Black Narcissus

1. Black Narcissus

2. Hindsight and Forethought

3. Power to the People

4. Amoeba

5. Good Morning Heartache

6. Other Side of Right

Black Narcissus,Joe Henderson,Milestone UK,Avant-Garde Jazz,Hard Bop,Jazz,Pop,Post-Bop

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Average customer rating: highly original with brutal tension.

Black Narcissus Mephista Manufacturer: Tzadik ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Entomological Reflections ASIN: B000060PCJ Release Date: 2002-03-26

Tracks:

1. The Children's Hour
2. Black Narcissus
3. Willow's Weep
4. Cabbalussa
5. Poison Ivy
6. Black Widow
7. Legend Of Pele
8. Leda And The Swan
9. Laughing Medusa

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highly original with brutal tension........2005-02-09

Mephista is a percussion trio of unusual composition: Susie Ibarra's incredibly nuanced drumming, Ikue Mori's alien drum machines, and Sylvie Courvoisier's modernist-tinged piano playing (about evenly split inside and outside the instrument). All three of them are brilliant composers and improvisers, and the music they create on _Black Narcissus_ is masterful, original, and eerily powerful free-improvisation.

The heart of the group is its glorious improvisational tension, almost always perched tenuously at the edge. It's like a brewing storm, but not always threatening or scary -- it's just as often meditative, pretty, or sorta wacky. Tonality is virtually disregarded, but the trio still sometimes gravitates towards some harmonic centers, where it rumbles for a while, then moves along. There are some moments where it does erupt with freaky, dense atonal clatter, and these moments are spontaneously beautiful and amazing, feats of aural and technical qualities that will leave you lightheaded from the wonder of it all.

Musicianship and performance of the highest order -- highly recommended.

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Red Shoes: Music From the Films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1941-1951 Manufacturer: Cd41 (UK) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Offenbach | Offenbach, Jacques | ( O ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection ASIN: B000068PVB Release Date: 2007-03-20

Tracks:

1. Archers Ident
2. 49th Parallel: Prelude
3. 49th Parallel: Epilogue
4. Matter of Life and Death: Prelude/This Is the Universe
5. Matter of Life and Death: The Waiting Room/Washed Ashore
6. Matter of Life and Death: Prelude/Stairway to Heaven
7. Airman's Letter to His Mother: Narrative by Sir John Gielgud
8. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Prelude
9. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: War Starts at Midnight
10. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Commando Patrol
11. Canterbury Tales: Prelude
12. Canterbury Tales: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
13. Red Shoes: Prelude
14. Red Shoes: Ballet Music
15. Black Narcissus: Prologue
16. Black Narcissus: Composed Sequence
17. Gone to Earth: Prelude
18. Gone to Earth: The Tryst
19. Gone to Earth: The Hunt
20. Small Back Room: Composed Sequence
21. Small Back Room: Epilogue
22. Tales of Hoffman: Orchestral Tuning

Album Description

22 tracks. THE RED SHOES is a 74 minute collection of rare original soundtrack recordings from the classic films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Archers), made between 1941 and 1951. Those featured include: 49th Parallel (1941) Ralph Vaughn Williams (aka The Invaders) Stairway to Heaven (1946) Allan Gray (aka A Matter of Life & Death) The Life & Death of Col Blimp (1943) Allan Gray A Canterbury Tale (1944) Allan Gray / JS Bach Black Narcissus (1947) Brian Easdale The Red Shoes (1948) Brian Easdale Gone to Earth (1950) Brian Easdale (aka The Wild Heart) The Small Back Room (1949) Brian Easdale Tales of Hoffman (1951) Jacques Offenbach. As well as digitally restored original soundtrack music by the undervalued Gray and Easdale, this carefully researched CD also features a number of rare associated recordings, including John Gielgud's reading of An Airman's Letter to his Mother (1941), the lively quickstep Commando Patrol from Col. Blimp and A Canterbury Tale, and a superlative rendering of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, recorded by Albert Schweitzer in London in 1935, also featured in A Canterbury Tale. The booklet features detailed notes on the films and their accompanying scores, and well as biographies of Allan Gray and Brian Easdale. The CD is a must for all with an interest in vintage film soundtracks and British light/orchestral music, as well as the dazzling vision of Michael Powell and his musical collaborators.

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Black Narcissus Slave Traitor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000KLT9PG

Product Description

1. Watching The Sky 2. Kiss The Divine 3. Whore Colony 4. Spark Of Life 5. Once Is Still A Crime

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Soundings Manufacturer: Tall Poppies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Computer | Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005J6XG Release Date: 2001-05-29

Tracks:

1. Continuum
2. Suite-Leviathan '99
3. 345-A Study in Limited Resources for Stereo Tape
4. Suite-The Children of Lir
5. Birh Is Life Is Power Is Death Is God Is....
6. Suite-The Japanese Fisherman
7. Narcissus
8. Flute: Douglass Whittaker

Tracks:

1. Nonet
2. Soft Walls
3. Sine City II
4. Black, White and Rose
5. Clockpiece 1
6. Clockpiece 2
7. Clockpiece 3
8. Trellises
9. Counterpoint 4
10. Counterpoint 5
11. Counterpoint 6
12. Power Bounces1
13. Power Bounces 4
14. Cross-Accents 1
15. Cross-Accents 5

Average customer rating: More Examples of the Genius of Benjamin Britten a voice teacher and early music fan

Benjamin Britten: The Five Canticles & 3 Purcell Realisations Manufacturer: Hyperion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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 Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000002ZPL Release Date: 1993-11-19

Tracks:

1. Canticle 1 Op 40: My Beloved Is Mine - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Roger Vignoles
2. Canticle 2 Op 51: Abraham And Isaac - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Michael Chance/Roger Vignoles
3. Canticle 3 Op 55: Still Falls The Rain - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Roger Vignoles/Michael Thompson
4. Canticle 4 Op 86: The Journey Of The Magi - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Michael Chance/Alan Opie/Roger Vignoles
5. Canticle 5 Op 89: The Death Of Saint Narcissus - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Sioned Williams
6. Let the Dreadful Engines - Alan Opie/Roger Vignoles
7. In The Black Dismal Dungeon Of Despair - Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Roger Vignoles
8. An Evening Hymn - Michael Chance/Roger Vignoles

Customer Reviews:

More Examples of the Genius of Benjamin Britten.......2006-01-20

While gratefully the operas of Britten (Billy Budd, Peter Grimes, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Death in Venice, The Turn of the Screw, Albert Herring, etc) are now part of the standard repertoire, there are still portions of Britten's output that go begging for performances. Not only are some of the major orchestral pieces neglected, but also the more intimate works for chamber ensemble are scarcely known or performed. Were it not for the Aldeburgh Festival many of these would have disappeared, as sadly they have from the recorded repertoire. Among these are the deeply moving Church Parables (Burning Fiery Furnace, Prodigal Son, etc) and these Canticles here recorded. That Benjamin Britten remains the finest composer of the English language is indisputable and more is the pity that these deeply felt works are missing from public performance.

This superlative recording helps the cause immensely. Here The Five Canticles (grouped only for historic purposes as they were not conceived as a cycle) are exquisitely brought to life by Anthony Rolfe Johnson, countertenor Michael Chance, baritone Alan Opie, pianist Roger Vignoles, harpist Sioned Williams and hornist Michael Thompson. These works are deeply religious and yet sensuous in both poetry and musical line, very much in keeping with all of Britten's works. 'My Beloved is Mine' relates the poet to God in a sensual manner; 'Abraham and Isaac' distills the ultimate sacrifice in a conversation among God, Abraham and his son at the moment of trial; 'Still Falls the Rain' is set to an Edith Sitwell poem which in turn Britten set to music in the throes of grief for a pianist who committed suicide; 'The Journey of the Magi' is Britten's setting of TS Eliot's poem; 'The Death of St. Narcissus' is especially poignant as it was written while Britten was in his last year's of heart failure. The final works on this CD are three works by Henry Purcell realised by Britten (Purcell had only written the vocal line above a figured bass!).

This is one of those albums requiring a search but the search is more than worth the effort. An amazingly well-performed and recorded recital, this CD is one of the finest examples of Britten's genius. Highly Recommended. January 06

a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-01-04

Benjamin Britten 's five canticles were not conceived as a cycle, but were written at various times for certain special occasions. The word 'canticle' is not used in the liturgical sense, but indicates works of deep religious significance as 3 of them were written for memorial services.
Canticle no 1:'My Beloved is Mine'was written in 1947 and is scored for high voice and piano. The text is an expression of divine love, shown through the metaphor of physical love. All of the canticles are longer and more involved than simple songs,and could be described an miniature cantatas.
Cantata no 2:'Abraham and Isaac'was written for the English Opera Group's Concerts in early 1952 and was first performed by Kathleen Ferrier, Peter Pears and the composer in Nottingham, January 1952. This second canticle could be called a miniature opera, such is the dramatic effect of the story. The story is in the Book of Genesis, Chapter 22 in the bible. It is scored for alto (Isaac), tenor (Abraham );for the voice of God Britten used both voices one octave apart.
Canticle no 3:'Still Falls the Rain' was written in 1955,an is scored for tenor, horn and piano; and for his text he turned to Edith Sitwell's poem 'The Canticle of the Rose'.
Canticle no 4:'The Journey of the Magi" was not composed until 1971, for which Britten chose the poem of the same title by T.S. Eliot. It is scored for countertenor,tenor, and baritone, again with piano accompaniment.
Canticle no 5:'The death of Narcissus' was written in 1974, again choosing a poem of the same name by T.S.Eliot. Britten died the following year, and at the time of the writing of his last Canticle, he was in the hospital recovering from heart surgery, so just as this canticle dealt with death, so did his final opera :"Death in Venice"
All 3 singers are outstanding in every way. I was particularly impressed with the excellent diction throughout all of the songs. This is particularly important because these are all stories and told to the intricate rhythms that Britten has employed one could not possibly get much enjoyment without word understanding. I must also mention the skillful accompanying of Roger Vignoles which adds so much to the drama; he's so great at picking up every nuance of the singer and song. Don't pass this CD up if you like Britten's music. It's marvelous!!!

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Jean Sibelius: Songs Manufacturer: Finlandia ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Sibelius | Sibelius, Jean | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000005IGN Release Date: 1995-02-07

Tracks:

1. Vilse, Op.17/4
2. Souda Souda Sinisorsa
3. Var Det En Drom, Op.37/4
4. Sav Sav Susa, Op.36/4
5. Flickan Kom Ifran Sin Alsklings Mote, Op.37/5
6. Lastu Lainehilla, Op.17/7
7. Illalle, Op.17/6
8. Romeo, Op.61/4
9. Nacken, Op.57/8
10. Langtan Heter Min Arvedel, Op.86/2
11. Den Forsta Kyssen, Op.37/1
12. Kyssens Hopp, Op.13/2
13. Drommen, Op.13/5
14. Demanten Pa Marssnon, Op.36/6
15. Narciss
16. Varen Flyktar Hastigt, Op.13/4
17. Sangen Om Korsspindeln, Op.27/4
18. Teodora, Op.35/2
19. Och Finns Det En Tanke, Op.86/4
20. Pa Verandan Vid Havet, Op.38/2
21. Marssnon, Op.36/5
22. Norden, Op.90/1
23. Hostkvall, Op.38/1
24. Svarta Rosor, Op.36/1

Jazz Music:

1. Black Unity [Original recording remastered]
2. Bless Me Indeed; Living The Jabez Prayer
3. Blue Bird
4. Blue Monk
5. Blues And The Abstract Truth
6. Champ (Jpn Lp Sleeve) [Import]
7. Chet Baker Introduces Johnny Pace
8. City Speak
9. Confirmation [Import] [Original recording remastered]
10. Deal Me In

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