Words for the Dying

words for the dying

Track Listings
1. Falkland Suite: Introduction - John Cale, Brian Eno,
2. Falkland Suite: There Was a Saviour/Interlude I - Brian Eno,
3. Falkland Suite: On a Wedding Anniversary - John Cale, Brian Eno,
4. Falkland Suite: Interlude II - Brian Eno,
5. Falkland Suite: Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed - John Cale, Brian Eno,
6. Falkland Suite: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - John Cale, Brian Eno,
7. Songs Without Words, Pt. 1 - John Cale
8. Songs Without Words, Pt. 2 - John Cale
9. Soul of Carmen Miranda - John Cale, Brian Eno

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Words for the Dying
Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • a voice teacher and early music fan
 Elizabethan & Jacobean Lute Songs

Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B000000A53
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan.......2005-12-21

Throughout history the lute has been used to accompany the human voice. The art of the lute ayre,like so many English cultural activities,is an eclectic one, for there are many iinfluences in its evolution. These elements basically are: Classical and Bardic recitation, Italian improvisation, and French declamatory metrical forms. The many and varied type selections on this recording testify to all of these characteristics. Some of the composers included are: Campion,Ford,Holborne,Danyel and of course, John Dowland. This disc showcases 2 great musicians who become one in performance. It is as if they could read each others' minds.The perfectly beautiful voice of Chance, who is in his element when he performs songs from this era, complements the technique and sensitivity of Wilson's lute playing. The songs themselves are very entertaining and run the gamut of human emotions. The title song: Sypres Curtain of the Night has to be one of Campion's best! Buy it if you want to sit back and experience an hour of pure pleasure!
DeGaetano Plays Gottschalk
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    Manufacturer: Crystonyx Records
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    ASIN: B00000I3TS
    Release Date: 2005-11-08

    Tracks:

    1. Danza
    2. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Romance
    3. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Ballade
    4. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Polka
    5. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Chanson
    6. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Polka
    7. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Mazurk
    8. Little Book Of Louis Moreau Gottschalk: Ynes
    9. Bamboula
    10. Souvenir De La Havane
    11. Le Bananier
    12. Union
    13. Souvenir D' Andalousie
    14. The Banjo
    15. The Dying Poet
    16. Tournament Galop
    Words for the Dying
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • a profoundly moving masterpiece
    • Songs For the Living
    • Lets go to Moscow
    • Well, I Like It
    • MAGNIFICENT CARMEN
    		 Words for the Dying
    John Cale
    Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
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    1. Black Acetate

    ASIN: B000008DXC
    Release Date: 1989-09-19

    Tracks:

    1. Falkland Suite: Introduction - John Cale, Brian Eno,
    2. Falkland Suite: There Was a Saviour/Interlude I - Brian Eno,
    3. Falkland Suite: On a Wedding Anniversary - John Cale, Brian Eno,
    4. Falkland Suite: Interlude II - Brian Eno,
    5. Falkland Suite: Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed - John Cale, Brian Eno,
    6. Falkland Suite: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - John Cale, Brian Eno,
    7. Songs Without Words, Pt. 1 - John Cale
    8. Songs Without Words, Pt. 2 - John Cale
    9. Soul of Carmen Miranda - John Cale, Brian Eno

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars a profoundly moving masterpiece.......2006-08-07

    this is arguably the greatest music documentary ever filmed. it certainly blows spinal tab right out of the tub. the filmmakers and musicians seem to have acted as one mind to bring us this condensed golden nugget of pure hillarity, this sublime comic fugue, this subtle, silvery spiderweb of laughs that will surely ensnare even the most stony-faced fly. so many great moments: the stiff interviews with perfectly timed awkward pauses, the endless takes of bellowing, bathetic singing, the crazy violinist...
    it's too bad that dylan thomas had to say good night before this came out, but i'm sure he's whirring happily in his grave. i hope one day this same team tackles some of the other luminaries of poetry.

    4 out of 5 stars Songs For the Living.......2004-12-07

    This is devotional music, pure but not so simple. Cale's,'Words For The Dying' has a sustained mood of sombre atonement. The lyrics are Dylan Thomas's and Cale flights them with the sublime sadness of a lover's rent heart. The international news of the day relayed the larger wound of the Falkland's War. It hovers over the project, and Cale responded to it, writing a suite of music performed here by the Orchestra of Symphonic & Popular Music of Gosteleradio from the former U.S.S.R. The voices of Llandaff Cathedral Choir School in Wales were enlisted as a counter to Cale's cool, haunting tones, and I suspect, congealed that crucial Welsh touchstone. Their edifice of plaintive, innocent voices is just one of the brilliant moves on this Brian Eno produced triumph. I suspect that those raised on the Spoonriver Anthology find Richard Buckner's repossession of its text leaves an indelible imprint. Cale has done this for these poems. Both Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas crossed my path during my 16th summer, the former at its inception, the latter at its close as part of my high school's curriculum. Both bards literally made the written word sing with emotion in fresh, intoxicating ways. My mother tongue had been reborn. Cale's take on his countryman's verse has re-seeded these emotions.

    4 out of 5 stars Lets go to Moscow.......2001-05-17

    This documentary on the making of Words for the Dying is fascinating, not least because it is a bit unconventional. I saw this on the big screen immediately after one of JC's performances at the London ICA a couple of years back - during the performance he and a DJ radically reworked his 'classic' songbook, forcing you to reapproach the songs afresh. Similarly, watch this and you'll find new things to appreciate in the album whose making it documents.

    There's a remarkable humour to this film. Eno refuses to be filmed, so the crew smuggle in hidden cameras to the sound booth - you really feel as if you're eavesdropping. Sometimes, the scenes are not directly relevant - JC checking out a local band, a virtuosic double bass warming up - but all blend to create an atmosphere of the process of making the album. Amid it all, you sense the drive to create something meaningful and special. In my opinion, the film is better than the recording it documents.

    Perhaps not to everybody's taste (out of maybe 300 at the concert, only five stayed for the screening!), but an engaging curiosity.

    5 out of 5 stars Well, I Like It.......2000-09-13

    I've bought a couple other John Cale albums, and I like this one the best. It might help if you like Gavin Bryars or Philip Glass or other contemporary composers: this isn't the simple songs of 'Paris 1919' - it's Dylan Thomas poetry set to orchestral music and a choir. I love the way Cale's voice contrasts with the orchestra and choir - very moving. The two "Songs Without Words" are excellent pieces in their own right, as is "The Soul of Carmen Miranda".

    3 out of 5 stars MAGNIFICENT CARMEN.......2000-05-26

    I agree with the current reviews. So why bother? I need to say that The Soul Of Carmen Miranda is one of Cale's most magnificent, moving songs. If not here, get it on Seducing Down The Door.
    Words for the Dying
    Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
    • Worth it for the Suite, alone
    • A curiosity.
    		 Words for the Dying

    Manufacturer: All Saints
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000B6ETD2
    Release Date: 2006-01-31

    Tracks:

    1. Introduction
    2. There Was A Saviour Interlude I
    3. On A Wedding Anniversary
    4. Interlude II
    5. Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
    6. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    7. Songs Without Words I
    8. Songs Without Words II

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Worth it for the Suite, alone.......2007-01-24

    This is one of my favorite Cale releases (Paris 1919 is up there as well). Sure, it's a bit of a hodge-podge, with lesser cuts filling out the cd. But it's worth the price for the Falklands Suite, alone.
    For what it's worth, I'm a long-time Cale and VU fan, and one of the art students who was responsible for recording the "Valleydale Tapes".

    2 out of 5 stars A curiosity........2006-02-10

    Perhaps the most unusual recording in John Cale's catalog, "Words for the Dying" is an album in three parts-- "The Falklands Suite", orchestral treatments on the poetry of Dylan Thomas, "Song Without words", a piano chamber performance by Cale, and "The Soul of Carmen Miranda", a collaborative effort with Brian Eno that would lead to the sublime "Wrong Way Up".

    Cale has a background is classical music and orchestra performance, so to find him composing for an orchestra is not all that surprising. The Falklands Suite works out to be a bit of an oddity-- performed with Cale as solo vocalist on top of a Welsh boys' choir and a Russian orchestra, Cale expresses himself musically in broad strokes, with a tendency towards lushness and drama and an unfortunate inclination towards somewhat irritating staccato punctuations. The arrangements themselves are fine (several of the pieces get a solo piano performance on "Fragments of a Rainy Season"), it's just that this doesn't seem to come together right. Either the orchestra feels lethargic ("Interlude II"), Cale sounds somewhat disinterested (the stunning arrangement of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night") or the choir seems to totally miss the intent behind either the arrangement ("Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed"). When you're very lucky, it seems all three of those come together ("On a Wedding Anniversary"). Having stated all of this, it makes for a reasonably pleasant listen, it's just that it doesn't really hold together.

    "Song Without Words" is pleasant enough-- Cale's solo piano performance has a nice edge to it and his playing is lovely, although admittedly the composition is not particularly intriguing and the piece really doesn't seem to go anywhere. The gem of the album is "The Soul of Carmen Miranda"-- with a lovely atmosphere and an intriguing sonic landscape, Cale's somewhat disaffected vocal takes on a stunning resonance and both the wordless harmony between him and Eno (brief though it may be) and the viola line that follows it are nothing less than stunning.

    Still, one track on a CD isn't really a good batting average. And while I haven't performed a side-by-side comparison, I'm not inclined to suspect that this 2006 reissue is remastered-- it sounds fine, but I don't hear a difference to speak of between this and the previous release (probably because there is none). My copy has had issues playing for a while, so I don't particularly feel I wasted my money (on the other hand, I never felt the burning need to replace that damaged copy before this reissue surfaced...). If you already have the previous issue of this recording, this one is probably worthless for you. If you don't, it's likely you don't need this-- this one is for Cale collectors and perhaps the completely rabid Eno fan.
    Words for the Dying
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      Manufacturer: United States Dist
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      ASIN: B0000AM6LA
      Release Date: 2003-09-23

      Tracks:

      1. Falkland Suite: Introduction - John Cale, Brian Eno,
      2. Falkland Suite: There Was a Saviour/Interlude I - Brian Eno,
      3. Falkland Suite: On a Wedding Anniversary - John Cale, Brian Eno,
      4. Falkland Suite: Interlude II - Brian Eno,
      5. Falkland Suite: Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed - John Cale, Brian Eno,
      6. Falkland Suite: Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night - John Cale, Brian Eno,
      7. Songs Without Words, Pt. 1 - John Cale
      8. Songs Without Words, Pt. 2 - John Cale
      9. Soul of Carmen Miranda - John Cale, Brian Eno
      The Parlour Grand: Piano Favorites from a Bygone Era
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        Manufacturer: Marquis Music
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        ASIN: B0000CG8BE
        Release Date: 2003-09-30

        Tracks:

        1. Fur Elise
        2. Spinning Song
        3. Traumerei
        4. Rustle Of Spring
        5. Reverie
        6. Si Oiseau J' 'Etais
        7. Romance In E-Flat
        8. Liebestraum
        9. Salut D'Amour
        10. Arabesque
        11. Menuet A L'Antique
        12. Melodie
        13. To A Wild Rose
        14. Romance Sans Paroles
        15. Prelude
        16. Humoresque
        17. The Dying Poet
        18. Le Secret

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        1. Serenade
        2. Spring Song
        3. Tango
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        5. Le Coucou
        6. The Musical Snuffbox
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        12. Alt-Wien
        13. Simple Aveu
        14. Country Gardens
        15. The Prayer Granted
        16. Narcissus
        17. Le Papillon
        18. Valse In C Sharp Minor

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        This two-CD set, performed by renowned pianist Robert Silverman, includes all the great music from The Parlour Grand Volume 1 and The Parlour Grand Volume 2.

        The music features piano favorites from the salon repertoire, including Beethoven's Für Elise and Frédéric Chopin's Valse in C Sharp Minor. These wonderful CDs evoke fond memories of simpler times, and evenings around the piano with family and friends.

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