So Much Love [CD-single] [Import]

So Much Love [CD-single] [Import]

So Much Love [CD-single] [Import]

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1. Radio Edit
2. Milk And Sugar Remix
3. Sandboxrockers Remix
4. Extended Mix
5. Lmc Remix

So Much Love,Freeloaders,Edel,Dance
An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Ring introduction critique
  • FASCINATING STUDY FOR NOVICES AND AFFICIONADOS ALIKE
  • Welcome back to a classic analysis
  • Essential for Understanding Wagner's Ring Cycle
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 An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Deryck Cooke , Georg Solti , Wiener Philharmoniker , Anita Valkki , Berit Lindholm , Birgit Nilsson , Brigitte Fassbaender , Christa Ludwig , Claire Watson , Claudia Hellmann , Dame Gwyneth Jones , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Eberhard Wächter , George London , Gerhard Stolze , Gottlob Frick , Grace Hoffmann , Gustav Neidlinger , Hans Hotter , Helen Watts , Helga Dernesch , Hetty Plumacher , Ira Malaniuk , James King , Jean Madeira , Joan Sutherland , Kirsten Flagstad , Kurt Böhme , Lucia Popp , Marga Höffgen , Marilyn Tyler , Maureen Guy , Oda Balsborg , Paul Kuen , Régine Crespin , Set Svanholm , Vera Little , Vera Schlosser , Waldemar Kmentt , Walter Kreppel , and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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ASIN: B00000424H
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

  1. Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4)
  2. The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11)
  3. Returning Now To The Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16)
  4. A Number Of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21)
  5. A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25)
  6. So Much For Nature. (Examples 26-38)
  7. The Cause Of The Deterioration... (Examples 39-44)
  8. The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48)
  9. Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52)
  10. Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61)
  11. The Basic Motive Associated With The Spear... (Examples 62-68)
  12. Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72)
  13. In Act Two Of Walkure... (Examples 69, 73-75)
  14. Returning Now To Act Two Of Walkure... (Examples 76-79)
  15. Love Is Another Of The Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83)
  16. Later In The Same Scene... (Examples 84-87)
  17. Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91)
  18. The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92)
  19. When Fasolt, In Scene Two Of Rhinegold... (Examples 93-98)
  20. A Little Later In The Interlude... (Examples 99-103)

Tracks:

  1. The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109)
  2. There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114)
  3. The Characters In Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120)
  4. One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121)
  5. The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130)
  6. Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135)
  7. Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140)
  8. Here We Come To The End... (Examples 141-146)
  9. Complemtary To This Symbol... (Examples 147-149)
  10. One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157)
  11. One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161)
  12. There Are One Or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168)
  13. These Motives Of Alberich And Mime... (Examples 169-171)
  14. Quite A Number Of The Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176)
  15. Besides This Family Of Motives... (Examples 177-180)
  16. Our Final Example... (Examples 10, 181, 182)
  17. In The Final Scene Of Gotterdammerung... (Examples 181-183)
  18. Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188)
  19. Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191)
  20. This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193)

Amazon.com

When Wagner set the Ring to music, he intended the orchestra to act in the fashion of a chorus from a classic Greek tragedy--setting the mood and commenting on the action. In order to allow a nonverbal musical line to reflect on the plot, Wagner developed a psychologically and musically complex symbology to communicate his thoughts to the listener. From the beginning the Ring has spawned numerous written commentaries on the relationships of the motif structure, but by using examples from the Decca Ring recording, Deryck Cooke's thoughtful spoken commentary is by far the most accessible guide for either the fledgling Ring enthusiast or the seasoned veteran. --Christian C. Rix

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Ring introduction critique.......2006-11-04

This is very worthwhile, at the same time it requires time, patience and attention, but it does provide some keys to better enjoyment of a sensational piece of music.

5 out of 5 stars FASCINATING STUDY FOR NOVICES AND AFFICIONADOS ALIKE.......2006-08-16

This may look an intimidating, daunting and dull prospect - a 2+ hour lecture on the motifs in the Ring. Don't be put off. Whether you're a relative novice to the Ring and want to find out what it's all about, more experienced with a desire to understand the composer's methods better or an afficionado who thinks he knows it all inside out, there is great pleasure as well as elucidation to be had from this set. Originally made to accompany the Decca Solti Ring, it contains a multitude of musical illustrations taken from those recordings as well as some specially recorded by Solti just for this Introduction.

It wasn't the first time this has been tried. The famous HMV sets from the late 20's also included recorded examples of over 100 motifs. (These, by the way, are available as part of the Pearl reissue of those wonderful HMV recordings). What that set lacked was the wonderful insights as well as the approachability of the talk by Deryck Cooke. Cooke was a great and much missed musicologist - a Mahler expert responsible for the performing edition of the Tenth Symphony still most played today, a fascinating explorer into the nature of music's basic building-blocks in his excellent book, The Language of Music, and an inspiring and elucidating critic of Wagner's work as shown by the fascinating book he left unfinished at his death, I Saw the World End.

On these CDs he does much more than list the leitmotifs and identify them as calling-cards. He shows the amazingly integrated and organic growth of the musical material that Wagner uses throughout his vast work. He demonstrates how motifs can change their sense and meaning as they evolve through the drama. And he shows how the complex combinations of motifs can radically advance both the musical and the dramatic narrative of the piece. There are even places where he corrects the misinterpretation of some of the motifs that had become ingrained from early commentators' false labels.

This set should engage and enlighten anyone with an interest in Wagner's huge and inexhaustible tetralogy. Do give it a try - no matter how far down the road to Wagnerianism you are.

4 out of 5 stars Welcome back to a classic analysis.......2006-05-28

Deryck Cooke's lecture series upon THE RING is almost as much a classic by now as the Solti RING cycle, with which it was originally issued on LP, and from which it derives its musical examples. The difference is that whereas the Solti RING has been continuously in print ever since it was completed, and was among the first opera sets to benefit from the CD revolution, the Cooke analysis was for long almost totally unobtainable. Now we have it back. It should be welcomed: it is a classic. Cooke's mellow, deep voice with the hint of a Celtic burr - which made him ideal on BBC radio - patiently explains Wagner's melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic metamorphoses to such good effect that if you own this recording, you really require no other RING analysis. (A pity about the abrupt beginnings and endings of too many vocal and orchestral illustrations, though.) Musicology lost a fine, sensitive thinker with Cooke's premature death in 1976.

If all you want is dilettantish baby food, there are plenty of dumbed-down Wagner commentaries on the market, stretching from Anna Russell's famous monologue (which doesn't pretend to be anything other than a parody aimed at morons) to the latest standard-issue "Wagner-was-a-Nazi-boo-hiss" feuilleton (which, unfortunately, does). Without reasonable score-reading skill you will find Cooke useless, however diligently you have ploughed through Marx, Jung, Freud, or other gurus purportedly relevant to THE RING. Cooke expects you to use your brains and your musical sense. Quelle horreur. At today's BBC his "elitism" would render him unemployable.

5 out of 5 stars Essential for Understanding Wagner's Ring Cycle.......2006-05-15

I originally bought this set on vinyl in the early 70s when I discovered the Ring in college. I studied the records and booklet assiduously, and after about three run-throughs I finally started getting it. Wow! Thirty-five years later, I still remember Mr. Cooke's analyses of various motive families, and I don't know how I could have mastered and loved the Ring without him. I now own this set on CD and listen again on the rare occasion of attending a Ring performance. My wife calls me a "Ring nut," but of course I'm nuts about many other things as well.

Bottom line, buy this set and study it if the Ring has captivated you as it has countless others. The presentation is dry, but sticking with it brings measureless and longlasting rewards.

4 out of 5 stars Very Functional.......2006-03-19

This CD set is excellent for what it sets out to do: present the leitmotives of the Ring according to their relationship to one another and their role in developing both characters and plotlines. Deryck Cooke's lectures on each motive are very insightful, very helpful at cueing the listener into the semantic aspect of Wagner's orchestral writing. The one drawback is that the musical examples are a bit jarring. Without fade-ins or -outs, the engineering is quite barbaric. And though the orchestra was, I believe, conducted by Solti, and is beautifully done, the vocal performances can be quite unpleasant. Point being: this is not background music, but in accomplishing what it sets out to do, it is very successful, and I don't know of anything else like it.
So Much in Love
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  • I'm So Much In Love with this album!!
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 So Much in Love
Ray Conniff Singers
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ASIN: B0000024R6
Release Date: 1991-07-02

Tracks:

  1. Autumn Leaves/Just Walking In The Rain
  2. I Fall In Love Too Easily/My Heart Stood Still
  3. Dancing On The Ceiling/Dancing In The Dark
  4. I Wish I Didn't Love You So/Bewitched
  5. Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)/True Love
  6. Chances Are/It's Not For Me To Say

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5 out of 5 stars "Now, if you're a Classic Conniff lover,...".......2006-04-27

Now, if you are a "Classic Conniff" lover, how could you possibly omit this one from your collection? This is without a doubt one of the very best from this genius musician and arranger! Using an extraordinary blending and un-blending of the males' and females' voices, the entire production is a classic case in stereo effectiveness. This CD includes a six "mini-medley" approach to some genuine "standards" of popular music, and moves effortlessly from some melancholy love songs to those that will make your heart rate increase a bit. Wonderful depth, matchless stereo, and pure Conniff!

5 out of 5 stars I'm So Much In Love with this album!!.......2005-09-12

This is my all-time favorite Ray Conniff album. I played it constantly when I purchased it years ago as an LP. The medleys are supurb. "Dancing On The Ceiling" and "Dancing In the Dark" are wonderful together as are "I Fall In Love To Easily" and "My Heart Stood Still".

Several years ago I purchased it again in CD form, and it's just as great as I remembered it. If you're a romantic and like Ray Conniff, You'll Love this!

5 out of 5 stars Bringing Back Memories!.......2005-08-06

I had the LP back in the 60's. It was one that I put on the record player every night when going to bed, while my boyfriend was in VietNam. It soothed me to sleep. I can't tell you how often over the years I wished I could hear it again. It's wonderful to have a wish come true...even more wonderful to hear (and own!) this incredible music once more in a medium that is here to stay!

5 out of 5 stars Splendid listening.......2004-04-01

I bought a copy of this at a yard sale(lp format).I fell in love with this album..I was even happier when I found it on cd...This is a must for any music lover..This cd is splendid listening.You wont be dissapointed!!

5 out of 5 stars A masterpiece just as good 40 years later.......2004-02-07

I loved this music when I was young and I still think Conniff and his singers did a fabulous job on this album. Romantic, upbeat, creative, gorgeous sound ... this just has everything. It starts off with the combo of Walkin' in the Rain, a great Johnny Ray song, coupled with Autumn Leaves. Really nice use of common tempo.

Perhaps my favorite track is the pairing of Dancing in the Dark and Dancing on the Ceiling. I must sound like a broken record in my praise of this music, but this one is enchanting.

This album was made in the early days of stereo recording when engineers took pains to separate the "right" content from the "left" content ... and that shows up nicely on some of these Conniff Singers early recording ... at least if you listen carefully.

The only disappointing thing about this is that Conniff is gone now so he's not making more like this.
Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
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 Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
Jonathan Richman
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ASIN: B000294T1A
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

  1. Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love
  2. Sunday Afternoon
  3. Vincent Van Gogh
  4. Cosi Veloce
  5. He Gave Us The Wine To Taste It
  6. Salvador Dali
  7. My Baby Love Love Loves Me
  8. In Che Mondo Viviamo
  9. Behold The Lilies Of The Field
  10. Les Etoiles
  11. The World Is Showing It's Hand
  12. Abu Jamal
  13. On A Du Soleil

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Jonathan gets a bit more serious........2005-08-09

Jonathan Richman is a bit of an oddity in music-- best known alternately as the mastermind behind post-Velvets proto-new wave band The Modern Lovers (whose members ended up in the Cars and Talking Heads) and as the guy who sung songs in "There's Something About Mary", Jonathan Richman is truthfully difficult to categorize. His music has an innocence to it, a sing-song quality and a memorableness that gets his songs stuck in your head without driving you nuts, be it his early Lou Reed-inspired material or the European-infused acoustic pop of this record, "Not So Much to Love as to Be Loved".

What's perhaps unique about this album is that it feels a lot more serious-- this isn't to imply that Richman's previous records couldn't be looked at as serious, but that's there's a goofiness that permeates them, and its here too, but it seems like this time he's got a bit of a commentary to make.

In the end, Richman's music is something you'll love or hate, and it'll probably happen within 90 seconds of hearing him. But I've noted that many people aren't n the right frame of mind to hear Jonathan Richman. This record is certainly a reasonably good example of his work, and I personally find it to be one of my more listend to by him. My advice-- if you're curious, pick something up, listen to it, then try it again in six months if it doesn't work for you. If you're a fan and don't have this, get ahold of it, its superb.

4 out of 5 stars 22nd album.......2004-09-21

Jonathan Richman is a legend. He has released a million albums and songs. Well, maybe not that many. This is actually his 22nd album in about thirty years. It's eleven more songs. Another chapter in the book. He was pretty obscure during most of his life. Members of the Modern Lovers went on to be in The Cars and the Talking Heads. Some notice came his way when the Sex Pistols covered his songs. Years later a whole new generation would watch him on Sesame Street and in the film "There's Something About Mary." Richman has a few songs about love, but also songs about Vincent Van Gogh and Salvador Dali. It's funny stuff.

5 out of 5 stars The idiots guide to eastern philosophy?.......2004-09-02

Every new Jonathan Richman album is like a letter from an old friend. You get them about once every 1-2 years and get to know a bit about what the friend is going through at the time. And a very honest friend at that. Not just telling you what he's been up to, but more importantly how he's feeling at the time.

Well, I think Jonathan is going through an introspective mood. Am I the only one who sees it that way? He seems to be looking more inside himself for some answers. In a positive way. Not in a self-centred way at all. In 'Cosi Veloce' he's asking his mind to slow down a bit. Trying to focus on the void? Meditating? What's going on? Then, 'Behold the lillies in the field' sounds even more like eastern philosophy to me. And 'Abu Jamal' is not just political, but more importantly it says how the calmness of the man seems to contradict someone being on death row.

There are more bits that make me think of meditation. But I can't remember them at the moment.

A very philosophical piece of work. Brilliant. Thanks Jojo!

5 out of 5 stars A particularly mature and ambitious effort from JR.......2004-08-09

Eternally boyish Boston-born troubadour Jonathan Richman has passed through a number of phases in his 30-plus years of writing and performing: Lonely and alienated adolescent (in the early 1970's with his garage-rock outfit the Modern Lovers); childlike regression during the latter half of the '70s; sweetly goofy family-man (early 1980's to mid-'90s). Since his move to the Vapor label in the mid-90's, he has become an endearing alternative-pop cult figure, beloved for his willfully innocent yet honest chronicles of modern love and life.

Jonathan's previous effort, 2001's Her Mystery Not Of High Heels And Eye Shadow, rarely strayed from the topic of love, and was considered too slight by some critics (including myself, as much as I enjoyed it). However, his latest, Not So Much To Be Loved As To Love, is quite possibly one of his most satisfying efforts. Being the first record he has produced entirely by himself, he seems to have settled on a sound that suits him perfectly -- this is one of the clearest, cleanest-sounding rock records I've heard in a long time, and he has his best backing ever with bassist Greg "Curly" Keranen (who first performed with Richman in the mid-'70s) and drummer/loyal touring partner Tommy Larkins, as well as with hints of brass, woodwinds and accordion.

What also makes Not So Much... particularly satisfying is both the strength and diversity of the material. My favorite track, the jaunty "The World is Showing Its Hand", is an excellent example of how Jonathan takes unironic delight in life's simplest pleasures -- in this case, taking in the smells of the various things around him ("Gimme a mowed lawn, gimme ozone, gimme summer rain / Let me smell more of the world, then I might learn something"). The jangly "He Gave Us the Wine to Taste It" is another instant classic; taken on one level, it could be just about an unusual wine-tasting, but really, it's more about simply enjoying the good things in life without having to pick them apart and analyze them too much. The title cut carries on the same basic theme of "Affection" -- the haunting ballad he originally cut in 1979 and revisited in '98 -- but this time with a catchy mid-tempo groove and gently humorous musings like "I was waitin' for affection, but I was looking in the wrong direction / What I needed was not so much to be loved as to love." (The thematic similarity to "Affection" is further underscored by the stripped-down ballad version of "Not So Much..." offered as the #15 hidden track.)

"My Baby Love Love Loves Me," which originally appeared last year on Richman's Take Me To The Plaza concert DVD, is a bouncy, typical-JR love song that would have sounded right at home on Her Mystery...; so would've the lovely, picturesque (but too-short) instrumental "Sunday Afternoon". The two songs about painters couldn't be more different: "Vincent Van Gogh" is a rollicking re-working of a tune he first recorded on 1985's long out-of-print Rockin' And Romance LP; "Salvador Dali" may lack the stick-in-your-brain hooks of "VVG" ("he loved color and he let it show"), or even the early Modern Lovers track "Pablo Picasso" (...), but its haunting melody, and its theme of looking to art to find a cure for your blues, make it a worthy addition to his songbook. In the tradition of the 4 Spanish tracks he recorded for his previous record, here Richman includes 2 highly rocking tracks that he wrote and sang in Italian ("Cosi Veloce", "In Che Mondo Viviamo"), as well as 2 French numbers (the upbeat "Les Etoiles", the languid "On a Du Soleil"). Most startling is the unusually topical "Abu Jamal", a simple yet powerful protest song.

Bottom line: I'm not sure I would recommend picking up this eclectic and often serious effort as your very first JR record, but I admire it a great deal and I strongly recommend it to anyone who is already into his stuff.

5 out of 5 stars De l'ame pour l'ame.......2004-07-02

This is a great CD ! I like it a lot. The title track, "Not so much to be loved as to love"
is the unmistakable Jonathan song, meaning also it is predictable, nothing new. I am also preferring the second version of this song which appears as the last hidden track in its naked simplicity.. Jonathan wanders in Boston nearby the reservoir..
- "Sunday afternoon", I considered as a filler until I heard some chords which reminded me of a song by the Velvet Underground, "Sunday Morning".There are other references to the Velvets on this CD, no coincidence !
- "Vincent van Gogh" revamped version is energetic and lively.. I nearly prefer this version to the original.
- "Salvador Dali" is my favourite song ! It starts like "19 in Naples" as Jonathan tells us that when he was 14 he was depressed and that Dali's paintings were the guide to the world of dreams, and the opening key to freedom. When the instruments start to play, I noticed a powerful bass line knitting a neat groove which extends itself like a mantra to climax in a perfect chorus at the end of the song. I look at the booklet, the bass player is no one else but Greg "Curly" Keranen, from the Modern Lovers #2.
- "Behold the lilies of the field" sounds like Lou Reed singing a lost song from the Velvet's Loaded album. I love this kind of Jonathan song where he uses the influences of his youth to express a mature man's feelings.
- With "Abu Jamal" Jonathan has written his classic-to-be protest song. Do you remember Dylan's "Hurricane", well "Abu Jamal" ranks at the same level.And what flabbergasted me, was to hear this Indian organ, the same as the one Nico was using ..delivering this monochromatic gloomy sound..
- "Les etoiles" and "On a du soleil" are merry songs a la Charles Trenet,they have become popular when played live.
- The two hidden tracks are very good. The first one is about the sea asking Jonathan to come home and he gets scared and feels like dying, again the Nico organ is the only instrument heard and Jonathan sounds sad, The other hidden track is the aforementionned title track with a live in studio only treatment.

Jonathan remains the eternal troubadour, the Bostonian wanderer, the prince of dorkness.
Offenbach: La Belle Hélène; Orpheus in the Underworld; La Vie Parisienne (Highlights)
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  • Champagne Music!
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ASIN: B00009KHY3
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

  1. Overture
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  3. You've Gone Too Far!
  4. May I Make Myself Known?
  5. My Death Appears Divinely Smiling
  6. When Diana Leaves The Mountains
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  10. When I Was King Of The Boeotians
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  12. What Heavenly Joy Is Mine
  13. Minuet And Galop
  14. Overture
  15. How Sad We've Made The Marchioness
  16. Well Isn't That Just Life All Over?
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  18. I Am A Native Of Brazil
  19. In This Enchanting Queen Of Cities
  20. I Am A Dab At Carving Pork
  21. We Have Seen Sights Since Eleven... I'm A Colonel's Widow
  22. Dinner Is Served

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  1. Oh, Little Cloud
  2. When She Goes Out... Her Petticoats Go Frou, Frou, Frou
  3. Does He Know He's Splitting Down The Back
  4. Nobody Would Call Me A Rover
  5. I'll Have So Much To Say
  6. It's Most Important You Should Show
  7. Here You See The Place
  8. My Friends, I'm Most Delighted To See You
  9. In Songs And Shouts... Paris Blooms Like A Flower
  10. Introduction
  11. To Bow To Jupiter We Gather At The Shrine
  12. We've Had A Night Out
  13. On Mount Ida Three Great Ladies (The Judgement Of Paris)
  14. March And Entry Of The Kings
  15. Entr'acte
  16. We All Begin By Truly Trying
  17. It Is Her That Has Sent This Sweet Love Dream
  18. Come Here, You Kings Of Greece
  19. When All Of Greece Has Been Ravaged
  20. Do You See?

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Champagne Music!.......2006-07-09

Thank goodness that these well filled CDs of selections from three of Offenbach's most entertaining and tuneful operettas are available. Exactly the thing to provide some hearty nourishment for Winter nights. Ideal also for a Summer barbecue. In both cases, a glass of champagne, or at least some other bubbly beverage, would be good to have at hand - everything here no doubt will call for a toast or several.

It is so nice to be able to hear in these translations the witty words, sung with welcome clarity and meaning by these admirable artists. As I recall, there were no microphones in sight, and perhaps not even used, when this production of Orpheus In The Underworld was brought to Australia, with a few cast changes but the same sparkle as shown here. Crisp diction and lively, often lovely, singing - a great recipe for enjoyable listening indeed.

The recording sounds a bit shrill here and there, but what a churlish quibble; to Hades with such curmudgeonly qualifications! This is music to raise the spirits, and not just those from Hades.
Campion: Elizabethan Songs
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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  • Serious Drawback
  • Pleasant recital of Dowland contemporary
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Manufacturer: Hmf Classical Exp.
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ASIN: B000059WLG
Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

  1. Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
  2. Love Me Or Not
  3. Your Fair Looks
  4. Never Love Unless You Can
  5. O Never To Be Moved
  6. The Cypress Curtain Of The Night
  7. Awake Thou Spring Of Speaking Grace
  8. Come, You Pretty False-Eyed Wanton
  9. So Tired Are All My Thoughts
  10. Fire, Fire
  11. Pined I Am, And Like To Die
  12. Author Of Light
  13. See Where She Flies
  14. Fair, If You Expect Admiring
  15. Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?
  16. It Fell On A Summer's Day
  17. Kind Are Her Answers
  18. Beauty Is But A Painted Hell
  19. Sweet Exclude Me Not
  20. Are You What Your Fair Looks Express?
  21. I Care Not For These Ladies
  22. Never Weather-Beaten Sail

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-12-24

Thomas Campion (1567-1620) was a poet as well as a musician, and his songs definately reflect this ability, for they could just as well be read as sung. Philip Rosseter ( his friend) states that his 118 songs were "superfluous blossomes of his deeper Studies," no doubt referring to his Latin poetry , or perhaps medicine, which was his profession. What Campion did better than Dowland, or any other English composer of the day, was to "couple my words and notes lovingly together, which will be much for him to doe that hath not power over both." It is best to listen to them in order of priority to poem, melody and lastly singer. His melodies are simplistic and unadorned by shocking harmony designed to overpower the weight of the word itself. T.S. Eliot was in no doubt about Campion's quality:"except for Shakespeare, the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time."
The performance of these songs by Drew Minter (countertenor) accompanied by Paul O'Dette (lute) is really quite outstanding. I must say that this disc is so much better than Minter's other disc of lute songs "Sweeter Than Roses". His voice had a much clearer tone quality and he did not get 'nasal' or 'edgy' as he is prone to do. He kept his voice light and distinct with very neat diction. When he goes for a loud full sound like Michael Chance or David Daniels his voice is not pleasant to hear. But this album is very good and his emotional investment into each song was excellent. Just a very good LISTEN!!!!

3 out of 5 stars Serious Drawback.......2006-04-08

Elizabethan Songs. Twenty-two songs by Thomas Campion (1567 – 1620), performed by Drew Minter (countertenor) and Paul O’Dette (lute).
Recorded in November 1989 at Bethel United Church of Christ, Manchester, Michigan.
Harmonia Mundi. Originally issued as HMU 907023, now re-issued as part of the budget-price Classical Express series as HMCX 3957023. Total time: 58’23”.

Thomas Campion was a contemporary of both Shakespeare and Dowland and was a medical doctor who wrote poetry which he also set to music. Drew Minter performs twenty-two of these here with his inimitable coppery countertenor, a voice which is, in fact, very beautiful, but needs considerable getting used to if you are new to it. (Minter sings at alto pitch, but nobody would mistake him for a female!) He is accompanied by master lutenist Paul O’Dette, whose contribution remains fairly quietly in the background. The songs themselves are, of course, in Elizabethan English, making them rather difficult to understand. And this is where this CD suffers a serious drawback: the texts are not printed in the thin CD booklet; instead, there is a note saying that they can be downloaded from the internet, but when I tried to visit the site mentioned (on more than one occasion recently), the server was down, the address unknown. I nevertheless enjoyed listening, but without really knowing what Minter was singing so delightfully about. Campion’s melodies sound to my ear a little “samish”, and I occasionally found myself wishing that the program had been interrupted by a lute solo or two.

3 out of 5 stars Pleasant recital of Dowland contemporary.......2001-03-28

There is little overlap between this Campion CD and the similar recital featuring another American countertenor, Steven Rickards, on Naxos. However if forced to choose between the two note that the Naxos release includes sung texts, while this one from Classical Express does not. On the other hand O'Dette is a more characterful lute player.
So Much in Love
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 So Much in Love
Lee Oskar
Manufacturer: Lightyear
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ASIN: B000000U4Z
Release Date: 1997-06-10

Tracks:

  1. So Much In Love
  2. You and I
  3. Lavender Song
  4. Leslie's Song
  5. In the Pocket
  6. Stephanie's Lullaby
  7. Whatta Day
  8. A Soulful Prayer
  9. Those Sunny Days
  10. See You Later

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Have it, have all his music, this is almost the best.......1998-12-23

This CD is very characteristic of Lee, if you are a mellow, jazz loving with a little engery, buy his music!
Campion: Lute Music
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Fine recital of neglected composer
  • Good Performance but the content?
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Manufacturer: Naxos
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  1. Dowland: Flow My Tears and Other Lute Songs

ASIN: B00000IXIZ
Release Date: 1999-06-01

Tracks:

  1. Come Let Us Sound With Melody
  2. Tune Thy Musicke To Thy Hart
  3. Come You Pretty False-Ey'D Wanton
  4. There Is None, O None But You
  5. Sweet Exclude Mee Not
  6. I Care Not For These Ladies
  7. Though You Are Yoong And I Am Olde
  8. Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire!
  9. What Then Is Love But Mourning?
  10. Shall I Come, Sweet Love, To Thee?
  11. Beauty, Since You So Much Desire
  12. What Is It All That Men Possesse?
  13. The Sypres Curten Of The Night
  14. Jacke And Jone They Think No Ill
  15. It Fell On A Sommers Daie
  16. When To Her Lute Corrina Sings
  17. My Sweetest Lesbia
  18. Her Rosie Cheekes, Her Ever Smiling Eyes
  19. Faire, If You Expect Admiring
  20. There Is A Garden In Her Face
  21. Author Of Light
  22. Never Weather-Beaten Saile
  23. Most Sweet And Pleasing Are Thy Wayes
  24. To Musicke Bent Is My Retyred Minded
  25. Thou Joy'St, Fond Boy
  26. Turne All Thy Thoughts To Eyes
  27. Vaile, Love Mine Eyes
  28. Miserere My Maker

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Fine recital of neglected composer.......2000-10-29

I'd agree with the earlier reviewer that this CD is for those who have already tried Dowland. However Dowland has been fortunate in the recording studio and Campion much neglected (this appears to be the only disc dedicated to him currently available) so Naxos deserve our thanks for having brought Rickards and Linell back together for a second disc. What is particularly encouraging is to find a whole disc of songs, not just a few raisins in a cake of viol music which is how Dowland and his contemporaries are normally represented. Not that I've anything against mixed recitals - the collaborations of Fretwork with Red Byrd are beautiful - but it tends to be the same better known songs.

The first recordings of early English music on the Naxos label (I'm thinking of Summerly's earlier recordings of Byrd, Tomkins, Gibbons) lacked texts, that has been corrected in later releases, including both this disc (timing 52:52), and the earlier Rickards Dowland recital (8.553381, 1997, timing 74:08). Sound on both discs is more than adequate.

4 out of 5 stars Good Performance but the content?.......2000-02-01

I make no claims to being knowledable about the intricacies of this music. But if I were giving stars I'd give the performance four or five and the content...um...that's the hard part.

I bought this out of curiosity. Campion's lyrics turn up occasionally in anthologies of poetry and I was curious to hear the songs. I own Rickards and Linell's "Dowland: Flow my tears and other lute songs" and i play it often so I also wanted to know what Dowland's competition sounded like.

Firstly, the performance is of the same high standard as on the other disk. Which is good. Linell plays well and Rickards' voice is fine. The liner notes provide good background information as well as the words to the songs. The only real complaint I could have about the performance is probably related to production: The lute sounds small, thin and distant compared with, say, Bream's lute on "The golden age of English Lute music" or Lindberg's on "The complete solo lute music". This is true of the pair's Dowland recording as well but it may only be a drawback if you're trying to use the performances as a guide to playing the songs yourself. ( I was).

The real drawback to this recording though is the material. Play the Dowland and you're liable to find yourself humming odd snatches of the songs. Play the Campion and you're liable to have difficulty remembering any of the individual tunes. Nor do the lyrics redeem the music. He probably was a "better " lyric writer than Dowland (whatever that means) but music wise Dowland beats him hollow.

If you're studying music history this might be an interesting collection. But if you're just curious and want an introduction to the songs of the period, go for the Dowland first. You're liable to be left feeling like you could listen to more, and then the Campion becomes interesting as a variation. Buy the Campion first and you're liable to wonder why people get enthusiastic about English lute songs. And that would be a pity and a disservice to Linell and Rickards who do such a good job.
Three Little Words (1950 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • beautiful old time music
 Three Little Words (1950 Movie Soundtrack) (Rhino Handmade)
Harry Ruby
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ASIN: B0001XAMDG
Release Date: 2004-05-11

Tracks:

  1. Main Title Medley: Three Little Words/Thinking of You - MGM Studio Orchestra
  2. Where Did You Get That Girl? - Fred Astaire, Anita Ellis
  3. She's Mine, All Mine [#]
  4. Mr & Mrs. Hoofer at Home (Dancers at Home) - MGM Studio Orchestra
  5. My Sunny Tennessee - Fred Astaire, Red Skelton
  6. So Long, Oo-Long - Fred Astaire, Red Skelton
  7. Who's Sorry Now - Gloria DeHaven
  8. Come One, Papa - Anita Ellis, Chorus
  9. Nevertheless, I'm in Love With You - Fred Astaire, Anita Ellis, Red Skelton
  10. All Alone Monday - Gale Robbins
  11. You Smiled at Me [#] - Andrrevin
  12. All Alone Monday (Reprise) - Gale Robbins
  13. I Wanna Be Loved by You [#] - Fred Astaire, Helen Kane
  14. I Wanna Be Loved by You - Helen Kane
  15. Thinking of You - Anita Ellis
  16. I Love You So Much - Male Chorus
  17. Thinking of You (Humming Reprise) [#] - Anita Ellis
  18. You Are My Lucky Star [#] - Phil Regan & Orchestra
  19. Three Little Words [#] - Phil Regan & Orchestra
  20. Medley: My Sunny Tenessee/Who's Sorry Now/I Wanna Be Loved by ... - Fred Astaire, Red Skelton
  21. Three Little Words (Finale) (End Cast) - Fred Astaire
  22. Yolanda (Main Title) [*] - MGM Studio Orchestra
  23. This Is a Day for Love [From Yolanda and the Thief][*] - MGM Studio Chorus
  24. I've an Angel [From Yolanda and the Thief][*] - Trudy Erwin
  25. Ballet/Will You Marry Me? [From Yolanda and the Thief][*] - Marion Doenges,
  26. Yolanda [From Yolanda and the Thief][*] - Fred Astaire
  27. Coffee Time [From Yolanda and the Thief][*] - MGM Studio Orchestra, Chorus

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5 out of 5 stars Thank you Rhino & George Feltenstein!.......2005-09-06

I've been waiting for this CD for years and it's finally here. Where else can you find a collection of Kalmar and Ruby songs? If you love the movie, you'll love the soundtrack. As with all Rhino soundtracks, both the audio, art work, and liner notes quality is great. Buy it before all 2500 copies are taken...

5 out of 5 stars beautiful old time music.......2004-07-13

there are so many great songs sung by beautiful women-Gale robbins singing I love you so much, Arleen doll on All alone Monday, but the best is the enchanting unforgettable Thinking of you, sung by Vera Ellen, the best dancing lady ever on the screen. Sad we cant see Miss Ellen dance to the song but the wonderful scene will live in your memory. A very nice record,Also Miss Debby Reynolds does a very nice imitation of Hellen Kane on I wanna be loved by yo.
Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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 Gilbert & Sullivan: Patience
Philip Potter , Kenneth Sandford , Mary Sansom , Jennifer Toye , and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B0000041VE
Release Date: 1989-07-21

Tracks:

  1. Overture
  2. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  3. Act One: Still brooding on their mad infatuation
  4. Act One: I cannot tell what this love may be
  5. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  6. Act One: The soldiers of our Queen
  7. Act One: If you want a receipt for that popular mystery
  8. Act One: In a doleful train two & two we walk all day
  9. Act One: Twenty love-sick maidens we
  10. Act One: When I first put this uniform on
  11. Act One: Am I alone & unobserved?
  12. Act One: If you're anxious for to shine
  13. Act One: Long years ago-fourteen, maybe
  14. Act One: Prithee, pretty maiden-prithee
  15. Act One: Though to marry you
  16. Act One: Let the merry cymbals sound
  17. Act One: Now tell us, we pray you
  18. Act One: Heart broken at my Patience's barbarity
  19. Act One: Stay, we implore you, before our hopes are blighted
  20. Act One: Your maidens hearts, ah, do steel

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  1. Act One: Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity
  2. Act One: We've been thrown over, we're aware
  3. Act One: And are you going a ticket to buy?
  4. Act One: Hold! Stay your hand!
  5. Act One: True love must single-hearted be
  6. Act One: I hear the soft note of the echoing voice
  7. Act One: But who is this, whose god-like grace
  8. Act One: List Reginald, whilst I confess a love
  9. Act Two: On such eyes as maidens cherish
  10. Act Two: Sad is a woman's lot who, year by year
  11. Act Two: Silvered is the raven hair
  12. Act Two: Turn, oh turn in this direction
  13. Act Two: A magnet hung in a hardware shop
  14. Act Two: Love is a plaintive song
  15. Act Two: So go to him & say to him
  16. Act Two: It's clear that the mediaeval art
  17. Act Two: If Saphir I choose to marry
  18. Act Two: When I go out of the door
  19. Act Two: I'm a Waterloo House young man
  20. Act Two: After much debate internal, I on Lady Jane decide

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best ever version.......2002-06-07

The wonderful cast transports you to the realms of Gilbert and Sullivan, to make you feel that you are experiencing a first night in 1881! John Reed, as Bunthorne, an aesthetic poet is superb, camp, subversive and a complete fraud. If anyone is not aware, the story of the opera is based upon the idiosyncracies of the Aesthetic movement in England of the 1880's and Gilbert used the public parodies of his friend Oscar Wilde as his major source. The rest of the cast, chorus and orchestra , under the long experienced 'Goddie' are superlative and make for one of the finest line-ups in D'Oyly Carte history. Revel and enjoy, for this is quite the best.

5 out of 5 stars The Golden Cast of D'Oyly Carte!.......1999-04-13

My wish had always been to see John Reed and the D'Oyly Carte Company in a performance of Patience. My mother had done so, remarking that, 'You'd need patience to watch it', she was coloured in her opinion, since she wanted to see 'The Mikado', but had gotten the wrong tickets! The recording, made in 1961, is superb in every detail. You are with the cast, on stage, in the auditorium, it is such a 'live' performance. The dialogue is delivered exquisitely, whilst the singing is uniformerly of the highest standard. I recently portrayed 'Bunthorne' and throughout my performances, I felt that I was continuing the legacy of Gilbert and Sullivan. All the past history of performers were there. I feel that Patience is a magical Savoy Opera. Do not miss the opportunity to own such a definitive performance. Maybe the subject of the 'Art Nouveau' periodof Victorian England is dated, but as one critic has already stated, every generation 'throws up' its poseures, to be knocked. 'Ah, me! lack aday!' BUY IT!

4 out of 5 stars The Definitive Recording.......1998-12-09

For those who prefer the traditional Savoyard renderings of the G&S canon, this is far and away the best recording of this parody of the cult of celebrity. John Reed leads the cast as a delightful Bunthorne, and the recording contains all of the opera's dialogue. "HMS Pinafore," "The Mikado," and "The Pirates of Penzance" may be better known, but "Patience" is deserving of a wider audience.
Music Divine: 1662 Book of Songs for 3-6 Parts
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Another fantasic recording
 Music Divine: 1662 Book of Songs for 3-6 Parts
Tomkins , and I Fagiolini
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007BGXY
Release Date: 2003-01-21

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5 out of 5 stars Another fantasic recording.......2007-01-16

I Fagiolini is one of those groups where I try to get my hands on every recording they've made. This CD is just another example of why. Great individual voices but the ensemble really comes together well. They make it sound so easy to sing this repertoire. Tomkins is a a master of writing sad laments such as Woe is Me, When David Heard, and I Fagiolini brings out the raw emotion of these pieces. If you are an early music connoisseur, you will love this group. Pick up this CD, and while you're at it, get their Triumphs of Oriana and the two Byrd recordings. You won't regret it.

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