| 1. My Ship |
| 2. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
| 3. My Foolish Heart |
| 4. Someone to Watch over Me |
| 5. I'll Be Around |
| 6. Love Walked In |
| 7. It Never Entered My Mind |
| 8. My One and Only Love |
| 9. I'm Glad There Is You |
| 10. If I Should Lose You |
| 11. Ill Wind |
| 12. Time After Time |
| 13. Where Are You? |
| 14. For All We Know |
| 15. They Didn't Believe Me |
| 16. You Go to My Head |
Warm & Tender,Charlie Watts,Continuum Records,Bop,Jazz,Jazz Music
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Warm Strangers
Vienna Teng Manufacturer: Virt Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000ZMHBU Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Feather Moon
- Harbor
- Hope on Fire
- Shine
- Mission Street
- My Medea
- Shasta (Carrie's Song)
- Homecoming (Walter's Song)
- Anna Rose
- Passage
- The Atheist Christmas Carol
- [Untitled Hidden Track]
Album Description
It's not unusual to see someone leave her high tech job these days to seek out new adventures. But how many of them wind up performing on the "Late Show with David Letterman" less than six months later?By the time San Francisco-based singer/songwriter/pianist Vienna Teng, 26, quit her full-time software engineering job at Cisco Systems in 2002, she had signed with independent label Virt Records and was preparing for her full-length CD release, "Waking Hour." She was soon opening for such artists as Shawn Colvin and Joan Osborne. With her graceful melodies and evocative lyrics, Vienna has garnered critical acclaim and a rapidly growing legion of fans throughout the world.
Vienna has returned with her sophomore release, "Warm Strangers," a diverse collection of lush, melodic songs, incorporating Vienna's classical background and folk sensibilities within a contemporary pop framework. Whereas "Waking Hour," written during the high school and college years, was mostly autobiographical, "Warm Stranger"s marks Vienna's bold leap into fiction. Orchestral and acoustic landscapes, using everything from string quartets to slide guitars, provide an inviting sonic backdrop for her short stories of love, death, struggle and hope.
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely amazing.......2007-05-29
My favorites from this CD are "Harbor", the hidden track, "My Medea", "Passage" and "The Atheist Christmas Carol"
A pleasure from beginning to End.......2007-02-22
This is music to live with. At first one listens to the sound of her voice and her picture perfect piano accompaniments. Then the stories reveal themselves. Teng is a skillful story teller and a very adept songwriter. Some of it reminds me a little of early Joni Mitchell, but not enough to label her as derivative. It appears as if Teng is an important new talent, and I for one am looking forward to watching her develop into the major musical force she is already showing signs of maturing into.
Great singer, songwriter & pianist.......2007-02-12
Late to the party.......2007-02-04
A must have CD!.......2007-01-21
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Eveningland
Hem Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002W4T6M Release Date: 2004-10-05 |
Tracks:
- The Fire Thief
- Lucky
- Receiver
- Redwing
- My Fathers Waltz
- Hollow
- A-Hunting We Will Go
- An Easy One
- Strays
- Cincinnati Traveler
- Jackson
- Dance with Me
- The Beautiful Sea
- Eveningland
- Pacific Street
- Carry Me Home
Album Description
As the eight-piece Brooklyn collective Hem releases their second full-length album, Eveningland, their reputation precedes them as one of the most distinctive and emotionally rewarding bands in American music. Hem's homespun blend of vintage Americana, country/folk and chamber music made its 2002 independently released debut Rabbit Songs a critical success, inviting musical and lyrical comparisons to everyone from Dusty Springfield to Randy Newman to Aaron Copland. On Eveningland, recorded during their brief tenure with the ill-fated Dreamworks label, the band shows how deeply they've matured as musicians and songwriters. Eveningland, produced by Messé and guitarist Gary Maurer, updates the rustic charm of Rabbit Songs as references to bygone folk tunes give way to sonic touchstones from another classic era. "These songs have more of a relationship to the `60s and early `70s. We're all in love with that Countrypolitan sound," Messé says reverently referring to! classics like Ray Charles' Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, and albums by Glen Campbell and even the Carpenters. Produced by Gary Maurer and Dan Messe.Customer Reviews:
Absolutely Exquisite!.......2007-06-19
I pre-ordered their album "Home Again, Home Again" specifically for the song "The Part Where You Let Go!" In the mean time; I also ordered their latest album; Funnel Cloud. It is an outstanding album, but; on reading the reviews for Hem, I decided to purchase Eveningland, and; am I ever glad I did! I like it best between the two. Anyway; treat yourself to some outstanding relaxing vocals and harmony, coupled with music that will lift you up!
Excellent.......2007-06-11
Enchanting.......2007-01-13
From the delicately assembled "Fire Thief" to the more powerful "Strays" and "Redwing" to the haunting "Pacific Street" and the stirring "Eveningland", this album contains an array of emotions unmatched by many others, all conveyed in a beautifully understated, natural manner - no obvious synthesizers (perhaps none at all), no digital nonsense, no wannabe pop diva belting out lyrics. Only beautiful, soothing music that comes from the artists' hearts and invariably finds its way to the listener's heart as well.
I can't think of a better album to listen to while sipping hot chocolate and watching the snow fall.
Thank you to the people who do advertising at Liberty Mutual for exposing me to this band.
Folk at it's best.......2006-03-16
-Enjoy.
Hem come into their own in this album.......2005-10-05
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A Thousand Roads
Lisa Gerrard , and Jeff Rona Manufacturer: Reincarnate Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AA7HOC Release Date: 2005-08-23 |
Tracks:
- Good Morning Indian Country
- Rowing Warriors
- Canyons Of Manhattan
- Coming To Barrow
- All Your Relatives
- Dawn Across The Snow
- The Northern Lights
- Johnny In The Dark
- Walk In Beauty's Way
- A Healer's Life
- Who Are We To Say
- A Thousand Roads
- End Titles
- Who Are We To Say (Vocal)
- Shaman's Call
- Nemi
- Mahk Jchi
- All My Relations
- Song Of The Trees/Warm Springs Honouring
- Crazy Horse
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful album.......2007-03-08
Uninteresting.......2007-01-07
Good, but Lisa Gerrard repeats herself.......2006-05-19
very relaxing.......2006-02-24
Corny, fake sounding Native American music.......2005-12-17
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Here Come the Warm Jets
Eno Manufacturer: Astralwerks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00022M518 Release Date: 2004-06-01 |
Tracks:
- Needle in the Camel's Eye
- Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch
- Baby's on Fire
- Cindy Tells Me
- Driving Me Backwards
- On Some Faraway Beach
- Blank Frank
- Dead Finks Don't Talk
- Some of Them Are Old
- Here Come the Warm Jets
Amazon.com essential recording
In 1973, fed up with Bryan Ferry's domineering in Roxy Music, Eno leapt into a solo career that would find him championing the "art" in "artifice." This record is a who's who of the then-burgeoning English art-rock scene, featuring Robert Wyatt, Robert Fripp, and every member of Roxy Music except its leader (thus answering the musical question, "What if Eno had helmed the third Roxy record instead of Ferry?"). Warm Jets sports a lightheartedness that was a refreshing antidote to the pomposity of Yes and ELP on the dark side of art-rock's spectrum, with nonsensical, sound-based couplets such as "Oh headless chicken / How can those teeth stand so much kicking?" This debut is a milestone not just for Eno, but for all rocking music. Listen to Fripp's furious guitars on "Baby's On Fire" and "Blank Frank." It's incredible, Velvet Underground-inspired rock in a scene that had forgotten what rocking meant. --Gene BoothCustomer Reviews:
Pop Revolution.......2007-06-24
There are more ideas on this album than in most bands' entire body of work. The nice thing, though, is that you can ignore all the word games, genre-jumping, and clever studio tricks. and just rock out.
If you are familiar with Eno's later work, know that his first two solo albums are far from ambient.
Play loud.
Brian Eno - Father of Indie.......2007-04-11
However, if you ARE into Indie, you will probably like the album...
Just be mindful that Brian Eno is a "musician's musician." (If you've never heard that term before, then you DEFINATELY won't like this album.)
I Just Hope He's Talking About Water.......2007-01-30
The music is heavy, flaky and unnerving all at the same time. The cover is all a psych experimenter would need for his/her psych experiment. He/she wouldn't even need to listen to the music. The cadences on "Cindy Tells Me" are very similar to those on "Ashes to Ashes" on Bowie's "Scary Monsters" and those on "Blank Frank" recall "Up the Hill Backwards" on the same record. Eno's stuff is more interesting in some ways though because he stands back from it a little more and so, unlike Bowie's music, it could be the plumber or the mailman on a bit of a demented, avant-garde recording spree. For Eno, it's of interest, but not of that much interest. Bowie's artiface finds everything ironic and lamentable too; it's just that he takes his observer role too seriously. This is necessary for his music to work. Eno, on the other hand, sounds like he'd rather be fishing or forming a Ponzi scheme. The ultimate manipulator has to know how to manipulate (hide) his ego too. Consequently, the rough transitions are much less jarring because the emotions have already been "synthesized" by the artist. It's like the light we see from distant stars: it happened 50 million light-years ago. There is no neurotic need to get our attention: we are not the audience, as we are for most artists. The door to Eno's loony bin has merely been left open. People "come and go" and hide their "madness in a jar." Brian just forgot to close the door, like he always does. This is a most effective approach to New Wave music because it counter-balances the up-in-your-face timeliness of the genre. Absent here is the leering face of Elvis Costello, daring you to question his choice of eyeglass frames. Brian seems ready for that tennis match with the other gay aliens. The Brits have a knack for sanitizing madness.
I didn't know New Wave was around in 1973 but I guess it was. The title could be about being peed on by hobos, which would make for an interesting take on "Driving Me Backwards," not to mention another juicy theme for the BBC. You're left to fend for yourself.
The song "Here Come the Warm Jets" must be heard in its entirety, even though it doesn't have one. So you need to hear the other songs first. The intro contains phantasmagorical bells - very nice. They are joined by a super-charged dynamo of a melody that can't be explained - you have to hear it. It is either just synthesizers or both synthesizers and guitars and the stroke of genius here is that it is a driving, powerful rock song and there are no drums! (You can't have your emotions until Oscar Wilde's incompetent ghost gives the OK, and he's presently tied up.) Just when you think you can't take it anymore, Eno introduces the drums, but they are out of sync with the melody. Pretty soon, they are where they "should" be. The heightened effect of all of this manipulation is like downing one of those Jack Kerouac apple pies with ice cream, along with a big glass of beer and a chick.
A muffled, unintelligible chorus gives the piece an understated, religious quality - like those bluegrass singers who bely the frantic fingerpicking going on around them with their monotonal droning. The contrast between the resigned tone of the voices in the chorus and the energized anticipation in the music captures the piety of true faith, in which salvation occurs when you turn in your ego. You need to listen to the other songs first for this one to work though because, on its own, it sounds kind of flaky and thin.
Eno is great.......2007-01-12
Oh, cheeky, cheeky!.......2007-01-05
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The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection
Manufacturer: Silva America ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007XTQ14 Release Date: 2005-06-07 |
Tracks:
- The Magnificent Seven
- To Kill A Mockingbird (Suite)
- The Buccaneer (Overture)
- Walk On The Wild Side
- An American Werewolf In London (Metamorphosis)
- The Age Of Innocence (End Titles)
- The Comancheros
- Ghostbusters
- Heavy Metal (Taarna's Theme)
- Johnny Staccato
- True Grit (Rooster Cogburn/A Warm Wrap-Up)
- Hollywood And The Stars
- Zulu Dawn (River Crossing)
Tracks:
- The Great Escape
- The Man With The Golden Arm
- Far From Heaven
- The Sons Of Katie Elder
- Airplane (Suite)
- The Shootist (Main Title)
- Hawaii (Overture)
- The Birdman Of Alcatraz (Finale)
- The Hallelujah Trail (Overture)
- The Bridge At Remagen
- Thoroughly Modern Millie (Sky-Hi)
- The Scalphunters
- The Ten Commandments (Overture)
Album Description
*A specially priced 2CD set with over 110 minutes of some of the greatest film music in the history of cinema.*New digital recordings in spectacular and sound performed by the acclaimed City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and National Youth Jazz Band.
*Includes world premiere recordings from "The Birdman Of Alcatraz," "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Airplane!" and "An American Werewolf In London."
*In 2004 the world of cinema lost one of the most iconic figures in film composing. In a career that spanned half-a-century and over 250 films, Elmer Bernstein was responsible for writing the music to many of the greatest and most loved movies of all time ranging from "The Ten Commandments," "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Great Escape," through to "True Grit" and "Airplane!" This collection has been lovingly created and compiled as a tribute to a genius and true master of the art of film scoring.
Customer Reviews:
Sad Really Sad.......2007-05-13
*Boring*
It just didn't have the energy one would expect from "The Magnificent Seven" and "The Man with the Golden Arm". I think the City of Prague and National Youth Jazz Orchestras were bargain orchestras used to make an inexpensive CD set of one of my favorite film composers. The conducting and arrangements were what made this an obviously bad album.
An excellent movie themes antology by ELMER BERNSTEIN.......2007-05-10
Played the The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, and conducted by his one time assistant James Fitzpatrick
Recorded in HDCD and Dolby Surround
Excellent.......2007-04-22
With regards to this silva set, these recordings range back to 1994, with Sons of Katie Elder and True Grit being recorded for a John Wayne CD and Bridge At Remagen for a CD of classic War themes. The Great Escape was also recorded for that CD, but producer James Fitzpatrick opted to record a new arrangement (same with Magnificent Seven). In '97, The Buccaneer for included on a Swashbucklers disc, while Heavy Metal was on the popular 'Space and Beyond' compilation. In '98, the world premiere recording of Airplane first appeared on a DISASTERS film disc. So while it may technically be the world premiere RECORDING it certainly is not the world premiere CD RELEASE of that recording. Ghostbusters was included on Space 3: Beyond the Final Frontier, the second followup to the popular 'Space and Beyond'. Fast forward to 2002 and 4 recordings first appeared on WAY OUT WEST: ESSENTIAL WESTERN FILM MUSIC COLLECTION VOLUME TWO, those being The Comancheros, The Hallelujah Trail, The Scalphunters and The Shootist. Man With the Golden Arm and Walk on the Wild are from Silva's JAZZ IN FILM cd.
The remaining tracks were all newly recorded for this release. They are of course the strongest tracks, seeing as the City of Prague Philharmonic has improved over time. I do wonder though why they did not include the older arrangements of Great Escape and Mag. Seven as bonus tracks.
I also recommend the simultaneously released '40 years of Film Music: Jerry Goldsmith' for another great set honoring a late great film composer.
Great Film Music.......2007-03-09
great westerns to the Theme from Airplane to music he did for television,
Bernstein was one of the greatest.
Fun, Powerfull music.......2007-02-17
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Warm and Wonderful/Swingin' South
Les Paul & Mary Ford Manufacturer: Collectables ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005KHG9 Release Date: 2001-07-10 |
Tracks:
- 'Deed I Do
- Makin' Whoopee!
- A Cottage For Sale
- Clouds
- Come Back To Me
- Chasing Shadows
- It's Been A Long, Long Time
- After You've Gone
- Am I Blue
- You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
- Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams
- East Of The Sun
- Worried Man
- Columbus Stockade Blues
- Your Cheatin' Heart
- Cowpokin'
- Trouble In Mind
- Les's Country Blues
- Waiting' So Long
- I Just Don't Understand
- Ham 'N Grits
- Call On Me
- Dance Hall Blues
- The Big City
Album Description
Guitar ace Les Paul and Mary Ford, a former back-up singer for Gene Autry, joined forces personally and professionally in 1949. The duo take on Hawaii and Nashville on this two-album collection with their stellar renditions of songs such as Sweet Leilani, End of the World and You Win Again. This release features 2 complete LP's on 1 CD. 24 tracks. 2001 reissue.Customer Reviews:
Trouble In Mind.......2002-12-20
An interesting twofer of Les and Mary's music.......2002-09-07
The first album, Warm and wonderful, is mostly made up of covers of classic songs, alternating instrumental tracks with vocal tracks. As much as I enjoy the instrumentals, I prefer the songs where Mary's sweet country voice takes over. One of these, Come back to me, is an orginal song which they co-wrote with each other. Of course, the title Come back to me is not unique - do not confuse the Les and Mary song with any other song of the same title. Mary is also in fine voice on Deed I do, A cottage for sale, It's been a long log time, Am I blue and Wrap your troubles in dreams. The remainig tracks allow Les to show his mastery of the guitar, for which he is legendary.
The second album, Swingin' south, is a country album recorded in Nashville. It features several songs written by Les, but there are covers here too, the most famous being Your cheating heart, a Hank Williams classic. On this album, Mary sings throughout. The album is slightly more energetic than Warm and wonderful, but only slightly. It's not a swinging album desptite it's title.
This is a very relaxing twofer by a couple who made some enjoyable music.
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Vanessa-Mae The Violin Player
Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002SKU Release Date: 1998-10-30 |
Tracks:
- Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
- Contradanza
- Classical Gas
- Theme From 'Caravans'
- Warm Air
- Jazz Will Eat Itself
- Widescreen
- Tequila Mockingbird
- City Theme
- Red Hot
Customer Reviews:
Innovative music.......2007-06-03
Slop from a slapper.......2005-03-01
It is hard to describe the depth of the level to which this album stoops to be "popular". Low brow? You bet! Exploitative? Oh yeah! Dumbed down Classical Music? Well, that's what we've got here!
Value of this album? Hard to say. I am sure that Vanessa's parents and agent are happy with this prosaic product.
Very dumbed down dumb music - for the legions of philistines and musically naive of the world.
In one word, a "dud".
HO HUM --- REALLY NOT INTERESTING AT ALL.......2003-07-11
That being said, this album had the potential to be interesting, except that the arrangements of Mike Batt are about as flat as one can get. This album seems to be more about Mike Batt's ego than about Vanessa Mae, as Mike perform, conducts, composes & produces practically every piece. This would be fine if the end product was remotely interesting, but of it sounds like it should be background music. The Bach arrangement, with gratuitous techno-pop flourishes thrown in at every opportunity, just bogs down in an effort to be "innovative." Most of Batt's compositions leave no impression whatsoever.
Any lunatic who puts this crossover album in the classical category truly needs to go back to Music Appreciation 101, to be reminded of what classical music is. File this one in the Fluffy Boring Pop category and forget about it.
Classical With a Twist.......2003-07-01
Highly Listenable.......2002-11-13
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Lanza: Greatest Hits
Manufacturer: RCA ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003FVZ Release Date: 1995-04-11 |
Tracks:
- The Toast Of New Orleans: Be My Love
- Because
- Very Warm For May: All The Things You Are
- The Student Prince: Serenade
- Rigoletto - La Donna e Mobile
- Pagliacci: Vesti La Guibba
- O Sole Mio
- The Student Prince: Beloved
- South Pacific: Younger Than Springtime
- The Great Caruso: The Loveliest Night Of The Year
- Carousel: If I Loved You
- Carmen: Flower Song
- The Student Prince: Golden Days
- Spring Is Here: With A Song In My Heart
- The Land Of Smiles: Yours Is My Heart Alone
- Because You're Mine
- Cavalleria Rusticana: Adido Alla Madre
- Aida: Celeste Aida
- The Lord's Prayer
- Granada
Customer Reviews:
Introducing the Greatest Voice of All Time.......2007-03-13
This selection of recordings has a number of fine selections that give a small "flavor" of his fantastic talent and skills. It is a good beginning for someone who wants to know "The American Caruso."
The Greatest Tenor of the 20th Century........2007-01-21
Easy listening.......2006-02-27
Lanza of the joyous voice!.......2005-07-14
Not bad as an introduction to Lanza.......2001-11-13
Highlights include the immortal Serenade & Golden Days from The Student Prince, Beloved (from the film version of the Student Prince, and arguably Lanza's best English-language love song), Because You're Mine, If I Loved You, and the stirring Addio Alla Madre from Cavalleria Rusticana. If love songs seem a little over-represented at the expense of arias and (notably) Italian & Neapolitan Songs, then blame BMG for their habitual neglect of Lanza's more serious side. In any event, this is essentially a one-CD version of the three-CD set, The Mario Lanza Collection. All of the renditions are the same as on the earlier CD, as are the sound sources. With the exception of The Student Prince Serenade, most of the selections here have never sounded better.
Be aware, however, that several of the arias are in fact retakes of more familiar versions. Vesti La Giubba, for instance, is an alternate take from Lanza's May 1950 session, and although the tenor is in great voice, the orchestra lets him down on the climactic phrase by moving on before he has finished his High A on the word "infranto". The Flower Song is even more unrestrained than the familiar take - great fun, but not the kind of recording you'd want newcomers to Lanza to hear! (Lanza never quite "nailed" this aria, but his heart was in the right place.) La Donna E Mobile is the familiar 1950 version in the first half, but is replaced by an inferior retake in the second half, followed by an edited-in High B ending (on "pensier") from the original recording!
The only truly bad recording is the inexplicably popular With A Song In My Heart. Lanza is unfocused, and strains his way throughout the piece. Yours Is My Heart Alone is somewhat better, but is easily surpassed by the tenor's 1956 recording with the conductor Henri Rene (and currently unavailable on CD).
The "Greatest Hits" are here: the million-selling Be My Love, Loveliest Night of The Year and the aforementioned Because You're Mine. I have to confess to an aversion to the first two - Lanza was often a far better singer than these recordings suggest - but most fans, I'm sure, will continue to cherish them. Besides, what tenor since Lanza has ever sung Be My Love without straining his way through the wretched thing and then fudging the High C at the end? Lanza made it his own, and to be fair to the song, it is actually a very difficult piece to pull off, as Messrs Domingo, Carreras and Leech will no doubt attest. But that was also one of Lanza's most under-appreciated strengths - he made everything sound so easy. Listeners accustomed to the laborious efforts of most present-day tenors will be astounded by the freshness, ease, and sheer bravado of these performances.
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Working Classical: Orchestral and Chamber Music by Paul McCartney
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00001ZSXH Release Date: 1999-10-19 |
Tracks:
- Junk
- A Leaf
- Haymakers
- Midwife
- Spiral
- Warm And Beautiful
- My Love
- Maybe I'm Amazed
- Calico Skies
- Golden Earth Girl
- Somedays
- Tuesday
- She's My Baby
- The Lovely Linda
Amazon.com
Working Classical might just be the perfect outlet for the composing skills of Sir Paul McCartney. Here, the former Beatles (and, let's not forget, Wings) member scales things down from his previous classical-music endeavors--the overweight works Liverpool Oratorio and Standing Stone. In the hands of the Loma Mar Quartet chamber group and the London Symphony Orchestra, McCartney's shorter compositions sound all the more intimate (and effective). Album opener "Junk" is a simple waltz dating from the composer's days with the Fab Four, performed here by the Quartet with short-but-sweet results. "A Leaf" is another waltz motif, this one performed with a full orchestra. McCartney pop favorites "Warm and Beautiful," "Somedays," "She's My Baby," and "The Lovely Linda" all get chamber-music treatments that bring out their compositional beauty. And, while influences seem to range from Janácek to Morricone, there's no doubting that McCartney knows how to write a convincing ditty--pop or otherwise. --Jason VerlindeCustomer Reviews:
nice string music.......2007-07-13
Macca continues to amaze. As Ringo said in reference to "Let it Be...Naked":"(Paul) ,You were right all along."
I think when the history is written many years from now, it'll be seen that while John Lennon was the heart of the Beatles,Paul McCartney was their musical brain. I feel Mac will stand tall with other notable composers from the Western musical tradition.
AS soon as the classical snobs make themselves admit it.
Melodically,Mac can't be beat.
W/out Mac,there would've not been the Beatles as we know them today.
This CD is well worth buying.
Perfect Format to Present Paul's Genius.......2006-11-20
I have just listened to the broadcast of Paul's most recent classical work Ecce Cor Meum from Carnegie Hall in New York (Nov. 14, 2006) and prior to the main piece, the soprano Kate Royal and another vocalist sang these songs accompanied by the same quartet that appears on Working Classical. It was essentially a live version of this album with vocals and it was brilliant as is the original Working Classical CD. My Love, Warm and Beautiful, Calico Skies and Junk come off as extraordinarily brillant as they do on this recording. These songs, whether in this form or closer to their original form, will live forever and no amount of "orchestration" can kill them.
The same reviewer wrote: "it is a sign of the decline of serious culture that so many people actually believe that this MUZAK is classical music". How pompous some classical music fans are that they cannot conceive of any important music being written in modern times. Another reviewer wrote: "an orchestrated pop song is still a pop song". Perhaps, but that is not a fatal critcism that would obviate the joy these melodies give and emotions they hold. On the contrary, this is not elevator music. Elevator music is not compelling, its not memorble and its not written by a genius named Paul McCartney.
If you were to take a sonata by a well-known classical composer and play it among 'elevator music' with an overblown song like "Feelings", for example, would that turn it into elevator music? The discerning among us know the difference. An orchestrated pop song is not just MUZAK. That is just simple-minded. This idea comes from John Lennon's song "How Do You Sleep?" during which he idenifies Paul's music as MUZAK. John later denounced and rejected the sentiments of that song.
It turns out Paul is the coolest Beatle because he is the least affected, the least afraid to worry about what people would think about his doing something like this recording. He is not worried about the posturing associated with the tough guy rock and roll image. He is first and foremost an artist and musician--one of rare quality and talent.
This is NOT classical music.......2006-11-07
one of my favoirte cds.......2006-08-05
Is it possible to wear out a CD?.......2006-03-26
His music possesses a gentle whimsy and include orchestral or chamber versions of some of his recognizable songs such as "Junk," "My Love" and "Maybe I'm Amazed."
I'd read all the reviews and have included a snippet from one which I am happy to share... this just says it all...
Gerald R Steele
"An extension of an event, begun in the sixties, called, "The Beatles", Paul McCartney has confirmed the importance of the original Phenomena. Some of us realized that from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" a culmination of music, from Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Gershwin, and Vaughn-Williams, was emerging.
One can only hope for more. This tribute to Linda may begin something that will reference a "pop-culture" that included "The Beatles" as the beginning to music that truly responds to "the inner-ear" of, at least, three generations. This is the stuff that lives for thousands of years." Thank you Gerald. Imagine, touching the hearts of THREE generations?
My own love for this album is enhanced by my friendships as I compare my feelings, during listening, to them. A dear friend, Linda, rides her mechanical steed every morning and I think of her as I listen to "The Lovely Linda". I can see her in the morning dawn, peddling along and enjoying the morning and life. "Calico Skies" is reminiscent of all my Mitford pals! So dignified and serene! I'll probably wear out this CD from playing it so much.
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Warm and Tender
Olivia Newton-John Manufacturer: Geffen Goldline ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000OZA Release Date: 1996-03-19 |
Tracks:
- Jenny Rebbeca
- Rocking
- The Way You Look Tonight
- Lullaby Lullaby My Lovely One
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- Sleep My Princess
- The Flower That Shattered The Stone
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Warm And Tender
- Rock A Bye Baby
- Over The Rainbow
- The Twelfth Of Never
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- When You Wish Upon A Star
- Reach Out For Me
Album Description
Digitally remastered reissue of Olivia's 1989 album for DGC.15 tracks, including 'Jenny Rebecca' and 'Rocking'. 1998 Festival Records release.Customer Reviews:
Wonderful, as always.......2007-03-09
Not Just a Kid's Album.......2006-03-27
Warm, Tender, and truly beautiful........2005-08-25
Tender and Top-Notch!.......2005-08-18
Sweet and Wonderful.......2005-08-04
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