Keyboard Maniac

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1. Journey: The Longest Mile    
2. Playfully    
3. Mysteriously    
4. Gloony    
5. Joyfully    
6. Etude    
7. Nocturne    
8. Dream Waltz    
9. Morning's Glory    
10. Afternoon Circles    
See all 13 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2
1. Sax Haven    
2. Chant    
3. Eternity    
4. Prelude to the Urban City    
5. Fugue Ghetto    
6. Sea Storm    
7. Nebulae    
8. Super Voice    
9. Hit the Dust    
10. Echoes from the Spirit    
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Warren M. Swenson: Battle Pieces
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • A Creative Programming Idea Gone Awry
 Warren M. Swenson: Battle Pieces

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Foster, StephenFoster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000C7PTD
Release Date: 2003-09-30

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars A Creative Programming Idea Gone Awry.......2003-10-01

The notion behind the program on this CD was a wonderful one. As a pendant to a new song cycle by Warren M. Swenson set to Civil War poems by Walt Whitmen, George Shirley, tenor, and William Bolcom, pianist, record eleven popular songs from the period surrounding the Civil War including familiar favorites as 'Oh, Dem Golden Slippers,' 'My Old Kentucky Home,' and some rare songs like the Creole folk song 'Michieu Banjo' and Henry Russell's 'The Maniac.' But there are two things wrong with the final product. First, the song cycle of twelve songs, although set to stirring, evocative poetry, is pedestrian and in a pale faux-Ives style. Second, and sad to hear, is the deterioration of the nearly 70-year-old Shirley's once glorious voice. He was, in his day, an intelligent singer with a beautiful voice that he could use to do just about anything he wished. I remember a riveting 'Salome' Herod only ten years or so ago. He still sings with immaculate musicianship and intelligence and his accompanist, the redoubtable composer/pianist William Bolcom gives him formidable support, but the voice splays and wobbles under pressure and it becomes painful to listen to it.

The booklet notes and recorded sound are exemplary.

But my advice is to avoid this issue unless you really want to hear Swenson's songs; this is likely to be their only recording.
Keyboard Maniac
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Keyboard Maniac

    Manufacturer: Albany Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    ComputerComputer | Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Jazz | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00005B6AG
    Release Date: 2001-04-24

    Tracks:

    1. Journey: The Longest Mile
    2. Playfully
    3. Mysteriously
    4. Gloony
    5. Joyfully
    6. Etude
    7. Nocturne
    8. Dream Waltz
    9. Morning's Glory
    10. Afternoon Circles
    11. Rumble in the Night
    12. Piano Varations on Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing
    13. Keyboard Maniac [Rhapsody No. 4]

    Tracks:

    1. Sax Haven
    2. Chant
    3. Eternity
    4. Prelude to the Urban City
    5. Fugue Ghetto
    6. Sea Storm
    7. Nebulae
    8. Super Voice
    9. Hit the Dust
    10. Echoes from the Spirit
    11. Daylight
    12. Storm Chaser
    13. Warning
    14. Eruption
    15. Red Sun

    Track Listings:

    1. Komungo [Live]
    2. La Catedral
    3. Lancastrians to the Tudors
    4. Laura/Suites from Now Voyager, the Informer & Since You Went Away [Import] [Soundtrack]
    5. Luis Leguia Music For Cello and Piano
    6. Maria Joćo Pires ~ Beethoven - Sonatas "Quasi una fantasia" ~ Moonlight
    7. Medtner: Sonatas for Piano, Op.5 , Op.11
    8. Meredith Willson's The Music Man (1991 Studio Cast) [Cast Recording]
    9. Mozart: Piano Sonatas Kv 309, 332, 570 [Import]
    10. Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 41, 25 & 32

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    Essential Fra Lippo Lippi : Essence & Rare [Import]

    Meyerbeer in Italy

    Lady Sings the Blues [Import]

    Compassion

    Wolf Pact [Import]

    I Am a Survivor

    Let's Share Christmas

    Helge Rosvaenge, Vol. 3

    I'll Fly Away

    It's a Wonderful World

    How to Meet Girls

    Live the Dream: The Second Fierce Panda Sampler [Import]

    Kpanlogo

    All Right Here

    Pachora