By Arrangement

By Arrangement

By Arrangement

ASIN: B00000C2HZ

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Jim Hall is an accomplished guitarist who's been playing professionally since the mid-'50s. On By Arrangement, Hall maintains his clean, articulate guitar style and displays his abundant talents as a composer and arranger, delving further into the territory he explored so successfully on 1997's Textures. Hall also hosts a number of special musical guests on this date, including guitarist Pat Metheny, saxophonist Joe Lovano, and trumpeter Tom Harell. Besides performing his own material, Hall has worked out compelling arrangements of songs by jazz composers like Thelonius Monk, Benny Golson, and Paul Desmond. On the classic John Lewis composition, "Django," Hall and Metheny duet on acoustic guitars over an empathic string section. Juxtaposing his straightforward performances against backgrounds of strings, brass, and even a chorus of voices, Hall's easy listening approach is both tasteful and emotive. --Mitch Myers

Jazz Times
We get a telling taste of arrangement aesthetic to come with John Lewis' classic "Django," set to the enigmatic plink of pizzicato strings and a shuffling New Orleans march feel from drummer Terry Clarke--finally yielding to swing--in time for compadre (and protege) Pat Metheny's fluid, wonderful solo on classical guitar.

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George Gershwin: Greatest Hits
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Muffled
  • Somewhat disappointing.
  • Gershwin At His Best in Hearts!
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George Gershwin: Greatest Hits

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ASIN: B000002A1T
Release Date: 1994-08-09

Tracks:

  1. Strike Up The Band
  2. Rhapsody In Blue
  3. Prelude No. 1
  4. Piano Concerto In F
  5. An American In Paris
  6. Prelude No. 3
  7. Medley From Porgy And Bess
  8. Fascinating Rhythm
  9. Lullaby
  10. Promenade (Walking the Dog)
  11. Cuban Overture

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Muffled.......2006-11-03

This is a decent enough recording, but it's not anywhere near the best that I have heard. The Andre Previn/LSO recording is much better mixed; at times it seems like there's a muffle on the mikes, or that you're hearing it from a distance.

If I wanted good, dynamic background music, I'd do this. If I wanted to really listen to the music, I'd pick another version.

3 out of 5 stars Somewhat disappointing........2003-09-10

I bought this for the full-length rendition of Rhapsody in Blue. I found the brass too tinny sounding, and the rhythm off in a few places. I like the snippet of this song on the "Best of the Milleneum" CD much better.

5 out of 5 stars Gershwin At His Best in Hearts!.......2003-03-19

To someone who came along as a teenage boy in the mid-1940's, this CD has the elements of authenticity, even surprise, musical history, highly intense performances, and ways evoking memories of emotional highlights of my Youth. When mediocre orchestra 1st tackled Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" at Smoky Mtn Music Camp we were preparing for Sunday's outdoor Concert. Pianos were played by two friends who've presided Music Dept at Carson-Newman College in East Tennessee. In the Trombone section was a skinny kid with too much hair and too big an ego! When our esteemed conductor began the opening bars the Clarinet Soloist, my close friend Danny Boy slide-up the chromatic scale with fleurish. He later became a NC Doctor! He likely plays clarinet for his own amazement in someone's Dixieland Band!

On this wondrous CD there are historic names like Bernstein, Kostelanez, John Williams and Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductors. Andre Previn, Yo-Yo Ma and Sarah Vaughan as Soloists. I would have a hard time choosing which may be called my favorite! It would depend on the day they are playing in my car... traveling to Columbia Seminary classes or GA Diagnostic Prison for lunch with Chaplain friends! I often sing along with the Rhapsody as I did in 1949 when Oscar Levant soloed with Chattanooga Orch. My very young wife was playing in the first violin section! Still today I am totally wiped out when anyone as intensely romantic as Sarah Vaughan sings "Summertime" or "I Loves You, Porgy!"

Is it not amazingly wondrous that someone could create so much enjoyable music in his short lifetime of 39 years? I never wish to part with this all-time favorite 10-Star Recording!
Retired Chaplain Fred W Hood

5 out of 5 stars The best America has to offer!!.......1999-03-09

This is the best collection of his songs i have ever heard. That's probably because it features conductors like John Williams and Micheal Tilson Thomas. My personal favorite is the allegro agitato from the Concerto in F. I have other recordings of this song, but none of them can even come close to matching the excitement of this one.
Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
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Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne
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ASIN: B000004CYV
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

  1. First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
  2. First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
  3. First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
  4. First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
  5. First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
  6. First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
  7. First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
  8. First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
  9. First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
  10. First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
  11. First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
  12. First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
  13. First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
  14. First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
  15. First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
  16. First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
  17. First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
  18. First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
  19. First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
  20. First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
  21. First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

  1. Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
  2. Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
  3. Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
  4. Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
  5. Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
  6. Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
  7. Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
  8. Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
  9. Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
  10. Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
  11. Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
  12. Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
  13. Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
  14. Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
  15. Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
  16. Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
  17. Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
  18. Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
  19. Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
  20. Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
  21. Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
  22. Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

  1. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
  2. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
  3. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
  4. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
  5. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
  6. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
  7. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
  8. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
  9. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
  10. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
  11. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
  12. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
  13. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
  14. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
  15. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
  16. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
  17. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
  18. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
  19. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
  20. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
  21. Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
  6. A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
  7. A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
  8. A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
  9. A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
  10. A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
  11. A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
  12. A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
  13. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
  14. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
  15. A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
  16. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

  1. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
  2. A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
  3. A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
  4. A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
  5. A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
  6. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
  7. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
  8. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
  9. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
  10. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
  11. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
  12. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
  13. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
  14. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
  15. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
  16. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
  17. Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

  1. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
  2. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
  3. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
  4. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
  5. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
  6. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
  7. Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
  8. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
  9. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
  10. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
  11. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
  12. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
  13. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
  14. Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
  15. Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
  16. Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
  17. Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
  18. Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
  19. Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
  20. Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
  21. Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
  22. Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
  23. Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
  24. Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
  25. Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
  26. Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
  27. Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
  28. Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

  1. Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
  2. Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
  3. Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
  4. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  5. Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
  6. Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
  7. Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
  8. Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
  9. Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
  10. A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
  11. Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
  12. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  13. Instrumental Music: Galliard
  14. Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
  15. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
  16. Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
  17. Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
  18. Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
  19. Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
  20. Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
  21. Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
  22. Instrumental Music: Comagain
  23. Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
  24. Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Preludium
  2. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: Can She Excuse
  4. Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
  5. Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
  6. Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
  7. Lute Music: Fantasia
  8. Lute Music: A Dream
  9. Lute Music: Almain
  10. Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
  11. Lute Music: Coranto
  12. Lute Music: Resolution
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
  14. Lute Music: Almain
  15. Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
  16. Lute Music: Fantasia
  17. Lute Music: Loth To Depart
  18. Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
  19. Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
  20. Lute Music: Pavan
  21. Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Aloe
  23. Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
  24. Lute Music: What If A Day
  25. Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
  27. Lute Music: Galliard
  28. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
  2. Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
  3. Lute Music: [Jig]
  4. Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
  5. Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
  6. Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
  7. Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
  8. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  9. Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
  10. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  11. Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
  12. Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
  13. Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
  14. Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
  15. Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  16. Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
  17. Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
  18. Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
  19. Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
  20. Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
  21. Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
  22. Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
  23. Lute Music: Galliard
  24. Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard
  26. Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
  27. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
  2. Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
  3. Lute Music: La mia Barbara
  4. Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
  5. Lute Music: Lachrimae
  6. Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
  7. Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
  8. Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
  10. Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
  11. Lute Music: Galliard
  12. Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
  13. Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
  14. Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
  15. Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
  16. Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
  17. Lute Music: Galliard
  18. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
  19. Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
  20. Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
  21. Lute Music: Solus cum sola
  22. Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
  23. Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
  24. Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
  25. Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
  26. Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

  1. Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
  2. Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
  3. Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
  4. Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
  5. Lute Music: A Coy Toy
  6. Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
  7. Lute Music: [Almain]
  8. Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
  9. Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
  10. Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
  11. Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
  12. Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
  13. Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
  14. Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
  15. Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
  16. Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
  17. Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
  18. Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
  19. Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
  20. Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
  21. Consort Music: Almain a 2
  22. Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
  23. Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
  24. Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
  25. Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
  26. Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
  27. Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

  1. Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
  2. Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
  3. Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
  4. Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
  5. Consort Music: Pavan a 4
  6. A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
  7. A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
  8. A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
  9. A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
  10. A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
  11. A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
  12. A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
  13. A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
  14. A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
  15. A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
  16. A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
  17. A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
  18. A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
  19. A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
  20. A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
  21. A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
  22. A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
  23. A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
  24. A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
  25. A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

5 out of 5 stars a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).
American Jubilee
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  • A good choice
American Jubilee

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ASIN: B000003CUB
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

  1. Liberty Fanfare
  2. Yankee Doodle
  3. Variations on 'America'
  4. Grand Walkaround
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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A good choice.......2005-06-16

I did not know all the tunes when I have ordered this CD and after listening, there are still some tunes that I do not know. However, the quality of recording is excellent, the choice of tunes is interesting and the orchestration is good. So, if you know these tunes and if you like them, you may buy this CD; it is not a bad one. It is not the one that I prefer because it is a question of personal choice but it is at least a good one.
Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol.1-5
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Outstanding
  • It's not heavy breathing
  • Technically good, emotionally bland.
  • Highly recommended
  • just a warning...
Dowland: Complete Lute Works, Vol.1-5

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ASIN: B0000007HU
Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

  1. A Piece Without Title - Dowland
  2. Pavana - Dowland
  3. Mr Knights Galliard - Dowland
  4. My lord willobies wellcome home - Dowland
  5. The frogg galliard - Dowland
  6. A Fancy - Dowland
  7. My Ladie Riches galyerd - Dowland
  8. The Lady Laitons Almone - Dowland
  9. A Dream (Lady Leighton's Paven) - Dowland
  10. Galliard - Dowland
  11. Orlando sleepeth - Dowland
  12. What if a Day - Dowland
  13. Mrs Winters Jumpp - Dowland
  14. Galliard - Dowland
  15. M. Giles Hobies Galiard - Dowland
  16. Dr Cases Pauen - Dowland
  17. Mellancoly Galliard - Dowland
  18. Galliard - Dowland
  19. Mistris Whittes thinge - Dowland
  20. Go from my windowe - Dowland
  21. Almain - Dowland
  22. Mrs Whites Nothing - Dowland
  23. Pavan - Dowland
  24. Galliard - Dowland
  25. Farewell - Dowland

Tracks:

  1. My lady hunnsdons puffe
  2. Solus cum sola
  3. Suzanna Galliard
  4. Sir John Smith his Almain
  5. Sweet Robyne
  6. Dowlands first galliard
  7. Master Pypers Pavyn
  8. Captain Digorie Piper his Galliard
  9. As I wen to Walsingham
  10. Monsieur's Almaine
  11. Mrs Brigide fleetwoods paven alias Solus sine sola
  12. Dowlands Galliard
  13. Farwell (As
  14. Captain Candishe his Galyard
  15. Aloe
  16. Can she excuse
  17. A Coye Joye
  18. Mrs vauxes Gigge
  19. Mrs vaux Galliarde
  20. Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine
  21. Mignarda
  22. Lachrimae
  23. Sir John Souch his galliard
  24. Fantasia

Tracks:

  1. The most high and mightie Christianus, the fourth King of Denmark, his Galliard
  2. Sir John Langton his Pavin
  3. Mr. Langtons galliard
  4. A Fancy
  5. A Pavan
  6. The most sacred Queene Elizabeth, her Galliard
  7. Mrs. Cliftons Allmaine
  8. The Right Honourable the Lady Cliftons Spirit
  9. tarletones riserrectione
  10. Tarletons Willy
  11. fortune my foe
  12. The Queenes galliard
  13. Wallsingham
  14. A Galliard (on Walsingham)
  15. Dowlands Adew for Master Oliver Cromwell
  16. The Right Honourable Ferdinando Earle of Darby, his Galliard
  17. Lord Strangs March
  18. Mistresse Nichols Almand
  19. forlone Hope fancye
  20. Mr. Dowlands Midnight
  21. Semper Dowland semper dolens

Tracks:

  1. Preludium
  2. A Fancy
  3. Lachrimae
  4. Galliard to Lachrimae
  5. A Fantasia
  6. An Almand
  7. Pavana
  8. The Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Essex, his Galliard
  9. A Galliard (on a galliard by Daniel Bachelar)
  10. My Lord Wilobies Welcom Home
  11. The Shoemakers Wife. A Toy
  12. The Right Hounourable The Lord Viscount Lisle, his Galliard
  13. Coranto
  14. A Galliard
  15. The Lady Russells Paven
  16. Galliard (on Awake sweet love, set by Fr. Cutting)
  17. The Frog Galliard
  18. Come Away
  19. La mia Barbara
  20. Loth to Departe

Tracks:

  1. A Fancy
  2. Pavana Dowlandi Angli (Mylius #2)
  3. Doulands rounde battell galyarde
  4. Pavin
  5. The Erle of Darbies Galiard
  6. Mistris Norrishis Delight
  7. A Jig
  8. The Erle of Essex Galliard
  9. Galliard
  10. Une Jeune Fillette
  11. Gagliarda
  12. Pavana Lachrimae
  13. Squires Galliard
  14. A Fancy
  15. Hasellwoods Galliard
  16. Sir Thomas Monson, his Pavin
  17. Sir Thomas Monson, his Galliard
  18. Almande
  19. Sir Henry Umptons Funerall
  20. Captayne Pipers Galliard
  21. A fantasie

Amazon.com

Dowland did for lute music what Haydn did for the string quartet and Beethoven the piano sonata. The finest lutenist and songwriter of his age--he composed several of the greatest hits of the late 16th and early 17th centuries--the surviving lute works constitute a sort of encyclopedia of the possibilities of the instrument. There are song arrangements, dance pieces, tributes to the composer's friends, even a musical self-portrait. Much of the music is fashionably sad. Lute songs generally deal with the agony of lost love, and Dowland's most popular tune was called Lachrimae (Tears). Paul O'Dette is simply the best lutenist alive. These five discs are available together at a special price, or separately. A reference edition. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Outstanding.......2007-03-31

If you are a fan of the music of John Dowland, you must own this CD. The playing is outstanding to say the least.

3 out of 5 stars It's not heavy breathing.......2006-08-22

It's great that O'Dette gives us the complete solo works, of course. I have the common reaction to O'Dette: his technique is flawless, his performance unengaging.

Others have remarked on the "heavy breathing" noticeable on the recordings -- it's not heavy breathing, but the movement of his fingers on the gut strings making that sound.

4 out of 5 stars Technically good, emotionally bland. .......2006-04-11

Considering the extreme paucity of (especially solo) lute recordings currently available worldwide,
but especially in the US, this set becomes an essential "must have" for all lovers of the lute.
Yet it somehow disappoints.
I am sure that Paul O'Dette is brimming over with virtuousity and a technical expertise
that I am hardly one to pass sound judgement upon.
But the recordings have a flatness and monotony;
the songs are rendered with precision, but seem to lack feeling, empathy, or enthusiasm throughout the offering.
It is an impressive compendium, and I'm glad I purchased it.
There are very few lutenists out there producing any music at all, so Mr. O'Dette should certainly be praised
for delivering such a substantial feast to our ears.
It just should have had more flavor.
Where is Konrad Ragossnig when you need him?

5 out of 5 stars Highly recommended.......2005-10-23

I bought Volume 1 of this set a couple of years ago. It has become one of my favorite CDs, so I thought I would enjoy the full set. I have not been disappointed. I find the sound quality excellent, the playing superb. The included booklet has a lot of interesting background material. The music is great as background for a dinner party or intimate conversation, but has depth aplenty for concentrated listening. I often listen to it while working at the computer where I swear it improves concentration and productivity!

A few tunes appear more than once as Dowland reused some work, but the arrangements are sufficiently different to be interesting. It is his complete lute works, after all. Some might criticise the set for sounding too much in the same style. It is the work of one composer, and if you happen to like the style, as I do, this is a pro rather than a con.

Another reviewer mentioned obtrusive breathing on the recording. I had listened to Volume 1 for two years before reading the review and had not noticed this. On listening carefully, there is breathing audible, but I do not find it a problem. Perhaps it depends whether one listens to the music or the background.

4 out of 5 stars just a warning..........2005-10-14

Beautiful music, but... you can hear Paul's heavy breathing throughout. Apparently a lot of other reviewers either don't hear the heavy breathing, or aren't bothered by it, but for me, it's a near deal-breaker. Go ahead and mark my review as unhelpful, but I had to put the warning out there.
Famous Ballet Music ~ Gaîté Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, Berlin PO
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    Famous Ballet Music ~ Gaîté Parisienne, The Sleeping Beauty, Coppélia, Les Sylphides / von Karajan, Berlin PO
    Jacques Offenbach , Léo Delibes , Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , Charles Gounod , Fryderyk Chopin , Amilcare Ponchielli , Berliner Philharmoniker , and Herbert von Karajan
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    ASIN: B00001IVO9
    Release Date: 1999-09-14

    Tracks:

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    6. Gaite Parisienne: 9. Marche (Without Tempo Indication) - Herbert von Karajan_
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    11. Gaite Parisienne: 14. Valse: Moderato - Herbert von Karajan_
    12. Gaite Parisienne: 15. Allegro vivo - Herbert von Karajan_
    13. Gaite Parisienne: 16. Cancan: Allegro - Herbert von Karajan_
    14. Gaite Parisienne: 17. Polka - Herbert von Karajan_
    15. Gaite Parisienne: 18. (Without Tempo Indication) - Herbert von Karajan_
    16. Gaite Parisienne: 22. Vivo - Herbert von Karajan_
    17. Gaite Parisienne: 23. Barcarolle: Allegro moderato - Herbert von Karajan_
    18. Faust: 1. Allegretto: Tempo de valse - Herbert von Karajan_
    19. Faust: 2. Adagio (Helene et les jeune Troyennes - Cleopatre et les jeunes Nubiennes) - Herbert von Karajan_
    20. Faust: 3. Allegretto (Entree des jeunes Nubiennes) - Herbert von Karajan_
    21. Faust: 4. Moderato maestoso (Variation de Cleopatre) - Herbert von Karajan_
    22. Faust: 5. Moderato con moto (Entree des jeunes Troyennes) - Herbert von Karajan_
    23. Faust: 6. Allegretto (Variation d'Helene) - Herbert von Karajan_
    24. Faust: 7. Allegro vivo (Final - Entree de Phryne) - Herbert von Karajan_
    25. Faust: Valse - Waltz: Tempo di valse - Herbert von Karajan_
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    ASIN: B0002VEPR6
    Release Date: 2004-09-07

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    1. I. Larghetto Affettuoso
    2. II. Allegro (Tempo Giusto Della Scuola Tartinista)
    3. III. Andante - Allegro Assai - Andante - Allegro Assai - Andante - Allegro Assai
    4. Cadenza - Adagio
    5. III. Clair De Lune
    6. IV. Jota
    7. Extase Op.21
    8. Valse-Scherzo Op.34
    9. I. Love-Song
    10. Three Hungarian Folk-Dances
    11. Legende Op.17
    12. Mazurka Op.26

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars a feast of violin virtuosity.......2006-03-02

    What a tone! David Oistrakh was a virtuoso, of that there is no doubt. What makes his playing stand apart, though, is his rich, full, round tone. Oistrakh does not draw attention to his technical skill, he draws attention to the music.

    These duets, with Vladimir Yampolsky on piano, were recorded at Abbey Road in London in early 1956, and first released by EMI in 1957. It's a fine set of "showpieces," beginning with Tartini's sonata in G minor, "The Devil's Trill." Slow lyrical numbers like Debussy's "Clair de lune" and Ysaye's "Extase" are interspersed with livelier numbers such as de Falla's "Siete canciones populares espanolas" and Koday's "Three Hungarian Folk-dances."

    This is an easy recommendation for anyone who loves great violin music, another truly "Great Recording of the Century" from the EMI vaults.
    Scott Joplin: His Complete Works
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Available at retailers for about $18
    • A classic compilation
    • A dis-service to Joplin
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    • Great set
    Scott Joplin: His Complete Works

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    ASIN: B000001RR2
    Release Date: 1994-07-19

    Tracks:

    1. Please Say You Will - Richard Zimmerman
    2. A Picture Of Her Face - Richard Zimmerman
    3. The Great Crush Collision March - Richard Zimmerman
    4. Harmony Club Waltz - Richard Zimmerman
    5. Combination March - Richard Zimmerman
    6. Original Rags - Richard Zimmerman
    7. Maple Leaf Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    8. Swipesy - Cake Walk - Richard Zimmerman
    9. Sunflower Slow Drag - Richard Zimmerman
    10. Peacherine Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    11. Augustan Club Waltz - Richard Zimmerman
    12. The Easy Winners - Richard Zimmerman
    13. Cleopha - Richard Zimmerman
    14. The Strenuous Life - Richard Zimmerman
    15. I Am Thinking Of My Pickanniny Days - Richard Zimmerman
    16. The Ragtime Dance - Richard Zimmerman
    17. A Breeze From Alabama - Richard Zimmerman
    18. Elite Syncopations - Richard Zimmerman

    Tracks:

    1. March Majestic - S. Joplin
    2. The Entertainer - S. Joplin
    3. Something Doing - S. Joplin
    4. Weeping Willow - S. Joplin
    5. Little Black Baby - S. Joplin
    6. Palm Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
    7. The Favorite - S. Joplin
    8. The Sycamore - S. Joplin
    9. The Cascades - S. Joplin
    10. The Chrysanthemum - S. Joplin
    11. Rosebud March - S. Joplin
    12. Bethena - S. Joplin
    13. Leola - S. Joplin
    14. Sarah Dear - S. Joplin
    15. Binks Waltz - S. Joplin
    16. Eugenia - S. Joplin
    17. Antoinette - S. Joplin
    18. Snoring Sampson - S. Joplin

    Tracks:

    1. Gladiolus Rag - S. Joplin
    2. Searchlight Rag - S. Joplin
    3. The Nonpareil (None to Equal) - S. Joplin
    4. When Your Hair Is Like The Snow - S. Joplin
    5. Rose Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
    6. Heliotrope Bouquet - S. Joplin
    7. School Of Ragtime - S. Joplin
    8. Fig Leaf Rag - S. Joplin
    9. Sugar Cane - S. Joplin
    10. Pine Apple Rag - S. Joplin
    11. Wall Street Rag - S. Joplin
    12. Solace - S. Joplin
    13. Pleasant Moments - S. Joplin
    14. Country Club - S. Joplin
    15. Paragon Rag - S. Joplin
    16. Euphonic Sounds - S. Joplin
    17. Stoptime Rag - S. Joplin
    18. Felicity Rag - S. Joplin

    Tracks:

    1. Highlights From Treemonisha - Richard Zimmerman
    2. A Real Slow Drag - Richard Zimmerman
    3. Prelude To Act 3 - Richard Zimmerman
    4. Frolic Of The Bears - Richard Zimmerman
    5. Lovin' Babe - Richard Zimmerman
    6. Scott Joplin's New Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    7. Kismet Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    8. Magnetic Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    9. Reflection Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    10. Silver Swan Rag - Richard Zimmerman
    11. Lily Queen - Richard Zimmerman
    12. Sensation - Richard Zimmerman

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Available at retailers for about $18.......2006-12-21

    Excellent collection - but there are re-sellers listed here that are selling this for as much $50 or $60. Yikes, most major retailers are selling this complete set for $18 - so beware.

    5 out of 5 stars A classic compilation.......2006-10-07

    This collection is one of my most treasured possessions. (My father gave me the original 5-album set in the 70's when it was originally released on vinyl.)

    This is the definitive collection of Scott Joplin's work. Richard Zimmerman provides wonderful performances that accurately reflect Joplin's intentions. (As evidence beyond my personal opinion, I submit the recent releases of digital recordings made from Joplin's piano rolls.)

    A few points to consider regarding negative comments you may encounter in other reviews:
    * This is a digital recording from an analog master. Lack of quality in the recording does not imply a lackluster performance.
    * This is a complete collection. Some similarity is due to Joplin re-exploring melodic themes. But some is due to the fact that these are "rags". One might as well complain that all 50's doo-wop (or all 70's disco) sounds the same.
    * Many pieces of the period exhibit formal musical structures, such as the marches of John Phillips Sousa. (Both Sousa and Joplin performed at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.) Actually, Joplin is responsible for extending the formal boundaries of ragtime to concert waltzes (Bethena) and opera (A Guest of Honor, Treemonisha)
    * This is probably one of the few collections which will include selections from "Treemonisha". It is my understanding that after the initial release, one of Joplin's descendants made a copyright claim that was upheld in court. (I presume the issue was that Joplin had to finance "Treemonisha" himself, and therefore the customary performance clearances did not cover those selections.)

    For ragtime students and enthusiasts, this is a "must-have" collection at a very affordable price.

    1 out of 5 stars A dis-service to Joplin.......2006-02-01

    Sadly, the only virtue this set possesses is completeness.

    The pianist does not play Joplin's pieces "as written", the piano is of poor quality, and not properly in tune.

    This is emphatically NOT the set to buy. A far better set, beautifully annotated and well played on a good concert grand piano, is the complete works played by Guido Nielsen on the Basta Label.

    This set is a dis-service to Joplin and his music. He deserves better, and gets it elsewhere.

    5 out of 5 stars Unique .......2004-10-19

    I have several cd sets of Joplin's music: Rifkin, Arpo, Nielsen, and Zimmerman. All have their excellent qualities. What sets Zimmerman's set apart is the inclusion of excerpts from Joplin's opera, Treemonisha---especially "A Real Slow Drag." Why the other sets do not include excerpts from Treemonisha, I don't know---because they are some of his most beautiful and joyful pieces of music. Of course, you can hear the orchestrated version of Treemonisha in the Houston Grand Opera recording, and it is spectacular. But Zimmerman's piano version, especially of "A Real Slow Drag," is not to be missed.

    5 out of 5 stars Great set.......2001-10-16

    I guess this will be a rather one sided review. I have been a fan of Scott Joplin since I first learned to play a piano.

    I was shocked to see that one reviewer thought it all sounded the same. How silly. All of Frank Sinatra's music sounds like Frank Sinatra. All of Led Zeppelin sounds like Led Zeppelin. So, if the songs were drastically different, I would question if the same author composed them. As it is, though, each song on this set is fantastic!!

    I don't know that I have heard of Richard Zimmerman, and I was a little leary as to what I would be getting, I certainly was impressed. Without a doubt the best renditions of "Weeping Willow" and "Bethena" I have heard, and at least a dozen songs I didn't know Joplin wrote.

    Without a doubt, this album is fantastic. A very good price, as well.
    Gershwin: Works for Piano & Orchestra
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • The best performances at the cheapest price!
    • Great performances, excellent engineering
    • Insipid uninspiring performances; miserable engineering
    • Terrific playing at a bargain price
    • Siegel is amazing
    Gershwin: Works for Piano & Orchestra

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    ASIN: B000001K1Z
    Release Date: 1992-11-04

    Tracks:

    1. Allegro
    2. Andante Con Moto
    3. Allegro Agitato
    4. Lullaby For String Orchestra
    5. Cuban Overture
    6. Second Rhapsody
    7. Promenade

    Tracks:

    1. Rhapsody In Blue
    2. 'I Got Rhythm' Variations
    3. Introduction - Act 1, Scene 1
    4. Porgy Sings
    5. Fugue
    6. Hurricane - Act II, Scene 3
    7. Good Mornin', Brother - Act III, Scene 3
    8. An American In Paris

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars The best performances at the cheapest price!.......2001-08-16

    I own many recordings of Gershwin but this inexpensive colection is my favorite! The performances are moving, the recording is excellent, and the whole package cannot be beat for value. Simply a great value!!!

    5 out of 5 stars Great performances, excellent engineering.......2001-03-22

    I'm confused by the previous reviewer's comments.

    The engineering is fine analog, but it isn't "in your face" kind of engineering (a la some older Sony recordings; Bernstein's are some of the worst offenders, although recent remasterings have tamed them somewhat), it isn't brightly lit (ditto a lot of von Karajan's DG recordings), but it's pretty natural. Nothing is spotlit, and sounds the way one would hear it in the concert hall. I would hazard that sound systems have a way of filtering the music. I've found that some of my terribly-engineered, really ancient monophonic recordings sound much better on lesser equipment, while my best engineered recordings sound mediocre on lesser equipment, but wonderful on the high end stuff. And the speakers, and, well, this isn't about equipment. Just second guessing how the impression can be made that the enginnering is poor on this disc.

    Powell Symphony Hall, while not the sonic masterpiece that is, for example, New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall (one of the best I've ever been in), is still a wonderful acoustic space, both for listener and player (it's one of those halls where I was able to hear myself play as well as I was the whole orchestra, and you can almost feel your sound being projected into the auditorium). The hall, btw, is gorgeous, graceful, and characterful; much so than the design of Symphony Hall in Chicago (brilliantly finished, btw), or the cavernous feel of the hall in Boston. While some of Slatkin's RCA recordings in Powell recess the sound too much, such is not the case here.

    The performances are electrifying, with the exception of the Concerto in F. Even that piece, an awkward attempt on Gershwin's part, has many rewarding aspects, and the performance reveals many of them. Seigel isn't a "polished" pianist--I'd never be interested hearing him play Mozart based on these performances--but here his style (or the style he has captured) is just right.

    These are classics in the Gramophone. Not that the critical consensus (well, as consensual as it ever gets) is always correct, but I agree with them.

    1 out of 5 stars Insipid uninspiring performances; miserable engineering.......2000-12-07

    If only 0 stars were an option!

    I found these interpretations of Gershwin lacking; both in the orchestra and piano. None of the performances reached out and pulled me in, they left me wondering what anyone could possibly hear in Gershwin. Thankfully I own several recordings which do not leave me feeling that way! Specificaly in the Rapsody in Blue: Mr. Siegel does not demonstrate a command of the piece; more than once I wondered if he was practicing the piece instead of performing it, as his approach was tenative at best. Mr. Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony rendered the piece with a lush/loose orchestral feel that just does not feel right.

    The sound engineering is wanting in all of these performances; the balance between orchestra and piano is poorly maintained throughout. I found the piano lost in sections where a balance between forces is called for. Exchanges between piano and various instruments routinely found one or the other anoyingly out of balance. Nothing in the notes describes the recording process, but from the instances of voice dropout I would hazard to guess that two micropones were placed in the worst seats available in Powell Symphony Hall with the subsequent recordings transfered directly to disc with no review or attempt at editing. What an engineering travesty!

    Overall I was glad when the CD's were done. I pulled out other recordings and played numerous tracks back to back to see if I had missed something. I had not! All around the performances are insipid and uninspiring, and I can usually find something redeeming in just about everything to which I give a listen.

    If you want an inspired performance of Rhapsody in Blue that will reach out and grab you from the opening wail of the clarinet to the closing orchestral chord, get the recording made by Michael Tilson Thomas and the LA Philharmonic. Unfortunately, he did not record all the orchestral pieces you find in this recording.

    5 out of 5 stars Terrific playing at a bargain price.......2000-05-29

    This is a terrific collection of Gershwin's orchestral music, including all of his works for piano and orchestra, all at a bargain price. Jeffrey Siegel's piano playing is great, as is Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. For the bargain hunter in search of Gershwin, this is the set to buy.

    5 out of 5 stars Siegel is amazing.......2000-04-17

    I have been privileged to listen to Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations in Fairfax, VA for many years. I heard him play some Gershwin during one performance, and I had to buy this CD. If you like Gershwin, if you like great piano, if you like music, this is a CD that belongs in your collection
    Gershwin: Piano Music
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Gershwin: Piano Music

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    ASIN: B000005IY8
    Release Date: 1992-04-09

    Tracks:

    1. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Swanee
    2. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Nobody But You
    3. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
    4. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Do It Again
    5. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Fascinating Rhythm
    6. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Oh, Lady Be Good
    7. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Somebody Loves Me
    8. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Sweet And Low Down
    9. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): That Certain Feeling
    10. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): The Man I Love
    11. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Clap Yo' Hands
    12. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Do Do Do
    13. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): My One And Only
    14. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): 'S Wonderful
    15. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Strike Up The Band
    16. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Liza
    17. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): I Got Rhythm
    18. George Gershwin's Song Book (1932): Who Cares?
    19. Other Piano Pieces: Rialto Ripples
    20. Other Piano Pieces: Three Preludes-Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
    21. Other Piano Pieces: Three Preludes - Andante con moto e poco rubato
    22. Other Piano Pieces: Three Preludes - Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
    23. Other Piano Pieces: Impromptu In Two Keys
    24. Other Piano Pieces: Three-Quarter Blues
    25. Other Piano Pieces: Merry Andrew
    26. Other Piano Pieces: Piano Playin' Jazzbo Brown (Jasbo Brown Blues)
    27. Other Piano Pieces: Promenade
    28. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: I'll Build A Stairway To Paradise
    29. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: How Long Has This Been Going On?
    30. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: By Strauss
    31. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: Someone to Watch over Me
    32. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: Nice Work If You Can Get It
    33. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: The Man I Love
    34. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: Just Another Rhumba
    35. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: Isn't It A Pity?
    36. Songs By George And Ira Gershwin: They All Laughed
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    Amazon.com

    William Bolcom is my kind of musician. He writes music that is sometimes adventurous but always based in a recognizable American idiom. And he's a terrific ragtime pianist, the best Joplin player I've heard. With these credentials, of course he's a wonderful Gershwin player. These are the best piano performances of Gershwin I know. After you hear those, Bolcom joins his wife Joan Morris for very flavorful versions of 10 George and Ira Gershwin songs. The whole disc is a delight, and the original analog recordings still sound fine. Highly recommended to all Gershwin lovers. --Leslie Gerber

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Peculiar.......2005-01-26

    I can see how someone might enjoy this album. William Bolcom is a top-flight pianist and the idea of playing the tunes as George Gershwin played them at parties is intriguing.

    Because my ear is used to it, I guess, I would like to have heard longer performances of fewer songs. Each one sounded to me like a snippet -- over too soon. Because of that, plus the fact that I'm not a fan of Joan Morris' showy voice, I give the album one thumb up.

    5 out of 5 stars Gershwin Never Sounded Better!.......2002-06-25

    This is a fantastic CD! Back in the 70's, pianist William Bolcom and his singer wife Joan Morris made a delightful series of albums on the Nonesuch label of old songs from the first half of the twentieth century - just glorious voice backed by brilliant piano. As Ira Gershwin might say - who could ask for anything more? The music is not only beautifully performed, you can hear the joy of the performance in every note. And Bolcom and Morris were never better than when doing Gershwin.

    A combination of two albums, the first part of this CD is all piano. The Gershwin Songbook consists of brief (some under a minute) versions of some of his more popular songs in the way that Gershwin himself famously played them at parties. They demonstrate that Gershwin was as gifted a pianist as he was a composer. The other instrumental tracks are some of Gershwin's solo piano pieces, including the wonderful Rialto Ripples, a rag written when he was just seventeen. For me, the pinnacle of both Gershwin's and William Bolcom's artistry is reached on the second of the three preludes - a classic study of a bluesy mood.

    Just when you think things can't get any better, Joan Morris arrives. She effortlessly sings and swings her way through ten of Gershwin's best songs from the cheeky comedy of By Strauss to the smoky moodiness of Someone To Watch Over Me. Maybe I'm just an incurable old romantic, but the ballads are the best of all.

    No Gershwin collection can be complete without this CD. Now if only I could find a copy of that Bolcom/Morris song about Humphrey Bogart...
    Charles Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan/The White Peacock/Three Poems of Fiona McLeod
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    • A Must-Have Recording
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    ASIN: B00016ZKPS
    Release Date: 2004-04-20

    Tracks:

    1. The White Peacock
    2. The Lament Of Ian The Proud
    3. Thy Dark Eyes To Mine
    4. The Rose Of The Night
    5. Bacchanale
    6. Clouds
    7. The Lake At Evening
    8. The Vale Of Dreams
    9. The Night Winds
    10. Poem For Flute And Orchestra
    11. The Pleasure Dome Of Kubla Khan

    Album Description

    During his brief life (cut short by pneumonia when he was just 35), Charles Griffes was able to compose music of distinctive beauty. He was fascinated by the music of the French-Impressionist composers Debussy and Ravel but was also influenced by the Russian sounds of Scriabin and Mussorgsky and a German post-romantic idiom. Ultimately, Griffes found his own unique voice that blended all of these characteristics. Griffes had a passion for verse and almost all of his orchestral scores are linked in some way to poetic or literary ideas. The works on this disc are notable examples of Griffes' "tone pictures" with the exception of the Poem for Flute and Orchestra, a miniature tone poem without associated text or images.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars This covers him..........2006-06-20

    NAXOS with artful readings by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Phil., and some superb engineering, give's us an affordable value CD of Charles Griffe's limited French-Impressionist influenced orchestral output(he died at 35). All the works included on this disc with the exception of "Poem for flute and orch." are linked to some poetic or literary ideas. His masterpiece "The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan" is his most memorable composition. About 12min. of frenzied paganistic lust featuring low bass and interjections of howling brass. With the exception of the "Bacchanale"(more tempered than Pleasure Dome)all the other works are less memorable and less colorful than their titles imply, only showing Griffes's Ravel-Debussy style. My 3 star rating does not berate the performers or production, only the minimal influence of this composer.

    5 out of 5 stars A Must-Have Recording.......2004-04-27

    Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) was the great American what-might-have-been composer. He died tragically young at 35 of pneumonia; it gives one pause to think that with a normal life-span he might have continued composing into the 1950s! Although those familiar with his best-known works, 'The White Peacock' and 'The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan,' both presented here, might assume that he was a Debussy-and-water impressionist, this is far from the case. In fact, those two pieces are much better than this description makes them out to be, each showing clear evidence of Griffes's own personal voice and a real feel for original form. As he progressed in his too-short career, he began taking into account the kinds of things that Scriabin, Stravinsky, and even Schoenberg were doing and some of his later works show these influences.

    All but one of the pieces here were originally written for piano; I recall playing 'The White Peacock' and its companion piece, 'The Fountain of the Acqua Paola' when I was a youngster, and remember the visceral thrill of all that misty and evocative impressionism. On this disc the lone exception written originally for orchestra is the lovely 'Poem for Flute and Orchestra,' played exquisitely here by Carol Wincenc, one of the most musical flutists now before the public. The piece itself has passages that sound for all the world like they come from the world of English pastoralism with modal melodies and hornpipe-y 6/8 rhythms, and of the Celtic-twilight mist-world reminiscent of Bax.

    'The White Peacock,' is followed by 'Three Poems of Fiona McLeod' for soprano and orchestra, sung with real feeling here by Barbara Quintiliani whose lovely voice is a real plus; there is an incipient wobble at the highly-placed climactic moments, and unfortunately texts by Fiona McLeod (the nom de plume of poet William Sharp) are not included, but these song still manage to make an emotional impact. They are 'The Lament of Ian the Proud,' 'Thy Dark Eyes to Mine,' and 'The Rose of the Night.'

    'Bacchanale' is a scherzo which could as easily have been named 'Orientale' except that there are some barbaric yawps included along the way. This is a lively, exotic-sounding piece that I'd never heard before. 'Clouds' comes from the piano suite, 'Roman Sketches,' that includes the aforementioned 'White Peacock' and 'The Fountain of Acqua Paola.' It attempts, successfully, to depict the 'golden domes and towers' of a cloud city.

    'Three Tone Pictures,' each inspired by a specific poem, includes 'The Lake at Evening' inspired by Yeats's 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'; 'The Vale of Dreams' and 'The Night Winds' were inspired by Poe's 'The Sleeper' and 'The Lake' respectively. These three tone poems all featured a prominent orchestral piano part and come close, to my mind, to the greatness of Debussy's 'Ibéria' in their sonic depiction of specific scenes.

    The final piece recorded here is 'The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan,' inspired of course by Coleridge's great poem and depicting loosely the story of Xanadu, the hidden 'pleasure dome' belonging to the Asian emperor in which a woman cries for her spectral lover. Particularly effective is the portrayal of 'a mighty fountain momently was forced; / Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: / And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever / It flung up momently the sacred river [Alph].'

    Here is must be said that the direction by Jo Ann Falletta and the playing of her Buffalo Philharmonic are beyond praise. This orchestra has played an important part in recording much of what is good in American music, going back at least to those important recordings of Ruggles's music done when Michael Tilson Thomas was their music director, and even before that to the days of Lukas Foss's tenure. There are rare moments of uncertainty or rhythmic insecurity but the group is also clearly one of the best orchestras in America currently. I'm delighted that they have a three-record contract with Naxos to record American music. Earlier they had recorded music of Frederick Converse and it, too, was a winner. I am eager to learn what the third of their recordings will be.

    Urgently recommended.

    Scott Morrison

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