Troy David

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Track Listings

1. Love's Not Listening

2. Down (Pop Mix)

3. You Needed Me

4. Down (Edited Dance Mix)

5. Reaching My Gold

6. Down (Dance Mix)

Troy David,Troy David,Orchard,Rock/Pop

Troy David

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Strauss: Elektra

Manufacturer: BBC Legends
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000I8OIXO
Release Date: 2007-01-30

Tracks:

Wo Bleibt Elektra?
Ich Will Vor Ihr Mich Niederwerfen
Allein! Weh, Ganz Allein
Elektra! Ah, Das Gesicht!
Ich Kann Nicht Sitzen Und Ins Dunkel Starren
Es Geht Ein Larm Los
Was Willst Du? Seht Doch, Dort!
Ich Habe Keine Guten Nachte
Lasst Du Den Bruder Nicht Nach Hause, Mutter?
Was Bluten Muss?
Orest! Orest Ist Tot!

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Platz Da!
Nun Muss Es Hier Von Uns Geschehn
Wie Stark Du Bist!
Von Jetz An Will Ich Deine Schwester Sein
Sei Verflucht!
Was Willst Du, Fremder Mensch?
Die Hunde Auf Dem Hof Erkennen Mich
Es Ruhrt Sich Niemand
Di Wirst Es Tun? Allein?
Seid Ihr Von Sinnen
Ich Hab' Ihm Das Beil Nicht Geben Konnen!
Es Muss Etwas Geschehen Sein
He! Lichter! Lichter!
Helft! Morder!
Elektra! Schwester!
Ob Ich Nicht Hore?
Sie Fahren Dahin Wie Die Scharfe Des Schwerts
Schweig, Und Tanze
Lord Harewood In Conversation With Roger Beardsley

Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C minor, opus 18

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Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C minor, opus 18
pianist David Troy Francis
Manufacturer: Barbarian Records, Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Tracks:

Moderato; allegro
Adagio sostenuto
Allegro scherzando

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Rachmaninoff's beloved concerto recorded live with David Troy Francis in a sparkling performance.

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by George-Gershwin Reconsidered
pianist David Troy Francis
Manufacturer: Barbarian Records, Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000I2JDKS
Release Date: 2003-08-01

Tracks:

Summertime
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
Someone To Watch Over Me
I Got Rhythm
Embraceable You
The Man I Love
Prelude No. 1
Prelude No. 2
Prelude No. 3
Rhapsody in Blue

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Innovative solo piano arrangements of Gershwin's music from the stage, screen and classical worlds. Highlights are the intensely personal and powerful rendition of Rhapsody in Blue as well as the hynotic and unique perspective of Summertime.

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An AntiWar Masterpiece
Visceral power & beauty coupled with stunning performances!!
One of the best and most easily grasped of modern operas

Tippett: King Priam

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000000AXV
Release Date: 1995-11-14

Tracks:

King Priam: Prelude
King Priam: Hecuba: What Is It, Nurse?
King Priam: Priam: Old Man Of Troy, You're Welcome
King Priam: Hecuba: Then Am I No Longer Mother To This Child
King Priam: Priam: A Father And A King
King Priam: Priam: The Queen Is Right
King Priam: First Interlude - Nurse, Old Man: Thus Shall A Story Begin
King Priam: 1st Huntsman: The Bull Is Away Over There
King Priam: Paris: They Have Taken My Bull
King Priam: Hector: Father, He's A Shepherd Boy
King Priam: Priam: So I'd Hoped It Might Be
King Priam: Second Interlude - Nurse, Young Guard, Old Man: Ah, But Life, Life Is A Bitter Charade
King Priam: Helen, Paris: Ah, Ah ...
King Priam: Hermes: Divine Go-between, That's Who I Am
King Priam: Paris: Lady Athene, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Paris: Lady Hera, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Paris: Aphrodite, If I Honor You ...
King Priam: Hector: So You've Given Up Fighting!
King Priam: Priam: So Trojans Honor Menelaus ...
King Priam: First Interlude - Old Man: Hermes, Hermes, With The Winged Feet Come Quick!
King Priam: Achilles: O Rich-soiled Land
King Priam: Achilles: Why Are You Weeping, Patroclus?
King Priam: Second Interlude - Old Man: O, O, What A Threat To Troy
King Priam: Hermes: A Hero In Achilles Armour ...
King Priam: Hector: All Trojans, All Fought Bravely

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King Priam: Serving Woman: Lady Andromache, Should We Not Light The Fire?
King Priam: Hecuba: Daughter Andromache, You Must Go Out ...
King Priam: Andromache: Did You Hear?
King Priam: Helen: Let Her Rave
King Priam: Hecuba: O That My Ears Should Hear Impiety So Gross!
King Priam: Andromache: Now You Shall Go
King Priam: First Interlude - Serving Women: No ... No ... No ... We Have It From The Runner
King Priam: Priam: What Is Happening?
King Priam: Young Guard: A Crime
King Priam: Nurse: The Soul Will Answer From Where The Pain Is Quickest
King Priam: Second Interlude
King Priam: Achilles: Priam! Here! What Is This?
King Priam: Priam: I Clasp Your Knees, Achilles
King Priam: Achilles: Old Man, I Am Touched
King Priam: Third Interlude -
King Priam: Paris: Where Is My Father, Where Is Priam?
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ah! Ah, Ah!
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ha, Ha, Ha
King Priam: Chorus: Ah, Ah!

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An AntiWar Masterpiece.......2002-08-26

Tippett and Britten were composers who, though very different in temperment and style, had many interests in common. One of the overiding concerns with both composers was the moral response to war and it's horrors. For Britten, the War Requiem and Owen Wingrave are his very clear moral response to war. Tippet, in his fashion is much more psychological in this work, which must rank as one of Tippett's best and most powerful operatic statements.

King Priam is a dramatic tour de force. Based on the Illiad as seen through the eyes of the Trojans, the work is a meditation on the inevitability of fate in mass movements like war. Priam, though illdisposed to the war, is unable to stop or control it as it takes both of his sons, his kingdom and then finally his own life. He emerges as a figure of moral power and grandeur, but ultimately as impotent and tragic. This libretto is one of Tippett's best and most clear statements.

Musically, Priam is a powerhouse, inaugurating Tippett's second major style. Priam is constructed in a mosaic style. Small chamber groups of instruments with defined musical content are assigned to characters. As the work develops, these small groups combine and recombine in a shifting maze of patterns that seems to endlessly reinvent itself. The music starts out as largely tonal, but the tonality breaks down as Fate takes over and dooms the Trojans. The work is never serial, but it takes an almost Bergian view of tonality, sometimes more and sometimes less tonal as the dramatic situation warrants. The vocal lines are mostly declaimed, but with moments of lyricism that are unfogettable, such as Priam's first aria, A Father and a King, or the beautiful scene between Priam and Achilles in the third act. And Achilles war cry at the end of act two is bone chilling!

This is a great performance of this piece. Many of the singers originated the roles and sing them with power and authority. Phillip Langridge is terrific as Paris. Robert Tear is a marvelous Achilles. David Aetherton conducts this difficult score with precision and a fine ear for balances.

This is a profound opera by a major 20th century composer. If you like Britten, you should own this as well. It is increasingly looking like Tippett's masterpiece.

Visceral power & beauty coupled with stunning performances!!.......2001-06-13

I bought this on a whim, having heard only the slightest bit of Tippett's orchestral music and none of his operas. I expected the music to be "difficult," and the performances stilted, but I was oh so wrong! Yes, this is definitely late 20th century music -- often dissonant and atonal, but it is utterly beautiful, emotionally moving music. I'm a huge fan of Britten's operas, and judge all modern opera composers by his standards, and (pardon my gushing) Sir Michael is more than up to the challenge. First of all, he takes on the daunting task of adapting the Iliad into a opera libretto and manages to compress the drama beautifully into 3 acts that tell the story imaginatively, comprehensively and in a wholly theatrical manner. Second, he uses the music to heighten the sense of character by giving each persona a unique style of vocal line and orchestration (yes, this is what all composers do, or try to do, but Tippett succeeds in a way few others do). Several of the characters are accompanied by solo instruments (bravura parts of concerto-like difficulty performed brilliantly) -- Achilles by solo guitar, Helen by solo cello, King Priam by violin, etc. Three characters form a sort of Greek chorus who comment on the action and bring a sense of questioning morality to the whole.

All of the solo singers are astutely cast and sing with amazing power. Standouts (difficult to single out any of them, they're all so brilliant): Phillip Langridge is first-rate as Paris, Priam's second son -- he sings with enormous power and pathos at the same time. Felicity Palmer is velvety sex personified as Helen. Norman Bailey as Priam has a raw edginess to his sound, which lends such a sense of reality to a man pushed to the edge by fate and his warring sons. The London Philharmonia gives a virtuoso performance, led sensitively and intelligently by David Atherton. The digital sound is crystal clear and beautifully engineered: the sound couldn't be better live at the Met! Take a chance on this one, and enter into an operatic world you will never forget.

One of the best and most easily grasped of modern operas.......1999-02-27

Contemporary opera was never the same after King Priam, a suitable irony given that the Opera is perhaps the most easily grasped by the listening public of the 5 Tippett Operas. Even so, the "crisis of King Prian" stylistically and emotionally is the germ-seed for the eccentrism yet to come in "The Knot Garden", "The Ice Break", and "New Year". Tippett's theme is the futility of choice and the nature of the impact of choice on humanity in the micro-sphere of the individual and the macro-sphere of the community and history. Tippett's unusual yet perfectly conceived recasting of the Iliad from the Trojan persepctive does more than summarize plot, but pauses to comment on the universal human potential implicit therein. A must-buy for Tippett fans and for anyone who likes opera, Greek Mythology, classical music, or a good story.

Tracks:

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach)
Bring A Torch, Jeannette Isabella (English Carol)
Silent Night (Mohr/Gruber)
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Reading)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (English Carol)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
The First Noel (Traditional)
I Saw Three Ships (English Carol)
Prelude No. 1 in C major WTC 1 (Bach)
What Child Is This/We Three Kings (Traditional/Hopkins)
Jingle Bells (Pierpont)
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Coots)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Martin/Blanc)
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Bach)

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Joyous, humorous and incomparable solo piano arrangements of holiday standards from the secular and religious repertoire. Pianist David Troy Francis plays inventive arrangements perfect for children and adults.

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The Americans
pianist David Troy Francis
Manufacturer: Barbarian Records, Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000I2JDK8
Release Date: 2001-09-01

Tracks:

Etude No.1 Tense (Rorem)
Etude No.2 Muted, emotionless (Rorem)
Etude No.3 Very fast but not too wet (Rorem)
Etude No.4 Slow; fast (Rorem)
Etude No.5 Plain (Rorem)
Etude No.6 Light and very fast (Rorem)
Etude No.7. Without meter (Rorem)
Etude No.8. Brittle, spasmodic (Rorem)
Prelude No.1 (Boustead)
Old and Lost Rivers Picker)
Gargoyles-Presto (Liebermann)
Gargoyles-Adagio semplice (Liebermann)
Gargoyles-Allegro moderato (Liebermann)
Gargoyles-Presto feroce (Liebermann)

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Contemporary American music by living American composers performed by David Troy Francis. Includes the world premiere recording of "Eight Etudes for Piano" by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ned Rorem.

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Album

Manufacturer: 3rd Eye Entertainment
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA3LWC
Release Date: 2004-05-04

Pieces of My Childhood-American Hymns Revisited

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Pieces of My Childhood-American Hymns Revisited
pianist David Troy Francis
Manufacturer: Barbarian Records, Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000I2JDJO
Release Date: 1999-06-01

Tracks:

What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Were You There?
Peace In The Valley
Only Trust Him
Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
He Leadeth Me, O Blessed Thought
Sweet Hour Of Prayer
Let Us Break Bread Together
Be Thou My Vision
Amazing Grace
Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

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Elegant solo piano arrangements of favorite American hymns by pianist David Troy Francis. These pieces are refreshingly simple and poignant and are presented from a contemporary musical perspective with a gospel tinged soul. Mr. Francis is best known for championing and performance of modern American music and recorded the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Ned Rorem's Eight Etudes for Piano.

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Excellent performances of hard-to-find new music.

180 DEGREES FROM ORDINARY

Manufacturer: INNOVA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000006A88
Release Date: 2000-12-06

Tracks:

Four, For Tango
Rituale
Black Roller
Chaconne
The Black Page
Two Trumpets
Watch...Wait

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Excellent performances of hard-to-find new music........1999-08-11

Having seen the MCE a number or times I bought this disk at the first opportunity and was not dissapointed at all. "Four For Tango" and "Chaconne" are definite standouts as well as "watch...wait" and "rituale". Both Siskind and Trenka are names to look out for in the future. Those familiar to the genere of string quartet should note that the performance of "Four for Tango" exceeds the recording by the Kronos Quartet in my book (and I am a devout Kronos fan).

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Strauss: Capriccio

Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000DNJ1
Release Date: 1989-03-15

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