Second Movement
ASIN: B00004Z3YO
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Tenor sax great Eddie Harris and keyboardist Les McCann worked together on the classic jazz crossover album Swiss Movement, which contained the hit "Compared to What?" Their follow-up recording, Second Movement, however, never made it to CD. Producer Joel Dorn created Label M in order to bring this album and other neglected gems from the Atlantic Records catalog to a new audience. Harris's urgent tenor wailings mesh with funky rhythms and background vocals to give Second Movement a sanctified, churchlike feeling throughout. Combined with McCann's gospel-tinged singing on "Set Us Free" and "Universal Prisoner," the music attempts to deal with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and jazz's waning audience. McCann's Fender Rhodes piano and the rhythm & blues underpinnings, however, serve mainly to give the music a '70's funk feel, when jazz was crossing over into rock territory. Given the rise of jam-band jazz, it seems that the Second Movement's second coming has arrived at just the right time. --Wally Shoup
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Tous Les Matins du Monde/Dix Ans Apres
Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005S0MD Release Date: 2002-03-12 |
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The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to the Film by Jordi Savall.
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Gabriela Montero plays Chopin, Falla, Ginestera, etc. [Includes Bonus CD]
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009VK0LO Release Date: 2005-09-13 |
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Christopher Parkening - The Great Recordings ~ By America's Preeminent Guitar Virtuoso
Johann Sebastian Bach , François Couperin , Gabriel Fauré , Isaac Albeniz , Anonymous , Francisco Tarrega (y Eixea) , Silvius Leopold Weiss , Claude Debussy , Maurice Ravel , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Gordon Young , Georg Philipp Telemann , Heitor Villa-Lobos , Manuel de Falla , Manuel Ponce , Enrique Granados , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Andrew York , Fernando Sor , Gaspar Sanz , Joaquin Rodrigo , and Christopher Parkening Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002RTR Release Date: 1993-09-14 |
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Instruments of the Orchestra
Various Artists Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00006O0NT Release Date: 2002-12-03 |
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Christopher Parkening plays Bach
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ASIN: B000002RNJ Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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Amadeus: More Music From The Original Soundtrack Of The Film Amadeus
Manufacturer: Fantasy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000000XBQ Release Date: 1991-06-30 |
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Greatest Hits: Harpsichord
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002C0U Release Date: 1995-08-22 |
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John Williams: The Baroque Album
Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000026NO Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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The great guitarist John Williams has been around the block several times with much of this music, and some of his performances sound as though he's getting a little tired of it. He plays the guitar extremely well, as always; you will never hear a better-executed performance of the Bach Chaconne, and the difficulties of the Scarlatti Sonatas hardly seem to exist for him. Some of the pieces new to his recorded repertory--Telemann, Roncalli, Couperin--are played with all the expression I want to hear. While this is a good disc, though, it's not the best of John Williams. --Leslie Gerber
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Mahler: Symphonie No.3 in D Minor
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001GAG Release Date: 1989-07-20 |
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Leonard Bernstein more or less owned this symphony, and both this and his earlier Sony recording are superb. He was one of the few conductors who wasn't afraid of the musical insanity that Mahler unleashes in the first movement (a collision between two marches of very different character), and the New York Philharmonic is one of the few orchestras in the world with the stamina to carry the whole thing off. This is the longest symphony ever written that's in the international repertoire, but listening to Bernstein's way with it, you'd never guess. This recording is also included in DG's magnificent box set of the complete Mahler symphonies. --David Hurwitz
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Sergio & Odair Assad Play Rameau, Scarlatti, Couperin, Bach
Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000005J1N Release Date: 1993-05-18 |
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