way...I fall in love with all the music, so i had to get this soundtrack so I would be able to listen to these wonderful songs all the time, especially till the movie came out onto dvd, which i also own and love to death. The songs are so addictive...I am actually listening to the soundtrack as I'm writing this review, I can't pick out one song that is my favorite, I love all of them. If i had to choice "Will I" or "Without You". "Will I" is such a touching song on its own, but when its patterned with the movie it hit me hard, great song, it brings tears to my eyes when i listen it. And the same goes with "Without You" its just a very touching song and it connects with my life. Overall one of the best soundtracks I have ever heard.

First Time a Film has been as Good as the Original Musical.......2007-02-23

I will keep this short, because " M J Heilbron Jr. 'Dr. Mo' " said it perfectly.

I have never seen a movie that has been able to capture everything a musical did.

The actors were perfectly selected for the cast. The voices amazing and the acting flawless. Who knew Taye Diggs could act and sing.

Buy this CD. You will love it every bit as much as you loved the original Broadway CD... if not more.

Average customer rating: Will endure long after we are gone... Snoozeville Worst musical I've seen in 5 years It's closed in NY, but it opened in Chicago this week! Simply unique

The Light in the Piazza (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Adam Guettel , Craig Lucas , Kelli O'Hara , Victoria Clark , and Matthew Morrison Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Little Women The Musical (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Original Broadway Cast) The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B0009A1AQE Release Date: 2005-05-24

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Statues and Stories
3. The Beauty Is
4. Il Mondo Era Vuoto
5. American Dancing
6. Passeggiata
7. The Joy You Feel
8. Dividing Day
9. Hysteria
10. Say It Somehow
11. Aiutami
12. The Light in the Piazza
13. Octet
14. The Beauty Is (Reprise)
15. Let's Walk
16. Clara's Interlude
17. Love to Me
18. Fable

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Like a shimmering pearl, The Light in the Piazza emerged from a sea of revivals, rehashings, and movie adaptations to secure 11 2005 Tony nominations, including Best Musical. Based on an Elizabeth Spencer novella (which was also made into a 1962 film), it follows a mother, Margaret (Victoria Clark), and her daughter, Clara (Kelli O'Hara), as they take a vacation to Italy. There, Clara and a young Italian (Matthew Morrison) fall in love, but Margaret is determined to keep them apart.

The Light in the Piazza doesn't fit the model of most Broadway scores, with a splashy opener here, a swing number there, then the big ballad. The score is more of a unified whole, sometimes jarring, sometimes following the patterns of speech, and sometimes unfolding in glorious sheens of sound. (Heck, some of it's even in Italian!) In that sense, it's similar to another unconventional American musical set in Italy, Stephen Sondheim's Passion, which is more chamber opera than musical, and composer-lyricist Adam Guettel (song of Mary Rodgers, grandson of Richard Rodgers) seems the most likely heir apparent to Sondheim in the current generation of musical theater creators. O'Hara's voice soars in the score's most beautiful moments ("Say It Somehow," the title song), but Clark enjoys two exquisitely lyrical moments with "Dividing Day" and "Let's Walk." She was one of the show's six Tony winners (for Leading Actress), along with Guettel's score and the orchestrations, scenice design, lighting, and costumes, while O'Hara (for Featured Actress), Morrison, Craig Lucas's book, and Bartlett Sher's direction were also nominated. --David Horiuchi

Album Description

The Light in the Piazza is arguably one of the most highly anticipated theatrical events of the decade for serious Broadway theatergoers. The Los Angeles Times has already declared its creator, Nonesuch artist Adam Guettel, "a composer for the new century," on the strength of his two Off-Broadway productions, the 1996 Obie-Award winning "folk musical" Floyd Collins and the 1998 song cycle, Myths and Hymns, TIME has described him as "a startlingly original songwriter." Few theatrical composers have been watched as closely as Guettel, and few musicals in the course of their development have generated so much substantial press or been praised so highly on the road as The Light in the Piazza. Both the New Yorker and The New York Times magazine devoted in-depth coverage to the evolution of Guettel's sophisticated, deeply moving score. New Yorker critic John Lahr decided,"Guettel's kind of talent cannot be denied. He shouldn't change for Broadway; Broadway, if it is to survive as a creative theatrical force, should change for him."

Customer Reviews:

Will endure long after we are gone..........2007-07-31

My wife, daughters, and I had the good fortune to see this musical shortly before it left Chicago. We love musicals and all agreed that this is one of the best we've seen in many years. Why?
First of all, the story is simple, yet basic to everyone. It's about finding love and embracing it to the greatest extent possible. It's about losing a passion for someone that once existed. Most of all, it's about the simplicity of pure love in a complicated world and how it can break down all barriers to conquer all.
The composers matched characters and emotions perfectly, from Clara's cries from her heart in "The Light in the Piazza" to Fabrizio's love at first site in "Love to Me". How can you not love the beginning lyrics in "Love to Me"? ("The day we meet. The way you lean against the wind, and do not know that you are beautiful.)
Or Margaret's lament in the reprise to "The Beauty Is". The lyric ("If I could, then I would paint it over. I would be there and I wouldn't turn away. If I only had a chance to not turn away... and the beauty is, and the beauty is, the beauty is.")is a statement about everyone's life and the decisions they make and regret.
"Say it Somehow" is one of the most beautiful songs about the fact that love transcends language and cultural barriers.
One reviewer missed the entire point of Clara's tirade scene. Her passion to protect her love is just that, pure passion, not checked by proprieties. It is a reaction that is understood in all languages, a reaction from the heart to someone who is posing as a threat to take her love away from her. We should all be so passionate when our love is threatened.
Thank you Adam Guettel for a show and album that we will enjoy for the rest of our lives. We need more musicals like this one. I am sure that it will endure the test of time. It is a universal story of love coupled with music for the soul.

Snoozeville.......2007-07-23

The only thing more sleep inducing than this cast album is sitting through the actual show. The music is very pretty but too similar and will lull you into a deep coma!

Worst musical I've seen in 5 years.......2007-07-20

As part of the Broadway in Chicago Series, I have seen all of the plays coming through Chicago in recent years. Light in the Piazza was terrible. Who wrote this, and why? The music is forgettable and creates cognitive dissonance. The lyrics are boring.

The scene where the handicapped gal implodes at a dinner party was excruciating to watch. And not in a good way. The play is fractured and confusing.

It's closed in NY, but it opened in Chicago this week!.......2007-07-19

Bravo, "Piazza"! May we all hope that Guettel-Lucas are the Rogers & Hammerstein of a new generation of American music. "Piazza" is not a musical, it is more of a miniature contemporary Mozartian "Magic Flute." The music is brilliant in it's sheer lyricism. Though the plot is thin to the point of absurdity it doesn't matter because the characters grow with each note until "Piazza" blazes forth as a shining star in the current constellation of new and revived Broadway musicals.

For "Piazza" afficiandos there is always hope for musicals as long as "Piazza" continues. This album is a jewel. So many of the songs are incredibly touching. I've sat through New York and Chicago performances and weeped to "Dividing Day" and watched the quiet tears of men and women in the audience. With "Piazza" love in Florence is eternal.

Victoria Clark, (God bless that North Carolina accent) O'Hare and Morrison are the definitive cast. What a collection of voices and actors.

I only hope that everyone who hears "Piazza" has the opportunity to see the performance live somewhere. It's so much more with the lighting and Italian joie de vivre including instructions to turn down your cell phones and pages in Italian.

Simply unique.......2007-07-19

A refreshing change from the usual showtunes that regurgitate the same "sound", i.e melody lines, this is classy and on its own! The performances are nothing short of top notch, Matthew Morrison is fantastic.

Average customer rating: WORTHY RECORDING OF LITTLE-KNOWN BERNSTEIN MUSIC. A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted Eder over does it; Frey to be commended A+ for Score, D for Sloppy scholarship A beautiful and touching rendition of the classic story.

Peter Pan (2005 Studio Cast) - Leonard Bernstein Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: By Myself: The Songs of Judy Garland Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 New York Cast) The Light in the Piazza (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Revival Cast) 100 Years of Peter Pan ASIN: B0009EZ0Q6 Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. Prelude to Act I
2. Who Am I?
3. Peter's Tears
4. Shadow Dance
5. Flight to Neverland
6. Flying Music
7. Prelude to Act II=20
8. Pirate Song
9. Croc Music
10. Wendy's Entrance
11. Build My House
12. Scene Change
13. Neverland
14. Pirate's Song - reprise
15. Lagoon Fight
16. Scene Change
17. Peter Peter
18. Indian-Pirate Fight
19. Hook's Poison
20. Tink Sick - Tink Lives!
21. Captain Hook Soliloquy
22. Prelude to Act III
23. Crew Dance
24. Plank Round
25. Fight
26. Scene Change
27. Dream With Me
28. Underscore
29. Scene Change
30. Spring Will Come Again (Bonus Track)

Amazon.com

Peter Pan is Leonard Bernstein's least-known musical--or at least chunk of a musical. Featuring four Bernstein songs, the show opened on Broadway in 1950; it starred Jean Arthur (then nearly 50!) as Peter Pan and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook. The show used Alec Wilder's underscore, but Bernstein had composed one as well, and his finally sees the light of day on this CD after years of research and restoration by conductor Alexander Frey. Was it worth the effort? Absolutely. Bernstein fans will of course crave the CD, but it should delight newcomers as well. The instrumental tracks display a wide stylistic palette, and the songs are simply wonderful. Just check out "Who Am I" (sung by Linda Eder) and you will hear a ballad as lovely as any‹cabaret singers in search of rare material would be well advised to look into it. Baritone Daniel Nardiccio does warm justice to Bernstein's near-operatic passages in "Pirate Song" and "Captain Hook's Soliloquy" (reminiscent of Candide). As if this weren't enough, the CD concludes with the wistful "Spring Will Come Again," which Bernstein had written for a possible musical adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

WORTHY RECORDING OF LITTLE-KNOWN BERNSTEIN MUSIC. .......2006-02-02

Please allow me to add a few comments about this recording for which Kevin Killian, Michael G. Brennan, Larry Moore and others have already written excellent reviews. I am in total agreement with most of their observations, and a say a hearty "Amen" to Mr. Moore's input regarding the lack of information in the liner notes.

This is not your ordinary PETER PAN, which you will see upon removing the disc from the case. You are now staring into the gaping jaws of a crocodile. Not nearly as popular as the Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Green version, and far darker, it's easy to understand why Bernstein's version is rarely staged. In fact, it's not really a musical, but rather a play with songs and incidental music. The handful of songs are all performed by Wendy, Captain Hook, and the pirates -- "none for Peter, none for Nana, none for John and Michael." Furthermore, two of the songs included on this recording ("Captain Hook's Soliloquy" and "Dream with Me") were dropped from the original production because they were too difficult for the stars. I guess Boris Karloff just didn't have the chops to sing Hook's "aria."

Bernstein's incidental music also never made it to Broadway, perhaps because of its complexity and challenge to the average Broadway pit orchestra. Instead, Alec Wilder wrote new incidental music for the play.

Alexander Frey conducts what is called the Amber Orchestra, which I assume is the orchestra of the Karlin Theater in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the ensemble he conducts as his "day job." Orchestra and conductor do great honor to the original orchestrations by Trude Rittman & Hershy Kay and also to the additional orchestrations of conductor Frey and others. But, like Larry Moore, I wish the liner notes would have told us who orchestrated what. (You can find all that information on archivmusic.com.) The voices were recorded in New York and later mixed with the orchestra. Broadway goes Eastern European! Similarly, not one, but two Eastern European orchestras ar heard on the recording of SHERRY: the Czech Philharmonic Chamber & the Bratislava Radio Symphony. Pity it's too costly to record orchestras in America.

When it comes to writing music for the theater, no one comes close to Leonard Bernstein. There are multiple recordings of ON THE TOWN, WONDERFUL TOWN, WEST SIDE STORY, & CANDIDE and now we have Alexander Frey and the folks at KOCH Classics to thank for resurrecting and preserving this little known Bernstein score. In addition to Bernstein's Broadway scores, I enthusiastically recommend "The White House Cantata" (assembled from the score of 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE), "The Chichester Psalms," the chamber opera "Trouble in Tahiti," and any of the fine recording of his songs.

I doubt if we'll ever see another composer who will write so beautifully for the American theatre.

A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted.......2005-11-10

A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted
This world premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan should win a Grammy. With a steller cast led by Broadway superstars Linda Eder and Daniel Narducci, and fabulously conducted by Alexander Frey (who restored and brought this lost masterpiece to life), this great music sings and dances for the first time. I'm absolutely enchanted and you will be as well.

Eder over does it; Frey to be commended.......2005-10-22

For those familiar with the earlier recording of Bernstein's Peter Pan (Arthur/Karloff), the release of an expanded recording of this neglected Bernstein work is a real excitement. The tracks include an indepth study by Frey of the music score, in its wholistic beauty, including even small segments of under a minute. Other works are resurrected, originally cut from the final score; why they would cut "Dream of Me" is beyond me.

However, Eder cast as Wendy does not sit well. Timid, motherly Wendy is not synonymous with big, broadway star. What should be simple songs, as they are written as well as should be sung, are instead aggrandized broadway hits. Yes, Eder has a gorgeous voice, but here a bit misplaced. I much prefer the casting of Wendy in the original recording. However, in favor of Eder, the CD is not replicating the narrative and non-music portions as did the original CD, so the work may as well be a set of disjointed pieces, not a flowing piece of arias and spoken scenes. Therefore, her portrayal of Wendy as a whole is not as crucial had there been a script to read.

The "bonus track" reinstalled an appreciation for the thematic material of the second Chichester pslam. I'm left wondering if there are other restorations to be made from the abandonded "Skin of Our Teeth" project. Here, I have no qualms with Eder's interpretation; soft, delicate, flowing.

This is certainly a hallmark in Bernstein recordings. A must for any Bernstein fan.

A+ for Score, D for Sloppy scholarship.......2005-09-04

This recording is a valuable addition to the music of Leonard Bernstein, but rather an embarassment in the scholarship of assembling a lost show. On the plus side, the music is enchanting, Linda Eder truly stunning in a mix of musical innocence and sophistication, and it is conducted and played quite well. On the negative side, Daniel Narducci's soft baritone has neither enough menace or comedy.

As to reconstructing a lost score, the scholarship is not so hot: what actually existed from the original show and orchestrations? Who orchestrated what among the new pieces? As far as that goes, what of Trude Rittmann and Hershy Kay: who orchestrated what in the original? How does the size of the orchestra on the recording compare to the original production orchestration?

On the music not used in the original, what pieces exist in full and what choices were made in completing others? The recording's notes are woefully inept.

Why use the lovely, but over-inflated, arrangement of "Dream With Me" from the 1977 BY BERNSTEIN revue at the Chelsea Theatre instead of newly orchestrating the extant song sheet? The song, written for ON THE TOWN, needs to fit the song style of PETER PAN's incidental music and not turn into a concert number. In the original production, there were only two Mermaids singing "Neverland." Why a women's chorus with a bad top soprano?

I've always felt the Bernstein score should be available for productions of the play, but this "edition" needs some thought before it's published or made available for performance.

A beautiful and touching rendition of the classic story........2005-08-27

This album is a delightful pendant to the original cast recording with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, with the underscoring and orchestrations the true stars of the show, as this recording is their first hearing. Most of the songs are somewhat familiar to Bernstein fans, and much of Bernstein's rendering of Barrie's story is highly sophisticated. A few texts come across as a bit preachy, especially since they are supposed to be sung by a small child, but the overall mood of sweetness tinged with melancholy is exactly right, in keeping with the more serious aspects of the original book: it's all about growing up, and how painful the experience can be. Kudos to Alexander Frey for resurrecting this neglected minor masterpiece.

Linda Eder and Daniel Narducci perform beautifully, particularly Eder (who I've never heard before! There is a touch of Barbara Cook about her). Mr. Narducci's Captain Hook is a little too bland and soft-grained for my taste -- it's difficult to top the great Boris Karloff -- but he does well in Hook's aria (yes, it's a REAL aria). This piece itself, dropped from the original show, is defeated by a text that's too good to set to music, but it's interesting to hear what Peter Pan might have sounded like if it had been turned into an opera.

There are a few surprises in this score. Some of the fight music foreshadows sections of "West Side Story," a few portions may sound a bit like "Candide," but at the point where Tink comes back to life, the orchestra plays a section of the dances from "On The Town!"

My misgivings about the recording have to do with the liner notes. Daniel Felsenfeld refers to Bernstein's "Candide" as a forgotten show. (It has been making the rounds in the opera houses of the world for quite some time, thanks to Bernstein's final revisions; it even had a Broadway revival a few years back; the original cast album is still the best rendition of the score and readily available); also, the singers who make up the chorus, infrequent as their appearances are, remain uncredited (Perhaps it's better not to know who the ladies are. The Mermaid's Song is laden with vibrato and off-pitch sopranos. The gentlemen are great as the pirates); the photos of the recording session are uncredited, and the people in them unidentified (although Bernstein himself is pretty recognizable); Mr. Felsenfeld himself is a mystery -- there is nothing in the booklet to tell us what his part of the project was, if any.

Still, this is an excellent and important recording to have. Now that Bernstein's original music has been discovered and revealed, it's time for someone to stage it!

Average customer rating: Very Enjoyable for all music fans Absolutely Amazing! Two CDs packed with the world's most beautiful classical music...

The Classical Album 2005 Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Chopin | Chopin, Frédéric | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Donizetti | Donizetti, Gaetano | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mascagni | Mascagni, Pietro | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Meyerbeer | Meyerbeer, Giacomo | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Pachelbel | Pachelbel, Johann | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Puccini | Puccini, Giacomo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Satie | Satie, Erik | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Strauss Jr., Johann | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tavener | Tavener, John Kenneth | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Theodorakis | Theodorakis, Mikis | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Verdi | Verdi, Giuseppe | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Vivaldi | Vivaldi, Antonio | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Scherzo | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Czech | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: The Number One Classical Album 2006 Time to Say Goodbye Vittorio Voice of Romance The #1 Opera Album ASIN: B000A8AXWW Release Date: 2005-09-13

Customer Reviews:

Very Enjoyable for all music fans.......2006-03-02

This is very good collection of music that brings to life a wide variety of music that is both old and contemporary. The selections vary from composers, historical and famous such as Pavarotti and Puccini to today's James Horner (Titanic, A Beauituful Mind) and John Williams (Star Wars, Sabrina, Jaws, Saving Private Ryan).

If you enjoy the sounds of Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, Enya, Kate Bush, Andrea Bocelli, and various theatre music (Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Cats), then you will find this collection worthy of your appreciation.

I have often wondered why classical music radio channels do not play modern composers (i.e., Horner, Willams), and am glad that this album gives them credit that they deserve. There is so many good compositions being created every day that only appear to have a voice on the big screen, which is unfortunate.

Track 11, composed by The Doors, and is a nice version, indeed. I also enjoy the Bond players giving a new twist to some old favourites.

Ciao,
Neil

Absolutely Amazing! Two CDs packed with the world's most beautiful classical music..........2005-11-08

First, let me begin by saying that I am by no means an expert in classical music, but have grown to appreciate it immensely in the past year. I can say wholeheartedly that this is the most beautiful compilation of music I have ever had the pleasure of listening to. It's simple irresistible. There are few words to describe how emotional it is to hear Pavarotti sing "II Canto", or Placido Domingo belt out "Questa o quella". You just get numb with joy!! I have NO idea what they are saying but a translation not necessary. The entire collection (TWo jammed-packed CDs) is phenomenal (excluding the selections from "Bond" which I found to be particularly annoying and not at all "classical" in the true sense of the word). There is something here for everyone, regardless of your personal musical tastes or tolerances.

A guaranteed hit -- Don't miss this one.

CD One

Andrea Bocelli "En Aranjuez con tu amor"
Bryn Terfel - "Granada"
Bond - "Viva" ( not my favorite, sounds almost disco-ish)
Hayley Westenra - "Pokarekare Ana"
Luciano Pavarotti - "Una Mattina"
Katherine jenkins - "Time To Say Goodbye" (a heart stopper - so beautiful!)
Duel - "Canon" (lovely!)
Janine Jansen - "Allegro from 'Spring'"
Andreas Scholl - "Ombra mai fu"
Nigel Kennedy - "The Unknown Soldier"
Kiri Te Kanawa - "Nuns' Chorus"
Nelson Freire - "Chopin Etude No. 1 op. 25
Julian Lloyd Webber - "Flight of the Bumble-bee"
James Horner - "For the Love of a Princess
Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard "Now We Are Free"
Renee Fleming - "Mesicku na nebi hlubokem"
Russell Watson - "Amore e Musica"

CD TWO

Luciano Pavarotti - "II Canto" (I MUST see him sing this in person!!)
Placido Domingo - "Questa o quello" (I never tire of hearing this)
Andrea Bocelli & Bryn Terfel - "the Pearl Fisher's Duet"
Jose Carreras - "Funiculi, funicula
Dominc Miller & Kaori Muraji - "Fragile"
Tavener - "Song for Athene"
Josep Calleja - "La donna e mobile"
Jean-Yves Thibaudet - "Gymopedie No. 1"
Juan Diego Florez - "Una furtiva lagrima"
Kathleen Ferrier - "Blow the Wind Southerly"
Angela Gheorghiu - "Ave Maria"
Janine Jansen - "Schindler's List Main Theme"
Bond - "explosive"
Secret Garden - "You Raise Me Up"
Hayley Westenra - "Never Say Goodbye"
The Three Tenors - "Nessun Dorma"

Enjoy!

Cris Cunningham for Amazon.com

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Live at Montreux 2005 Seu Jorge Manufacturer: Eagle Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Cru Carolina Ana & Jorge: Ao Vivo The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions Ana and Jorge ASIN: B000MMLPDW Release Date: 2007-03-06

Tracks:

1. Mania de Peit
2. Tive Raz
3. Fiori de La Citt
4. SGon
5. Una Mujer
6. Te Queria
7. Cirander
8. Conqueiro Verde
9. Depois Que O Ilassar
10. Percussion Solo

Album Description

Seu Jorge is a Brazilian superstar who was brought to a wider audience by the release of his album "Cru", one of the best-selling world music albums of 2005, and by his appearance in the film "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou", in which he played a guitar-strumming deckhand who regularly contributed David Bowie songs sung in Portuguese. 2005 also saw Seu Jorge's first appearance at the Montreux Festival where he performed many of the tracks from "Cru".

Tracklisting 1. Mania De Peitao 2. Tive Razão 3. Fiori De La Cittá 4. Sáo Gonça 5. Una Mujer 6. Te Queria 7. Cirandar 8. Coqueiro Verde 9. Depois Que O Ilê Passar 10. Percussion Solo

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Broadway: America's Music 1935-2005 Manufacturer: Decca Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gershwin | Gershwin, George | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Morton Gould | Gould, Morton | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Weill | Weill, Kurt | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series) Grey Gardens - A New Musical (2006 Original Broadway Cast) The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast) Letters from Iwo Jima (Two-Disc Special Edition) ASIN: B000B8I93Q Release Date: 2005-10-18

Tracks:

1. Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
2. Summertime
3. I Could Write a Book
4. It Never Entered My Mind
5. I Can Cook Too
6. Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
7. If I Loved You
8. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
9. Thou Swell
10. I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
11. There's No Business Like Show Business
12. South American Way

Tracks:

1. Shall We Dance
2. Ohio
3. Luck Be a Lady
4. Mack the Knife
5. There's a Small Hotel
6. Once in Love with Amy
7. Yodel Blues
8. Lazy Afternoon
9. There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love
10. You're Just in Love
11. Now Is the Time

Tracks:

1. Impossible Dream
2. Love Makes the World Go 'Round
3. Try to Remember
4. Put on a Happy Face
5. I Say Hello
6. Happiness
7. She Loves Me
8. What Kind of Fool Am I?
9. Shy
10. Consider Yourself
11. Poor Little Person

Tracks:

1. Magic to Do
2. They're Playing My Song
3. I Don't Know How to Love Him
4. I Won't Send Roses
5. Good Morning Starshine
6. Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
7. Hard Candy Christmas
8. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
9. Won't You Charleston with Me?
10. Applause

Tracks:

1. Phantom of the Opera
2. Memory
3. On My Own
4. Muddy Water
5. How Could I Ever Know
6. American Dream
7. I Know Him So Well
8. Dr. Jazz
9. Me and My Girl
10. Suddenly Seymour

Tracks:

1. Mamma Mia!
2. Popular
3. Seasons of Love
4. Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
5. Whatever Lola Wants
6. Crazy
7. How Deep Is Your Love
8. Stars
9. People Like Us
10. I Go to Rio

Average customer rating: One of my most favorite bands

Faluas Do Tejo: Lisboa 2005 Madredeus Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Portugal | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Um Amor Infinito O Paraiso Obrigado Existir Movimento ASIN: B000A2H7UY Release Date: 2005-08-02

Tracks:

1. Lisboa, Rainha Do Mar
2. Fado Das Duvidas
3. Adoro Lisboa
4. Nevoas Da Madrugada
5. Faluas Do Tejo
6. No Meu Jardim-Sementes A Terra
7. O Cais Distante
8. Na Estrada De Santiago
9. La De Fora
10. O Canto Da Saudade (Pam)

Amazon.com

For most people, fado is a diva-driven acoustic folk style based on dramatic Portuguese love poems. Madredeus, however, creates a more subdued but equally beautiful version of the music. The award-winning band does have a woman singer, but Teresa Salgueiro isn't prone to the histrionics of some fadistas. Instead, she leans toward a subtle conversational style with a bit of classical music composure. The band follows Salgueiro's lead (or vice versa) by eschewing the typically fiery guitar accompaniment in favor of moody ambiance. Moreover, the band writes much of its own material here instead of adapting love poems. With 11 albums released domestically and over 20 years together, Madredeus has worked out all the kinks; nonetheless, it adds a few wrinkles of its own--"No Meu Jardim (Sementes a Terra)" has a lilting reggae groove, and "O Canto de Saudade" dances to a samba rhythm. Those looking for something more conventionally fado will have no bones to pick with "Fado das Duvidas." ­ --Tad Hendrickson

Customer Reviews:

One of my most favorite bands.......2007-05-15

Every Madredeus CD is worth 5 stars. You don't have to know Portuguese to enjoy their music. The fado-folk style of music they play is, in my opinion, better than the traditional style of fado. The instrumentation is superb, and Teresa Salgueiro's voice is simply beautiful, truly "music to the ears". If you have not owned any Madredeus CD, I recommend Antologia which contains many of their best work.

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Motion Picture Music 1994-2005 Mick Harvey Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Television Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000IOMVG4 Release Date: 2006-11-06

Tracks:

1. Two Guitars
2. At Neville's Gate
3. Cicaders
4. Homecoming
5. By The River
6. Face To Face
7. Reuniting
8. Finale
9. Main Theme
10. Three Guitars
11. Noises/Fire
12. Piano Theme
13. Setting Sail
14. Antartica
15. Things Going Wrong
16. The Man Who Made Pictures
17. In The Wars
18. Papu / New Guinea
19. Things Going Wrong Again
20. Back In Australia
21. Chimes
22. End Titles
23. The Stabbing
24. In The Bar
25. The Polish Market
26. In The Bar Again
27. The Farewell Song

Album Description

Mick Harvey celebrated arranger, multi-instrumentalist, producer, film soundtrack composer and co-founder of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Birthday Party will release his second compilation of film music on November 11. This new compilation offers music from a wide spectrum of international productions including documentaries, short films and features. From Australia: Lighting Fires (1994) a documentary of Sydney-based painter Tim Storrier, directed by Geoff Bennett; Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History (2004) a documentary about the man who began his career with the film of the Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica directed by Simon Nasht; Sparrow (1996) a short film by Australian director Polly Watkins; and the infamous Chopper (2000), directed by Andrew Dominic. From Europe: Rien Ne Vas Plus (2005) a German "photo film" by Katja Pratschke and Gusztav Hamos featured at this years Venice Film Festival Rosehill/Rosenhügel/Rozedomb (2002) a German-Hungarian feature, directed by Mari Cantu; and Go For Gold (1997) a Spanish-German production, directed by Lucian Segura.

Album Details

Mick Harvey Second Compilation of Film Music Taken from International Productions Including Documentaries, Short Films and Features. Harvey is a Celebrated Arranger, Multi-instrumentalist, Producer, Film Soundtrack Composer and Co-founder of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and the Birthday Party.

Average customer rating: True Irish Pub Music

The Sharon Shannon Collection 1990-2005 Sharon Shannon Manufacturer: Compass Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Diamond Mountain Sessions The Spellbound: The Best of Sharon Shannon A Woman's Heart: A Decade On Sharon Shannon Daybreak: Fáinne an Lae ASIN: B000DN5VQW Release Date: 2006-01-31

Tracks:

1. Cavan Potholes
2. El Mercado Testaccio (The Statue Market)
3. The Mighty Sparrow (Live)
4. The 3 Headed Monster
5. The Burst Mattress
6. Little Bird
7. Cordinio
8. Hogs & Heifers
9. Glentown
10. The Blackbird
11. The Whitestrand Sling
12. Butterflies
13. The Bag Of Cat
14. Sandy River Belle
15. Rathlin Island
16. Duncans
17. The Penguin (Retour De Hirondelles & Tune For A Found Harmonium)
18. Maguire & Patterson

Tracks:

1. A Man Of Constant Sorrow
2. A Change Is Gonna Come
3. Norwegian Wood
4. Love Love Love
5. Courtin' In The Kitchen
6. What You Make It (Da Da Da Da)
7. Libertango
8. The Galway Girl
9. Anchie Gordon
10. Never Going Back
11. Say You Love Me

Amazon.com

County Clare-born accordionist/multi-instrumentalist/bandleader is long overdue for a career retrospective and this two-CD set overflows with high points. Although an acknowledged master of Irish traditional styles, this least complacent and most generous of artists never ceases experimenting. The first disc contains instrumentals cherry-picked from six albums. "Cavan Potholes" depicts omni-present Irish road conditions and "The Mighty Sparrow", taped during the "A Woman's Heart" tour, is a jig augmented by a Caribbean beat and raucously apt sax solo. Disc two is given over to vocals, many of which are performed by stars from other genres. Jackson Browne's "A Man Of Constant Sorrow" is given a Hibernian Grand Ol' Opry treatment compete with lovely back-up singing from Mary Staunton. Damien Dempsey, a sensitive roughneck of a Dublin singer-composer, gives the Lennon/McCartney chestnut "Norwegian Wood" a new lease on life and also turns up in "Courtin' In The Kitchen", a profane little comedy led by the inimitable Dessie O'Halloran. But the late Kirstie MacColl's treatment of Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango" is magic of a more wistful, shadowy kind, making us miss her all the more. --Christina Roden

Album Description

The Sharon Shannon Collection 1990-2005is a two CD set highlighting Sharon Shannon's 15 year career. The tracks featured on this album are selected from her catalog and brilliantly encapsulate the scope of Sharon's musical influences. These influences range from traditional Irish to dance, reggae, Cajun, classical and French-Canadian and are reflected in the eclectic mix of musicians that Sharon has collaborated with over the past 15 years including Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Kirsty MacColl, Donal Lunny, Natalie MacMaster, Sinead O'Connor, dub master Denis Bovell, and Carlos Nunez.

Customer Reviews:

True Irish Pub Music.......2006-11-29

I bought this CD in Galway Ireland before it was released in the states and have listened to it ever since. If you have a love of the music found in the pubs of Ireland, you will have a deep appreciation for this recording. Her mix of instruments produces a lively blend of sounds and harmony - a jazzy intertwining of themes and textures.

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BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2005 Various Artists Manufacturer: Manteca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Compilations | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Awards for World Music 2006 World 2004 World 2006 Awards for World Music 2004 World 2002: 37 Artists from 24 Countries Around the World (2-CD Set) ASIN: B0007KVET4 Release Date: 2005-02-28

Tracks:

1. Aldhechen Manin - Tinariwen
2. Yallajonim (My Dearest Song) - Sevara Nazarkhan
3. Anywhere on This Road - Lhasa de Sela
4. Aganjebel Gilberto
5. Lahl' Umlenze - Thandiswa
6. Viborita - Lila Downs
7. Wawata - Balakissoko
8. del Ruso [Calexico Remix] - Gotan Project
9. En Algun Lugar - Amparanoia
10. Mi Coraz Bajofondo Tango Club,
11. Rememorix - Ojos de Brujo
12. Ab-I Tarab - Mercan Dede
13. Ya Saryan - Clotaire K
14. Who Is It - Bj

Tracks:

1. Raga Misra Mand: Thumri [Edit] - Kaushiki Chakrabarty
2. Al Nashal (The Day Pickpockets Became Beggars) - Chehade Brothers
3. Touba Daru Salaam - Youssou N'Dour
4. Ya Galbi - Khal
5. Dance With Me - Enzo Avitabile, , Khal
6. Ghir Enta (I Only Love You) - Souad Massi
7. Alegria - Yasmin Levy
8. Limas Negras - Bebo & Cigala
9. Tierra Colorada (Red Land) - Chango Spasiuk
10. Fairground - Ivo Papasov
11. Sof the Saracen's Daughter [Edit][Edit] - Andrew Cronshaw
12. Sara - Rokia Traor
13. Adimiral - Sainkho Namtchylak
14. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar (The Red Falcon) - Faiz Ali Faiz

Amazon.com

The concept world music is a vague one that can mean just about anything. Boundaries are simply sounds from a particular place played in a certain way. Unlike politics, the act of labeling is inclusive instead of divisive. It can be Bebel Gilberto's electro-bossa nova or Tinariwen's desert blues. Featuring all the nominated songs from the BBC's Awards, this two-disc/28-song collection fearlessly wanders the world, making stops on nearly every continent. Continuity or thematic unity is tossed out the window--this is just great music. About half the musicians here should be known to American world music fans (the above-mentioned as well as Gotan Project, Ojos De Brujo, Youssou N'Dour, and Khaled), but there are also names that haven't made it over to this side of the pond (Kaushiki Chakrabarty, Amparanoia and Ivo Papasov). It's these lesser-known artists that make this collection indispensable, offering us a clue of what artists will hopefully soon make American border crossings. --Tad Hendrickson

Album Description

These 2 CDs contain tracks form all the nominated musicians and winners of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2005 and represent a dazzling array of artistry and talents. Windsong. 2005.

Album Details

These Two CDs Includes Tracks from all the Nominated Musicians and Winners of the BBC Radio Three Awards for World Music 2005 and Represent a Dazzling Array of Artistry and Talent.

World Music:

1. La Colecciõn Cubana
2. La Mia Moto [Import]
3. Le Coeur a Ses Raisons
4. Les Annees Barclay [Import]
5. Les Indispensables [Import]
6. Liberdade [Import]
7. Live [Import]
8. Louanges [Import]
9. Ma Cherie [Box set] [Import]
10. Malandro E Malando E Mane E Mane [Import]

World Music

world music

World Music

Racially Yours

Joyful Classics, Vol. 2

Mozart: Symphony Kv364, Adagio Kv261, etc.

The Tree of Life [Live] [Import]

London Mardi Gras [Import]

Leave It Behind

Links Eroem - Raechs Eroem [Import]

Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael

Ladies Night

Last Concert In Japan (Japan)

Nothing Safe: The Best Of The Box [ENHANCED CD]

Keys to the Crescent City

Just Be Thankful [Explicit Lyrics]

All Rise

Em:t Explorer