We Are Forever

We Are Forever

We Are Forever

ASIN: B00004XOY8

Track Listings
 
1. I Have To Hold The Ring (And Kiss The Bride)
2. Cajun Fiddle Man
3. The Hero The County Laid To Rest
4. Ma Cher A Mio
5. Baby's Coming Home
6. Alice Loves Fort Worth
7. We Are Forever
8. Luisa
9. Dancing The Cowboy Way
10. Born Again

Editorial Reviews
Pete Smith, Country Music Round Up, South Yorkshire, England
Billy McCoy- "We Are Forever". If it's real country you are into, then you'll love Billy McCoy. Listening to this album is like traveling back 30 or 40 years in time. Billy is stone country and his original songs are stories that are both interesting and entertaining, covering a wide variety of subjects. McCoy covers all the great country styles, honky tonk, cajun, swing and Tex Mex. Good country listening.

Product Description
Great traditional country music, written by Billy A. McCoy

We Are Forever

We Are Forever,Billy McCoy,Great American Country,Traditional country music at its best, what you would have heard on the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in 1960. Billy's singing and songwriting represent the best in traditional country music.
John Barry: The Collection
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!
  • Persuaders Theme!
  • A Variety Of Classics!
  • Incredible Barry Collection
  • " one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry"
 John Barry: The Collection

Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005BADD
Release Date: 2001-05-22

Tracks:

  1. Zulu
  2. From Russia With Love
  3. From Russia With Love - 007
  4. Goldfinger
  5. The Ipcress File
  6. The Knack
  7. Mister Moses
  8. Thunderball
  9. The Wrong Box
  10. Born Free
  11. The Quiller Memorandum
  12. You Only Live Twice
  13. The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair
  14. Deadfall

Tracks:

  1. The Lion In Winter
  2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  3. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  4. Midnight Cowboy
  5. Midnight Cowboy
  6. The Appointment
  7. The Last Valley
  8. Walkabout
  9. Monte Walsh
  10. Diamonds Are Forever
  11. The Persuaders
  12. Mary Queen Of Scots
  13. The Man With The Golden Gun
  14. The Dove

Tracks:

  1. The Tamarind Seed
  2. King Kong
  3. Eleanor And Franklin
  4. Robin And Marian
  5. The Deep
  6. Hanover Street
  7. The Black Hole
  8. Moonraker
  9. Somewhere In Time
  10. Raise The Titanic
  11. Body Heat
  12. Frances
  13. Octopussy
  14. The Cotton Club

Tracks:

  1. High Road To China
  2. A View To A Kill
  3. Out Of Africa
  4. The Living Daylights
  5. Dances With Wolves
  6. Dances With Wolves
  7. Chaplin
  8. Moviola
  9. Indecent Proposal
  10. The Specialist
  11. The Scarlet Letter
  12. Cry The Beloved Country
  13. Mercury Rising
  14. The James Bond Theme

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra needs a guitar player!.......2006-11-09

Granted, they only need it for one composition (the last one, "The James Bond Theme") but still, without the guitar it's just not the same. Barry didn't compose this one so I suppose it was a bonus and I shouldn't complain, really. The rest of the music on all the CDs is fantastic. Some of the stuff I had heard before without realizing who had composed it. Very enjoyable, to say the least.

5 out of 5 stars Persuaders Theme!.......2006-03-02

Buy it for the Persuaders theme, probably the best TV theme song ever written.

5 out of 5 stars A Variety Of Classics!.......2005-12-06

John Barry has been composing film scores for over forty years and this is only scratching the surface of his productions. Never mind that the entire set is recorded by the Prague Philharmonic; it's pure to Barry's themes. While John Williams compositions ("Star Wars", etc.) are wild and flamboyant and Jerry Goldsmith's (Hoosier's, etc.) are mood pieces, John Barry crosses over all barriers and is amazingly diverse. Barry has recorded most of the exciting James Bond themes, melodramatic classics like "The Lion In Winter' and moody theme hits like "Midnight Cowboy". He also tugs at the heartstrings with compositions from, "Somewhere In Time", "Frances" and "Out Of Africa". He varies his themes for all types of films and few composers capture it so well.

There is over four hours of music in this set with a colorful and informative booklet.

5 out of 5 stars Incredible Barry Collection.......2004-03-11

Any fan of movies will absolutley love this collection. Being a movie buff I couldn't wait to get this boxed set. Knowing Barry from all the James Bond movies, I did not realize his involvement with so many others. The orchestra is magnificent in all these themes. I'm listening to "High Road to China" right now and I'm drifting in the clouds in a Tiger Moth with Tom Selleck and Bess Armstrong. If you are familiar with a movie it will definitely have you seeing it again, if not the scores are still beautiful. Any fan of classical music will be pleased as well. Travellers will defintitely enjoy it for a long drive. I know from when I use to travel that music like this made the miles float by faster. I highly recommend these four CDs even if you just know a handful of the songs.

5 out of 5 stars " one of cinema's greatest composers...John Barry".......2001-07-06

This collection of four compact discs...are worth their weight in GOLD! Barry creates visual moods for each film he scores...romantic, sentimental, action, adventure, suspense and mystery...the list could go on. Strings, brass and lush-velvet arrangements overlay each cue in his distinctive style of legendary scoring...we have ~ "John Barry:The Collection", Silva Screen's release traces 40 years of film music, featuring "The City Of Prague Philarmonic Orchestra" ~ conducted by Mr. Nic Raine (outstanding)..."Crouch End Festival Chorus" ~ David Temple, Choir Master...perform 56 selections, over four hours of symphonic suites with a full orchestra sound...all individually wrapped-up into one neat package...just the way "film-score-buffs" like 'em!

Must ask the following to take a bow ~ James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), always in their pitching, Reynold da Silva (executive producer), Nic Raine (conductor, arranger, orchestrator & associate producer), a tremen!dous asset to every project he undertakes...and the man who made it all possible...a legendary icon always leading the way in film scoring ~ JOHN BARRY!

Total Time: 258:76 on 56 Tracks ~ SSD-1128 ~ (2001)

You might try other albums from Silva Screen, all worthy of a good listen ~ "The Essential James Bond" (SSD-1034)..."Bond:Back In Action" (SSD-1100)..."Bond:Back In Action 2" (SSD-1119)..."Zulu" (SSD-1095)..."Raise The Titanic" (SSD-1102)..."Walkabout" (SSD-1120)...check out my reviews on amazon.com/music.
Instruments of the Orchestra
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!
  • Beginner or Expert
  • Very Informative and Enjoyable
  • Frank's view
  • Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra
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Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B00006O0NT
Release Date: 2002-12-03

Tracks:

  1. Overture To 'Tannhauser'
  2. Domna, Pos Vos Ay Chausida
  3. We Don't Merely Use Instruments, We Play On Them. And They Play On Us.
  4. Hungarian Dance No.7
  5. The Violin Is One Of The Most Tender And Beautiful Instruments Ever Invented.
  6. Violin Concerto In D Major (Adagio)
  7. But For A Long Time It Was Seen As The Instrument Of The Devil.
  8. The Soldier's Tale: Triumphal March Of The Devil
  9. The Manipulative Seductiveness Of The Gypsy Violin.
  10. Csardas Music
  11. The Violin And The Initiation Of Nature
  12. The Four Seasons (Spring, Mvt 1)
  13. Birds Are Again Evoked In The Second Concerto, Especially Music's Natural Favourite.
  14. The Four Seasons (Summer, Mvt 1)
  15. Like The Devil, The Violin Is A Master Of Disguise.
  16. Old Viennese Dance No.3 'Schon Rosmarin'
  17. The Menacing Sensuality Of Ravel's Tzigane: A Very Different Side Of The Violin:
  18. Tzigane
  19. Do We Now Have The True Measure Of This Instrument? Not Just Yet.
  20. Caprice No.24
  21. The Many Effects Of The String Tremolando: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 (Last Mvt)/From Joy To Fright/Quartettsatz In C Minor/The String Tremolo Practically Spells The World Agitato.
  22. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No.7)
  23. Prokofiev's Tremolo In Romeo And Juliet Should Not Be Heard Just Before Bedtime.
  24. Romeo And Juliet: Act IV
  25. Vivaldi Use It To Illustrate The Shivering Of Travellers Crossing The Ice.
  26. The Four Seasons (Winter, Mvt 1)
  27. The Violin Muted
  28. Clair De Lune
  29. The Gentleness Of Muted Strings Persists Even When A Whole Orchestra Plays.
  30. Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major, K.467 (Slow Mvt)
  31. The Pizzicato Violin
  32. Pizzicato Polka
  33. In Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, The Accompaniment Is Pizzicato.
  34. Violin Concerto No.2 In G Minor (Slow Mvt)
  35. Varieties Of Pizzicato: Colas Breugnon (The People's Feast)/Now A Drier, Leaner, Hungrier Pizzicato. There's Not A Lot Of Comfort Here./Capriol Suite (Tordion)/The Use Of Pizzicato As 'Percussion'/Romeo And Juliet (Act I)/Mahler Used Pizzicato...
  36. The Planets (Mars - The Bringer Of War)
  37. The Technique Of Double-Stopping Enables The Violin To Play Duets With Itself./Sonata No.3 In C Major For Unaccompanied Violin (Fugue)/Now A Later Example Of The Same Technique
  38. Hungarian Dance No.4
  39. Double-Stopping Is A Standard Feature Of A Lot Of Folk Music.
  40. The Four Seasons (Autumn, Mvt 1)
  41. Now The Same Technique, But The Sound Might Have Come From Another World.
  42. Bolero
  43. Double-Stopping Can Only Approximate The Sound Of A Real Violin Duet.
  44. Cadenza To The Violin Concerto By Brahms
  45. Now Compare That With A Real Violin Duet.
  46. Forty-Four Duos (No. 1: Teasing Song)
  47. Another Duo By Bartok, Demonstrating The Violin's Rich Lower Register
  48. Forty-Four Duos (No.2: Maypole Dance)
  49. And Now What May Be The Most Beautiful Accompanied Violin Duet In History
  50. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
  51. The Soul Of The Violin Is In Song; But What About This Weird Passage?
  52. Violin Concerto No.1 In D Major (Mvt 2)
  53. The Use Of Harmonies In The Orchestra Can Be Both Magical And Unsettling.
  54. Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 1, Opening)
  55. Tchaikovsky's Use Of Harmonics In The Sleeping Beauty Is Both Strange And Darling.
  56. The Sleeping Beauty (Act II, No.15: Entr'Acte)
  57. Ravel's Harmonics In Mother Goose Effect A Magical Transformation.
  58. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
  59. Stravinsky's Harmonics In The Firebird Transport Us Almost Into Another World./The Firebird (Introduction)
  60. The Natural Upper Notes Of The Violins Have A Unique Emotional 'Grab'.
  61. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Of The Afterworldsmen)
  62. Still In Their Upper Register, The Violins Unleash The Energy Of A Young Colt.
  63. Variations On A Theme Of Frank Bridge (No. 4)
  64. Elsewhere, Britten Uses The Same High Register To Create A Very Different Mood.
  65. Four Sea Interludes (Dawn) From 'Peter Grimes'
  66. To End This Outing With The Violins, A Charming Little Elfin Dance
  67. Elfenreigen

Tracks:

  1. Introduction To The Viola
  2. Viola Concerto (Mvt 1)
  3. Khatchaturian Gets A Very Different Sound From It: Fuller, Fruitier, More Exotic.
  4. Gayane Suite No.1 (Armen's Solo)
  5. Very Nearly The Whole Of The Violin's Upper Register Is Also Available To The Viola.
  6. Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'
  7. The Viola Can Bring A Special, Rich Twanginess To Pizzicato That The Violins Lack./Don Quixote/Berlioz Drew Sounds From It That Retain Their Metallic Strangeness Even Today.
  8. Harold In Italy (Mvt 4)
  9. The Muted Viola: Intimate, Gentle, Poignant In Dvork
  10. Cypresses (No.9)
  11. The Massed Violas Of The Modern Symphony Orchestra In Mahler
  12. Symphony No.4 (Mvt 3)
  13. The 'Period' Viola In Bach
  14. Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (Last Mvt)
  15. The Cello: A Voice Of Unique Nobility
  16. Suite No.1 For Unaccompanied Cello (Prelude)
  17. Brahms And The 'Soul' Of The Cello
  18. Piano Concerto No.2 In B Flat Major (Mvt 3)
  19. Most Orchestral Composers Tend To Emphasize The Cello's Lower Register.
  20. Cantata 'Herz Und Mund Und Tat Und Leben', BWV 147 (Soprana Aria: Bereite Dir, Jesu)
  21. In The Time Of Beethoven The Cello Remained As Fundamental As Ever.
  22. Symphony No.3 'Eroica' (Finale)
  23. But The Cello Is Not Condemned To Spend Its Life In The Basement.
  24. Elfentanz, Op.39
  25. Not Only In Recital Showpieces Like That Is The Cello Is Used In Its Highest Register.
  26. The Protecting Veil (Opening)
  27. A Cello With An Identity-Crisis: The Pizzicato Flamencan
  28. Flamenco
  29. Double-Stopping In The Lower Reaches Of The Cello's Range
  30. Solo Suiet For Cello And Piano (Sardana)
  31. It's In The Middle Register That The Cello Really Comes Into Its Own.
  32. Oriental Dance, Op.2 No.2
  33. It Was To The Cellos That Beethoven Gave Two Of His Most Famous Themes./Symphony No.5 (Mvt 2)/Still More Famous Than That Theme Is This One From The Ninth Symphony.
  34. Symphony No.9 (Finale)
  35. Introduction To The Double-Bass
  36. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Elephant)
  37. But The Double-Bass Can Be Intensely Expressive And Graceful.
  38. Elegy No.1 In D Major
  39. The Range Of The Double-Bass Is The Greatest Of All The String Instruments/Allegro Di Concerto, 'Alla Mendelssohn'/And It's Also Capable Of Very Considerable Virtuosity.
  40. Capriccio Di Bravura
  41. Double-Bass Solos In Orchestral Scores Are Rare But Often Memorable./Symphony No.1 'Titan' (Mvt 3)/In His Third Symphony Mahler Makes A Very Different Use Of The Instrument./Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1)
  42. The Double-Bass Muted In Prokofiev/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Kije's Wedding)/In Another Work Prokofiev Uses The Double-Bass To Enhance The Winds./Romeo And Juliet (Act III)/And He Combines The Bass Clarinet With A Shivering Tremolo From The Double-Basses....
  43. Symphony No.5 (Mvt 3)/So Much For The Strings/On Now To The Winds

Tracks:

  1. The Antiquity And Magic Of The Flute
  2. Prelude A L'Apres-Midi D'Un Faune
  3. The Versatility And Agility Of The Flute
  4. Orchestral Suite No.2 In B Minor (Badinerie)
  5. The Flute In Fifteenth-Century Spain
  6. Sa'Dawi
  7. Other Flutes: The Bass And Alto
  8. Chamber Music No.II
  9. The Piccolo - Aptly Named
  10. La Naissance D'Osiris (Mvt 6)
  11. From A Piccolo Of The Eighteenth Century To One Of Its Descendants In The Twentieth
  12. Suite No.1 For Small Orchestra (Valse)
  13. A Variety Of Techniques
  14. Chamber Music No.II
  15. Flutter-Tonguing. But Tchaikovsky Got There Eighty Years Before.
  16. The Nutcracker (Act II, No.2: Scene)
  17. From The Transverse To The Vertical: The Baroque Recorder
  18. Recorded Suite In A Minor (Menuet II)
  19. An Unfamiliar, Early Vision Of The Instrument
  20. Naelden, Naelden
  21. The Bachian Oboe
  22. Cantata 'Ein Feste Burg Ist Unser Gott', BWV 80 (No.7: Duetto)
  23. Introduction To The Cor Anglais Or 'English Born'
  24. Symphony No.9 'From The New World' (Mvt 2)
  25. The Loneliness Of The Cor Anglais
  26. The Swan Of Tuonela
  27. The Cor Anglais Joins The French Horn In Haydn.
  28. Symphony No.22 'The Philosopher' (Opening)
  29. Introduction To The Oboe D'Amore, Beloved Of Bach - But Also Of Ravel
  30. Bolero
  31. The Clarinet Family: Boxing The Compass, From The Depths Of The Bass Clarinet.../The Egyptian (Violence)/...To The Raucous And Squealy.../Taras Bulba (The Death Of Ostap)/...To The Shrill And Complaining...
  32. Petrushka (No.8: Peasant With Bear)/...To The High Sprits Of A Playful Puppy./Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)/And To The Downright Jazzy/Romeo And Juliet (Act II)
  33. As The High Clarinets Tend To Be Loud, So The Bass Tends To Be Soft:
  34. Gayane Suite No. 1 (Mvt 5)
  35. The Bass Clarinet Is Used By Most Composers Mainly As A Colouring Agent.../Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/...But It Does Occasionally Get A Whole Tune To Itself./Iberia (Almeria).
  36. The Range Of The Normal Clarinet Parts Goes Quite High...
  37. The Snow Maiden (Scene 5: Melodrama)
  38. ...And Quite Low.
  39. Peter And The Wolf (The Cat)
  40. The Clarinet As Concerto Soloist
  41. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
  42. But That's Not The Instrument Mozart Wrote It For; This Is:
  43. Clarinet Concerto In A Major (Rondo)
  44. Introduction To The Saxophone
  45. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 4)
  46. The Soprano Saxophone Has Quite A Different Feel To It.
  47. L'Arlesienne Suite No.1 (Minuet)
  48. The Little Sopranino Sax Goes Even Higher.
  49. Bolero
  50. The Most Famous Use Of The Saxophone Is In An Orchestration By Ravel.
  51. Pictures At An Exhibition (The Old Castle)
  52. The Saxophone Can Be Quite Contagiously Good-Humoured.
  53. Sax-O-Phun
  54. The Puffa-Puffa Image Of The Bassoon
  55. Peter And The Wolf (Grandfather)
  56. The Bachian Bassoon, In Accompanimental Mode
  57. Cantata 'Weichet Nur, Betrubte Schatten' ('Wedding Cantata'), BWV 202 (Aria No.1)
  58. Bizet Leaves The Puffa-Puffa Image Out, Allowing The Bassoon To Sing./Carmen Suite No.1 (Les Dragons D'Alcala)
  59. And Ravel, Also In Spanish Mode, Does Likewise.
  60. Bolero
  61. The Bassoon As A Voice Of High Seriousness, Indeed Desolate Loneliness
  62. Symphony No.3 (Opening)
  63. The Eerie Bassoon In Its Highest Register
  64. The Rite Of Spring (Opening)
  65. Stravinsky Now Draws On Its Lowest Register, Lonely And Melancholy.
  66. The Firebird Suite (1919, Berceuse)
  67. The Bassoon As Concerto Soloist, Avoiding All Exaggeration
  68. Bassoon Concerto In G Minor (Finale)
  69. The Deep-Voiced Contra-Bassoon, As A Fairy-Tale Beast
  70. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Beauty And The Beast)
  71. The French Horn Under Its Woodwind Hat
  72. Wind Quintet, Op.43 (Last Mvt)
  73. Now A More Prominent Role, In A Woodwind Quintet From An Earlier Era
  74. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Mvt 2)
  75. The Horn In Harmonious Blend With Strings In Another Quintet
  76. Horn Quintet, K.407 (Finale)

Tracks:

  1. The Trumpet As Virtuoso Soloist
  2. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Last Mvt)
  3. The Special Brillance Of Paired Trumpets
  4. Concerto In C For Two Trumpets, RV537 (Mvt 1)
  5. The Ceremonial Trumpet
  6. Fanfare For The Common Man
  7. Trumpets And Drums - An Incomparable Alliance
  8. Messiah (The Trumpet Shall Sound)
  9. The Versatility Of The Trumpet, From The Most Public To The Most Lonely
  10. Piano Concerto In F (Slow Mvt)
  11. The Trumpet As The Voice Of The City/An American In Paris/The Trumpet As Recruitment Officer/The Soldier's Tale (The March)/The Trumpet As Swaggerer
  12. Carmen Suite No.2 (Habanera)
  13. The Trumpet As The Voice Of Strength And Courage
  14. Carmet Suite No.2 (Toreador's Song)
  15. The Trumpet Muted/Petrushka (No.4: The Blackamoor)/Lieutenant Kije Suite (Opening)/The Trumpet As The Voice Of Weariness
  16. Billy The Kid
  17. The Trumpet As Character Actor
  18. Pictures At An Exhibition (No.6)
  19. The Trumpet As The Voice Of God
  20. Mass In B Minor ('Et Exspecto')
  21. The Birth Of The Trombone
  22. Aenmerckt Nu Hier
  23. The Birth Of The Brass As A Family
  24. Canzon 12 In Double Echo
  25. The Trombone In The Eighteenth Century
  26. Trombone Concerto In B Flat Major (Finale)
  27. The Tone Of The Tenor Trombone/Romance For Trombone And Organ/The Memorable Voice Of The Bass Trombone/Requiem (Mvt 2)/But The Bass Trombone Is More Than An Instrumental Bullfrog.
  28. Hosannah
  29. The Trombones Become Part Of The Orchestra.
  30. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
  31. The Wagnerian Trombone:/Overture To 'Tannhauser'
  32. The Trombone As Caricaturist
  33. Pulcinella (No.19: Vivo)
  34. The Trombone As Raspberry/Concerto For Orchestra (Intermezzo)
  35. The Horn And The Hunt
  36. Horn Concerto No.4 In E Flat, K.495 (Finale)
  37. The Challenging Horn Of The Baroque
  38. Abaris Ou Les Boreades (Menuet)
  39. The Scarcity Of First-Rate Players In Handel's Time
  40. Walter Music (Minuet 1)
  41. The Horn As Magician/The Firebird Suite (1919, Finale)
  42. Horns And The Sound Of Nobility
  43. Overture To 'Tannhauser' (Opening)
  44. The Special Sound Of The Horn In Its Higher Register
  45. Mass In B Minor ('Quoniam Tu Solus Sanctus')
  46. The Trumpet-Like Sound Of Massed Horns
  47. Symphony No.3 (Mvt 1, Opening)
  48. The Tuba - Unfairly Maligned?
  49. Symphony No.6 (Mvt 3)
  50. The Tuba Perfectly Cast By Ravel
  51. Pictures At An Exhibition (Bydlo)

Tracks:

  1. Introduction. And We Begin With A Bang.
  2. Fanfare For The Common Man/The Bass Drum On The Battlefields/Wellington's Victory, Op.91 (Opening)
  3. At The Opposite Extreme Is The Triangle.
  4. Piano Concerto No.1 In E Flat (Scherzo)
  5. Categories Of Percussion: Tuned And Untuned. The Side Drum
  6. Overture To 'La Gazza Ladra' - The Thieving Magpie (Opening)
  7. The Side Drum In An Effective But Unexpected Role/Clarinet Concerto (Mvt 1)
  8. The Tambourine. One Of The Oldest Instruments In The World
  9. Den Hoboecken Dans
  10. Even Older Is The Originally Oriental Gong.
  11. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
  12. No Single Instrument Can Match The Gong In Evoking The Breaking Of Waves./Passacaglia, Op.33b From 'Peter Grimes'/But Gongs Don't Have To Be Struck To Be Effective.
  13. Gymnopedie No.2
  14. The Cymbals Are Generally Discovered Early In Life./The Sanguine Fan/And They Do More Than Clash Together Loudly. They Can Be Clashed Together Softly./Studio Example: But They Needn't Be Clashed Together At All/Studio Example: They Can Be Lightly...
  15. Other Untuned Percussion Instruments Include The Whip.: Piano Concerto In G Major (Opening)/And Here Are No Fewer Than Twenty, Cracked By Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act I, Scene 5)
  16. More Versatile Than The Whip Are The Wood Blocks.../Studio Example/...Which Crop Up All Over The Place In Twentieth-Century American Music.
  17. Rodeo (Hoe-Down)
  18. Related To The Wood Blocks, By Sound, Are The Castanets./Jota Aragonesa/But The Castanets Were Also Used By Monteverdi Back In The Seventeenth Century.
  19. Scherzi Musicali (Damigella Tutta Belle)
  20. A Still Earlier Example From Fifteenth-Century Spain
  21. Yo M'Enamori D'Un Aire
  22. The Birth Of The Bongo
  23. Symphonic Dances From 'West Side Story'
  24. From The Streets Of New York To The Blacksmith's Shop/Il Trovatore ('Anvil Chorus')
  25. Desert-Island Decibels: Grand Canyon Suite (On The Trail)/Arcana
  26. From One Vegetable To Another: The Humble Squash, Or Marrow/Huapango
  27. Onwards To The Tuned Percussion. First, The Timpani
  28. Also Sprach Zarathustra (Introduction)
  29. But The Drum Roll Can Be More Effectively Frightening Than The Big Bang.: Symphony No.2 'Resurrection' (Mvt 3)
  30. Not One Drum Roll, But Many/Grand Canyon Suite (Sunrise)/Symphonie Fantastique (Last Mvt)
  31. Taking Advantage Of Tunability
  32. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Mvt 2)
  33. The Russian Composer Rodion Shchedrin Takes A Downward Turn./Carmen Suite (Changing Of The Guard)/Tuned, Yes; But For The Truly Melodic We Must Look Elsewhere.
  34. Introducing The Glockenspiel/Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
  35. Saint-Saens And The Xylophone
  36. The Carnival Of The Animals (Fossils)
  37. Ravel And The Xylophone
  38. Ma Mere L'Oye - Mother Goose (Laideronette)
  39. Introducing The Marimba/Carmen Suite (First Intermezzo)
  40. Introducing The Vibraphone
  41. The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Narange Dolce)
  42. The Vibraphone Goes Russian.../Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)/...And Is Joined By The Marimba./Carmen Suite (Carmen's Entrance And Habanera)
  43. Introducing The Hungarian Cimbalom
  44. Folk Dances
  45. The Cimbalom And The Symphony Orchestra
  46. Hary Janos Suite (Mvt 3)
  47. Introducing The Tubular Bells
  48. Hary Janos Suite (Viennese Musical Clock)
  49. A More 'Up-Front' Approach From Rodion Shchedrin
  50. Carmen Suite (Introduction)
  51. But The Bells Can Also Make The Sinister Even More Sinister./Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
  52. Introducing The Celeste
  53. The Nutcracker (Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy)
  54. Magic, In The Use Of Collective Percussion
  55. Miroirs (La Vallee Des Cloches)
  56. Plucked Instruments: The 'Undercover Percussion'/Carmen Suite (Scene)
  57. A Prime Case In Point Is The Harp, Irresistible To The Romantics./The Nutcracker (Act II, No.1: Scene)/The Non-Solo Harp As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Hungarian Rhapsody No.1
  58. The Traditionally Subservient Role Of The Harpsichord In The Baroque Orchestra
  59. Brandenburg Concerto No.2 (Slow Mvt)
  60. The Piano: King Of The Tuned Percussion/Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Mvt 3)/And A Quarter Of A Century After That:
  61. Petrushka (Russian Dance)
  62. The Anti-Romantic Piano As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra
  63. Music For Strings, Percussion And Celeste (Last Mvt)

Tracks:

  1. Keyboard Instruments In The Orchestra - The Most Powerful Of Them All:
  2. Symphony No.3 'Organ' (Finale)
  3. But Things In Handel's Day Were Very Different.
  4. Organ Concerto In B Flat, Op.4 No.3 (Last Mvt)
  5. The Organ Is Difficult To Classify.
  6. An Unexpected, Organ-related Guest
  7. Concerto Pour Zampogna (Last Mvt)
  8. Peasant-Fancying... And A Touch Of The Roaming Cowboy
  9. Les Miserables (Drink With Me)
  10. Outside Artefacts And The Power Of Association
  11. Mahler's Sleighbells
  12. Symphony No.4 (Opening)
  13. A Roll-Call Of Some Unusual Guests/The Typewriter/Parade
  14. Chains, And More/Integrales/An American In Paris/Sandpaper Ballet
  15. Purpose-Built Oddities: Wind Machines/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Opening)
  16. Don Quixote (Variation VIII)
  17. National Calling Cards: The Guitar For Spain/Concierto De Aranjuez (Finale)
  18. And The Guitar's Poor American Relative, The Banjo/Washington Breakdown
  19. And Poorer Still, The Mouth Organ/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (Packing Up)
  20. The Balalaika For Russia/Romeo And Juliet (Act II: No.14)
  21. The Maracas For Mexico/The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre (El Desayuno)
  22. The Bongos And Congas And A Whole Wealth Of Other Drums For Africa And Central America/Studio Example
  23. The Sitar Of India/Evening Raga: Bhapoli
  24. The Accordion For France (Especially Paris)/Paris Canaille
  25. The Zither For Vienna/The Third Man (Theme)
  26. The Cimbalom For Hungary/Folk Dances
  27. The Guitar As An Integral Part Of The Orchestra/Rondena
  28. There Are Whole Orchestras Of Balalaikas./Sveit Mesiats
  29. The Effect Of The Wordless Human Voice, Used Purely As An Instrument/Symphony No.7 'Sinfonia Antartica' (Mvt 1)
  30. Nocturnes
  31. Instruments And the Imitation Of Nature. The Clarinet As Cuckoo
  32. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Cuckoo)
  33. The Flute As An All-purpose Aviary
  34. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aviary)
  35. The Oboe As Duck
  36. Peter And The Wolf (The Duck)
  37. The Recording Of Reality. Does It Work As Well?
  38. The Pines Of Rome (The Pines Of The Janiculum)
  39. The Recording Of Reality Electronically Reborn In New Guises
  40. Cantus Articus - Concerto For Birds And Orchesra (Mvt 2)
  41. Beethoven Turns Avian: Cuckoo, Nightingale, And Quail
  42. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral' (Andante Molto Mosso)
  43. Some Improbable Casting: The Violin As Braying Donkey
  44. The Carnival Of The Animals (Persons With Long Ears)
  45. A Truly Orchestral Hee-haw To Be Reckoned With
  46. Overture To 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
  47. A Thunderstorm In A Million
  48. Symphony No.6 'Pastoral (Allegro-Allegretto)
  49. the Instrumental Depiction Of A Silent World
  50. The Carnival Of The Animals (The Aquarium)
  51. Saint-Saens' Menagerie Takes A Curtain Call.
  52. The Carnival Of The Animals (Finale)

Tracks:

  1. The Grouping Of Instrumental Families. An Additive Approach. First, Two Violins
  2. Forty-Four Duos (No.4)
  3. A Great Contrast, Of Both Pitch And Character: Violin And Viola
  4. Duo For Violin And Viola In B Flat Major, K.424 (Finale, Vars 1 & 2)/Studio Example
  5. Arrival Of The Standard String Trio: Violin, Viola, And Cello
  6. String Trio In B Flat (Menuetto)
  7. The String Quartet: Two Violins, Viola, And Cello
  8. String Quartet In F, Op.18 No.1 (Mvt 3)
  9. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Viola
  10. String Quartet No.5 In D, K.593 (Adagio)
  11. The String Quintet - When The Extra Instrument Is A Second Cello
  12. String Quintet In C (Mvt 3)
  13. The String Sextet: Two Violins, Two Violas, And Two Cellos
  14. String Sextet In B Flat (Mvt 2)
  15. The String Octet: The Standard String Quaret Times Two
  16. Octet In E Flat, Op.20 (Mvt 1)
  17. Double The String Octet: A Fully Fledged String Orchestra
  18. String Symphony No.2 (Finale)
  19. The Massed Strings Of A Symphony Orchestra
  20. Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis
  21. Contrasts Of Pitch And Instrumental 'Colour' In The Woodwind Section
  22. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Op.100 No.5 (Theme)
  23. In The First Variation It's The Horn That Gets The Lion's Share.
  24. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 1
  25. In Variation Two The Torch Is Handed To The Bassoon.
  26. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 2
  27. In Variation Three The Oboe Leads.
  28. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 3
  29. Variation Four: Conversation Before Returning To A Solo-dominated Texture
  30. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 4
  31. And Variation Five is Dominated By The Clarinet.
  32. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 5
  33. The Next To Be Featured Is The Virtuoso Flute.
  34. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 6
  35. Individual Farewells And A Closing Chorus
  36. Wind Quintet In A Minor, Variation 7
  37. A Mixed Group: Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, String Quartet, And Double-Bass
  38. Octet In F (Mvt 3)
  39. The Early Classical Symphony Orchestra Of Haydn And Mozart
  40. Symphony No.29 In A, K.201 (Finale)
  41. Strings, Wind, But No Brass. What Haydn And Mozart Never Knew
  42. Canzon 28
  43. Beethoven's Fifth: Two Horns, Two Trumpets, And Three Trombones Join The Team.
  44. Symphony No.5 (Finale)
  45. From Beethoven To The Massive Orchestras Of Berlioz, Wagner, And Mahler
  46. Beethoven Changed The Face Of The Symphony And The Orchestra Forever
  47. Symphoy No.6 'Tragic' (Mvt 1)
  48. The Cult Of Orchestral Elephantiasis Reaches Its Peak.
  49. Symphony No.1 'Gothic' (VI: Te Ergo Quaesumus)
  50. When Large Doesn't Necessarily Mean Loud: Debussy
  51. Images (Gigues)
  52. A Crisis Of Confidence; The Orchestra's Survival Hangs In The Balance, But It Still Develops. The Ondes Martenot:
  53. Turangalila Symphony (Chant D'amour 1)
  54. The Advent Of The 'Early Music' Movement Brings A New Vitality And Freshness.
  55. Balle De Xerxes (Gavotte En Rondeau)
  56. Computer And Synthesiser: Friends Or Foes?
  57. Concerto In D Minor For Two Violins (Largo)
  58. A Speculative Look Ahead/Mass In B Minor ('Dona Nobis Pacem')

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Instruments of the Orchestra - Great Reference Material!.......2007-04-04

This set lends itself to greatly enhancing one's knowledge of the orchestra, instruments in it, and their usage. I am a huge music buff, and I still picked up a great deal I previously did not know. I highly recommend this for all who wish to understand the origin of music, as well as the processes that are employed to create music!

5 out of 5 stars Beginner or Expert.......2007-03-12

This CD is excellent for the beginner or expert! To be able to haear the instrumets separately and then together really provides a good education. and/or refresher. The book thaty comes with the CD is alomost worth the price by itself!

5 out of 5 stars Very Informative and Enjoyable.......2006-11-20

Whether you're a music novice or pro, "The instruments of the Orchestra" is a very worthwhile purchase. The 7 CDs, with a total of 8 hours, are expertly narrated by Jeremy Siepmann. He's a great speaker, very much like the late Leonard Bernstein was. Mr. Siepmann takes you on an unforgetable musical journey covering the origins and use of the various orchestral instruments throughout musical history. The balance between his narration and a wealth of musical examples, which range from snippets to entire movements, is superb. The comprehensive enclosed booklet is excellent and faithfully follows the 7 CDs in content. Even with my 40+ years of music training I still learned new things from this wonderful collection. Considering the excellence of the content, and a cost that translates to about $5 per disc, this collection is a great value. Grab it, you won't regret that you did. Five solid stars!

3 out of 5 stars Frank's view.......2006-08-19

This boxed set of CD's with booklet achieved all I had hoped that it would. There are good samples of individual instruments and well done commentary on each. The only drawback was that some of the samples were too brief and could have been longer, hoiwever I guess this fits in with time constraints of the medium. It has given me a lot of clues as to future purchases of CD's for listening to individual instruments. Altogeth a satisfactory purchase and a welcome addition to my collection.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent Intro for Those Not Familiar with the Orchestra.......2003-11-08

I've listened to classical music for years and am interested in composition. I bought this CD set to learn how an orchestra and its instruments work. I thought the CDs would be a nice but boring lecture. They aren't! Not only are they FUN but they are informative as well. I learned a huge amount from each CD and couldn't wait to listen to the next one.

The narrator and writer is a great speaker and holds your attention well. He is definitely knowledgeable. He provides musical examples for each point he makes, so you get to "hear" what he just talked about. I'd say the CDs are about 65% music and 35% narration. You'll learn about the range of instruments, some history, different ways to play them, how they sound, and how they are used in the orchestra. This CD set was a great learning experience and is sold at such a low price!

I recommend this CD for those who want to learn about classical music and those who know about it but are interested in learning more about the inner workings of an orchestra. You'll learn much useful information. For instance, the Rite of Spring (with that eerie start) is written for bassoon! I never knew a bassoon could sound like that but now I do.

The one complaint I have is the last CD. This deals with the orchestra. I wanted more of a tour of how the orchestra has been used through history up to the present. Instead, it was a tour of how different groups of instruments sound. I thought it could have been better. The other 6 CDs are excellent.
Another Kind of Magic : A Queen Symphonic Spectacular
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    		Another Kind of Magic : A Queen Symphonic Spectacular

    Manufacturer: Jay Records
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    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00005NTS9
    Release Date: 2001-09-04

    Tracks:

    1. Innuendo - Paulette Ivory/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    2. You're My Best Friend - Dean Collinson/Paulette Ivory/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus...
    3. Seven Seas Of Rhye - James Graeme/Dean Collinson/Sally Ann Triplett/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony...
    4. Bicycle Race - Dean Collinson/Paulette Ivory/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony...
    5. Fat Bottomed Girls - James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    6. A Kind Of Magic - Paulette Ivory/Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony...
    7. Radio Ga Ga - James Graeme/Dean Collinson/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus...
    8. Killer Queen - Paulette Ivory/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus...
    9. Don't Stop Me Now - Dean Collinson/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    10. Play The Game - Sally Ann Triplett/James Graeme/Paulette Ivory/Dean Collinson/Electravox/Elektramania...
    11. It's A Hard Life - Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Sally Ann Triplett/Paulette Ivory/Electravox/Elektramania...
    12. The Miracle - Paulette Ivory/Sally Ann Triplett/Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Ron Raines/Electravox/Elektramania...

    Tracks:

    1. Prelude (Who Wants To Live Forever) - Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Martin Yates/Elektramania
    2. Somebody To Love - Sally Ann Triplett/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    3. Breakthru - Dean Collinson/Paulette Ivory/Sally Ann Triplett/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania...
    4. We Will Rock You - Paulette Ivory/Sally Ann Triplett/Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania...
    5. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Sally Ann Triplett/Dean Collinson/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus...
    6. Save Me - Paulette Ivory/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    7. Flash - Sally Ann Triplett/James Graeme/Paulette Ivory/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony...
    8. I'm Going Slightly Mad - James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus/Martin Yates
    9. Headlong - Paulette Ivory/Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony...
    10. Who Wants To Live Forever - Dean Collinson/Sally Ann Triplett/Electravox/Elektramania/Estonian National Symphony And Chorus...
    11. Bohemian Rhapsody - Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Paulette Ivory/Sally Ann Triplett/Electravox/Elektramania...
    12. We Are The Champions - Dean Collinson/James Graeme/Paulette Ivory/Sally Ann Triplett/Electravox/Elektramania...
    Plays the Music of Queen
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      		Plays the Music of Queen

      Manufacturer: Essex
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      London Symphony OrchestraLondon Symphony Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000008PV3
      Release Date: 1995-03-14

      Tracks:

      1. Somebody to Love
      2. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
      3. We Are the Champions
      4. Who Wants to Live Forever
      5. I Want to Break Free
      6. Radio Ga-Ga
      7. Bohemian Rhapsody
      8. Love of My Life
      9. Friends Will Be Friends
      10. Save Me
      11. Killer Queen
      12. Under Pressure
      13. Show Must Go On
      14. God Save the Queen
      Herman Severin Løvenskiold: Sylfiden
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • A FUN BALLET WITH QUITE A HISTORY!
      • Excellent recording of Lovenskiold 's Ballet
      		 Herman Severin Løvenskiold: Sylfiden

      Manufacturer: Cpo Records
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      BalletsBallets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music
      Ballets & DancesBallets & Dances | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000001S2Y
      Release Date: 1997-08-05

      Tracks:

      1. Sylfiden, Act One: Prld
      2. Sylfiden, Act One: James Is Dosing In The Armchair. - The Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Harry Damgaard T
      3. Sylfiden, Act One: Gurn Enters And Mocks The Confused James.
      4. Sylfiden, Act One: The Wedding Guests Arrive And Greet Anna , Effy And James.
      5. Sylfiden, Act One: Madge Sneaks In. James Discovers Her. He Tries To Get Rid Of Her.
      6. Sylfiden, Act One: Madge Prophesies That Effy Will Not Marry James, But Gurn.
      7. Sylfiden, Act One: James Is Now Alone.
      8. Sylfiden, Act One: Gurn And The Guests Return.
      9. Sylfiden, Act One: A 'Springdans', A Solo By James And A Pas De Deux With Effy And James...
      10. Sylfiden, Act One: The Sylphide Begs James To Abandon Effy.
      11. Sylfiden, Act Two: Night. In A Glade In The Woods.
      12. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Dance.
      13. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Dance Around James.
      14. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Come Between James And The Sylphide.
      15. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Scottish Peasants Come By. - The Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Harry Damgaard T
      16. Sylfiden, Act Two: Effy And The Peasants Return, And At Madge's Urging Gurn Begs...
      17. Sylfiden, Act Two: James Enters And Madge Tipoes In.
      18. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphide Enters. He Gives Her The Beautiful Shawl And They...
      19. Sylfiden, Act Two: She Trembles.
      20. Sylfiden, Act Two: The Wedding Guests, Effy And Gurn Pass By.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A FUN BALLET WITH QUITE A HISTORY!.......2000-01-30

      It can be said that La Sylphide (Sylfiden as the Danes call it, was premiered by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1836), composed by Herman Severin Lovenskiold and choreographed by Bournonville, is the earliest piece of ballet music from the Romantic period that has been recorded. However, an ealier version of the same ballet by a different composer (Schneitzhoeffer)--no recordings--and choreographer has been revived by the Paris Ballet (Who knows how faithful it is to the original!). La Sylphide is a story about a female spirit, called the Sylphide, who falls in love with a young man; he too falls in love with her. But the little courtship is to be cut short by a witch. The fairy tale ends with the death of the Sylphide. The star ballerina of the first version of La Sylphide was Marie Taglioni, who was forever associated with the beginning of the Romantic ballet. Now we come to the version recorded on this CD. First, a little history. After the Danish choreographer, August Bournonville, saw Marie Taglioni dance in the role of the Sylphide at the Paris Opera, he wanted to stage his own production of the ballet. But first, he had to purchase the rights for using the score (by Schneitzhoeffer), but to his disappointment, it was too expensive. Consequently, he decided to have entirely new music written. And the man to accomplish this was Lovenskiold. So successful was this second version that the complete Bournonville choreography along with Lovenskiold's score are still used today by the Royal Danish Ballet. This is a superb "complete" performance by the Danish Radio Sinfoniette. The sound is clear and rich! Damgaard who has been the chief conductor at the Royal Danish Theatre since 1990 conducts beautifully. Under his baton, the orchestra makes the music sound alive and poignant. For those who are interested in ballets or just a great fairy tale, I highly recommend they get this CD. The only alternative recording is the one on Chandos, performed by the Royal Danish Orchestra (conducted by Garforth). It is also excellently performed (Read my review for that recording!). That CD contains an extra number (a pas de deux, which is not ever played as part of the complete ballet), which is a delight to hear! The CPO version, however, contains James' Act 1 solo, which is not in the Chandos recording. If you're a completist, get both!

      5 out of 5 stars Excellent recording of Lovenskiold 's Ballet.......1999-10-26

      It is a beatiful recording of the first romantic ballet, who has a precursor on Taglioni's Sylphide (which can be appreciate on video recording by Ghislene Thesmar interpretation with the corps of Opera Paris Ballet, music by Scheneihoffer,available at amazon.com). The perfomance of Lovenskiold partiture by the Danish Radio Simfonieta conducted by Daamgaardt is perfect, without affectation and it reach the maximum climax on second act. I bought this record because I listen on the radio the overture and the introduction of the first act, which inmediately decided me to find out and bought this version. There is only a criticism to the booknote which is included on the CD. Taglioni 's Sylphide has been succesfull performed in our century, on the seventies by a reconstruction taken on by Pierre Lacotte and interpreted by Ghislaine Thesmar. Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires offer this version on 1974 on stage and it was suscefull received at Argentine and many great Argentine Ballerinas interpreted the beautiful role of the light Sylphide.
      Christmas Bells Are Swingin'
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Great stuff
      		 Christmas Bells Are Swingin'
      John M. Laverty , The Syracuse University Wind Ensemble , Irving Berlin , Boston Brass , Ralph Martin Hugh / Blane , Steve E. Nelson , James Pierpont , Robert W. Smith , Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , Mel Torme , Christmas Traditional , and Richard Storrs Willis
      Manufacturer: Summit(Classical)
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      ASIN: B000ARFPUI
      Release Date: 2005-09-13

      Tracks:

      1. Carol Of The Bells
      2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman
      3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Xmas
      4. Frosty The Snowman/The Nutcracker Dance Suite
      5. Chinese Dance (Tea)
      6. Arabian Dance (Coffee)
      7. Russian Dance (Trepak)
      8. We Three Kings Of Brubeck Are
      9. Jingle Bells Forever
      10. Coventry Carol
      11. Ding, Dong Merrily On High
      12. The Christmas Song
      13. Little Drummer Boy/Pat-A-Pan
      14. I Wonder As I Wander
      15. Jingle Bells
      16. White Christmas
      17. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
      18. Greensleeves

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      Brass music and the holiday season seem to go hand in hand. It just feels right-and is something we have all grown to expect at this time of year. You hear it in churches, shopping malls, concert halls, and on recordings! This recording is Boston Brass' offering of holiday cheer, featuring the signature sound of the group performing holiday selections from around the world. If you've heard Boston Brass, you know what is meant by "signature sound." If you haven't, the Boston Brass experience is one where the listener is taken on an eye-popping musical journey by a world-class ensemble, featuring world-class soloists, performing world-class arrangements.

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Great stuff.......2007-01-22

      This is some of the best brass playing around. I highly recommend it!
      James Bond Collection
      Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
      • almost the perfect James Bond collection
      • Good Collection
      • Not excatly what I expected
      • The James Bond CD for the John Barry purist?
      • Very enjoyable with most of the BOND music you'd want.
      		 James Bond Collection

      Manufacturer: Silva America
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      1. Best of Bond James Bond
      2. The Best of James Bond 30th Anniversary
      3. You Only Live Twice
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      5. Live and Let Die

      ASIN: B00006JTGH
      Release Date: 2002-10-22

      Tracks:

      1. Dr. No: The James Bond Theme (Original Version)
      2. Dr. No: Suite
      3. From Russia With Love: From Russia With Love (Film Version)
      4. From Russia With Love: The Zagreb Express
      5. From Russia With Love: The Golden Horn
      6. From Russia With Love: Girl Trouble
      7. From Russia With Love: 007 Takes The Lektor
      8. From Russia With Love: From Russia With Love (Symphonic Version)
      9. Goldfinger: Into Miami/Alpine Drive
      10. Goldfinger: Dawn Raid At Fort Knox
      11. Goldfinger: Goldfinger
      12. Thunderball: Thunderball
      13. Thunderball: The Bomb/Cafe Martinique
      14. Thunderball: Fight On The Disco Volante/Death Of Largo

      Tracks:

      1. You Only Live Twice: Bond's Funeral/Mountains And Sunsets
      2. You Only Live Twice: The Wedding/Capsule In Space
      3. You Only Live Twice: You Only Live Twice
      4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: This Never Happened To The Other Fella'
      5. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: We Have All The Time In The World
      6. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Bond Meets The Girls
      7. On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The Ski Chase
      8. Diamonds Are Forever: Mr. Wint And Mr. Kidd
      9. Diamonds Are Forever: Circus, Circus
      10. Diamonds Are Forever: Blofeld's Laser
      11. Diamonds Are Forever: Diamonds Are Forever
      12. Live And Let Die: Live And Let Die

      Tracks:

      1. The Man With The Golden Gun: The Man With The Golden Gun
      2. The Man With The Golden Gun: Kung Fu Fight/Let's Go Get 'Em
      3. The Man With The Golden Gun: Chew Me In Grisly Land/Return To Scaramanga's Fun House
      4. The Man With The Golden Gun: Slow Boat From China/Nick Nack
      5. The Spy Who Loved Me: Nobody Does It Better
      6. The Spy Who Loved Me: The Tanker
      7. The Spy Who Loved Me: Ride To Atlantis
      8. Moonraker: Arrival At Chateau Drax/Freefall
      9. Moonraker: Miss Goodhead Meets Bond
      10. Moonraker: Flight Into Space
      11. Moonraker: Moonraker
      12. For Your Eyes Only: For Your Eyes Only
      13. Octopussy: Suite: Bond Meets Octopussy/The Palace Fight
      14. Octopussy: All Time High

      Tracks:

      1. A View To A Kill: Wine With Stacy/Fanfare/Snow Job
      2. The Living Daylights: Koskov Escapes/Hercules Take Off
      3. The Living Daylights: Mujahadin/Afghanistan Plan
      4. The Living Daylights: Air Bond/Necros Attack
      5. The Living Daylights: End Title
      6. Licence To Kill: Suite
      7. Goldeneye: Goldeneye
      8. Goldeneye: Tank Drive Around St. Petersburg
      9. Tomorrow Never Dies: Tomorrow Never Dies
      10. Tomorrow Never Dies: Surrender
      11. The World Is Not Enough: Ice Bandits
      12. The World Is Not Enough: Access Denied
      13. The World Is Not Enough: The World Is Not Enough
      14. The James Bond Theme (Symphonic Version)

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      The exploits of Ian Fleming's British super-agent James Bond have long since become the longest running film series in history, spanning 40 years and counting. Not the least of the cycle's charm has been its music, a body of work that encompasses pop clichés (the twangy guitar of Monty Norman's original "James Bond Theme") and elegant underscores alike. While this collection spans music from Dr. No to The World Is Not Enough, decades of various legal entanglements prevented it from becoming the ultimate Bond music anthology. This is more a credible simulation, a newly recorded collection of cues and suites (including music previously unreleased on the original soundtracks) performed by Nic Raine and the City of Prague Symphony Orchestra. With John Barry's lush, ever-evocative scores both forming the core and setting the tone (but also featuring the work of George Martin, David Arnold, Michael Kamen, Bill Conti, and Eric Serra), it's the most comprehensive--if not exactly authentic--collection of Bond music yet attempted. --Jerry McCulley

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars almost the perfect James Bond collection.......2005-07-20

      this 4 CD box has most of the familiar James Bond compositions.

      Still,some tunes are missing(from for instance Thunderball and For Your Eyes Only)and most of the time the attention is on the instrumental version of the title track which is a bit of a shame.And yet,there are too many great pieces on this collection to make it a failure.Alpine Drive,Dawn Raid at Fort Knox,On Her Majesty's Secret Service(every track),Miss Goodhead and so on.All great pieces that not only show the great talent of John Barry but also the great power of James Bond films.Cause when you hear the music,you see the scenes in front of you.

      Very much a recommendation to all Bond and Barry fans although sometimes it focusses too much on title songs.The only solution is to buy all separate soundtracks.

      5 out of 5 stars Good Collection.......2005-02-24

      Very nice packaging and good tracks from the Bond music library make this an anoutstanding item. "From Russia With Love" and "Diamonds Are Forever" contain beautiful and energetic renditions. The John Barry music is handled quite well. I didn't real care for the David Arnold selections. "The World Is Not Enough" was weak. Overall it is a good collection just the same.

      3 out of 5 stars Not excatly what I expected.......2003-04-10

      I when I read some of the reviews of this I thought that this was a complete collection of all the originals of the Theme songs of every James Bond movie and remakes done by the Prague Philharmonic of some of the other songs in the various movies. After recieveing this ... I started to listen to it and found out that it was all done by the orchestra. The are very good, but to a point it is not the same thing as owning a disc will all the orignal songs on it. Overall, this good if all the you want is the orchestral versions of most of the songs in the movies or the suites out of some of the movies. To a point these don't compare to the orignals. Keep looking if you want a set with all the orignals songs in it.

      4 out of 5 stars The James Bond CD for the John Barry purist?.......2003-01-28

      Let's cut to the chase. Nic Raine and the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra do John Barry's work justice. 90% of this collection is as close as you can get to the original James Bond soundtracks. The other 10% lends itself to some artistic license with respect to the arrangements. Most notable is the main theme to Goldfinger. Also Nic slips in a few previously unreleased tracks. You will find these on the On Her Majesty's Secret Service and Golden Eye tracks. This CD boxed set is definitely made for the Bond soundtrack fan. The die hard John Barry "purist"/ traditionalist may find some of these tracks questionable at first, but after a few times Nic Raine's artistic license gives a fresh perspective to the familiar Bond/ Barry themes. The only reservation I have with this CD set is with some of selections that are performed. For instance, from Goldfinger, "Dawn Raid At Fort Knox" was a poor selection considering the selection available on that particular soundtrack. The most famous 007 soundtrack of all I dare say. Overall Nic hits the mark, and this CD set is a tribute to Barry's (as well as, George Martin's, Marvin Hamlish's, and Bill Conti's and David Arnold's) work. It's all here in one collection. I am a die-hard Bond soundtrack fan, and to the casual soundtrack fan I say this CD is set all you need to experience the Bond music legacy. To those who are hard core 007 soundtrack fans ...this is a FANTASTIC "addition" to your collection. This has to be the BEST (and probably the only) 007 "soundtrack" compilation. Whereas all the others feature the "main themes" from the Bond films as originally recorded, this one truly gives you the Bond experience.

      3 out of 5 stars Very enjoyable with most of the BOND music you'd want........2002-12-08

      This is similar but more comprehensive than another BOND collection on one CD by the City of Prague Philharmonic. These are good renditions but clearly not the orginals. I must ask if the Prague Philharmonic does not own a harp? It is glaringly missing in the Goldfinger themes and i am sure on others. That harp is an exciting and beautiful touch to the wonderful GOLDFINGER theme and its absents is unfortuneatly very noticeable. Also some of the other themes can even sound muzaky if thats a word(elevator music)
      It gets 3 solid stars good collection yet defineatly something is lacking.
      Campaign Moving Slow
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      		 Campaign Moving Slow
      We're All Broken
      Manufacturer: Fidelity
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00029LO4A
      Release Date: 2004-06-29

      Tracks:

      1. Baltimore
      2. Ambrosia
      3. Bite & Kick
      4. Long Pause/Short Pause
      5. Bit in the Head by a Woolf
      6. Estella
      7. Red Carpet Welcome
      8. Vomit on the Boardwalk
      9. Apple Parade
      10. Bovine Scatology
      11. Hail Vagabond Bride

      Product Description

      1. Baltimore
      2. Ambrosia
      3. Bite & Kick
      4. Medley
      5. Bit In The Head By A Woolf
      6. Estella
      7. Red Carpet Welcome, The
      8. Vomit On The Boardwalk
      9. Apple Parade
      10. Bovine Scatology
      11. Bovine Scatology
      12. Hail Vagabond Bride


      Format: CD

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Amazing..........2004-11-21

      While listening to Campaign Moving Slow, you can't help but think Thursday and Sunny Day Real Estate have been fused together to bring you We.re All Broken. This band is absolutely incredible. With beautiful chord blending, the infectious Baltimore won't be able to leave your head. If you haven't already, go see them live because their energy is simply amazing.

      Standout Tracks: Baltimore, Long Pause/Short Pause, Red Carpet Welcome

      5 out of 5 stars Turn on your Stereo.......2004-07-08

      Having followed We're All Broken for several years, this disc arrives much anticipated. Though I did have pretty high expectations for a record that is the culmination of years of playing and writing together, I could never have expected the breadth of what they have achieved. Every song is filled with unexpected surprises and the little intricacies that reward repeated, focused listening, while immediate listens are equally enjoyable due to the energy and passion these guys bring to the table. This is not a rock record to listen to once and toss in the pile. But it is a ROCK record...to be played loud. From the opening track to the last, We're All Broken take the listener on a journey through heavy excursions, beautiful melodies, ambiguous lyrics that still mean something(to those who like to use their imaginations every now and then) and ambient and electronic textures that create a cohesive album that doesn't sound like one long song, but a unit as great or greater than the sum of its parts. Albums like these are hard to come by from any band, and for a debut record to be as strong as this, the future of We're All Broken is something to get very excited about. Start paying attention.
      We Are Forever
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • A Fine Listen!
      • Country Music at its best
      • Billy McCoy
      • We Are Forever--Billy A. McCoy
      		 We Are Forever
      Billy McCoy
      Manufacturer: Great American Country
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Country | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00004XOY8
      Release Date: 1997-09-15

      Tracks:

      1. I Have To Hold The Ring (And Kiss The Bride)
      2. Cajun Fiddle Man
      3. The Hero The County Laid To Rest
      4. Ma Cher A Mio
      5. Baby's Coming Home
      6. Alice Loves Fort Worth
      7. We Are Forever
      8. Luisa
      9. Dancing The Cowboy Way
      10. Born Again

      Album Description

      Great traditional country music, written by Billy A. McCoy

      Customer Reviews:

      4 out of 5 stars A Fine Listen!.......2000-10-28

      In these sad days when "Bubble gum" country rules the air-ways the only refuge for traditional Country music lovers is CD's.In Billy McCoy's CD "We Are Forever" you have a fine well balanced collection of traditional country goodies.You can tell this man knows what he is siinging about and he sings them straight from the heart.This collection, mostly self-penned, shows his love for various branches of country music including Cajun and Western Swing.My special favorites being "The Hero The County Laid To Rest," and "Cajun Fiddle Man." A good CD so you just can't go wrong.

      5 out of 5 stars Country Music at its best.......2000-10-12

      Billy McCoy has excelled himself with this album.Sure is a fine singer and musician,and playing real country music as it should be.

      (Michael Pace)

      5 out of 5 stars Billy McCoy.......2000-08-27

      ...simply great. Billy McCoy is a genious...

      5 out of 5 stars We Are Forever--Billy A. McCoy.......2000-08-27

      I live in Oregon. Have the privalage of knowing Billy McCoy personally. Have been singing along with his group for many year's. { as a jammer} at the club where he play's. Billy is well loved for his Country Music,as well as the wonderful personality he has. He has many Fan's here & we call him Our country star. Billy play's what the people want to hear. Good down to earth country music. Plus song's he write's. We all love him.We are proud of him and grateful for knowing him personally. I am sure those that buy his CD of -We are Forever, you will enjoy it. He has a variety of music. I have many Record's he has done in the past. Also cassette & now the Cd's. I have them all. I support Billy in all way's i can. I think he's great. He's worked very hard threwout the year's, in his music. Every Year in March We celebrate the many year's, that Billy has played for us all , with a big Aniversery Jam session. From 2:pm to 2:am . Many singer's & band's with wonderful good old country music . As of this time, Billy has intertained us all for 31 year's .I can only say, Buy his CD- We are forever, You'll not be disappointed.

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      Floyd Cramer Plays Today's Beautiful Melodies (The World's Most Beautiful Melodies From Reader's Digest)
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        		Floyd Cramer Plays Today's Beautiful Melodies (The World's Most Beautiful Melodies From Reader's Digest)

        Manufacturer: Reader's Digest Music
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000G9V40A

        Product Description

        Reader's Digest release from 1996. Contains 19 songs performed by Floyd Cramer. Song list: THEME FROM ICE CASTLES (THROUGH THE EYES OF LOVE), WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN, IF, SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH, YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL, ANNIE'S SONG, TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE, CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT, I SWEAR, COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE, SOMEWHERE IN MY BROKEN HEART, DON'T KNOW MUCH, SAVE THE BEST FOR LAST, LOVE ME, HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY, LONGER, THE DANCE, I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME, FOREVER IN LOVE.

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