Blake Songs & Other Works by Jonathan Lovenstein

1. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time - Barton Green, Jonathan Lovenstein

2. Lamb - Mary Brockenbrough, Jonathan Lovenstein

3. Morning - Jonathan Lovenstein, , David Murray

4. To- - Mary Brockenbrough, Jonathan Lovenstein

5. Song for Martha - Jonathan Lovenstein, Rocky Reider

6. Variations and Excursions in C Minor - Jonathan Lovenstein, Rocky Reider

7. Inner Web Overture

8. Love to Faults Is Always Blind - Barton Green, Jonathan Lovenstein

9. It Was the Time of Roses - Jonathan Lovenstein, Rockland Osgood

10. Chartless - Jonathan Lovenstein,

11. Poor Priest - Jonathan Lovenstein, Mimi Rabson, Benjamin Sears

12. Divine Image - Jonathan Lovenstein, , David Murray

13. London - Barton Green, Jonathan Lovenstein

14. Poison Tree - Jonathan Lovenstein, , David Murray

15. I Shall Not See the Shadows - Jonathan Lovenstein,

16. Old Friend

17. Song - Mary Brockenbrough, Jonathan Lovenstein

18. Infant Sorrow - Jonathan Lovenstein, , David Murray

19. Prelude and Fugue for Strings - Jason Horowitz, Adrianna Hulscher, James Johnston, Reinmar Seidler

20. Voyage Mystique

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Be My Love
I'll Never Love You
Because You're Mine
The Song Angels Sing
Drink, Drink, Drink
Serenade
The Loveliest Night of the Year
La Donna E Mobile
Because
For You Alone
Golden Days
Deep In My Heart, Dear
If I Loved You
Yours Is My Heart Alone
One Night Of Love
Beloved
Beautiful Love
With A Song In My Heart
You Are My Love
Call Me Fool

Tracks:

All The Things You Are
My Song,My Love
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
Will You Remember
Granada
Lolita
Serenade
Temptation
Lygia
Lady of Spain
This Land
Lee-Ah-Loo
Tina-Lina
Boom Biddy Boom Boom
The Bayou Lullaby
The Lord's Prayer
And Here You Are
Song of Songs
Somewhere A Voice Is Calling
I Never Knew

Tracks:

Ciribiribin
Wonder Why
Come Dance With Me
O Sole Mio
Younger Than Springtime
For the First Time (Come Prima)
Never Till Now
Arrivederci, Roma
If You Were Mine
Behold!
A Night to Remember
Love in a Home
Do You Wonder
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
One Alone
Aida:Celeste Aida
Carmen: Flower Song
La Traviata: Brindisi
Rigoletto:Questa O Quella
Pagliacci:Vesti La Giubba
Cavalleria Rusticana: Addio Alla Madre

Customer Reviews:

Selections from the Greatest Voice of the Last Hundred Years.......2007-03-13

Mario Lanza was, arguably, the greatest tenor and greatest singer of this and the last century. It is difficult to appreciate him without listening to a variety of selections. This collection has some of his best recordings and exhibits the versatility and variety that he possessed that permitted him to "crossover" from opera to popular music with a ease.

I recommend this for those who already know Lanza to some extent but want to go into more depth and understand his marvelous skills.

A Must Have .......2006-12-12

I had forgotten what a beautiful voice Mario Lanza had. This collection contains opera and pop selections that exhibit the power yet sweetness of his voice. Fortunately, we have his CD's and videos so we can remember and listen to his gorgeous, vibrant voice and personality. I highly recommend this collection along with his wonderful movies, especially The Great Caruso.

The Mario Lanza Collection.......2006-11-10

I had forgotten just how beautiful a voice from the past was. It is a wonderful collection

The MARIO LANZA Collection.......2006-08-19

extract from most important LPs. Brilliant sound quality from RCA. Also included are soundtrack recordings from some of his movies. The are several reissues from Mario Lanza but this one is a collection you should have.

WONDERFUL!!!!!.......2005-10-19

The Mario Lanza Collection is a three CD set and it has 61 songs and they all sound great. The mastering on this set is excellent and the song choice is very very good. It would have been perfect if they added a forth CD with more Arias, Italian songs and Sacred Arias. BUT still this set is a great introduction to Lanza. Lanza's voice was powerful and beautiful; if you are a fan of great singing, you will love Lanza. Highlights on this CD set are; Be my Love, Because your Mine, Serenade, With a Song in My Heart, Temptation, The Lord's Prayer, Ciribirbin, O Solo Mio, Ariverducci Roma, and on and on. They are many many great songs on this set, and I highly recommend it.

William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music

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A supremely moving work of art
Enjoyable?
Remarkable performance
Thankyou...
An Excellent Example of Modern American Composition

William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music
Ilana Davidson , Nathan Lee Graham , Leonard Slatkin , Joan Morris , Carmen Pelton , and Nmon Ford
Manufacturer: Naxos American
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000641YZK
Release Date: 2004-10-19

Tracks:

Introduction - Thomas Young
The Ecchoing Green - Combined Choruses
The Lamb - Measha Brueggergosman
The Shepherd - Peter 'Madcat' Ruth
Infant Joy - Marietta Simpson
The Little Black Boy - Nathan Lee Graham
Laughing Song - U-M Chamber Choir
Spring - Thomas Young
A Cradle Song - Linda Hohenfeld
Nurse's Song - Joan Morris
Holy Thursday - Combined Choruses
The Blossom - Measha Brueggergosman
Interlude - Orchestra
The Chimney Sweeper - Nathan Lee Graham
The Divine Image - Joan Morris
Nocturne - Orchestra
Night - Thomas Young
A Dream - Ilana Davidson
On Another's Sorrow - Combined Choruses
The Little Boy Lost - Carmen Pelton
The Little Boy Found - Nathan Lee Graham
Coda - Orchestra

Tracks:

Introduction - Orchestra
Hear The Voice Of The Bard - Nmon Ford
Interlude - Orchestra
Earth's Answer - Christine Brewer
Nurse's Song - Joan Morris
The Fly - MSU Children's Choir
The Tyger - Combined Choruses
The Little Girl Lost - Nmon Ford
In The Southern Clime - U-M Chamber Choir
The Little Girl Found - Combined Choruses
The Clod And The Pebble - Thomas Young
The Little Vagabond - Joan Morris
Holy Thursday - Carmen Pelton
A Poisin Tree - Nathan Lee Graham
The Angel - Ilana Davidson
The Sick Rose - Marietta Simpson
To Tirzah - Combined Choruses

Tracks:

The Voice Of The Ancient Bard - Nmon Ford
My Pretty Rose Tree - Chorus Men
Ah! Sun-Flower - U-M Chamber Choir
The Lilly - Thomas Young
Introduction To Part V - Orchestra
The Garden Of Love - Thomas Young
A Little Boy Lost - Carmen Pelton
A Little Girl Lost - Christine Brewer
Infant Sorrow - U-M Chamber Choir Soloists
Vocalise - Combined Choruses
London - Nathan Lee Graham
The School Boy - Linda Hohenfeld
The Chimney Sweeper - U-M Chamber Choir
The Human Abstract - Nmon Ford
Interlude: Voces Clamandae - Orchestra
A Divine Image - Soloists

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Bolcom's dream of setting Blake's poems to music began when he fell under their spell as a teenager; he worked on the composition of Songs of Innocence and of Experience on and off for 25 years, completing it in 1982. This live recording celebrates the 20th anniversary of the work's American premiere. Following an early edition of the poems that assigns them a different order from the customary one, he created nine movements to form "a series of arches." Blake's own principle of "contraries" and his use of many poetic traditions is a perfect counterfoil for Bolcom's eclecticism, which encompasses styles ranging from solemn chorales, lush romanticism, abrasive, dissonant modernism, to jazz, folk, country, and rock. His interpretation of the poems, which he calls "A Musical Illumination," is sometimes startling, but always interesting, highly personal, and unquestionably sincere. Some of the settings enhance and heighten the poems, entering deeply into their spirit and mood. Others seem at variance with them: "The Lilly," a peaceful, serene poem, set to crashing, aggressive music, is an extreme example, and some stratospheric, jagged soprano lines seem to add nothing to the text. For some of the most arresting, convincing settings, Bolcom uses his well-known and beloved cabaret style, sung to perfection by his wife and partner, mezzo-soprano Joan Morris. Indeed, the entire performance is beyond praise. The work calls for a whole army of participants: several choruses, including a children's choir, a dozen vocal soloists, a speaker, a harmonica player, a fiddler, and a huge symphony orchestra augmented by electronic instruments and extra brass and percussion. The last produce a large number of terrifying explosions, both between and within the songs, as well as fascinating sound effects, like imitations of running water, delicate tinkles, and ominous roars and rumbles. The singers are superb; the women contribute incredible coloratura leaps, melting lyricism, caressing warmth, while the men include a heroic tenor, a commanding baritone, and sometimes sung, sometimes spoken scatting. Leonard Slatkin holds his enormous forces together with total control and authority. --Edith Eisler

Album Description

William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience date from the turbulent period in English and American history when the United States was in its infancy. Occupying 25 years of William Bolcom's compositional life, his "musical illuminations," inspired by Blake's own wide panoply of poetic styles in the cycle, travel thrillingly from intense dissonance to folk, rock, and reggae to encompass the breadth of the Blakean spiritual universe.

Customer Reviews:

A supremely moving work of art.......2007-02-26

I am writing this not as a music critic but as someone who has enjoyed William Blake's poetry for most of my life. I bought this CD because of Blake's poetry. I realized that of late I had not been reading poetry or enjoying it as much as when I was younger. I became hooked right away and I have been playing this CD over and over again for more than a month. I can't listen to any other piece of music. Some of the pieces are better than others, but everything sung by Nathan Lee Graham is moving beyond words (at least any words I know). So I think anyone who enjoys poetry, the English language, history, ideas or the human voice will enjoy listening to this CD over and over again. This music has touched me like no other piece of music ever. I think the artists, particularly Nathan Lee Graham, should all become rich and famous. I was even thinking that A Divine Image should be released as a single. I think it would go to #1, with a bullet.

Enjoyable?.......2006-06-20

By what measure should we judge a piece of music? Should it be by its level of complexity? by its technicality? by the level of emotion it conveys, or does not? Or should a piece of music be judged solely upon whether or not we, as listeners, enjoy it?

Like it or not, music has almost always been judged by whether or not we, as listeners, enjoy it - but what gets factored into our personal enjoyment of a piece of music is many things, including, but not limited to, whether or not we appreciate its complexity, technicality, and how effective it is at conveying its purpose. When most people discuss music, when they talk about what they like or what they don't like, they often mention qualities of the music which suited them or which rubbed them the wrong way.

Bolcom's Songs of Innocence... is one such piece of music that I, as a listener, am confused over. I'm not sure if I like it, but I'm quite positive that I don't dislike or even hate it. As a whole, I find that I'm fairly displeased with the overall result, yet, on a closer inspection, I find that I am quite pleased with each of its parts; therefore, it's a bit of a paradox to find that I enjoy each and every part but not the summation its parts. The truth is, when looking at this piece of music as a whole, it utterly boggles the mind because it is, in truth, so large and it covers so much ground musically and lyrically that it's quite impossible to absorb it all in one sitting, in one listening. To just say that Songs of Innocence opens with a fairly standard aria surrounded by orchestral accompaniment and ends, over 2 hours later, with a reggae-sounding song is not enough because in between the beginning and end, Bolcom includes other genres ranging from rock, country, jazz, and soul...and of course, "classical."

This piece of music has been described as representing all of the 20th century's achievements in music in one fell swoop. But just because it does so, does that insinuate that it deserves to win a Grammy, as it did in 2006, and does it deserve the laud and praise it is receiving? A serious part of me wishes to say 'no' because I feel I've heard better pieces of music from the 20th century. Sure, Mahler's 9th Symphony does not capture the whole of the 20th century within its 1 1/2 hour grasp, neither does any of Shostakovich's or Robert Simpson's symphonies. And so, I'm forced to resign myself to the fact that Bolcom has created an astonishing achievement with this work.

But, as monolithic as it may be in size and in scope, there are moments when it does not feel entirely cohesive, and there are moments, during the latter half, when I honestly wanted the disc to hurry up and finish for no other reason than I felt like I was being presented the same material and the same concepts over and over and over again. However, in terms of technicality and complexity, Bolcom has taken a series of poems and created something wholly other and enjoyable out of them. He even does a fantastic job of conveying the emotion of each unique poem by arranging music around it that fits like a glove. Is it enjoyable to listen to? It is, for the most part, but, as I've already said, it can seem to run a bit long at times. On the whole, though, I do recommend this disc to anyone interested. If Bolcom is remembered for nothing else in 50-100 years, it will be this piece of music.

Remarkable performance.......2006-04-17

As a graduate of the University of Michigan (some time ago) who attended every single performance of both student orchestras while a student, I was eager to hear how the kids played in this Grammy performance. In short, the performance is simply magnificant.

This is not easy music to listen to or play and it is unlike any of the Bolcom music I had heard before. It has a multitude of styles, colors, tonalities, etc. With each listening, however, I hear and appreciate more of this complex piece.

The (professional) soloists are generally excellent with occassional poor diction. The chorus is outstanding, but the orchestra and music steal the show.

Thankyou..........2006-03-26

...to J. Scott Morrison, Grady Harp et al whose glowing reviews prompted me to buy this work by a composer I only otherwise knew by reputation. As I only purchased it today, I know it will be a CD that will require many further listenings. It's a veritable "crazy-quilt" of a work that traverses many styles and idioms. I was a bit reticent about buying a disc performed by music school students (I myself was one once) - not that I thought they wouldn't be talented, just maybe not quite good enough. I have put this (unwarranted) prejudice aside, however, as the performances are excellent. The vocalists in particular (all of them) are outstanding.
Altogether a thoroughly interesting and original piece of music.

An Excellent Example of Modern American Composition.......2006-02-17

I had the double pleasure of hearing a performance of this live in Ann Arbor AND purchasing the CD for subsequent enjoyment.

Bolcolm's composition, though somewhat dated (in the notes above you can see that this was actually written some time back) is still very fresh in 2006.

The use of seeming disparate forms of music (check out the raggae ending juxtaposed against some fairly depressing wording) has a "World Music" feel.

The University of Michigan Choirs, in spite of numbering over 400 on stage and on the CD still manage to produce a clear sound. A strong testimony to the quality of the directors of those choirs.

BRAVO- This truly deserved the recent Grammy recognition.

Vaughan Williams - Along the Field on Wenlock Edge · Merciless Beauty · Ten Blake Songs, and others / Ainsley · The Nash Ensemble

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Unsurpassed setting of poetry to music
Incomparable singing of English music
Blake Songs are the highlight

Vaughan Williams - Along the Field on Wenlock Edge · Merciless Beauty · Ten Blake Songs, and others / Ainsley · The Nash Ensemble
Ralph Vaughan Williams , John Mark Ainsley , and The Nash Ensemble
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Four Hymns/Toward The Unknown Region/O Clap Your Hands/Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Re

ASIN: B00004WMWQ
Release Date: 2000-10-10

Tracks:

Merciless Beauty: Your Eyen Two
Merciless Beauty: So Hath Your Beauty
Merciless Beauty: Since I From Love
Two English Folksongs: Searching For Lambs
Two English Folksongs: The Lawyer
Ten Blake Songs: Infant Joy
Ten Blake Songs: A Poison Tree
Ten Blake Songs: The Piper
Ten Blake Songs: London
Ten Blake Songs: The Lamb
Ten Blake Songs: The Shepherd
Ten Blake Songs: Ah, Sun-Flower
Ten Blake Songs: Cruelty Has A Human Heart
Ten Blake Songs: The Divine Image
Ten Blake Songs: Eternity
Along The Field: We'll To The Woods No More
Along The Field
Along The Field: The Half-Moon Westers Low
Along The Field: In The Morning
Along The Field: The Sigh That Heaves The Grasses
Along The Field: Good-Bye
Along The Field: Fancy's Knell
Along The Field: With Rue My Heart Is Laden
On Wenlock Edge: On Wenlock Edge The Wood's In Trouble
On Wenlock Edge: From Far, From Eve And Morning
On Wenlock Edge: Is My Team Ploughing?
On Wenlock Edge: Oh, When I Was In Love With You
On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill
On Wenlock Edge: Clun

Customer Reviews:

Unsurpassed setting of poetry to music.......2006-08-23

Apart from the quality of the performance here, it's worth noting that perhaps no one has done a finer job of setting great poetry to music than Vaughan Williams. His settings of Blake's poems are superb: they reveal aspects of Blake many readers miss. His settings of A. E. Housman's poems are just as good. (Housman is not listed here, but he wrote about ten of the poems on this record.) I recommend that those teaching Blake or Housman play selections from this. High school students in particular are likely to find Blake more accessible after hearing the songs.

Incomparable singing of English music.......2001-10-05

This notable recording is a welcome addition to John Mark Ainsley's catalogue of English music; his lovely, cultivated yet heartfelt voice is heard to advantage throughout the disc, wonderfully supported by the Nash Ensemble. "On Wenlock Edge" is here given the best recorded performance I know; it is superbly sung and played, with "Bredon Hill" being an especially high point, from the lovely rising phrase of the first line through the drama of the central section and the poignancy of "And would not wait for me." "Is My Team Ploughing?" is sung with real mastery; dramatic without hand-wringing, melancholy without melodrama, it is a perfect example of the art of a singer unequalled today in the interpretation of English song.

Blake Songs are the highlight.......2001-02-19

I bought this recording because I adore the Blake songs and wished to have a recording of them at long last, and these are without question the highlight of this CD for me. I enjoy all the other songs, and Mr. Ainsley sings in tune with a beautiful tone, but they tend to blend together into one long opus.

Future Blues: A Celebration of Paramount Records

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Future Blues: A Celebration of Paramount Records
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Mighty Tiger
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000C9JEU
Release Date: 2003-08-26

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Farrell Blues - Eileen Ivers, Tommy McDonnell
Mr. Man, Pt. 1 - Sue Foley, Michael Hill
On the Wall - Sue Foley, Kathryn Raio
Mississippi Bo Weevil Blues - Langhorne Slim
Been on the Job Too Long - Rhonda Vincent
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Shake It and Break It
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Future Blues - Langhorne Slim

Britten: Holy Sonnets, Billy Budd, etc. / Britten, Glossop, Pears, et al

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NOT SO MUCH BILLY BUDD, MORE EDWARD FAIRFAX VERE
TAKING OUR SALVATION ANY WAY IT COMES
A Great Performance By the Composer

Britten: Holy Sonnets, Billy Budd, etc. / Britten, Glossop, Pears, et al

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ASIN: B0000041RZ
Release Date: 1989-05-09

Tracks:

The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Oh My Blacke Soule!
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Batter My Heart
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Oh Might Those Sighes And Teares
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Oh, To Vex Me
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: What If This Present
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: Since She Whom I Loved
The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35: At The Round Earth's Imagin'd Corners
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Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op. 74: The Pride Of The Peacock...London
Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op. 74: Prisons Are Built...The Chimney Sweeper
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Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op. 74: Think In The Morning...The Tyger
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Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op. 74: The Hours Of Folly...Ah, Sun-Flower
Songs And Proverbs Of William Blake, Op. 74: To See A World...Every Night & Every Morn
Billy Budd: Prologue: I Am An Old Man
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Pull, My Bantams!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Guard Boat! Indomitable!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: First Man Forward!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Your Name?
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Billy Budd, King Of The Birds!

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Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: I Heard, Your Honour!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Come Along Kid! Come Along!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Christ! The Poor Chap
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: What's That? What's Those Whistles?
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 1: Starry Vere We Call Him
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 2: Boy!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 2: Gentlemen, The King!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 2: Ay, At Spithead
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 2: We Are, Sir. Claggart Is An Able One
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: Blow Her Away
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: We're Off To Samoa
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: Hi! You...A...A...
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Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: Come Here. Remember Your Promise
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: Billy!... Hist! Billy Budd!
Billy Budd: Act One - Scene 3: Dansker, Old Friend, Glad To See You

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Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: I Don't Like The Look Of The Mist
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: With Great Regret I Must Disturb Your Honour
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: Deck Ahoy!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: Who'll Volunteer To Board 'Em
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: There You Are Again, Master-At-Arms
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 1: O This Cursed Mist!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: Claggart, John Claggart, Beware!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: Master-At-Arms And Foretopman
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: God O' Mercy!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: Gentlemen, William Budd Here
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: William Budd, You Are Accused
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: Poor Fellow, Who Could Save Him?
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 2: I Accept Their Verdict
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 3: Look!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 3: Here! Baby!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 3: And Farewell To Ye, Old Rights O' Man!
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 3: Interlude
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 4: 'According To The Articles Of War'
Billy Budd: Act Two - Scene 4: Down All Hands!
Billy Budd: Epilogue: We Committed His Body To The Deep

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NOT SO MUCH BILLY BUDD, MORE EDWARD FAIRFAX VERE.......2006-08-31

When you look at all the operatic roles that Britten created for his lifelong partner in life and music (something in every opera except Noye), the first thing that becomes clear is how well he understood Peter Pears' voice and musical talents. The vocal lines fit the voice perfectly, utilising all its strengths and usually avoiding its weaknesses. When you look at the characters he asked Pears to play, however, a rather different picture emerges. As a performer, Pears comes across as rather refined, sophisticated, something of an aesthete, a bit of an intellectual. So, while he makes a good fist of Peter Grimes, it is Grimes the dreamer that tends to stay in the memory: the tough, violent, naïve fisherman is more Jon Vickers territory. The innocent Albert Herring, the impetuous Essex and the impassioned Lysander (though Flute was his original part) really don't work very well as characters with Pears. And, while no-one sings the trance-inducing melismas of Quint quite like him, do we really believe he is the incarnation of corrupting evil? The Male Chorus in Lucretia fares better because he is just an observer with little personality of his own. And Pears' roles in the Church Parables are sufficiently distanced by the Brechtian/Noh ritual of the pieces to allow him to view these characters more objectively.

The two parts that work best for Pears are Aschenbach, the composer's final gift to his lover, and Captain Vere in Billy Budd. Certainly Vere is something of an intellectual and an aesthete: he is a reader of Plutarch, a man somewhat out of touch with the rough sentiments of his subordinate officers, prone to using classical references they don't understand. And he is, like Aschenbach, highly susceptible to the Apollonian appeal of Billy's handsomeness, goodness and beauty (Claggart's words). One suspects that, like Aschenbach again, there is also a more Dionysian aspect to this attraction. Certainly the redemption Vere attributes to Billy's death on that clear, blue morning in enemy waters is not quite as clear and blue and cloudless as he would like to imagine.

Captain Vere is one of the most complex of all Britten's characters (at least before Aschenbach). That is, of course, thanks to the subtlety of E.M.Forster's libretto and of Britten's music. But it is also thanks to the force of Pears interpretation. I am inclined to think that this is his best performance in any of the operas on disc. He successfully adumbrates all the different sides of the role - the humanist and the military stickler, the charismatic leader of men and a man torn by internal moral dilemmas and indecisions, an outsider by nature of his rank and his own inclinations who is placed in the closest-knit of male communities. That the part is magnificently sung by Pears goes almost without saying. That he makes the character so fascinating, so complex and so real in the agony of the choices he faces is down to Pears' superlative vocal acting. In this performance it is Vere rather than Billy who is the hero, the focus of the whole opera.

Which is not to take away from what is a great team performance of this important opera. Britten never seemed able to cast Billy from the ranks of the Aldeburgh coterie - Theodor Uppman, the Billy at the premiere, was an American import; Peter Glossop on this recording, a North Country Verdi specialist. He sings the part well enough, is touching in Billy in the Darbies, but can be a little unimaginative. Claggart is in the hands of the underrated and under-recorded Michael Langdon (a great Ochs in his time), as black of voice and soul as any Wagnerian villain. The quarter-deck officers are a fine set of Britten regulars: the lower-decks boast some fine newcomers to those ranks in the likes of Robert Tear and Benjamin Luxon as the Novice and his Friend. The chorus are magnificent, whether in the drudgery of daily chores, the relaxation of shanty-singing or the excitement of battle. Britten, as you would expect, conducts his own music with a naturalness and a perception that allows detail to make its points without ever losing sight of the overall structure (all to do with two fiercely opposed key-centres, set out in the Prologue and only finding their eventual resolution in the Epilogue).

The two fill-ups on Disc 1 add to the value of the set if not seeming strictly relevant to the opera they accompany - the Metamorphoses for Oboe would have done that better. Nevertheless the Donne Sonnets from the end of the War and the Blake Songs and Proverbs from the 60's get definitive performances from Pears and Fischer-Dieskau respectively, both with the composer at the piano.

TAKING OUR SALVATION ANY WAY IT COMES.......2005-08-16

The strained economic situation of the classical music industry is working in many ways to our advantage as consumers. Britten's settings of Blake and Donne would never have been issued bundled together with Billy Budd in the vinyl era I'm quite sure. These days if we don't think one follows on from the other we don't have to get out of our armchair to select them as we please, and the composer's accounts of his own songs in partnership with Pears and Fischer-Dieskau would surely be a welcome supplement to more or less any classical cd release.

However I imagine the public for this set will consist mostly of enthusiasts for Britten's great masterpiece Billy Budd. This is music-drama, not opera, and the theme of the drama has a certain ambiguity of a kind that Britten was drawn to, as in the unresolved questions left at the end of The Turn of the Screw. The story is adapted by E M Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville. Melville's inspiration in turn was sparked off by the reportage on a court of enquiry into the execution of an ordinary seaman for mutiny. The captain who had so ordered had been advised that the evidence against the seaman was thin. Perceiving nonetheless a need to encourage the others by executing someone, the captain prevailed on the trial officers to take a more forward-leaning view. This they duly did, the captain explained to the man about to be hanged that this was all for the greater glory of the flag, whereupon the man blessed captain and flag.

The story of Billy Budd quite obviously had powerful resonance for Forster and Britten. It is a chamber drama basically, for all the background of war at sea between Britain and revolutionary France. There are three main actors - Billy himself, the captain, and the master-at-arms John Claggart. The action, on the face of it, seems small-scale. Claggart conceives a vicious spite against the innocent but adept and personable Billy, strong enough, it seems, for him to try to frame Billy on the capital charge of mutiny. The captain in this case recognises Claggart for the lying ratbag that he is, but goes through the formality of having Billy face his accuser. Rendered inarticulate by his stutter, Billy (whose loyalty to the captain would grace any dog) lashes out with his fist and his one punch kills Claggart. The captain knows the true score perfectly well, but hides behind formal processes again, in the full knowledge that he is thereby condemning an innocent man to death. However just listen to the music accompanying Claggart's first entrance - it would be very overblown just for some spiteful nonentity. Claggart, though unpopular and clearly unpleasant, is not a psychopath, but his hatred of Billy is unprovoked and his scheming is without any motive of personal advantage in an ordinary sense. What it all seems to amount to for Forster and Britten is firstly a parable of some cosmic evil aroused by innocence - the insignificant Claggart is given an Iago-like monologue of enormous and generalised portentousness as well as that sinister introduction from the orchestra. The drama then advances to a near-Faustian level in which the captain seems to stand outside himself and see eternal forces at work, with himself as a pawn in their strategy rather than just a human buck-passer of an all-too-familiar type. It all ends with Billy blessing the captain like the seaman in the original report, and there is an epilogue in which the captain, near the end of his life, reflects on the salvation this blessing brought him.

It must be the easiest, or at least the quickest, transition to salvation in all serious drama. A few hours and that was all done and dusted. I can't really imagine that many spectators or listeners will identify with a theme like this, but there is no mistaking the strength of the response it evokes from Britten. Add Forster to that, and maybe to some extent Melville himself, and it is time to suspend scepticism and realise that we are being given a glimpse of a very special, even elite, vision of how deity, or fate or whatever, operates. Most of us probably do not see things this way, but most of us are not Forster or Britten or Melville. As for authenticity in performance, that is self-defined here.

The foregoing is one man's interpretation of what this strange and elusive drama might be saying. We can be sure of one thing at least - whatever it all really signifies we are hearing it here. The cast are excellent - this work is a team job, not an opera with star solos, although Billy's final song (in rhyming verse and as truly an aria as anything by Britten's beloved Verdi) is done to what seems to me to be perfection by Peter Glossop. The LSO and the Ambrosian Singers do not let anyone down either, and the 1968 recording still sounds well. Such is the composer's sheer technical skill that it was only after the work had finished that I realised that this whole music-drama contains not one note for a female voice. You may understand the work differently, but you will be hard put to it to experience the power of it more than I have done, whatever it all may mean or imply.

A Great Performance By the Composer.......2001-12-08

I recently saw a terrific performance of Billy Budd and the sheer excitement of the opera led me to seek out a copy. I read reviews of the available records and came to choose this one. The reason was the dramatic tension that the composer brings to this recording. The sets by Kent Nagano and Richard Hickox are also excellent but I was won over by the fact that this is Benjamin Britten's last word on his opera.

The only disadvantage would be that this is a remastered and not a digital recording but the sound is certainly clear and the casting is superb. Peter Glossop is a perfect Billy Budd and brings out the goodness of his character wonderfully. Michael Langdon is a menacing John Claggart and Sir Peter Pears is an able Captain Vere. The entire cast sing their roles with great ability and I think no one would be disappointed in owning this set.

Perhaps oddly, two other works by Britten are included: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne and Songs and Proverbs of William Blake, both for piano and voice. In the former work, Britten is joined by Peter Pears and in the latter by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Both works are solemn in character and I doubt that I will play them very often. I am not sure why they were included here unless Decca, who recorded then around the same time, made the decision that they would not sell well on their own. On the other hand, I will be listening to Billy Budd frequently.

Music from Humphrey Bogart Movies
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Music from Humphrey Bogart Movies

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ASIN: B00006CFHZ
Release Date: 2002-08-08

Tracks:

As Time Goes By [From Casablanca] - Elliot Carpenter, Dooley Wilson
Am I Blue/Hong Kong Blues/The Rhumba Jumps/How Little We Know [from To - Hoagy Carmichael, , Andy Williams
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Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness [From Dark Victory] - Vera Van

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Full title - Music From Humphrey Bogart Movies. Includes music from the classics, 'Casablanca' (1942), 'The Big Sleep' (1946), 'Key Largo' (1948), 'To Have & Have Not' (1944), 'The Petrified Forest' (1936), 'The Roaring Twenties' (1939), 'High Sierra' (1941), 'The Maltese Falcon' (1941), 'Dark Passage' (1947) & 'The African Queen' (1951). Highlights include, Dooley Wilson & Elliot Carpenter Trio 'As Time Goes By', Andy Williams 'Little We Know' & Lauren Bacall 'And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine'. Slipcase. 2002.

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Music from Humphrey Bogar Movies.......2007-06-27

I was disappointed. I thought I would be getting a CD of full length themes from his movies but the CD is exactly what it says. It is from the actual films, in sections and pieces. I can't say it was misrepresented so I guess I was at fault. But I am sorry I bought it.

Simply the original.......2007-06-19

As the previous reviewer rightly pointed out, these are the original recordings from the era the films were made. And yes, the sound is completely different from what we are used to hear when we are turning the CD player on: it's mono, it's partially unsteady and some of the pieces suddenly fade. BUT, it's the REAL thing and it transports the charms and the charisma, inherent to the original ONLY.
Those who prefer the flawless technical perfection of a re-recording better should save their money. But for those who love the movies and their genuine sound, should be perfectly pleased with this release.

not the stuff dreams are made of.......2007-01-03

most of the tracks on this cd are available elsewhere, but what prompts me to give this a low review is the quality of the recording. some of them sound like they were taped off of a tv set showing a warbly print. you can do better elsewhere.

Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs & Linten Lea

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Release Date: 1993-09-18

Tracks:

Linden Lea
O My Deir Hert
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My Own Country

Sony Classical: Great Performances 1903-1998

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Il Barbiere di Siviglia: 'Largo Al Factotum'
Mazurka In G Major, 'Obertass,' Op.19, No.1
Contrasts For Violin, Clarinet And Piano: II. 'Piheno'
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The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 1 In C Major, BWV 846
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Fanfare For The Common Man
'Beau Soir'
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What I Bought From Sony Companies.......2005-08-20

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Strange interpretation of "classical".......2005-01-17

I bought this CD because it contained some songs I was having a hard time finding elsewhere, such as Passo pel prat, Chants d'Auvergne sung by Fredrica Von Stade. However, some of the songs on this CD do not seem to belong e.g. all three songs by John Williams, Mack the Knife, Barbra Streisand, and the Psycho Murder Theme for starters, and many more.

I gave the CD 4 stars only because I was happy that I was able to find a few somewhat rare tracks.

An interesting mix..........2002-05-18

This is a sampler in the truest meaning of the word. I bought this 4 CD work primarly for two tracks, but also because I was interested to see what else was out there without investing a fortune in CD's I wouldn't like! I was surprised by the wide diversity of music ranging from true classical and jazz to contemporary compositions and interpretations.

While I find some tracks divine (Williams's _Schindler's List_), I find other tracks unsettling (_Beau Soir_ performed by Barbra Streisand). But when you are trying to span 100 years of music, you will (and should) encounter all tastes and styles. Overall, I really enjoy listening to this set. My only regret is that I don't have a CD changer...

A touch of history...........2002-01-28

An exceptional set. The history of music making of the 20th century in 4 CDs. Even from the first track with Giuseppe Campanari and Charles Adams Prince you can see that people put much time in collecting the best interpretations and putting together an amazing collection. Other highlights include the "Mack The Knife" with Lotte Lenya, the Bachiana Brasileiras, The Fanfare For The Common Man with LSO conducted by the composer and so many more. An undespiuted *****

A touch of history...........2002-01-28

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A Salute to American Music

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Nothing Divine is Mundane: Songs of Virgil Thomson

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Preciosilla - Dora Ohrenstein/Phillip Bush
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Tres Estampas De Ninez: Son Amigos De Todos - Glenn Siebert/Phillip Bush
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Two By Marianne Moore: English Usage - William Sharp/Phillip Bush
Two By Marianne Moore: My Crow Pluto - William Sharp/Phillip Bush

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Outstanding.......2002-09-01

I have had this CD for quite sometime, and must say it is very good. Having studied with Dora for over two years-I have discovered my love of contemporary art song. I have found myself performing more and more contemporary music, and must say Dora is truly a divine interpreter of contemporary music.

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