Bris

bris

Track Listings

1. Grålys

2. Håstabø

3. Myrkjeblått

4. Slør

5. Blond Blå

6. Bris

7. Notten

8. Seil

9. Flyt

10. Avminnast

11. Gjennom

12. Bønn

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Bris

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Surprisingly likeable
Mefisto as an artist!!!!
Magnificent violinist
More Voltaire!!!
"Good Enough For Goth"

The Devil's Bris
Voltaire
Manufacturer: Projekt
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Almost Human
Boo Hoo
Then And Again
Zombie Prostitute
What is Goth?

ASIN: B000006NJM
Release Date: 2007-07-16

Tracks:

Ex Lover's Lover
Anniversary
Parade
The Man Upstairs
They Know Me
Oweee
Snakes
Ravens Land
The Chosen
All The Way Down
When You're Evil
Shalom

Customer Reviews:

Surprisingly likeable.......2007-03-26

Took me a while to warm up to this album, because the first Voltaire cd I ever heard was "Boo Hoo," and, well... there's a few differences. First of all, the later cd, even in its funnier moments, is a little gentler, a little more emotional, whereas this one is more... I don't want to say "happy," but I might go with "gleeful." ("Manic," maybe?) More of a brittle edge. Second, there's nothing on "Boo Hoo" to rival the dark fantasies described in "Ex-Lover's Lover," and on first listen, without any warning, it was a little off-putting (at least to a non-goth like me!) But, as my "Boo Hoo" cd has apparently decided to run away from home, I found myself needing a Voltaire fix, and lo and behold, this cd was there! While it wasn't exactly the same as I was used to, I found myself enjoying it more and more, while the grinning little demon inside whispered "you know you like it... you know you do!"

Yeah. I do. I really, really do.

The highlights:

"Ex-Lover's Lover:" You know, I think I was born without the jealous instinct. I do, however, get the violent instinct, and therefore the idea of chopping up your girl's new guy and mailing his pieces all over the globe has, once I got accustomed to it ...a certain barbaric appeal. Really, the concept kind of grows on you.

"Anniversary:" Absolutely not the place I would ever have expected to find one of the sweetest, most romantic songs I have ever heard, but when did my expectations ever count for anything? I know I've commented on Voltaire's voice before, but here it just sounded so gentle and full of light (if that makes any sense at all.)

"The Man Upstairs:" Ok. I have a tendency to overthink things; I know it. So I listened to this song the first couple times wondering "is this a metaphor? Who is the man upstairs? What's the deeper meaning? Is the man upstairs God? Or perhaps some representation of his own psyche? What's going on here?" And then I moved into my new apartment, and I knew: the man just wants someone to kill that f*** upstairs. It's just that simple.

"Snakes:" Whee... ain't paranoia fun? Best line: "How did you get that sweet little girl to lie?" Ah, the implications!

"The Chosen:" I think it says something deeply disturbing about me that I find this song strangely comforting. (Well, but then why not? After all, it's nothing personal...)

"All the Way Down:" Strangely gentle and compelling. I'm not sure I entirely understand what it's about, but that's ok.

"When You're Evil:" What else is there to say? The grinning demons love this song. And who wouldn't love the way the music goes from jaunty to melodramatically poignant, and right back to jaunty again.

"Shalom:" I don't even know how to describe this one. "Fiddler on the Roof" through the fractured looking-glass, perhaps? Frenzied and dramatic and intoxicating.

Ok. I know I said those were the highlights, and I know I then went on to include almost every song on the cd. I said I liked it, didn't I? Anyway: Voltaire's tight, intelligent lyrics are a breath of fresh air in the world of contemporary music, and the accompaniments are the most expressive and emotive I've found to date. I'd recommend this to anyone who enjoys good music, goth or not.

Mefisto as an artist!!!!.......2007-01-10

Greetings fellow ones!!!

This is an amazing album... For those who enjoy the black humor and sarcasm....please buy it!!!!!
Voltaire for me is the answer for a complete artist, in all the aspects of his talent life I enjoy his work so much. I don't consider myself as a Gothiesque person, but my soul has indeed a black side and it's so funny how Voltaire captures my must... dark desires...

Voltaire my friend , this is your first album... the beggining of
your great myth!!!!

Magnificent violinist.......2006-05-30

I'll make this brief: the band has an amazing violinist. The vocals aren't very interesting, but the cello and violin playing make almost all the songs on the album worthwhile experiences. My favorites are "Ex Lover's Lover" and "The Man Upstairs." Voltaire's lyrics are somewhat witty and lighthearted; their music is not at all depressing, despite dealing with some "dark" matters. If you want to listen to Voltaire for their reputation as a goth band, I'll tell you that this album is heavily influenced by European folk and seems more alternative to me than anything else. His singing style is rather typical of the goth scene, though.

More Voltaire!!!.......2004-10-08

This Cd is really great. Not only is it the type of music you would listen to while caked in mud, sliding over a cliff, it's the type of music you listen to caked in mud, sliding over a cliff, holding the hand of the person you love. It is romanic, dark, twisted, and best of all humorous.

"Good Enough For Goth".......2004-05-20

To quote the man, himself, "Good enough for Goth."

I ran across Voltaire completely by accident. I bought a Projekt CD in a used CD store, a holiday CD of all things, because I love irony. Goth Christmas songs. Ho ho ho! Well, turned out I actually liked it, so a friend of mine hopped online on the Projekt website and found out where to buy their CD's. Hot Topic, wouldn't ya know? She bought me a compliation CD from there for Christmas and Voltaire had two songs on there: "Good Night, Demon Slayer," and "BRAINS!" both songs I'd never heard before, but soon fell quite in love with. Not long after, I happened to make a pilgrimage up to a North Denver record store that actually carried a few of Voltaire's disks. I bought "The Devi's Bris" on total impulse and the rest was history.

I grew up listening to folk music, and I gotta say, it's refreshing to hear new music without the heavy use of drum machines and synthesizers--not that I don't love those too, mind you, but Voltaire's simple melodies and modest accompaniment are a refreshing change of pace for burnt out eardrums. Voltaire's songs convey a deep sense of irony and dark wit in their lyrics, something you just don't hear very often in songs anymore. (When did "I did it all for the cookie" become great songwriting??) And for Godsakes, Voltaire actually ENNUNCIATES when he sings, so you can really understand what he's singing! AMAZING!

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Tucker is wonderful in a surprisingly good opera.......2004-06-02

Source: Live 1973 performance before a well-disciplined London audience.

Performing version: Heavily cut to create a practical and performable three act opera out of the original, sprawling, grand opera in five acts.

Sound: Good to very good, overall. The sound is as crisp and clean as one can reasonably hope from a live recording in 1973. Voices are generally given predominance over the orchestra.

Documentation: Opera d'Oro is even worse in this set than its usual abominable standard. Neither the theater nor the orchestra is identified. The track list omits timings. No libretto. No comments on the cast except for a few words about Richard Tucker. Very limited comment on the opera and a hint about its performance history. Brief (and possibly misleading) plot summary.

I have been distantly aware of the existence of an opera called "La Juive", largely because of its often recorded tenor aria, "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" and its association with the final days of the great Caruso. I also knew that it was a once popular work that had long-ago fallen out of the standard repertory. Assuming that good reason existed for its faded state, I had no particular desire to hear it until I attended a concert of operatic choral music and was impressed by a rousing chorus. "La Juive", I was surprised to find, had at least two good pieces of music in it. "The Pearl Fishers" has no more and "Lakme" does not have even that much. Some time later, while pondering over whether I (or anybody else) needed a second "Wozzeck", I stumbled on this recording and bought it out of curiosity.

Listening to the opera was a series of surprises. There were not just two good pieces of music; there were a whole bunch of them, one after another. Language aside, "La Juive" did not sound at all like a French opera. Instead of the lyric and graceful wit so common to French art, it had a bumptious, Italianate muscularity. In fact, it sounded like nothing so much as early Verdi, even to the extent of using the orchestra as a sort of giant guitar. I began to wonder if its composer had ever been accused of the sin of "Verdisme"--or I did until I noticed that it dates from 1835, four years before Verdi's first opera, "Oberto" and seven years before "Nabucco". (Was Verdi ever accused of "Halevismo"?) Another surprise was the unusual casting requirements: a dramatic tenor, a high-flying lyric tenor, two sopranos and a bass. That combination is so odd for the 1830s that I can only speculate that it was created for a specific ensemble. The last surprise can be summed up in a single question. Why did this very impressive opera disappear?

The plot of "La Juive" seems to have arisen out of the same gumbo of ideas that eventually led to "Il trovatore". The opera takes place in the year 1414. Some years prior to Act I, the infant daughter of a man who is now a cardinal disappeared during a siege. The opera starts with a crowd in anti-Semitic passion giving the Jewish jeweler, Eleazar, a hard time. He is saved by the cardinal, an old enemy, now in a more mellow mood. Meanwhile, Eleazar's daughter, Rachel, is being wooed by a nice, supposedly Jewish boy who just happens to a Christian prince in disguise. Prince Leopold is tomcatting around the town in anticipation of his forthcoming wedding to Princess Eudoxie. As might be expected, Rachel learns of the two-timing proclivities of the prince. She quite properly denounces the cad and, of course, finds herself arrested for feloniously allowing herself to be seduced by a Christian. The prince and old Eleazar end up in the slammer, too. Confrontations follow. The cardinal and Eleazar snarl at each other as the old jeweler throws out hints that he knows something about the whereabouts of the missing girl. Eudoxie, dismayed at the prospect of going from bride to widow with unseemly haste, faces off with Rachel. Eventually, Rachel, like Leonora in "Il trovatore", decides to sacrifice her life so that her lover might get off. Rachel's plan, unlike Leonora's, works and the utterly worthless and heartless tenor goes scot free while the innocent girl is executed, although whether by fire at the stake, as the Od'O booklet states, in boiling oil as another source reports, or in boiling water according to a third source, I cannot say. Eleazar, like Azucena, gets the last good line, for the cardinal has just executed his own daughter.

Jaques Francois Fromental Halevy (1799-1862) was born as Elias Levy. He was both an academic and a practical man of the theater. He was a student of Cherubini at the Paris Conservatory, later becoming a professor there, himself. For fifteen years, while also serving as a professor of composition, he was the chorus master at the Opera. Among his students were Bizet, Gounod, Saint-Saens and Lecocq. He completed twenty-eight operas, including these intriguing titles, "Les mousquetaires de la reine", "La tempesta" and "La dame de picque". Mahler loved "La Juive" and Verdi ridiculed it. Its greatest champion--and certainly its most surprising one, considering its composer and subject--was Wagner.

On this recording, Richard Tucker at age 60 is simply wonderful. There is no other word for him. The audience reaction after "Rachel, quand du Seigneur" is thunderous and absolutely deserved. This recording shows how the really great ones should finish their careers. The other tenor, Juan Sabate, is hard-edged, but he has the goods and the required high notes. He sounds just right as that unmitigated heel, Prince Leopold. The two sopranos, Yasuko Hayashi as Rachel and Michelle Le Bris as Princess Eudoxie, both sound fine, although they are sometimes difficult to tell apart. David Gwynne has a big and appropriately dark voice for Cardinal de Brogni.

Update, March 2006 . . .

The gentleman who writes the notes for the Od'O series has taken me to task for that wisecrack about the "Brief (and possibly misleading) plot summary." He was perfectly justified in doing so and I herewith apologize to him.

What I had in mind was the description of the specific manner of the death of the heroine. In nearly fifty years of being an opera fan, I have never stumbled on a score or libretto for "La Juive." In consulting the secondary sources that came to hand, I found two other versions which contradicted one another and the version that appears with this recording.

As Mr. Parker has assured me--quite firmly, you may believe--that he carefully consulted the original text before writing his notes, I now have no reason to doubt the accuracy of his plot summary.

The jibes and potshots I have made (and will doubtless make in the future) about the quality of the documentation in Od'O sets are directed at the publisher, not at the industrious contracted writer who makes the most of the obviously narrow limits placed on him by Opera d'Oro.

By the way, yeah, I know that at these prices I can't reasonably expect a libretto. That doesn't mean I have to like it!

TUCKER SHINES.......2003-06-23

La Juive is the best known work of compositor Halevy and along
Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots the epitom of "French Grand Opera".
This is a live concert performance from London taped in 1973.
The score is heavily cut but still offers a fine representa-
tion of the work. Richard Tucker - a devout jew in real life -
was born to sing the role. At 60 the heroic voice is in top
shape - firm and powerful - and his portrayal of Eleazar is
anything if not fervent - his rendition of "Rachel quand du
Seigneur" is feverish and devastatingly intense - it brings
the house down. The rest of the cast is more than adequate -
the two sopranos are well constrasted and sing very well -
David Gwynne is a somber Cardinal and Juan Sabate copes well
with the high tessitura of Leopold. The sound is not high-tech
but quite good and with fine contribution from chorus and
orchestra under the leadership of Anton Guadagno - this bar-
gain set is highly recommandable.

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One of my alltime favorite cd's
Haunting indeed
Not overbearing

Deirdre of the Sorrows

Manufacturer: Windham Hill Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

One of my alltime favorite cd's.......2007-02-13

I first purchased Deirdre of the Sorrows in March 1999. My local classical station was playing it on Saint Patrick's Day. I was completely swept away by the haunting melodies. The first track is breathtakingly beautiful. It is too bad Patrick Cassidy does not get much more noteriety here in the states, with the talented composing skills he displays.

Haunting indeed.......2001-10-15

The last reviewer called it "haunting." That it is, and I would add the term "addictive." It is partly the times, the post Sept. 11 era, but in emotional impact about life, death, fate, and tragedy (it includes no lighter moments) Deirdre ranks right up there with the end of The Ring, and there is no higher praise.

Not overbearing.......2000-08-28

Poor Deirdre! It is prophesized before her birth that Deirdre will be the catalyst for many deaths. Her story comes from the 12th-century Book of Leinster, part of the Ulster Cycle. Found in the New Age section, Patrick Cassidy's composition is classical. The music is often dirge-like. What would you expect of a score that begins with a foretelling of evil and follows the life of Dierdre through exile and slaughter? It is dark, and melodic ... and haunting.

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Manufacturer: Opera D'oro
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La Juive is a spectacular five-act grand opera with high drama, gigantic set pieces, and thrilling music - the Romantic era's version of Cinemascope. Seldom mounted today due to cost, it can still be greatly enjoyed in the theater of the imagination. Live performance of an important modern revival in London, 1973. This was one of the great tenor Richard Tucker's last appearances in public, at age 60, not long before his death. And it is one of the most emotional stage appearances ever captured on disc: when he sings the opera's most dramatic aria, "Rachel, quand du Seigneur," the audience goes wild. Jacques Halévy (1799-1862) studied at the Paris Conservatory with Cherubini and at age 20 won the highest student honor, the Prix de Rome. He was immediately engaged as a professor, and taught harmony, counterpoint and composition for many years to students such as Gounod, Massé, Saint-Saëns, Lecocq, and also Bizet, who married one of his daughters after his death! . Despite his heavy academic responsibility, Halévy composed 38 lyric works for the stage, a majority of them light operas, but ten in the French "grand opera" form established by Auber and Meyerbeer, mandating a five-act structure, splendid sets, costumes, stage machinery, and a story full of grandiosity and pageantry, with music to match. Six of Halévy's operas were particularly successful and remained in the repertory for many seasons, but the most admired of them was La Juive, to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, first performed at the Opéra in Paris on February 23, 1835. It received 562 performances before being retired almost exactly a century later. It was also popular internationally, being translated into numerous languages.

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lyric movement.......2005-05-30

I first discovered Nils Okland from the British electronica group Underworld's web site, Dirty.org. While Nils covers new territory for contemporary classical music, this work also, in some ways, resonates with the work of the "indie" group Dirty Three. Understated and subterranean. You'll not be disappointed if what you seek is thoughtful, ruminative, sometimes meandering, movements of sound.

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