Woman to Woman, Vol. 1

Woman to Woman, Vol. 1

ASIN: B000002QVN

Track Listings

1. Last One to Know - Reba McEntire

2. Wouldn't It Be Great - Loretta Lynn

3. If My Heart Had Windows - Patty Loveless

4. When You Get a Little Lonely - Nicolette Larson

5. Never Mind - Nanci Griffith

6. What Am I Gonna Do About You? - Reba McEntire

7. Just a Woman - Loretta Lynn

8. Lonely Days, Lonely Nights - Patty Loveless

9. Only Love Will Make It Right - Nicolette Larson

10. I Knew Love - Nanci Griffith

Tracks:

The Baby's Family: Little White Doll (The Porcelain Doll)
The Baby's Family: Little Brunette Doll (The Paste Doll)
The Baby's Family: Little Mestiza Doll (The Clay Doll)
The Baby's Family: Little Muhatta Doll (Rubber Doll)
The Baby's Family: Little Black Doll (The Wooden Doll)
The Baby's Family: The Poor Little Doll (The Rag Doll)
The Baby's Family: Punch
The Baby's Family: The Witch (The Cloth Doll)
Cirandas: Terezinha de Jesus
Cirandas: The Countess
Cirandas: Senhora dona sancha
Cirandas: The Carnation Fought With The Rose
Cirandas: Poor Blind Woman
Cirandas: Go Away, Go Away, Hawk
Cirandas: Shoo, Shoo, Little Bird
Cirandas: Let's Go To The Mountain, Calunga
Cirandas: I Went To Itororo
Cirandas: The Painter Of Canai
Cirandas: In This Street
Cirandas: Look At The Little Bird, Domine
Cirandas: Looking For A Needle
Cirandas: The Canoe Capsized
Cirandas: What Beautiful Eyes!
Cirandas: Chip, Chip, Chip
Hommage a Chopin: Noturno
Hommage a Chopin: A la balada

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At last, a replacement for Roberto Szidon's long-deleted recording of Cirandas! This is one of Villa-Lobos's most delightful works, a long piano suite (41:46 in this recording) of folk-flavored pieces that progress from one charming idea to another and never outlast their material. The Baby's Family, the first of two suites, is also charming music, made popular by Artur Rubinstein. The Chopin tribute is one of those crocks of musical dishwater Villa-Lobos stuck his hands into when his mind was on something else, but it's brief and comes at the end of the disc. Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky plays with stylistic insight and gorgeous piano tone, very well captured by Naxos in a recording that sat in the can for almost five years before it was finally issued. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Rubinsky : a new reference in Villa Lobos.......2005-04-18

When Villa Lobos listened for the first time the works of Debussy and Stravinsky ( The Russian Ballets of Diaghlev danced in Rio de Janeiro in 1913 and 1917) he found the way to create something really adequate to involve Brazilian authentic tunes . The first important period of Villa Lobos as a composer involve two series of works: The Prole do Bebê ( No 1 and No 2) and the Choros. Prole do Bebê is full of Pentatonic and whole tone scales, and the Harmony of some of the pieces are deeply influenced by Stravinsky: The Polichinelo is a Brazilian brother of the Russian white/black harmony of Petrushka. For the first time one Brazilian composer was proud of our authentic songs and he placed these lovely melodies in the middle of a very sophisticated piano writing and with new harmonies that fitted wonderfully with his purposes. The Cirandas is also involved with the child's world. I would like to remember that The Cirandas are not important only as a wonderful composition, but I'm sure too that without this work a lot of authentic folkloric melodies would be lost ,as our childs don't play no more singing these melodies. Times of globalization...
The Prole No 1 and the Cirandas are among the most often played and recorded piano works of Heitor Villa Lobos. The references for the Prole do Bebe No 1 are of course Aline van Barentzen , that recorded the Prole 1 and 2 in Paris for EMI in the presence of the composer ( unfortunately the CD version of the album "Villa Lobos par lui meme" doesn't include this important recording, that was present in the LP version), Nelson Freire( unfortunately he recorded only the Prole 1) and Anna Stella Schic . For the Cirandas the references are again Anna Stella Schic ( the only pianist that recorded the complete works for piano by Villa Lobos), Roberto Szidon and Caio Pagano.
I'm profoundly satisfied with this first record of this important project ( It will be a series of 9 Cds, I believe). Sonia Rubinsky plays very well, and I would like to prize her attitude about the fidelity towards the printed score. As the Prole do Bebe No 1 includes some very often played compositions , they are normally played with some liberties and "traditions". As Mahler used to say, "Tradition is Schlamperei". I really prefer to listen these pieces as Sonia Rubinsky plays: as they are written. One can prefer the exceptional musicality of Nelson Freire in the Prole, or the analytical sound of Caio Pagano in the Cirandas. But Sonia is a first rate pianist too. She has a wonderful sonority .With her flawless musicality we can say that this integral began as a new reference in Villa Lobos discography .

Lively Piano Music from Brazil.......2003-05-20

Villa-Lobos, who is of course the great composer of Brazil, has a less secure place in the history of modern music of the West, so it is good that his art is getting a reappraisal, with various record labels committed to issuing cycles of his works-the symphonies and string quartets, for example. Villa-Lobos wrote a great deal of piano music that isn't heard as much as it used to be, so the present CD, the first in a two-volume series (maybe there will be more) from Naxos is welcome indeed.

If Ginastera is the Bartok of the pampas, Villa-Lobos, in his piano music at least, might be seen as early Prokofiev or Stravinsky transported to the Amazon. As with Ginastera, there is much of surface glitter and of grit, but the emotional depths that Ginastera plumbs in his more inward music seems sorely lacking in much of this piano music by Villa-Lobos. Maybe inwardness wasn't on the composer's agenda as he tried to recreate the world of childhood in these pieces. But I wish he had taken his cue from Schumann, whose "Kinderscenen" is great music primarily because it doesn't shy away from the truth that childhood isn't all fun and games, though the troubling dissonances that intrude on the surface serenity of Villa-Lobos' "The Countess" and "What Beautiful Eyes!" hint at this fact.

Anyway, there is certainly a place for brilliance and grit, which Villa-Lobos' music has in abundance, and especially if you don't listen to all these pieces at one sitting, you will appreciate the freshness and liveliness of Villa-Lobos' invention. I think you'll also find Villa-Lobos' brand of musical primitivism, which intelligently combines European modernism and native New World musical elements, intriguing. You'll probably be amused, too, by "Little Black Doll" and "Look at the Pretty Birdy," which start off as perfect Debussy knockoffs but quickly absorb Villa-Lobos' own Latin-tinged idiom. Certainly, it's easy to see why the Petrouchka-influenced "Punch" from "A Prole do Bebe" suite was at one time an encore favorite with pianists such as Villa-Lobos' champion Artur Rubinstein. Then there is the jazzy "In This Street" from "Cirandas," which illustrates Villa-Lobos' unique assimilation of European and Brazilian popular music.

Sonia Rubinsky brings the requisite pianistic chops to this recital. She has great technique and finds no hurdles she can't manage in Villa-Lobos' sometimes grueling keyboard writing. But she also brings delicacy, charm, and wit to her assignment as well, which breathes life and purpose into the quieter pieces like "What Beautiful Eyes!" A first-rate sound recording, too, from Fisher Hall in Santa Rosa, California. This disc is recommended without hesitation.

Charming Villa-Lobos pieces for children........2001-12-18

The move from the large-scale orchestra we may be more familiar with to the piano does not mean that the music of Villa-Lobos loses any of its energy, rhythm, colour or beauty. The two major works here, 'A Prole do Bebe' (the Baby's family) and 'Cirandas' (a Portuguese dance) evoke the world of childhood, and are said to belong to the traditon of Schumann and Tchaikovsky, but the warm colours and rich harmonies are more tropical than those chilly Europeans, with Villa-Lobos brilliantly incorporating and reworking Brazilian folk material. The first wittily depicts the personalities of a child's dolls; the set of dances push their good-natured skittishness into real emotion at times. The 'Homage a Chopin' give a famously restrained and reflective idiom some sunny and dramatic virtuosity. Brazilian pianist Sonia Rubinsky knows these pieces and their influences well, and responds to them with intelligence, empathy and humour.

More, please!.......2001-02-28

I have heard Villa-Lobos' A prole do Bebê in various interpretations, but I cannot remember it ever has impressed me more than in Sonia Rubinsky's recording of it, which is utterly virtuoso (I mean a natural virtuosity without bravado)and at the same time very warm and colorful. As in `A prole do Bebê' the `Cirandas', on the same record, show a surpring succesion of various moods, dreamy or exciting, tender or fiery and passionate. There is a continuous tension between strong rhythm and free flowing melody, and a sonority that is very well preserved in the excellent recording. She does not `hammer' the Cirandas as if they were written by Bartòk - a pitfall that seems not altogether imaginary. This is only the first of a series of discs on which Sonia Rubinsky will play Villa Lobos' complete piano works. I hope it won't take too long before we will be able to hear them all. In a broadcast by The Radio Suisse Romande I heard a marvelous sample of the net yet available second volume, which I am eagerly awaiting, as well as the other volumes.

Native?.......2000-10-25

The playing here is rather weak and one has to wonder if being a native of a particular country can be a benefit or a hindrence? As for fantasy, which is much needed in the music of Villa Lobos, I don't feel there is much> The quality of this recording seems o.k. I heard a performance of this pianists RUDEPOEMA and was equally unimpressed! As for the composer? Villa lobos is Fantastic! Interestingly enogh, the pianist Deborah Halasz has embarked on a interesting complete Villa lobos piano music set thet outshines the other competitors, including the mundane playing of Marc Andre Hamelin

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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The style is the man--and the song

A Room With a View: Complete Recordings, Vol.1

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Mad Dogs & Englishmen: Complete Recordings, Vol. 2
Mad About the Boy: Complete Recordings, Vol. 3
Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence
The Queen

ASIN: B000054BF6
Release Date: 2001-04-17

Tracks:

This Year Of Grace: Dance, Little Lady
This Year Of Grace: A Room With A View
This Year Of Grace: Mary Make-Believe
This Year Of Grace: Try To Learn To Love
This Year Of Grace: Lorelei
A Dream Of Youth (The Dream Is Over)
Bitter Sweet: Zigeuner
This Year Of Grace: World Weary
Private Lives, Act 1, Love Scene: Someday I'll Find You
Private Lives, Act 2, Scene: I Never Realised/If You Were The Only Girl In The World
Half-Caste Woman
Any Little Fish
Cavalcade: Lover Of My Dreams (Mirabelle Valse)
Cavalcade Vocal Medley: Soldiers Of The Queen/Goodbye Dolly Gray/Lover Of My Dreams/I Do Like To...
Cavalcade, Epilogue: Toast To England
Noel Coward Medley: Parisian Pierrot/Poor Little Rich Girl/A Room With A View/Dance Little Lady...

Customer Reviews:

The style is the man--and the song.......2001-05-02

Many composers have chosen to perform their own material and commit it to discs, with mixed results. Only with Noel Coward do we feel that a good deal of the charm of his numbers lies in the very way he performs them. For proof, we now have the Naxos Nostalgia (8.120529), which dishes up 16 tracks of the ultra-refined son of W. S.Gilbert, giving us six selections from "This Year of Grace," one from "Bittersweet," a medley of treasures from his "Cavalcade," another from his other works, and a few other trifles that are better than most of what is written today.

Add to all this two classical scenes with Coward and co-star Gertrude Lawrence from his "Private Lives," incredibly valuable for those local drama groups who butcher this work in that this CD can teach them the tone and rhythms that are essential in making this classic succeed.

Tracks:

National Anthem (How We Love Our Fatherland)
National Song (How Glorious Is The Land Of My Birth)
Norway's Grandeur (There I Live On That High Mountain)
Aagot's Mountain Song (Sunset O'r The Mountain Top)
I See You From The Cliffs Of Gluggjin. A Folk Song
Folk Dance From Vinje
Ingrid's Song (And The Fox Laid Under The Red Birch Tree)
Margrete's Lullaby (Now I Feel Uplifted)
Olav Trygvason (Over The North Sea, Broad Sails Blowing)
The Wedding Procession In Hardanger (A Breath Of Sparkling Summer Air)
The Student's Song (A Journey For The Bold And Brave)
Student's Song (The Happy Wanderers)
Young Billy Goat (My Little Kid, My Little Lamb)
Norwegian Sailor's Song (All That A Nordic Sailor Should Be)
A National Song (Sons Of Norway)
Song To The Flag (While The North Sea Swells And Rushes)
Onward! (Onward! Onward!)
Coastal Song From Bergen (I Rowed Into Troubled Waters)
Dairy Maid's Sunday (Basking In The Sun)
Resting In The Peaceful Forest (In The Fir Tree Grove At Noon-time)
Our Aastrid (And Have You Seen Our Aastrid)
Halling From Osterdalen
The Mountains Of Norway (Norway's Fortress And Protection)
Evening Voices (Be Still, Soft Whispers)
In Rosenlund During Saga Times (Under The Spell Of The Sagas...
Row, Row, Row Your Boat, To The Fish-Filled Reefs (Child's Song)
There Was An Old Woman Who Had An Old Broom (Child's Song)
Open Air Ballad (Behold Norway's Flowering Valley)
Song Of Norway (To Norway, Land Of Giants)
Young Lad From Younder Tistedal'n
Land Of My Birth (Wherever In The World I Go)
Land Of My Birth (Wherever In The World I Go)
The Hunter's Song (In The Heather Behind Us, A Trail Of Smoke)
Iceland. A Folk Melody (Farthest North)
One Can Never Please Them (From: 'The Heirs')
I Know A Wee Lass. A Ballad
Halling (Folk Dance) From Aamot
A Norwegian Love Song (Beside The Deep, Dark Sea)
The Young Birch Tree (The Young Birch Standing By The Fjord)
Synnove's Song (Thanks For Everything)
The North Sea (How Beautiful The Sea)
The Blind Man, Magnus (Oh! If I Could See Just Once)
Mountain Settler (Mountain Settlers Watch The Seasons)
Purity Or The Wagtail Bird. Folk Melody (Little Brook Winding Throug
Sailor's Song (Hurrah For Jonas Anton Hjelm)
Springdands (Folk Dance) From Nummedal
Patriotic Song (I'll Defend My Country)
Three Exalted Words (When The Harp Is Silenced...
Old Norway (There Lies The Country)
While Shepherding My Goats Last Year
Dalebu Jonson (Oh! Can You Hear, Beautiful Maiden)
Halling, (Folk Dance) From Telemark
Are You Fond Of Me
In The Mountains (Hei Ho! Where One Feels Hale And Hearty)
Sinclair's Song (Mr. Sinclair Set Out Across The Salty Sea)
Ole Glomstulen's Bridal Procession. Folk Song
Sunset (Spreading Its Colors Across The Heavens)
The Bear Hunter (How Brief A Life The Fir Tree Spans)
To The Fatherland (I Lift The Gold Cup Highest)
Lullaby. A Child's Song From Valdres (Rock A Bye Baby)
The Bachelor Proposing To The Maiden. A Folk Song (How I Should Love To Marry)
The Last Saturday Evening. Folk Song
A Ballad To Holy King Olaf (Holy Olaf Standing By The Fjord)
The Norwegian Parliament (Norway's Solemn Hour Has Come)

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Woman to Woman, Vol. 1
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Mca Special Products
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

The Last One To Know - Reba McEntire
Wouldn't It Be Great - Loretta Lynn
If My Heart Had Windows - Patty Loveless
When You Get A Little Lonely - Nicolette Larson
Never Mind - Nanci Griffith
What Am I Gonna Do About You - Reba McEntire
Just A Woman - Loretta Lynn
Lonely Days, Lonely NIghts - Patty Loveless
Only Love Will Make It Right - Nicolette Larson
I Knew Love - Nanci Griffith

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Fireworks for Brass

Manufacturer: Proarte
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Tracks:

Ov For The Royal Fireworks
Fugue in g
Coronation March
The Harmonious Blacksmith
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
The Stars And Stripes Forever
That's A-Plenty
Spring Returns
You Defy Me, Beloved Foe
Ricercare Del Duodecimi Toni
Ricercare Del Primi Toni
Canzona II
Canzona Prima A 5
Canzona Per Sonare No. 1
Canzona Per Sonare No. 2
Canzona Per Sonare No. 3
Canzona Per Sonare No. 4
Canzona Duodecimi Toni
Canzona Prima Toni
Spiritus Sanctus
Canzona Septimi Toni No.2

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{25 Tracks} Chicago Down Home Blues, Vol. 1 "featuring" Johnny Young, Johnny Williams, Sunnyland Slim, Floyd Jones, Man Young, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, Little Walter, Blues Boy Willie, Delta Joe Sanders, John Brim,
Boogie, Ora Nelle Blues, Money Taking Woman - Johnny Young Telephone Blues , Back to Korea Blues - Sunnyland Slim, School Days - Floyd Jones, Let Me Ride Your Mule - Man Young Worried Man Blues - Johnny Williams , I Just Keep Loving Her - Little Walter, Come on Babe - Blues Boy Willie One Doggone Reason - St. Louis Jimmy Oden , Going Down the Line - John Brim, Hard Times - Floyd Jones 4 O'Clock Blues - Delta Joe Sanders , It's All over Now - Sunnyland Slim, Stockyard Blues - Floyd Jones My Baby Walked Out - Man Young , Dark Clouds - John Brim, Blue Baby - Little Walter Coming up Fast - St. Louis Jimmy Oden , Roll Tumble and Slip - Delta Joe Sanders, I Want My Baby - Little Walter Leaving Daddy Blues - John Brim , and Keep What You Got - Floyd Jones Lonesome Man Blues - John Brim
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ASIN: B000ITTYGY

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