Songs My Country Taught Me [Import]

Track Listings
1. GarÍFallo St'aft    
2. ÓNiro PediÓN Tis GitoniÁS    
3. O TahidrÓMos    
4. MÉRa MagioÚ    
5. To TrÉNo FÉVgi Stis OktÓ    
6. Se PÓTisa RodÓStamo    
7. Stou ÓThona Ta HrÓNia    
8. ÁSpri MÉRa Ke Ya Mas    
9. VarkarÓLla    
10. Ta TrÉNa Pou FÍGan    
11. ArhÓNtissa    

Songs My Country Taught Me, Music, Baltsa, Xarhakos, Athens Experimantal Orchestra, Classical, Classical Music
Songs My Country Taught Me [Australia]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A Unique Album - A 5 Star Recording
  • An enjoyable performance
  • Sung well, but badly served elsewhere
  • like being there, in a spring day, in greece
 Songs My Country Taught Me [Australia]
Baltsa , Papadopoulos , Xarhakos , and Athens Experimental Orchestra
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000E3FF
Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

  1. Garallo St'aft
  2. iro Pedi Tis Gitoni
  3. O Tahidros
  4. Ma Magio
  5. To Tro Fgi Stis Okt
  6. Se Pisa Rodtamo
  7. Stou hona Ta Hria
  8. pri Ma Ke Ya Mas
  9. Varkarla
  10. Ta Tra Pou Fan
  11. Arhtissa

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Unique Album - A 5 Star Recording.......2006-09-10

This is simply one of the most enjoyable albums I have ever heard. I was about to go on a drive with a friend (we both were professional opera stage directors). I said I was feeling a little sad at the time. He brought this album to cheer me up. Boy, did it ever! I fell in love with it immediately, and I completly forgot whatever it was that was getting me down.

The songs, the singing, and the musicianship are magnificent. Buy this, and live happy forever after!

4 out of 5 stars An enjoyable performance.......2004-02-15

It's great to hear the wonderful music of neglected (at least in the USA) Greek writers like Mikis Theodorakis performed by such a gifted singer. My favorite tracks: Theodorakis' "To Tréno Févgi Stis Októ" (The Train Leaves at Eight) and Manos Hadjidakis' "Oniro pedión tis gitoniás" (Dreams of Urban Children).

The arrangements are generally orchestral with just a touch of folk instrumentation and plucked strings to give them a Grecian flavor (which is fitting, given that most of these songs are not strictly speaking folk songs). Baltsa sings in a style less "operatic" than on her usual recordings, which suits this music well.

The collected songs range from haunting to playful. Think less of a traditional symphonic performance and more of a classy Pops-style presentation and you're close to the sound of this enjoyable recording.

2 out of 5 stars Sung well, but badly served elsewhere.......2003-09-23

If, like this reviewer, you're a fan of Agnes Baltsa from her many superb classical recordings and willing to follow her to her own country's song repertoire prepare to be slightly disappointed with this CD. It's not so much the 'crossover' nature of some of the songs - several tracks are simply rather mediocre easy listening - but the lack of respect shown by Deutsche Grammophon for the serious material. No information on the composers, the songs, or the poets, and no text or transliteration - just English French and German translations. And to cap it all, pop album length - only 47'37.

Which means if you're going to buy this CD hoping to learn something about Greek music you'll either be sticking it on a few times as background music or be scouring the web for information on the composers and songs while it's playing in your computer's D-drive. Either way not the best way to enjoy a CD... But then what's the alternative? If any subsequent reviewer knows of an album of Greek songs that is better documented then please share the information.

4 out of 5 stars like being there, in a spring day, in greece.......2003-03-02

rhymes that only greek people can tell, no matter if in words or in music. unforgettable songs sang by the best living greek singer! only a question: why does anybody know such a record?
Songs My Mother Taught Me & More
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Songs My Mother Taught Me & More Ralph Stanley
  • excellent cd---ralph is the best
 Songs My Mother Taught Me & More
Ralph Stanley
Manufacturer: Freeland Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1998-05-19

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Amazon.com

Thanks mostly to Earl Scruggs, most of the banjo music heard today is of the three-finger variety, distinguished by its intricacy and its circular motion--in short, its "roll." But Lucy Smith Stanley, Ralph's mother, and her 11 siblings picked up the banjo long before the Scruggs style became popular. Her technique, the traditional clawhammer style, is a more percussive, raw-sounding method in which the player brushes all of the strings with downward (or upward) strokes rather than fingerpicks them individually. Although Ralph Stanley eventually became proficient in both styles (and the in-between two-finger style), he first learned the clawhammer style from his mother as a young boy and he still has a soft spot for the old-time technique. This charming collection focuses exclusively on the original style (and many of the first tunes Stanley learned from ma) and combines studio and live recordings from the 1970s to the 1990s. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Songs My Mother Taught Me & More Ralph Stanley.......2006-08-26

This CD is awsome if you like the traditional bluegrass style if you have never heard that style of banjo picking you should invest in this CD. I'm a true Ralph Stanley fan and I have had a couple of chances to see him in person and I must say this is the best . He doesn't do this style of banjo picking much anymore so one day this will be a rare style. I give this cd a thumbs up !

5 out of 5 stars excellent cd---ralph is the best.......1999-04-14

This Cd is one of the best i have ever had. it's the true lonesome sound ralph is the great banjo player ever!!!

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