Island Garden

Island Garden

ASIN: B00006499L

Editorial Reviews
Johnathon Widran ( JazzIs and AllMusic.com) May 3,2002
Loaded with fun and captures the true essence of both Traditional and Smooth Jazz in a Latin and Caribbean context.

Product Description
Smooth Latin Jazz with polish

Featuring:
Joseph Diamond - Piano all songs, Synthesizer 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10
Leo Traversa - Bass all songs, fretless bass 6, 13
Vince Cherico - Drums all songs except 4, 12, 13
Adam Niewood - Tenor Sax 1
Elysa Sunshine - Vocals 1, 11
Bobby Allende - Conga 1, 11; Conga solo 7; Bongo 11
Bruce Williamson - Flute 2, 3
Mark Walker - Percussion 2
Dean Bailin - Synthesizers 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10; Guitar 4
Johnny Almendra - Bongo 3, Shekere 7
Pocholo Segundo - Conga 3, 5
Steve Sandberg - Synthesizers 4, 12
Andricka Hall & Stephanie James - Vocals 4, 12
Emedín Rivera - Conga & Percussion 4, 6, 10, 12
Rob Thomas - Violin 7, 11
Marshall Sealy - French Horn 7
Sogbety Diomande - Bade & Djembe 7
Memo Acevado - Tamboura, Guira & Conga 8
Guillermo Cárdenas - Tamboura & Guiro 9
Guido Gonzalez - Flugelhorn 10
Eddy Zervignon - Flute 11

Island Garden

Tracks:

In The Silence Of The Secret Night
How Pained I Am
Sing Not, O Lovely One
Arion
How Peaceful
Do Not Believe Me, Friend
Let Us Leave, My Sweet
Spring Torrents
A Dream
All Was Taken From Me
Daisies
I Am Again Alone!
Night Is Sorrowful
O, No, I Beg You, Do Not Leave!
Small Island
I Am Not A Prophet
Yesterday We Met
They Replied
Liliacs
I Was With her
Christ Is Risen!
It Cannot Be!
At My Window
What Happiness
At Night In My Garden
Fragment From A. Musset
All Passes

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Exquisite tenor singing and songs of incredible beauty.......2001-10-02

My acquaintance with Sergei Larin was made through his performances of Verdi, Puccini and verismo works. And I have always been impressed by his beauty of tone and phrasing. It was a nicest surprise to discover that he could offer performances of such level of artistry in the chamber repertoire. This disc alone raised my admiration of Larin, one of the best tenors on operatic stages these days.
First of all, these songs require broader performance most of the time. They are passionate quasi-operatic works with a most evocative and sometimes melancholic atmosphere. Larin pours his heart and soul in these pieces. His tone is honeyed throughout, powerful when it opens up, but he also produce the most extatic soft tones when required. The wide palette of tone colouring is quite helpful to differentiate each song from the others and his care with the text is so amazing that, even if you don't know the text or are not Russian-speaking (as I am not), you won't really miss it, so powerful is Larin's ability to create the right mood. If you have any doubt, you should try "In the Silence of the Secret Night" - a most delightful song.
Last but not least, Eleonora Bekova is the amazing pianist who not only shines in the sometimes virtuosistic piano playing preditably required by Rachmaninov, but also responds sensitively to Larin's singing throughout. A nice example of interplay between admirable musicians.

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Just As Good As the First One
Hot Latin Jazz meets New York

Island Garden
Joseph Diamond
Manufacturer: Basileus
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Not your typical New Yorker

ASIN: B00006499L
Release Date: 2002-06-25

Tracks:

Montoya Mambo
Anytime
Black Cowboy
L.A.
That's Not A Good Idea
Someday It Will Be OK
Island Garden
Suena Como Alegria
El Stupido
There Goes Another One
The Yaqui
What You Gonna Say
Early Autumn

Album Description

Smooth Latin Jazz with polish

Customer Reviews:

Just As Good As the First One.......2003-06-24

Joe Diamond once again has put out a sweet CD. Another latin flavored gem that is a keeper. The tune "L.A." is a monster hit for me and will go down as one of the best. Even heard it on the Weather Channel the other day. This one is hot and hopefully you will give this CD a shot.

Hot Latin Jazz meets New York.......2002-07-04

I have been a big fan of Joseph Diamonds work ever since I heard his release "Not Your Typical New Yorker" a year ago. When "Island Garden" was released, I bought it immediately - and loved it.

From the opening track, "Montoya Mambo" you find a groove that hot, smooth and memorable.

Take a drive through New York a night, add a walk on the hot sandy beaches of Aruba and blend in a party with dancing, laugher and friends - and you begin to understand the feeling of Joseph Diamond's music.

Some of my other favorite cuts were "LA", "That's Not a Good Idea" and the very smooth "Someday it will be OK."

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Concert Works: I. Psalm 108 (Verse 2) & Psalm 100 (Complete) - Camerata Singers
Concert Works: II. Psalm 23 (Complete) & Psalm 2 (Verses 1-4) - Camerata Singers
Concert Works: III. Psalm 131 (Complete) & Psalm 133 (Verse 1) - Camerata Singers
Concert Works: III. Lamentation - Jennie Tourel
Concert Works: IV. Agathon (Adagio) - Isaac Stern
Concert Works: B. The Masque: Extremely Fast - Philippe Entremont
Concert Works: C. The Epilogue: Adagio; Andante; Con Moto - Philippe Entremont
Concert Works: IV. ' A Big Indian And A Little Indian' Con Brio - Leonard Bernstein
Concert Works: IV. 'Civet A Toute Vitesse (Rabbit At Top Speed)' - Leonard Bernstein
Concert Works: I. Prelude For The Brass - Benny Goodman
Concert Works: II. Fugue For The Saxes - Benny Goodman
Concert Works: III. Riffs For Everyone - Benny Goodman
Concert Works: I. Invocation. Kaddish 1 - Camerata Singers
Concert Works: Film: Love Theme - New York Philharmonic

Tracks:

Theater Works: Opening: 'New York, New York' - Adolph Green
Theater Works: 'Lonely Town'/Dance: Lonely Town - John Reardon
Theater Works: Dance: Times Square - Leonard Bernstein
Theater Works: 'Some Other Time' - Betty Comden
Theater Works: Dance: The Real Coney Island - Ensemble
Theater Works: I. Enter Three Sailors - Leonard Bernstein
Theater Works: IV. Pas De Deux - Leonard Bernstein
Theater Works: VII. Finale - Leonard Bernstein
Theater Works: 'The Pirate Songs' - Boris Karloff And The Pirates
Theater Works: 'Ohio' - Rosalind Russell
Theater Works: 'A Little Bit In Love (Never Felt This Way Before)' - Jacquelyn
Theater Works: 'A Quiet Girl' - Sydney Chaplin
Theater Works: 'Conga!' - Ensemble
Theater Works: 'Wrong Note Rag' - Ensemble
Theater Works: Overture - Original Broadway Cast
Theater Works: 'Best Of All Possible Worlds' - Chorus
Theater Works: Mazurka - Barbara Cook
Theater Works: 'Glitter And Be Gay' - Barbara Cook
Theater Works: 'Make Our Garden Grow' - Ensemble

Tracks:

Theater Works: Prologue - Orchestra
Theater Works: The Dance At The Gym - The Jets
Theater Works: 'Maria' - Larry Kert
Theater Works: 'Tonight' - Larry Kert
Theater Works: 'America' - Marilyn Cooper
Theater Works: 'Cool' - The Jets
Theater Works: 'Somewhere' (Ballet) - Reri Grist
Theater Works: 'The Community' - David Johnson
Theater Works: 'Part II: Allegretto' - Leonard Bernstein
Theater Works: Scene III/IIIa: 'I Was Standing In A Garden/Then Desire Took Hold Of Me' - Nancy Williams
Theater Works: I. Devotions Before Mass - Hymn And Psalm: 'A Simple Song' - Alan Titus
Theater Works: V. Meditation No. 1 - Alan Titus
Theater Works: VI. Gloria - Alan Titus
Theater Works: XIV. Sanctus: 'Holy! Holy! Holy!' - Alan Titus
Theater Works: XVII Pax: Communion - Final Hymn (Excerpt) - Alan Titus

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Talk Story From The Garden Island
BILL KAIWA
Manufacturer: KKCR
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000MZWR6I

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second talk story in series

talk story from the garden island: stories and songs from the heart of kauai

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talk story from the garden island: stories and songs from the heart of kauai
nathan liberato kahikolu kahapea kalama
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000S0GUAQ

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Garden
Propeller Island
Manufacturer: Artgallery
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000ITCV50

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Tracklisting: 1 Nach 25 Stunden (1:06) 2 The Ho(r)rologium (2:06) 3 The Train (2:07) 4 Steps (2:51) 5 The Door (8:13) 6 Ballet Dangeroux (2:10) 7 Der Froschkönig (1:11) 8 La Porte Du Temps (4:46) 9 Bamboo (4:34) 10 The Raven (3:15) 11 Monks (5:00) 12 The Owl (2:23) 13 Mystery Au Revoir (3:13) 14 Der Wunsch (1:09) /Label: Artgallery Catalog#: AG 005 CD Format: CD Country: France Released: 1995 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental, Ambient/Lars Stroschen electronic avant garde 1989 -1995 1995 CD 53:40 Min. (14 tracks) ARTGALLERY (France)

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A journey into the quiet and brilliant beauties of English song
There is much beauty 'On This Island'
Lovely music, beautifully performed

On This Island

Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005COXR
Release Date: 2001-06-12

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The song repertory of the English musical renaissance--from Stanford and Parry through to Howells, Warlock, and early Britten--has largely been the preserve of male singers. So it's a refreshing change to hear a light soprano like Lynne Dawson wash familiar words with fresh, transparent-textured lyricism. Although there's something slightly tremulous and quavering in her vibrato, it's a charming voice and at its best in the folk idiom of Peter Warlock's "Lillygay" songs, the innocent pleasures of Roger Quilter's "My Life's Delight," or Stanford's parodistic settings of Edward Lear (which he produced under the pseudonym Karel Drofnatzski). Whether she has quite the depth of feeling for the pastoral melancholy in so many of the other songs, or quite the sense of irony to bring off Britten's fabulously muscle-flexing cycle On This Island is debatable. But where the voice fails to deliver here and there, the pianist compensates with playing of strength and insight. Malcolm Martineau is the compleat accompanist: a one-man quality assurance, and as expert in his native British music as we all, these days, know him to be in French. --Michael White

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A journey into the quiet and brilliant beauties of English song.......2006-07-31

"Impeccable" is one word that comes to mind when contemplating the beautiful and very interestingly used voice of Lynne Dawson. Her voice is that of a lyric soprano, utilising both the lovely shimmer of her voice but also the central vocal core which does not imitate the colour of other sopranos, but takes a vocal course that is simply unique to her own timbre. I have heard Ms Dawson sing some of the most moving things I've ever encountered - for instance, her final two arias as Cleopatra in the oratorio by Handel (not she of the gilded eyelids, but an entirely different Cleopatra), upon hearing that her husband has been killed.

Lynne Dawson is very gifted, both as a singer and as an artist - and she has the unusual sense to be true to her voice rather than attempt to fit into a typical "lyric soprano mould". By avoiding sounding like every other soprano, she emerges as a unique voice, always intelligent, always true to the music she sings. This particular album gave me great pleasure from the first moment, and while it's hard to pick out just one track, let me draw particular attention to "Silent Noon" by Vaughan Williams. It's immeasurably tender and passionate in a wonderfully clean-cut way. I could literally smell the grass and the sweetness of it as I listened to this track.

For a fine album of English songs sung with - yes - impeccable style, beautiful tone and wonderful sympathy, you need look no forther than this recording.

There is much beauty 'On This Island'.......2006-01-29

Though the composers from the Great Britain are highly represented in the 'big works' of the concert repertoire, the songs so loved by the British, remain somewhat insular. Yes, there are superb song cycles by Benjamin Britten and others that enjoy wide performance popularity, but the songs so wedded to the landscape of the British Isles have not often reached beyond the shores. That deficit is superbly corrected in this lovely recital, richly varied in style and time.

The songs include Traditional songs, songs by Peter Warlock, Charles Villiers Stanford, Roger Quilter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Herbert Howells, Ivor Gurney, Sir Charles H.H. Parry (!), and of course Benjamin Britten whose sole offering is the title song of the album. Each of the composer's works demonstrates that fine sensitivity to the poets' lines. While the selection is varied and not all of the songs are destined for posterity, collectively they offer a fine portrait of British music.

The soloist for this recital is Lynne Dawson, long a member of the Hilliard Ensemble serving as soprano soloist for the many recordings conducted by Stephen Cleobury with the King's College Choir Cambridge. Though not known internationally, Dawson possesses a soprano voice in intense musicality, beauty of sound and agile in execution of all forms of writing. Her superb accompanist is Malcolm Martineau and their collaboration is impeccable. This is one of those albums perfect for quiet times when the purity of simple songs crowds out the bother of the world. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06

Lovely music, beautifully performed.......2003-10-23

This eclectic collection of British songs is radiantly performed by soprano Lynne Dawson. If you are the kind of music listener who is averse to classical sopranos, then you need to hear this glorious voice and decide if you have been exposed to the wrong ones. Miss Dawson's voice never veers unpleasantly into the warbly vibrato that has marred many a recorded performance. She always maintains a control of pitch that reminds this listener of the great contralto Kathleen Ferrier. This is the kind of recording that you will go back to again and again, finding new favorites as the years go by. Current favorite: her performance of Vaughan Williams's Silent Noon, a heartbreakingly beautiful interpretation.

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Manufacturer: Albany Records
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ASIN: B00007IG1E
Release Date: 2002-12-24

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Sabrina Dennard
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ProductGroup: Music
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