(8.559026). The latter features soprano Virginia Croskery and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under Keith Brion. Yes, this offers an interesting comparison with the old Beverly Sills offering of much the same material. Ms. Croskery's vocalizing is very good indeed and perhaps more in keeping with the kind of voice for which much of this music was composed; but while Ms. Sills' voice is quite thrilling, it is perhaps a touch too operatic for this lightweight material. On the other hand, the Naxos sound is far beyond what the older set can give us. Of the 16 selections on this CD, 5 are instrumental. Of the vocals, not all were written for the soprano voice ("Toyland" for example); but most were and we have here what you would expect: "Romany Life," "Kiss in the Dark," "Italian Street Song," "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," and so on. Some listeners might have some trouble with the singer's very top notes; but at this price and for lack of anything competitive that is still available, this is still a very good purchase. This disc makes a fine companion piece, not only to the other Naxos set, but also to a concert of Herbert and Romberg duets on Newport Classic label titled "Sweethearts."
Average customer rating:
- Gilding the Lilly
- Excellent!
|
Traditionally British
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 All Works by Arne
| Arne, Thomas Augustin
| ( A )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical (c.1770-1830)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Vocal Jazz General
| Vocal Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Folk Songs
| Songs & Lieder
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Vocal Pop
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Orchestral Pop
| Easy Listening
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
General
| Celtic
| International
| Styles
| Music
Solo Instrumental
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
CDs $7 - $10
| Classical General
| Classical
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
All Bargain Titles
| Classical General
| Classical
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
4-for-3 Classical
| 4-for-3 Music
| Stores
| Music
4-for-3 International
| 4-for-3 Music
| Stores
| Music
4-for-3 Jazz
| 4-for-3 Music
| Stores
| Music
4-for-3 Pop
| 4-for-3 Music
| Stores
| Music
4-for-3 All Music
| 4-for-3 Music
| Stores
| Music
Similar Items:
- Regimental Marches of British Army, Vol. 1
- Best of Brass
- Old Rugged Cross: 24 Brass Band Favourites
- Grimethorpe
- Regimental Marches of the British Army, Vol. 2
ASIN: B000000A88
Release Date: 1992-10-28 |
Tracks:
- The Blaydon Races
- Drink To Me Only
- The British Grenadiers
- Jerusalem
- Greensleeves
- Fantasy On British Sea Songs
- Charlie Is My Darlin'
- My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
- Loch Lomond/Comin' Thro' The Rye
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- The Minstrel Boy
- The Gentle Maiden
- The Ash Grove
- All Through The Night
- Men Of Harlech
Customer Reviews:
Gilding the Lilly.......2007-02-05
The selection of songs for this cd is excellent, however unable to leave well enough along they include overblown intros, restarts, embellishments etc making the original tune almost unrecognizable. The arranger should be shot.
Excellent!.......2006-03-23
Beautifully patriotic. Even if your not British.
This is music that makes your upper lip stiff.
Average customer rating:
|
Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music
Manufacturer: Nimbus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Dances
| Ballets & Dances
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Waltzes
| Ballets & Dances
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
All Works by Grainger
| Grainger, Percy Aldridge
| ( G )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Fantasies
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Character Pieces
| Short Forms
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Suites
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Intermezzos
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Variations
| Variations
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Chamber Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical (c.1770-1830)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General Modern
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Keyboard
| Instruments
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Piano
| Keyboard
| Instruments
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Chamber Music
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Lullabies & Berceuse
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Noels
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Bargain Box Sets
| Classical General
| Classical
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
All Bargain Titles
| Classical General
| Classical
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
Bargain Box Sets
| Opera & Vocal General
| Opera & Vocal
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
All Bargain Titles
| Opera & Vocal General
| Opera & Vocal
| Today's Deals in Music
| Formats
| Music
Similar Items:
- Boccherini: Clavier Quintets (Complete)
- Couperin: 4 Livres de pièces de clavecin [Box Set]
- Bach: Complete Works - 155 CD Box Set
ASIN: B0000037AX
Release Date: 1997-11-18 |
Tracks:
- Handel In The Strand
- Bridal Lullaby
- English Waltz
- Mock Morris
- To A Nordic Princess
- In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
- In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
- In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
- In A Nutshell-Ste: IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
- Peace
- Saxon Twi-Play
- Andante Con Moto
- Children's March
- The Immovable Do
- Sailor's Song
- Colonial Song
- Walking Tune
- Harvest Hymn
- In Dahomey
Tracks:
- b flat Pno Con (Opening)
- Cradle-Song
- Love Walked In
- Second Pno Con (3rd Movt)
- Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
- Nimrod
- Ramble On The Last Love-Duet
- Chinese Melody-Beautiful Fresh Flower
- Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
- Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster'
- American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
- 'Blithe Bells'
- Fugue In a
- The Man I Love
Tracks:
- Country Gardens
- The Merry King
- Molly On The Shore
- Irish Tune From County Derry
- Knight And Shepard's Daughter
- The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
- Jutish Medley
- Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
- The Rival Brothers
- Near Woodstock Town
- Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
- The Brisk Young Sailor
- One More Day My John (Easy Version)
- Rimmer And Goldcastle
- Spoon River
- The Widow's Party
- The Hunter In His Career
- My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
- Died For Love
- Scotch Strathspey
- One More Day My John (Complex Version)
- Bristol Town
- Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
- Mo Ninghean Dhu
- Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
- Stalt Vesselil
- O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
- Shepard's Hey
Tracks:
- Four Irish Dances: I. A March-Jig
- Four Irish Dances: II. A Slow Dance
- Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
- Four Irish Dances: IV. A Reel
- Nell
- Apres Un Reve
- Pno Con, First Movt
- Tiger-Tiger
- Air And Dance
- Hornpipe
- Toccata And Fugue in d
- Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster' (Easy Grainger)
- Angelus Ad Virginem
- Klavierstuck in E
- Eastern Intermezzo
- The Bigelow March
- Pno Con, First Movt
- At Twilight
- Klavierstuck in a
- Klavierstuck in B Flat
- Klavierstuck in D
Tracks:
- Children's March: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'
- Up-Country Song (Colonial Song)
- English Dance
- Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
- 'Spoon River'-American Folk Dance
- Train Music
- Zanzibar Boat-Song
- Paganini Varations, No.12
- Green Bushes-Passacaglia On An English Folksong
- William Byrd's Air And Variations For The Virginals 'The Carman's Whistle'
- 'A Dance Rhapsody'
- Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
- The Warriors-Music To An Imaginary Ballet
Customer Reviews:
Every last note..........2006-06-14
A super budget 5 CD collection of all of Grainger's Piano music.
Every last note!
The shipping alone would be $17.00+ for the 5 individual Cds.
Englishman Martin Jones plays these as if he wrote them. He is thoroughly inside this music.
I think his best work to date.
He is joined on CD #5 by Richard Mcmahon and Phillip Martin. Where they rollick in various combos and trios on 1, 2 and 3 pianos. This is exhilerating. Especially on an truly uplifting version of Green Bushes.
The entire set is strongly idiomatic and given a clear, crisp, warm and spacious recording. FIRST CLASS sound.
There are too many highlights to single out, but the In A Nutshell Suite and Green Bushes are especially GOOD!
There is not a bad note or "vibe" on any of these CDs.
Highly recommended for Granger fans and fans of English Piano Music.
Average customer rating:
- Virtuoso Players Gild the Lilly
- Keep looking - there is much better stuff than this
- Diasppointed
- This album is an absolute disaster
- Take My Advice, I'm Only Tryin' to School Ya -
|
Bagpipes & Brass
Manufacturer: Klavier
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
All Works by Grainger
| Grainger, Percy Aldridge
| ( G )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
All Works by Holst
| Holst, Gustav
| ( H )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
| ( V )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Chamber Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical (c.1770-1830)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph
| Composers
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General Contemporary
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Chamber Music
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Choruses
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Movie Scores
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Movie Soundtracks
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
A Cappella
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
Classical
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
Similar Items:
- Highland Cathedral
- Amazing Grace
- Canadian Bagpipes American Brass
- Highland Christmas
- Scotland the Brave: Bagpipes Greatest Hits
ASIN: B00005AAZ6
Release Date: 2000-10-01 |
Tracks:
- Highland Cathedral
- Scotland the Brave
- Girl I Left Behind Me
- Hector the Hero
- Far and Away
- Green Hills of Tyrol/When the Battle Is Over
- Lament for Jef AR Oenven/An Dro
- Murray's Fancy
- I Love My Love
- Cabar Feidh/Farewell to Nigg
- Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon
- Henry the Fifth Overture
- Amazing Grace
Customer Reviews:
Virtuoso Players Gild the Lilly.......2007-04-19
Reviewers who write that these are fine musicians playing lousy arrangements are correct. That's it exactly. The slower cuts are better than the up-tempo ones. Apparently this CD is a big hit with bagpipe tooters. So be it. The rest of us should pass it by or purchase it used.
Keep looking - there is much better stuff than this.......2005-10-05
This album is a perfect example of how a bad arrangement can ruin great music despite the best efforts of great musicians. Everything about this recording is right; selection, performers, sound engineering. Except that the tracks are horribly over-arranged with all sorts of distracting, subtracting variations and trite bridging passages.
Diasppointed.......2005-07-12
I am not saying the music is bad or the quality is lacking, because it is not. If you are looking for traditional music played in the traditional way, then this CD is not for you. It is like listening to everyone's interpretation when they sing the "Star Spangled Banner". There is no need to jazz things up that were not written to be. The titles are old but the variations on the score have a lot to be desired if you wanted to hear these songs played the way they were meant to be played.
This album is an absolute disaster.......2005-06-08
It's said that music soothes the savage beast, but bagpipes will do just the opposite. They will make the hair on your neck stand on end, your blood pressure go through the roof and prepare you to go to war. This album does neither.
The one piece which should most strongly produce the desired result is Scotland the Brave. In this album it is three minutes and twenty seven seconds, the first minute an ten of which are dedicated to fanfare. After that an orchestra plays some stylized version and, I think, I can detect a hint of bagpipes in there somewhere. When one has heard it done "correctly", one can recognize this as a total disaster.
Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards has a version that is just about right. (And that selection gives one the ability to listen to a sample. I can see why this one doesn't!)
Take My Advice, I'm Only Tryin' to School Ya -.......2004-07-07
I bought this album based on the rave reports of the other reviewers, and could NOT be more pleased with the result. Although not Scottish, I am a long-time bagpipe lover, and this album evokes visions of the Black Watch and other highland pipers moving through their intricate paces. The music is an aural feast, and the sound quality is excellent. I keep it in the CD player in the car and find that a quick drive or a long commute both become pleasures when I'm listening to it. Take my advice - if you have even a slight interest in pipes, drums or brass, you're going to love this album. (This is the first time I have ever written a review; it's a very compelling album!)
Average customer rating:
- Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing
- Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter
- The Lark touches my own heart!
- Rolicking English folk music
|
The Lark in the Clear Air
Manufacturer: Collegium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Baroque Dance Suites
| Ballets & Dances
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
| Allemandes
| Courantes
| Gigue
| Sarabande
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
General Contemporary
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
A Cappella
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Choruses
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Folk Songs
| Songs & Lieder
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Marches
| Miscellaneous
| Styles
| Music
General
| Vocal Pop
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Classic Big Band
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0000031HX
Release Date: 1993-09-13 |
Tracks:
- I know where I'm going
- She moved through the fair
- The lark in the clear air
- Down by the sally gardens
- Dashing away with the smoothing iron
- The spring time of the year
- The sprig of thyme
- The bold grenadier
- The British Grenadiers
- The dark eyed sailor
- The keel row
- The girl I left behind me
- Just as the tide was flowing
- The cuckoo
- O waly, waly
- She's like the swallow
- The lover's ghost
- Willow song
- The willow tree
- Wassail song
- The miller of Dee
- O can ye sew cushions
- Afton water
- Golden slumbers
Amazon.com
A whole disc of choral arrangements of folk tunes could be too much--except in this case, the choir is the excellent Cambridge Singers, and the well-chosen arrangements cover a variety of composers and styles. Among the arrangers are Rutter, Vaughan Williams, and Daryl Runswick; the repertoire includes a hauntingly gorgeous "She moved through the fair" and 23 other selections. --David Vernier
Customer Reviews:
Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing.......2005-06-14
This is very typical of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Superbly performed, meaning not too forceful or too delicate. Diction and tone excellent. The folk song is not necessairly as entertaining or enjoyable as some of their other repertoire, nor is it as meaningful, but it still a powerful listening experience. The money for this recording will be well spent. The arrangements, well chosen, showcase beautiful, evocative choral singing. Vaughan Williams' arrangements are best, and he is well known for his arrangements of folk songs. Rutter's are good, but his harmonies are too often predictable or saccharine.
Best are: Dashing away with the smoothing iron (5), The Dark Eyed Sailor (10), The Girl I Left Behind Me (12), Just as the tide was flowing (13), O waly, waly (15)
Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter.......2000-09-28
This is a collection of Irish, Scottish, and English folk songs beautifully caressed by The Cambridge Singers under the masterful direction of John Rutter. He seems to possess an uncanny ability to create a uniquely lush and lyrical sound with a choir.
In listening to these songs, I find that they have the capacity to simultaneously evoke feelings of melancholy and joy, and, ultimately leave me to conclude that I have been visited by sheer beauty.
The Lark touches my own heart!.......2000-04-27
In this review I am going to be exceptionally candid! This CD is a wonderfully arranged and performed set of traditional songs that will be treasured by any lover of this delicate yet vigorous music. I was a child of post war England in a poor suburb of South East England and our music teacher used to make us sing these songs which came from The National Song Book and from the folk song collectors, notably Vaughan Williams who put so much of this national flavor into his two collections, 'The English Hymnal' and 'Songs of Praise'. Before our generation the BBC had set up a radio programme called 'Listen with Mother' which we followed the established tradition of listening to them in those years of austerity (its funny you know, but we did not seem to get bored like they do today) on November evenings when the pea souper fogs swirled around the blue mercury lamps as the coal glowed orange in the grate. This music transported us to May mornings, harvesting, landscapes peopled with grenadiers, young love sick swains tip toeing in forbidden rooms at night etc. from these bleak afternoons and gave us the promise of the return of the season when we will be able to walk the Downs under blue skies once more. They also made us think that we were part of a continuum of being young, loving, having children and growing old and dying on this misty offshore island as hundred of generations had done before us. This self-consciousness of these characteristics that made us English and in their understated passion they revealed to us the promises of adulthood together with its victories, disillusionments and inevitable tragedies. Alas, the powers that dictate the conventional wisdom today have consigned these songs to the trash basket of history in the name of multiculturalism and globalism. The songs are not sung today as they appear too ethnocentric in a pluralistic society for our contemporary captains of society. This is a shame for those of us with no real English blood could still participate and enjoy these lovely songs that summon up the freshness of a spring morning or the pangs of a spurned lover in a few lines of beautifully stated verse. These are universal feelings that just happened to be in an English setting, which was where we were! The arrangements here are sublime, particularly 'She moved through the Fair' which always moves me to tears. The subject 'What are the English?' is a current topic for the UK is still settling down after Devolution and finding its own identity. They could do worse than playing 'The Lark in the Clear Air' to answer this question tout court. Please buy, but be warned: this stuff can be dangerously upsetting in its waves of nostalgia. It is like meeting a long lost (and forgotten) friend. That is an (almost lost) part of yourself.
Rolicking English folk music.......1999-06-13
Beautifully sung under Rutter's usual masterful directions. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron and the Dark Eyed Sailor were my favorites.
Average customer rating:
- Excellent performer
- A unique project
- Gershwin historical, manic, perfect, archival
- Definative
|
Authentic George Gershwin, Vol. 1-4
Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
All Works by Gershwin
| Gershwin, George
| ( G )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Concertos
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Preludes
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Overtures
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Tone Poems
| Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Chamber Music
| Forms & Genres
| Classical (c.1770-1830)
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General Contemporary
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Piano
| Keyboard
| Instruments
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Sacred & Religious
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Chamber Music
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
Swing General
| Swing Jazz
| Jazz
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Psalms
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Movie Scores
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Movie Soundtracks
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
Traditional Vocal Pop
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
Classical
| Box Sets
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B0001Z2RSC
Release Date: 2004-08-24 |
Tracks:
- Swanee
- Come To the Moon
- I Was So Young (You Were So Beautiful)
- Tee-Oodle-Um-bum-Bo
- Nobody But You
- Limehouse Nights
- Drifting Along With The Tide
- Rhapsody In Blue
- Oh Lady Be Good!
- Fascinating Rhythm
- Hang On To Me
- I'd Rather Charleston
- The Man I Love
- The Half Of It, Dearie, Blues
- So Am I
- Kickin' The Clouds Away
- Concerto In F
Tracks:
- Sweet And Low-Down (I)
- That Certain Feeling (I)
- Looking For A Boy
- When Do We Dance?
- Sweet And Low-Down (II)
- That Certain Feeling (II)
- Irish Waltz
- Do, Do, Do
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Clap Yo' Hands
- Maybe
- Three Preludes: I. No.1: Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso / II. No.2: Andante Con Moto / III No.3: Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso
- Meadow Serenade
- My One And Only
- 'S Wonderful/Funny Face
- He Loves And She Loves
- An American In Paris
- Liza
- Strike Up The Band
- Embraceable You
- I Got Rhythm (I)
- I Got Rhythm (II)
Tracks:
- Of Thee I Sing
- Jilted
- Second Rhapsody
- For You, For Me, For Evermore
- Cuban Overture
- Isn't It A Pity?
- Variations On 'I Got Rhythm'
- I. Catfish Row: Introduction - Jazzbo Brown - First Chorus, 'Summertime'
- II. Porgy Sings: 'I got Plenty O' Nuthin' - 'Bess, You Is My Woman Now'
- III. Fugue: Murder Of Crown, Act III Scene 1
- IV. Hurricane: Introduction, Act II Scene 3 - Hurricane, Act II Scene 3
- V. Good Morning, Brother: Occupational Humoresque, Act III Scene 3 - 'Good Morning, Brother' - Children's Song 'Sure To Go To Heaven' - 'I'm On My Way' (Finale)
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off
- Our Love Is Here To Stay
Tracks:
- Girl Crazy Overture
- French Ballet Class
- Dance Of The Waves
- Slap That Bass
- Walking The Dog
- I've Got Beginner's Luck
- They All Laughed
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- Shall We Dance
- By Strauss
- I Can't Be Bothered Now
- The Jolly Tar And The Milkmaid (1st Version)
- Put Me To The Test
- The Jolly Tar And The Milkmaid (2nd Version)
- Stiff Upper Lip
- A Foggy day (In London Town)
- Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Things Are Looking Up
- I Was Doing All Right
- Love Walked In
Customer Reviews:
Excellent performer.......2007-03-09
This plates are wonderful. I was charmed, and when I close my eyes now, I see scenes with American in Paris or Porgy and Bess but my favorite piece of music is Rhapsody in Blue. It's more than excellent is fantastic. Jack Gibbons perfectly feels the unique tone Gershwin's music, the mixture rythms of jazz with influences of impressionists and clear and beauty melodies.
I'm fascinating.
A unique project.......2006-11-23
Gibbons' undertaking is unique: to reconstruct and then execute and record the note-for-note playing of Gershwin as documented on the composers' piano rolls, sound recordings and certain published arrangements. I agree with the reviewer who points out that the result is like a library and not a recital you sit back and listen to (or get up and dance to). In fact Gibbons does some editing of his "library" now and then, and clearly documents it in his liner notes: in some reconstructions he augments accompaniment effects and even the melodic line itself. I don't mind that at all, especially as Gibbons scrupulously accounts for such tampering in his liner notes; but it seems to me that it is in this area of "tampering" that Gibbons the artist is asserting himself...which of course undermines the "library", the "historical archive": you have to search and read a bit to find out when you're hearing only Gershwin and when you're hearing some added Gibbons. I don't mind; Gibbons is a remarkable artist in his own right, not merely an impeccable documentarian. For sheer generosity of production Gibbons' Gershwin must also be unique: 4 cd's, scholar-level liner notes (yes, you need a magnifying glass to read them), and rock-bottom bargain price.
Gershwin historical, manic, perfect, archival.......2006-06-12
First: this is 4 high-end produced cd's (in low-end jewel cases) for the price of 2. The liner notes of all 4 cd's are condensed in a booklet of microscopic print, so you may need to spend the savings on a magnifying glass. MONEY WELL SPENT.
Second: Jack Gibbons plays (and has recorded) the Alkan op 39 etudes (he probably plays a lot more Alkan than that). For those of you not in the know, this is to say he has world-class chops, indeed history-class (Liszt, who never played his friend Alkan, at least in public). But it's also to say that Gibbons knows how to interpret and personalize fantastically difficult piano music. For me, his Alkan op 39 is personal and passionate and real (contrast the facile and over-pedalled Hamelin and the just-the-notes-ma'me Ringeissen). An appreciation of Gibbons' Alkan is important here because while his Alkan is uniquely personal (as such music must be, no matter how hard it is to play) his Gershwin is deliberately impersonal...which is to say: no pianist, no singer would want to reproduce what Gibbons has given us in these 4 cd's, and in fact few listeners will be able to listen for long to these 4 cd's without a respite, a break , some silence, some minimal styling from somebody (anybody) else...which brings me to
Third: This is an archive, not a recital. This is a library, not a program. There is no track-by-track contrast of moods here, no track-by-track concession to easy listening, varied delight, any more than a library shelf of novels is alphabetized by authors' last names as a concession to mood or fancy or taste of the searching patron. This is the documented Gershwin in his recording mode: manic, notey, clever, "on", and never, as generations of stylists found in him, ravishing, tender, longing, sweet, glad, hopeful...person-to-person, in a word. I can listen to these cd's about half an hour at a time, max. This is Gerwhsin, not Gibbons. And this is just one side of Gershwin. He died at 38, in the summer. Brain tumor. A lot of pain.
Finally, Jack Gibbons has given the world a uniquely valuable and easily available resource. Gibbons could now do us a service by playing us some Gershwin as he feels it, as it hits him and makes him sing (as Gershwin, our American Schubert, does to all of us, and as I think Alkan has done to Gibbons). I would love to see a Gershwin stylings by Gibbons now that Gibbons himself has made sure Gershwin in his authenticity is safe and sound.
Definative.......2005-07-23
Here's the whole Gershwin catalog at a great price... Five plus hours of bliss. Definately five stars!
Gibbons, according to a family friend and biographer Edward jablonski "recreates Gershwin's style." I'll never know. I can say this is a lively recording and has the perfect balance. It's neither stuffy and plodding or cute.
Average customer rating:
|
Soprano in Hollywood
Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
All Works by Gershwin
| Gershwin, George
| ( G )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
All Works by Herbert
| Herbert, Victor
| ( H )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
All Works by Porter
| Porter, Cole
| ( P )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Romberg, Sigmund
| ( R )
| Featured Composers, A-Z
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Chamber Music
| Forms & Genres
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General Modern
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
Vocal & Song
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General Contemporary
| Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
| Historical Periods
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classical
| Styles
| Music
General
| Folk
| Styles
| Music
General
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Modern & 20th Century
| Historical Periods
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Operettas
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
Folk Songs
| Songs & Lieder
| Vocal Non-Opera
| Opera & Vocal
| Styles
| Music
General
| Musicals
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
General
| Broadway & Vocalists
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
General
| Vocal Pop
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Best of lesley Garrett
ASIN: B000004BR0
Release Date: 1996-10-15 |
Tracks:
- With a Song in My Heart
- When You're Away
- Lover
- Danny Boy
- Love Is Where You Find It
- One Night of Love
- Gershwin in Hollywood Medley: Love Walked In/The Man I Love/Love ... [M
- Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- Yesterdays
- Jealousy
- Long Ago (And Far Away)
- One Kiss
- So in Love
- Smilin' Through
Music Review:
- Kancheli: Trauerfarbenes Land, ...a la Duduki / Davies, Vienna Radio Symphony Orch
- Klassizische Moderne, Vol. 2
- La Domoiselle elue/Opera Arias
- Lo Sposalizio: The Wedding of Venice to the Sea
- Mahler: Symphony No .5
- Mozart: Concertos Pour Cor
- Mozart: Laudate Dominum - Vespers & Litanies [Import]
- Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 1-5
- Murray Perahia
- Music of Tom Flaherty
Music Review
music review
Music Review
XYX
Verdi: a Centennial Tribute [Box set]
The Great Rachmaninov
Sophistication
We Want You: Very Best of the Village People [Import]
Witch Doctor
Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration [Import]
We Sing the Body Electric
Up Against the Legends [Import]
Virtuoso Violin Encores
Waiting
The Essential Marcos Valle [Import]
Te Dejare
Every Road I Take: The Best Of Contemporary Acoustic Blues
War Babies
