Seemingly more upbeat than other Celtic collections--at least with more varied tempos--A Winter's Tale includes such hot groups as Solas, players Liam O'Connor and Lisa Aherne, an unusual paean to a fallen Irish hero, heavyweight boxer Jack Doyle, and a Tom Petty song ("Angel Dream") sung in a stirring voice by one Elmear Quinn. The 13-song survey also includes Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner's notable "Through the Bitter Frost and Snow." But the highlight track here is the lament "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears," sung in a moving performance by Dolores and Sean Keane. Proof again that while traditional Irish music (like American blues) is laden with woes and wickedness--even at Christmas--it still somehow manages to elevate the spirit. --Martin Keller
A Winter's Tale,Various Artists,Universal,Adult Alternative,Celtic Folk,Celtic/Irish,Contemporary Celtic,Contemporary Instrumental,Int'l & World Music,Irish Folk,Pop,Popular Music,Traditional Celtic
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Songs to Shakespeare
John Addison , John Addison II , William Aikin , Thomas Arne , Sir Henry Rowley Bishop , Benjamin Britten , Geoffrey Bush , John Clifton , Henry Balfour Gardiner , Franz Joseph Haydn , Mervyn Horder , Herbert Howells , John Ireland , William Linley , John Major , Sir Charles H.H. Parry , Roger Quilter , John Christopher Smith , Charles Villiers Stanford , Michael Tippett , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Graham Johnson , and Anthony Rolfe Johnson Manufacturer: Hyperion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000002ZP7 Release Date: 1993-11-19 |
Tracks:
- You Spotted Snakes
- No More Dams I'll Make For Fish
- On A Day, Alack The Day
- She Never Told Her Love
- O Mistress Mine
- Lawn, As White As Driven Snow
- If Love Make Me Forsworn
- O Happy Fair!
- If Music Be the Food Of Love
- Farewell, Thou Art Too Dear For My Posessing
- When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
- Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
- The Rain It Raineth Every Day
- Orpheus With His Lute
- Come Away Death
- Fear No More The Heat o' The Sun
- Take, O Take Those Lips Away
- It Was A Lover And His Lass
- Winter
- When Daffodils Begin To Peer
- Under The Greenwood Tree
- Songs For Ariel - I. Come Unto These Yellow Sands
- Songs For Ariel - II. Full Fathom Five
- Songs For Ariel - III. Where The Bee Sucks
- Who Is Silvia?
- Francie
- Sigh No More Ladies
Customer Reviews:
One of my Favorite CDs.......2004-02-19
Melodious Shakespeare.......2001-01-24
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Swedish Orchestral Favourites
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000144M Release Date: 1995-08-22 |
Tracks:
- Swedish Festival Music
- Interlude From The Cantata 'The Song'
- Pastoral Suite: Overture
- Pastoral Suite: Romance
- Pastoral Suite: Scherzo
- A Winter's Tale: Epilogue
- Frosoblomster: Intag i Sommarhagen (Entry Into Summarhagen)
- Frosoblomster: Sommarsang (Song Of Summer)
- Frosoblomster: Gratulation (Congradulations)
- Frosoblomster: Vid Frkyrka (At The Church Of Froson)
- Roslagen: Polka
- Marcia From Serenade For Strings
- Gustavus Adolphus II Suite: Elegy
- Midsummer Vigil
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One of the gems of Naxos catalog.......1999-01-20
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Fanfare: Shakespearian Music from Stratford
Louis Applebaum , Elmer Iseler Singers , and Christopher Plummer Manufacturer: Marquis Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005V8D7 Release Date: 2005-09-13 |
Tracks:
- Two Stratford Fanfares
- Who is Silvia?
- When I Consider
- Fortune and Men's Eyes
- Expense of Spirit
- Dare I Question
- He That Is (Finale)
- Suite from Richard III
- "Love Love" from Troilus and Cressida
- Bella Mia
- Non Gemete
- Grazie Luna
- "If Music Be The Food of Love" from Twelfth Night
- "Orpheus with his Lute" from Henry VIII
- Moth's Song
- When Daisies Pied
- Suite of Dances from Much Ado About Nothing
- Jog On / St. Jamy
- Lawn of White
- Canakin Clink
- Moments from Romeo and Juliet
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Prokofiev's Music for Children
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00030ERWE Release Date: 2004-11-09 |
Customer Reviews:
Another Aspect of Prokofiev's Talent.......2006-08-03
This delightful recording includes not only the very popular 'Peter and the Wolf', Opus 67, for narrator and orchestra - here performed by narrator David Juritz with Ronald Corp conducting the New London Orchestra - but also rarely performed similar diversions such as 'Winter Bonfire', suite for narrator, boy's chorus & orchestra, Op. 122 with the same forces but adding the Finchley Children's Music Group, and 'The Ugly Duckling', a song for voice and orchestra, Op. 18 well performed by Penelope Walmsley-Clark. The latter pieces may be slight in stature in comparison with the major Prokofiev works, but they certainly are an appealing introduction for children to grow into classical music.
For this listener the genuine surprise is 'Summer Day', suite for orchestra, Op. 65, a work based on children's pieces for the piano and later orchestrated. The series of tunes show hints of the lighter moments in his 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Cinderella' ballets and the sassier portions of his symphonic works, but in this setting they can be appreciated for the fine manner in which Prokofiev could treat the melodic line. Ronald Corp conducts the New London Orchestra in a polished reading of some very lovely music. This is one of those CDs that may be overlooked as something for children alone, but just listen to the recording and be enchanted with the sophisticated simplicity that was so readily apparent in Prokofiev's facile hands. Grady Harp, August 06
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Suk: A Summer's Tale; A Winter's Tale
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000JMX9 Release Date: 1999-07-20 |
Tracks:
- A Summer's Tale, Op.29: Voices Of Life And Consolation
- A Summer's Tale, Op.29: Midday
- A Summer's Tale, Op.29: Intermezzo - Blind Musicians
- A Summer's Tale, Op.29: In The Power Of Phantooms
- A Summer's Tale, Op.29: Night
- A Winter's Tale, Op.9
Customer Reviews:
A fine bargain-basement performance of a Suk work, but..........1999-10-20
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Winter: Music of Eric Ewazen and David Snow
Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00029LN5A Release Date: 2004-06-29 |
Tracks:
- Three Lyrics for Trumpet and Piano
- Winter
- Elegia
- An Elizabethan Songbook
- A Baker's Tale
- Aftershock
- A Hymn for the Lost and the Living
Album Description
Chris Gekker is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Maryland. As a soloist he has been featured at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. For 18 years Chris was a member of the American Brass Quintet. He was principal trumpet of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and frequently performed and recorded as principal of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He writes: "Eric Ewazen, David Snow, and I all entered the Eastman School of Music as freshmen in 1972, and in fact David and I were roommates that first year. We all became friends quickly, and I frequently prepared and performed their music during those student years. In the more than 30 years since then, rarely has a year gone by that I have not been involved in their works, and in some years there have been many performances. When I joined the American Brass Quintet in 1981, it was with great pleasure that I introduced pieces by David and Eric to the group, works that immediately became standards on the Quintet's recital programs and recordings. As far as our friendships have gone, well, some things do get better with age, and it is with a deep sense of gratitude that I look back upon all our years as colleagues. Both Eric and David write music that is important to me, music that I hear when I am away from my instrument, music that continues to challenge me to strive for improvement as a musician and trumpet player". David Snow holds degrees in music from Eastman and Yale University. He studied with Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, and Jacob Druckman. Eric Ewazen was born in 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. He studied at Eastman and Juilliard. He has been Vice-President of the League-ISCM, Composer-in-Residence with the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. Lecturer for the New York Philharmonic's Musical Encounters Series, and he has been on the faculty of the Juilliard School since 1980.Customer Reviews:
Ewazen is great; Snow's "Winter" is better.......2006-11-27
As much as I admire Ewazen's music here, Snow's "Winter" surpasses it. A more noble principal theme I have not heard. In three movements, the last two without interruption, it is a twenty-minute masterpiece. Episodic in character, it it the anti-sonata. This is music where form follows function. Despite the fact that the trumpet plays the eleven-bar theme only three times in roughly twenty minutes, the entire piece hangs on those three statements. Snow's craftsmanship consists in the success with which he sets and resets this theme. The result is hugely enjoyable. One cannot help but feel ennobled when listening to this music, a salutary benefit of good music if ever there was one. (Of course, one hesitates to say it in a day when cynicism and skepticism cast "ennoblement" in an unfavorable light. But I will say it anyway, because one of the things this CD does is make a case for "ennoblement" as something good, something that needs to be revived, and not merely a myth to be regularly exploded by "civilization" and "the arts." It does this, not in word, but in melody. The other extreme--the annihilation of "ennoblement"--is found in "rap music," which has no melody but instead vulgarity. End of pertinent tangent.)
Which brings us to Gekker's playing. The best trumpet players are first of all lyrical; everything else is secondary to an ability to play a melody without resorting to musical cliches or schmaltz. Gekker's playing is first and foremost lyrical. Indeed, with this CD he elevates the trumpet as a lyrical vehicle. His style highlights the music and not his own capabilities. He eschews flashy displays. His technical command is a means to an end and not an end in itself. There is a quality of understatement in his playing I find unique. He seems to always hold something in reserve, which I suppose all the great players do. It says everything about Gekker's playing that the music is paramount, the performer secondary. When in the history of brass music have people talked more about the music than the brass player?
Great composers.......2006-03-27
Steve Ward
Elegant Trumpet Music Elegantly Played.......2004-06-30
This CD consists of pieces by Eric Ewazen (one of my favorite composers for brass whose neo-romantic music has been commissioned repeatedly by the ABQ and whose concerto disc on Albany featuring the International Sejong Soloists rated a rave from me and others) and David Snow, a composer new to me. It turns out that Gekker, Ewazen and Snow have known each other since they were students together at Eastman in the 1970s; in fact, Gekker and Snow were roommates. Ewazen is represented by 'Three Lyrics for Trumpet and Piano,' 'Elegia,' 'An Elizabethan Songbook' (which also features trombonist Milt Stevens; his and Gekker's duets are delectable in this music), 'Aftershock,' and 'A Hymn for the Lost and the Living.' Snow's contributions are the four-movement 'Winter' for trumpet and piano (which gives this album its title) and 'A Baker's Tale.' The fine assisting pianists are Ted Guerrant and an old acquaintance from the Aspen Music Festival, Rita Sloan. All of the players are in one way or another associated with the strong school of music at the University of Maryland.
Ewazen's music is notable for its unfailingly beautiful melodies (and here Gekker is in his element; his lyrical playing is very nearly in a class of its own) and piquant harmonies. Snow's is rather more jazz-inflected (and indeed he has recorded his own jazz CD entitled, I'm not kidding, 'Larry, the Stooge in the Middle'). The overall tone of the entire 70:12 minute CD is gently songful, although there are some occasional dramatic and rollicking moments. If you have the idea that trumpet music is always martial, you need this CD as an antidote: this is lovely and contemplative music-making.
Highly recommended.
Scott Morrison
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A Winter's Tale
Various Artists Manufacturer: Umvd Labels ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DD08 Release Date: 1998-10-06 |
Tracks:
- Realtai - Liam O'Connor & Lisa Aherne
- Sliabh Sneachta (The Snowy Mountain) - Altan
- The Contender - Jimmy MacCarthy
- The Snows Fall Away - Solas
- Endless Winter - Briege Murphy
- Ceol Na Samhna (November Night Of Music) - Lunasa
- Isle Of Hope, Isle Of Tears - Dolores Keane & Sean Keane
- Elegiac - Spirit Of Eden
- Angel Dream - Eimear Quinn
- Stormy Night Slumber - Brian Dunning
- Through The Bitter Frost & Snow - Susan McKeown & Lindsey Horner
- Hunting The Wren - Aine Minogue
- The Emigrants Farewell, The Bison Polska - Dervish/Vassen
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Seemingly more upbeat than other Celtic collections--at least with more varied tempos--A Winter's Tale includes such hot groups as Solas, players Liam O'Connor and Lisa Aherne, an unusual paean to a fallen Irish hero, heavyweight boxer Jack Doyle, and a Tom Petty song ("Angel Dream") sung in a stirring voice by one Elmear Quinn. The 13-song survey also includes Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner's notable "Through the Bitter Frost and Snow." But the highlight track here is the lament "Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears," sung in a moving performance by Dolores and Sean Keane. Proof again that while traditional Irish music (like American blues) is laden with woes and wickedness--even at Christmas--it still somehow manages to elevate the spirit. --Martin KellerCustomer Reviews:
If you love celtic music you should own this CD.......2000-12-15
"A Winter's Tale" will take you back to times of old.......2000-11-23
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Singers of Imperial Russia, Vol. 4
Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000WMO Release Date: 1993-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Queen of Spades/Act 3. What Is Our Life? - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Juive/Act 4. Rachel, Quand du Seigneur - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Segreto - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Donkey and the Nightingale - Fable - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Africana/Act 4. O Paradis - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Night ("Why Do I Love Thee, Night?"), Op. 6 No. 9 - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- A: Celeste A (Act 1) - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Peurs de Perles/Act 1. Je Crois Entendre Encore - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Cavalleria Rusticana/O Lola, Tu Ch'hai di Latti (Siciliana) - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Leave Me! (Gypsy Song) - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Dubrovsky: O Give Me Oblivion - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Queen of Spades/Act 1. Forgive Me, Bright Celestial Vision - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov
- Carmen/Act 4. C'est Toi? C'est Moi! - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov, Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva
- In the Wild North - Aleksandr Mikhajlovich Davydov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Maria Michailova
- She Was Yours - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Far off, Far Off - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Demon: On Desire's Soft Fleeting Wing - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Rusalka: Unwillingly to These Sad Shores, Prince's Cavatina (Act 1) - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Eugene Onegin: Whither, Whither (Act 2) - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Ruslan and Ljudmila/Act 1. There Is a Distant Country - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Princesse Lointaine: Love Is a Delightful Dream - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- Little Slippers/Does the Maiden Hear? - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
- What Happiness! - Aleksandr Vladimirovich Bogdanovich
Tracks:
- Faust: Ah! Je Ris de Me Voir Si Belle en Ce Miroir (Jewel Song) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Traviata: Ah, Fors' Lui.../Follie, Follie...Sempre Libera (Pt. 2) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Peurs de Perles: Comme Autrefois - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Dobrynja Nikitich: Zabava's Aria - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Romet Juliette: Je Veux Vivre Dans Ce R - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Perle du Brl: Charmant Oiseau - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Harold: Hush Thee, Dear One, Slumber Well (Adele's Cradle Song) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Ruslan and Ljudmila: Ah, Thou My Fate - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Snade ("Sing, Smile, Slumber") - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Sadko: Sleep Went Along the River (Cradle Song) - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Life for the Tsar: It Is Not for That That I Grieve - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Peurs de Perles: Brahma, Grand Dieu - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Bolero ("O My Dear, Charming One") - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Snow Maiden/With Friends to Gather Berries - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Huguenots: O Beau Pays de la Touraine - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Mireille/O Lre Hirondell
- Fra Diavolo/Quel Bonheur! - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Golden Cockerel/Hail to Thee, Sun! - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Tsar's Bride/Act 4. Mad Scene. Look There, Above Your Head - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Barbiere Di Siviglia: Una Voce Poco Fa - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- Serenata ("Vola, O Serenata") - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- I Vespri Siciliani: MercDilette Amiche - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
- How Fair This Spot, Op. 21 No. 7 (Rachmaninov); the Rose and the ... - Antonia Vasil'evna Nezhdanova
Tracks:
- Life for the Tsar/Act 3. Quartet. The Rose That Blooms - Andrej Labinsky, Maria Michailova, Galina Ivanovna Nikitina, Lev Sibirjakov
- Night (Folksong) - Lev Sibirjakov
- Boris Godunov/Act 1. In the Town of Kazan - Lev Sibirjakov
- Life for the Tsar: What About a Wedding? (Act 1) - Lev Sibirjakov
- Oh, If Mother Volga - Lev Sibirjakov
- Why Was I Born? (Convict's Song) - Lev Sibirjakov
- Askold's Tomb: In Olden Days Our Forefathers Lived - Lev Sibirjakov
- Sonnambula/Act 1. VI Ravviso, O Luoghi Ameni - Lev Sibirjakov
- Midnight Review - Lev Sibirjakov
- Demon/Prologue. Accurs World - Lev Sibirjakov
- Seafarers - Lev Sibirjakov, Eugene Witting
- Elegy ("When, My Soul") - Aleksandr Dormidontovich Aleksandrovich, Lev Sibirjakov
- lian Harps - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Merchant Kalashnikov/The Merchant's Aria - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Halka: Aria of Janusz - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Enchantress/Act 2. Aria. Ah, The Image of That Enchantress! - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Tear Trembles, Op. 6 No. 4 - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Queen of Spades: I Love You, Dear (Eletsky's Aria, Act 2) - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Louder Than the Song of the Lark, Op. 43 No. 1 - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Demon/Act 2. O'er the Airy Ocean - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Askold's Tomb: In Olden Days Our Forefathers Lived - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Song of Triumphant Love/Arioso. O Pure Creature - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Eugene Onegin: Should I Decide on Domesticity (Act 1) - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Demon/Act 2. Do Not Weep, Child - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
- Festival During the Plague/Hymn. When Powerful Winter, Like a Vigilant
- Captive in the Caucasus/Aria - Nikolaj Artem'evich Shevelev
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Blackout in the Square Root of Soul
Craig Harris & Tailgators Tale Manufacturer: Winter & Winter ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005S013 Release Date: 2002-03-05 |
Tracks:
- Blackout In The Square Root Of Soul
- Generations
- Free I
- Love Joy
- Blues Dues
- Dingo
- Awakening Ancestors
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Northern Landscapes
Manufacturer: Cbc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000003WU6 Release Date: 2001-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Little Overture
- Rakastava - The Lover, Op. 14: I - The Lover
- Rakastava - The Lover, Op. 14: II - The Path Of His Beloved
- Rakastava - The Lover, Op. 14: III - Good Evening! ... Farewell!
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 19: I - Overture
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 19: II - Romance
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 19: III - Scherzo
- Seranade For Strings, Op. 11: Marcia
- Two Lyric Pieces: Evening In The Mountains
- Two Lyric Pieces: At The Cradle
- A Winter's Tale, Op. 18: I - Siciliana
- A Winter's Tale, Op. 18: II - Intermezzo
- A Winter's Tale, Op. 18: III - Pastorale
- A Winter's Tale, Op. 18: IV - Epilogue
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 13B: I - Praeludium
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 13B: II - Gavotte
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 13B: III - Sarabande
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 13B: IV - Siciliano
- Pastoral Suite, Op. 13B: V - Finale
World Music:
- Aber Lustig Mub Er Sein [Import]
- Abrakadabra [Import]
- Ah! Les Femmes [Import]
- Ai Mouraria
- At the Rio Jazz Club [Live]
- Barbara [Import]
- C'est Beau La Vie [Import]
- Cajun Spirit
- Cerisier Rose Et Pommier Blanc [Import]
- Chatelet 93 [Live] [Import]
World Music
Petrouchka and other Prophecies
83 and Still Playing With the Boys
Meditative Reisen: Harmoniesierung and Wohlbefindung [Import]
Me, Myself and I/Krazy in Luv [CD-single]