Music for Accordion

1. De profundis, for accordion
Composed by Sofiya Gubaydulina
with Teodoro Anzellotti

2. Auf den Flügeln der Harfe
Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber
with Teodoro Anzellotti

3. Quêtsch, for organ
Composed by Volker Heyn
with Teodoro Anzellotti

4. California Dreams, for accordian
Composed by Gerhard Stabler
with Teodoro Anzellotti

Tracks:

Le Pas Du Chat Noir
De Tout Ton Coeur
Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel
Pique-nique A Nagpur
C'est Ailleurs
Toi Qui Sait
L'arbre Qui Voit
Un Point Bleu
Les Ailes Du Bourak
Rue Du Depart
Leila Au Pays Du Carrousel, Var.
Deja La Nuit

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The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on the piano, emerging while he was taking a much-needed short break from his primary instrument. While Pas de Chat Noir ("The Black Cat's Footsteps") is a change of pace, it is a not a terribly remote detour. Brahem is still in his favorite space, exploring the power of implication, and the other players are in synch with his vision. All three participants sound muted, relating to one another in parallels rather than in a heated dialogue. The result is a spacious, romantic pastiche of Farid El-Atrache, Astor Piazzolla, Keith Jarrett, 19th- and 20th-century French impressionists (especially Eric Satie), plus shades of every strung-out, enervated, after-hours nightclub jam that ever was. --Christina Roden

Customer Reviews:

Lovely.......2007-05-20

This is a beautiful CD, filled with a musical style which defies categorization. Evocative of Eric Satie's work for the piano, this album is a hypnotic mix of Middle Eastern and Western sounds - part jazz, part classical. This is one of those purchases which I am glad I went the extra mile to find.

truly unique.......2007-05-19

It is hard to describe this unusual CD. Hauntingly peaceful are two words that come to mind.Relaxing and calming are two more. Simply beautiful also.

absolutely essential (FJB/O!-music 2006).......2006-11-26

Anouar Brahem is an artist of incredible vision and talent. This recording, is one of his best.

In the notes to the CD, Brahem is quotes as saying that after recording his THIMAR album, the resulting physical and artistic exhaustion caused him to set aside his oud for a while - something he said he had never before done. Turning his musical ideas and expression to his piano, Brahem created the pieces recorded here. When he took these ideas into the studio (and taking his oud along with him), along with colleagues François Coutourier (piano) and Jean-Louis Matinier (accordion), his ideas were brought beautifully to fruition. The result is one of the most beautiful recordings I have ever heard.

The pieces having been written on the piano, that instrument takes the lead - but the oud and the accordion have a lot to say as well, and their voices blend effortlessly with that of the keyboard. Brahem is a master not only at composition and performing, but, in his arrangements, and in the very choosing of his accompanying musicians, shows a brilliance that is breathtaking. Through the various groupings that he has assembled on his recordings, he endows his music with a strength and scope that is stunning - it takes on a life of its own, and grows far beyond whatever boundaries smaller minds might employ to contain it by definition.

This is 'world music' in the deepest, spiritual sense of the phrase - political frontiers are vanquished and erased, while cultures are honored, respected and mingled.

Brahem's last album, ASTRAKAN CAFÉ, alluded to this meeting and convergence of styles - with each successive release, Brahem furthers his cause (and that of the open-minded, eager-to-explore listener). Each and every track included here is an absolute gem. Approach this album with an open mind and ear, and marvel at the journey on which you are to be led.

This is an absolutely essential recording.

Mediterranean Music.......2006-11-03

One of the best CDs I have ever bought. Many asked who was playing when I played it. I purchased 4 more for friends. Soothing and rich. if you like Arabic music infused with French touch of accordion.

excellent music.......2006-03-23

The music on this CD has a beautifully interweaving combination of instuments. The lovely melodies are simple and complex at the same time, and evoke pleasant reverie. Everyone we have played it for enjoyed it very much.

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Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!
Beginner or Expert
Very Informative and Enjoyable
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Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra

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Overture To 'Tannhauser'
Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
Hungarian Dance No.7
The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
Csardas Music
The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
Tzigane
Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
Caprice No.24
The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
The Violin Muted
Clair De Lune
The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
The Pizzicato Violin
Pizzicato Polka
In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
Hungarian Dance No.4
Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
Bolero
Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
Elfenreigen

Tracks:

Introduction To The Viola
Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
Cypresses (No.9)
The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
The 'Period' Viola In Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
Elfentanz, Op.39
Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
The Protecting Veil (Opening)
A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
Flamenco
Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
Symphony No.9 (Finale)
Introduction To The Double-Bass
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
Elegy No.1 In D Major
The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
Capriccio Di Bravura
Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
Sa'Dawi
Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
Chamber Music No.II
The Piccolo - Aptly Named
La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
A Variety Of Techniques
Chamber Music No.II
Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
Naelden, Naelden
The Bachian Oboe
Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
The Swan Of Tuonela
The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
Bolero
The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
...And Quite Low.
Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
Introduction To The Saxophone
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
Bolero
The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
Sax-O-Phun
The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
Bolero
The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
Symphony No.3 (Opening)
The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
The Ceremonial Trumpet
Fanfare For The Common Man
Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
Billy The Kid
The Trumpet As Character Actor
Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
The Birth Of The Trombone
Aenmerckt Nu Hier
The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
Canzon 12 In Double Echo
The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
Hosannah
The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
The Trombone As Caricaturist
Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
The Horn And The Hunt
Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
Walter Music (Minuet 1)
The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
Den Hoboecken Dans
Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
Gymnopedie No.2
The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
The Birth Of The Bongo
Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
Taking Advantage Of Tunability
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
Ravel And The Xylophone
Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
Introducing The Vibraphone
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
Folk Dances
The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
Introducing The Tubular Bells
Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
Carmen Suite (Introduction)
But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Introducing The Celeste
The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
Petrushka (Russian Dance)
The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
Mahler's Sleighbells
Symphony No.4 (Opening)
A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
Nocturnes
Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
The Oboe As Duck
Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
A Thunderstorm In A Million
Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
Octet In F (Mvt 3)
The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
Canzon 28
Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
Symphony No.5 (Finale)
From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
Images (Gigues)
A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

Tracks:

Dov'e La Citta
Ach, Bedenken Sie, Herr Jack O'Brien
Tango Ballade
Improvvisamente
Divagazioni Su 'Youlkali'
Mahagonny, Scene 6
Ein Taifun!...Tifone? No, Pioggerella
Lieben
Boxen
Round About Weill I/Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet, So Liegt Man
Mahagonny, Scene 13
Essen
Round About Weill II
Tief In Alaskas Schneeweissen Waldern
Ach, Bedenken Sie, Herr Jack O'Brien, Var
Mahagonny, Scene 4
Aber Dieses Ganze Mahagonny
Alabama Song
Mahagonny, Scene 6, Var.
Alabama Song, Var.
Interludio 'Ma Che Modi Sono?...': Cumparsita Maggiorata
Interludio 'Ma Che Modi Sono?...': Tristezze Di Fra' Martino
Denn Wie Man Sich Bettet, So Liegt Man, Var.

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HIDDEN JEWELS.......2006-04-22

Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinets) & Gianni Coscia (accordion), Round About Weill (5*)
Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinets) & Gianni Coscia (accordion), In Cerca di Cibo (5*)

Gianluigi Trovesi is a hidden jewel in today's jazz. Perhaps he's undersung because he's Italian: he performs and records in Italy, not in American jazz clubs or for a central American jazz label. Maybe, on these two albums, it's because some afficionados look down on the "European" clean jazz typical to ECM records. Above all, I suspect it's because the music he plays --though not the way he plays it-- is hard to classify.

Take these two albums. Are they jazz? Italian folk music? Composed or 'classical' music? Trovesi and Coscia mesh as well as any duo in jazz --think of the exquisite music made by duos such as Charlie Haden and Kenny Baron, Jim Hall and Ron Carter, or Gary Burton and Chick Corea on Crystal Silence. But the music Torvesi and Coscia produce on these two albums is devilishly difficult to classify. Sometimes they settle for composed lines, heartbreaking melodies played simply, simply. At other times, they clearly improvise, but seldom on recognmizable jazz lines. They are demons --Trovesi especially-- at quoting wildly from other pieces: they close one piece on the Weill album with "Blue Moon," another time with (almost) "Frere Jacques." But it's jazz nonetheless, played by two hyper-alert and super-intelligent musicians who mine their musical ancestry to consummate effect.

Of the two albums, my wife has a very slight preference for the Weill album, which is made up half of tunes written by Weill and most of the rest of the artists' own tunes that fit the mood of Weill. Both clarinet and acordion capture well the cabaret atmosphere of so many Weill tunes, including different versions of "Alabama Song" and "Tango Ballade."

On the Weill album, Trovesi continues his fascination with John Lewis's "Django," the moving funeral dirge for French gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt first recorded by the Modern Jazz Quartet. (Trovesi plays "Django" on In Cerca di Cibo and quotes it on Around Small Fairy Tales.) This is appropriate because in some respects, Trovesi is like Lewis, though much hotter and more earthy at times. Both composed and have led groups that played music that critics saw as too 'classical.' Both used non-jazz idioms for jazz purposes.

I own five albums by Trovesi now, which is all I've been able to find and buy to date. Around Small Fairy Tales features Trovesi playing his own compositions with a string orchestra. From G to G and Fugace feature his octet, which sounds at times like a slightly woozy stepchild of the great George Russell experimental groups of the very early sixties. In an age that slights the clarinet as a solo instrument, Trovesi is arguably the best clarinetist in jazz, a major soloist and melodist.

I love this man and he's never sounded better than playing with Coscia. Needless to say, these two ECM albums are impeccably engineered for sound.

Dave Keymer

Innovative and dreamlike.......2005-10-24

The two reed instruments complement each other wonderfully in the tonal range of the human voice. They are smoothly blended even in stacatto pieces. Coscia reminds me of Dino Saluzzi, not as expressive, yet more rhythmically emphatic than Saluzzi and with much more variation in style. Trovesi's clarinet has a beautiful, liquid sound. The music varies from oom-pah folk to hypnotic wandering, all of it inventive. There are no cliches here. Reviewed well in Downbeat, but is it jazz? There is a classical foundation, but the rhythms, harmonies and melodies are all over the map. Even so, there is a certain sameness that sets in after a while, due to the limited pallette.

This is amazing.......2005-07-02

First, this CD is impressible-only two instruments but the music they play is incredible.The music in this CD-slow and fast-emotional.Amazing.And again...highly recommended!

magical music.......2005-05-03

Like this duo's ECM release "In cerca di cibo", this disc has a wonderful old world feel. The combination of trovesi's clarinets and Coscia's accordian suite Weil's compostions well. Beatuiful playing and recording quality. Highly recommended.

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The Beauty of the Male Voice

The Male Choir of St. Petersburg

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Russian Medieval Chant
Ancient Echoes
Best of the Red Army Choir
Music of Russia

ASIN: B00000IWWB
Release Date: 1999-05-18

Tracks:

The Tula Accordion
Like A Nightingale In Flight
The Twelve Brigands
Brewing Song
O My Field
In A Dark Wood
Shchedrick
Along Peterskaya Street
The Evening Bell
See What Misfortune Has Come Upon Us
Steppe, Endless Steppe
Cherubic Hymn
Eternal Counsel
The Nicene Creed
The Repentant Thief
Let My Prayer Arise
God Is With Us
From My Youth
We Praise Thee, We Bless Thee
Do Not Reject Me In My Old Age

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The Beauty of the Male Voice.......2006-05-04

I was fortunate to hear The Male Choir of St. Petersburg perform at the Peter and Paul Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, and was stunned by the power and beauty of their song. The director, aware that the deep, resonate voices struck a chord within each member of the audience, held the final note of each song until it echoed from the rafters. The songs are usually traditional Russian songs, but are not religious chants, as many people seem to expect - one song, called "O My Field" is an ode to a farmer's plot of ground. I recommend this album, a great opportunity to revel in the beauty of the male voice.

Sibelius: Finlandia Op26/7; Karelia Op11

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Sibelius: Finlandia Op26/7; Karelia Op11

Manufacturer: Bis
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Sibelius: The Complete Symphonies

ASIN: B00004RJNR
Release Date: 2000-03-15

Tracks:

Andante Sostenuto - Allegro Moderato - Allegro
Andante Molto Sostenuto - Jukka Hirvikangas
Tempo Moderato E Sostenuto
III. Alla Marcia. Moderato
Andante
XVII. Antonio. Dance Of The Shapes. Moderato Assai - Allegro Molto Moderato - Poco Tranquillo - Allegro E Poco A Poco Stretto
I. Country-Scenery. Allegretto - Dong-Suk Kang
II. Evening In Spring. Andantino - Dong-Suk Kang
III. In The Summer. Vivace - Dong-Suk Kang
Lento - Poco Risoluto - Piu Risoluto E Mosso - Stretto - Lento Assai
VII. Entr'acte. Allegretto
VIII. The Death Of Melisande. Andante
Largamente - Allegro Moderato - Allegro - Allegro Moderato - Allegro - Allegro Moderato

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"The blizzard goes on but still they must fly"
Where Eagles Dare / Operation Crossbow

Where Eagles Dare/Operation Crossbow

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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A Bridge Too Far: Original MGM Motion Picture Soundtrack [Enhanced CD]

ASIN: B0006SSR9W
Release Date: 2005-01-04

Tracks:

Main Title
Before Jump/Death of Harrod
Mary and Smith Meet/Sting on Castle/Parade Ground
Preparation in Luggage Office/Fight in Car
Booby Trap
Ascent on the Cable Car
Death of Radio Engineer and Helicopter Pilot
Checking on Smit/Names in Notebook
Smith Triumphs Over Nazis
Intermission Playout
Entr'acte
Encounter in the Castle
Journey Through the Castle, Pt.1
Journey Through the Castle, Pt.2
Descent and Fight on the Cable Car
Escape from the Cable Car
Chase, Pt. 1 & 2
Chase to the Airfield
Real Traitor
End Playout

Tracks:

Main Title
Flying Bomb
Funeral/Spitfire/Photograph
Peenemunde
Reitsch's Flight
Parachute Training
Up the Rhine/Air Raid
Nora/Frieda
Erilk/Promises
Confession/Execution
Farewell/Nora's Death
Secret Base
Research/Rocket Launch
V-2
Launching Section
Power House/One Minute
Countdown/Switch R-9
End Title
Waltz [Source Music]
Polka [Source Music]
Accordion Band [Source Music]
More Accordion [Source Music]
March [Source Music]
Tango [Source Music]
Beguine [Source Music]
Slow Waltz [Source Music]
Fox Trot [Source Music]
Polka [Source Music]
Ascent on the Cable Car [Original Version]
Descent and Fight on the Cable Car [Original Version]

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"The blizzard goes on but still they must fly".......2007-05-14

I'm sure you remember the opening sequence. A lone German transport aircraft flies past snow-capped mountains. The credits appear, in a blood-red Gothic font. We hear martial drums that slowly gather in volume, and then with a loud blare the orchestra starts playing a grandiose melody that sounds as cold and forbidding as the scenery. Where Eagles Dare is a suspenseful, exciting film, and the music really lifts it up.

This is a two-disc release of Ron Goodwin's soundtrack, put out by Film Score Monthly, and available both here and on their website. It is a limited edition, but it is not too expensive, and it is still in print. It sounds great on headphones. The second disc has Goodwin's music for Operation Crossbow, I film I have not seen. I have only skimmed through the second disc. There is some source music from Where Eagles Dare at the end of the disc, and two alternative takes, which have different percussion arrangements to the original tracks. The album has several pages of annotations and a little biography of Ron Goodwin. I like to smell the booklet.

The music for Where Eagles Dare can be divided into two halves. The first half of the disc has the most variety, and is the easiest to listen to in one sitting. The second half of the disc suffers from having too many minor variations of the Main Theme. It is a wonderful Main Theme, though. It consists of a dramatic brass fanfare followed by a loud Morse code freak-out towards the end. Both of these elements are used throughout the score, although with a "suspense theme" that appears most purely in the "Intermission Playout". "Before Jump / Death of Harrod", "Death of Radio Engineer", and "Smith Triumphs over Nazis" are quiet and cold and mysterious, with churning strings and rumbling kettle drums. A lot of the music reminds me of John Williams' score for Raiders of the Lost Ark; perhaps Steven Spielberg asked Williams to channel the still-living spirit of Ron Goodwin.

Whereas the first half of Where Eagles Dare has lots of suspense, the second half of the film consists of gunfights and chases and explosions, and the music reflects this. Unfortunately the second half of the disc is a bit numbing, because it is basically a rehash of the music from the first half of the disc. The two elements of the Main Theme are repeated several times, with only minor orchestral variations. "The Chase", "Journey Through the Castle" and "Escape from the Cable Car" are all cut from the some cloth, and they don't add anything to the music you have already heard. The only real deviations are "Chase to the Airfield" and the slower "Descent and Fight on the Cable Car". "Chase to the Airfield" is a variation of the Main Theme, but it is a creative variation rather than a slightly shorter repeat. You could easily condense the album down to half an hour of core musical material.

Still, this is nitpicking - you don't have to listen to the album all the way through (it's one and a quarter hours long). With the right sequencing it is a cold, atmospheric piece of music that barely sounds almost forty years old.

Where Eagles Dare / Operation Crossbow.......2005-10-01

Ron Goodwin is one of my very favourite composers and the release of two of his recordings is definitely cause for celebration. These are original recordings thus the sound quality betrays its age. Nevertheless, it is highly recommended if only for what I believe is the very first release of the Operation Crossbow soundtrack. You can almost feel yourself strapped in the tiny cockpit of a V-1 manned flying bomb, or tremble at the terrible sight of the first V-2 ballistic missile liftoff. If anything, Operation Crossbow should be the subject of a new recording (Where Eagles Dare already has).

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The Well-Tampered Accordion

Manufacturer: Winter & Winter
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Accordance
The Heart of the Andes
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ASIN: B0002YC5R0
Release Date: 2005-03-08

Tracks:

Four Portraits: Clarissa (Mrs. Dalloway)
Four Portraits: Blues For Richard
Four Portraits: Laura (Mrs. Brown)
Four Portraits: Virginia (Mrs. Woolf)
Accordian Misdemeanors: Sicilians In New Orleans
Accordian Misdemeanors: Acadians In Maine
Accordian Misdemeanors: Germans In The Midwest
Accordian Misdemeanors: Acadians In Louisiana
Accordian Misdemeanors: Mexicans In Texas
Accordian Misdemeanors: Lament For The Accordian Maker
Accordian Misdemeanors: Basques In Montana
Accordian Misdemeanors: Poles In Chicago
Accordian Misdemeanors: Epilogue (Road Music)
One Less Bell To Answer
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My (Wives And Lovers) Head
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.1 Shape-Shifter
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.2 Ebony Mandolin
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.3 Rocking The Boat
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.4 Collapsible Hornpipe
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.5 Time Passing
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.6 Hungarian Hummingbird
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.7 Sunday Morning - Eight Legs (After Lucien Freud)
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.8 AOK Chorale
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.9 Pink Elephant
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.10 Song Of The Little Prince
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.11 Dance!
The Well-Tampered Accordian: No.12 Epilogue/Fantasy (In Memorium Brian Rehr)

The Concert Accordion Artistry of Robert Davine

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The Concert Accordion Artistry of Robert Davine

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
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Vivi felice! Accordion Music by Domenico Scarlatti
The Well-Tampered Accordion

ASIN: B000003J2S
Release Date: 1995-07-18

Tracks:

Prelude And Fugue In C
Nocturne
Prelude And Dance, Op. 69
Prelude
Scherzo
Pastoral
Interlude
Gigue
Preludio, Op. 31
Contemplative
Allegro Giocoso
Adagio Serioso
Vivo
Allegro
Andante
Presto
Night Music
Introduction And Allegro

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A must-have for anyone who loves the bassoon!
fun for bassoon lovers
Review of Captured! The Bassoon Brothers
This album Captured my attention
It's.......

Captured! The Bassoon Brothers
Bassoon Brothers
Manufacturer: Crystal Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000067UO3
Release Date: 2002-05-14

Tracks:

Fanfare for the Common Bassoonist
Hey Jude
Mexican Hat Dance
My Funny Valentine
My Girl
Habanera
Preludio
Aragonaise
Pigs
Yankee Doodle
Louie, Louie, Roll Out the Barrel
Send in the Clowns
Funeral March of a Marionette
Three Little Maids from the Mikado
The Godfather Waltz
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The Godfather Love Theme
Pizzicato Polka
Sabre Dance
Rock Etude
Purple Haze
Londonderry Air

Album Description

The Bassoon Brothers first album "Wanted — The Bassoon Brothers" was called "Just plain hilarious" by the Seattle Times., and "a sort of all-bassoon version of the Canadian Brass" by Audiophile Auditions. It quickly became one of Crystal's best-selling albums and very high on Amazon's sales list. This second CD is at least as entertaining, with riotous takes on well-known classical, popular, and movie tunes. The quartet is the bassoon section of the Oregon Symphony in Portland and are on a mission to save the 'oons from extinction. Bassoon, contrabassoon, tenoroon, and tromboon — all are now a little safer.

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A must-have for anyone who loves the bassoon!.......2007-05-13

This is just a terrifically fun, inventive recording, featuring world-class performers playing truly innovative and interesting arrangements of a wide variety of music, from the cute and fun to the sublime and serious. You gotta get this CD!

fun for bassoon lovers.......2007-04-04

Sometimes, even bassoonists need to be a little silly, and this fits the bill!

Review of Captured! The Bassoon Brothers.......2006-08-01

Great CD with some very interesting instruments you don't hear everyday. If you like the bassoon, you'll like the uniqueness of this CD.

This album Captured my attention.......2005-03-02

Once while on a road trip, I found a radio station playing an instrumental rendition of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Three Little Maids" like I had never heard it before.

When the DJ said the unusual version had been performed by the Basoon Brothers I knew I had to find it.

The whole album just kept me giggling while it charmed me with it wonderful musicality. Well worth owning.

It's..............2003-02-18

An easy five stars to "Captured!" by The Bassoon Brothers. In fact, five stars to any bassoon playing that has a pulse. The mix of tune choices and the arrangements are exquisite. Who doesn't love "Fanfare For The Common Man"? I was listening to "My Girl" in the bath, and what with the singing and dancing, slopped water all over. I love "Send In The Clowns" and "Purple Haze" and the "Louie Louie" with the sly Glenn Miller and Sly references.

It reminds me of much more than just Spike Jones and Schickele. Willem Breuker Kollektief, the World Saxophone Quartet, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, Carla Bley, and Sun Ra spring to mind. And the use of the all-too often neglected bassoons reminds me of James Carter's recent resuscitation of the nearly DOA bass saxophone on "Chasin' The Gypsy."

It's a treasure. And it only serves to remind that Mr. Eubanks is the premier bassoonist in the world and an arranger with few equals. I have not heard all of the dreary rehashes of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring"; maybe I've heard eight or ten. With one exception, all dreary. The opening bassoon solos always remind me of the implication of "Waiting For Wood," an article of a couple of years ago in the New Yorker magazine. But, Mr. Eubanks' opening solo in "The Rite of Spring" by The Oregon Symphony is truly divine. Ethereal. Definitive. It sings, and gives the sense of the juggernaut that is to follow.

"Captured!" Five stars.

Sibelius: Jedermann Op83; Christian: Belsazars Gastabud Op51
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Sibelius: Jedermann Op83; Christian: Belsazars Gastabud Op51

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Binding: Audio CD

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Sibelius: The Tempest, Op. 109

ASIN: B0000016MS
Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

Jokamies, Op. 83: Largo - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Largo - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Allegro - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Allegro Commodo - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Tanssilaula (Dance Song): Me Kutsin Saimme...Tempo Commodo - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: On Riemussa Hetket Mennehet Taas. Tempo Andante - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Kun Vetta Sataa, Ninn Kastutaan. UnPoco Con Moto - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Maat Ja Metsat Viherioivat...Tempo Moderato - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Oi, Lempi, Armas Lempi!...Allegretto - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Maat Ja Metsat viherioivat...Tempo Moderato - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Allegro Molto - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Largo, Sempre Misterioso - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Adagio Di Molto - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Adagio Di Molto (Continued) - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Largo E Molto-Doloroso-Con Grande Dolore - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Lento - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Jokamies, Op. 83: Gloria In Excelsis Deo. Sempre Dolce Sin A Fine - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act I. Alla Marcia (Moderato) - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act II. Prld: Notturno. Andantino - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act II. Den Judiska Flickans Sang (Vid Alvarna I Babylon) - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act III. Allegretto - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act III. Lifvets Dans. Commodo - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act III. Dodens Dans. Commodo - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act III. Lifvets Dancs: Extract (Aber Langsam) - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act IV. Tempo Sostenuto - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act IV. Allegro - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act IV. Lifvets Dans (Shortened) - Lilli Paasikivi
Belsazars Gastabud, Op. 51: Act IV. Dodens Dans - Lilli Paasikivi
The Countess's Portrait - Petri Lehto/Sauli Tiilikainen/Lilli Paasikivi/Pauli Pietilainen/Leena Saarenpaa

Track Listings:

Track Listings

track listings

Track Listings

Transmission [Import]

Best of Mozart, Vol. 2

Banana Boat Song [Import]

Music: Blue's Big Musical Movie [Soundtrack]

Box Frenzy [Import]

Blues Masters Vol.2 (Karaoke)

Blue Skies

Britten: Qtet in D Op.25 / Shostakovich: Quintet

BBC Radio 1 Live [Live]

Album de Teatro [Import]

Alma Matters [CD-single]

Beat from Holland, Vol. 1 [Import]

Amorematico [Import]

Mahler: Symphony No.9

Quiet Fire