Songs of the Classical Age

Track Listings
1. She Never Told Her Love    
2. Fidelity    
3. Pleasing Pain    
4. Piercing Eyes    
5. Sailor's Song    
6. Placido Zeffiretto    
7. T'Intendo, Si, Mio Cor    
8. Mi Lagnero Tacendo    
9. Or Che Il Cielo A Me Ti Rende    
10. Vorrei Di Te Fidarmi    
11. L'Autre Jour A L'Ombrage    
12. Quand Le Bien-Aime Reviendra    
13. C'est Une Misere Que Nos Jeunes Gens    
14. Auf Dem Land Und In Der Stadt    
15. Johanna Sebus    
16. Fur Manner Uns Zu Plagen    
17. Morgenlied Eines Armen Mannes    
18. Cantata, K.619 'Die Ihr Des Unermesslichen Weltalls'    
19. Wonne Der Wehmut, Op.83, No.1    
20. Morgenlied    
See all 27 tracks on this disc

Songs of the Classical Age, Music, Ludwig van Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Felice Blangini, Isabella Colbran, Nicolas Dalayrac, Pauline Duchambge, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maria Theresia von Paradis, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Vincenzo Righini, Anna Amalia von Sachsen-Weimar, Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, Franz Schubert, Maria Agata Szymanowska, Sophia Westenholz, David Schrader, Patrice Michaels Bedi, Art Song (General), Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Period Music for Voice and Keyboard, Classical Vocals, Romantic Music for Voice and Keyboard, Solo Voice and Solo Instrument, Vocal, Vocal Music
Songs from a Secret Garden
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Sounds A Bit Like M E H D I
  • Violins and more violins
  • Songs From A Secret Garden
  • Soothing Music, Food for the soul
  • Beautiful & romantic Waltz music
 Songs from a Secret Garden
Secret Garden
Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001GBJ
Release Date: 1996-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Nocturne
  2. Pastorale
  3. Song from a Secret Garden
  4. Sigma
  5. Papillon
  6. Serenade to Spring
  7. Atlantia
  8. Heartstrings
  9. Adagio
  10. The Rap
  11. Chaconne
  12. Cantoluna
  13. Ode to Simplicity

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Picture a square with Clannad, pianist David Lanz, Mannheim Steamroller, and the musicians of Riverdance at its corners. Somewhere within those stylistic borders you will encounter the European duo Secret Garden. The popular twosome--Irish violinist Fionnuala (fi-NOO-la) Sherry and Norwegian pianist/keyboardist Rolf Lovland--have attracted a sizable following with their heart-touching specialty: a wistful, violin-rooted, pop-folk-classical melange that often strikes the ear as a film score in search of some delicate romantic tale. Songs from a Secret Garden is the duo's debut recording from 1995, and it principally offers a series of pensive dialogues between Sherry's stately violin and Lovland's subdued piano, yielding equal measures of sweetness and melancholy. Whistles, pipes, percussion, strings, and ethereal voices serve as embellishments. At times you may sense you're being serenaded by strolling musicians with a heavy sentimental streak; at other times you may feel genuinely moved--perhaps by something as lovely as the reverential "Sigma" and its sublime, Gregorian-like choral passages. Only one uptempo tune, "The Rap," surfaces here; a few others would have been welcomed. And yes, this is the disc where you will find "Heartstrings," the composition that once smote Barbra Streisand's heart. She eventually acquired the rights to the piece, inserted lyrics, renamed it "I've Dreamed of You" (found on A Love Like Ours), and sang it to James Brolin during the couple's 1998 wedding. --Terry Wood

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Sounds A Bit Like M E H D I.......2007-07-06

Oh, Wow! This is a cd that will be liked by all who enjoy M E H D I, E N Y A or even Loreena Mckinnett. It is the very essence of good new age. So tranquil, yet so spirited, this cd is a refreshing break from my well-worn collection, I just keep wanting to listen to it over and over again. I am amazed! It reminds me somewhat of Celtic Women, but still very unique. This is music to the soul. Absolutely relaxing, as well.

ALSO RECOMMENDED: M E H D I ~ Instrumental Paradise Volume 8..A True Gem.

3 out of 5 stars Violins and more violins.......2007-05-29

Not quite what I had expected. A CD of violin with violins and some piano and yet another violin. Which, for some maybe just what you want. It doesn't exactly transport me elsewhere like Inner Peace by Steve Halpern. It makes great background music for our office but otherwise, I haven't put it in my car to listen to while I travel.

5 out of 5 stars Songs From A Secret Garden.......2007-05-02

I first heard this CD in a Meditation class. The haunting Celtic melodies of this CD are very relaxing and set a very quiet, calming mood. I can't wait to buy more from this group.

4 out of 5 stars Soothing Music, Food for the soul.......2007-02-09

Like most who stumbled on this beautiful CD, I bought the CD because the CD shop selling it happened to be playing it - and I was immediately captivated and deeply touched by it. It is like a breathe of freshness in the sands of commerce, a clear pond of tranquil water that reflects your soul and yet it is so deep in emotions...pulling your heart strings. Its fragile, naked and angelic...yet it is so sincere.
I enjoy MEHDl, Enya, Loreena Mckinnett, David Foster etc. But this a beautiful and rare production that I enjoy a tad more.

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful & romantic Waltz music.......2007-01-23

The songs on this collection are all very beautiful. My favorite is the "Ode to Spring," an enchanting melody one cannot forget. I can listen to this CD over and over again. I bought two additional copies for my friends and have made another copy so that I can play it in my car.
Songs of Sanctuary
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Sounds nice; not authentic
  • By Cindy Merrill
  • Songs for A Sanctuary
  • Great music
  • What Great Barr Primary School Think...
 Songs of Sanctuary
Adiemus
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000WFU
Release Date: 1997-09-09

Tracks:

  1. Adiemus
  2. Tintinnabulum
  3. Cantus Inaequalis
  4. Cantus Insolitus
  5. In Caelum Fero
  6. Cantus Iteratus
  7. Amate Adea
  8. Kayama
  9. Hymn

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If you have seen a Delta Airlines television commercial that features an African-sounding, childlike choral chant in its soundtrack, you have experienced the title track from this album. Adiemus is largely the brainchild of former Soft Machine keyboardist Karl Jenkins, with participation from independent vocalist Miriam Stockley, a native of South Africa; the London Philharmonic Orchestra (which Jenkins conducts on this album); and others. The music of Adiemus will prompt inevitable comparisons to acts such as Dead Can Dance, Enigma, and Deep Forest. In the album's liner notes, Jenkins describes Songs of Sanctuary as "an extended choral-type work based on the European classical tradition, but where the vocal sound is more akin to 'ethnic' or 'world' music." The music of Adiemus, Jenkins later explains, includes voices, but not lyrics: "The text was written phonetically with the words viewed as instrumental sound, the idea being to maximise the melisma (an expressive vocal phrase) by removing the distraction, if one can call it that, of words." Ranging in mood from gently tribal to ecclesiastical, Adiemus succeeds in creating the impression of an enchanted global youth or female choir, yet one less forebodingly mysterious than any of the groups previously mentioned. Here you will find textures similar to the ethereal vocalese found in some of Mike Oldfield's more beatific works. The textures are largely uplifting, set within intelligent, classically influenced musical frameworks. A nice package for fans of alternative chant. --Terry Wood

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Sounds nice; not authentic.......2007-07-05

The music is very nice, but I was disappointed to learn that the music is basically babble from one of the two vocalists on the CD.

4 out of 5 stars By Cindy Merrill.......2007-05-09

He loves classical music, and he likes this CD.. I prefer the Irish Tenors or the music from LORD OF THE RINGS.....as a farm girl growing up, I had no exposure to Opera ( though I think Tomcat fights around a breeding queen comes pretty close to it). My idea of classical music is BEST OF THE EAGLES.

4 out of 5 stars Songs for A Sanctuary.......2007-02-24

All CDs in good condition...one of the CD cases arrived cracked....

5 out of 5 stars Great music.......2007-02-13

Very easy on the ear. Goes well with Adiemus II Cantata Mundi.

4 out of 5 stars What Great Barr Primary School Think..........2006-12-27

we are children from the above school, one of our teachers bought the album songs of sancrury and now Adiemus is the title and ending song for every assembly we all love it and it is very catchy we all are hoping to get a copy of this cd for each year group soon and our year group -yr 6 have even started lyrical daces to it, to the creator we give appluse for such a phnominal song and we will listen for the whole of our school life

signed class 6B age 11 Great Barr Primary school
Songs From My Heart
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • My first Esteban CD
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  • Excellent musician and music, but there are better!
 Songs From My Heart
Esteban
Manufacturer: Daystar Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004UXGY
Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

  1. A Time For Us (Nino Rota) 3:17
  2. When You Wish Upon A Star (Leigh Harline) 3:41
  3. Never My Love (Don & Dick Addrisi) 3:48
  4. Delirio (Arranged by Esteban) 3:36
  5. Don't Cry For Me Argentina ((Andrew Lloyd Weber) 3:09
  6. Greensleeves (Arranged by Esteban) 2:42
  7. Unchained Melody (Hy Zaret/Alex North) 3:18
  8. Somewhere In Time (John Barry) 2:17
  9. All I Ask Of You (Andrew Lloyd Webber) 3:26
  10. Romanza (Arranged by Esteban) 2:09
  11. Jesu Joy Of Man's Desire (J.S. Bach) 3:24
  12. The Shadow Of Your Smile (Johnny Mandel) 3:04
  13. Fernando (Ben/Stig Anderson)2:52
  14. Cuando Calienta El Sol (C.Rigual/C.Martimori) 3:06
  15. Lady In Red (Chris Deburgh) 4:02
  16. Right Here Waiting (Richard Marks) 2:13
  17. Scarboro Faire (Arranged by Esteban) 3:24
  18. A Groovy Kind Of Love (Toni Wine/C.Sager) 4:04
  19. La Paloma (Arranged by Esteban) 3:24
  20. Speak Softly Love (Nino Rota) 3:12
  21. Angel In The Morning (Chip Taylor) 5:53

Album Description

"Songs From My Heart" is Esteban's lyrical and spontaneous interpretations of romantic popular songs that he has always felt close to. Each was recorded "live" in order to capture the feeling that so permeates Esteban's music. His "on the spot" improvisational skills learned from years of flamenco playing, combined with his exacting classical studies with Segovia, render a unique blend of heartfelt music that is pure joy to the ear. Enjoy!!

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars My first Esteban CD.......2006-06-02

I ordered 3 Esteban CDs and I hope the others are better than this one. Maybe I just don't like the songs he picked to play, but they came across as "contrived" and the background accompanyment sounds a bit "cheesey". If I heard the cuts before I bought the CD, I would have skipped this one!

5 out of 5 stars Greeneyes.......2006-02-26

I loved this CD - some of Esteban's best - very relaxing and beautiful music.

5 out of 5 stars So Many Knockers - Esteban is Great!!.......2006-02-02

As a guitar player for 50 years (I'm now 66) who also studied flamenco for a short time and can play some rather haltingly, I would commend Esteban's playing for what it is, way and above most guitar players, notwithstandng his car accident and all.

The negative comments that attempt to compare his playing to the few classical guitarists still capable of reaching the "classical level" are out of school and very imtemperate, as those musicians probably number less than 10, and they aren't popular with most listeners. Esteban is the epitome of an accomplished classical guitar musician who makes his music available to everyone for their listening pleasure, not for the winning of awards. He is like the Joe Pass or George Benson or Wes Montgomery of classical Spanish guitar.

I find his music and playing just plain delightful. Hats off to Esteban!!

2 out of 5 stars Disappointed.......2005-12-04

I like the excitement of Esteban's music. The way he starts out with a solo intro and then builds up excitement with a good supporting band. This CD has none of that. It is just a collection of solo intros. If you want soothing background music, this is for you!

3 out of 5 stars Excellent musician and music, but there are better!.......2005-10-03

Esteban is a very good musician, but by any means not as good as some of the other modern day 'Neo-Flamenco' or latin music playing guitarists. Yes, his music is touching and even passionate, but to me, there really is something lacking. He seems more a lounge musician than a serious international artist. If you like his style though, you must check out artists like Strunz & Farah, Luis Villegas, Acoustic Alchemy, or Govi, who just take it to another level. Much more passionate and technical than Esteban. Esteban is the Chevy of latin guitar, while the aforementioned are Ferraris! That said, I still applaud Esteban for his decent musicianship and his getting inexpensive but decent guitars out to the masses! Kudos to him.
Wind Songs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • a wonderful addition to your meditation yoga practice
 Wind Songs
Michael Hoppé and Tim Wheater
Manufacturer: Spring Hill
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000059N22
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

  1. Between Cave And Cloud
  2. Silence Of Stars
  3. Calling You (Once More)
  4. Stray Bird
  5. The Lovely Land
  6. On Wings Of Sleep
  7. Tears Of The Earth
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5 out of 5 stars a wonderful addition to your meditation yoga practice.......1999-04-13

This is now my 1st choice for my yoga practice. It is the most beautiful cd to listen to and I find myself picking it for each of my yoga classes. You won't be sorry, the entire cd is wonderful!
Bernstein Century - Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" & Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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  • THE AGE OF ANXIETY is Lenny's greatest piece
  • Among Lenny's Less Known but Highly Respectable Works!
  • No, this isn't going to be another West Side Story......
  • You must have this disk!
 Bernstein Century - Symphony No. 1 "Jeremiah" & Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety"
Leonard Bernstein , Jennie Tourel , Philippe Entremont , and New York Philharmonic
Manufacturer: Sony
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ASIN: B00000I0W2
Release Date: 1999-02-16

Tracks:

  1. Jeremiah Symphony No. 1: I. Prophecy
  2. Jeremiah Symphony No. 1: II. Profanation
  3. Jeremiah Symphony No. 1: III. Lamentation
  4. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part One: a. The Prologue: Lento moderato
  5. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part One: b: The Seven Ages: Variations 1 - 7
  6. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part One: c. The Seven Stages: Variations 8 - 14
  7. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part Two: a. The Dirge: Largo
  8. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part Two: b. The Masque: Extremely Fast
  9. The Age Of Anxiety Symphony No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra: Part Two: c. The Epilogue: Adagio; Andante; Con moto
  10. I Hate Music! A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs For Soprano: I. Moderato
  11. I Hate Music! A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs For Soprano: II. Allegretto vivace
  12. I Hate Music! A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs For Soprano: III. Sostenuto; Allegro molto
  13. I Hate Music! A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs For Soprano: IV. Con brio
  14. I Hate Music! A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs For Soprano: V. Moderato, alla marcia; Andante
  15. La Bonne Cuisine: I. Plum Pudding
  16. La Bonne Cuisine: II. Queues de Boeuf (Ox-tails)
  17. La Bonne Cuisine: III. Taveuk Gueunksis
  18. La Bonne Cuisine: IV. Civet oute Vitesse (Rabbit at Top Speed)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars LB's best symphony--mournful, ironic, jazzy.......2007-01-09

After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his "Jeremiah" Sym., Bernstein remained in top form as a composer throughout the late Forties and Fifties. His 'Age of Anxiety' Sym. #2 is refeshingly jazzy, and Philippe Entremont plays as if to the manner born in the long piano solos. Both of LB's other symphonies capture a specifically Jewish-Biblical significance that meant much to the composer but hasn't worn well. The Age of Anxiety is more like his Ballet Fancy Free, a comment, wry and often witty, on modern city life. It captures Auden's mournful sophistication perfectly, even if you haven't read the poem that inspired the music.

One could ask for no better recording--LB's remake on DG is a contender but not the equal of this. Playing and recording are perfect. The two humorous song cycles sung by LB's great friend Jennie Tourel are a mere fillip to a CD that's stingy on timing but a gem otherwise.

5 out of 5 stars THE AGE OF ANXIETY is Lenny's greatest piece.......2005-09-10

I agree with zmusicman in regard to THE AGE OF ANXIETY. Regarding the 2-clarinet PROLOGUE: it took me a while to realize that it's actually an organ tune transcribed for clarinets. Very clever. But THE EPILOGUE is pretty corny & derivative. It's an obvious variation on the first motif that you hear in Copland's THIRD SYMPHONY. Philippe Entremont's pianism is right up there with Bud Powell's. My favorite passage is that brief high-register glockenspiel thingy in THE MASQUE. I think it's done twice. Lenny was writing psychedelia way back in 1949.

5 out of 5 stars Among Lenny's Less Known but Highly Respectable Works!.......2004-09-08

Leonard Bernstein, an American icon and perhaps the best known conductor, composer, and music teacher from the New World, may be famous for his Broadway shows such as the entertaining out-of-the-war feeling "On the Town", and the fun and at the same time brooding story of New York's star-crossed "West Side Story". Give him some time though if you only know the "American" side of the composer.
He never threw away his Jewish heritage, and this first symphony "Jeremiah" enclosed in the CD is one of the prime examples of witnessing Lenny's musician expression as a Jew.
I love this symphony because despite it's musical complexity easy enough to tell it's 20th century genre, the sheer tragic theme of this piece is strong enough to make me bow down in tears. The piece is in three movements; first tells of Jeremiah's pleading to the people, the nailbiting second the corruption done by the people, and the third the lamentation of Jeremiah to Jerusalem, "ruined, pillaged, and dishonored after his desparate efforts to save it". Ms. Jennie Tourel sang brilliantly in the movement.

The second symphony "The Age of Anxiety" is another example of Lenny's serious and musically dark and modern side of music. Based on the poem by W.H. Auden with the same name, it will take you through this spiritual and moral journey.

I was quite charmed with Lenny's two easy song cycles "I Hate Music!" and "Four Recipes". And once again, kudos to Ms. Tourel. Just take a listen and you'll feel like you're a little innocent child again. The songs are as elementary and bright as a Mother Goose rhyme.

3 out of 5 stars No, this isn't going to be another West Side Story.............2000-07-14

....or On the Town or Candide or any other famous broadway/operettas you've heard from it. But it's not bad. Bernstein has a completely different approach to his symphonic works then from his others you know of. I really felt the music in the first symphony, Jeremiah, fit the Lamentations chapter of the bible and the soprano in the final movement only added to the passion. Age of Anxiety was in an awkward format for a symphony, and seemed to be more of a piano concerto/work then a symphony. If I hated music, I would still hate it after hearing Bernstein's I Hate Music. These are just a few 'ditties' he drew up for children which very in style and speed. La Bonne Cuisine was funny (and fast), but you have to follow along in the book to get the humor because the soprano sings so fast. Recording was great. None of this music really stands out among my collection, but it's is still good music.

5 out of 5 stars You must have this disk!.......1999-04-03

This disk is one of the best disks I've ever heard, and the best disk of Bernstein that I've ever heard. Bernstein's symphonies are very good, and it's very easy to listen to them (unlike other 20th century creations). This performance is very exciting and thrilling.
Songs of Healing
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Best songs for the heart
 Songs of Healing
Robert Gass
Manufacturer: Spring Hill
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001OH4B
Release Date: 1996-08-07

Tracks:

  1. Go In Beauty
  2. May We Dwell In The Heart
  3. Return Again
  4. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
  5. Wherever You Go
  6. See Me, Feel Me
  7. Listen, Listen, Listen
  8. Long Time Sun
  9. Life Is Eternal

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Best songs for the heart.......2003-05-08

I use this CD regularly when I do massage. Everyone loves it and asks for it again and again. A nice compilation of healing songs.
Songs of Earth & Sky
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Cloud
  • Peaceful
  • Transporting, timeless music and poetry
  • Nice- also listen to Genie's WHISPER
  • wonderful album
 Songs of Earth & Sky
Bill Douglas
Manufacturer: Hearts of Space
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000X83
Release Date: 1998-02-17

Tracks:

  1. Feast
  2. The Cloud
  3. Balyshannon
  4. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
  5. The Smile Of A Breeze
  6. The Echoing Green
  7. Lady Of The Lake
  8. Wind Of The Western Sea
  9. The Secret Rose
  10. Autumn Song
  11. Willow
  12. The Gardens Of Loch Nair
  13. I Shall Not Live In Vain

Product Description

1. Feast
2. The Cloud
3. Balyshannon
4. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
5. The Smile Of A Breeze
6. The Echoing Green
7. Lady Of The Lake
8. Wind Of The Western Sea
9. The Secret Rose
10. Autumn Song
11. Willow
12. The Gardens Of Loch Nair
13. I Shall Not Live In Vain

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Cloud.......2007-02-26

This is my first encounter hearing Bill Douglas. The song The Cloud is especially moving, haunting, and relaxing at the same time. It is especially fitting when i sit outside in the evening the moon and the stars gracing the desert sky and suddenly as i listen to The Cloud, one gently drifts by, acknowledging this beautiful song.

5 out of 5 stars Peaceful.......2006-08-30

As always with Bill Douglas, these selections are beautifully orchestrated. We enjoy the choral segements intertwined with the instrumental pieces. We play them in the evenings while we read. Friends always comment on how wonderful they are

5 out of 5 stars Transporting, timeless music and poetry.......2006-01-12

My wife and I had the tv tuned to the "New Age" station on the satellite a few months ago while working around the house, and I just heard a bar or two of "Clouds," #2 on this cd, and it stopped me dead in my tracks. It felt like a feather was tickling my soul from a place so far away, and I knew it immediately as a new enchantment and love affair. I resisted for a good month, but every once in a great while I'd hear a part of another song, such as "Wind of the Western Sea," #8 on this same cd, and it had the same powerful but incredibly delicate effect. This is music that takes you apart and puts you back together again, as all great art should, in a better way than you were before. I'm just fascinated with how it all begins, like a master safecracker finally hearing the last tumbler fall out. So far away and yet so close, the "weak force" in physics that holds it all together.

The poems are all classics by the great poets of old -- Shakespeare, Keats, Blake, Burns, Yeats, Dickinson -- and they are sung so clearly, with such moving musical interludes and accompaniment. I'm not a critic and so don't have too many words to describe the beauty here. I also bought Douglas' Deep Peace cd at the same time and it's the same format, poems sung by the Ars Nova Singers to Douglas' musical arrangements. I love both of them.

5 out of 5 stars Nice- also listen to Genie's WHISPER.......2002-06-13

Bill is great. Also check out my favorite relaxing artist, Genie. My fave is WHISPER.

5 out of 5 stars wonderful album.......2001-04-17

Soothing blend of insturmental and vocal harmonies. Half choral and half instrumental pieces. Listen to Feast and My love is like a red red rose for a good example of the album as a whole. Not one bad song on the entire cd! My favorite Bill Douglas album. Well worth your time and money!
Here, There and Everywhere: The Songs of the Beatles
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Chilled-Out Beatles Tunes
  • Maybe,this CD is the best cover ever heard!!
  • BIG BAD BABBLIN' BOB SPEAKS
  • blissful beatles covers
 Here, There and Everywhere: The Songs of the Beatles
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Windham Hill Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000JH82
Release Date: 1999-06-29

Tracks:

  1. You Won't See Me - Snuffy Walden
  2. I Will - Tuck And Patti
  3. Eleanor Rigby - Wayne Johnson
  4. Here, There And Everywhere - Liz Story
  5. If I Needed Someone - Michael Hedges
  6. Martha My Dear - George Winston
  7. Girl - Doyle Dykes
  8. Withing You Without You - Angels Of Venice
  9. Blackbird - Sean Harkness
  10. Here Comes The Sun - Tracy Silverman And Thea Suits Silverman
  11. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - Lisa Lynne
  12. Mother Nature's Son - Free Klassic
  13. The Long And Winding Road - Liz Story

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Chilled-Out Beatles Tunes.......2003-08-27

New Age Beatles covers? Yes, I was fairly skeptical myself but curiosity overtook my skepticism and I ordered it anyhow.

I must say, this is a really good album. It assembles a fine group of New Age artists, including Michael Hedges, George Winston and Liz Story. And, the result is masterful.

A few of the songs are basically in their original format, just played as piano solos (Martha My Dear, Here There and Everywhere, and The Long and Winding Road.) If you are a fan of piano, which I am, you will enjoy them.

While many of the songs have the same arrangement as their originals, one (Here Comes The Sun) was very different. While its arrangement is interesting, it was a little too sedate for my taste.

My favorite track is 'Eleanor Rigby.' The guitar work on this song will just about bring you to tears--at least it does for me.

The only thing I didn't like about this album was the inclusion of vocals on 'I Will' and 'Blackbird.' It's not that the vocals were terrible or anything like that. It's a personal preference issue and my personal preference would have been for this to be a purely instrumental album.

Overall, though, I would say this is a wise purchase. If you are a fan of New Age music and you also happened to enjoy Beatles music, BUY THIS ALBUM because you will LOVE it. If you like the Beatles but aren't a huge fan of New Age, this album might convert you into a New Age fan.

5 out of 5 stars Maybe,this CD is the best cover ever heard!!.......2001-11-04

When I was younger so much yonger than I'm today.
I've never needed any cover Beatles.
But these days has gone. I must need cover anyway.
So this CD is the best cover ever got. especially
"You won't see me" . If you are Beatlesmania
you have to get You won't see me.

1 out of 5 stars BIG BAD BABBLIN' BOB SPEAKS.......2000-01-21

There should be a law against anyone with a name like "SNUFFY" covering a Beatles song!Hell, there outta be a law against anyone even having the name "SNUFFY"! This entire album sounds worse that a poodle caught in a garbage disposal.I guess things could be worse though....could you imagine "LUCY IN THE SKY" redone by Pearl Jam.....has anyone seen my poodle?

4 out of 5 stars blissful beatles covers.......1999-12-13

this is by far the best selection of Beatles covers i have ever heard, and as a disc jockey i have heard more than my share. i am buying it as a Christmas gift for 3 of my friends, and got a copy for myself too. these songs are really well done and the whole album fits together nicely, even tho all the artists are different. enjoy.
Music for the Soul
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Get your hanky....this is very, very emotional music
  • The best relaxing and inspirational CD in my collection.
 Music for the Soul

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002SMO
Release Date: 1997-03-25

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Get your hanky....this is very, very emotional music.......2003-08-03

This is very emotional music that may easily bring a tear or many
to your eyes.....this is very powerful music .....know that going into
it.

5 out of 5 stars The best relaxing and inspirational CD in my collection........1998-08-10

I'm back to buy this CD for a friend who writes while listening to this type of music, as I do. The CD inspires and presents consistent selections of music that take you "out of it" and allow you to think. I've purchased many CDs looking for this type of music, and I listen to this one most often. It's a rare find.
Ned Rorem: Selected Songs
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great vocal virtuosity
  • Confuzzled
  • An American Composer of Art Song
  • more German than Rorem
  • delightful art songs
 Ned Rorem: Selected Songs
Ned Rorem , and Carole Farley
Manufacturer: Naxos American
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ASIN: B00005QISU
Release Date: 2001-11-20

Tracks:

  1. The Waking
  2. Root Cellar
  3. My Papa's Waltz
  4. I Strolled Across An Open Field
  5. Memory
  6. Orchids
  7. The Serpent
  8. Night Crow
  9. Snake
  10. Lilltel Elegy
  11. The Nightingale
  12. Nantucket
  13. Lullaby Of The Woman Of The Mountain
  14. Love In A Life
  15. What If Some Little Pain...
  16. Visits To St. Elizabeth's
  17. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
  18. Spring
  19. See How They Love Me
  20. Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
  21. I Am Rose
  22. Ask Me No More
  23. Far-Far-Away
  24. Early In The Morning
  25. Alleluia
  26. Such Beauty As Hurts To Behold
  27. Sally's Smile
  28. Youth, Day, Old Age, And Night
  29. O You Whom I Often And Silently Come
  30. Full Of Life Now
  31. As Adam Early In The Morning
  32. Are You The New Person?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great vocal virtuosity.......2005-04-07

This is a great recording, by two great artists. Carole Farley is the ideal singer for Ned Rorem's songs. She spell out every
word and every nuance, giving each song and every poem their full character. The songs are a revelation. I recommend this recording without hesitation.
Christoph (Berlin, Germany)

3 out of 5 stars Confuzzled.......2004-01-03

While these song are GREAT...I cannot get over Carole Farley; her voice is so affected (kind of like a sprechstimme; overly dramatic...). I love the fact that Rorem himself is playing the piano, and as a singer, the catalogue of songs is good to have...but cant say I could ever manage getting over Farley's affectation. There are far superior recordings out there.

5 out of 5 stars An American Composer of Art Song.......2003-04-02

American popular song, whether standards, show tunes,jazz, blues, or rock, is one of our country's most visible artistic achievements. American classical (or Art) songs are much less known. Ned Rorem (b. 1923) is probably the greatest American composer in this unfamiliar medium. Rorem is sometimes dubbed the "American Schubert."

This disc features 32 of Ned Rorem's songs for voice and piano. Soprano Carole Farley is the accomplished singer, and Ned Rorem himself plays the piano. The disc is special because it features settings of the works of American poets. The CD begins with 9 settings of poems by the mid-twentieth century poet, Theodore Roethke, and concludes with settings of 5 poems by Walt Whitman. The disc also includes settings of poems by William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Paul Goodman, among others. Thus the disc combines in a special way American creative effort in poetry and in music.

Rorem's songs are declamatory in style. Typically, the voice line delivers the text of the poetry in a sort of chant. The relationship between the voice line and the piano is far from Schubertian. Generally, the piano takes a separate line and accentuates the voice by means of large chords or by runs or by other comments and punctuation on the voice. The texts are well set and the music is effective. There are some unusual harmonies with jazz and blues influences. Rorem's piano accompanyment on this disc gives the recording a sense of authenticity -- we get a good idea of how the composer wants his songs to be conveyed.

The disc includes excellent program notes and texts of all the songs. Naxos has received deservedly high praise for its "American Classics" series which makes much music written by Americans available on CD at a low price. This disc includes some lovely, little-known songs. It is an excellent introduction to the American art song and to the music of Ned Rorem.

3 out of 5 stars more German than Rorem.......2002-07-20

I've been a Rorem fan since hearing a highschool friend perform some of his work in her college recital. His startling, atonal songs were an instant revelation. For years there were few reliable CDs of his vocal work. A scandal considering his reputation rests more on his art songs and chamber music than on his orchestral pieces. This Naxos entry of a wide overview of his best songs is thus quite welcome, due largely to its availability, wide distribution and professional packaging (he's had some shoddy issues before with incorrect liner notes, etc.; the challenge of the low budget).

I can't call myself an unalloyed fan of soprano Carole Farley however. Her delivery here recalls the speak-singing style of German 12-tone composers (a specialty of hers), and can sound melodramatic, especially when she rushes the more delicate passages.

I prefer Rorem's softer, more melodious French side, the one that descends from Impressionism and is more warmly emotive. While Farley loses the shading of some of the more fragile songs, she is well-suited to the longer, more forceful pieces. I've heard many readings of "Early in the Morning" (one of Rorems most popular songs) by male and female vocalists, and its tale of wistful nostalgia is muted by Farley's direct approach. However, she nails "My Papa's Waltz," a fractured setting for a Roethke poem about a frightened child forced to dance with a drunken father. Here her acting skills come to the fore, and she perfectly captures the tipsy madness of the song. Rorem can be quite theatrical himself on occasion. She does almost as well with "See How they love me," a ballad with a regular pace that allows her assertive style to breathe.

At any rate it's great to hear these lovely songs in a recent (2000) recording, accompanied (rather emphatically, but perhaps he's matching his theatrical singer) by Rorem himself.

The similar Susan Graham album is more to my taste, but this is a more than competent bargain set.

4 out of 5 stars delightful art songs.......2002-01-02

rorem's songs are amazing, and naxos has done well
to group them by poet. the complete settings of roethke
are particularly compelling and edgey.

carole farley's voice is lovely, but her phrasing
and willingness to push her voice seems
a big departure from the styling of art songs i've
heard by poulenc and somers.

this takes some getting used to- at least 3 or 4 complete
listen-throughs in my case. her voice is almost jazzy,
kind of like early recordings by holly cole.

anyway, rorem accompanies her on piano so obviously
this reading fits with his intent; his playing is also delightful.

one small quibble- although there are 32 songs, the CD is
57 minutes- brief by naxos standards.

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