Songs From Paradise

Songs From Paradise

ASIN: B000088NLN

Track Listings

1. Country Jazz

2. Songs From Paradise

3. The Fly and I

4. I Left Those Things

5. Caldo De Pollo

6. Barkin' Up The Wrong Tree

7. Full Meal Deal

8. My Loretta

9. Play, Buddy, Play

10. Accident Waiting to Happen

11. These Songs From Paradise

12. Country As I'm Ever Gonna Get

Editorial Reviews
From the Artist
"'Songs From Paradise' is the result of the dedicated efforts, heart and united spirit of the great players who performed on it, and the unflinching support of Nancy Jo Glasgow and Col. Buster Doss, who made it happen. My indebtedness to them can not be overstated or repaid!"

Product Description
"THIS IS THE HOTTEST ALBUM RECORDED IN NASHVILLE IN YEARS!!!"

"This album was recorded between March 19th, and March 21st, 2001 at Bayou Recording, in Music City, USA. The chief engineer, George Clinton, has been with me for over 10 years. And the session pickers read like a "who's who" of Nashville session players.

The session leader, Danny Parks, has been the Stardust band leader for 13 years and does all the electric and acoustic guitar parts. Michael Blaustone has been drumming on Stardust sessions for over 10 years. Buddy Hyatt has also been with me for a long time on piano and digital synthesizers. Larry Franklin, on fiddle, started with me in 1975 in Austin, Texas as a member of the COODER BROWNE band that recorded on WILLIE NELSON'S 'LONE STAR RECORDS' and, later, MERCURY RECORDS. Larry has also played fiddle on albums by ALAN JACKSON, REBA McENTIRE, MARK CHESTNUTT, SHANIA TWAIN and many other major stars. ROBBY TURNER, on steel guitar, tours with the "HIGHHWAY MEN", consisting of members WILLE NELSON, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, JOHNNY CASH and WAYLON JENNINGS. Seeking a "jazz" feel, we brought in JIM HOKE on saxophone. MIKE CHAPMAN has played bass on Stardust sessions for over 12 years and he played bass on six of the songs, then had to leave for a GARTH BROOKS session (he plays bass on all BROOKS sessions). For the other tracks we used MARTY SHRABEL, another top session picker in Nashville.

The Players on SONGS FROM PARADISE:

LEAD VOCALS - Brant Miller
BACKGROUND VOCALS - Susan Marshall Clinton, Lance Miller

GUITARS/BAND LEADER - Danny Parks
BASS - Mike Chapman, Marty Shrabel
SAXOPHONE/HARMONICAS - Jim Hoke
PIANO & SYNTHESIZER - Buddy Hyatt
STEEL GUITAR - Robby Turner
FIDDLE - Larry Franklin
DRUMS - Michael Blaustone

ENGINEER - George Clinton, Bayou Recording, Nashville
ASSISTANTS - Greg Hayes & Barry Senter

All Songs Written By Brant Miller
PRODUCER - Colonel Buster Doss
CO-PRODUCER - Brant Miller

Songs From Paradise

Songs From Paradise,Brant Miller,Wizard Records,Enlivening and unexpected music for the heart.

Average customer rating: Two and a half hours of divine music...what more can I say?

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Tracks:

1. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring - Karl Munchinger
2. Meditation - Nigel Kennedy
3. In Paradisum - Iwan Edwards
4. Gymnopedie No. 1 - Charles Dutoit
5. Flower Duet - Joan Sutherland
6. The Swan - Jascha Silberstein
7. Sleepers Awake - Raymond Agoult
8. Humming Chorus - Vienna State Opera Chorus
9. Nimrod - Sir Georg Solti
10. Walk To The Paradise Garden - Sir Charles Mackerras
11. Pavane, Op. 50 - Iwan Edwards
12. Panis Angelicus - Julian Lloyd Webber
13. Ombra Mai Fu (Largo) - Anthony Way
14. The Lark Ascending - Iona Brown

Tracks:

1. Clair De Lune - Pascal Roge
2. Sheep May Safely Graze - Karl Munchinger
3. Symphony No. 3 - Second Movement (Excerpt) - Joanna Kozlowska
4. Stabat Mater - Judith Raskin
5. Ave Maria - Julian Lloyd Weber
6. Adagio - Miklos Perenyi
7. Ave Verum Corpus, K618 - Peter White
8. Andante Molto Mosso: Scene By The Brook - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
9. Dance Of The Blessed Spirits - Karl Munchinger
10. Largo - Colin Davis
11. Wiegenlied (Lullaby), Op. 49 No. 4 - Marisa Robles
12. Adagio - Valery Gergiev
13. Air On A G string - Sir Neville Marriner

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Two and a half hours of divine music...what more can I say?.......2006-02-27

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Delius: Orchestral Works

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ASIN: B00000IX80
Release Date: 1999-05-11

Tracks:

1. Brigg Fair
2. In A Summer Garden
3. The Walk To The Paradise Garden - (A Village Romeo And Juliet)
4. North Country Sketches: I. Autumn
5. North Country Sketches: II. Winter Landscape
6. North Country Sketches: III. Dance
7. North Country Sketches: IV. The March Of Spring

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1. Florida Suite: I. Daybreak
2. Florida Suite: II. By The River
3. Florida Suite: III. Sunset
4. Florida Suite: IV. At Night
5. Two Aquarelles (arr. Fenby): I. Lento, ma non troppo
6. Two Aquarelles (arr. Fenby): II. Gaily, But Not Quick
7. On Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring
8. Summer Night On The River
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10. Dance Rhapsody No.1

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1. Sinbad: Swanee - Al Jolson
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3. Mayfair And Montmartre: Please Do It Again - Alice Delysia
4. George White's Scandals Of 1922: I Found A Four-Leaf Clover - Paul Whitman Orchestra
5. George White's Scandals Of 1922: I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise - Paul Whitman Orchestra
6. George White's Scandals Of 1922: I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise - The Original Piano Trio
7. George White's Scandals Of 1923: The Life Of A Rose - Charles Dornberger Orchestra
8. Little Miss Bluebeard: I Won't Say I Will - Irene Bordoni
9. George White's Scandals Of 1924: Somebody Loves Me - Tom Patricola
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15. Primrose: I'll Have A House Iin Berkeley Square - Margery Hicklin/Claude Hulbert
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17. Primrose: Mary, Queen Of Scots - Leslie Henson
18. Primrose: Wait A Bit, Susie - Percy Heming
19. Primrose: Naughty Baby - Margery Hicklin
20. Primrose: Ballet Music - Winter Garden Theatre Orchestra
21. Primrose: That New-Fangled Mother Of Mine - Leslie Henson
22. Primrose: I Make Hay When The Moon Shines - Heather Thatcher

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1. The Vagabond King: Only A Rose - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
2. Along The Road Of Dreams - Webster Booth
3. Heavenly Night - Webster Booth
4. The Maid Of The Mountains: A Paradise For Two - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
5. In Old Madrid - Webster Booth
6. A Brown Bird Singing - Webster Booth
7. The Bing Boys Are Here: If You Were The Only Girl In The World - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
8. Pale Moon - Webster Booth
9. Robber Symphony: Serenata - Webster Booth
10. The Second Minuet - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
11. Strange Harmony Of Contrasts (Recondita Armonia) - Webster Booth
12. Love's Old Sweet Song - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
13. Merrie England: The English Rose - Webster Booth
14. Ideale (My Life's Ideal) - Webster Booth
15. Bitter Sweet: I'll See You Again - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
16. Indian Summer - Webster Booth
17. The Geisha: Star Of My Soul - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
18. The New Moon: Lover, Come Back To Me - Webster Booth
19. Song Of Songs - Webster Booth
20. Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes - Webster Booth
21. Naughty Marietta: Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler
22. The Bells Of St. Mary's - Webster Booth
23. Break Of Day - Webster Booth
24. Perchance To Dream: We'll Gather Lilacs - Webster Booth/Anne Ziegler

Average customer rating: Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom Great Songs, but Mind the Singer The Songs of William Bolcom

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Tracks:

1. You Cannot Have Me Now - Or, the Military Orgy
2. Night, Make My Day
3. The Digital Wonder Watch
4. My Father The Ganster
5. The Last Days Of Mankind
6. This Is A Face
7. Since I Have You
8. The Rabbit
9. I Am Not Free
10. For Me
11. From Wandering
12. Beware
13. I Wouldn't Die
14. I Remember
15. For Everything
16. I Have Climbed
17. Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
18. How To Swing Those Obbligations Around
19. The Crazy Woman
20. Just Once
21. Never More Will The Wind
22. The Sage
23. O To Be A Dragon
24. The Bustle In A House
25. Night Practice
26. I Saw Eternity
27. The Fish
28. Costa Del Nowhere
29. Table
30. Mary
31. River Song
32. Messing About In Boats
33. Rat's Song
34. When We Built The Church

Customer Reviews:

Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom.......2007-02-13

Carole Farley and William Bolcom have recorded this landmark CD, and I can easily understand why this CD received a GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Vocal Recording of the Year" and a 2nd GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Engineered Recording of the Year" category. It's indeed one of the best vocal albums of contemporary songs ever made. Carole Farley, who made her MET debut in the MET's first LULU production, seems to be just at home with Puccini, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and even Latin American popular songs (her Lecuona songs album is extremely beautiful).
William Bolcom's accompaniment is brilliant, and the songs are a revelation.
J.B. (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Great Songs, but Mind the Singer.......2006-07-04

This is one of those discs where the listener has to balance the advantages of the program with the disadvantages of the performance. Bolcom is one of this country's most versatile and brilliant composers, and those qualities are demonstrated to great effect in the songs on this album. His piano playing is, as one would expect, also solid and expressive. The drawback here is Carole Farley. Although her diction and intonation are good, as far as tone-color goes, she seems to be a one-trick pony; and if you don't like that trick (opera singer trying to sound like what she thinks a musical theater singer sounds like), listening to her can get very tiring. So while I highly recommend the disc for its content, I suggest listening to excerpts first before buying just to make sure that the singer's voice doesn't drive you batty.

The Songs of William Bolcom.......2006-02-14

The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, "Mary" which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime.

The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano. Ms. Farley has also recorded for Naxos' "American classics" series a selection of the songs of Ned Rorem with Rorem at the piano. Ms. Farley and Naxos are doing listeners a service by introducing them to the world of the American art song.

The highlight of this CD is the 20-minute song-cycle "I will breathe a mountain" in which Bolcom sets 11 poems by American women. The poems were selected by Alice Fulton, and they include Fulton's own "I will swing those obligatos around" in which the young singer describes a come-on from a boor. The song writing is declamatory in character with many twists, turns, and shouts in the vocal line. Only the setting of H.D.'s "Never More Will the Wind" is lyrical and flowing. Besides Fulton and H.D. the settings include poems by Millay, Gwendolwn Brooks (a poem called "The Crazy Woman" with appropriately wild shrieks) Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore (listen to what Ms. Farley makes of the poets wish to be a DRA' GON), Emily Dickinson (in a moving poem of the stillness of a home after death),Louise Bogan, May Swenson, and Elizabeth Bishop. "I will breathe a mountain" is an outstanding and moving contemporary American song-cycle and is in itself sufficient reason for hearing this recording.

The CD also includes a second exquisite cycle, "Songs to Dance" which sets ten miniature poems by George Montgomery. This is a work to be danced as well as sung, and it has apparently been performed live only once, by the composer, his wife, the soprano Joan Morris, and dancer, Dan Wagoner. It has never been recorded before. The work deserves to be heard and seen.

Many of the remaining works on this CD are cabaret-style theatrical pieces that Bolcom composed in collaboration with lyricist Arnold Weinstein. The best of these are two torch songs from a show called "Casino Paradise": Night Make my Day (a parody of the torch style which is sometimes performed straight) and "My Father the Gangster", in which a young woman laments how men are, understandably, worried about her father and afraid to approach her. The collection opens with a scream by Ms. Farley in the erotic novelty "You cannot have me now", about the affairs of the wife of a German officer, sung with a heavily inflected German accent and also set to words by Weinstein.

I enjoyed Bolcom's short setting of May Swenson's poem "The Digital Wonder Watch" with the tick-ticking in the piano. This song is a satire of technology, with the poet describing the features of her "wonderful watch" while asking: "Does it show how to wind up/a broken heart?" The other songs on the CD include the passionate "The Last Days of Mankind", conceived for rock singer Marianne Faithful, two eloquent settings of poems by Richard Tillinghast, and four concluding early collaborations between Bolcom and Weinstein.

This CD offers an opportunity to explore the world of American song in the works of a leading contemporary composer. The cycle, "I will breathe a mountain" will be a lasting achievement in American art song.

Robin Friedman

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Orchestral Gems: Visions of England Manufacturer: Metronome ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Delius, Frederick | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Elgar | Elgar, Sir Edward | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Vaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Walton | Walton, Sir William | ( W ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Tone Poems | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008HAUI Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

1. Popular Song (Facade Suite) - London Philharmonic Orchestra
2. Sad Doll (Nursery Suite, No. 4) - The London Symphony Orchestra
3. Merry Doll (Nursery Suite, No. 6) - The London Symphony Orchestra
4. Runaway Rocking Horse - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
5. Voice of London - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
6. Street Corner - Overture - The Philharmonia Orchestra
7. Coronation Scot - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
8. Spitfire Prelude - Halle Orchestra
9. Spitfire Fugue - Halle Orchestra
10. London Fantasia - Sidney Torch & His Orchestra
11. Fantasia on Greensleeves
12. On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
13. May Song - The New Symphony Orchestra of London
14. Barwick Green - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
15. Quiet Countryside - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
16. Birdsongs at Eventide - The New Symphony Orchestra of London
17. Pictures in the Fire - Queen's Hall Light Orchestra
18. Hymn-Tune Prelude (Eventide)
19. Walk to the Paradise Garden - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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A Delius Festival Manufacturer: Classics for Pleasur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Delius, Frederick | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Royal Liverpool Philharmonic | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000027FC0 Release Date: 1993-08-20

Tracks:

1. Songs Of Farewell: How Sweet The Silent Backward Tracings! - Royal Chor Society/Sir Malcolm Sargent
2. Songs Of Farewell: I Stand As On Some Mighty Eagle's Beak - Royal Chor Society/Sir Malcolm Sargent
3. Songs Of Farewell: Passage To You! - Royal Chor Society/Sir Malcolm Sargent
4. Songs Of Farewell: Joy, Shipmate, Joy! - Royal Chor Society/Sir Malcolm Sargent
5. Songs Of Farewell: Now Finale To The Shore - Royal Chor Society/Sir Malcolm Sargent
6. Late Swallows - Halle Orch/Sir John Barbirolli
7. A Song Before Sunrise - RPO/Sir Malcolm Sargent
8. To Be Sung Of A Summer Night On The Water: Slow, But Not Dragging - Chor Of King's College/Philip Ledger
9. To Be Sung Of A Summer Night On The Water: Gaily But Not Quick - Robert Tear
10. A Village Romeo And Juliet: The Walk To The Paradise Garden - RPO/Meredith Davies
11. Cynara - John Shirley-Quirk
12. Margot La Rouge: Prld - RPO/Meredith Davies
13. Wanderer's Song - Baccholian Sgrs Of London
14. Koanga: La Calinda - PO/George Weldon

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Russian Calvary: Triptych of Spiritual Songs, Pt. 3 Manufacturer: Russian Compact Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Russia | Far East & Asia | International | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Hymns | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000028274 Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

1. Our Father
2. I Sacrifice the Voice of the Prodigal Son to You, God
3. Get Rid of Existing Shortcomings of Fatherly Estate
4. On the Jordan
5. As in the Ancient Times
6. Be Prior to the Divines in Great Daring
7. Thou Has Vouchsafed the Good Thief the Paradise
8. Thy Coffin, Thou the Saviour
9. Oh, Mother of God, Thy Sweet Voice
10. He Throve Like Phoenix
11. Oh, Exceeding Glorious Wonder
12. Be Glad, Life-Giving Cross
13. He Intricately Prophesied a Lot
14. Upholder of the Orthodox Faith
15. Today the Pastor of Kronshtadt
16. He Has Taken the Divine Grace from Heaven
17. Thy Last Supper
18. Come the Lawful Canopy
19. Under Thy Shelter, Sovereign
20. House of Ephrathah
21. May Every Man Begin
22. Be Glad, Russian Land
23. Having Fallen Asleep With Flesh
24. You, Christ, Was the Luminary, Set Before the Sun in the Coffin
25. Telling Before the Morning, Earlier Than Maria
26. Angel Cried
27. From Rising of the Sun Till Its Setting the Name of Lord Is to Be ...
28. Arise, God

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