A Week Away [Import]

a week away [import]

Track Listings
1. Week Away
2. Isn't It Great to Be Alive
3. Sweeping the Nation
4. Third of My Life
5. We're Going Out
6. Start Again
7. Best Ballroom
8. You Carry This With You
9. Trip into Space
10. It Won't Be Long Now
11. Making You Laugh
12. You Are Still My Brother
13. Saturday

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1999 album by band into three minute pop songs that any fan of Pulp will love! 13 tracks, including the single 'Sweeping The Nation'.

A Week Away,Spearmint,Hitback,Chamber Pop,Indie Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

A Week Away [Import]
A Week Away
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Excellent Indie Pop Album
 A Week Away
Spearmint
Manufacturer: Hitback
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002MQUC
Release Date: 2005-09-05

Tracks:

  1. Week Away
  2. Isn't It Great to Be Alive
  3. Sweeping the Nation
  4. Third of My Life
  5. We're Going Out
  6. Start Again
  7. Best Ballroom
  8. You Carry This With You
  9. Trip into Space
  10. It Won't Be Long Now
  11. Making You Laugh
  12. You Are Still My Brother
  13. Saturday

Album Description

1999 album by band into three minute pop songs that any fan of Pulp will love! 13 tracks, including the single 'Sweeping The Nation'.

Album Details

The Band's Classic Debut Album, Unavailable and Sought After.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Excellent Indie Pop Album.......2000-09-08

If you are wondering whether you should buy this CD, the answer is most likely yet. It is refreshingly original sounding, while at the same time evoking a feeling of familiarity - like they'd been there all the time in your sub-conscious mind, though you'd never even heard them. Its the music you always suspected someone could make if they just really were very good at it. "Sweeping The Nation" is probably the most well know track here, from once being single of the week in NME. Its quite good, though I like the singles "We're going Out" and "A Trip Into Space" even better. Almost every track here is excellent. The only ones I skip regularly are the few that use a certain profane word, because thats not my thing. But I highly recommend this album.
Music For Holy Week
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • a voice teacher and early music fan
  • What you would expect from Kings
  • Lovely til the end.
  • Vintage King's!
  • King's College Choir Proves Its Mastery Again
 Music For Holy Week

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:
  1. Miserere
  2. Passiontide at St. Paul's (A sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide and Easter)
  3. Images of Christ
  4. Great Choral Classics from King's Choir of King's College, Cambridge
  5. Gabrieli · Monteverdi · Vivaldi - Venetian Church Music / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players · Andrew Parrott

ASIN: B000002S5K
Release Date: 1995-02-14

Tracks:

  1. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Incipit lamentatio
  2. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Aleph
  3. Lamentations of Jeremiah I: Beth
  4. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: De lamentatione
  5. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Ghimel
  6. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Daleth
  7. Lamentations of Jeremiah II: Heth
  8. O nata lux
  9. Salvator mundi
  10. If Ye Love Me
  11. Cruicifixus
  12. There Is A Green Hill Far Away
  13. O vos omnes
  14. Nolo mortem peccatoris
  15. Tristis est anima mea
  16. Crux fidelis
  17. Videte omnes populi
  18. Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
  19. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
  20. Dum transisset Sabbatum I
  21. Jesus Christ Is Risen Today
  22. This Joyful Eastertide
  23. Haec dies
  24. Let All The World In Every Corner Sing!

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan.......2007-02-15

Perfection in delivery and hauntingly beautiful tone quality mark this performance of some glorious holy week music. The Choir of King's College is made up of approximately 30 members, 16 are the young boy choristers and 14 are the undergraduates, who are referred to as Scholars. This particular disc shows 2 different recording times:The Tallis selections comprising the first half of the record were recorded in 1981; the second half (of varied composers )was recorded in 1977. So we cannot be sure that all the personnel were the same, not that it really matters, because it is all so very excellent. HOwever, I think that the Tallis half sounds like only the Scholars were singing, because there are no boy sopranos, as in the 2nd half. Be that as it may, I'll comment on just a few of the works that I particularly enjoyed.
ALL OF THE TALLIS: "The Lamentations of Jeremiah" are usually transmitted as a single piece in most contemporary manuscripts, but they are really two separate compositions in different modes. Tallis and his contemporary John Sheppard were the only 2 English composers of the time to compose hymn settings of any quality. It has been suggested that they had it in mind to compose a cycle of settings for Mary Tudor's chapel. "O Nata lux" may belong to this Marian set. It is almost entirely homophonic, and relies rhetorically upon a flexible declamatory style. " Salvator Mundi" is one of Tallis's best-known motets. The masterly treatment of imitative writing is combined with a fine sense of structure and balance, achieved through repetition, to give a sense of large-scale design, a feature characteristic of Tallis's best large-scale compositions. And the most beautiful anthem on the disc: Tallis's "If Ye Love Me".
So much wonderful music, exquisitely sung; a delcious Easter treat!
I would like to mention to any Michael Chance fans who read this, he is definitely singing on this recording. In the first half it is very obvious, but I do think he is also on the 2nd half. He would have been with King's at this time. Just some trivia for those who are interested.

4 out of 5 stars What you would expect from Kings.......2005-03-23

This is a good recording--you wouldn't expect anything else from this choir. They just sing really well. Diction, tone, everything. Just great performance.

I disagree, as I usually do with Kings, with some of the repertoire selected. The Tallis Lamentations at the beginnning are sung well, but, quite honestly, I usually skip them because they're boring and I want to listen to a variety of pieces on the recording. The Lotti and Sheppard are also disastrous, not because of the performance, just because, in my opinion, they are disastrous as music anyway.

The hymns are probably the best music on this recording. They exemplify the true passion of the season. The other motets (besides the Lamentations) by Tallis are excellent. Leighton's "Let all the world", while I hate singing it, is an effective way to close the recording.

Overall, a good addition to your music library, but not a necessary one.

4 out of 5 stars Lovely til the end........2004-03-13

The music on this cd brings home the beauty of the loftiest, most beautiful cathedrals of Europe, and is fitting of the subject matter therein: the death and resurection of Christ. The only thing I have to complain about is the last selection. TERRIBLE! Forgive me, but I tried to listen to it with open mind and open heart... but everytime, the word terrible came to mind. I would try to keep my twitching fingers away from the skip buttom; but again, every time, I found my arm going straight for it. The last selection sounds like a horrible, tragicly corny and rediculous church-circus joke. The rest of the cd is gorgious. I'm just not into that new-age sound-- or whatever it's supposed to be. Did I mention that the last selection on this cd is repulsive? If I didn't, well, let me say that it stinks!!! Buy the cd anyway, and do like I do and skip the last selection... unless of course you have found a way to tollerate it.

5 out of 5 stars Vintage King's!.......2001-10-30

Superb ensemble singing from simply one of the finest choirs in the world. Philip Ledger's tenure at king's was relatively short but he produced a sublime sound from the choir. Then are many jewels on this disc from Lotti's 'Crucifixus' to the simply beautiful interpretation of Orlando Gibbon's 'Drop, drop slow tears'
Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars King's College Choir Proves Its Mastery Again.......2001-03-20

I have been extremely hungry to hear English Tudor composers lately and came across this CD. Since it contained works by Tallis, Morley, Gibbons, Taverner and Sheppard, was sung by my favorite choir, and was very reasonably priced, I figured I had nothing to lose. Everything else on the disc was frosting on the cake.

I am especially delighted with the attention to program on this CD. From following Tallis's lavishly dense "Lamentations" with his thrillingly sparse "O Nata Lux" (full of tasty cross relations), to following Taverner's "Dum transisset Sabbatum I" with the well known Easter hymn, "Jesus Christ is risen today," careful attention is given to pacing and contrast over the generous 73 min 18 sec of the recording.

If I were to select two items worthy of special note, I'd point you to Lotti's "Crucifixus" and Kenneth Leighton's "Let all the world in every corner sing." The first is certainly the most exquisite use of dissonance I've ever heard in a Baroque choral work. Burney records in his 1770 diaries that the Italian choir brought him to tears when it nailed the entries on dissonant suspensions, and this recording shows you exactly what he was talking about. In the context of this program, Leighton's anthem is also a thrilling piece of work. Though decidedly modern, it uses modern organ and choral writing to the service of the text. Never do I pull back and think, "Is this weirdness for weirdness' sake?" -- as I do when listening to the works of many moderns, and Gesualdo, for that matter. It is a thrilling ride on the crest of a wave of sound that brings the entire program of King's College Choir's "Music for Holy Week" to an exhilarating conclusion. (I don't know any other work by him. Surely this isn't unique in his catalog.)
A Week Away
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		A Week Away
    Spearmint
    Manufacturer: Apricot Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000059QDX
    Release Date: 1999-09-06

    Tracks:

    1. Week Away
    2. Isn't It Great to Be Alive
    3. Sweeping the Nation
    4. Third of My Life
    5. We're Going Out
    6. Start Again
    7. Best Ballroom
    8. You Carry This With You
    9. Trip into Space
    10. It Won't Be Long Now
    11. Making You Laugh
    12. You Are Still My Brother
    13. Saturday

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