Live Four [Live] [Import]

Live Four [Live] [Import]

Track Listings

1. I Am Angie Bowie (Sine Waves)

2. Last Rites of Spring

3. Are You Shivering?

4. Amethyst Deceivers

5. Warning from the Sun

6. Universe Is a Haunted House

7. Ostia

8. I Don't Want to Be the One

9. Bang Bang

10. Unearthly Red

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
First in a set of four Coil live albums, presented in a spot UV'd digipak, consists of material from October 27th 2002. 10 tracks. World Serpant. 2003.

Tracks:

I: Sostenuto Assai/Allegro Ma Non Troppo
II: Scherzo: Molto Vivace
III: Andante Cantabile
IV: Finale: Vivace
I: Allegro Assai Vivace
II: Allegretto Scherzando
III: Adagio
IV: Molto Allegro E Vivace
I: Zart Und Mit Ausdruck
II: Lebhaft, Leicht
III: Rasch Und Mit Feuer

Tracks:

I: Mit Energie Und Leidenschaft
II: Lebhaf, Doch Nicht Zu Rasch
III: Langsam, Mit Inniger Empfindung
IV: Mit Feuer
I: Introduzione: Adagio Mest/Allegro
II: Scherzo
III: Largo
IV: Finale: Allegro Vivace

Tracks:

I: Nauges
II: Fetes
I: Andante
II: Allegretto
III: Largo
IV: Allegretto Scherzando
I: Overture
II: Idylie
III: Cadenza
IV: Menuet
V: Finale Alla Marcia

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This inexpensively priced 3-CD set of music from the 2006 Lugano Festival with pianist Martha Argerich at its center presents a fascinating cross-section of chamber music, expertly performed. In addition to Argerich, we hear from 15 other instrumentalists - pianists, cellists, violinists, violists, a flugelhorn player (who plays along with Argerich in three of Schumann's Fantasiestücke, to very strange and not very welcome effect), and a wind ensemble made up of members of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana that plays with cellist Gautier Caupcon in Friedrich Gulda's Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra: a jazzy, definitely eclectic, and playful finale to the third CD. The infrequently played but rapturous Schumann Piano Quartet is a particular treat. Ravel's transcriptions of two Debussy Nocturnes for two pianos played by Sergio Tiempo and Karin Lechner are a delight as well. This is an off-the-beaten-track collection that will fascinate true devotees of chamber music. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

Lots of Schumann, not much Argerich, plus some real oddities.......2007-06-08

EMI has gotten into the pleasanat habit of issuing a 3-CD bargain box of Martha Argerich's summer music from Lugano, and they are caviar for chamber music lovers, mixing familiar and unfamiliar works in sterling live performances. It's hard to think of any comparable series meeting such high standards since the heyday of the Marlboro Festival under Rudolf Serkin in the Fifties and Sixties. This 2006 edition is no exception, my only disappointment being the absence of Argerich herself in so many works. She even gives up her place in the two-piano arrangement of Debussy's Nocturnes to her protege Sergio Tiempo (she has been a long-time devotee, if not addict, of two-piano arrangements that almost every other serious musician eschews).

The dominance of works by Schumann reflects Ms. Argerich's personal fondness for him, and she appears in the Piano Quartet, which has enjoyed a wonderful, highly personal reading by Glenn Gould and the Juilliard Qt. (Sony), among others. This one displays every virtue of live musicmaking, with Argerich's fervent, spontaneous playing leading the way. Compared to earlier sets, the 2006 collection contains more rarities and because of all the sSchumann, less representation by great composers. The flugelhorn arrangement of Schumann's Fantasiestucke for clarinet sounds like a joke. The once unknown Tanayev Piano Quintet gets a committed reading that should help to boost its popularity. The Debbusy Nocturnes actually bring pleasure in the two-piano arrangement. You won't be prepared for Gulda's concerto for Cello and Piano, which sounds like three-beer night at your local German jazz club. But its worth a smile and a listen.

In the end, however, this installment might be best left to connoisseurs while newcomers to Argerich's summer festivities should begin with the earlier, more conventional editions.

Here's the listing of works and personnel since Amazon doesn't supply it:

Martha Argerich / Renaud Capucon / Lida Chen / Gautier Capucon - Piano Quartet in Eb op.47 (Schumann).

Gautier Capucon / Gabriela Montero - Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in D op.58 (Mendelssohn).

Sergei Nakariakov / Martha Argerich - Fantasiestucke op.73 - version for flugelhorn and piano (Schumann).

Nicholas Angelich / Renaud Capucon / Gautier Capucon - Piano Trio in D minor op.63 (Schumann).

Lilya Zilberstein / Dora Schwarzberg / Lucy Hall / Nora Romanoff-Schwarzberg / Jorge Bosso - Piano Quintet in G minor op.30 (Taneyev).

Sergio Tiempo / Karin Lechner - Three Nocturnes : Nuages / Fetes (Debussy transcribed for two piano Ravel).

Alissa Margulis / Polina Leschenko - Sonata for violin and piano No.1 (Schnittke).

Gautier Capucon / Alexander Rabinovich-Barakovsky - Concerto for cello and windband (Gulda).

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In Regards to David R. Smedley's Review...
An Excellent Example of Masekela in Concert

Live at the Market Theatre
Hugh Masekela
Manufacturer: Four Quarters Ent
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000R9YE56
Release Date: 2007-07-17

Tracks:

Ibala Lam
The Boy's Doin' It
Ashiko
Ha Le Se
Stimela
Lady
Grazing In the Grass
Mandela

Tracks:

Thuma Mina
Up Township
Happy Mama
District Six
Market Place
Khauleza
Thanayi

Customer Reviews:

In Regards to David R. Smedley's Review..........2007-07-24

Yes the DVD will be released also through Four Quarters Entertainment but I have no street date at this time. The DVD is currently being mastered.

Ivan J. Goldberg

An Excellent Example of Masekela in Concert.......2007-07-21

Hugh Masekela has done live recordings before -- from a "staged" live recording with Herb Alpert in the late 1970s to various true live concerts in the United Kingdom and southern Africa.

This recording, released July 2007, is different in that it features the great South African flugelhorn and cornet player, in concert in Johannesburg at the reknowned Market Theater, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The strength of the recording comes from the fact that is a complete representation of Masekela in concert, with complete, extended tracks, rather than tracks that have been edited (as was the case with his last live recording, Hope, from the mid-1990s, and which was a splicing of live recordings).

The strongest tracks are "The Boy's Doin' It" and "Ashiko", but the offering of "Stimela (Coal Train)" is as moving as ever, for its subject matter describing the conscription of young men and boys to work in the gold and mineral mines of "southeran Africa and surrounding metropoli...fifteen hours a day for almost....noooo....payyyy". His voice is still potent but carries more of a gravelly tone, but is backed substantively by John Selolwane, who scats in some tunes very reminiscently of George Benson. The rendition of "Mandela (also known as "Bring Him Back Home") edits the original lyrics, as Masekela has been doing for years in the wake of the troubles of Winnie Mandela post Nelson Mandela's release from prison. Still, with its happy and joyous tone, in the wake of history now, the song was prescient when released on the terrific Tomorrow album, but has since taken on the tone of joyous affirmation for the still growing democracy in South Africa. "Thuma Mina" is a track known as "Send Me" on the "Time" recording, and is a great track emphasizing the desire to have community with the downtrodden and dispossessed.

Most of the recording comes form his recent studio recordings, Revival, Time, the excellent Sixty,and Black to the Future.

In summer 2007, Masekela began a tour of the United States and Canada featuring nost of the band members from the "Uptownship" recording, such as Tony Cedras, John Selolwane, Francis Fuster, and notably, Morris Goldberg on saxophone and pennywhistle. Selolwane and Fuster play on this recording. In New York City, in a concert to celebrate the release of the new recording, the performance generally mirrored this recording.

The liner notes indicate that the recording was broascast by SABC, which makes one wonder if it might be conoverted to a DVD for sale. There aren't a lot of iterations of Masekela performing on film, except for the Hugh Masekela - Homecoming Concert, the feature on him in the excellent documentary film Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, and his participation in the groundbreaking (but somewhat controversial at the time) Graceland recording by Paul Simon and the tour to support that.

This is a clearly better live recording than Live at the BBC, especially for sound purposes (although "Soweto Blues", on the BBC recording, is worth the price of the cd itself). This recording is a better recording than "Hope" because of the complete, extended tracks.

This is a fine recording if you want to hear Hugh Masekela, a musician of commitment and passion for his country and for human rights, in a complete concert venue, particularly in a South African venue with such a venerable history.

Journey To Wholeness - Singing Crystal Bowls for Healing and Wholeness

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The best crystal bowl cd ever? Yeah right...
Very good for meditation
Incredibly Healing and Soothing Sounds!
Wow, Raising the Vibe!!
Lighten Up, Chill Out and Recharge

Journey To Wholeness - Singing Crystal Bowls for Healing and Wholeness
Elivia Melodey's Crystal Vibrations
Manufacturer: Crystal Vibrations Music
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000066RG7
Release Date: 2002-04-26

Tracks:

Chakra Alignment
Colloquium
Gaia Guardians
Higher Joys
Journey to Wholeness

Album Description

New Age listeners will fall in love with this unique meditative music created for healing and wholeness, from the Quartz Crystal Singing Bowls. Starting with a 14 minute Chakra alignment, four more tracks follow of innovative and extraordinary, inspired songs. This music will entrance you and transport you to transcendent realms of peace, beauty and harmony. Worlds of experience will open up, as you float on crystalline waves to places of inner connection and balance. The rich bell-like and low soothing tones were all recorded live with over 20 singing crystal bowls, flutes, chimes and world percussion.. This entrancing collection of songs births an entirely new musical art form all it's own. The exquisitely rich songs are the epitome of Crystal Bowl sound healing. This music will align and balance the chakras - Simply by listening! A perfect compliment to massage and alternative healing therapies as well as being wonderful for stress relief. Play it as low acco! mpaniment, to create harmony in your environment or sit back and relax into deeper meditation and illumination as you are attuned to new higher vibrational frequencies. Total playing time: 69 minutes

Customer Reviews:

The best crystal bowl cd ever? Yeah right..........2007-02-17

That's what I said as I read the reviews here and clicked over to the author's website... so I reluctantly handed over my cash with little expectation, and well, I have to say... I agree!

Frankly, I was a little surprised, I love this kind of music and my last purchase of Stephen Halpern's Crystal Bowls was disappointing to say the least as it was filled with synthesizers and other cheesy New Age effects. This one is not and I wouldn't even lump it with a New Age tag (as the product description has). It' just truly beautiful music. The resonance is wonderful and the first chakra track is great for getting me, or my space back into alignment. Simply put it on in the background and clear your space. Wonderful! The other tracks on the CD have beautiful touches including shamanic instruments like the Buffalo drums, rattles, native flutes, rain sticks and other instruments. All appropriately added, expertly played and NO New Age cheese. What's interesting about it is that the CD recorded in one evening with no manipulations. I love reading books and listening to audio of people that have opened their heart - you can feel that in the work... in a similar way I think this is transmitted through music and it most definately is here.

I have since recommended and raved about this CD to all my friends. If you're a healer with a practice, you're going to want it for background music or just clearing your space. For everyone else, it's wonderful for relaxation and coming back into balance (put on your headphones for a real treat) or just some soothing music to play after a hard day or most definately for people who are not feeling well.

Other crystal bowl CDs I like include Benjamin Iobst Seven Metal Singing Bowls of Tibet and Crystal Voices by Deborah Van Dyke. Daniel Goleman's work is also fantastic - Chakra Dance, Chakra Chants and his Om CD (although all his work is good).

I highly recommend this beautiful CD. There are extra touches, with different instruments so if you're using it purely for meditation, that may distract you (as some other reviewers seem to have experienced). That is, I guess, a matter of personal preference - some people would be okay with the other instruments. It's the kind of CD where you that makes you go and buy everything the artist has ever produced. Of the hundreds of the healing type CDs I have, this is, and will remain, well and truly at the top of the heap. This might just be... the best crystal bowl CD ever!

Very good for meditation.......2007-01-11

I listened to this during my hospital stay on my iPod because I could not sleep. It helped me immensely.

Incredibly Healing and Soothing Sounds!.......2006-11-03

This CD, just like all Crystal Vibrations productions, is pure healing. I can always count on the first track (Chakra Alignment) to bring me back into balance and alignment. I also use this disc as a space clearing tool for my home... the high vibrations resonate throughout, leaving my space feeling warm and wonderful. A multi-purpose musical adventure... how can you resist?

Wow, Raising the Vibe!!.......2005-11-23

Pretty incredible music that makes everything I do while listening seem to happen effortlessly. It shifts and "tunes up" the energy in the room and in me! The Chakra alignment is like a warm up to the magic of all the other instruments that weave in and out of the singing bowls. So you can stay really focused and present or drift off into deeply meditative states. Listening to the soothing music on this CD is one of the best prescriptions you can give yourself! If you want to journey to the far reaches of the universe, treat your self to their CRYSTAL PORTAL CD and get Journey to Wholeness for taking care of everything else!!

Lighten Up, Chill Out and Recharge.......2005-10-17

This is my favorite of all the meditation and singing crystal bowl music I own and I have a huge collection. Initially, I used it for meditation in the morning before work and then again when I got home. It left me calm for the day and recharged at night. Then I thought to put it on while paying bills and doing stressful chores. The resonance of the crystal bowl tones had an immediate effect. I was able to focus and breathe with ease while I completed my tasks. The sound quality is superb and you get all the beautiful overtones that can only come on a live recording. And the effect is lasting. For a real vacation, listen to this CD with headphones.

Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

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Robeson on wax
The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation
A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving
Robeson at his best
some of the greatest songs of the last century

Songs of Free Men/ A Paul Robeson Recital

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Spirituals

ASIN: B0000029YJ
Release Date: 1997-12-09

Tracks:

Balm in Gilead
Chassidic Chant
Quiet Flows The Don: From Border To Border
Quiet Flows The Don: Oh, How Proud Our Quiet Don
Elijah, Op. 70: The Lord God Of Abraham
The Purest Kind Of Guy
Joe Hill
The Peat-Bog Soldiers
The Four Insurgent Generals
Native Land
Song Of The Plains
Cradle Song
Within Four Walls
By An' By
Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child
John Henry
Water Boy
My Curly Headed Baby
Mah Lindy Lou
Wagon Wheels
The House I Live In
Showboat: I Still Suits Me
Sylvia
Showboat: Ol' Man River
Porgy And Bess: It Ain't Necessarily So

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There was nothing like the Robeson sound, ever. To describe his deep, rich, perfectly equalized instrument is futile. Go instead to "Balm in Gilead," the opening track, and see if you can listen to the last pianissimo phrase without falling to pieces. Robeson was at his best when the music was slow and the words contained spiritual or social messages. Faster, lighter fare like Kern's "I Still Suits Me" or Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So" find the serious-minded singer out of his element, lacking irony and swing. "Old Man River," though, gets a simple, dignified treatment. It's Songs of Free Men, though, that will just keep Robeson's artistry rolling along, especially in Sony's astonishing transfers. --Jed Distler

Customer Reviews:

Robeson on wax.......2007-06-19

I found this album in a thrift store last week, for a couple of dollars. It's the original pressing on four 78 RPM records, in a gatefold format. It's in pristine condition. I really bought it for the incredible cover art, although I hope to be able to listen to it in this format at some point.

The voice, the sound quality and the interpretation.......2004-09-24

Put this on your stereo and if it is good enough the depth and richness of Robeson's voice will make your fillings rattle and your chest rumble. The power of his voice is awesome. This CD is superbly recorded with no audible noise at normal listening levels.

A Voice from the 40s, often dated, often moving.......2002-09-01

"Red diaper babies" have greeted this disc with nostalgic joy, and it captures a time and an aesthetic and a political belief with precision. Anyone interested in the emotional life of the pro-Soviet left of the 1940s should buy this disc. It's something like Henry Wallace set to music. There is much more to Robeson than that, however, and Sony has given us Robeson whole: there are songs by American masters of the musical, there are labor songs, religious songs, as well as the kind of faux-folk songs which the butcher supreme Josef Stalin encouraged and which were not taken seriously inside the USSR (except at gunpoint!!) but which were taken up by dupes around the world. This is Robeson at his least savory - willing propagandist for a vile mass murderer. Songs such as "Native Land" (fittingly, Robeson is referring to the Soviet Union) and the Red Army song are the equivalent of the "Horst Wessel Song", anthems of murder, and it is difficult to listen to the worst of them without retching. On the other hand, Robeson's commitment to American folk culture was real. "Balm in Gilead" is deeply beautiful; "John Henry" is heroic; "By an' By" is both resigned yet hopeful. "Joe Hill" captures an era in labor history. Anyone interested in American popular song should hear these. Turning to Broadway, his "Old Man River" is very fine, though Robeson changed the lyrics for political reasons and Leonard Warren has done the song better. I disagree with the editorial reviewer: "I Still Suits Me" is wonderfully playful and shows Robeson using his gorgeously rich voice to tease and poke fun. However, Marc Blitzstein's "Purest Kind of a Guy" is beyond saving - another example of Robeson recording an unworthy song by a political fellow-traveller. Ugh. But for every miss there are two hits. Robeson performs Mendelssohn's Elijah with nobility, and sings his favorite song, "Water Boy", with joyous pride: "There ain't no hammer that's on these mountains that rings like mine, boys, that rings like mine."
No one need have any fears about the mono sound quality. The orchestra in the second half of the program is at times a little dwarfed by Robeson's voice, but it generally sounds clean and colorful, and the great artist's voice rings like no other.

Robeson at his best.......2000-05-12

It's hard to believe that most of these recordings pre-date the advent of magnetic tape: the CD transfer is superlative. The songs and performance are beyond reproach. Notable is the imaginative packaging in miniature 'record album' format, complete with the original cover art, and a replica of the original Columbia record label applied to the CD.

In response to a previous question: Robeson's performance of Danny Boy (Londonderry Air) can be found on the Vanguard LP entitled "Robeson" (VRS-9037).

some of the greatest songs of the last century.......2000-05-05

In the 1940s, before rabid McCarthyism and racism had taken its toll on him, Robeson made these wonderful recordings of spirituals, classics and pop tunes. Accompanied by the solo piano of the incomparable Lawrence Brown, or by an orchestra, the songs ring out with pride, dignity, skill and unmatched integrity. The shameful treatment that Robeson was subject to from American authorities certainly seem grotesquely absurd to a modern listener. The wonderful version of "The House I Live In" included on this cd should forever kill off any suspicion that Robeson did not love his country deeply. This album ought to be heard by millions of people, world wide. Robeson's voice is nothing less than a glorious high point in 20th century music, and it's hard to think of any recording capturing it to greater advantage.

Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - 20 Greatest Hits-Live

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The Jersey Boys in their prime.
A Class Act
A Live Album For All Seasons
Can't Take My Ears Off Of It
Workin' My Way Back to You, Babe!

Frankie Valli & Four Seasons - 20 Greatest Hits-Live
Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons
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ASIN: B000000CTU
Release Date: 1990-06-21

Tracks:

Who Loves You
Our Day Will Come
Save It For Me/Rag Doll/Dawn/Let's Hang On
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Fallen Angel
Silver Star
Slip Away
December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)
Swearin' To God
My Eyes Adored You
Workin' My Way Back To You/Will You Still Love Me (Tomorrow)/Opus 17 (Don't You Worry' Bout Me)...
Spend The Night In Love
Heaven Must Have Sent You (Here In The Night)
Grease
Sherry/Walk Like A Man/Big Girls Don't Cry/Bye Bye Baby (Baby Good Bye)
Medley: Sherry/Walk Like A Man/Big Girls Don't Cry

Customer Reviews:

The Jersey Boys in their prime........2006-02-25

I have always enjoyed Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons but after seeing Jersey Boys, I was hungry for more music from them. This album includes quite a few of their top hits and my favorite memories.

A Class Act.......2004-07-11

One of the greatest acts in music histroy, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons scored a string of hits between 1962 and 1968 plus a few more with a differnt lineup in the 1970s'. In 1981, the latter incarnation reunited and created this excellent live album.

This album features all the songs you could want: "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like A Man", "Rag Doll", "Let's Hang On", "I've Got You Under My Skin", "Workin' My Way Back To You", "Who Loves You" and "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)". Evne though most of them are in medley form, they all still bristle with the freshness of the original version. Also, a few great Valli solo numbers are done: "Our Day Will Come", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Fallen Angel", "Swearin' To God", "My Eyes Adored You" and an exhilerating version of "Grease". Two new songs are also done: the single "Spend The Night In Love" and the joyous "Heaven Must Have Sent You (Here In The Night").

This is a great live album. Valli's voice is in great shape and the falsetto is still there. Get it today. I guarantee you will enjoy it immensely.

A Live Album For All Seasons.......2004-06-02

Between 1962 and 1976, the New Jersey quintet The Four Seasons had over 15 top 10 hits and a few more that made the top 30. Add that with a few more hits by lead singer Frankie Valli, they might be the most successful American male vocal group of all time. In 1989, The Four Seasons went back out on the road for a reunion, playing to sold - out audiences all over the world. Their concert in Holmdell, New Jersey is the one highlighted here on this live album.

All the hits fans are dying to hear are here - "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "Walk Like A Man", "Rag Doll", "Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)", "Let's Hang On" and many more. My only complaints are that their 2 big '70s hits ("Who Loves You" and the number 1 hit "December 1963 (Oh What A Night)") and newer material as well as Valli's 5 biggest solo hits, are included in complete versions while the classic 1960s' materials are banished to medley form. Still, they remain some of the best music ever recorded. And Valli's solo spot on "My Eyes Adored You" show that his voice just gets better with age, and the Seasons' harmonies remain beautiful. There are also two then - new recordings that might have been big hits had they been released as singles: "Spend The Night In Love" and "Heaven Must Have Sent You (Here In The Night)".

Overall, a great live show. The Four Seasons remain timeless faces in pop music today. There music will outlast anything by Eminem, Britney Spear, Christina Aguilerra, Ashanti, Beyonce, 50 Cent, G Unit, D 12 and so on and so forth. Get this album today and you won't be sorry. Have I ever let you down?

Can't Take My Ears Off Of It.......2004-04-14

The biggest group of the pre - Beatles '60s' (1960 to January 1964), The Four Seasons were the first group in history to have 3 consecutive # 1 singles, and their career lasted well through 1968. The original nucleus of the group disintegrated in 1971, so lead singer Frankie Valli began a highly successful solo career that yielded two number one hits, "My Eyes Adored You" and "Grease", plus a string of top 40 hits including "Swearin' To God" and "Our Day Will Come". In 1976, The Four Seasons reformed with Valli as the only original member, and scored a # 1 hit with "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)". After a few more mid - charting singles, the new version of the band broke up in the early 1980s', during which Valli regained his hearing. In 1989, the latter - day 4 Seasons reunited and went on tour. Their electrifying performance in Holmdel, New Jersey is included on this cd.

Beginning with a rauous version of "She Loves You", the band has clearly not lost its touch. Valli's voice still sparkles like wine, although his falsetto his died down a bit. He sounds young and alive on "December, 1963", "My Eyes Adored You" and "Our Day Will Come". The rest of the group's harmonies shine throughout the cd, especially on the clsoing medley and the closing chorus on "My Eyes Adored You". Also included are two new recordings not available anywhere else: "Spend The Night In Love" and "Heaven Must Have Sent You (Here In The Night)". Both are great songs in vain of the 1960s' charttoppers. And original member and songwriter Bob Gaudio pops up onstage for all to brief a moment.

This cd showcases that after over 30 years, the group is still one of the finest acts out there. This was also the first Four Seasons cd I ever bought, so it does hold a lot of emotional value for me. Classic.

Workin' My Way Back to You, Babe!.......2002-06-11

Wow! This is such a great album. It is so full of energy and the songs from the past. You see the list of songs on Amazon's list. It's all the 4 Season biggies. Play it LOUD, in the car. It'll rev you up. Sing along with the oldies. The medleys are great, too. The "20" songs include the medleys. There are only xxx tracks, but 20 songs in all. On a scale of 1 - 5, this album is at least a 10 or better.

Right now (May 2007), there is a musical out there called "Jersey Boys". It's about the life of Franki Valli and the 4 Seasons and has a lot of these songs in it. I just saw it in Manhattan. If you get a chance, see it. It's excellent and the music (this music) will have you clapping and stomping.

Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2005: Chamber Music

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PASSING IT ON TO THE YOUNG
Stars and some lesser lights (for now) shining
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Argerich in most congenial company

Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2005: Chamber Music

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ASIN: B000FHYI3S
Release Date: 2006-07-18

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I: Allegro Energico - Renaud Capucon
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I: Allegro Vivace
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I: Allegro
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Since Martha Argerich has abandoned solo recitals and studio recordings, her new CDs feature concert collaborations with like-minded friends and protégés. Whatever the negatives of such live recordings may be, the upside trumps them handily since, if we're lucky, some of the sparks generated by musicians in a concert venue will be captured. With this set drawn from the 2005 Lugano Festival we're decidedly lucky, for musical electricity courses through all three discs. There are nine works by eight composers ranging from Mendelssohn to Guastavino, all played with spontaneity and full-blooded Romanticism. Argerich is onstage for five of them, including such rarities as Brahms' two-piano version of his Variations on a theme of Haydn, where she's partnered by Polina Leschenko, and, with Piotr Anderszewski, Grieg's full-dress arrangement for two pianos of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16, an oddity whose curiosity value outweighs the sacrilege. There's also the sensuous Argentine and Andalucian encores and the teenage Beethoven's Piano Quartet set alongside masterpieces such as the Brahms Piano Quintet, Op. 34 and Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No.2, both played with a captivating blend of sensitivity and fervor. For many the highlight will be two big Rachmaninoff works on Disc Two - Mischa Maisky's big-toned cello in the master's G minor Cello Sonata, whose episodic qualities the soloist turns into virtues, and the Suite No. 2 for two pianos, passionately played by Argerich and Gabriela Montero. Get this, put it in your player, and be transported to Festival-level performances by established masters and a new generation of stars. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

Bravo!.......2007-06-06

I felt like standing up and clapping with the audience after each piece. This CD is absolutely wonderful, in all aspects. The musicanship is impeccable and the production and sound quality couldn't be better.

I picked it out to hear the Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 2, and that piece is done so vibrantly and ecstatically that it's surely one of the best on record. Not to say that the other pieces aren't on an equally high level.

I can't imagine any classical music fan, and especially chamber music fans, being disappointed with this CD.

PASSING IT ON TO THE YOUNG.......2007-03-06

In this three disc set of the 2005 Lugano festival. A festival as evidenced by this recording that was filled with great music making and reeking of Martha Argerich's talents and too of her musical generosity. She plays on this recording in about every other number introducing, for the most part, some rather unfamiliar works (i.e. the Beethoven VERY early Piano quartet which is wonderful sounding a little like some Haydn and Mozart with the unmistakable stamp of dear Ludwig) Most of the time, she let her young friends and/or colleagues have the "Juicier" numbers--Mendelssohn's 2nd trio(the performers therein particularly shine in the effervescent 3rd movement and the religiously inclined 4th movement), Rachmaninov's cello sonata, etc. Her influence, however, I'm sure was very heavy indeed inspiring the "young ones" on to wonderful performances. They do give some wonderful performances. When she does join in (as in the Brahms' two piano version of the Haydn variations) the sparks DO fly--she and Gabriela Montero (sp?)do a splendid Rachmaninov Suite for two pianos #2! One hears the fact that one is listening to a "master Pianist" from the very start of the piece that she is playing in--wow! Mischa Maisky also lends his talents in the wonderful Rachmaninov's cello sonata.

I enjoyed this recording of this Lugano festival very much; I felt that I was experiencing the festivities myself--wonderful music performed by great talents, I, in future intend to purchase more recordings of Martha Argerich's Lugano festival. It's delightful in every way. By the way, EMI's sound is superb!

Stars and some lesser lights (for now) shining.......2006-12-15

'Martha Argerich and Friends Live from the Lugano Festival 2005: Chamber Music' is bound to collect awards when the Grammies come out. This 3 CD set of a live concert is a filled with joy, impassioned playing, variation in repertoire and exuberant music making as any set on the market.

Martha Argerich holds the throne here but as is her manner she shares the stage with such gifted young artists as Polina Leschenko, Piotr Anderszewski, Gabriela Montero, Mark Dobrinsky, Mischa Maisky, Lilya Zilberstein, Gautier and Renaud Capuçon, Lida Chen and Nicholas Angelich. The repertoire is wonderfully varied and includes fine works by Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Brahms, Carlos Guastavino, Manuel Infante, Mendelssohn and Mozart. The artists obviously share not only some behind the scenes training (!) but they all seem to enjoy the act of music making with like minds/friends.

One of the many marks on music that Martha Argerich will leave is her boundless enthusiasm for concerts such as this. With her appearances on the solo stage and in concerti diminishing due to health, it is particularly fortunate for us that she continues to engage in the magic of live recordings, especially when they glow with the light that this one does. This set is a tremendous bargain. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 06

Encore.......2006-11-10

Another very interesting & high quality, live performance. All the artists are superb. One or two performers & pieces I was not familiar with but I wasn't disappointed. Next best thing to going to Lugano!

Argerich in most congenial company.......2006-10-18

EMI has made a small business out of live recordings by Martha Argerich, and one of the most congenial aspects is the box sets from the Lugano Festival where Argerich is the star draw. She is at her most relaxed in this setting, as one can hear from the Rachmaninov Suite #2, which is vigorous and declamatory but nowhere close to her brutal studio recording. The Amazon reviewer has listed what one can expect from this 2005 installment, sold at bargain price but full of treasures. For me the revelation was Mendelssohn's Piano Trio #2, which bids fair to be considered an overlooked masterpiece. One should also note the extremely attractive Three Argentine Romances by Carlos Gustavino, spectauclarly played by Argerich with vibrant rhtyhms and exotic atmosphere.

My only disappointment is that Argerich doesn't appear in this work or in the set's other masterpiece, the Brahms F minor Piano Quintet. However, the other pianists are wonderful in their own right--Nicholas Angelich in the Mendelsson and Lilya Zilberstein in the Brahms. One is grateful for them, given that Argerich--rahter neurotically, I think--has a quirk of restricting herself very often to two-piano music. The Rachmaninov is welcome, but for those of us who aren't fans of four-hand music, the arrangements of the Mozart K. 545 sonata and Brahms Haydn Variations feel like too much of a good thing. Even so, this is a highly recommended bargain for chamber music lovers.

The Four Freshmen Live at Butler University with Stan Kenton & His Orchestra

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Best they ever made.......2006-03-25

I have a large collection of the Four freshmen. This collection dates back to lp's.
This CD is the favorite of my entire collection.

Both sides now.......2004-10-12

The jokes and funtalk with this concert is somewhat dated. But the sound is great.
I heard these folks short after the concert in Holland. Numbers like -there never be another you- are fantastic. I still love the group after 50 years.

I Love These Guys.......2003-07-23

I still enjoy the Four Freshmen, and was inspired to buy some more of their music after meeting Ross Barbour at a Stan Kenton concert recently. I like the content of this CD, but as sometimes happens with live recordings,the narration is so soft the sound must be turned up high. Then the music can blow your head off if you aren't ready. Their sound is amazing, as always, and I'm happy that the tradition is being carried on by the newer Freshmen. They are great, too. I can't seem to get enough of that smooth sound.

Great names - disappointing results........2003-04-10

Stan Kenton and Four Freshmen are among the best in music of their time.I am a big fan of both them, so very reluctantly I have to admit my disappointment. Unfortunately, this concert does not live-up to their reputation. A lot of talk, which may be entertainig in concert itself, but in CD, it is a great waste of time ! And in those few minutes of actual music - none of their great songs . A pity!
Personaly I think , it does not give you a good value for your money. Listen to the samples - you will get the idea.

Four Freshment Live at Butler U........2002-05-08

I love the Four Freshmen and own much of their vinyl and CD's. This is the only disappointing recording I know of from the Freshmen. Something just didn't click with the Kenton Band here. The arrangements seem somewhat out of style with the Freshman sound and I guess there was just not enough rehearsal before hand.

Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival

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Highly engaging summer music--the real spark is Argerich

Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival

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Highly engaging summer music--the real spark is Argerich.......2006-01-06

This bargain 3-CD set is called "Martha Argerich and Friends," but is that enough to warn buyers that she apears only half the time? That half is the best part of this colleciton, taped live across three summers, 2002-04 in LUgano, Italy. the half without Ms. Argerich features stellar musicians, particularly Maxim Vengerov and Yefim Bronfman, but theyir participation is surprisingly low-key.

Argerich loves to play two-piano music, a genre I find too bangy to be interesting much of the time. She zips through a piano transcription of Prokofive's Sym. 1 with Yefim Brongman, and sparkles in a similar arrangement of the Nutcracker Suite with a parnter unknown to me, Mirabela Dina. I'm sure a lot of listeners will have as much fun with fluff as she does.

Her two major contributions come in a riveting Shostakovich Pianto Trio #2, one of his undoubted masterpieces, with Vengerov almost dominatig the ensemble in his mesmerizing account of the violin part. This reading isn't as fiery as Argerich is wont to be, but it has passion enough ot stand beside the best performances (the composer's own and the one with Richter and the Borodin Trio). The second-best thing here is the Schumann Piano Quintet, again finding Argerich in vigorous but not slashing mode (Gott sei dank), easily taking charge and making this a quintet for piano solo with string obligatto. A fine account despite the imbalance.

The half without Argerich is pleasantly done. I had hoped for much more form Vengerov and Bronfman in the Brahms Violin Sonata #3--maybe the warm July breeze off the lake made them a bit drowsy. A Schubert Piano Trio #1 again finds Bronfman in too relaxed mode; the piece lacks spine and attack. The rest of these three CDs is filled out with Argerich accompanying Geza Hosszu-Lagocky (a fine violinist unknown to me) in Schumann's late, rather debilitated Violin Sonata #1, a lovely account without quirks, and a pleasant but hardly memorable Dvorak Piano Quartet #2 led by Walter Delaunt.

All in all, a bargains et of very good performanes that sometimes rises higher than that.

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Remember Earl Wild...?.......2005-08-02

Sometimes it takes a while before a man becomes a legend. With the rebirth of appreciation for the "Romantic pianists" (pianists who took great liberties with scores when the composer was in the tradition of such changes in his lifetime - like Liszt, etc) comes a renewed appreciation for the piano mastery of Earl Wild. Somehow always under the shadow of his contemporaries such as Rubinstein, Horowitz, Serkin, et al, Wild had a strong following among a few orchestras and devoted recital attendees. But in his lifetime his popularity waned when he began emphasizing his own 'transcriptions'.

Well, now with the release of this never less than interesting CD the artistry of Earl Wild is bound to gain a new applauding audience. These pieces are his own transcriptions of well known works by composers such as Saint-Saens, Handel, Rachmaninov, Bach, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, and some of his own 'homages' to Faure and Poulenc. The playing is incandescently romantic: for sheer exhilaration of excitement these transcriptions are inimitable. The only other album to some close to this is Wild playing Liszt's transcriptions of operas!

This is a well-produced and very fun album for any mood. And it just may well be the kind of entry to the big works that young people need! Grady Harp, August 05

AMAZING!!!!!.......2000-09-06

As a pianist myself, I truly appreciated this cd. Wild is a genius! I especially loved "Reminiscenes of Snow White". I'm positively dying to get my hands on the score of it!!!! Very well done!!

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Okay the recording company outwits me ... who cares?

HARP: A Time to Sing
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Take Back The Night!
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City Of New Orleans
Wimoweh (Mbube)

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Album Description

Four of the giants of folk music and sociopolitical activism - Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie and Ronnie Gilbert - assembled in 1984 for a handful of concerts that were recorded and released as a 13-song album called "HARP" (an acronym of the first letters of each musician's first name) on Near's Redwood Records in 1985. Near's recent discovery of a trove of unreleased songs from these performances has led to this expanded and remastered 26-song, 2-CD reissue, now subtitled "A Time to Sing!"

Former Weavers Seeger and Gilbert, the irrepressible Guthrie, and Near had previously played together in various configurations, but never as a quartet, so there is much unique musical and personal interaction captured here. Each musician brought original, traditional, or contemporary songs to perform, which led to an entrancing program of folk favorites. The repertoire includes old favorites such as "Wimoweh," "Guantanamera," "Twelve Gates to the City" and "The Water is Wide," cover tunes ranging from Bob Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" (with riotous deadpan commentary by Arlo) to Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans" to Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and trademark originals by Near ("Singing for Our Lives," "Emma," "Singing with You") and Guthrie ("You and Me," "All Over the World," and the hilarious "Oh Mom"). Political and social commentary are the underlying texts in many of these songs, recorded amidst the havoc of the Reagan administration. "These were very intense times," remembers Holly. "There were wars raging all over the world. The women's movement was reeling from the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment. AIDS was new and frightening. The gay rights movement was in full force. Here are four singers, different styles, different generations, same tradition. This [CD] is live and raw and real. And when I think about how spontaneous this recording is, I am impressed by the skill of this quartet. These are people who know how to sing and what to sing about."

With primary instrumental support by Pete, Arlo, and pianist/composer/arranger Jeff Langley, the four voices can be heard in varying combinations, sometimes uniting in a multi-generational rainbow of brilliant harmony. It was a time to sing and to sing out, captured for the ages on this invigorating and historic release.

Customer Reviews:

Okay the recording company outwits me ... who cares?.......2002-04-27

I have the original release of HARP; this album is a reissue with a significant (13) number of new cuts. HARP consists of Holly Near, Arlo Guthrie, Ronnie Gilbert and Pete Seeger. Although they had not performed together prior to the concert series recorded on these cd's, their common footing in the folk tradition results in an excellent blending of voice and style.

I would have thought that the dialogue between the songs and the political content of certain songs would make the recording seem dated. Woodstock, Reagan, the Chilean overthrow ... are decades away from September 11, Kosovo, Jenin. But the concerns of the songs, the peace and social justice issues implicit in the repetoire is still relevant and living.

As on the original release "Pallet on the Floor" is a favorite - I song I suspect is Depression Era. The vegetarian fox Lebanese song "Ghannu Ma'i" is a wonderful cut that is only on this reissue.

This is an excellent release - as timely now as when it was originally issued. I dare you to listen without joining in on at least one cut.

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