I Understand

I Understand

ASIN: B000AARK6C

Track Listings

1. Another Paycheck Blown

2. It's Not Over 'Til It's Over

3. Midnight Train

4. I Understand

5. Someone Else Tonight

6. Quirk of Fate

7. Odds 7 to 3

8. Nothing Left To Say

9. Country Gold

10. A Thinking Man

I Understand,Brett Williams,Realm Records International,Christian Rock,Country,Pop,Rock

I Met You, My Love
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Top of the line - incredible!

Long-awaited follow-up to "Dark Eyes"

ANOTHER WONDERFUL ALBUM FROM DMITRI

Dmitri at his best

Hvorostovsky in his Milieu

I Met You, My Love
Hvorostovsky , Orbelian , and Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-07-30

Tracks:

I Met You, My Love
No, It's Not You I Love So Fervently
Only Once
Bright Is The Night
I Remember The Charming Sound Of The Waltz
O, If Only I Could Express In Sounds
Do Not Awaken Memories
The Coachman's Song
In The Wide Open Field
The Lonely Coach Bell Rings
Misty Morning
But I Love You, Nevertheless
The Troika Speeds, The Troika Gallops
The Autumn Wind Moans Mournfully
At The Fateful Hour
I Loved You
The Weeping Willows Slumber
You Cannot Understand
Shine, Shine, My Star

Customer Reviews:

Top of the line - incredible!.......2007-05-13

If I could give this 100 stars I would do it. Since my trip to Russia in 2006 I "discovered" Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and have since purchased much of his music on CDs and DVDs. All tracks on this particular CD are incredibly beautiful - beyond imagination. Mr. Hvorostovsky was rightfully chosen the "Best Singer of the World" when he was a young man. His lush, full baratone voice is, as the young generation says, "to die for". He has an impressive range, and one can tell he feels music deeply by the nuances in his singing. This CD is one of my favorites of his singing.

Long-awaited follow-up to "Dark Eyes".......2003-01-04

Ever since "Dark Eyes", one of the first albums of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, came out, I've been wishing for the baritone to record more Russian romances. Looks like Delos is more committed to preserving this magnificent voice on record more than Philips did. After all, "Dark Eyes" had a lot of orchestral music, though wonderfully performed by Ossipov orchestra, it effectively reduced the sang material by some about 15 minutes or so. This is certainly not the case here. Well oven an hour of excellent singing is recorded (close-miked) with no interruptions. The songs themselves are the ones most often performed as encored by Russian singers. While baritones or basses have the strongest claim to them, most likely stemming from a long Russian tradidion of low male voice solo, tenors and even mezzo-sopranos have performed some of those to great acclaim.

The absolute hardest thing about performing these songs is not to make them sound sappy, vulgar, or over-done. Of all Russian singers who dealt with this material, I most often think of bass Boris Shtokolov, who sang them with utmost care. Dmitri does just that here. His care for the texts is what strikes me first while listening to "I Met You", a reflective serenade to love long lost. While all songs are spectacularly presented, I would like to mention "Misty Morning" and "I loved you". Like the title song, they are both filled with gentle melancholy, and sang with great tenderness and feeling. Some high-energy items, such as "Troika" seem just a little out of place, but the voice is a sheer pleasure to listen to. In "Oh, Could I in Song Tell My Sorrow", there's a strange change from traditional "your heart would break" to "my heart would break". I am not sure as to why this was done, particularly since the Cyrillic texts are absent.

In liner notes, Hvorostovsky explains the dedication of this album to his father, a chemical engineer, who managed to convey his love for the classical music and Russian romances to his son. I think all fathers need to learn from this man. Wondrous results stem from right upbringing!
The only minor quibble I have is the cover picture. It seems like the producers wanted to target exclusively the female part of the audience by using lots of shades of red color and lots of subdued candlelight. Well, I am sure there are lots of Dmitri's fans among men, particularly those of us who study voice, so I wish Delos would not make the cover so extravagant.
The engineering of this album, though, is very appropriate. The voice is placed well above orchestra (conducted with perfection by Constantine Orbelian) and each word is clearly heard. Together with Verdi Arias recording this shows that Delos engineers are fully capable of capturing the voice of this size and beauty well on record, something I doubted when listening to an otherwise lovely album of Neapolitan Songs.
I am sure non-Russian speakers will enjoy this CD just as much as Russians. After all, we all feel the same, and Dmitri's exceptional talent just makes it easier to communicate across cultural barriers.

ANOTHER WONDERFUL ALBUM FROM DMITRI.......2002-10-11

Once again, Dmitri Hvorostovsky has done another beautiful album. I'm completely thrilled with his last three releases on the Delos lable--the Verdi Album, the Passione di Napoli album and this new Russian love song album. As I have previously indicated on my review of his Passione di Napoli album, I've been a fan of his since his very beginnings in opera, and I do feel that he is truly in his vocal prime.
This album is for the "romantic at heart". The songs are beautiful as is the singing. All I can say of this endeavor is Bravo!!
I'm truly grateful that Hvorostovky's recording career was extended by the Delos lable!!

Dmitri at his best.......2002-10-09

What a treat this CD is. I've been waiting years for the great Hvorostovsky to record another album of Russian folk music, and this is arguably his best collection of that genre to date. Recorded in August, 2001, Hvorostovsky has never sounded better, and the sound quality admirably complements his rich, velvety baritone. Unlike his earlier collection of Neapolitan songs for the same label (DELOS), the recording balance between singer and orchestra will please everyone this time. Furthermore, the CD benefits from stylishly idiomatic arrangements, some fine conducting from Constantine Orbelian, and the sympathetic support of both the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Russian folk music performers, the Style of Five.

The 19 songs on the CD are described as "Old Russian Romances", or in professional music terminology as "Russian Domestic (Household) Romances". These are passionate songs of love, "often against the background of vast, empty Russian landscapes with long roads under foggy, gray skies", as the liner notes tell us. Hvorostovsky's dark, expressive baritone is ideally suited to such music, and Dmitri aficionados will no doubt recognise two songs from his earlier CDs of this genre, the haunting title track and the wistful "O, If Only I Could Express In Sounds". The latter was featured on his best-selling 1991 "Russian Romances" CD for Philips, but here - if anything - his singing is even more poetic than in earlier days. Comparing the two versions, one is immediately aware of how much freer Hvorostovsky's top notes are on the latest CD, with his upper register showing none of the slightly constricted quality that occasionally marred the earlier CD. This is the voice of a mature artist, and it is rare indeed to hear such committed singing from the soul.

As if the above wasn't enough, the CD comes with translations, generous liner notes, and an alluring cover photo of the handsome Siberian.

Hvorostovsky in his Milieu.......2002-08-31

This is Hvorostovsky at his finest. His magnificent rich creamy baritone is not taxed. He makes you sigh at beauty of his high
mezzo-voce notes, held endlessly, and trailing off to nothingness. The songs themselves are lovely-sad ballads of lost love for the most part, with a few catchy little ditties thrown in for a change of pace.

As crossover discs go, this one is one of the best. A fabulous singer at his prime, singing the songs of his childhood memories.

Tracks:

Get Thee Gone
Jolene
Marmalade
Outside of Town
Blue Cross (duet w/Beck)
Mary
The Grand Tour
Fancy
They Suck
She's a Dog
Pills
The Smaller Song
Hands on the Wheel
If Drinkin' Don't Kill Me
Kiss of Fire
The Grand Tour

Customer Reviews:

good for what ails you.......2007-05-29

I spent most of the past 10 days feeling sore and sick. Basically the flu but without the bad things spurting out of my upper and lower regions. I had body aches so bad I almost cried at one point while trying to pull up my pants.

That's alot of personal information for an album review, but it gets me to my point. I spent alot of time on the couch wishing I was dead. One of those unfortunate moments found me clicking through the tv stations and stumbling upon a Reba McEntire version of Fancy on CMT. Wow. I didn't think I could feel worse, but her wretched version of this great song surely proved I could. Is it just me, or is anyone else here consistently astounded at how vapid, dry, trite and stupid you have to be to be a superstar? In other words, our beloved Carla and her old band, the Geraldine Fibbers, will continue to live in obscurity because they've got too much going on for the mainstream.

Later that day when I worked up the energy to properly go to bed, I popped in Get Thee Gone, partly to flush the horrible Reba Fancy out of my mind, and partly because the rest of this album is great as well. Of course in the past couple months, Carla, Jolie Holland, Bob Dylan and some Nels Cline albums are just about all I've been listening to anyway (oh along with Bjork's newest and worst album ever, Volta), so that was part of it.

On the one hand, Carla has grown by leaps and bounds in the years since Get Thee Gone... I mean just listen to the deep, psychotic, and totally American Evangelista... a world you step into, not a collection of songs. On the other hand, Get Thee Gone has lost nothing in the intervening years. This is one heck of a strong collection of songs that straddle the imaginary lines partitioning honky tonk, post-punk and dreary downer rock. Actually they don't straddle anything. They firmly are those things simultaneously.

If Carla happens to play Outside of Town when the Evangelista troupe treks through my neck of the woods later this year, she'll make this one Indiana rube quite happy.

I'm on my third copy.......2004-04-06

I played the tape so much it broke, I played the disk so much it skips. I've never understood why this wasn't a chart-topping alt.country record. These are great songs, and Carla Bozulich's voice makes my hair stand on end, especially on "Fancy."

Great Country/ Alternative ala Patsy Cline.......2002-01-18

I just picked this up a couple days ago and was really amazed at the progression on this from the first album by the Fibbers[ I found both equally good] but this one is quite a bit more country than the other. For someone like me who stays more within the old-school Punk\Hardcore and glam rock genre of music but also likes Patsy Cline this was a must have. I only regret not having bought it sooner. Great job. The New York Dolls cover was good too.

Found it in the used CD rack..........1999-07-01

It was probably my wisest purchase. This is prime GF, for those of you who just can't get enough of them (I know I can't!). Although it has a few clunkers (it couldv'e done without two versions of "The Grand Tour"), it is full of gems that for some reason never made on a proper release. Check out the cover of "Fancy" for a strange thrill...

Basically a compilation of fibbers songs.......1998-10-04

My favorite song is the fibber's version of "Fancy". but that's just me. There's a duet with Beck that's interesting. If you are a fibbers fan you will have to have this CD. Pills is a classic. I'm buying this disc for the 2nd time because my first one skips a lot probably from playing it too much. i think this is the only disc i ever bought twice. --JG

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A veritable cornucopia . . .
A sick antidote

Now I Understand
Club d'Elf , John Medeski , Reeves Gabrels , and Gerry Leonard (Spooky Ghost)
Manufacturer: Accurate Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000H5U6C0
Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

Introduction
Bass Beatbox
Hungry Ghosts
Quilty
Vishnu Dub
A Toy For A Boy
Luminous Things
What Would Cthulhu Do?
Now I Understand
And Shadow Saw The Gods
Wet Bones (Extended)
Vision Of Kali
Just Kiddin

Album Description

"Club d'Elf combines the roaring avant-funk of electric-era Miles with the legato drift of the Grateful Dead ... heady music that doesn't neglect the tail." - Time Out New York

This legendary underground dub/jazz/Moroccan/trance/electronica group led by bassist Mike Rivard (Morphine, The Story) has held an eight-year residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge. The group has garnered critical praise, drawn sold-out crowds, and topped local polls in jazz, DJ, electronica, and jam band categories. Features John Medeski & Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), DJ Logic, Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie), Mat Maneri, Duke Levine (Shawn Colvin), Alain Mallet (Paul Simon), Mister Rourke (Soulive), and more.

Customer Reviews:

A veritable cornucopia . . . .......2007-02-21

. . . for the ADHD, video game, generally aesthetically overloaded generation.

This musical gallimaufry, to me, sits there like a congealed, two-day-old bad stew that never achieved lift-off. Admittedly, it's almost certainly not aimed at baby-boomers such as myself.

But that doesn't mean it's palatable.

For anyone.

The problem for me--and I don't think it's just a generational thing--is that there's no res here. Yes, there's lots of (semi-appealing) Activity, but not much of consequence: North-African, Dub/Club, World-jazzish, electronica ephemera strew themselves about abundantly, without ever (at least for me) achieving anything of consequence. Where's the Authentic Voice emerging out of this cacophony? Show me one memorable melodic statement, one bit of musical poignancy. Even the way-out jazz avant-garde rather regularly achieves these.

If you dig the latest string of hip musical jags parading themselves before your aural palette in a not uninteresting fashion, this might be the disc for you. But don't blame me if the high fades precipitously: I really doubt you'll be listening to this rapidly decaying half-life music six or even two months from now. If you don't care, that's OK. But someday, you're gonna have to move on to Real Music.

Call me when you're ready: I'm sure I'll have some suggestions for you.

A sick antidote.......2006-11-30

A sick, sick antidote for a musical world where albums get lost in the iPod shuffle. This album is worth listening to end-to-end, going on the whole 70 minute journey, and don't forget your dancing shoes.

Take the brilliant strings and horns of many, many genres - electronica, funk, jazz, drum n bass, dub, Indian classical - and tie them all together with a big ecstatic Moroccan bow, and you might begin to unwrap what Club d'Elf presents in its live albums. "Now I Understand" takes that live energy and polishes it down to a smooth, refined, and deeply dirty sound.

One thing that stands out about "Now I Understand" is its psychological depth. Unlike albums that hit only one emotional note, with Club d'Elf one minute you're grasping the pain of the universe and the next song you're happy as a cat in the sun, and dancing in the kitchen with the blinds up. Mike Rivard's skillful and detailed transformations will take you by the hand across some deep landscapes, be ready! There's not one musician on the album that isn't at his peak, and it's like being in some funky playground where all the kids are musical Einsteins. Medeski's organs will make you laugh. Brahim Fribgane's oud strings will make you swoon in the old-fashioned North African way. And the whole album will pull you into the world of trance, where you can hear something old, something new, something genuine, something sexy.

Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965 Original Broadway Cast)

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You always will hear a waltz from Richard Rodgers
Much better than it's reputation.
An unappreciated score by a fine cast
"Someone Woke Up....."
You MUST hear a 'Waltz'!

Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965 Original Broadway Cast)
Richard Rodgers , Jane Manning , Sergio Franchi , and Stephen Sondheim
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Act I: This Week, Americans - Carol Bruce
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Act II: Stay - Sergio Franchi
Act II: Perfectly Lovely Couple - Stuart Damon/Madeleine Sherwood/Julienne Marie/Carol Bruce/Jack Manning/Elizabeth Allen...
Act II: Thank You So Much - Elizabeth Allen/Sergio Franchi

Customer Reviews:

You always will hear a waltz from Richard Rodgers.......2007-01-13

An example of Rodgers trying to fit in a new contributor of lyrics, but the match wasn't there, yet even so, his melodic mastery shone through.

Much better than it's reputation........2006-11-02

Despite being considered a flop by it's creative team, this is the one of Sondheim's "lyrics only" musicals I return to most often. It's melancholy charm is underlined by Rodgers' highly hummable tunes combined with Sondheim's reluctant lyrics. They are partly bitter and partly forced "happy". I love it.

An unappreciated score by a fine cast.......2004-02-04

Even though the show was not a success and the authors have all taken their turns at trashing it, this recording makes a strong case for DO I HEAR A WALTZ.

It's another fine record production by Goddard Lieberson. Rodgers (who was from all reports drinking and quite nasty to his collaborators) came up with many of his trademark melodies and the title song won deserved popularity outside of the show. Sondheim for his part creates some crackling good lyrics ("Someone Woke Up"; "What Do We Do We Fly!") but its an odd score... you hear the romantic older style love songs from Rodgers with fairly basic (dare we say dull) lyrics then some wonderful lyrics set to atypical Rodgers tunes. Then suddenly it all comes together in the final few numbers: The Title Song, "Perfectly Lovely Couple" and "Thank You So Much." Maybe it's a show that Encores will revive someday. In the meantime we can appreciate this original cast album and thank Sony for releasing it on Cd with good notes and a synopsis in the booklet!

"Someone Woke Up.....".......2003-10-04

So begins the delightful DO I HEAR A WALTZ?, one of Richard Rodgers' most accomplished post-Hammerstein scores. Not since his days with Lorenz Hart had Rodgers written such an energetic, youthful and joyful score. Stephen Sondheim's lyrics are witty and wonderful. DO I HEAR A WALTZ? received a lukewarm response from critics and audiences, lasting only 220 performances at the 46th Street Theatre.

Based on Arthur Laurents' play THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO (which turned into the film SUMMERTIME starring Katharine Hepburn), the story concerns a teacher, Leona Samish (played by Elizabeth Allen), who's holiday in Venice is dominated by her romance with the handsome Renato di Rossi (played by Sergio Franchi). There are also a host of colorful supporting characters including the ebullient hotelier Signora Fioria (Carol Bruce - SARATOGA).

The score is delicious with the opening number perfectly setting up the scene ("Someone Woke Up"), to Fioria's big number "This Week Americans", and the 11 o'clock number "Stay". There's also the Title Song, sung for all its worth by the delicious belt of Elizabeth Allen.

For all the problems that plagued the musical during its inception, nothing shows on the sparkling cast album, where it sounds like the biggest hit of the season. For Broadway fans, this CD is a must-own.

You MUST hear a 'Waltz'!.......2003-06-16

Please,give this a chance. Forget what you've read and just sit and listen. Read the libretto, available at lots of libraries, or read "Time of the Cuckoo" which Arthur Laurents based "Waltz" on. The combo of Rodgers and Sondheim is always sneered at--maybe, like me, you will see that Rodgers romanticism and Sondheim's sort of optimistic realism are actually the perfect mismatch for the endearingly troubled characters in the play.

Mr.Producer, forget all the basicstage gossip and let the score sell the show for you. Audiences, demand your favorite companies mount a production!

Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, I will miss you
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Goodbye Straplight Sarentino, I will miss you
The Billy Nayer Show
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On Steve Reich's "Three Tales"
Revolutionary experimental music + video by Steve Reich & Beryl Korot
60s leftist rehash mishmash
Try again, it's all there and good, I promise
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Three Tales (CD & DVD)
Steve Reich , Bradley Lubman , Todd Reynolds , and Beryl Korot
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
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Release Date: 2003-08-19

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Customer Reviews:

On Steve Reich's "Three Tales".......2005-11-03

Weeks before seeing Three Tales I heard its score. The music Reich composed for this opera is slightly less interesting than anything he has published previously. It features incessantly repeating syncopated phrases comprised of annoying melodies tossed upon stagnant, droning tones. This is the best that can be noted of the work. Mr. Reich uses Three Tales to expand his compositional methods into the modern age of the early 1990's. Time-stretched vocals are in every piece. A computerized voice (as that available standard on every Macintosh computer) sings several solos in the Dolly act. Uncomplicated, novice drum programming also hammers into numerous pieces - this is particularly disappointing as Mr. Reich is a competent percussionist himself. From onset to finish the score falls victim to a toybox of mundane digital audio gimmicks - perhaps impressive to the ignorant elite of la musique nouveau but thoroughly boring to anyone willing to acknowledge the radio music of the last two decades [see N'Sync's BT produced "Pop", Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle", Britney Spears' Neptunes produced "Slave", or anything produced for Madonna by William Orbit for far more progressive and successful attempts at integrating DSP (Digital Signal Processing) techniques into music]. Reich and his engineers should understand that these audio effects are not an end in and of themselves, and it shows little respect for the listener to try to pass these off as such.

The greater failing of Three Tales is the video component produced by Beryl Korot. I want to write only a few words on this piece as I have already spent more time on this review than a first grader with iMovie would require to reproduce Ms. Korot's cut and paste disaster. In my life I have watched my father slowly succumb to bone cancer, I see daily attrocities broadcast on the television news and the uncut footage on HBO or the internet. Yet, not for its content but for its design Ms. Korot's video for Three Tales is perhaps the worst thing ever to have struck mine eyes.

Revolutionary experimental music + video by Steve Reich & Beryl Korot.......2004-10-21

Love it or not, Reich's music is STILL revolutionary. The sort of art that's going to draw public scorn and praise -- choose your side. The piece called DOLLY ... wow, one of the most amazing music videos ... brilliant, I thought. Included in DOLLY's cast of characters: Freya von Moltke, 'Kismet', Ruth Deech, Richard Dawkins, James D. Watson, Gina Kolata, Steven Jay Gould, Jaron Lanier, Sherry Turkle, Rodney Brooks, Steven Pinker, Robert Pollack, Adin Steinsaltz, Kevin Warwick, Joshua Getzler, Ray Kurzweil, Cynthia Breazeal, Bill Joy, Marvin Minsky, Henri Atlan. If you're bothered by strange editing, visual treatments and sonic processing as "something must be wrong with my CD/DVD player!" then perhaps this music + video is not for you. I'm giving this five stars just for DOLLY! I also enjoyed the other pieces: HINDENBURG, and BIKINI, though a little less. If you're a serious Steve Reich fan, this recent music + video work by Reich and Korot should certainly NOT disappoint -- however, be warned -- this is NOT '18 Musicians' or 'Desert Music' ... more like 'Different Trains' ... experimental and revolutionary.

60s leftist rehash mishmash.......2004-10-05

I love Steve Reichs works and am always looking forward to the next, but I was sadly dissapointed with this one. Musically this was surprisingly dull and I dare say, quite ugly.

One of the most striking elements of much of Steve Reichs earlier music is the combination of harmonic and melodic beauty with fascinating rhythmic structures. Unfortunately, that doesn't not exist here at all. Consistent dissonance, seemingly for dissonance sake, the use of an assortment of instruments (voice, strings, piano, percussion) in a dry and dull acoustic setting, and a text that is about as exciting and interesting as reading the Sunday news, all combines for some very uninspiring and uninteresting music. Then add a video that, for all the technology available to us, uses amazingly simplistic and trite visual mechanisms to rehash leftist political statements that were popular in the 60s and 70s, and you have what I think is one of Steve Reichs least appealing works.

While "Different trains" did a wonderful job of combining spoken word and music, this piece requires the vocalists to sing what are essentially spoken and written words, and the result is what one would expect, weak and dull at best.

At its worst, this video is barely equal to a first time music video students output. At best it's an insult to my intelligence. A divided screen showing the same scene at different times; splicing up an interviewees statement and repeating it over and over; displaying words on the screen as the singers are singing them (Mitch Miller anyone?); mixing scrolling text and video...techniques so banal and simplistic, it is amazing that such a weak collection of sounds and images recieved any support at all from a record company.

Strangest of all is the subject matter of the pieces. The Hindenburg disaster, the destruction of Bikini Atoll and the cloning of Dolly. How many times are 'artists' going to use their pulpit to preach the evils of technology and the evil nature of man, and how the combination of the two will one day result in the destruction of the world? These are such tired and worn out positions that they need to go the way of the Bikini Atol themselves. It's old news and it's completely irrelevant in todays world. In a word, boring.

Where is the originality that we know Steve Reich is capable of? Where is the vision here? Where is the unique insight that would make some impact on the way I view the world? Where is the originality of vision that is so apparent in "Different Trains" in which spoken images and recollections of the banal and the horrific were combined with incredible ingenuity and care?

You will find none of that here. Don't buy this CD/DVD. Save your money, you'll be glad you did.

Try again, it's all there and good, I promise.......2004-05-30

Just because you do not like "Three Tales" does not mean that "Three Tales" sucks. You were expecting "Music for 18 Musicians-the sequel", maybe?

This is a different kind of music.

To be honest, at first, I did not at all care for the music or the video. Then really, honestly went back and listened to the music. When you listen to what's actually going on, and shut your mind up, you will discover something incredible. You could of course continue thinking that "Three Tales" sucks. Good for you. But you're really missing out on one of the most interesting and spectacular works in recent times.

Just to Clarify.......2004-05-29

In response to the person who said not to listen to my review. I would like to add that I'm a long term Reich fan, I love most of his music, but I just think this work is extremely disappointing. I have listened to it and watched it a lot to try and get to like it but it just isn't happening. I'm not one of these Glass or Reich freaks who think you can't like one if you like the other. I think they both create great works but in recent years they have both been a bit disappointing. I am not alone in thinking this, almost all the people I know who love Reich's music think this is a poor piece, especially considering the amount of time it took to make. That is the most frustrating thing about Reich, it takes him so bloody long to come up with something, but recently when he does
it is just not worth the wait. Glass is far more prolific and although a lot of his recent output is fairly dull, he does produce some good stuff every now and then. You just have to find it. Anyway, I've said all I need to say, Three Tales sucks, go buy something like Trance by Michael Gordon instead.

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Fantastic

Songs My Grandmother Taught Me

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Nostalgia | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00005ABNR
Release Date: 2001-03-27

Tracks:

A Hundred Years From Now
Good Night
Answer The First Rap
Birds
When Church Is Out
When My Ships Come Home
To Understand
Her Greatest Charm
A Perfect Day
A Present From Yourself
Shadows
A Little Pink Rose
The Pleasure Of Giving
June And December
Your Song
Keep Awake
Just A-Wearyin' For You
God Remembers When The World Forgets
A Good Exercise
Because Of The Light
Have You Seen My Kittie?
First Ask Yourself
Until God's Day
Were I
Still Unexprest
Roses Are In Bloom
When They Say The Unkind Things
I Love You Truly
At Morning, Noon, And Night
A Song Of The Hills
Making The Best Of It
Nothin' But Love

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Fantastic.......2007-04-25

Pardon me if I'm a bit biased, but William Hughes and Peggy Balensuela are fantastic people and amazing teachers. Who knew that I would find recordings of my professors on here?

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The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan

Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004SSJR
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

The Mikado: Overture
The Mikado: A Wandering Minstrel I
The Mikado: Our Great Mikado, Virtuous Man
The Mikado: Young Man, Despair
The Mikado: Behold The Lord High Executioner!...Taken From The County Jail
The Mikado: As Some Day It May Happen
The Mikado: Three Little Maids From School Are We
The Mikado: Were You Not To Ko-Ko Plighted
The Mikado: I Am So Proud
The Mikado: The Sun, Whose Rays
The Mikado: Here's A How-De-Do!
The Mikado: Miya Sama (Entrance Of The Mikado)
The Mikado: A More Humane Mikado Never
The Mikado: The Criminal Cried
The Mikado: See How The Fates Their Gifts Allot
The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring
The Mikado: Alone, And Yet Alive!...Hearts Do Not Break!
The Mikado: On A Tree By A River
The Mikado: There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast
The Mikado: For He's Gone And Married Yum-Yum
Trail By Jury: The Learned Jungle
H.M.S. Pinafore: I'm Called Litttle Buttercup
H.M.S. Pinafore: My Gallant Crew...I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore
Sorry Her Lot Who Loves Too Well
H.M.S. Pinafore: When I Was A Lad I Served A Term

Tracks:

H.M.S. Pinafore: Fair Moon, To Thee I Sing
H.M.S. Pinafore: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
H.M.S. Pinafore: The Hours Creep On Apace
H.M.S. Pinafore: Never Mind The Why And Wherefore
The Pirates Of Penzance: Oh, Better Far To Live And Die
The Pirates Of Penzance: Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast
The Pirates Of Penzance: Poor Wandering One!
The Pirates Of Penzance: I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General
The Pirates Of Penzance: When The Foeman Bears His Steel
The Pirates Of Penzance: Ah, Leave Me Not To Pine
The Pirates Of Penzance: When A Felon's Not Engaged In His Employment
The Pirates Of Penzance: With Cat-Like Tread
Patience: The Soldiers Of Our Queen...If You Want A Receipt For That Popular Mystery
Patience: Am I Alone And Unobserved...If You're Anxious For To Shine
Patience: Sad Is That Woman's Lot...Silvered Is The Raven Hair
Patience: A Magnet Hung In A Hardware Shop
Patience: Love Is A Plaintive Song
Patience: So Go To Him And Say To Him
Patience: When I Go Out Of Door
Patience: After Much Debate (Finale Act 2)
Iolanthe: When I Went To The Bar As A Very Young Man
The Lady Of My Love...(Finale Act 1)

Tracks:

When All Night Long A Chap Remains
When Britain Really Ruled The Waves
When You're Lying Awake With A Dismal Headache
If You Go In, You're Sure To Win
Ruddigore: My Boy, May Take It From Me
Ruddigore: The Battle's Roar Is Over
Ruddigore: In Sailing O'er Life's Ocean Wide
Ruddigore: You Understand?
Ruddigore: When The Night Wind Howls
Ruddigore: My Eyes Are Fully Open
Ruddigore: There Grew A Little Flower
The Gondoliers: We're Called Gondolieri
The Gondoliers: From The Sunny Spanish Shore...In Enterprise Of Martial Kind
The Gondoliers: I Stole The Prince
The Gondoliers: When A Merry Maiden Marries
The Gondoliers: Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes
The Gondoliers: Dance A Cachucha, Fandango, Bolero
The Gondoliers: There Lived A King, As I've Been Told
The Gondoliers: I Am A Courtier Grave And Serious
The Yeoman Of The Guard: I Have A Song To Sing, O!
The Yeoman Of The Guard: How You Say Maiden, Will You Wed
The Yeoman Of The Guard: Where I Thy Bride
The Yeoman Of The Guard: Oh! A Private Buffoon Is A Light Hearted Loon
The Yeoman Of The Guard: Comes The Pretty Young Bride

Daniel Asia: Songs From the Page of Swords

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A new modern voice to keep tradition

Daniel Asia: Songs From the Page of Swords

Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00004SU8O
Release Date: 2000-05-09

Tracks:

Oseh Shalom
Shiru Ladonai
Glyph/The Messenger
My Egyptian Sister
Mein Bruder
Reincarnation
New Years, 1979
Glyph/The Message
White Pillars
I'll Never Understand
Fantasy #1
A Little Girl
Dear Frank
Fantasy #2
I Walk Out

Customer Reviews:

A new modern voice to keep tradition.......2000-05-21

In SONGS FROM THE PAGE OF SWORDS, Daniel Asia's music is traced from its evolutionary roots to its accomplished maturity. Offering a brief glance into his compositional diversity, it fills the ears with fluid vocal lines, pointillism, and extended tonality. His music reaches beyond the banal and into the inventive realm of the unpredictable. Infusing the traditional elements of classical composition with subtle influences from American popular music and jazz, Asia's early musical expressionism unveils the interaction between the interior world of humans and the physical exterior they live in.

The recording rests upon on the spectacular performance of New York City based chamber ensemble Musical Elements. Included are the "Sacred Songs," a work that incorporates sparse, playful exchanges between the soloist and instrumentalists, conveying a sense of tranquil beauty and wonderment. The heavier compositional style, which Asia used in the early 1980's, is represented in the darker "Songs from the Page of Swords". "Pines Songs," based on Paul Pines' poetry, is an exploration of post-serial impressionism, defined by angular rhythmical influences and graceful cadenzas. Top-notch performances by soprano Carmen Pelton, bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk, and oboist Sara Watkins make for an excellent recording.

I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree
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I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree
The Sleepy Jackson
Manufacturer: EMI/Virgin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
General | Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000IMVDVU
Release Date: 2006-10-23

Tracks:

I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree
Gotta Get Up
Time

Album Description

Second single to be taken from The Sleepy Jackson's critically acclaimed sophomore album Personality - One Was A Spider, One Was A Bird. Features 'I Understand What You Want But I Just Don't Agree' plus two non-album tracks: 'Gotta Get Up' and 'Time'. Virgin. 2006.

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