Gentle Hearts [Import]

Gentle Hearts [Import]

ASIN: B00061F832

Track Listings

1. Samurai Faith

2. Brain Storm

3. Punk Jazz

4. Gentle Hearts

5. Invisible Way

6. Maximum

7. Wonderland In The Sky

8. Dandelion

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Ex-Casiopea bassist presents his power trio album with Dennis Chambers (Graffiti) and Greg Howe. EMI. 2004.

Tracks:

Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol. 5: Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn. Symphony And Opening Chorus
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol. 3: Be Welcome Then, Great Sir
Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.1: Oh, Fair Cedaria
The Choir Of The King's Consort: Hear My Prayer, O Lord
Great Baroque Arias: When I Am Laid In Earth ('Dido's Lament')
Complete Anthems And Services Vol.1: Let Mine Eyes Run Down With Tears (Part 1)
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.4: The Sparrow And The Gentle Dove
Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.1: If Music Be The Food Of Love (First Setting)
Complete Anthems And Services Vol.5: Rejoice In The Lord Always ('The Bell Anthem')
Complete Anthems And Services Vol.3: Hosanna To The Highest
Complete Anthems And Services Vol.7: Thou Knowest, Lord, The Secrets Of Our Hearts
Mr. Henry Purcell's Most Admirable Composures: Fairest Isle, All Isles Excelling
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.6: Mark, How Readily Each Pliant String
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.8: Sound The Trumpet
Complete Secular Solo Songs Vol.3: She Loves And She Confesses Too
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.8: O How Blest Is The Isle
Complete Anthems And Services Vol.3: Remember Not, Lord, Our Offences
Complete Anthems And Services Vol. 11: An Evening Hymn
Complete Church Music Vol.2: Vouchsafe, O Lord, To Keep Us This Day
Complete Odes And Welcome Songs Vol.2: With Rapture Of Delight... Hail Bright Cecilia

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The "Essential" Purcell? Well, you could get a bunch of critics to argue about that for a few days, but in the meantime, here is a sampler of highlights from the King's Consort's three admirable Purcell series: the Complete Odes and Welcome Songs, Complete Anthems and Services, and Complete Secular Solo Songs. There are, of course, some of Purcell's most-performed pieces (which probably are "essential"): Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, "Sound the trumpet" from Come, ye sons of Art, Rejoice in the Lord alway (the "Bell Anthem," named for the string figure at the opening that sounds like pealing bells), the gently patriotic "Fairest isle, all isles excelling" (sung by a miscast James Bowman), and a selection from the funeral music for Queen Mary. There are also some delightful surprises--particularly among the little-known secular songs and church music. The plaintive "O fair Cedaria" gets a lovely performance by Barbara Bonney (a singer not usually associated with Purcell); tenor Rogers Covey-Crump (possibly the ideal high tenor for Purcell) sings the enchanting "If music be the food of love"; the church anthems "Let mine eyes run down with tears" and "Remember not, O Lord, our offences" have some startling harmonies as daring as any Monteverdi ever wrote. If you're unfamiliar with Purcell, this reasonably priced disc is a good place to start exploring without a big initial investment. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

Mad about Baroque.......2007-02-12

This is a terrific CD. The music is breathtaking. Just buy IT !!!!!

The beauty of the songs brings tears to my eyes.......2002-08-21

Absolutely beautiful baroque music! The arrangament, singing and instrumentation is superb. It is too bad that Henry Purcell is not as widely known as Bach, because he should be recognized equally well."The Sparrow and the Gentle dove" is alone worth the price of the album! I can not stop playing it!

Brilliant.......2001-10-31

Like in his renditions of Handel's oratorios, Robert King manages to bring a freshness and strenght to Purcell's music that I had seldom heard before. This CD also features some of the best performers of early music in the world. My favourite tracks are Oh, Fair Cedaria, sung by the multi-talented Barbara Bonney; Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, sung by Gillian Fisher; She Loves and she Confesses too, sung by the wonderful Susan Gritton; and Welcome, Welcome Glorious Morn, sung by Rogers Covey-Crump. The only track I didn't find absolutely wonderful is Fairest Isle, sung here by James Bowman. Don't get me wrong, I generally love Mr Bowman, I think that his performance in Mr Purcell's Most Admirable Composures (also conducted by Robert King) makes it another essential Purcell recording; but I find that Fairest Isle was much better done elsewhere, particularly by Christopher Hogwood and Barbara Bonney.

These songs aren't only beautiful, they're also poignant, sweet and unpretentious. I think that it will be very clear to anyone who listens to this recording that Mr Purcell was one of the finest composers that ever lived.

Be Welcome then, great Sirs (and Mesdames)........2001-10-20

If anyone has benefitted from the reversion in the last three or so decades to period instruments and historical reconstruction, it is Henry Purcell. Before, he was merely great, the peerless word-setter in the English language, a virtuoso of boundless range, a professional composer whose offical commissions were always imbued with personality and invention. But period instrumentation has added to this a greater depth, an other-worldly texture of sound. With his intricate, multi-part vocal writing, his preference for low, rumbling instruments such as the bass viol and the strange and remarkable theorbo, as well as his often sombre and low-key subject matter and treatment, Purcell creates a round, glowing, humming sound as pregnantly full as dub reggae.

This has an extraordinary effect on the listener. Whereas Bach, with his mathematical abstractions, sounds universal and timeless, Purcell's music takes the listener back 300 years, back to different ways of thinking about, feeling about and addressing things we still think etc. about today - death, love, friendship. The emotion is timeless, but the music's beauty is alien, THEIRS, hence its preciousness.

A lot of intelligence has gone into the unity of this compilation, beginning with two Welcomes (to the dawn and to the listener, in this case a King), and ending with thoughts of evening, death and a Baroque 'Thank you for the music'. These are bright, fanfare-like works, but the predominant mood is slow, ruminative, quiet. The selection covers the wide range of Purcell's oeuvre, from opera and funeral marches to secular songs and odes, and includes his most famous vocal works - Dido's Lament from Dido and Aeneas, sung by Gillian Fisher, and never more evocative of pagan loss and death; the massive 'Bell Anthem', with its ingenious opening symphony and joyful antiphon; and a miraculously serene 'Evening Hymn', Dido's opposite, death indicating hope, the treble voice swirling over the heavy ground bass like the soul released from the inert body.

it might seem quixotic to choose highlights from an exemplary collection of highlights, but the entry of the strings washing over the serene repetition of 'Be Welcome then, great Sir' always makes my heart stop still, while the musical picture of 'Bold Honour', the 'noisy Nothing, stalking shade', blocking the poet's amorous intentions in 'She loves and confesses too', adds a chilling hint of life's transience to a bouyantly bawdy song.

Brilliant Purcell Disc .......2000-11-30

With this album director and Purcell expert Robert King provides the listener with an excellent introduction to the composer's vocal works. The pieces presented here were taken from Mr. King's recordings of 'The Complete Odes and Welcome Songs', 'The Complete Anthems and Services', 'The Complete Secular Solo Songs' and diverse anthology discs. King, his wonderful soloists and musicians do the brilliance of Purcell's music fully justice. Whether he was commissioned by royalty, the church or theatre, Purcell shone in all areas. This disc certainly demonstrates the variety and originality of his craft, not to speak of his uncanny ability of setting words to music.

An outstanding Purcell offering. With a beautiful perfomance by Barbara Bonney of 'Oh, fair Cedaria'. Susan Gritton is equally captivating in 'She loves and she confesses too'. Gillian Fisher's rendition of the famous 'Dido's Lament' is haunting and poignant. Further an intelligent and brilliant 'Hosanna to the highest' by Michael George. James Bowman and Michael Chance sparkle in the countertenor duet 'Sound the trumpet' (from 'Come Ye sons of Art away'). And I should not forget to mention the joyous, luminous performance of the beautiful 'Bell Anthem'. To name but a few favourites, only James Bowman's 'Fairest Isle' was a disappointment.

Those who are familiar with Purcell's music will get an excellent disc with some of his most beloved works. If you are new to Purcell, this is, as already said a great introduction. Which might be the incentive to further explorations of Purcell.

by stardustraven

Average customer rating:

a great album
Extremely melodical and beautiful
Good stuff better buy the live album...

Gentle Hearts
Tetsuo Sakurai
Manufacturer: EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Samurai Faith
Brain Storm
Punk Jazz
Gentle Hearts
Invisible Way
Maximum
Wonderland In The Sky
Dandelion

Album Description

Ex-Casiopea bassist presents his power trio album with Dennis Chambers (Graffiti) and Greg Howe. EMI. 2004.

Album Details

Project from Former Casiopea Bassist.

Customer Reviews:

a great album.......2005-10-07

This is a great album for the people taht love the good music,I love a lot Dennis and Greg,and Tetsuo did his job correctly,they really plaied together and the sounds they used is the inspiration.

Extremely melodical and beautiful.......2005-07-27

I did buy this album because Greg Howe is involved and I found a very nice album full of nice fusion tunes. Tetsuo Sakurai was the bass player in the japanese fusion band Casiopea and he has a lot of experience. The band recorded I think more than 20 albums. I own a lot of them (they are actually unavailable) and you can find there some melodic fusion that deserves to be listened. Here instead you can find Tetsuo in very good company with two of the best american jazz fusion instrumentalists, Dennis Chambers and Greg Howe with a japanese guest keyboards player. The music is a high octane fusion but very melodical and entertaining. It is really a very nice album that could be appreciated by every music fan and jazz fusion enthusiast. I love it. I want to point out that is very melodical but at the same time challenging from a technical point of view. Very balanced. I'm glad I did buy it ! It is a very nice addiction to my fusion collection. Consider that nowadays these albums are not very common because fusion in untrendy. But this music has value and it will remain. Bravo Tetsuo! Greg and Dennis are monsters of course .....

Good stuff better buy the live album..........2005-07-25

Very impressive technique, lacks the feel of the live recording...

Average customer rating:

Fantastic Fusion Feast

Gentle Hearts Tour 2004
Tetsuo Sakurai
Manufacturer: EMI
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Binding: Audio CD

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Planet Earth

ASIN: B0009SQ53O
Release Date: 2005-05-23

Tracks:

Samurai Faith
Invisible Way
Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte
Punk Jazz
Extraction
Gentle Hearts
Brain Storm
Wonderland In The Sky

Album Description

Asia pressing of Live CD from the Jazz musician. 8 tracks. EMI. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic Fusion Feast.......2007-07-04

I've been a fan of Greg Howe for a number of years, own all of his solo albums, and only recently became familiar with this project after discovering some video clips on youtube. These guys totally blow me away! I'd never heard of Tetsuo Sakurai (bass) or Akira Onozuka (keys). (Evidently the former has been playing fusion in Japan for 20 years, and, judging by his chops, deserves to be in every fusion fan's vocabulary). Dennis Chambers,... duh! 'Nuf said.

I won't babble on about every single song. Suffice it to say that if you liked Greg's last disc, "Extraction", with Victor Wooten and Dennis Chambers, then you'll love this. Yes, the cost is a bit prohibitive, but if you can afford it, it's worth it.

By the way, this is also available on DVD with four additional songs, in addition to some "behind the scenes" stuff. -Ridiculously expensive. Do I own it? Yes! Do I regret spending $50 for it? Not at all. Check out the Laser's Edge website for competitive prices.

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Interesting bluegrass album full of quality
silver toungue and gold plated lies
Addictive
IN MY TOP TEN OF 1998

Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts
Suzanne Thomas
Manufacturer: Rounder Select
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Dreaming
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Together

ASIN: B000007S7U
Release Date: 1998-07-14

Tracks:

Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
Leaving This Land
Faded Coat Of Blue
Silver Tongue And Gold Plated Lies
Dear Friends & Gentle Hearts
I Have No Mother Now
Just A Few More Days
We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds
From The Point Of View Of Ruby Jayne
You're Doin' Me Wrong Jim Beam
Sweet Sunny South
Miss The Mississippi And You

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Suzanne Thomas's voice is remarkable within bluegrass, where for 30 years she's been central to bands like the Dry Branch Fire Squad and the Hotmud Family. She possesses no crystalline soprano or pretty soaring tone nor belting power exactly. Thomas has something else: an ache all around the edges, a tactile sense of emotion, the warmth and tremble marking depth of human feeling. Backing by contemporary bluegrassers IIIrd Tyme Out, the Lonesome River Band, the Seldom Scene, and the Dry Branch Fire Squad never overwhelms Thomas's delivery, which is most moving on the melancholy title track--an ode to Stephen Foster--and Robin and Linda Williams's "Leaving This Land." Her torchy take on "Miss the Mississippi and You" closes Thomas's solo debut, easily one of the year's best bluegrass offerings. --Roy Francis Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Interesting bluegrass album full of quality.......2003-05-10

By the time Suzanne recorded this album, she was a veteran of the bluegrass and old-time country music scene, having previously sung with the Hotmud family and the Dry branch fire squad.

Sweet sunny south, Just a few more days, Faded coat of blue, I have no mother now and are all over fifty years old and you don't them very often these days. Another song of comparable vintage, Miss the Mississippi and you, is better known, having been covered by Emmylou Harris, Crystal Gayle and others down the years.

We must have been out of our minds was a sixties country hit duet for George Jones and Melba Montgomery, while Louisiana woman Mississippi man was a seventies country hit duet for Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn.

The remaining songs are contemporary, including some co-written by Suzanne. Overall, this album has a variety of songs of different tempos, all performed to a high standard. If you enjoy traditional bluegrass, you should enjoy this.

silver toungue and gold plated lies.......2002-12-09

I heard this particular song by Suzanne Thomas on the recently released O SISTER CD. Absolutely enjoyed the vocal and music. I have yet to hear the balance of the album, however based on this single cut, I'm sure I'm not going to be disappointed.

Addictive.......2000-04-17

I have had this CD for a couple of weeks and can't stop listening to it. The selection of music on this CD was obviously given a great deal of thought - excellent choices. Suzanne sings with a great deal of feeling in these songs and she and Ron Thomason together are hard to beat in this type of music. Highly recommended.

IN MY TOP TEN OF 1998.......1999-02-04

This is a delicate and poetic CD that is often in my rotation. It's one of those CD's that can take repeated listens from start to finish. "Leaving This Land", the title track and "Faded Coat of Blue" are just a few of the songs that force me to stop what I'm doing and sit down to listen until they're finished. Thomas's voice can evoke such a sense of worn-out tiredness, such bittersweet sadness, yet on other songs, such as "Louisiana Man", she'll have you tapping your foot and dancing along with the joyous vocals. It's bluegrass, yes, but it's also folk, country-and wonderfully timeless in it's conveyance of emotion. I must confess to not having tremendous patience with a steady diet of bluegrass music, although I certainly own my share, but this CD rises above whatever label one would put upon it. If Iris Dement, Emmylou Harris and Alison Krauss are in your collection, you definitely need this. If they aren't, and you're looking to explore, buy this slice of Americana. You won't be disappointed.

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Dear Hearts and Gentle People
Jim Reeves
Manufacturer: Sundown Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001BLE
Release Date: 1995-12-12

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Gentle Hearts
Tetsuo Sakurai
Manufacturer: Jvc Victor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005HWCL
Release Date: 2001-03-23

Tracks:

Samurai Faith
Brain Storm
Punk Jazz
Gentle Hearts
Invisible Way
Maximum
Wonderland In The Sky
Dandelion

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Gentle Hearts Tour 2004

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006TPG9K
Release Date: 2005-03-01

Album Description

Japanese pressing live CD for the Jazz musician. 8 tracks. Victor Entertainment. 2005.

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Dear Hearts & Gentle People
Jim Reeves
Manufacturer: Legacy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-04-26

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THE GENTLE AWAKENING
Gary Farr
Manufacturer: Secret Formula Records
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ASIN: B00000JX1G
Release Date: 1999-01-30

Tracks:

THE GENTLE AWAKENING PART 1
THE GENTLE AWAKENING PART 2
LIFE IS PEACE
LOVE IS LIGHT
THE LITTLE GARDEN
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LOVE WITHIN A STORM
AN ANGEL ON EARTH
LOVE WILL WAIT FOREVER
LETTING GO
TO BE TRULY HAPPY
A TIME TO REMEMBER (LULLABY)

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SOOTHING INSPIRATIONAL AND MEDITATIONAL PIANO/ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC.

Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts: Songs of Stephen C. Foster

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A "Boxy" Performance

Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts: Songs of Stephen C. Foster
Jeffrey Dooley
Manufacturer: Lyrichord Discs Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1999-04-13

Tracks:

Beautiful Dreamer
Soiree Polka - Kathryn Cok
Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway!
We Are Coming, Father Abraam, 300,000 More
Linger In Blissful Repose
Santa Anna's Retreat From Buena Vista - Kathryn Cok
Farewell! Mother Dear I Go
Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
That's What's The Matter
Hard Times Come Again No More
Summer Longings
I'm Nothing But A Plain Old Soldier
My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night

Customer Reviews:

A "Boxy" Performance.......2002-05-05

Taking Stephen Foster's music out of the parlor and into the concert hall is not a new idea but here it just does not work. Jeffrey Dooley, a noted countertenor whose repertoire includes the works of Handel and Purcell, composers whose music responds to countertenors with excellent effect, renders a performance here that sounds like it was recorded inside a box, resulting in a high-pitched echo that hurt my ears and made it difficult to follow the lyrics of the songs. I gave this recording two stars because the instrumentals are quite good.

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