| 1. Not In Kansas |
| 2. Introductions |
| 3. Brown Kisses Pt. One |
| 4. I Need A Joint |
| 5. Pass The Thought |
| 6. Greener Pastures |
| 7. Brown Kisses Pt. Too |
| 8. Commercial Break |
| 9. Shouldna Dunnit |
| 10. Split Personality |
| 11. Not The Same |
| 12. Hoes On Tour Part One |
| 13. The Popeye Philosophy |
| 14. Hoes On Tour Part Two |
| 15. Fluffy And Richard |
| 16. Hoes On Tour Deel Drie |
| 17. Nite Out On The Town |
| 18. Do You Wanna Fuck (Or What)? |
| 19. Hoes On Tour Part Four |
Harmoniemusik,Mozzafiato,Charles Neidich,Anonymous,Gioachino Rossini,Sony,Chamber,Chamber Music,Choral,Classical,Classical Music,Miscellaneous,Miscellaneous Music,Sacred Choral Music
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Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005ONMP Release Date: 2002-05-14 |
Tracks:
- Symphony No.1 In C Minor, Op.11
- Octet In E Flat, Op.20
- Overture "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Op.21
- The Hebrides, Op.26 (Fingal's Cave)
- Meeresstille Und Glkliche Fahrt, Op.27
- Symphony No.2 In B Flat, Op.52 - "Hymn Of Praise"
- Symphony No.3 In A Minor, Op.56 - "Scottish"
- Overture "The Fair Melusine", Op.32
- "Trumpet Overture", Op.101 - Allegro Vivace
- Ruy Blas, Op.95 - Overture To Victor Hugo's Play
- Symphony No.4 In A, Op.90 - "Italian"
- Symphony No.5 In D Minor, Op.107 - "Reformation"
- Overture For Wind Instruments, Op.24 (F Harmoniemusik)
Customer Reviews:
Real class.......2007-06-24
Great set.......2007-05-18
For the "Reformation", and "Italian" Symphonies, I'd recommend John Eliot Gardiner and the Vienna Philharmonic's DG set.
For the Scottish Symphony I'd go with Karajan's recording with the BPO (that CD also comes with the best "Hebrides Overture" recording available, and a pretty good "Italian Symphony" interpretation, too).
All of the overtures in this set are performed very well, both in technical execution and musical interpretation. The Hebrides (a work far ahead of its time), in particular, is a fine recording. So is "Overture 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'." I really have grown fond of the "Ruy Blas" overture as well.
Another reviewer complained that the interpretations in this set are "too Classical." I think they are correct in saying the set is Classically performed, but I think that works with Mendelssohn, as he was "the Romantic Mozart."
Overall this is a great set, and a good way to become familiar with the music of Felix Mendelssohn, or build your Mendelssohn library.
MENDELSSOHN: 5 Symphonies/7 Overtures (LSO/Claudio Abbado) DG 471 467-2.......2006-07-13
Charlie Hastings
Falls Church, VA
Great Concept but Not So Great Execution!.......2006-06-14
Now, the bad: the problem with compilations like this is that the material tends to have been recorded at different times and places and frequently by different personnel on various recording equipment of varying quality. What this means is that some tracks within each disc sound much better then others and even whole discs come in varying sound qualities.
Fortunately, the best disc, disc one starts out very well with the great first symphony and ends with the composer's best Overtures and the quality of the sound recording is very good. Then we get to disc 2 and the sound quality can only be described as abysmal. The difference in the sound is like night and day when compared with the first disc. The third disc sounds much better but is still not as good as the first disc while the last disc comes somewhere in between the second and third.
There's no doubting the quality of the performances though by Claudio Abbado and the LSO and of course the choice of material but too bad about the inconsistency of the sound quality from track to track and from disc to disc.
Still, the 3 stars are for the good points listed above and for the great disc 1.
More of Mendelssohn to Love.......2005-11-08
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Mendelssohn: Overtures
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001G8R Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- The Fair Melusina op.32: Allegro con moto
- A Midsummer Night's Dream op.21: Allegro di molto
- Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage op.27: Meeresstille. Adagio. Gluckliche Fahrt. Molto Allegro e vivace
- Overture for Wind Instruments op. 24: Andante con moto - Allegro vivace
- Trumpet Overture op. 101: Allegro vivace
- Ruy Blas op.95: Lento - Allegro molto
- The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) op. 26: Allegro moderato - Animato in tempo
Customer Reviews:
Abbado at his best!!.......2004-05-08
Mendelssohn fan as well. So when I saw this CD for sale I
snatched it up quickly because of the rarity of most of
the overtures. I wasn't dissapointed at all! The sound
is great and the performances are wonderful. Despite what
the other reviewer said, it is playable on a "normal CD
player", and it is a disc that shouldn't be passed up
if you're an Abbado fan like myself!!
Useless recording.......2003-06-21
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Schubert: Alfonso und Estella Harmoniemusik
Manufacturer: Cpo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00005Y2J0 Release Date: 2002-02-19 |
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Harmoniemusik - Music for Winds by Castil-Blaze, Weber and Blasius
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000002BZV Release Date: 1996-12-10 |
Tracks:
- Sxt No. 1 in E-Flat: I. Allegro
- Sxt No. 1 in E-Flat: II. Scherzo. Risoluto
- Sxt No. 1 in E-Flat: III. Adagio
- Sxt No. 1 in E-Flat: IV. Bolero. Allegro Brillante
- Adagio And Rondo (After J. 115): Adadio in E-Flat
- Adagio And Rondo (After J. 115): Rondo. Presto in B-Flat
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: I. Allegro Molto-Siciliano-Tempo I
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: II. Andantino
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: III. Allegro Moderato
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: IV. Andante
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: V. Grazioso
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 1 in B-Flat: VI. Allegretto
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: I. Allegro
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: II. Andante
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: III. Cantabile
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: IV. Chansonette
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: V. Allegro
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: VI. Andante
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 2 in E-Flat: VII. Allegro
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: I. Allegro
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: II. Andante
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: III. Echo. Allegro
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: IV. Andante
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: V. Allegro Moderato
- Ste D'Harmonie No. 3 in E-Flat: VI. Tambourin. Allegretto
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Mozart: Donaueschingen Harmoniemusik [Hybrid SACD]
Manufacturer: Pentatone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000EBEH4K Release Date: 2006-03-21 |
Tracks:
- Overture
- Hier Soll Ich Dich Denn Sehen
- Solche Hergelauf'Ne Laffen
- O Wie Angstlich, O Wie Feurig
- Doch Wie Schnell Schwand Meine Freude
- Durch Zartlichkeit Und Schmeicheln
- Ich Gehe Doch Rate Ich Dir
- Martern Aller Arten
- Welche Wonne, Welche Lust
- Frische Zum Kampfe!
- Vivat Bacchus! Bacchus Lebe!
- Wenn Der Freude Tranen Fliessen
- Ach, Belmonte! Ach, Mein Leben
- Ich Baue Ganz Auf Deine Starke
- Ha, Wie Will Ich Triumphieren
- Adagio Recitativo: Welch Ein Geschick!
- Finale: Nie Werd'Ich Deine Huld Verkennen
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The Classical Harmonie
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000026CW8 Release Date: 1999-10-12 |
Customer Reviews:
Delightful music winningly played and miserably recorded.......2007-03-20
The music itself is lively and engaging and the playing is wonderful. The Albion Ensemble has mixed popular harmoniemusik -- Hummel's Octet-Partita in E flat major, Beethoven's Octet Op. 103 and Rondino WoO 25 -- with less popular music by Hummel and Gluck to provide an interesting and lively entertainment for any lover of the harmoniemusik genre.
Of the less well-known items on the CD, Hummel's "Die Eselshaut" (or "The donkey's costume") is from a play that premiered in 1814; it is scored for octet and contrabassoon in five sections. Wenzel Sedlak, a clarinetist and kapellmeister of the Lichetenstein court from 1808-1812 and one of the most popular arrangers in the harmoniemusik period, did the arrangement for this music.
The other less well known item on the CD is Josef Triebensee's arrangement of Christoph Willibald von Gluck's opera suite from "Iphigenie en Tauride". Scored in 7 sections, the music dates from 1805 and replicates the opera's overture, a ballet, chorus and a number of arias. Triebensee was Sedlak's predecessor at the Lichtenstein court and is perhaps the most well known of all harmonie arrangers. His most popular arrangement is the 19 movements he composed from Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
The more well-known pieces by Beethoven and Hummel each have many available recordings on CD and in other media. This recording matches any of those in playing, zest and style. Kudos to the Albion Ensemble for such a wonderful concert! This CD is a very welcome issue for any lover of harmoniemusik and would be a five star selection if the recording was in any way modern.
However, the recording technology, or the transfer from original tape to CD, is awful. When I played this CD on my five-speaker system the only speaker that played anything was the center speaker, meaning everything at the highest and lowest end of the sound spectrum disappeared. When I tried it on SACD it played in stereo but the bassoon and contrabassoon could essentially not be heard. The CD sounded best when played in my car.
The only other experiences I've had like this are playing older mono recordings from the 1940s. It is a terrible shame that Hyperion, an English company known for outstanding artists and recording technology, released such a miserable issue using modern recording technique. The music is delightful and imaginately played here but you can't hear all of it, and what you can here is so homogenized it sounds like it was recorded in the early 1960s.
I also am disappointed the full accounting of tracks and timing is not placed on the back cover of the CD; it is available on the back cover of the booklet, which includes interesting and informative notes on the composers, compositions and the players. Hyperion could easily have transferred this to the back cover of the CD enabling listeners to follow along without taking out the booklet.
So, a mixed bag here -- great music and playing mated to an unacceptable recording and packaging that could have been better renders what could have been outstanding to an overall average grade. This package should have been a lot more listener (and buyer) friendly that it is.
The $12 list price (and real price of more like $7.50) ameliorates this to some extent but I've heard hundreds of $2 and $3 recordings that sound better than this one. If ever a release screamed for a remastering upgrade, this is it.
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Mozart: Don Giovanni Harmoniemusik
Manufacturer: Orfeo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000597T Release Date: 1993-01-05 |
Tracks:
- Ov
- Notte E Giorno Faticar (Allegro Molto)
- Ah! Chi Mi Dice Mai (Allegro)
- Madamina, Il Catalogo E Questo (Allegro - Andante Con Moto)
- Giovinette, Che Fate All'Amore (Allegro)
- La Ci Darem La Mano (Andante - Allegretto)
- Non Ti Fidar, O Misera (Andante)
- Dalla Sua Pace (Andante)
- Fin Ch'Han Dal Vino (Presto)
- Batti, Batti, O Bel Masetto (Andante Grazioso - Allegretto)
- Presto, Presto Pria Ch'ei Venga (Allegro Assai - Andante - Minuetto - Adagio - Allegro)
- Eh Via, Buffone (Allegro Assai)
- Ah! Taci, Ingiusto Core (Andantino)
- Deh! Vieni Alla Finestra (Allegretto)
- Meta Di Voi Qua Vadano (Andante Con Moto)
- Vedrai, Carino (Grazioso)
- Per Queste Tue Manine (Allegro Moderato)
- Mi Tradi Quell'alma Ingrata (Allegretto)
- Non Mi Dir, Bell'idol Mio (Larghetto - Allegro Moderato)
- Gia La Mensa E Preparata (Allegro Vivace - Presto)
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Harmoniemusik
Mozzafiato , Charles Neidich , Anonymous , and Gioachino Rossini Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000296J Release Date: 1993-11-16 |
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Harmoniemusik: Sextet from Le Nozze di Figaro and Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Rossini's Quintet ~ Vivarte Sony Classical
Manufacturer: Vivarte Sony Classical ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000OVBZHM |
Product Description
Sony Classical Vivarte # 53965. Tracks #1-6 contain Harmoniemusik on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro". Tracks #7-11 contain G. Rossini's Harmoniemusik (Quintet) in F Major and Tracks # 11-19 contain Harmoniemusik on G. Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia". SBM= Super Bit Mapping on this disc. For this recording 20-bit technology was used for high definition sound.
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Mozart Operas: Harmoniemusik Arrangements of the Period + Beethoven's Fidelio
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven , Julius Rudel , and Amadeus Ensemble Manufacturer: Music Masters Jazz ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000000FRO Release Date: 1995-03-20 |
Track Listings:
- Haydn: Symhony No.51/Piano Concerto No.5/Symphony No.100
- Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 21 & 96/Cello Concerto In C
- Haydn: Symphony No.22/Piano Concerto No.2/Symphony No.104
- Haydn: Symphony Nos. 61 & 103/Cello Concerto In D Major
- Henri Lazarof: Poema / Tableaux (after Kandinsky) for Piano & Orchestra / Icarus (Second Concerto for Orchestra) - Gerard Schwarz
- Holzbauer: Günther von Schwarzburg / Schneider, La Stagione
- J.C. Bach: Symphonies, Op. 3, Nos. 1-6
- J.H. Schmeltzer Sonatas; Balletti Francesi; Ciaconna
- Jessye Norman
- Liszt/Ginsburg
Track Listings
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 9 & 17 [Import]
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