I Was a Ye Ye Girl [CD-single]

I Was a Ye Ye Girl [CD-single]

I Was a Ye Ye Girl [CD-single]

Track Listings
 
1. Aroma Remix
2. Original Extended
3. Original Radio
4. New Radio Vocal Extended
5. New Radio Vocal
6. Video

I Was a Ye Ye Girl,Doing Time,Zyx,Dance
Memories of Love: Russian Romances
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • very enjoyable
  • The showcase for the Spinto soprano
  • Flawed but beautiful
 Memories of Love: Russian Romances

Manufacturer: Philips
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000041KT
Release Date: 1997-11-11

Tracks:

  1. Vzoshel na nebo mesyats yasy
  2. Ispanskaya pesnya
  3. Zhavoronok
  4. Ya pomnyu chudnoye mgnovene
  5. Bolero
  6. Ty skoro menya pozabudesh
  7. Kolybelnaya, Op. 16 No. 1
  8. To bylo ranneyu vesnoy, Op 38 No. 2
  9. Zabyt tak skoro
  10. On tak menya lyubil
  11. Ya vso eshcho evo lyublyu
  12. Yunosha i deva
  13. Mne grustno
  14. Chesnadtsat let
  15. Chto mne do pesen
  16. Plenivshis rozoy solovey, Op. 2 No. 2
  17. Ployubila ya na pechal svoyu
  18. Son, Op. 8 No. 5
  19. Siren, Op. 21 No. 5
  20. Molitva, Op.8 No. 6
  21. Ne ver mne, drug !, Op. 14 No. 7

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars very enjoyable.......2001-07-19

At first, I'd like to correct error. The pianist, Larisa Gergieva is NOT Varely Gergiev's WIFE! She is his sister. (Elder one, I think.)

About this disc, I enjoyed this recital. Gorchakova is one of my favorite soprano. Her voice is suited well to these Russian songs. It's interesting for me to her Russian songs. If you want to hear more Russian songs, try "Songs of Desire" by Olga Bolodina from Philips.

5 out of 5 stars The showcase for the Spinto soprano.......2000-04-25

Galina Gorchakova, Kirov's leading lady, is a true spinto soprano, not the more common forced lyric one. Her sound is unique and quite unusual, almost "mezzo-ish" at certain times, but with surprisingly easy resonant top. I could not help being reminded of another great Russian Galina - Vishnevskaya, the Bolshoi prima donna of 60s and 70s up to her departure from Communist regime with her husband Mstislav Rostropovich. Since then, there was an unsettling vacuum in the realm of sopranos capable of singing Russian and Italian repertoire. Luckily, Gorchakova seems ready and able to take on most of Vishnevskaya's signature roles, including Katerina of Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk." Her clarity of diction and musical intelligence are a pleasure to hear particularly on the Programme presented here because the romances (a leader-like Russian art songs) are written to some of the most beautiful Russian poetic texts.

I feel it is important to note that neither the singing nor accompaniment here is flawed at all, as the reviewer below found. Furthermore, there is no tendency to "go flat". The only thing that came as a surprise to me was inclusion of several numbers written originally for a baritone or even a bass, such as "It Was in Early Spring" or "I Remember the Wonderful Moment." However, they were executed so brilliantly, it made me forget about the specifics and just enjoy Gorchakova's beautiful voice and expressiveness.

Most of you probably got a chance to see the MET's magnificent production of Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame" with Gorchakova, Domingo, Borodina and Hvorostovsky in leading roles. Aside from Lisa, Gorchakova is also an incredible interpreter of highly demanding role of Elisabetta from Verdi's "Don Carlo" and Leonora from his "La Forza del Destino." I can't wait to hear her "Aida." Amazingly she does not struggle with dramatic Verdian repertoire, even though it lays relatively high for such a voice. And its power allows her to cut through heavy orchestration with ease, preserving flowing, and seemingly endless vocal line with no audible breathing. Philips generously provided us with several phenomenal Russian complete opera recordings featuring Gorchakova's talents: check out "Prince Igor," "The Maid of Pskov," "Iolanta," and "The Fiery Angel," the latter one being a rare jewel and destined to become one of the greatest recorded achievements of all time. Ms. Gorchakova is also a very good actress with a beautiful stage presence and somewhat reserved but passionate delivery. Hearing this CD is essential for Russian romance fans as well as for those who want to hear a true spinto soprano at its full glory, accompanied only by a subtle gentle piano of Larissa Gergieva. I was particularly impressed with a booklet that finally has Cyrillic texts instead of despicable way of spelling Russian words with English letters. There are also good English translations by Philip Taylor that stay true to the texts but also convey their romantic feel. If I could, I would have given this disc ten stars!

4 out of 5 stars Flawed but beautiful.......2000-03-16

This album of wonderful Russian romances and art songs is marred only slightly by Galina Gorchakova's tendency to go flat. Still, her unbelievably beautiful soprano voice and emotional connection with these pieces more than makes up for this. Gorchakova has never become quite as well known as her compatriots Olga Borodina and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and hasn't recorded as much as they have either. This is a shame; I would love to hear her in some of the Italian verismo repertoire. Her rich spinto sound would serve her well, and I believe that she is known for such interpretations as Butterfly, Liu, and Tosca. I would also like to her her Lisa on recording (from Pique Dame).

Anyway, this album is truly beautiful. Larissa Gergieva, the pianist, is the sister of Valery Gergiev, the director of the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg. I think possibly some nepotism is happening here, as she is not an ideal accompanist. Still, she supports Gorchakova well, and doesn't detract from the beauty of these pieces.
I Was a Ye-Ye Girl
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		I Was a Ye-Ye Girl
    Doing Time , and In-Grid
    Manufacturer: Zyx Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
    Dance & DJDance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B000067UJY
    Release Date: 2006-04-25

    Tracks:

    1. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Radio]
    2. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Extended]
    3. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Agiman Remix]
    4. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Radio Instrumental]
    5. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Extended Instrumental]
    6. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Agiman Remix Instrumental]
    Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov Glinka Dargomyzhsky Romances / Araxia Davtian (Russian Disc)
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Tchaikovsky Rachmaninov Glinka Dargomyzhsky Romances / Araxia Davtian (Russian Disc)

      Manufacturer: Russian Disc
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      All Works by GlinkaAll Works by Glinka | Glinka, Mikhail | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000001LME
      Release Date: 1996-03-19

      Tracks:

      1. Romances: Alla Centra
      2. Romances: I Remember That Marvelous Instant (Pushkin)
      3. Romances: The Blue Waves Are Asleep (Kukolnlk)
      4. Romances: I'm Happy To Be With You (Ryndin)
      5. Romances: Tell Me Why (Golitsyn)
      6. Romances: The Fail Maiden Is Miserable (Rimsky - Korsay)
      7. Romances: The Sierra Nevada Is Covered With Fog (Shirkov)
      8. Romances: The Garden (Pushkin)
      9. Romances: Sixteen years (Delvig)
      10. Romances: The Clouds In The Sky (Lermontov)
      11. Romances: The Youth And Maiden (Pushkin)
      12. Romances: That Was In Early Spring. Op. 38 No. 2 (Tolstoy)
      13. Romances: Amidst The Bustling Party, Op, #38 (Toldstov)
      14. Romances: Not a Word, Oh My Friend, Op. 6, No. 2 (Pleshcheyev)
      15. Romances: In A Single Word (Mey)
      16. Romances: Again, Like Before (Rathaus)
      17. Romances: Don't Sing, My Belle, Op. 5, No. 4 (Puskin)
      18. Romances: The Lilac, Op. 21, No 5 (Beketova)
      19. Romances: An Experpt From A. Mussle Op. 21, No. 6 (A pukhtin)
      20. Romances: Rat - Catcher, Op. 38 No. 4
      21. Romances: Daisies, Op. 38, No. 3 (Severyanin)
      22. Romances: Spring Waters, Op. 14, No. 11 (Tyutchev)
      I Was a Ye Ye Girl
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		I Was a Ye Ye Girl
        Doing Time
        Manufacturer: Zyx
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B000056UNM
        Release Date: 2001-01-15
        I Was a Ye Ye Girl
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          		I Was a Ye Ye Girl
          Doing Time
          Manufacturer: Zyx
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B0001XPTAM
          Release Date: 2004-04-12

          Tracks:

          1. Aroma Remix
          2. Original Extended
          3. Original Radio
          4. New Radio Vocal Extended
          5. New Radio Vocal
          6. Video
          I Was a Ye-Ye Girl
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            		I Was a Ye-Ye Girl
            Doing Time , and In-Grid
            Manufacturer: Zyx
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
            Dance & DJDance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music
            4-for-3 Dance & DJ4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music
            4-for-3 All Music4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music
            ASIN: B000ETV5VU
            Release Date: 2006-05-22

            Tracks:

            1. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Radio]
            2. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Extended]
            3. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Agiman Remix]
            4. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Radio Instrumental]
            5. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Soundtrack Extended Instrumental]
            6. I Was a Ye-Ye Girl [Agiman Remix Instrumental]
            The Lark in the Clear Air
            Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
            • Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing
            • Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter
            • The Lark touches my own heart!
            • Rolicking English folk music
            		 The Lark in the Clear Air

            Manufacturer: Collegium
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
            A CappellaA Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music
            GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
            ChorusesChoruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
            Folk SongsFolk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B0000031HX
            Release Date: 1993-09-13

            Tracks:

            1. I know where I'm going
            2. She moved through the fair
            3. The lark in the clear air
            4. Down by the sally gardens
            5. Dashing away with the smoothing iron
            6. The spring time of the year
            7. The sprig of thyme
            8. The bold grenadier
            9. The British Grenadiers
            10. The dark eyed sailor
            11. The keel row
            12. The girl I left behind me
            13. Just as the tide was flowing
            14. The cuckoo
            15. O waly, waly
            16. She's like the swallow
            17. The lover's ghost
            18. Willow song
            19. The willow tree
            20. Wassail song
            21. The miller of Dee
            22. O can ye sew cushions
            23. Afton water
            24. Golden slumbers

            Amazon.com

            A whole disc of choral arrangements of folk tunes could be too much--except in this case, the choir is the excellent Cambridge Singers, and the well-chosen arrangements cover a variety of composers and styles. Among the arrangers are Rutter, Vaughan Williams, and Daryl Runswick; the repertoire includes a hauntingly gorgeous "She moved through the fair" and 23 other selections. --David Vernier

            Customer Reviews:

            5 out of 5 stars Typical of Cambridge Singers--A good thing.......2005-06-14

            This is very typical of John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. Superbly performed, meaning not too forceful or too delicate. Diction and tone excellent. The folk song is not necessairly as entertaining or enjoyable as some of their other repertoire, nor is it as meaningful, but it still a powerful listening experience. The money for this recording will be well spent. The arrangements, well chosen, showcase beautiful, evocative choral singing. Vaughan Williams' arrangements are best, and he is well known for his arrangements of folk songs. Rutter's are good, but his harmonies are too often predictable or saccharine.

            Best are: Dashing away with the smoothing iron (5), The Dark Eyed Sailor (10), The Girl I Left Behind Me (12), Just as the tide was flowing (13), O waly, waly (15)

            5 out of 5 stars Beautifully Lyrical Folk Melodies a la Rutter.......2000-09-28

            This is a collection of Irish, Scottish, and English folk songs beautifully caressed by The Cambridge Singers under the masterful direction of John Rutter. He seems to possess an uncanny ability to create a uniquely lush and lyrical sound with a choir.

            In listening to these songs, I find that they have the capacity to simultaneously evoke feelings of melancholy and joy, and, ultimately leave me to conclude that I have been visited by sheer beauty.

            5 out of 5 stars The Lark touches my own heart!.......2000-04-27

            In this review I am going to be exceptionally candid! This CD is a wonderfully arranged and performed set of traditional songs that will be treasured by any lover of this delicate yet vigorous music. I was a child of post war England in a poor suburb of South East England and our music teacher used to make us sing these songs which came from The National Song Book and from the folk song collectors, notably Vaughan Williams who put so much of this national flavor into his two collections, 'The English Hymnal' and 'Songs of Praise'. Before our generation the BBC had set up a radio programme called 'Listen with Mother' which we followed the established tradition of listening to them in those years of austerity (its funny you know, but we did not seem to get bored like they do today) on November evenings when the pea souper fogs swirled around the blue mercury lamps as the coal glowed orange in the grate. This music transported us to May mornings, harvesting, landscapes peopled with grenadiers, young love sick swains tip toeing in forbidden rooms at night etc. from these bleak afternoons and gave us the promise of the return of the season when we will be able to walk the Downs under blue skies once more. They also made us think that we were part of a continuum of being young, loving, having children and growing old and dying on this misty offshore island as hundred of generations had done before us. This self-consciousness of these characteristics that made us English and in their understated passion they revealed to us the promises of adulthood together with its victories, disillusionments and inevitable tragedies. Alas, the powers that dictate the conventional wisdom today have consigned these songs to the trash basket of history in the name of multiculturalism and globalism. The songs are not sung today as they appear too ethnocentric in a pluralistic society for our contemporary captains of society. This is a shame for those of us with no real English blood could still participate and enjoy these lovely songs that summon up the freshness of a spring morning or the pangs of a spurned lover in a few lines of beautifully stated verse. These are universal feelings that just happened to be in an English setting, which was where we were! The arrangements here are sublime, particularly 'She moved through the Fair' which always moves me to tears. The subject 'What are the English?' is a current topic for the UK is still settling down after Devolution and finding its own identity. They could do worse than playing 'The Lark in the Clear Air' to answer this question tout court. Please buy, but be warned: this stuff can be dangerously upsetting in its waves of nostalgia. It is like meeting a long lost (and forgotten) friend. That is an (almost lost) part of yourself.

            5 out of 5 stars Rolicking English folk music.......1999-06-13

            Beautifully sung under Rutter's usual masterful directions. Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron and the Dark Eyed Sailor were my favorites.
            I Was a Ye Ye Girl
            Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
            • Tops in Italy
            		 I Was a Ye Ye Girl
            Doing Time
            Manufacturer: Hyper
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD
            ASIN: B00005J8LQ
            Release Date: 2001-03-19

            Customer Reviews:

            4 out of 5 stars Tops in Italy.......2002-08-27

            I saw this video while in Italy. It is a great dance/lounge mix track, and the video consists of 3 girls dancing in crazy 60's fashions similar to those worn by Elizabeth Hurley at the end of the first Austin Powers flick.
            I Was a Ye Ye Girl
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              		I Was a Ye Ye Girl
              Doing Time
              Manufacturer: Zyx
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD
              ASIN: B00005MCTS
              Release Date: 2001-08-27

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              7. Love on My Mind
              8. Made in Italy Ibiza: The Miami Session 2003 [Import]
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              10. Masterboy Family [Import]

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