| 1. The Goat Song |
| 2. Amber |
| 3. Father's Day |
| 4. Yours |
| 5. What Box? |
| 6. Dreamtime Brazil |
| 7. Red Sky At Night |
| 8. The Four Directions |
| 9. Wanderlust |
| 10. The Goat Song (Alternate Take) |
Editorial Reviews
This is the newest release from pianist / composer Paul Herder. Joining Mr. Herder on this date were saxophonist Brandon Field, Trumpeter Wayne Bergeron, Trombonist Andy Martin, bassist Dave Carpenter and drummer Gary Novak.
The music, all originals by award winning composer Mr. Herder, was recorded at Capitol recording studios, in Los Angeles July 30 and 31st. Mr. Herder co-arranged the compositions with John Crosse, Paul Ankas long time musical director.
Mr. Field has toured with George Benson and is a member of the Rippingtons. Mr. Bergeron versatility spans dates with such diverse artists as Christina Aguilera and David Benoit. Mr. Novak is perhaps best known for his work with jazz great Chick Corea. Mr. Martin has also recorded and performed with a variety of artists including Dave Grusin. Mr. Carpenter performs regularly with Herbie Hancock.
Product Description
This album could become a jazz classic. Some of the very best session players in L.A. gather to perform award winning composer Paul Herder's latests gems. The music is melody-driven, intelligent and sensual all at the same time. Each tune is unique and tells a story that is very much worth telling.
Meeting Life,Paul Herder,Conch Music
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Mirrormask
Iain Ballamy , Stuart Hall , Martin Sharp , Matthew Sharp , Burt Bacharach , Dave McKean , Martin France , John Parricelli , Neil Percy , Iain Bellamy , Ashley Slater , Arve Henriksen , Chris Batchelor , David Powell , Josefine Cronholm , and Neil Gaiman Manufacturer: La-La Land Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007RTARU Release Date: 2005-09-20 |
Tracks:
- Sock Puppets / Flyover
- Circus Overture
- Spanish Web
- Gorillas!
- Running For The Bus
- Abandoned Hall
- Leaving The City
- Arresting Helena
- The White Queen Sleeps / The White Palace
- Rabbit Band
- The Library
- The Myth Of Creation
- Fish Street
- Looking Through The Window
- Giants Orbiting
- Outside Bagwell's
- Mrs. Bagwell's Rhumba
- Meeting The Sphinx
- Monkeybirds
- Dream Park / Meeting In A Dream
- Conjuring A Dome
- In The Dark Forest
- Betrayed!
- Close To You
- A New Life
- A Rather Tense Dinner Party
- Butterfingers
- Discoveries / Fight Or Flight? / Goodbye Evil Helena
- My Waltz For Newk
- If I Apologised
Customer Reviews:
Great movie, better soundtrack.......2007-05-19
great collection of unusual music.......2007-05-07
Supurb.......2007-03-08
Amazing!.......2007-02-24
excellent.......2007-01-17
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Holocaust Cantata
Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000031VRF Release Date: 1999-11-23 |
Tracks:
- The Prisoner Rises
- Singing Saved My Life
- Song Of The Polish Prisoners
- The Execution Of The Twelve
- In Buchenwald
- A State Of Seperation
- The Train
- Singing From Birth To Death
- The Striped Ones
- There's No Life Like Life At Auschwitz
- Tempo di Tango
- Letter To Mom
- Song Of Days Now Gone
- Passacaille For Cello And Piano
- Even When God Is Silent
- A Child's Journey: An Accidental Meeting
- A Child's Journey: I Once Had A Friend
- A Child's Journey: There Are No Stars In The Sky
- Is Not A Flower A Mystery?
- We Remember Them
Album Description
The Holocaust Cantata uses the words and music of actual concentration camp inmates to create a wholly original and powerful work. Using material found within the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Donald McCullough's Holocaust Cantata traverses one of the bleakest episodes in human history. Yet the piece also evokes a sense of music's life-affirming power, even in the face of absolute despair, to express what words alone cannot.McCullough discovered the material within the vast Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum's archives. Kulisiewicz himself had performed as a kind of camp troubador during his own incarceration at Sachsenhausen, and, after the war, spent several years interviewing fellow survivors about music in the camps, gathering together the scattered remnants of this music.
As McCullough painstakingly sifted through this material-much of which was uncatalogued-the arresting melodies and compelling testimonies that make up the Holocaust Cantata gradually began to emerge. "I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, explaining his decision to set the choral texts and spoken testimonies in English, and his hope is that the piece may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." The Washington Post, reviewing the world premiere in March 1998, called it "an experience that should linger long in the audience's memory and should be regularly revived."
Customer Reviews:
A Timely Performance.......2001-11-18
Outstanding; a soon to be classic.......2000-05-04
Uninspired tedium.......2000-04-28
Holocaust Cantata: A Five Star Work of Art.......2000-01-07
An excerpt from my liner notes..........1999-11-25
Notes on the Music
It is well-known that during the Holocaust inmates wrote music while incarcerated in concentration camps. Much of it has since been recorded. At Theresienstadt, for instance-the infamous "Paradise Ghetto"-the Nazis organized an orchestra made up of young musicians who had studied under such luminaries as Leos Janacek and Arnold Schoenberg. Most of these musicians, among them such promising students as Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann, perished during the Holocaust, leaving behind but a few pieces, composed under duress and co-opted by the Nazis for their own propaganda purposes. What might they have eventually accomplished had they survived? Such classical music-beautiful as it is-was the product of formally trained musicians. What about the music of the common man-music embraced by the whole community and passed secretly by aural transmission-music that carried with it powerful words revealing different aspects of camp life, or expressing the inmates' innermost feelings, of mourning, or resistance, or patriotism? Was there other Holocaust music, akin to the spirituals that sprang from slavery in America, that spoke with the same startling immediacy to express the agony of the victims of the Nazi regime?...
McCullough's [quest to answer this question] began with a call to Bret Werb, musicologist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, who revealed the existence of the Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection in the museum archives. Kulisiewicz had traveled about Europe during the postwar period collecting and preserving what he could of the music that had emerged from the Holocaust concentration camps, but little was known about the music itself.
McCullough's first task, then, was to immerse himself in the collection, playing through the hundreds of tunes. He was encouraged to find that they contained some compelling melodies, and for the first time he began to wonder whether a choral cantata-perhaps reflecting the role of music in the camps or evoking the daily lives of these people-might emerge from the material. But he still had no idea what lay within the accompanying text.
At some point, someone had added a rough, English-language index to the collection, but the materials themselves were mostly in Polish. Marcin Zmudzki, a young Pole, was engaged to sift through the mountain of texts. McCullough told the translator that he was interested in anything that had to do with camp life, especially as it related to music. As he recalls, "It was my good fortune that not only was Marcin an excellent translator, but also he had a sense for poetry and thus grasped, very quickly, the type of material I was seeking."
In addition to music, Kulisiewicz also collected interviews, articles, and letters that had anything to do with camp life. With this wealth of material, McCullough decided to place between each musical arrangement readings that also spoke of life in the camps. After considering and rejecting literally hundreds of documents, he finally decided that he had what he needed from the archives. But in a sense, the real work was just beginning. "Because I wanted the Cantata to speak with a sense of immediacy," says McCullough, "I thought it should be sung in English. But before I could arrange a single note of it, I needed to have singable translations. Here I employed the talents of lyricist Denny Clark, who at first worked with Marcin, getting a word by word translation. Knowing which words appear on which notes is important in keeping the overall impact of the song." A trained singer himself, Clark was able to make transliterations to ensure that the best vowels for singing fell on the proper notes, all while remaining faithful to the original text. It was an immensely complicated task....
A few words about the structure of the Cantata. As you listen you should not look for a plot, as such. Because each song and reading represents a different person, a different place, and a different time in the Holocaust experience, you should be wary about viewing the entire piece as a streaming narrative. Nonetheless, certain common truths will begin to emerge, and no doubt others will come to you with each successive hearing. Among these is the certainty that these are nakedly honest responses to the most unthinkable of acts. Sometimes the responses are jarring; who could find humor amid such horror? And yet humor-albeit dark in nature-undoubtedly exists within this work. Nevertheless the inmates' responses never sink to the level of triteness. For them, music functioned as something much more than just a light in the darkness; its very existence was a form of spiritual resistance in an environment where such resistance risked instant extermination.
McCullough's hope is that this work may "transform statistics into people in the minds of the Cantata's listeners, and perhaps be a part of making it more difficult for such a horror ever to occur again." In the end, for me, the work flows inexorably back to its source: it is the voice of humanity, crying out to be heard.
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Rebirth of Mothra 3
Manufacturer: Adv Films ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000DFZYW Release Date: 2003-10-28 |
Tracks:
- Opening/The Legend Is Set Free
- Eerie Swarm of Meteors
- Strange Meteorite
- Mothra Song
- Second Coming of the Greatest Foe
- Appearance of Mothra
- Meeting With Mothra
- Sound of the Blade of Sadness
- Setting Off on Our Journey Through Space and Time
- Haora Mothra [Moll Version]
- One Last Request
- Soaring High 130 Million Years Ago
- Strange Dome
- Cretaceous Period Battle 1
- Risk Your Life
- Cretaceous Period Battle 2
- Haora Mothra [Lora Version]
- Requiem
- Return of King Ghidorah
- Tragic Battle
- Appearance of the Armored Warrior
- Last Battle
- Last Metamorphosis
- Power of the Legend
- Ending/Touch My Heart
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Dear Harp Of My Country: The Melodies Of Thomas Moore
Manufacturer: Essay ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000842 Release Date: 1997-11-18 |
Tracks:
- The Young May Moon
- Oh! Tis Sweet To Think
- Echo
- Lesbia Hath A Beaming Eye
- I've A Secret To Tell Thee
- They Know Not My Heart
- Has Sorry Thy Young Days Shaded?
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
- How Dear To Me
- 'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer
- O'Donoghues's Mistress
- The Meeting Of The Waters
- They May Rail At This Life
- Come, Send Round The Wine
- Farewell! But Wherever You Welcome The Hour
- Whene'er I See Those Smiling Eyes
- Oh! Arranmore, Loved Arranmore
- At The Mid Hour Of Night
- Oft In The Stilly Night
Tracks:
- The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls
- Silent, Oh Moyle
- Remember The Glories Of Brien The Brave
- Come, Rest In This Bosom
- Oh! Breathe Not His Name
- She Is Far From The Land
- When He Who Adores Thee
- Oh, Ye Dead!
- I Wish I Was By That Dim Lake
- Let Erin Remember
- Avenging & Bright
- The Minstrel Boy
- As Vanquished Erin
- The Irish Peasant To His Mistress
- Oh, Banquet Not
- Come O'er The Sea
- Though The Last Glimpse Of Erin
- Sweet Innisfallen
- Dear Harp Of My Country
- Erin! The Tear & The Smile In Thine Eyes
Customer Reviews:
Lovely music!.......2001-12-18
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Brahms: Life & Works
Brahms Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006RHPY Release Date: 2003-01-21 |
Tracks:
- Destiny, Birth And Childhood
- From Brothel To Beethoven
- Hungarian Dance No. 1
- A Life-Changing Tour
- The Meeting With Joachim
- Piano Sonata No. 3
- Joachim Weighs In
- Enter The Schumanns
- Piano Sonata No. 3
- Prophecy And Tragedy: A Double Yoke
- Piano Trio No. 2
- Brahms And Clara
- Piano Sonata No. 1
- A Triangular Bond
- The Death Of Schumann - A Fateful Decision
Tracks:
- The Young Messiah
- Piano Concerto No. 1
- The Virtuoso Takes Flight
- Variations On A Theme By Paganini
- Detmold And Distraction
- Serenade No. 1
- Birth Of The D Minor Concerto
- Piano Concerto No. 1
- The Taste Of Failure - And Of New Love
- String Sextet
- Love, Folly And A New Calling
- Motet 'Ich Aber Bin Elend'
- Brahms And Wagner
- Variations And Fugue On A Theme By Handel
- Frustrated Hopes And A Mother's Death
- Trio For Horn, Violin And Piano
Tracks:
- The Road To The Requiem
- A German Requeim ('Denn Alles Fleisch Es Ist Wie Gras')
- The Wanderer
- Waltz In E
- The Consummate Performer
- Five Studies For Piano
- Paradox Personified: The Tender Savage
- Piano Concerto No. 2
- A Demanding Friend
- Variations On A Theme By Haydn (Or Variations On The St Antony Chorale
- The Eternal Child
- The Ghost Exorcised / Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Finale: 'Ode To Joy') / Symphony No. 1 (Finale: Opening)
- Symphony No. 1
Tracks:
- A Watershed In Brahm's Career
- Symphony No. 2
- The External Brahms
- A Free Man At Last / Piano Sonata No. 1
- Violin Concerto / The Rift With Joachim
- The Composer At Work
- Academic Festival Overture
- Celebrity And Scholar
- Motet 'Wenn Ein Starker Gewappneter'
- Love, Loss And Reconciliation
- Concerto For Violin And Cello
- The Greatest Living Composer - But A Difficult Friend
- The Philanthropist
- Decline And Death
- Piano Concerto No. 2
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Man on the Train
Manufacturer: Milan Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009MGEI Release Date: 2003-06-03 |
Tracks:
- Man on the Train
- Milan
- I Would Have Liked an Adventure
- Sadko
- From Boredom to Desire
- Small Town With No Problems
- Night Flight
- Special Lesson
- Unusual Meeting
- Rendez-Vous at the Museum
- Slippers for a Lesson
- Mansequier
- Open and Broken Heart
- From Nevada?
- I Dreamed of That Life
Customer Reviews:
haunting & interesting music.......2003-07-11
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Mark Twain's America: Portrait in Music
Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005Q6JS Release Date: 2001-10-30 |
Tracks:
- Medley: Love's Old Sweet Song (Just A Song At Twilight)/Sweet Genevieve
- Medley Of Traditional Hornpipes: Fischer's Hornpipe/Saratoga Hornpipe/Good For The Tongue...
- 'Tis The Last Rose Of Sumer
- The Good Old Way
- Beautiful Dreamer
- Tenting On The Old Camp Ground
- Little Carrie's Favorite Gallop
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
- Gentle Annie
- La Gitana
- John Anderson, My Jo
- The Schottische From The Ameer
- Medley: Oft In The Stilly Night/Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
- The Fascinator
- A Psalm Of Life
- Our Meeting Is Over
- Medley: Beautiful River/Battle Hymn Of The Republic
- Waltz Medley: The Flying Trapeze/A Bicycle Built For Two/After The Ball
Customer Reviews:
Marvelous Collection of 19th Century Music.......2002-02-18
Great "gowith" for the late 19th Century!.......2002-01-23
She captures the life and times of Mark Twain.......2001-12-20
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In Time
Manufacturer: In Time Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA2YC0 Release Date: 2002-09-03 |
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Meeting Life
Manufacturer: Conch Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000XO2C4 Release Date: 2003-11-05 |
Tracks:
- The Goat Song
- Amber
- Father's Day
- Yours
- What Box?
- Dreamtime Brazil
- Red Sky At Night
- The Four Directions
- Wanderlust
- The Goat Song (Alternate Take)
Album Description
This album could become a jazz classic. Some of the very best session players in L.A. gather to perform award winning composer Paul Herder's latests gems. The music is melody-driven, intelligent and sensual all at the same time. Each tune is unique and tells a story that is very much worth telling.
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Joseph Szigeti: The Recordings With Bartók & Foldes
Manufacturer: Biddulph Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000009K2K Release Date: 1994-08-17 |
Jazz Music:
- Melody Lingers On [Import]
- Montreux '77 [Live]
- Moodsville, Volume 1
- Mother's Call...
- Move Ever Onward
- New Things at Newport [Import] [Original recording remastered]
- One is Not Fun, but 20 is Plenty
- Opus in Swing [Import] [Original recording remastered]
- Portrait of Cannonball
- Proof Positive [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]