Turn on Tune in [Import]

Product Description
The World of Advertising Has Always Turned to Jazz and Soul for the Right Track to Sell their Product. This is the Definitive Collection of the Best Tracks from Everyone's Favourite Adverts. (Limited).

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Average customer rating: Where have they been all my life? The Power of The Freak Turn On Tune In and Feel Good!

Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out Freak Power Manufacturer: Universal/Spectrum ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Music from the Film Code 46 Code 46 On An Island Eyes Open Eye To The Telescope ASIN: B00004TA8X Release Date: 2000-07-24

Tracks:

1. Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
2. Rush
3. One Nation, One Ride
4. Freedom Child
5. Moonbeam Woman
6. Freak Power
7. KK Nuns
8. New Direction
9. Can You Feel It
10. What It Is
11. Song #6
12. Waiting For The Story To End
13. Change My Mind
14. Ghettos Of The Mind
15. Trip Through Your Mind
16. Let It Go
17. Where Your Husband Won't

Album Description

UK compilation for pre-Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook venture. The cream of their 4th and Broadway albums, including the hits 'Rush', 'New Direction' and 'Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out'. 200 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

Norman Cook a.k.a. Fatboy Slim's Post Housemartins & Beats International Audio Venture.

Customer Reviews:

Where have they been all my life?.......2000-10-03

Four years ago, I heard Freak Power while visiting my brother in Geneva. I liked it so much he made me a tape that listened to ceaselessly. Unfortunately, upon returning to the U.S. and desperately wanting to own the CD, I found that not a single store owned a copy of either album these guys put out ("More of everything...For everybody," and ""Drive-Thru Boot"). I even checked music stores in Vancouver and Toronto during a cross-country trip throughout North America, to no avail. To make a long and boring story short, I finally found copies of both albums (imports, which I generally try avoid due to their inexplicably outlandish price) and gorged myself on Freak Power's power.

Just so you know, the only reason I gave this album, which is a best-song amalgam of the two, a four is because their sound is now a little outdated (as can insinuated by a mere reference to the fact that Fat Boy Slim USED to produce their work, and that they are often mistaken for the Getaway People and G-Love). Despite these trivialities, Freak Power has a sound and style that will always lift a lover of funky, optimistic beats and lyrics to a place where people dance, sing-long, or just sit down and chill out with a smile drawn lazily across their faces. All the tracks on this album refuse to stray far from the boundries of quality, inevitable making the album consistently enjoyable and skip-ahead-free.

If, like me, you want an album overlooked by the masses, yet capable of being enjoyed by all, then consider yourself lucky enough to have read this and buy it. You don't even have to leave the country.

The Power of The Freak.......2000-08-28

This is an upbeat albumn that really sets its own funk rhythm. With lyrics refering to the book "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" (by Tom Wolfe), each song has a beat and a story of its own. If you want something fun, light and downright FUNKY to listen to - this is the albumn for you!

Turn On Tune In and Feel Good!.......2000-08-26

This CD is hot! It is awesome music that puts you in a good mood automatically with its upbeat tempo and smooth sounds. Many of the sounds and lyrics are different than American stuff so it's fun to have some variety in a music collection. It's also fun to rock out and sing along with the songs. I recommend this CD to anyone who wants to put some groove in thier step.

Average customer rating: Legendary selections by a legendary voice

Legendary Irish Tenor Manufacturer: Goldies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Godard, Benjamin | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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 Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Great Voices of the 20th Century The Voice of Ireland: 25 Popular Songs and Ballads ASIN: B00005RVT2 Release Date: 2001-11-26

Tracks:

1. Mother Machree
2. Kathleen Mavourneen
3. Killarney
4. Dear Little Shamrock
5. Ave Maria
6. Little Love, A Little Kiss
7. Macushla
8. Wearing of the Green
9. Where the River Shannon Flows
10. Eileen Alannah
11. Molly Brannigan
12. Low Back'd Car
13. I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby
14. Angels Guard Thee

Tracks:

1. My Wild Irish Rose
2. Serenata
3. Come into the Garden, Maud
4. Turn Ye to Me
5. Somewhere a Voice Is Calling
6. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
7. Barcarolle
8. Sunshine of Your Smile
9. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
10. Rose of Tralee
11. Ireland, Mother Ireland
12. Mother O' Mine
13. Bard of Armagh
14. Irish Emigrant

Tracks:

1. I Hear You Calling Me
2. Star of the County Down
3. Londonderry Air
4. She Moved Thro' the Fair
5. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
6. Kerry Dance
7. South Winds
8. By the Shortcut to the Rosses
9. Fairy Tree
10. Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls
11. Garden Where the Praties Grow
12. I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
13. Bantry Bay
14. Dawning of the Day

Customer Reviews:

Legendary selections by a legendary voice.......2004-03-24

With special emphasis on the variety presented in this collection, this album has a broadness of scope that will appeal to anyone who appreciates the magic of the human voice.
McCormack was perhaps the most popular entertainer in the world during his career, comparable with the superstars of today, only richer in the currency of his day.
Though purists may have criticized his shift to the popular venue as opportunism, and perhaps desertion of his training in the classical tradtions, he was simply presenting what people wanted to hear. Whether he set a pattern of career management followed by modern entertainers or was simply happiest when the accolades flowed over him matters not. The talent and richness are his legacy to us.
His range and vocal dexterity are well illustrated and represented by this larger than usual collection, and anyone with a particular favorite tune in his rather loose genre will likely find it here.
After a journey through this collection, listeners may well gain another special melody or two for addition to their personal list of "best ever" songs and singers.
Although it may be considered a bit foolish, some will choose this album for only one or two tracks. Some call that trait wasteful, but when a jewel of performance is played again and again, the teardrop may fall once more, and the heart will thrill yet again.
This album will please many musical palates, even those who claim no special fondness for "Irish Tenors."

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Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bawdy Ballads of Old England: The City Waites Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy: Lewd Songs and Low Ballads from the 18th Century My Thing Is My Own: Bawdy Songs of Thomas D'Urfey The King's Noyse, dir. David Douglass: Royal Delight: 17th Century Ballads & Dances The English Tradition: 400 Years of Music & Song ASIN: B0009JMEKQ Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. The Courtiers Health, Or The Merry Boys Of The Times
2. The Country Lass
3. The Crost People, Or A Good Misfortune
4. The Courtryman's Joy
5. Seldom Cleanly
6. A Merry Jest Of John Thompson And Jakaman His Wife
7. The Seven Merry Wives Of London, Or The Gossips Complaint
8. Old England Grown New
9. Good Advice To Batchelors, How To Court And Obtain A Young Lass
10. Neptune's Raging Fury
11. The North Country Lovers
12. The Lunatick Lover
13. The Downfall Of Dancing
14. The Saint Turn'd Sinner
15. And Old Song On The Spanish Armada
16. The Female Captain, Or The Counterfit Bridegroom
17. London Mourning In Ashes
18. The Famous Ratcatcher

Average customer rating: GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

Blow: Fairest work of happy Nature - Songs and keyboard music (English Orpheus, Vol 18) /Ainsley * Roberts * Chateauneuf Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002ZSM Release Date: 1995-04-16

Customer Reviews:

GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE .......2005-03-21

Tenor John Mark Ainsley with Timothy Roberts on harpsichord, spinet & chamber organ and Paula Chateauneuf on theorbo and baroque guitar, in an award-winning recording of eighteen songs and keyboard works by John Blow (1649-1708).

"Full of interest, rich in its varied pleasures and in the high standard of recording and performance" (Gramophone)

The works on this recording:

1. No more, the dear, lovely nymph's no more song with theorbo and organ
2. Prelude in G spinet solo
3. The self-banish'd (A Minuet) song with theorbo
4. Lovely Selina, innocent and free song with spinet and guitar
5. Morlake Ground spinet solo
6. O turn not those fine eyes away song with harpsichord
7. Sett (Suite) No 1 in D minor (Almand - [Tune] - Tune [Gavott] - Jigg) harpsichord solo
8. Fairest work of happy Nature song with theorbo
9. Flavia grown old song with harpsichord
10. Ground in G minor spinet solo
11. Oh! that mine eyes would melt into a flood sacred song with theorbo and organ
12. Verse (Voluntary) in G minor (anonymous, probably by Blow) organ solo
13. O mighty God, who sit'st on high penitential hymn with theorbo and organ
14. Sett (Suite) No 3 in A minor (Almand - Corant - Saraband - Jigg) spinet solo
15. Sabina has a thousand charms song with spinet
16. Of all the torments, all the cares song with theorbo and harpsichord / organ
17. Ground in C harpsichord solo
18. No, Lesbia, you ask in vain (Elegy on the death of Queen Mary) ('The Queen's Epicedium') song with theorbo and organ

Average customer rating: Good but not the originals Cool Nostalgia

Tune In, Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the Sixties Benny Golson Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Lounge | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Novelty Music | Comedic Music | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: Music For TV Dinners: The Sixties Music for TV Dinners The Sound Gallery, Vol. 1 Commercial Break: Songs for TV Adverts The Best of the Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By ASIN: B00000HYHX Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

1. Music To Watch Girls By
2. Wink
3. The Disadvantages Of You
4. No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)
5. Right Any Time Of The Day
6. Music To Think By
7. The Swinger
8. The Magnificent Seven
9. Cool Whip
10. The Golden Glow
11. Fried Bananas
12. Happiness Is

Customer Reviews:

Good but not the originals.......2006-07-11

It is good considering that somethings are unavailable otherwise.
I bought this CD for one track, "The Dis-Advantages of You", origially performed by "the Brass Ring".
This was the very relaxing, semi erotic sounding music used as sound track in a television commercial for a certain one hundred 100 milimeter cigarette.
Good CD true, but the old adage about the original being the best is certainly true here.

Cool Nostalgia.......2000-06-01

Those of us who watched television in the 1960's will fondly remember the commercial jingles. If you enjoy both jazz and lounge music, and appreciate regular doses of nostalgia, then this CD issue of an album released in 1967 is a must have. Arrangements are elaborate in keeping with the musical principles of lounge music and include full orchestration with chorus. Benny Golson's sax adds an appropriate dash of spice. This is feel good music at it's best-bring out the martinis and reminisce.

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I Hear You Calling Me Manufacturer: Asv Living Era ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Godard, Benjamin | ( G ) | 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 Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Divertimentos | Serenades & Divertimentos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Irish Folk | Traditional British & Celtic Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Ireland | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000Y37EW Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

1. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
2. The Sunshine Of Your Smile
3. Macushla
4. The Bard Of Armagh
5. Come Into The Garden, Maud
6. Turn Ye To Me
7. Angels Guard Thee ('Berceuse')
8. I'll Sing The Songs Of Araby
9. Venetian Song
10. Flirtation
11. Since You Went Away (Seems Lak' To Me)
12. Dear Old Pal Of Mine
13. Dream Once Again
14. A Brown Bird Singing
15. When You And I Were Young, Maggie
16. The Garden Where The Praties Grow
17. I Hear You Calling Me
18. The Irish Emigrant
19. Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
20. Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
21. South Winds
22. She Moved Thro' The Fair
23. The Star Of The County Down
24. Waiting For You
25. The Kerry Dance

Tracks:

1. The Minstrel Boy
2. Nirvana
3. My Dreams
4. A Little Love, A Little Kiss
5. The Angel's Serenade
6. Ave Maria (Intermezzo From 'Cavalleria Rusticana')
7. Serenata
8. Barcarolle ('Night Of Stars And Night Of Love')
9. Before My Window
10. Swans
11. Come, My Beloved
12. Moonlight And Roses
13. I Look Into Your Garden
14. Bird Songs At Eventide
15. By The Short Cut To The Roses
16. The Fairy Tree
17. The Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls
18. Once In A Blue Moon
19. Charm Me Asleep
20. Vespers
21. Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair
22. A Song Remembered
23. The Dawning Of The Day
24. A House, Love, Made For You And Me
25. The Old House

Average customer rating: THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME a voice teacher and early music fan

George Frideric Handel: Esther Manufacturer: CORO ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Oboe | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Handel: Jeptha Handel - Joshua / Kirkby, Bowman, Oliver, Ainsley, George, The King's Consort Handel: Alexander's Feast Handel: Joseph and his Brethren / Robert King Samson ASIN: B0001B0A94 Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

1. Overture Andante - Larghetito - Allegro
2. Recitative Habdonah/Haman: " 'Tis greater far to spare"
3. Aria Haman: " Pluck root and branch from out the land"
4. Recitative Persian Officer: "Our souls with ardour glow"
5. Chorus: "Shall we the God of Israel fear?"
6. Recitative First Israelite: " Now persecution shall lay by her iron rod"
7. Aria: " Tune your harps to cheerfull strains"
8. Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
9. Aria Israelite Woman: " Praise the Lord with cheerful noise"
10. Recitative Israelite Woman: " 0 God, who from the suckling's mouth"
11. Aria Second Israelite: " Sing songs of praise, bow down the knee"
12. Chorus: " Shall we of servitude complain"
13. Recitative Priest of the Israelites: " How have our sins provoked the Lord!"
14. Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
15. Aria Priest ofc The Israelites: "0 Jordan, Jordan, sacred tide"
16. Chorus: "Ye sons of Israel mourn"
17. Andante
18. Allegro
19. Adagio
20. Allegro

Tracks:

1. Recitative Esther/Mordecai: " Why sits that sorrow on thy brow?"
2. Aria Mordecai: " Dread not, righteous Queen, the danger"
3. Recitative Esther: "I go before the King to stand"
4. Aria Esther: " Tears assist me, pity moving"
5. Chorus: " Save us, O Lord"
6. Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: "Who dares intrude into our presence"
7. Duet Esther/Ahasuerus: " Who calls my parting soul from death?"
8. Aria Ahasuerus: "0 beauteous Queen, unclose those eyes!"
9. Recitative Esther: " If I find favour in thy sight"
10. Aria Ahasuerus: " How can I stay when love invites?"
11. Recitative Third Israelite/Fourth Israelite: " With inward joy his visage glows"
12. Chorus: " Virtue, truth and innocence"
13. Arioso Priest of the Israelites: " Jehovah, Crown'd with glory bright"
14. Chorus: " He comes, he comes to end our woes"
15. Recitative Ahasuerus/Esther: " Now, a Queen, thy suit declare"
16. Arioso Haman: " Turn not, a Queen, thy face away"
17. Aria Esther: " Flatt' ring tongue, no more I hear thee!"
18. Recitative Ahasuerus: "Guards, seize the traitor, bear him hence!"
19. Aria Haman: " How art thou fall'n from thy height!"
20. Chorus: "The Lord Our enemy has slain"

Album Description

Handel's oratorios vary greatly in their presentation. In many ways, Esther is a rarity;it is by far the most intimate, not surprisingly as it was composed for the Duke of Chandos. The Duke's Palladian palace near the village ofEdgware had not been completed in time for the first performance so this may have taken place (as did Acis and Galatea) in the intimate surroundings of a small church, St Lawrence, Whitchurch.

We decided, therefore, that we should attempt to convey that intimacy of performance on disc; so we performed in the round with microphones in the middle, the orchestra in front of me, the choir behind and the soloists alongside. The result is everything that chamber music should be where players and singers can enjoy every aspect of Handel's masterpiece.

"The 'sound' of Esther, superbly communicated in the recorded performance here, is pure enchantment... The choral singing has an exceptional grandure, and the instrumental playing a shimmering beauty. Among the soloists, none of whom is less than accomplished, Nancy Argenta and Michael Chance dominate... Both singers affirm a new golden age of Handel interpretation".

Customer Reviews:

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.......2007-01-26

Esther is the first of Handel's oratorios by a good many years, written when he was 33 and enjoying the patronage of the Duke of Chandos. When he later became his own impresario and was running into trouble as a composer and producer of Italian operas he turned to oratorio as a strategic alternative, but at this early date his concern was to deliver staged entertainments for the Duke, and Esther, contemporary with the work that later gained the title Acis and Galatea, seems to have been just an unusually serious specimen of its type.

As often with Handel, there is no fully official version of the score, and this particular score may not even be fully complete from any point of view. The libretto seems to have been the work of someone in the frivolously named association of big literary figures called the Scriblerus Club, perhaps Dr John Arbuthnot, dedicatee of Pope's great poetic Epistle, but Pope himself may have had a hand in it too. As we have it here, the work breaks into two very asymmetrical parts. Scenes 1 and 2 start with a recitative lasting only seconds from Habdonah followed by a longer one in which Haman announces his onslaught on the Israelites, and from there on feature only anonymous participants. Esther herself and the other named characters make their appearance first in scene 4, but the change of tone occurs in scene 3. At this point the music gains gravity first in the chorus Ye sons of Israel with its extraordinary modulations and then in the striking aria O Jordan, Jordan. I myself feel that this weightier tone is maintained to the end, whether or not the writer of the liner note is correct in saying that the long final chorus with solos is out of proportion to its context.

Throughout - in the first part as well as in scenes 3-6 - the instrumental writing is vivid and varied, with an extraordinary pizzicato accompaniment to Tune your harps and then an even more extraordinary obbligato from the harp itself at Praise the Lord. The harpist is no less than Jan Walters, but sometime I would like to see the score and check out what seem some odd rhythmic interactions here between her and the soloist Nancy Argenta. There are no fewer than ten vocal soloists in a work lasting a little over an hour and a quarter, and a very distinguished bunch they are. I was particularly pleased to find Michael Chance in the countertenor role of the Priest of the Israelites as I admire the strength of his tone, but there is no real weakness among them, unless Lynda Russell as Esther has a couple of very slightly awkward high notes in Flatt'ring tongue, which must be a little nerve-wracking to sing as she has to find her note for herself unaccompanied at the start and later at the reprise. You will see some big names among the instrumentalists too, with Crispian Steele-Perkins on the trumpet making a predictably fine contribution towards the end, and of course with Jan Walters in that marvellous harp part early on. The chorus gets some wonderful work to do, and rises to it fully. I really am unable to worry about the proportionateness of the final chorus when I hear that incomparable Handelian build of tone, sung by 18 singers and sounding as if there were 100.

There is a good liner note by Graydon Beeks Jr, not perhaps the last word in lucidity (neither is the plot of the libretto come to that) but worth re-reading. Harry Christophers himself contributes a short foreword largely concerned with the recording process and highlighting the contributions of Mark Brown and Mike Hatch, his long-time technical collaborators. I was interested to see also the name of Geoff Miles in a role described as `editor'. What responsibilities this involved is not stated and perhaps I ought to know without being told, but I know the work of Geoff Miles as recording engineer from elsewhere and it gave me confidence just to see that he is involved in the proceedings, and the technical work is predictably excellent.

My collection of Handel oratorios is now almost complete, and what a wonderful musical experience they are. Each is unique in its own way, but Esther is unique in some very special ways, and I suggest that you do not wait until you are my age to get to know it.

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-04-04

Handel began composing the oratorio 'Esther' in 1718. There is some confusion as to who actually worte the libretto for it, but the story follows very closely the biblical story of Esther in the Book of Esther in the old testament. The story tells of a plot of Haman, the Agagite (Michael George-bass) jealous and powerful vizier of King Xerses (Ahasuerus-Tom Randle-tenor) of Persia(485-464), to destroy in a single day all the Jews living in the Roman Empire. He is moved to this out of hatred for the Jewish servant Mordecai (Mark Padmore-tenor),who for religious motives refuses to render him homage. The day of the proposed massacre is determined by lot. Meanwhile, Esther,niece and adopted daughter of Mordecai, is chosen Queen by King Xerses. She averts the pogrom planned against her people and has the royal decree of extermination reversed against Haman and the enemies of the Jews. Mordecai replaces Haman, and together with Esther, works for the welfare of their people. As you can see this makes for an interesting Oratorio, which it truly is!
This is a "small" contribution compared to many of Handel's other works. However, it is not "small" in a musical sense. There is much creativity on the part of Handel as to orchestral scoring; he exploits his small orchestra and chorus in surprising ways, introducing new vocal and instrumental colours throughout the score, adding and subtracting instruments and voices in many and varied ways. This is a listening surprise as it moves along. And what a great performance on the part of the Christophers as well as some outstanding vocal soloists. Mark Padmore's (Mordecai) aria "Tune Your Harps to Cheerful Strains" was superb as was the Duet between Lynda Russell (Esther) and Tom Randle (Ahasuerus).But the aria that really drew me into the entire drama was sung by Michael Chance (Priest) "O Jordan, Jordan, sacred Tide." It was perfection itself!!!!The Chorus was extremely good and dictionally perfect. It is a great listening experience.

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak Dvorak Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Instructional | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Similar Items: An Introduction to Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony An Introduction to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" Classics Explained: Rite of Spring Classics Explained: Brandenburg Concertos 4 & 5 ASIN: B000069HGK Release Date: 2002-09-17

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Anthems in Disguise Manufacturer: Resmiranda ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Beautiful Star: A Celebration of Christmas ASIN: B0006A7VVA Release Date: 2003-01-01

Tracks:

1. Total Praise
2. Impossible Dream (The Quest) [From the Man of LA Mancha]
3. Mosaic Reflection 1
4. As the Deer
5. Oh, What a Beautiful Morning [From Oklahoma!]
6. Holy, Holy, Holy
7. Not While I'm Around [From Sweeney Todd]
8. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [From The Sound of Music] - Centurymen,
9. For Every Mountain
10. Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross - Broadway Inspirational Voices, Centurymen
11. Mosaic Reflection 2
12. When You Wish Upon a Star [From Walt Disney's Pinocchio] - Centurymen,
13. Free at Last [From Big River]
14. Mosaic Reflection 3
15. Just a Little Talk - Broadway Inspirational Voices, Centurymen
16. My Tribute
17. Mosaic Reflection 4
18. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
19. Mosaic Reflection 5
20. Morning Glow [From Pippin]
21. Mosaic Reflection 6
22. Holy Ground

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Turn on Tune in Slags Manufacturer: Mfs ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000AY2I Release Date: 1995-10-02

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1. Unchain Your Mind
2. Vol. 3
3. Wanderlust [Import]
4. White Heat: Film Noir
5. With the Help of My Friends
6. Workin'
7. Young Woods
8. 1941-1942, Vol. 11
9. A New Take
10. Afro-Cuba: A Musical Anthology

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