Early Works

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The disc is titled Early Works. Come Out (1966) and It's Gonna Rain were the first Reich compositions released on LP, electronic works based on tape-recorded voices processed in fairly simple but intriguing ways. The hypnotic power of Come Out was the first Reich to catch my attention years ago. Piano Phase and Clapping Music use the same musical procedures, only for live performers. I don't know if this is an important disc except for people following Reich's career, but though he has gone on to greater things, these pieces still have the power to intrigue and move me. --Leslie Gerber

Early Works, Music, Steve Reich, Double Edge, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Electronic/Computer/Tape Music, Jazz Music, Keyboard, Keyboard Music for More Than One Player, Minimalism, Modern Composition, Tape Music, United States of America

Early Works: The Best of Dallas Holm
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Wonderful and Inspirational!

Powerful Christian Music

spirit filled

This Music Is Great

Classic Dallas.

Early Works: The Best of Dallas Holm
Dallas Holm
Manufacturer: Benson Records
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The Very Best of the Imperials

The Best of Andrae

ASIN: B0000288OZ
Release Date: 1994-03-01

Tracks:

Losing Game
I Can't Wait
Didn't He Shine
I've Never Seen the Righteous Forsaken
A Broken Heart
Looking Back
Here We Are
I Saw the Lord
Jesus is a River of Love
Hittin' the Road
I've Never been Out of His Care
Jesus Gotta Hold of My Life
Saved, Saved, Saved
What Will You Do?
Rise Again

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful and Inspirational!.......2006-03-29

I love this album. The songs are inspirational, and his voice is amazing. This music will fill your heart with its beauty. I highly recommend it.

Powerful Christian Music.......2005-05-11

Rise Again, has been one of my all-time favorite christian songs for as long as I can remember. Such a powerful, inspiring song and a great voice singing it.

spirit filled.......2003-02-09

Dallas can take you right to the throne room! He is sirit filled and I absoulty love his music.

This Music Is Great.......2002-03-19

Dallas Holm is one of the last great lyricists of gospel
music of our time. His insight into the rich spirituality
of the genre speaks volumes for his God-given talent. He
truely has a gift. May God continue to richly bless all
who hear these songs and inspire the writer of them.

Classic Dallas........2001-06-13

A great collection of sixteen songs from one of the legends of contemporary Christian music. It roughly spans his very early music (thus the title), which was a curious mix of "Jesus" music and a touch of Elvis Presley, to the pop sound of the late 70's and early 80's. Wielding his tremendous baritone voice like a broadsword, Dallas Holm captured the essence of what young people and others wanted in their music during that fluid period in Christian music history.

The later songs range from ballads like I'VE NEVER BEEN OUT OF HIS CARE and A BROKEN HEART, which seem to come straight out of his own heart, to the somewhat playful and rocky JESUS IS A RIVER OF LOVE, and on to the intensity of I SAW THE LORD and the soaring anthem and signature song RISE AGAIN.

Pick this one up. The message it conveys is as valid today as it ever has been and the music is timeless. This CD could have been twice as long. If you can find any of his old LP's or cassettes, I would highly recommend them.

Goodall: Choral Works
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Charming

WONDERFUL!

Both uplifting and serious sacred music

Sound and Silence

Mr. Goodall is a National Treasure

Goodall: Choral Works

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000063CX
Release Date: 1998-04-21

Tracks:

Missa Aedis Christi: Kyrie
Missa Aedis Christi: Gloria
Missa Aedis Christi: Credo
Missa Aedis Christi: Sanctus
Missa Aedis Christi: Benedictus
Missa Aedis Christi: Agnus Dei
In Memoriam Anne Frank
The Vicar Of Dibley: Psalm 23
Mr. Bean: Ecce Homo
They Were Not Here
Marlborough Canticles: Magnificat
Marlborough Canticles: Nunc Dimittis

Customer Reviews:

Charming.......2003-10-01

I was surprised to find this CD charming. Psalm 23 caught my attention at first, probing me to listen further. If you like the music of John Rutter, try to get your hands on this CD. It will be well worth it. Mr Bean even features on the disc. The sound is fresh and crisp. The music is clever and very interesting. Try it out.

WONDERFUL!.......2002-09-20

Perhaps the finest British Composer writing for a variety of media today. I would encourage folks to LOVE this CD. It is accessible to almost all, from Snotty Anglicans(Of which I am a classic case) to low church Protestants. I think that the essence of each of these pieces is universal. As to the comment about the varying volumes.....get real! Dynamic Contrast is a PLUS!

If you wish to acquire the sheet music to these pieces you will have difficulty in finding a US distributor. American Music Company in Missouri(Liberty,MO) was able to get me the pieces for my choir in a very timely fashion.

Both uplifting and serious sacred music.......2000-08-09

This is excellent music for Anglican liturgy with an extra measure of joyful rhythm and delicious harmony. It's holy music that smiles. A good contemporary addition to any library of cathedral music. And the liner notes helped me finally figure out the funny lyrics to the theme from Mr. Bean.

Sound and Silence.......2000-08-06

This truly lovely music is harmed by recording production values. The dynamic range goes from the inaudible to the earsplitting so that one is constantly reeling from the assault to ears. The composer actually comments gleefully in the accompanying notes on the choir's joy at singing at full (plus) volume. The music is wonderful, the sound is not. I would welcome another shot at this music featuring more restraint from the sound engineers, more discipline applied to an excellent, but overly eager, composer.

Mr. Goodall is a National Treasure.......1999-12-28

I sent my church's organ player on a wild goose-chase searching for the theme to the Vicar of Dibley (Psalm 23). I'm embarrassed and delighted to admit that the composer is NOT some eighteenth-century chormaster but the UK's very own and very much alive Harold Goodall! A more lilting and elegiac tune would be hard to find. His melodies lend themselves perfectly to choral arrangement.

Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929

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Absolutely Joyous
Glimpse of a unique personality
henry and john hurt are the best
Great music from the Black South
Fantastic CD, but the liner notes?...

Texas Worried Blues: Complete Recorded Works 1927-1929
Henry Thomas
Manufacturer: Yazoo
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ASIN: B000000G8B
Release Date: 1990-06-27

Tracks:

Fishing Blues
Old Country Stomp
Charmin' Betsy
Lovin' Babe
Railroadin' Some
Don't Leave Me Here
The Little Red Caboose
Bob McKinney
Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?
Run, Mollie, Run
Shanty Blues
Woodhouse Blues
John Henry
Cottonfield Blues
Arkansas
The Fox And The Hounds
Red River Blues
Jonah In The Wilderness
When The Train Comes Along
Bull Doze Blues
Don't Ease Me In
Texas Easy Street
Texas Worried Blues

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Henry "Ragtime Texas" Thomas (1876-?) was a railroading hobo from the Lone Star State whose style and repertoire were obsolete long before the first of his two recording sessions in 1927. His last recorded song, "Don't Leave Me Here," a plaintive version of his "Don't Ease Me In," was his bluesy take on the popular early 20th-century standard "Alabama Bound" and is one of many gems in this unique collection of extra-Delta country blues, "rags," and medicine show or vaudeville tunes. With Thomas punctuating most of his songs by tooting on pre-harmonica quills, or panpipes, these colorful numbers offer a glimpse into a vanished world. After recording such delights as "Railroadin' Some," "Jonah in the Wilderness," "Red River Blues," and "Honey, Won't You Allow Me One More Chance?," the mysterious minstrel disappeared--unless that really was Thomas on the corner of Crawford and Capitol during Houston's winter of 1949. --Alan Greenberg

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely Joyous.......2007-03-07

This music is absolutely joyous! It is thoroughly ancient dance music. I am listening to the album for the first time at this very moment, and I am overwhelmed with emotion. Henry Thomas's voice is perfectly inoffensive and endearing. Whole books can be written on the lyrics he sings and how they crop up in later tunes that would be called "Blues". The quills he plays make his music unlike anything else in all of Americana. His guitar playing can be plain, old, trance-like on the dance tunes, and intricate and glorious on the blues songs. At this exact second, I am listening to "Railroadin' Some," and I must conclude that this is one of the greatest albums I've ever heard in my life.

Glimpse of a unique personality.......2006-11-07

Much is made of Henry Thomas's stature as a 'pre-blues' musician, on whose music offers us a representation of the shift in black popular and social music from 'country' to 'blues' that was taking place in the earliiest years of the last century. It's clear that with Thomas's music the shift wasn't comlete.
However you look at it, this is great music, and if you like roots music there will be something in it for you. He's the only guy I've heard of play quills on a harmonica harness; heck, he's the only guy I've heard play quills who's not from the Miss. hill country, and he obviously plays them in a different style.
The oft-covered Fishin' Blues and the Old Country Stomp are deservedly famous from inclusion on the Harry Smith set and covers by the likes of Taj Mahal and Lovin' Spoonful in the case of the former, but the real surprise was hearing the clearly recognizable inspiration for Canned Heat's 'Goin' Up The Country.' I also love the way Thomas strings together disparate tunes as medleys without really missing a bit, clearly a holdover from country instrumental traditions.

henry and john hurt are the best.......2005-07-20

henry thomas plays the quills on harry smith's folk anthology.
he has a warm happy feeling like miss. john hurt's sound.
both are first rate musicians, country folks who know their soul.

Great music from the Black South.......2004-02-20

Henry Thomas was not a blues musician, although the four blues titles in this album are excelent. Henry Thomas was a songster, a performer of popular country songs. Fans of modern blues will find it hard to compare Thomas with people like Robrt Cray, Albert Collins or Albert King. But the music played on this CD does represent what was going on and popular in the beginning of the century. I found the Panflute playing reminiscent of African flute music. This in itself makes the CD worth listening to. The CD contains many types of songs. All are delivered with a great voice and inimitable - though simple - guitar backing. Henry Thomas has the musical charisma similar to that of blues greats such as Charlie Patton, Blind lemon Jefferson or Blind Willie Johnson (himself an example of a non-blues singer who is popular among blues fans). To me all the songs are great, but Railroadin' Some, Shanty Blues, and Texas Easy Street deserve special honors. I highly recommand the album.

Fantastic CD, but the liner notes?..........2003-03-02

This CD, containing every one of Henry Thomas's recordings, is a must-have if you're a fan of Lead Belly and other black musicians who performed pre-blues and early blues(but you probably won't care for it if you're expecting to hear something similar to Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf). Thomas's songs are full of energy and humor, the delicacy with which he played the quills providing an interesting contrast with his rough guitar and vocal style.
My only quibble with Yazoo's otherwise excellent packaging has to do with the liner notes written by Stephen Calt. Couldn't they have found someone who had more favorable things to say about Thomas? While acknowledging Thomas's deft picking on the few straight blues numbers like "Texas Easy Street Blues", Calt questions the "documentary value" of this music--in other words, he seems to have serious doubts as to whether Thomas was representative of the black music of his time. He points out the influence of white music on Thomas's recordings, but the same thing can be said of every black musician of his generation(Thomas was born in the 1870s); blacks and whites often performed and recorded the same songs.
There is one point in particular, albeit a minor one, on which I question Calt's analysis. He calls Thomas's "Shanty Blues", a slide piece, "a truncated version of a hillbilly song Fiddlin' John Carson recorded in 1927 as 'The Smoke Goes Out the Chimney Just the Same'...". I have never heard Carson's version so I don't know how similar the Thomas song is to it, but Calt is either unaware of or completely ignores the great similarity between Thomas's vocal phrasing on "Shanty" and the slide licks on "Guitar Rag", a popular instrumental recorded by black musician Sylvester Weaver in 1923(and itself later copied by white country musicians).

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Kumma kumma, shoda shoda
Reich's extreme early experiments
Timeless Minimalism!!
It's Gonna Rain
Reich's solid minimalist beginnings

Early Works

Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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ASIN: B000005IYO
Release Date: 1992-05-28

Tracks:

Come Out, 1966
Piano Phase, 1967
Clapping Music, 1972
It's Gonna Rain, 1965
It's Gonna Rain, Part 2

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The disc is titled Early Works. Come Out (1966) and It's Gonna Rain were the first Reich compositions released on LP, electronic works based on tape-recorded voices processed in fairly simple but intriguing ways. The hypnotic power of Come Out was the first Reich to catch my attention years ago. Piano Phase and Clapping Music use the same musical procedures, only for live performers. I don't know if this is an important disc except for people following Reich's career, but though he has gone on to greater things, these pieces still have the power to intrigue and move me. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Kumma kumma, shoda shoda.......2007-03-20

A stoner buddy of mine turned me on to this 40 years (1967) ago and it - Come Out, in particular - blew me away. I bought a vinly copy and later replaced it with this CD. I can't imagine an eclectic CD collection being complete without a copy of this landmark album.

Reich's extreme early experiments.......2004-07-02

Depending on your ears, the early works on this recording will be either complete madness, or trance-like nirvana. My hunch is that many people will vote for the former, at least at first, before Reich's inventive grip helps you to perceive sounds in a way that perhaps you hadn't before. In any case, the works here are given terrific performances.

"Come Out" features the taped voice of a young black man arrested for murder, who had to squeeze his bruises so that some of the blood would "come out" to show the police he was injured. From the man's taped speech, Reich extracts the phrase "come out to show them" and repeats it dozens and dozens of times, electronically altering it so that it slowly shifts in emphasis, tone and weight. It is a mesmerizing experience. Similarly, in "It's Gonna Rain," which uses the voice of a fiery preacher named Brother Walter, Reich repeats the title phrase hundreds of times, and as the work progresses the words gradually dissolve into a huge wall of sound that is indistinguishable from its origins.

The most accessible work for most people will probably be "Clapping Music," a short, percussive study for two people well, clapping. The means are simple, but the result is much more complex. Reich explores different rhythmic patterns, and this piece, like the others, helps provide crucial understanding of some of his later, more complex works like "Drumming" or "Different Trains."

"Piano Phase" was written in 1967, for two pianists who begin playing the same figure in unison, before one pianist speeds up slightly. The unison changes into what at first sounds like an echo, but settles into a sort of chugging harmony as the pianist continues to pull ahead. Listeners who are restless when confronted with the composer's stark "Violin Phase" (employing a similar technique) might enjoy the two-piano timbre here a bit more.

I wish I could say that everyone would like this recording, but it just is not so. Although I find these pieces completely fascinating, they do require a good bit of patience, not to mention a willingness to be immersed in a rather stark and uncompromising sound world. Those who came to Reich through "18 Musicians," "Different Trains," or some of his latest compositions that incorporate video, may be left completely in the dark by these early pieces. But for those interested in Reich, or in trends in twentieth-century music, at least one hearing of this amazing recording could be considered almost essential.

Timeless Minimalism!!.......2003-09-12

"Early Works" collects four of composer Steve Reich's earliest examples of minimalist music for both tapeloops and actual musical instruments. Listening to these early pieces is quite fascinating and offers a glimpse of what was to come in the music world more than 35 years later.
The first piece on the disc, "Come Out" was created in 1966 as part of a benefit for six youngsters who were arrested in the infamous Harlem riots. Reich's source material for this piece consists of a spoken phrase by a young man named Daniel Hamm. Reich takes two identical tapeloops Hamm's phrase ("Come out to show them") and allows them to gradually go out of synch with each other. As they do, the charachteristics of the human speech become more revealing as every detail of the 'come out' phrase becomes exposed. As the piece gradually moves forward, Reich doubles the loops to four and allows them to go out of synch thus adding further depth to the repeated phrase. Finally, the four loops double to eight and the phrase becomes indecipherable but highly rhythmic like a percussionist using brushes on a snare drum. 37 years later, "Come Out" can very well be considered as the first 'rap' or 'hip-hop' piece. It's repeated rhythmic tapeloops are an early example of what is now known as 'sampling'.
The second piece is "Piano Phase" composed in 1967. The principle behind this piece is having two pianists starting a repeated phrase together in unison but gradually having one pianist get a beat ahead (then two and three beats etc.) of the other pianist thus creating entirely new melodic and harmonic rhythmic patterns. This is an excellent 20-minute study of what can be done with two pianos playing the exact same thing but at different intervals.
The third piece is the short but effective "Clapping Music" composed in 1972. This piece was written for two pairs of hands clapping out a simple elementary rudiment. Like "Piano Phase", one performer plays the same thing throughout while the other jumps ahead a number of beats. On a personal note, this is an excellent piece to teach your friends. It's fun and simple to learn.
The final piece is "It's Gonna Rain" which is the earliest piece in this collection, created in 1965. This is another tapeloop piece in the style of "Come Out". The source material was recorded by Reich in a park in San Francisco and the voice belongs to a street preacher by the name of Brother Walter. "It's Gonna Rain" is presented in two parts. The first part consists of Walter's phrase 'it's gonna rain' in a repeated loop. At first there are numerous rhythmic edits in the loops showcasing the different parts of diction and pitch in the one phrase. Then an identical loop of the same phrase cuts in and gradually goes out of synch with the other. When the two loops are as far out of synch as possible, this creates a sort-of teetertotter-like effect. The loops then gradually fall back in synch which concludes the first part of this piece.
Part two's structure is almost the same as the first part but in this case, a longer compilcated loop consisting of several different phrases from Brother Walter is used. Like "Come Out", this part begins with two identical tapeloops played together in unison but then gradually go out of synch. The two loops double to four and gradually go out of synch followed by the doubling to eight loops. As the eight loops go out of synch, the sound of the piece becomes extremely chaotic - a cacophony of voices that sound as if they are in a large echo chamber. This brings "It's Gonna Rain" to a chilling close.
Without a doubt, Steve Reich is a composer that was and still is ahead of his time. His early tape experiments included on this disc have paved the way for today's DJs and electronic musicians. This music does require some patience, study and understanding. Not everyone will grasp this music upon its first listen. However, there's is no argument that this music is timeless and demonstrates the young Steve Reich coming into full bloom as a dynamic and innovative composer.

It's Gonna Rain.......2003-04-22

Warning, this is a strange CD. It's not going to fit everyone's taste, but if you are the type that likes to explore, or extremely bored with POP music, then this is the CD for you. This was created & recorded before the computer age, yet deals with the process of the computer age. Back then some Classical Experimenters used tape loops to created multi layered repetitions of rhythm & melody. I believe the high light is "It's Gonna Rain" from a recording of a Pentecosta street preacher yelling about Noah's flood. The words "Its Gonna Rain" become rhythm with something like: "Its Its, Its Gonna Its Gonna, Gonna Gonna, Gonna Rain Gonna Rain, Rain Rain...then the piece adds layers of layers of the sermon until it becomes a vast sound effect. Believe it or not I played "It's Gonna Rain" during a Performance Art piece called "Noah's Art" where I gave out water balloons & pistols to an audience while reading & then acting out the 10 commandants. The Tape loop was used to drive everyone into a frenzy to drown me with water. It Worked. Thanks Steve.

Reich's solid minimalist beginnings.......2003-03-14

The complete, complete control of the music on this cd feels so great to listen to. In the pieces with phased tapes of people talking, the voice is only discernible as a voice for the beginning, then the 2 tapes out of phase become just sounds that you can pick the words out of maybe if you really try. You know his earliest phase music was made by playing the same recording of someone talking on 2 tapes & speeding up one of the tapes so they each play [almost] the same thing at different times, & what more emerges between them is intense. With instrumental phase music, one of the performers periodically jumps a beat ahead while repeating the same musical phrase as the other performer. One of Reich's favorite observations of phase music is that in pure phase music the composer doesn't know anything about where the music will go that the listener doesn't know. The phase pieces on this cd are so wild. They feel so unsettling in how quasi-post-futuristic they are & in the topics of the spoken phase pieces, opening a bruise to be bleeding to be allowed medical attention & the preaching of Brother Walter on the street in San Francisco; but also feel very comfortable in the complete control. Not far into Reich's career, he stopped making phase music. With a great sampling of the phase music he did, this is essential Reich.

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A La Carte - Short Works for Winds
Percy Grainger , Darius Milhaud , Vincent Persichetti , Nino Rota , Gunther Schuller , Joseph Turrin , and Borealis Wind Quintet
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Release Date: 2005-08-16

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Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Beach: Pastorale
Schuller: Suite
Schuller: Suite
Schuller: Suite
Grainger: Walking Tune
Turrin: Three Summer Dances
Turrin: Three Summer Dances
Turrin: Three Summer Dances
Persichetti: Pastoral
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Milhaud: La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Briccialdi: Potpourri Fantastico

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Through our years of touring and performing, one of our biggest challenges has been concert programming-finding, rehearsing & presenting works that we and our audiences will find stimulating, enjoyable and entertaining. While we are always on the lookout for larger, substantial works, we inevitably come across smaller pieces that capture our imagination, little gems we feel deserve exposure. We have included these pieces in our performances to give our listeners a respite, a breather from the more challenging works inherent in the wind repertoire. This CD is a collection of some our most-played, most-requested, most-enjoyed shorter works. It is our hope that you will enjoy these pieces as much as we have over the years.

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Really Glad I bought this CD.......2006-03-11

I'm just getting into classical music at the tender age of 41 so I'm far from an expert here. Like another reviewer I heard about this CD (which had been nominated for a grammy) on NPR. It sounded interesting so I decided to buy it. And I'm really glad I did! The music is lively & playful in some parts and gentle & soothing in others. It makes perfect background music when I'm working. And the music sounds simply wonderful coming out of my new iPod Hi-Fi!

Excellent!.......2006-02-22

I discovered this work while listening to NPR and could not wait to own it.

A wonderful CD, a MUST HAVE.....my ipod is smiling;-)

Lay Aside All Earthly Cares: Orthodox Choral Works in English

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Just heavenly

Lay Aside All Earthly Cares: Orthodox Choral Works in English

Manufacturer: Cappella Romana
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ASIN: B000AXWHE4
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

Bless the Lord, O my soul
O gladsome Light
Lord, now let Thy servant
Rejoice, Virgin Theotokos
Praise the Name of the Lord
The Great Doxology, No.1
Bless the Lord, O my soul
The Second Antiphon
Only begotten Son
Holy God, No.2
Alleluia, No.1
Cherubic Hymn (Special melody: The thief beheld)
A mercy of peace
It is truly meet
Our Father / One is holy / Praise the Lord, No.1
Praise the Lord from the heavens, No.2
I will receive the cup, No.2
Their proclamation has gone out, No.2
Rejoice in the Lord
Receive the Body of Christ, No.1,2,1
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Psalm
All of creation
Troparion for the Sunday of Orthodoxy
Let my prayer arise
Now the Powers of heaven
Taste and see
Thy bridal chamber
The wise thief, No.2
The wise thief, No.3
Let all mortal flesh
What shall we call you, Mary

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Just heavenly.......2007-01-30

An extraordinary, original collection of vocal music that defies categorization. An inspiring pleasure to own.

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The Early Works is filled with passion and humbleness!
A Great Collection of Don Francisco's Earliest Tunes
Great teaching tool!
Great Songs, but the Live CD is better.
Great Grace

The Early Works
Don Francisco
Manufacturer: Benson Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000025Q0M
Release Date: 1994-02-24

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I'll Never Let Go of Your Hand
Love Is Not a Feeling
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Morning Prayer
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Jehoshaphat
Come and Follow Me
Adam, Where Are You?
There Is No Condemnation
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Give Your Heart a Home
He's Alive

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The Early Works is filled with passion and humbleness!.......2004-09-25

Don Francisco's "Early Works" are filled with a unique sense of passion and love for the Lord. The new albums by Don seem to be "modified" or "modernized" and do not seem to reflect the same spirit that encompassed Don in the earlier works.

I grew up listening to Don Francisco as a child. His music tugged at my heart strings so much that I became a Christian a few years ago. God showed me his love through Don's music.

The stories that he "tells" in each song are edifying because they show you various viewpoints and emotions that were most likely experienced in those times and in those situations.

Buy it today! You won't ever be sorry!

A Great Collection of Don Francisco's Earliest Tunes.......2001-12-06

If you are like me, your favorite Don Francisco songs are on his oldest albums, all of which you have on LP records (not very practical for the car stereo). This CD takes some of Don's greatest hits and gives them CD sound quality but retaining the "old" style as on the LPs. Besides the well-known "He's Alive," this CD contains favorites like "Love is Not a Feeling," "Morning Prayer," "Jehoshaphat," and "There is No Condemnation." Of Don's collections, "Early Works" and "Signature Songs" are my favorites. The "Live" CD and the 2 recent re-recordings ("Beautiful to Me" and "He's Alive") are fine in their own way, but nothing can top the traditional style as done on "Early Works." I highly recommend this CD!

Great teaching tool!.......2000-11-14

The Early Works album is a great source of music that I use in teaching dance, mime and drama. Don Francisco's storytelling style, and the poignant message in his songs make this album a perennial favorite that I keep on returning to for performance material. I have just bought my third copy, after having worn out the first two!

Great Songs, but the Live CD is better........2000-08-03

My title sums it up actually. This is alot of the great songs. It is a old recording thought. I would buy the Don Francisco live CD rather. It is a double CD and the quality is better. Don also sang those songs with so much more fire that this recording. Just keep in mind that the live CD is not easy to get hold of. So if you find it just as difficult as I did, this is a good substitute. It is worth the money.

Great Grace.......2000-03-10

Don Francisco's music is very important in my life. Growing up I heard his earlier music, which is now on this cd. I wasn't a christian until a decade ago, and DOn was a part in leading me. I believe, without a doubt, that Don's music is God filled. If your a christian, and you love to feel God working through men in worship, this is an album to buy.

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Have I got a deal for you today! C'mon step right this way!

The Early Works
Wayne Watson
Manufacturer: Benson Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000025Q1C
Release Date: 1994-03-01

Tracks:

Celebrate
Never Give Up
All the King's Men
To Be a Child
Touch of the Master's Hand
Sacrifice
In Those Eyes
Love Found a Way
Man in the Middle
I Don't Want Your Money
People of God
New Lives for Old
One Day
One More Song
For the Least of These

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Have I got a deal for you today! C'mon step right this way!.......2002-06-26

This is one of those rare compact discs in which the listener's finger will not get much exercise from pressing the Fast Forward button. Wayne Watson's career didn't begin with "Field of Souls", "Beautiful Place", or any of his songs from even the last 15 years. No, go back even farther. Go back to a time before there were giants in the land, before water-colored ponies could be seen on refrigerator doors, and before such times as these.

A Christian music enthusiast can do well by buying old greatest hits CDs even if the song titles aren't all that familiar. Because that's when you hear that song that you haven't heard in 15 or 20 years, the one that you loved so much when you first started listening to Christian music. Well, for me, this was one of those CDs. Some of the songs that were so familiar to me include:

"The Sacrifice":
Offer up the sacrifice
Creation set forth the call
One Holy sacrifice
One life to pay for the fall

"Love Found a Way":

Love found a way
And our hearts can hold
The price Love chose to pay
All hope was gone
Till Easter dawn
We are free because
Love found a way

"People of God":
We're the people of God
Called by His name
Called from the dark
And delivered from shame

"One Day":
One day Jesus will call my name
As days go by I hope I don't stay the same
I want to get so close to Him
That it's no big change
On that day that Jesus calls my name

Also on this album is the original version of "Touch of the Master's Hand". If you don't recall, that's the classic about the dusty, old violin and the auction. I think this version is far better than the re-recorded version found on the CD "How Time Flies". Don't get me wrong: that one's good, but this one's better. "Touch of the Master's Hand" is one of those songs you can listen to when you're feeling down, and it's a guarantee to bring you back up again.

But my favorite song on here is "New Lives For Old", which is a story song about a sad, old man who used to run a carnival until something happened that caused him to shut it down. Now, he stands on the old street corner where he used to sell tickets for his show, and he shouts out to the people that pass by...

New lives for old
Warm hearts for cold
Have I got a deal for you today
C'mon, step right this way
Get you new lives for old

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O Sing Unto The Lord: Symphony
O Sing Unto The Lord: O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song...
O Sing Unto The Lord: Sing Unto The Lord And Praise His Name...
O Sing Unto The Lord: The Lord Is Great And Cannot Worthily Be Praised...
O Sing Unto The Lord: O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness
O Sing Unto The Lord: Tell It Out Among The Heathen That The Lord Is King
O Praise God In His Holiness: Symphony
O Praise God In His Holiness: Praise Him In His Noble Acts...
O Praise God In His Holiness: Praise Him Upon The Well-Tuned Cymbals
Praise The Lord, O Jerusalem: Symphony
Praise The Lord, O Jerusalem
Praise The Lord, O Jerusalem: Be Thou Exalted, Lord, In Thine Own Strength
It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks: Symphony
It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks: To Tell Of Thy Loving-Kindness...
It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks: O Lord How Glorious Are Thy Works...
It Is A Good Thing To Give Thanks: For Thou, Lord, Hast Made Me Glad...
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord: O Give Thanks Unto The Lord...
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord: Who Can Express The Noble Acts Of The Lord...
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord: Remember Me, O Lord...
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord: That I May See The Felicity Of Thy Chosen...
O Give Thanks Unto The Lord: Blessed Be The Lord God Of Israel...
Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears: Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears...
Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears: We Acknowledge, Lord, Our Wickedness
Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears: Do Not Abhor Us, For Thy Name's Sake...
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My Beloved Spake: For Lo! The Winter Is Past...
My Beloved Spake: And The Time Of The Singing Of Birds Is Come...
My Beloved Spake: Symphony
My Beloved Spake: My Beloved Is Mine And I Am His.

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Essential Purcell compositions.......2004-10-07

According to the liner notes, this first volume contains works that span throughout the whole (short) career of Purcell. Even his earliest anthems written when he was a teenager demonstrate that he was a genious from the beginning. The King Purcell demonstrates a composer at the same level as Bach in talent and depth.
The performances could not be bettered. The singers, choir and orchestra bring their all to these pieces.
The 11 volumes are expensive but really belong in every classical music lover's collection. Buy as many as you can afford.

The entire set is outstanding.......2003-01-16

While some of the works are superior to others the entire set is great in the realm of production. Mostly all of these pieces are just superb and if you are someone who enjoys English Baroque then you absolutely MUST purchase these cds. If you enjoy complex, melancholic or heroic music then I urge you to purchase this cd and the rest of the volumes in the set...you won't be disappointed.

Vladimir Horowitz, The Complete Masterworks Recordings 1962-1973, Volume VII: Early Romantics

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The Schumann Kreisleriana is worth everything, and the Chopin is magical
Chopin + Schumann + Horowitz = Unforgettable Playing
Classic Chopin

Vladimir Horowitz, The Complete Masterworks Recordings 1962-1973, Volume VII: Early Romantics

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ASIN: B00000290G
Release Date: 1994-07-19

Tracks:

Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17 No. 4: Lento, ma non troppo
Etude in G-flat major, Op. 10 No. 5: Vivace
Introduction & Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 16
Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 No. 2: Lento
Polonaise in A-flat Major, Op. 53: Maestoso
Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 59 No. 3: Vivace
Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 3: Moderato
Mazurka in D-flat major, Op. 30 No. 3: Allegro non troppo
Mazurka in E minor, Op. 41 No. 2: Andantino
Mazurka in D major, Op. 33 No. 2: Vivace
Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10 No. 4: Presto
Etude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3: Lento, ma non troppo
Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12: Allegro con fuoco
Prelude in B minor, Op. 28 No. 6: Lento assai

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Posonaise in A major, Op. 40 No. 1: Allegro con brio
Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28 No. 15: Sostenuto
Etude in E-flat minor, Op. 10 No. 6: Andante
Etude No. 2 in A-flat major from 'Trois Nouvelles Etudes': Allegretto
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 7 No. 3
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 64 No. 2: Tempo giusto
Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck from Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 14: Andantino
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: I. Auberst bewegt
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: II. Sehr innig
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: III. Sehr aufgeregt
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: IV. Sehr langsam
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: V. Sehr lebhaft
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VI. Sehr langsam
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VII. Sehr rasch
Kreisleriana, Op. 16: VIII. Schnell und spielend

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Schumann and Chopin were staples of Horowitz's repertory, and this late 1960s-early 1970s collection finds him at his mature peak, playing with elan and imaginative fantasy. The Kreisleriana is one of his greatest recordings, trumping rivals with its spectacular pianism and complete identification with the composer. The Chopin set typifies Horowitz's approach--big and bold, with personalized editorial emendations and an energy that shatters the conventional salon approach. But he also sings Chopin's touching melodies as few others can, making the lovely Op. 10 No. 3 Etude an achingly touching poem. --Dan Davis

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The Schumann Kreisleriana is worth everything, and the Chopin is magical.......2005-12-20

This is a must have dual CD set of one of the great pianists of all time playing some of his favorite music. Later in life Horowitz made a TV show that became a best selling VHS tape entitled "Horowitz: The Last Romantic". If you ever heard him play, you know that title is appropriate and what the grand piano style was all about.

I have often referred to recordings of music as photographs of music. And just as photographs of people a wonderfully valuable, they are not the real person and do not capture the real person. Even a movie or documentary distorts the reality of the person. Still, we treasure our home movies, photos, and recordings. And we should. We just need to remember what they really are and that they are representations of reality (or of fictions if that is what they are) rather than real life.

It was my good fortune to hear Horowitz in recital three times; twice here in Ann Arbor and once in East Lansing. While I have heard dozens of great pianists, and hundreds of very fine quality, Horowitz (and Rubenstein) had a special charisma that was totally involving. His playing had special qualities that were unique to him. He played more quietly and yet was able to send that whisper of sound to the farthest rows in Hill Auditorium. I believe the secret of his power was that he had so many shades of pianissimo. While we clearly here a great dynamic range in these recordings, the compressed nature of recordings cannot capture the full range of what we heard in live performance.

The other thing he had was the ability to not only keep the voices clear in the music he was playing, but to give each voice its own character and sound. The recording of Schumann's fabulous Opus 16, Kreisleriana included here captures this ability to a stunning degree. This recording should be in your collection and studied carefully. While these phantasies are full of contrasts that make listening to them seemingly easy, there is so much quality and interesting music that they will reward as much close listening and study as you can lavish on them.

The other Schumann work included is the "Variations on a theme by Clara Wieck" (who became Schumann's wife and was a superb and important pianist).

The Chopin pieces included here are a wonderful collection of etudes, mazurkas, the two famous polonaises, preludes, waltzes, and the wonderful but not often heard "Introduction and Rondo in E-flat major Op 16". These are all full of magic and will hold your imagination closely. I find myself saying, "Oh, I LOVE this piece" and then the next one comes on, and I say the same thing again and then again for the next one. They are all pieces I have learned to play or want to learn (like the Intro & Rondo).

Get a hold of these disks if you can. Just a number of wonderful listening experiences.

Chopin + Schumann + Horowitz = Unforgettable Playing.......2003-04-12

Volume Seven of Sony's Horowitz reissue contains very convincing performances of Chopin and Schumann, Romantic composers whose music was sympathetic to the pianist's interpretive style.

It was not uncommon for Horowitz to bring to light a rarely played work by a well known composer, which is the case with Chopin's Introduction & Rondo in E-flat. This early composition (probably written for Chopin's most advanced pupils) abounds with glittery passagework and technical configurations similar to his Concertos (which Horowitz never recorded). Under Horowitz's hands, the work exceeds the boundaries of mere salon piece and emerges as a virtuoso tour de force.

Horowitz (who had a Polish grandmother and was fond of pointing out that he was "half as much a Pole as Chopin") considered the Mazurkas to be Chopin's greatest works, and often stated that there was more music in the shortest Chopin Mazurka than in the longest Mahler Symphony. The pianist treated the Mazurkas less as dance pieces than as "dance-fantasies" and his playing of the works was freer than the more straightforward Rubinstein. Highlights of this set include a seductive F-sharp Minor, Op. 59 No. 3.

Horowitz made several recordings of the ever popular A-flat Polonaise, and this one adheres most closely to Chopin's text. The introduction is very sparsely pedalled (as if Horowitz were saying "Look! I can play the tricky introduction without using the pedal to cover up insufficient fingerwork. Take THAT, Rubinstein!"). The remainder of the piece goes with gusto and flair (too fast to be a Maestoso), but he somehow misses the grandeur which Rubinstein brought to the piece--and which Horowitz himself would attain in his last years. The A-major Polonaise is also taken at a fast clip, but this somehow seems more appropriate to this work, and one is reminded of Chopin's remark that if he were able to play the piece the way he meant it to be played, the piano would lay in ruins afterward.

If anyone thought Horowitz, then approaching 70, had lost any of his fire, their worries were quickly dispelled with the Etudes included here. The C-sharp Minor goes at a rapid clip, but unlike many pianists, there is no loss of clarity. The famous Revolutionary Etude is given a more outwardly virtuosic performance then the pianist's 1963 recording, yet somehow the piece has less impact here.

The ubiquitous C-sharp Minor Waltz is from the Boston concert of April 7, 1968. Three days previously, the Reverend Martin Luther King had been murdered in Memphis. At the beginning of this concert, Horowitz came onstage with an African-American minister, and played Chopin's Funeral March in memory of Dr. King.

Horowitz learned Shumann's Kreisleriana in the 1930s, but did not play it in public until 1968. Several attempts to record the work in concert were not successful, and Horowitz came to the conclusion that he needed the peace and quiet of a recording studio to achieve the concentration for a performance suitable for posterity. Horowitz recorded the work at one inspired session on December 1, 1969, and this may well be the most successful Kreisleriana ever recorded. Ironically, Horowitz, who often had trouble holding together a Beethoven Sonata, makes this structurally splintered work emerge as one piece. This is one Kriesleriana which is never rambling or boring. There is virtuosity here, but never for its own sake, and there is poetry in plenty. This stands alongside the 1932 Liszt Sonata and 1951 Rachmaninoff Third Concerto as one of Horowitz's greatest recordings. However, it should be pointed out that this reissue of Kriesleriana uses a few alternate takes, which are markedly different from the original LP and an earlier CD issue (MK42409). Although the performance is basically similar, there are several differences in detail.

Schumann's Variations on a Theme by Clara Wieck, originally included as a filler for the Kriesleriana record, is given a straightforward reading here. It a lovely little work, but it is even more beautiful in its original context: as the third movement from the composer's Sonata in F Minor, another rarely played work Horowitz would bring to light in 1975.

The sound is more than acceptable here, and especially fine in the Schumann works.

Classic Chopin.......2000-11-23

Volume Seven of Vladimir Horowitz's "Complete Masterworks Recordings" ("Early Romantics") compiles almost two discs worth of classic Chopin performances. There's a little bit of everything here -- Polonaises, Etudes, Mazurkas and Preludes, but sadly no Nocturnes. The Chopin renditions here are as good as, if not better than, anything available -- Rubinstein, Kissin, Pollini and Cliburn included. And just when you thought the highlight of this collection was the Chopin material, on come two amazing pieces by Schumann, "Variations on a Theme by Clara Wreck" and "Kreislerania." The latter piece is a particular favorite of mine -- a wild and turbulent, and at times poetic and lovely, masterpiece which Horowitz captures in all its brilliance. In all, "Early Romantics" is a thoroughly enjoyable couple of discs that anyone should love.

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