Homecoming [Live]

Homecoming [Live]

ASIN: B0000027EC

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If asked to name an influential saxophonist of the modern-jazz era, a casual fan would probably first cite John Coltrane or Charlie "Bird" Parker. But tenor saxman Dexter Gordon is as much a giant of the genre as they--his visionary work linked modern jazz's early-1940s infancy to its late-'60s adulthood. Gordon's 1962 relocation to Copenhagen may account for his relative lack of renown today. Homecoming, recorded in 1976 upon a return to New York, proves that in Europe, Gordon had further refined his classic mastery of ballads and blues. More intriguingly, the teacher had become the student, as the abundant influence of Coltrane's free-jazz breakthroughs attest. --Anders Smith-Lindall

Tracks:

Overture
Better The Devil You Know
In Your Eyes
White Diamond
On A Night Like This
Medley: Shocked/Spinning Around
Temple Prequel
Confide In Me
Cowboy Style
Finer Feelings
Too Far
Medley: Red Blooded Woman/Where The Wild Roses Grow
Slow
Kids

Tracks:

Rainbow Prequel
Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Come Into My World
Chocolate
I Believe In You
Dreams
Medley: Burning Up/Vogue
The Loco-Motion
Medley: I Should Be So Lucky/The Only Way Is Up
Hand On Your Heart
Space Prequel
Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Medley: Light Years/Turn It Into Love
Especially For You
Love At First Sight

Album Description

Two CD live set from the diva wonder from Down Under! She's back! Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls. Put your hands together for the Princess of Pop: Miss Kylie Minogue. Kylie's Showgirl Homecoming: Greatest Hits Tour opened in Sydney on Saturday 11th November 2006. Plans for this, the most anticipated concert event of the year had been underway for some time with rehearsals for the tour started back in August. This opening night, her first public performance in some time, was electrifying and is now available on this double CD release. The Showgirl Homecoming: Greatest Hits Tour has captured Kylie's excitement and desire for her, and her audience, to have the truly unique concert experience, which you will now be able to hear on CD. EMI.

Album Details

Kylie's Showgirl Homecoming: Greatest Hits Tour Opened in Sydney on Saturday 11th November 2006. Plans for This, the Most Anticipated Concert Event of the Year Had Been Underway for Some Time with Rehearsals for the Tour Started Back in August. This Opening Night, her First Public Performance in Some Time, was Electrifying and is Now to Be Made Available on Double CD Release.

Customer Reviews:

Kylie At Her Best!.......2007-05-26

If I have one minor quibble, it's that I purchased these CDs along with the "Showgirl" DVD, only to realize afterward that they are two different shows. (The DVD was recorded in London and the CDs in Sydney.) As such, there are some songs on the DVD that aren't on the CD and vice versa. I know, silly complaint, but I wish all the songs were on both. The one song from the DVD that isn't on the CD that I wish was is the dramatic slow version of "Je Ne Sais Pas Porquoi." However, the CD also has some good stuff that isn't on the DVD like "Light Years/Turn It Into Love." So it's a trade-off, I suppose. What can I say, I can never get enough Kylie!

Even so, the songs included are still fantastic. She updates some songs with new arrangements (the steamy "Locomotion," "On A Night Like This" with a slow piano intro and outro, and "Spinning Around" which is mashed up with CeCe Peniston's classic hit "Finally"), while others sound almost just like the original studio versions ("Better The Devil You Know," "I Should Be So Lucky," Hand On Your Heart.") I'm a massive Kylie fan, all the way back to the SAW era, so this is right up my alley! Once I got it, I think this was the only thing I listened to for about two weeks! Definitely worth it, if you're as big a Kylie fan as I!

great CD from a great singer.......2007-04-21

I enjoyed Kylie Minogue's TV special of the Showgirl Tour and bought that on DVD and this CD from a marketplace seller (ImportCDs). Kylie is an awesome singer, still relatively unkown in here int he US. I wish she was known because she is second behind only Madonna. But on to the CD. Kylie tops Madonna in this regard because where Madonna only offered a few songs on her "Confessions Tour" CD, Kylie gives us them all. Kylie's voice has been compared to a budgie, and she is spot on during "Showgirl Homecoming." Some higlights are "White diamond" a new song with the Scissor Sisters that is in the same vein as "I believe in you" also written by them. "Confide in Me" has an eastern vibe to it, and Kylie's singing is good. "Kids" is great with Bono, in my opinion it is better than the original with Robbie Williams, partly due to the live atmosphere and Bono's crooning. I suggest listening to the entire "Dreams" section, Kylie's singing from "Over the Rainbow" to "Dreams (Impossible Princess)" is spot on with a minimal musical backing. The homage to Madonna's "Vogue" is cool, as is the rework of "I should be so lucky." The best part is "Can't Get You Out of my Head" (here mixed with the Dr.Who theme) and the "Light Years/Turn it into Love" medley. Both songs are very spacey and synthy and shine here. The only songs I skipped listening to were "Cowboy Style" and "Too Far." Other than that, if you want a good time listening to good music from a great Aussie singer, buy this CD. Now she needs to release the concert on DVD and tour in the USA!!

*****/***** for Kylie's "Showgirl Homecoming Live."

Great CD - Great Listening.......2007-04-10

I find that most live CDs do not make well for good listening; purchased more so for the novelty of hearing the songs performed live. But for some reason I am listening to this CD over and over for the shear listening pleasure. I am glad that this was decided to be released and any Kylie fan will need this CD. However, music fans will enjoy the music as well. Kylie really does seem to connect to a live audience and for it to come across on CD rather than DVD is fairly noteworthy.

"Big In Japan".......2007-03-28

Being a US Kylie fan, most of my collection is imported (with the exception of the finer release of "Fever" and "Body Language") and the day that I got my hands on the this set was a great one! "Showgirl--The Homecoming Tour" is a well recorded, sung, and staged production. The sound on this set is crisp, varied, and well mastered. Kylie herself sounds great and the soundtrack is amazing. The "Temple" act is stunning and this live version of "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is killer. A definate treat is Kylie's version of "Over The Rainbow" and her medley of "Shocked/What Do I Have To Do?/Step Back In Time/Spinning Around". What Kylie fan should have this one?!

Kylie Shines in Live Setting.......2007-03-14

Kylie Minogue left audiences concerned & waiting in mid-2005 after her cancer diagnosis. Minogue didn't disappoint fans when she stepped back onto the stage in late 2006, looking refreshed & poised for action.

Her second live record, after 1998's "Intimate & Live" record, "Showgirl-The Homecoming Tour" captures what has made Minogue the single most important euro-pop and world pop figure or influence since ABBA. Her transformative pop ability and genuinely enthused pop ethos has surpassed any disapproving critics wagging finger over the past decade.

Spread over two discs & encompassing the entire show as performed in Sydney, Australia, Minogue breezes through familiar favorites & gives them all unique transformations in a live format.

Highlights include "On A Night Like This" which opens in a ballad setting, giving the track a certain poignancy that it lacked in its studio version. The medley of "Shocked"/"What Do I Have to Do"/"Spinning Around" is a heady pop attack. It will also please longtime fans that she interpolates several minor albums cuts & singles such as "I'm Over (Dreaming Over You)", "I Guess I Like It Like That", "What Kind of Fool (Heard it All Before)" & "It's No Secret" into the medley.

Live, Kylie's voice is surprisingly strong, & carries the familiar girlish charm that it is known for. She shines on the smoky, torch rendition "The Locomotion", Kylie bends her voice on "Too Far", & soars on a new number "White Diamond."

Also of interest is the mash-up of a "Fever" cut, "Burning Up" & the rap from Madonna's 1990 house classic, "Vogue." This alone shows that the only true successor to Madonna is Kylie.

This double-live album captures Minogue at a very interesting crossroads, one that her fans will appreciate. Her formidable vocal prowess, and her embrace of all of her material across the years, shows that Minogue is ready for the next step in her musical journey. One sure to thrill all who hear it. Highly recommended.

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A true, enduring masterpiece!

The Egyptian

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
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ASIN: B0006SSPX0
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

Prelude/The Ruins
Crocodile Inn/Thebes
Chant for Dead Pharaoh
Chariot Ride/Pursuit/Akhnaton/Put Them in Chains
Throne Room
Taia
Party's End/The Offering/The Harp Player
Deed/The Harp and Couch
Perfection of Love/Violence
House of the Dead/The Burial
Valley of the Kings
Homecoming
Hymn to Aton
Nefer's Farewell/Sights, Sounds and Smells
You've Been in My Prayers
Live for Our Son [From "The Egyptian"]
Am I Mad?
Princess/The True Pharaoh/The Tomb
Danse Macabre
Death of Merit
Death Potion
Death of Akhnaton
I Am Pharaoh/Horemheb's Victorious Entrance
Exile and Death

Customer Reviews:

A true, enduring masterpiece!.......2005-09-01

There have been many milestones in film music history that have resonated through the decades finding new audiences and inspiring new recordings.

Unique among them is "The Egyptian," a major collaboration between uber-composers Bernard Herrmann (to whom the film was assigned) and Alfred Newman (20th Century-Fox Music Department head and all-time great composer/conductor). While Herrmann got the initial assignment, the allotted time was inadequate for him to do justice to the film. Newman stepped in and developed thematic materials which Herrmann incorporated into his own desginated sections of the film, while Newman the rest.

In my opinion, "The Egyptian" -- as a film -- stands well above most epics of the 50s, but it has some serious detractors who, for whatever reasons, find no value in the authentic atmosphere, fantastic sets, stunning cinematography and brilliant music underscoring. Add to that some solid performances from Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov and Michael Wilding (plus a stolid, if uninvolving leading performance by Edmund Purdom) and you really get a stunning piece of entertainment that holds the attention, dazzles the eyes and ears and becomes emotionally involving. Wilding, as the pharaoh, has the film's -- and one of filmdom's -- best moments near the end of the film. Newman's underscoring for that scene -- called "Death of Akhnaton" -- is an example of what film scoring is all about. It also heightens awareness of what seems to be missing from many of today's film composers resumes -- intensive education in music theory, counterpoint, harmony and exposure to all forms of music. The scene is breathtaking, heartbreakingly performed and musically overwhelming, although the music is always "under" the scene rather than rampaging over it.

There are so many wonderful pieces of music in this film that I acknowledge my inadequacy to present a case for them. The proof is in the listening. From the awe-inspiring opening to the exquisite theme for "Merit" to the sinuous, hypnotic theme for "Nefer", Herrmann and Newman have created a musical palette of stunning splendors. There is no other soundtrack album like it.

I cannot overstate its importance, the splendiferousness of its performance on this recording by the 20th Century-Fox Studio Orchestra as conducted by Alfred Newman, and the glorious choral work of Newman's right-hand man, Ken Darby.

This is film music history. Any collection without it is hollow.

Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard

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Sublime, but Desperately Needs Remastering
Just as good as before

Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
Dexter Gordon
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Amazon.com

If asked to name an influential saxophonist of the modern-jazz era, a casual fan would probably first cite John Coltrane or Charlie "Bird" Parker. But tenor saxman Dexter Gordon is as much a giant of the genre as they--his visionary work linked modern jazz's early-1940s infancy to its late-'60s adulthood. Gordon's 1962 relocation to Copenhagen may account for his relative lack of renown today. Homecoming, recorded in 1976 upon a return to New York, proves that in Europe, Gordon had further refined his classic mastery of ballads and blues. More intriguingly, the teacher had become the student, as the abundant influence of Coltrane's free-jazz breakthroughs attest. --Anders Smith-Lindall

Customer Reviews:

Sublime, but Desperately Needs Remastering.......2002-09-23

Dexter Gordon truly made a triumphant return to the United States with his engagement at New York's storied Village Vanguard in 1976. Sweeping into town, he didn't even have his own working band yet, and thus enlisted the band led by Woody Shaw as illustrious sidemen. The chance to hear Woody Shaw stretch out in a live setting is justification alone for grabbing this set, but of course Long Tall Dexter is the centerpiece (towering pillar!) of this magnificent live document.

The band stretches out on a fine mix of originals by Shaw, pianist Ronnie Matthews, and Gordon as well as standards such as "Gingerbread Boy" and "Body and Soul," and my favorite Dexter piece, "It's You or No One." Throughout, Dexter schools the audience in regal bop with his magesterial tone and delivery, often punctuated by Shaw's ringing open horn. The combination is sublime.

Dexter truly runs the gamut from classicism to modernism throughout the well-paced program, demonstrating that he wasn't just hiding away in Europe during all those years abroad and that he was once again ready to put his stamp on the way the tenor sax is played. In this way, this set is somewhat similar to Art Pepper's Village Vanguard set in that both musicians demonstrated relatively late in their careers how they had not only created distinctive signatures on their horns but had further distilled the developments of the past decades (i.e. Coltrane) into an even more modern, yet distinctive voice.

My major quibble with this particular set on CD is the terrible digital transfer. I own this volume on vinyl as well, and although I am no vinyl weenie it is painfully obvious that this particular CD transfer suffers from greatly reduced warmth. The wood sound of the bass and resonance of Dexter's low notes were captured beautifully on the original recording, but have completely disappeared from the CD edition. The music is still great, but it's due time for a proper remastering of this timeless masterpiece.

Just as good as before.......2000-06-10

This is Dexter at his peak. Recorded when he returned to the US after more than a decade of self-imposed exile, it is just as fresh and straight-ahead now as before. George Cables on piano, Rufus Reid on bass, clubby audience at the Vanguard, it is a slice of time. I've owned the LP since its release but have less occasion now to drag out the vinyl, so I'll have to treat myself to the CD.

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Worthy...but not superior
Long Live "The Egyptian"!
Mummified Music
A Film Score by Both Hermann and Newman

The Egyptian

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ASIN: B0007ACVKK
Release Date: 2005-02-22

Tracks:

Prelude [From the Egyptian]
Ruins [From the Egyptian]
Red Sea & Childhood [From the Egyptian]
Nile & Temple [From the Egyptian]
Her Name Was Merit [From the Egyptian]
Chariot Ride [From the Egyptian]
Pursuit [From the Egyptian]
Akhnaton - One Deity [From the Egyptian]
Taia [From the Egyptian]
Party's End [From the Egyptian]
Nefer-Nefer-Nefer [From "The Egyptian"]
Rebuke [From the Egyptian]
Deed [From the Egyptian]
Harp & Couch [From the Egyptian]
Perfection of Love [From the Egyptian]
Violence [From the Egyptian]
Valley of the Kings [From the Egyptian]
Homecoming [From the Egyptian]
Hymn to Aton [From the Egyptian]
Sights, Sounds & Smells [From the Egyptian]
Live for Our Son [From "The Egyptian"]
Am I Mad? [From the Egyptian]
True Pharoah [From the Egyptian] - Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Tomb [From the Egyptian]
Holy War [From the Egyptian]
Dance Macabre [From the Egyptian]
Death of Merit [From the Egyptian]
Death of Akhnaton [From the Egyptian]
New Pharaoh [From the Egyptian] - Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Exile & Death [From the Egyptian]

Customer Reviews:

Worthy...but not superior.......2007-04-15

I already own the original-issue MCA/Decca studio recording CD as well as the Film Score Monthly soundtrack CD for this rousing good score, so for the completist in me, I bought the NAXOS/Marco Polo digital re-recording.

It's a worthy effort, but the performance lacks the "enthusiasm" of the originals. I just didn't "feel it," even with the always-excellent recording standards of the Stromberg/Morgan team. This is most evident during the spiritual passages and particularly during the two Hymn to Aton sequences, where neither the glory nor the tragedy comes across.

No slam at the Soviet chorus (they've proved themselves well enough in other projects), but their accents on the English text really became distracting on this disc.

Also, the balance between the orchestra and the chorus is variable at best and at times the brass lines drown out the parts where the chorus is supposed to be prominant.

On the plus side, the liner notes for this CD were excellent and very informative. At 71 minutes, the addition of so much extra music not found on the original studio recording was welcome; and to have it presented in a "cleaner" digital version than on the FSM soundtrack CD was nice (though I hasten to add that the FSM disc is still THE recording to get).

Overall, a useful addition for completists or those who can't afford the higher-priced studio or soundtrack recordings, but just be aware that some of the "heart" is missing from this one.

Long Live "The Egyptian"!.......2006-02-17

I was extra glad to find this classic for sale through Amazon.

I have loved the movie since I was a little tyke, and after well over a thousand (Yes, 1000!) viewings have caused me to wear out copies of it firstly on Beta, and two subsequent copies on VHS (all self-taped from TV).

The CD of the Soundtrack by Herrmann and Newman is superb, and is every bit as fresh and melodic as it was in 1954 when it accompanied / complimented the film.

The 11 tracks by Alfred Newman are highlighted to indicate their different origins when compared to the bulk of the work by Bernard Herrmann, but the whole CD just blends into a seamless work, almost in the style of a tone poem. The tracks are all there, and it is a delight to listen to them in their full orchestral versions, rather than the snippets that you can hear (tantalising though they are) on the film soundtrack, cluttered up with dialogue and sound FX.

I would recommend this CD to anyone who has fond memories of the film, or admires the work of Herrmann and/or Newman.

(Would also like to see a CD made of Herrmann's music to "Journey to the Centre of the Earth"..........

Anubis Lives!

Mummified Music.......2005-12-11

What we have here is a film-score rarity from several perspectives. First, it's a composition co-created by two of the titans of classic-film music, Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman. However, there does seem to be much in the way of (or any) cue-by-cue collaboration; the result, unsurprisingly, is not particularly seamless. Mr. Herrmann is credited with independently writing (and conducting) the bulk of the cues--about two thirds of the score. Second, I would not call the score for 1954 film THE EGYPTIAN (TE) "a classic" (the same applies to the film). Not wishing to engender yet another debate over what constitutes "a classic" score or film, to my ears the score for TE is predominately colorless and undistinguished. To be blunt, the music is deadly dull. In this regard, the score mirrors the film which is also a dud! (On this, I can speak from some atmospheric experience, having spent time in Egypt.) And third, the marginal quality of the cues is a major surprise and disappointment given the immensity of the creative talent. Even legendary composers can have bad hair days! On a brighter note, Messrs. John Morgan and William Stromberg, who are unsurpassed masters of film score restoration, reconstruction, arrangement, and presentation, have once again worked their magic with this CD. Their combined execution is stunning, but I sure wish they had tackled a different project. The CD booklet is principally authored by Jack Smith. His analysis of each track is singularly lacking in musicality. He mostly just summarizes what's happening on screen. Mr. Smith also writes that "(w)hen THE EGYPTIAN premiered, critics were polite ... ticket sales were nowhere near the expected box-office tally ... (and the film) then settled into oblivion." Fortunately, the booklet contains a short essay by Mr. Morgan ("Arranger's Notes") and some brief comments by Mr. Stromberg ("Conductor's Note") which are far more informative reads. There is also a rare photograph of Messrs. Morgan and Stromberg slaving over a hot piano. By itself, almost worth the price of admission! The CD is a re-release at "popular prices" of the original which is on the Marco Polo label.

William Flanigan, Ph.D.

A Film Score by Both Hermann and Newman.......2005-05-08

Very unusually Darryl Zanuck assigned this film score to two of 20th Century Fox's stable of composers, one very established, Alfred Newman, and one a newcomer who was gaining a reputation as a superb writer, Bernard Herrmann. This was for expediency's sake because Newman was also involved at the same time in writing the score for another movie in production, 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' And, in fact, Herrmann wrote most of the score, although some of the cues had melodies written by Newman but expanded and orchestrated by Herrmann; each of those cues had the notation 'music developed by Bernard Herrman from themes composed by Alfred Newman.' (It is of note that Newman did not do any of his own orchestration, leaving that to Edward Powell; Herrmann did all his orchestrations.) Herrmann and Newman each conducted some of the original sound track recording. What is amazing is that there is no fault line between the music written by Newman, a composer of the old Austrian high-romantic camp, and Herrmann, whose style ultimately developed along much more advanced lines (witness his score for 'Psycho').

The movie itself was one of those blood-and-sandal epics so beloved by Hollywood in the 1950s. And it was one of the very first Cinemascope extravaganzas. It was not much of a movie, starring a cipher of an actor, Edmond Purdom. And the story isn't much, either. The music, accordingly, partakes rather too much of the faux-oriental style so familiar from such movies. Still, there are some really memorable passages, particularly those that are of the more intimate scenes. The love scene--the cue is titled 'Her Name was Merit' -- features a really lovely alto flute and oboe d'amore theme with harp and string accompaniment. There are also some scenes of religious splendor -- e.g. Hymn to Aton -- that are also quite striking for all they owe to the temple scene of 'Aïda.'

The score was cut down somewhat for this CD. Originally there were about 100 minutes of music. Film music arranger John Morgan gets credit for making what turns out to be an effective 70 minutes of music that can stand on its own, absent the film. It is played more or less without pause, moving from one cue to the other seamlessly. Veteran film music conductor William Stromberg gets a fairly decent performance out of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and Choir. This performance was originally issued in 1998 on the full-price Marco Polo label.

This score is a superior example of its type and it is given a creditable performance here.

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Scott Morrison

Nazareth - Homecoming: Greatest Hits Live in Glasgow

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Kranks
Still Rockin'

Nazareth - Homecoming: Greatest Hits Live in Glasgow
Nazareth
Manufacturer: Red Int / Red Ink
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Live in Glasgow
Snaz
Snakes & Arrows

ASIN: B0000695UL
Release Date: 2002-07-16

Tracks:

When The Lights Come Down
Razamanaz
Miss Misery
Holiday
Dream On
Simple Solution
My White Bicycle
Walk By Yourself
Bad Bad Boy
Heart's Grown Cold
Broken Down Angel
Whiskey Drinkin' Woman
Hair Of The Dog
This Flight Tonight
Beggar's Day
Love Hurts

Album Description

Live album featuring all their hits, 16 tracks including 'When The Lights Come Down, 'Razamataz', 'Miss Misery', 'My White Bicycle', 'Hair Of The Dog' and more. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Kranks.......2002-11-01

If you like Nazareth and have ever seen them live, this is the CD to get. SNAZ is great, but this is even better. I always wanted to hear Miss Misery live. The version on this CD is better than I ever imagined. When's the new US tour?

Still Rockin'.......2002-10-04

After many years & countless tour dates Nazareth records a "LIVE"
one back home. With energy & enthusiasm of early Naz, they play their brand of good rockin' tunes just like the old days! Great set list including all the standards, some ballads and some new stuff. Throughout the CD Dan McCafferty's razor sharp vocals are something Axl Rose (G'n'R) will always strive to match. For a Naz fan this is a five star effort and for those less familiar an
easy 4+. Let the party begin! Cheers!

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Weak film, great score
Weak film, great score
Very good, but...
A Classic Film Score
Herrmann and Newman make a great team

The Egyptian

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ASIN: B000034CW8
Release Date: 1999-11-30

Tracks:

Prelude
The Ruins
The Red Sea And Childhood
The Nile And Temple
Her Name Was Merit
The Chariot Ride
Pursuit
Akhnaton - One Deity
Taia
Party's End
Nefer - Nefer - Nefer
The Rebuke
The Deed
The Harp And Couch
The Perfection Of Love
Violence
Valley Of Kings
The Homecoming
Hymn To Aton
Sights, Sounds And Smells
Live For Our Son
Am I Mad?
The True Pharoh
The Tomb
The Holy War
Dance Macabre
Death Of Merit
Death Of Akhnaton
The New Pharoh
Exile And Death

Customer Reviews:

Weak film, great score.......2004-03-29

The Egyptian has gone down in history as one of the more problematic 'sand and sandal' epics of the 1950s. Marlon Brando took a pass and the producers recast wooden Edmund Purdom in the lead. The film is stolen by Peter Ustinov (as the servant), with enjoyable support from Jean Simmons, the hammy Victor Mature, and Gene Tierney (on the edge of her nervous breakdown). But the restored music score on this CD shows the very best of the two collaborators: Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann. The mixture of their styles (Herrmann was brought on board to fill out the score) creates an intriguing musical narrative. Film buffs and classical music lovers should rejoice at this lushly-played and carefully re-constructed CD. Well supported with notes about the original score and their editing. I've had the disk since it came out and play it regularly. If you like either of the composers, you'll thoroughly enjoy.

Weak film, great score.......2004-03-29

The Egyptian has gone down in history as one of the more problematic 'sand and sandal' epics of the 1950s. Marlon Brando took a pass and the producers recast wooden Edmund Purdom in the lead. The film is stolen by Peter Ustinov (as the servant), with enjoyable support from Jean Simmons, the hammy Victor Mature, and Gene Tierney (on the edge of her nervous breakdown). But the restored music score on this CD shows the very best of the two collaborators: Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann. The mixture of their styles (Herrmann was brought on board to fill out the score) creates an intriguing musical narrative. Film buffs and classical music lovers should rejoice at this lushly-played by the Moscow Philharmonic and carefully re-constructed CD. Well supported with notes about the original score and their editing. I've had the disk since it came out and play it regularly. If you like either of the composers, you'll thoroughly enjoy.

Very good, but..........2003-02-23

Easily one of the best Golden Age scores. This remarkable CD is quite good, the Moscow performance is rather good although arguably performed without that extra bit of energy that made the original so memorable. This CD includes lots of info on the film and score, which is fun to read, and features a lot of the score.
However, if you really like this CD, I recommend checking out the FSM release of the original score. There are still many copies available, but it is a little more expensive. But for the completists out there (like me), that release is necessary.

A Classic Film Score.......2002-10-09

For me, this is an especially welcomed soundtrack. Having grown up with film version of "The Egyptian" to finally be able to have the music from the film was a happy event. The film stands apart from other so-called Swords and Sand epics from a real attempt to convey the characters of the story with more depth. The soundtrack itself had to be reconstructed from the conductor's score in some cases but was a labor of love, as the results attest. The music to "The Egyptian" marked the happy collaboration by Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann, both very respected composers of film music. Together they manage to evoke a world long past.

The recording by the Moscow Symphony conducted by William T Stromberg brings forth all of the passion and drama from the original score. Pains were taken to create the recording sound as per the indications of the composers. So in "Her Name Was Merit" the alto flute player sits 30 feet behind the oboe d'amore player. The results are stunning and a must have recording for anyone interested in the film or film music. The accompanying booklet has a great deal of information about the film as well as still photographs.

Herrmann and Newman make a great team.......2001-12-23

The Egyptian is one of those scores that's more well known for reasons beyond the actual music it contains. In this case, it's the only time Alfred Newman and Bernard Herrmann worked on a score together. This 1999 re-recording features about 70% of the score, reconstructed and preformed by the always-excellent team of Morgan and Stromberg

That it's more known for its history isn't to say that the music isn't good, because it is. The themes are all classic Newman lyrisism, and there are many wonderful Herrmann moments of...well....Herrmann-ness. Right from the start with the prelude, we get a great grand sweeping epic theme with full choir. Cues such as 'The Chariot Ride', 'The Pursuit' and 'Violence' are great bombastic trips,. And of special mention are the two longest cues -- 'Nefer Nefer Nefer' and 'Valley of Kings'. While the prior written by Herrmann and the latter by Newman, both are simply marvelous examples of grand romantisism the Golden Age is known for.

Beyond the above, there isn't much to say. If you like Herrmann, this is a great addition, and the Newman contribution is great too. It's not the best score in the world, but there are far far worse choices out there.

Live from Toronto
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Live from Toronto
Bill Gaither , Gloria Gaither , and Homecoming Friends
Manufacturer: Spring House / EMI
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Binding: Audio CD

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Atlanta Homecoming: All Day Singing At The Dome, Vol. 2

ASIN: B000E3K4BI
Release Date: 2006-02-07

Tracks:

Bread Upon the Water
Some Things Never Change
You're My Best Friend
When I Get Carried Away
Jerusalem
Favorite Song of All
He Saw It All
Sheltered in the Arms of God
Trumpet of Jesus
Walk with Me, Lord
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Healer in the House
This Could Be the Dawning of That Day/Until Then
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I'll Tell It Wherever I Go
Why Me
I Bowed on My Knees

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Deep in the Neon: Live at McCabe's
John Stewart
Manufacturer: Homecoming Records
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ASIN: B000008L5Q
Release Date: 1998-09-15

Tracks:

Strange Rivers
Runaway Train
The Man Who Would Be King
American Nights
Paths Are Many
The Wheel Within The Clay
Irresistable Targets
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a little more difficult to understand, but still a great rec.......2000-11-14

This is the first recording of John Stewart I have gotten hold of and I think it is over all a great recording. Some of the songs such as "Strange rivers," and "The Man Who Would be King" are somewhat difficult to understand in that I have trouble figuring out what they are talking about. However, he has a great sense of humor and his inclusion of the audience in songs like, "Daydream Believer," "Where Have All the Flowers gone," and "California Bloodlines" make for an extremely positive recording. If you have not listened to any of his recordings in the past, this is a good place to start. If you already listen to some of his recordings and you want to add to your collection, this is an esential recording.

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STILL ROCKING THE WORLD

Nazareth - Homecoming: Greatest Hits Live in Glasgow
Nazareth
Manufacturer: Eagle UK
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ASIN: B000062TJC
Release Date: 2002-03-15

Tracks:

When the Lights Come Down
Razamanaz
Miss Misery
Holiday
Dream On
Simple Solution
My White Bicycle
Walk by Yourself
Bad Bad Boy
Heart's Grown Cold
Broken Down Angel
Whiskey Drinkin' Woman
Hair of the Dog
This Flight Tonight
Beggars Day
Love Hurts

Album Description

Full title, 'Homecoming - Greatest Hits Live In Glasgow'. UK live release for the Scottish rock act featuring live recordings of the very best of Nazareth. 16 tracks including 'When The Lights Come Down', 'Razamanaz', 'Miss Misery' & 'Love Hurts'. 2002.

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Dan Cafferty and the Boys Recorded Live in Glasgow, Scotland in 2001.

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Pull out some rockin' chairs.......2002-06-24

Made in GER in 2002, Serial# EAG-CD-204, Playing Time 72:02

First, the good news: save your money, this release will be available domestically instead of an expensive import...

Now, the bad news (and lots of them!): Even though this live album, recorded in their homeland's Glasgow, is very well recorded indeed in an intimate setting of a club with a capacity of about 600, the McCAFFERTY-AGNEW BAND (i just can't call them Nazareth any longer...) seems to have lost all of its dynamic movement.

It's been 20 years since the release of their previous official live album ('snaz), and the years gone by haven't been particularly kind to the band. The song selection is quite original, going all the way back to the Razamanaz era (early 70's!), but the renditions often lack the "crunch" and enthusiasm that makes this band an interesting live act.

Some of the songs do get a "fresh" treatment ("My White Bicycle" comes to mind), but there's this sense of "slow motion" or "burn out" transpiring through a lot of the material... Lee Agnew (bassist Pete's son) tries to energize the rest of the band with some serious drum pounding on tracks like "Razamanaz", but you can tell there's a generation gap there.

All in all, it makes for an interesting document, mostly because we get to hear some often interesting though quite different arrangements; I believe it might even have worked better if the concert would have been performed in an "un-plugged" setting.

The songs are great, but the performances somewhat tired.

Wait for the domestic release, and approach with an open mind...

STILL ROCKING THE WORLD.......2002-05-09

This is a great live cd, nazareth is still alive and kicking,
the sound on this cd is very good and you can tell that nazareth is still one of the best hard rock bands, they played songs from there new cd Boogaloo and they go way back with Hair of the dog and Razamanaz,if you ever liked Nazareth you will love this cd.
and it will be out on DVD.

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Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
Dexter Gordon
Manufacturer: Tristar
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008FX43
Release Date: 1995-09-01

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Gingerbread Boy
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