Beginning From an End (Fairweather) [Import]

beginning from an end (fairweather) [import]

Track Listings

1. God Cried Mother

2. Don' Mess With Cupid

3. Dead and Past

4. I Hear You Knockin'

5. You Ain't No Friend

6. Sit and Think

7. Looking for the Red Label

8. Poor Man's Bum a Run

9. Natural Sinner [*]

10. Haven't I Tried [*]

11. Tutti Frutti [*]

12. Road to Freedom [*]

13. Lay It on Me [*]

14. Looking for the Red Label, Pt. 2 [*]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
German reissue of 1971 album includes six bonus tracks, 'Natural Sinner', 'Haven't I Tried', 'Tutti Frutti', 'Road To Freedom', 'Lay It On Me' & 'Looking For The Red Label (Part 2)'. Repertoire.

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Beginning From an End (Fairweather) [Import]

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Exceptional!
rhythm + romanticism + melody = Mobilize
Only 500 times over...
Move to this.
Even Better By Himself?

Mobilize
Grant Lee Phillips , and Grant-Lee Phillips
Manufacturer: Zoe Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005LCFW
Release Date: 2001-08-14

Tracks:

See America
Humankind
Love's A Mystery
Sadness Soot
We All Get A Taste
Spring Released
Lazily Drowning
Like A Lover
Mobilize
Beautiful Dreamers
Sleepless Lake
April Chimes

Customer Reviews:

Exceptional!.......2006-02-24

Was always a big fan of Grant Lee Buffalo, "Jubilee" totally rules, and Grant Lee on his own rocks too!

"Like A Lover" is one of the simplest songs, but conveys so much feeling, it knocks me out everytime I hear it.

"Mobilize" the beat always makes me think of Portishead, such a cool song

"Spring Released" is one of those songs that's timeless. It's like religion to play this track coming into the sunny season.

Do yourself a favour and buy anything of this exceptional musician that you can get your hands on. C'mon Grant Lee, give us another!!

rhythm + romanticism + melody = Mobilize.......2005-07-14

"Epic masterpiece..." "Channeling John Lennon" These are descriptions from other reviews, both puzzling to me. There's nothing epic about this, nor is there the slightest resemblance to Mr. Lennon -- who composed music in an entirely different vein. This is a personal album, sometimes quiet and sometimes hypnotically beat-driven. As far as I can tell GLP played and sang everything himself. This is like his earlier Ladies Love Oracle, but juiced up with rhythm. Acoustic guitars and electric keyboards predominate, with the sythetic percussion.

Mobilize doesn't really hang together as a unified piece. It is more a collection of songs, most of which are very good. The best of them are dreamy, entrancing, and soothing. Computer-sequenced beats give a pulse to many of the tracks. The lyrics are specific enough to be enticing but vague enough to allow your own interpretation. But take advantage of the free amazon.com download of See America and you will hear for yourself the strengths of this Grant-Lee Phillips effort. It will tell you ten times more than I could ever say in a review. Besides, there are only two kinds of music: good and bad. And you and I will never completely agree on which is which. At least give this a try. Was See America Grant-Lee's twist on Simon & Garfunkel's "...all come to look for America"? It seems so to me, and I think it is equally clever and anthemic.

See America, Sleepless Lake, and April Chimes showcase Phillips' ability to write a haunting melody, which is something of a lost art. See his Ladies Love Oracle CD for more of the same.

The other free download, the title track, is probably the least enjoyable tune on the album. It sounds a bit off-kilter, with its minor chords and allusions to war. The other tracks are much less depressing. Spring Released is positively bouyant, as is Beautiful Dreamers. (My grandmother used to play the classic old song Beautiful Dreamer, which GLP deftly incorporates into his own new composition.)

GLP is not trying to push the envelope or pump you up or sermonize. He seeks to entertain, by presenting a little piece of his contempative romantic soul. Treat yourself to some high class pop. Get this album. You can catch glimpses of GLP as the "town troubadour" on the first season of Gilmore Girls, too. That's how I was first introduced to his music.

I lost my first copy of this CD. I can't imagine how. It never left the house. But I had to buy another, because I knew I would miss it. I think you might feel that way about it, too.

Only 500 times over..........2002-11-08

I first heard Grant-Lee when he was part of Grant-Lee Buffalo. A friend made me a tape of "Mighty Joe Moon" about six years ago. I hadn't really thought about Grant-Lee until I saw the Exile Follies tour with Kristen Hersh, Grant-Lee and John Doe. I was so impressed with Grant-Lee that I had to hear more. I downloaded parts of songs from this album and listened to them over and over. I had to buy the album. So I bought it a week ago and have been listening to nothing else but this since. It's on most of the day at work and then on in the car for four or five songs at a time. I truly love this cd, it's a good thing that it's not on tape or the tape would be worn out already.

There is something really catchy about the songs that make you want to listen to them over and over. They also get stuck in your head and you just have to listen to them! "Spring Released," "Sadness Soot" and "Beautiful Dreamers" are the main ones that I keep singing over and over in my head. "See America" has a wonderful romantic sound to it that makes you want to take a road trip. I thought the lyrics seemed really cool at first, then I read the lyrics in the liner notes and realized that they are even cooler than they sound, they are quite poetic.

If you've never heard Grant-Lee, I've learned that you're missing out. He's definitely up there with my faves - PJ Harvey, Kristen Hersh, Tori and Liz Phair. I will definitely be adding more Grant-Lee Phillips to my collection as I can afford it.

Move to this........2002-08-26

Grant Lee Phillips is a top-class singer-songwriter who has a wealth of experience as well as two or three truly great records behind him, and somehow you just knew he wasn't going to disappoint with Mobilize. It finds Phillips embracing a more polished, modern sound than past efforts - accentuated by the classy, breatless pop of the opener 'See America' and similarly impressive 'Humankind'. As the title suggests 'Love's A Mystery' is all mystique and intrigue with Phillips sounding eerily like David Byrne, and is exactly the kind of left-field tunesmithery on the human condition at which he excels.
The real gem here though is 'Sadness Soot' - dizzying in it's magnificence and showcasing just how remarkable Phillips' voice really is - a master of phrasing, mood and expression. As with his Grant Lee Buffalo albums, just when you think you're in for more pop thrills, we get something edgy and challenging like the title track to throw you off the scent. The second half of Mobilize is engaging and interesting, if a little less consistent than the first (though that's a common complaint these days). Still, the bonus track 'Sunday Best' is a rather jaunty closing treat.
For listeners that like their music to be innovative, fresh and just a little outside the square then Mobilize will fit the bill nicely.

Even Better By Himself?.......2002-08-06

Having been an enourmous fan of his work in 'Grant lee Buffalo', I was anxious to hear what he could come up with by himself. After hearing 'Ladies Love Oracle', I was expecting something the same, but what I heard really delighted me. I love Ladies Love Oracle and I love Mobilize.

Grant-Lee is simply one of THE GREAT singer-songwriters (of all time in my oppinion), and now he's taken the genre into cool new territories. If you liked Grant Lee Buffalo, you won't have absolutely NO objections with this album,despite it being quite a bit more 'funky' (for want of a better work) with its electric drums etc...

Grant-Lee's strengths have always been his song writing ability and his voice and these things both come through strong with his 'new sound' (which is equally as appealing and beautiful as it is different to the 'Buffalo' sound).

I was fortuneate enough to hear him live (twice) in Brisbane (australia) in May '02 and it was trully amazing. He is such a talented guy.

Tracks:

Last Action Hero: Le Nozze De Figaro: Ov - Orch Der Deutschen Opr Berlin/Karl Bohm
The Untouchables: Pagliacci: 'Recitar!' - Carlo Bergonzi
The Godfather III: Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo - Gothenburg SO/Neeme Jarvi
Howard's End: Sym No.5: Allegro Con Brio - VPO/Carlos Kleiber
Philadelphia: Andrea Chenier: 'La Mamma Morta' - Mirella Freni
Apocalypse Now: The Ride Of The Valkyries - BPO/Herbert Von Karajan
Amadeus: Requiem: 'Lacrimosa' - Wiener Singverein
Hannah And Her Sisters: Hpd Con, BWV 1056: Largo - Trevor Pinnock
The Ladykillers: Str Qnt, G 275: Menuet - Orpheus CO
A Room With A View: Gianni Schicchi: 'O Mio Babbino Caro' - Mirella Freni
Anna Karenina: Swan Lake: Scene No.10 - Boston SO/Seiji Ozawa
Death In Venice: Sym No.5: Adagietto - Bayerischen RSO/Rafael Kubelik
Casino: St. Matthew Passion: 'Wir Setzen Uns Mit Tranen Nieder' - The Monteverdi Chor
Elvira Madigan: Pno Con No.21: Andante - Friedrich Gulda
Punchline: Gayaneh: Sabre Dance - Leningrad PO/Rozhdestvensky
The Witches Of Eastwick: Turandot: 'Nessun Dorma' - Placido Domingo
A Clockwork Orange: Pomp And Circumstance: March No.1 - Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli

Tracks:

2001: A Space Odyssey: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Beginning) - VPO/Lorin Maazel
Fatal Attraction: Madama Butterfly: 'Un Bel Di Vedremo' - Mirella Freni
Kolya: Str Ser: Moderato - ECO/Rafael Kubelik
Wall Street: Rigoletto: 'Questo O Quella' - Placido Domingo
J.F.K.: Hn Con No.2: Andante - Gerd Seifert
Diva: La Wally: 'Ebben?...Ne Andro Lontana' - Mirella Freni
Shine: Prld, Op.3 No.2 - Anatol Ugorski
Out Of Africa: Cl Con: Adagio - Harold Wright
Platoon: Adagio For Strs - ASMF/Neville Marriner
10: Bolero - Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli
Jurassic Park: Main Title - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri
Dances With Wolves: John Dunbar Theme - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri
Brave Heart: Main Title - Chor Of Westminster Abbey
The English Patient: Main Title - ASMF/Harry Rabinowitz
Titanic: My Heart Will Go On - Prague Philharmonia/Nick Ingman
Star Wars: The Throne Room/End Title - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri
Excalibur: Carmina Burana: 'O Fortuna' - Chicago Sym Chor

Customer Reviews:

the best music ever.......2004-02-19

My daughter ( at age 17) bought this CD and played it at home. I instantly fell in love with the music. It is the most incredible music I have ever listened to. I put it on my computer so that every time I am on
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Greatest hits of classical music.......2001-08-13

The use of the words "from the Movies" in the title of this compilation is misleading. While there are a handful of titles that were great originals from movies (the Star Wars theme, for example), the majority of the music is simply great classical music that happened to show up in a movie. This technicality aside, the music was amazing. The clarinet concerto and the Puccini opera from "Witches of Eastwick" are two of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

An excellent collection of classic music from great movies.......2001-08-03

I belong to that camp of people who think that if Mozart was alive today he would be writing scores for theatrical films. The best thing about "Music From the Movies" is that it combines the use of classical music in movies, such as Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries" in "Apocalypse Now" and Puccini's "O Mio Babbino Caro" in "A Room With a View" with John Williams' "Main Title" from "Jurassic Park" and the "John Dunbar Theme" from John Barry's score for "Dances With Wolves." Unfortunately of the 33 tracks on this 2-disc set, only the last half-dozen or so are by contemporary composers. So the chief charm of this collection remains that it allows you to identify the classic music used in movies such as "Platoon," "A Clockwork Orange," "Wall Street," and "Kolya." Placido Domingo and Herbert Von Karajan are representative of the singers and conductors included in this collection, which is truly one of the better sets featuring classical music in the movies.

This is nourishment for the soul!.......2001-06-04

I ordered this CD to get one piece of music only. What I received in reality was a compilation of masterpieces to refresh and enliven my very soul. The operatic selections are well known pieces performed by 'the great ones' (i.e Placido Domingo). Here you get the best of opera without having to endure what the uneducated would consider tendious. Additionally, I was surprised to discover how many movies themes were excerpts from the classics. This CD includes the name and movement of each selection, as well as the performer. It is a wonderful appetizer before investing in a full meal. I didn't begin with this intention, but now I want to hear complete pieces; anticipating a new excitment for many of the composers.

Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music

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Every last note...

Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music

Manufacturer: Nimbus Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000037AX
Release Date: 1997-11-18

Tracks:

Handel In The Strand
Bridal Lullaby
English Waltz
Mock Morris
To A Nordic Princess
In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
In A Nutshell-Ste: IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
Peace
Saxon Twi-Play
Andante Con Moto
Children's March
The Immovable Do
Sailor's Song
Colonial Song
Walking Tune
Harvest Hymn
In Dahomey

Tracks:

b flat Pno Con (Opening)
Cradle-Song
Love Walked In
Second Pno Con (3rd Movt)
Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
Nimrod
Ramble On The Last Love-Duet
Chinese Melody-Beautiful Fresh Flower
Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster'
American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
'Blithe Bells'
Fugue In a
The Man I Love

Tracks:

Country Gardens
The Merry King
Molly On The Shore
Irish Tune From County Derry
Knight And Shepard's Daughter
The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
Jutish Medley
Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
The Rival Brothers
Near Woodstock Town
Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
The Brisk Young Sailor
One More Day My John (Easy Version)
Rimmer And Goldcastle
Spoon River
The Widow's Party
The Hunter In His Career
My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
Died For Love
Scotch Strathspey
One More Day My John (Complex Version)
Bristol Town
Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
Mo Ninghean Dhu
Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
Stalt Vesselil
O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
Shepard's Hey

Tracks:

Four Irish Dances: I. A March-Jig
Four Irish Dances: II. A Slow Dance
Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
Four Irish Dances: IV. A Reel
Nell
Apres Un Reve
Pno Con, First Movt
Tiger-Tiger
Air And Dance
Hornpipe
Toccata And Fugue in d
Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster' (Easy Grainger)
Angelus Ad Virginem
Klavierstuck in E
Eastern Intermezzo
The Bigelow March
Pno Con, First Movt
At Twilight
Klavierstuck in a
Klavierstuck in B Flat
Klavierstuck in D

Tracks:

Children's March: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'
Up-Country Song (Colonial Song)
English Dance
Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
'Spoon River'-American Folk Dance
Train Music
Zanzibar Boat-Song
Paganini Varations, No.12
Green Bushes-Passacaglia On An English Folksong
William Byrd's Air And Variations For The Virginals 'The Carman's Whistle'
'A Dance Rhapsody'
Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
The Warriors-Music To An Imaginary Ballet

Customer Reviews:

Every last note..........2006-06-14

A super budget 5 CD collection of all of Grainger's Piano music.
Every last note!
The shipping alone would be $17.00+ for the 5 individual Cds.
Englishman Martin Jones plays these as if he wrote them. He is thoroughly inside this music.
I think his best work to date.
He is joined on CD #5 by Richard Mcmahon and Phillip Martin. Where they rollick in various combos and trios on 1, 2 and 3 pianos. This is exhilerating. Especially on an truly uplifting version of Green Bushes.
The entire set is strongly idiomatic and given a clear, crisp, warm and spacious recording. FIRST CLASS sound.
There are too many highlights to single out, but the In A Nutshell Suite and Green Bushes are especially GOOD!
There is not a bad note or "vibe" on any of these CDs.
Highly recommended for Granger fans and fans of English Piano Music.

Critic's Choice: Leonard Maltin's Best Movie Themes of the '90s

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A great CD for those who appreciate movie themes

Critic's Choice: Leonard Maltin's Best Movie Themes of the '90s

Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SVHW
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

Critic's Choice Theme
Titanic Suite: Distant Memories/Southampton/Rose/Take Her To Sea Mr. Murdoch
Basic Instinct: An Unending Story
Maverick Suite
The Firm: Main Title/Ray's Blues
Ed Wood: Main Title
Shakespeare In Love Suite: The End/The Beginning Of The Partnership
Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Orchestral Suite
The Mask Of Zorro Suite: The Plaza Of Execution/Zorro's Theme/Love Theme
Saving Private Ryan: Hymn To The Fallen

Tracks:

First Knight Orchestral Suite: Arthur's Fanfare/Main Title/End Credits/Camelot/Arthur's Farewell
Fast, Cheap & Out Of Control: Eternal Future II
As Good As It Gets
The English Patient: Rupert Bear/As Far As Florence
American Beauty: Dead Already/Any Other Name
Braveheart: End Credits
Life Is Beautiful: Buon Giorno Principessa/Abbiano Vinto
John Grisham's The Rainmaker: Kelly's Theme
The Lion King Orchestral Suite
Schindler's List: Theme From Schindler's List/Jewish Town/Remembrances

Customer Reviews:

A great CD for those who appreciate movie themes.......2000-10-06

I enjoyed this CD because Leonard Martin does a good job in selecting the scores of movies that are special in itself, outside from the context of the movie. His selection is diverse, in the sense that it includes scores of not only the big blockbusters of the 90s (Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart), but also of the movies that have already been forgotten (Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, and The Rainmaker). There is reasoning behind such a selection, according to Martin: "Some scores wear well over time and provide a rewarding experience long after the movie begins to recede in one's memory."

Martin selects the scores from a variety of film genres (drama, dark comedy, suspense,for example) which translates into a well rounded compilation of musical pieces (classical,spanish-inspired, blues, etc). He also includes liner notes reagrding each selection and composer, which serves as a brief, yet interesting, background regarding each selection.

The only qualm that I have with the CD is the abscence of some of my personal favorites, which are certainly memorable both as films and as scores. Reagarding such statements Martin states that "Lists, of course, are highly arbitrary and designed to provoke argument." Moreover, Martin acknowledges that selections are not the only great scores of the past decade; they are, however, among his favorites. I definitely agree with him on this statement.

Purchase the CD for not only your favorites but for the nice variety that Martin put together. You will be surprised that you will love the scores, even of the movies you may not have seen!

Echo The Moon
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Echo The Moon
Impossible Recording Machine
Manufacturer: Positron! Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00024NX58
Release Date: 2004-05-11

Tracks:

Fearless
The Darkest Sun
Deceleration
Give
Like Air
Body In Negative
Exhaustion
Echo The Moon

Album Description

If Axioms, Impossible Recording Machine's first release, was a sampling of disparate moods and textures ranging from pop to experimental to ambient, Echo The Moon, their second release, is a more singular vision, following the course of an emotive theme from beginning to end. Echo The Moon is alternately beautiful and eerie, gentle and razor-sharp. Flashes of optimism gleam amid waves of hopelessness... sounds which are at once familiar and alien flow together like metaphysical currents.

Ives Plays Ives / Record # 4 in "Charles Ives, the 100th Anniversary"

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Interesting, historically important CD
man and machine
Ives speaks for himself, better late than never.
Recordings of a Twentieth Century Master
Precious moments with America's greatest composer.

Ives Plays Ives / Record # 4 in "Charles Ives, the 100th Anniversary"

Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K2FD
Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Beg.)
June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (End)
June 12,1933: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
June 12,1933: Improvisation On A Passage In Study No. 23, Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 2, And Emerson Overture's Cadenza No. 4 (With False Start)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11 (Abandoned)
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
Mid 1930s: Study No. 11
Mid 1930s: Patch For Study No. 23
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (Beg.)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson' No. 1 (End)
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
Mid 1930s: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Beg.)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (End)
May 11,1938: Study No. 11
May 11,1938: Study No. 9: The Anti-Abolitionist Riots
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 with false start
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (Beg.)
May 11,1938: Study No. 2 (End)
May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Abandoned)
May 11,1938: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 1 (Middle)
May 11,1938: Study No. 23 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No. 1
May 11,1938: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Hawthorne' (Excerpt)
May 11,1938: Symphony No. 1 - Rejected Mvt. 2 (Largo)
May 11,1938: Unidentified (Improvisation On The 'Sunrise' Cadenza'?)
May 11,1938: Study No. 20 (Partial)
May 11,1938: Three Improvisations, No.3
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Sonata No. 2 For Piano: Concord, Mass., 'Emerson' (Partial)
April 24, 1943: Study No. 2 + Study No. 23 (Mixed)
April 24, 1943: Four Transcriptions From 'Emerson,' No. 3 (Abandoned)
April 24, 1943: Study No.9: The Anti-Abolishonist Riots
April 24, 1943: They Are There!, First Take (Abandoned)
April 24, 1943: They Are There!, Second Take
1943/04/24 They Are There!, Third Take
April 24, 1943: March No. 6 For Piano With 'Here's To Good Old Yale'
April 24, 1943: Sonata No.2 for Piano: Concord, Mass., 'The Alcotts'

Amazon.com essential recording

In his lifetime, maverick composer Charles Ives entered the recording studio only four times, mostly to hear (and tinker with) his works in progress. He ended up doing 42 takes of 17 different pieces on the piano, all recorded between 1933 and 1943: everything from snippets of the unfinished Emerson Concerto to his rousing wartime anthem "They Are There!" It's a varied lot, to say the least, but now we have his complete recordings on one CD. The sound quality isn't great and you can easily hear how frustrated Ives is by the newfangled technology (recording techniques restricted his playing to five minute chunks). That said, you couldn't ask for a greater insight into the composer.

Most of these pieces derive from Ives's unfinished Emerson concerto for piano and orchestra, but the entire package is one big treasure chest. Here we have the composer at work: improvising, (occasionally) frustrated, frenzied, and--most of all--creative. His playing is as off-the-wall as you can imagine: fast, improvised, with failed notes galore, and occasionally spot-on. Highlights abound--just check out "The Alcotts" from the Concord Sonata (No. 2) to hear him at his performance peak--but the most memorable cuts feature Ives himself singing. His three versions of the wartime anthem "We Are There!" should give hope to any struggling vocalist... for a career either selling insurance or composing great music. Yes, his voice is simply awful, but the music and history contained on this disc are breathtaking. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, historically important CD.......2005-08-16

To hear Ives play his own works is a real treasure. Of course, the recording quality is spotty at best, and the tracks recorded on the Speak-O-Phone are sometimes almost unbearable to hear.

But other tracks have excellent sound and you can catch Ives at his creative and offbeat best.

Those willing to bear with the sound limitations will be well rewarded when they hear the final track 42, which is particularly beautiful and because it comes indirectly from a tape transfer has better sound quality.

man and machine.......2002-04-09

This is a fantastic peek at the complexities of the recording art.. Charlie was lucky to have access to recording technology, and yet it was quite frustrating for him.

Easy to forget the 'miracle.' John Kirkpatrick once told me that his recording of the Concord required something like 43 different 'takes' (if you will); I guess I had assumed it was just one run through.

I'm grateful for all the 'Emerson' here. It is my favorite part of Concord. I heard some of these recordings back in '73, and they really have been lovingly upgraded. Thank you for making these available to us.

Ives speaks for himself, better late than never........2001-12-07

Shades of Cecil Taylor! This collection flies in the face of attempts to create "definitive" performance scores for Ives' compositions. The composer who imagined a world without symphony orchestras, where one simply thought-created the music while contemplating nature, can hardly be tied down to an engraving of notes. It wasn't only the skill to perform his compositions that Ives demanded of musicians, but the spirit to enter into them - a conceptual understanding & a will to get at them from the inside out.

I still believe Charlie was willfully naive & had a neurotic fear of success. While he looked over his shoulder at the "Rollos" of American music, as if they mattered, he missed out on the emergence of the very generation of composers & artists who were his exact, or nearly exact, contemporaries. There was no Armory Show in Ives' world; no Alfred Stieglitz; no Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams; no Arensberg salon. He worked himself half to death & shamelessly let younger men do the heavy lifting of his reputation. This recording shows how revelatory Ives might have been to Europeans, had he gone to bat "over there" for his own art when he was both healthy & wealthy. Ives took a great gamble with his art. Thank heavens it paid off.

Recordings of a Twentieth Century Master.......2001-11-06

The preceeding descriptions of the music are good. I just wanted to add this: The playing and singing of '...They are there!' that Ives demonstrates towwards the end of the disc is some really musicially sensitive stuff. It is what Charles Ives is all about; no 'rollo,' no inhibitions, just playing and expression without self consciousness. I would very strongly recommend this recording to anyone who improvises and anyone who composes; you really should hear this. However, for anyone, hearing genius at the piano is good fun and very interesting...

Precious moments with America's greatest composer........2000-05-12

The millenium's over, the ballots are in, and the winner of the Most Important Twentieth Century American Composer title is--still--Charles Ives. Ives was a great composer with his own voice, a lofty vision, and sense of humor besides. He was also a nationalist, but in the best way, overtly embracing the music which meant the most to his countrymen--hymns, popular tunes, the mainline classics--and adapting it for his own use.
Ives' music is likely among the most complicated ever put on a page, and generations of musicians have wondered if they had broken Ives' code and were playing it the way he wanted it. Wonder no more! This CD presents rare examples of Ives playing his own stuff. The good news is that performers pretty much had it right. The bad news is that the music here is strictly for the Ives fanatic. Don't start your Ives recording collection here. Even with the most ingenious digital enhancement, the sound quality is generally poor and way too much time is spent on those damnable Emerson studies and other recondite repertoire. But the performances of "They are there," are a lot of fun, and the reading of "The Alcotts" is revelatory. So is that enough to make the CD worth getting? Darned right!!

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From Beginning to End
Destination
Manufacturer: Unidisc Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00001ZT5Q
Release Date: 1994-10-07

Tracks:

Beginning: Destination's Theme/Let Us Entertain You
Move on Up Suite: Move on Up/Up Up Up
Castles Suite: Search/Castles in the Sky/The Dream
My No. 1 Request: Put It Where You Want It/Unfinished Sympphony/Fa ...
End: The Party/The Party's Over

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Music so good, sound so fine.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Manufacturer: Mca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006WL5N
Release Date: 2002-10-29

Tracks:

Main Titles
Far from Home/E.T. Alone
Bait for E.T.
Meeting E.T.
E.T.'s New Home
Beginning of a Friendship
Toys
"I'm Keeping Him"
E.T.'s Powers
E.T. and Elliott Get Drunk
Frogs
At Home
Magic of Halloween
Sending the Signal
Searching for E.T.
Invading Elliott's House
E.T. Is Dying
Losing E.T.
E.T. Is Alive!
Escape/Chase/Saying Goodbye
End Credits

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Music so good, sound so fine........2004-04-14

I was very excited when I first heard about an SACD realease for the E.T. Soundtrack, 'cause it's been my favourite for 22 years. Even though I didn't have an SACD player, I bought it. When I got home, I played it on my Marantz regular CD player, and I was impressed by how good it sounds. As this day I was off, I went down town for some browsing, looking for a discounted SACD player, and I got it. For the second time in the same day, this SACD surprised me. It just sounds so real, instruments feel like if they were in my listening room. All the harshness of the previous CD releases is gone, instead, you have this beautiful performance perfectly captured on a disc. Everything is on this SACD, all the subtleties of the instruments, the ambience of the recording hall on the surround channels, musicians coughing or turning the pages of their music books... This SACD is a real BARGAIN!!!

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all cd specialy move on up!!!
FIVE STAR CLASSIC DISCO.
A PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Beginning to End ~ Destination
Destination: Excellent concept album

From Beginning to End
Destination
Manufacturer: Hot Productions
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001QUP
Release Date: 1994-02-07

Tracks:

'The Beginning': I. Destination's Theme/II. Let Us Entertain You
'Move On Up Suite': I. Move On Up/II. Up Up Up
'Castles Suite': I. Search/II. Castles In The Sky/III. The Dream
'My #1 Request': I. Put It Where You Want It/II. Unfinished Symphony/III. Fantasy From Mortishia To Gomez Addams
'The End': I. The Party/II. The Party's Over

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all cd specialy move on up!!!.......2006-01-21

this is the best music ever there is nothing like it the music from back then it was specialy for one thing dance and feel good and enjoy it i love it im buy already the cd, this music dont make it no more is a shame, coz the music of today is to comercial and make no sense.

FIVE STAR CLASSIC DISCO........2005-08-30

ESTE ES UN ALBUM CLASICO DE LA MUSICA DISCO Y NO DUDO QUE SEA DE LA ENTERA SATISFACCIÓN DE CUALQUIER ADMIRADOR DE LA MUSICA DISCO O DANCE, HOT ESTA EDITANDO ESTO AHORA EN CD-R, LO CUAL ES UNA LASTIMA YA QUE HOT HABIA GANADO YA CIERTO PRESTIGIO COMO MARCA DANCE, PERO POR LO VISTO NO LE IMPORTA PERDER ESO CON TAL DE GANAR MAS CON MENOS CALIDAD, RECOMIENDO QUE SI COMPRAN ESTE CD LO COPIEN ENSEGUIDA, YA QUE ESTOS CD-R DE HOT TIENDEN A "GASTARSE". PERO VALE LA PENA, POR DESGRACIA NO EXISTE OTRA EDICION.
THIS ALBUM IS WORTH ENOUGH TO BUY,BUT IT¨S A CD-R IF YOU BUY IT, "BURN IT" BECAUSE SOONER OR LATER THIS HOT CD-R's GET WORN OUT, WHAT A SHAME HOT PRODUCTIONS !

A PROBLEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-08-26

THE PROBLEM : IT'S A CDR HOT PRODUCTIONS LIKE FOOLING PEOPLE WITH CDR'S CDR CD R CD R CDR CDR CDR CDR CDR CCDR GO TO UNIDISC

From Beginning to End ~ Destination.......2005-08-05

This cd is a wonderful product ,i like disco music and that cd is a classic. Very excellent

Destination: Excellent concept album.......2004-09-20

This album has been a huge hit in the disco back in the 70's.
The original song "move on up" has been originally created and performed by the great Curtis Mayfield.
Always a lot of fun listening to the beats.

Ballet & Opera: 50 Classical Performances

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Ballet & Opera: 50 Classical Performances

Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000663ZD
Release Date: 2002-04-23

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