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- A Slight Innacuracy
- Excelente
- Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2
- Not totally an instrumental
- Another Collection You Wonr Find Anywhere else
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Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals II
Manufacturer: Eric Collection
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ASIN: B00008L3O0
Release Date: 2003-04-22 |
Tracks:
- Gonna Fly Now (Theme From 'Rocky') - Bill Conti
- Theme From 'Ben Casey' - Valjean
- Theme From 'The Apartment' - Ferrante & Teicher
- The Long Ships (Part 1) - Charles Albertine (mono)
- The Day The Rains Came - Raymond Lefevre (mono)
- Beautiful Obsession - Sir Chauncey
- Theme From 'The Sundowners'- Felix Slatkin
- Chariot (I Will Follow Him) - Franck Pourcel
- That's The Way With Love - Peter Soffici (mono)
- Theme From 'The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs' - Percy Faith
- Theme From 'A Man And A Woman' (from The Soundtrack) - Francis Lai
- Route 66 Theme - Nelson Riddle
- Moonglow & Theme From 'Picnic' - George Cates (mono)
- Swinging Sweethearts - Ron Goodwin (mono)
- Ringo's Theme (This Boy) - George Martin
- Song For Anna (Chanson D'Anna) - (Herb) Ohta-San
- Nadia's Theme (The Young & The Restless) - Barry Devorzon & Perry Botkinc Jr.
- Danny Boy - Sil Austin
- Trumpeter's Prayer - Tutti Camarata
- One Moment In Time - Vienna Symphonic Orchestra (VSOP)
Album Description
A spectacular follow-up to Volume One in this instrumental series featuring 15 songs that have never been on a U.S. CD before. But this set isn't just for collectors, but also for listeners. All recordings have been digitally mastered from the original master tapes & are in True Stereo wherever possible. Includes a full 8-page booklet with detailed liner notes on each song.
Customer Reviews:
A Slight Innacuracy.......2007-06-13
The version of "Nadia's Theme" (Theme from The Young and the Restless) isn't actually the one you're expecting. I believe it's actually the original arrangement made for "Bless the Beasts and the Children". So what later became the Young and the Restless theme (the one that was a hit) still remains unreleased on CD.
Hopefully, we can see that version on a future release. Maybe they could get "Little Ballerina Blue" on one while they're at it.
Still, some great stuff here.
Excelente .......2007-03-22
El tema de nadia es una de las canciones mas excelentes de la historia de la musica
Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals, Vol. 2.......2006-03-22
The purchase went as we had hoped. The delievry was as promised, and the quality of the product equal too, or above our expectations.
Not totally an instrumental.......2006-03-10
I was excited to find this album. I bought it but was horrified to find a loud vocal on the first track. The rest of the music is all instrumental but this one track simply JARS you when it plays. Very disappointing!
Another Collection You Wonr Find Anywhere else.......2003-05-06
Well, ERIC records has done it again.
Continuing their unique practice of giving us both well known hits and impossible to find rarities, Eric presents Volume 2 of "Hard to Find Orchestral Instrumentals". This one is, in my opinion, even better than the first.
First off, the sound quality of this disk is ASTOUNDING. ERIC has gotten the various reissue departments to provide them with absolute first generation mono and stereo masters and this CD proves it. The aural quality is breathtaking. The fact that Orchestral music is so beautifully suited for true stereo playback is exhibited here, as a whopping 15 of the 20 tracks are True Stereo and sound magnificent.
There are, of course, the big soundtrack hits here, like 'The Day The Rains Came" "Rocky", "Ben Casey", "Theme from The Apartment", and " Nadias Theme". All top 30 and well remembered. However, for this 43 year old fan, it was the some of the lessor known tracks, in particulatr the 1963 Colpix low level charter "Theme From The Long Ships" that really makes this collection the gem that it is. Outstanding tracks include "Theme From The Sundowners" , "The Dark At The Top of The Stairs" and "I Will Follow Him" , all tracks that will suddenly sound familiar again after first listen.
Therein lies the BEST part of this collection. When you put this on your player, you will be treated to a nostalgic feast,
a time when the magic of Orchestral music still ruled the charts, and existed in all our homes. And you'll certainly remember most of these once you hear them, which is the fun part!!
There arent enough great things I can say about this collection AND its sister CD "Hard To Find pop Instrumentals- Part 2" I personally liked this volume better, but if you dont have either yet, give yourself a musical treat, and some REAL listening enjoyment and pick these up...
Its listening the way it used to be.
MA....
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- If you like great musicals you'll love this!
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Puttin' on the Ritz: The Great Hollywood Musicals
The Singing Hoosiers
Manufacturer: Telarc
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ASIN: B000003D05
Release Date: 1995-09-26 |
Tracks:
- That's Entertainment
- Blue Skies
- Cheek To Cheek
- Puttin' On The Ritz
- Over The Rainbow
- Forty-Second Street
- Singin' In The Rain
- Lover
- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
- The Continental
- They Can't Take That Away From Me
- I've Got you Under My Skin
- On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe
- A Fine Romance
- Thanks For The Memory
- Lullaby Of Broadway
Customer Reviews:
If you like great musicals you'll love this!.......2007-03-20
Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops have done it again. This is a spectacular collection. It makes you feel like getting dressed up with a lot of glitz and glam and going dancing. Though I must admit that Fredrica Von Stade's rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" will definitely touch your heart.
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Penny Merriments: Street Songs of 17th Century England
Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B0009JMEKQ
Release Date: 2005-06-21 |
Tracks:
- The Courtiers Health, Or The Merry Boys Of The Times
- The Country Lass
- The Crost People, Or A Good Misfortune
- The Courtryman's Joy
- Seldom Cleanly
- A Merry Jest Of John Thompson And Jakaman His Wife
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- Good Advice To Batchelors, How To Court And Obtain A Young Lass
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- The Downfall Of Dancing
- The Saint Turn'd Sinner
- And Old Song On The Spanish Armada
- The Female Captain, Or The Counterfit Bridegroom
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- The Famous Ratcatcher
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- Beautiful, soulful and at times shiveringly wonderful
- beautiful
- Stunningly Good : You've GOT to Hear This in SACD!
- A Spoonful of Sugar
- Spoonful of Sugar
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Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD]
Matthew Harris , Nils Lindberg , Jaakko Mantyjarvi , Frank Martin , Alan Murray , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Charles Bruffy , Carol Platt , Cassandra Ewer , Laura Inman , and Robert Comeaux
Manufacturer: Chandos
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ASIN: B0002NRRCO
Release Date: 2004-09-21 |
Tracks:
- Hark! Hark! The Lark Adagio
- Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred. Allegretto
- I Shall No More To Sea. Largo
- When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy. Moderato
- It Was A Lover And His Lass Gently
- O Mistress Mine! Adagietto
- When Daffodils Begin To Peer. Lilting, With A Beat
- I. Come Unto These Yellow Sands (Ariel's Song). Molto Tranquillo
- II. Full Fathom Five. Tres Calme
- III. Before You Can Say, 'Come', And 'Go'. Allegro Molto
- IV. You Are Three Men Of Sin. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
- V. Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I. Allegretto Grazioso
- Slowly, With Expression - Meno Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso
- 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death. Andante Moderato
- 2. Lullaby. Andante Con Moto
- Double, Double Toil And Trouble...
- Full Fathom Five. Grave
- Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
- Molto Lento Ed Elegiaco
- O Mistress Mine! Tranquillo
- 1. Full Fathom Five. Andante Misterioso
- 2. The Cloud-Capp'd Towers. Lento
- 3. Over Hill, Over Dale. Allegro Vivace
Customer Reviews:
Beautiful, soulful and at times shiveringly wonderful.......2005-07-10
For a lover of choirmusic - this album is a pearl! The Phoenix Bach Choir are wonderful singers, with enviable technique and intonation... This album is among the stayers on my MP3 player :o)
beautiful.......2005-03-21
My chamber group performed the four Mantyjarvi songs, so I bought this album for those four songs alone and because absolutely addicted to most of the album, especially the song by composer Matthew Harris. Hauntingly beautiful. I love this album.
Stunningly Good : You've GOT to Hear This in SACD!.......2005-03-03
As a Kansas Citian, I've had many years experience hearing Charles Bruffy work his magic with choral singers; his home church is a quarter-mile from my home and even his small amateur church choir is wonderful. The Kansas City Chorale, his first professional choir, has made memorable recordings for Nimbus. And now his Phoenix Bach Choir is recording for Chandos. As a recent article by James Reel in Fanfare puts it, Bruffy 'is one of the next big things in American choral music. He's mentioned in the same breath with his former mentor, Robert Shaw.' Possibly my most memorable choral music experience was several years ago when Bruffy combined the Kansas City and Phoenix choirs to sing Thomas Tallis's legendary 'Spem in alium,' with 40+ singers ranged around the periphery of an oval cathedral space with the audience in the middle. Waves of polyphony came crashing over the audience from different directions like musical tidal waves. Extraordinary!
This recording of music set to words by Shakespeare is not the usual olde tyme music, but rather is all from the 20th (and in at least one case, the 21st) century by well-known composers like Vaughan Williams and Frank Martin, and little-knowns like Matthew Harris and Major Alan Murray. All of it is good, some of it strikingly good (like the Martin, the RVW, and Sametz's 'When he shall die,' written in honor of Louis Botto, the late founder of America's most famous professional choir, Chanticleer, and which the choir apparently learned only two days before the recording date!)
Others have already written in some detail about the program. Let me just add that unless you hear this in SACD you're missing something. I have heard it in both formats and can tell you that the SACD is sensational, not that the plain-vanilla CD lacks anything for that medium. As Bruffy predicts in the Fanfare article, 'Once you listen on SACD you'll never go back.'
This is stunningly beautiful release that I recommend unstintingly. On my wish-list is a recording in SACD of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale reunited to sing 'Spem in alium.' Now THAT would really be something heard in surround sound the way Tallis intended it!
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Scott Morrison
A Spoonful of Sugar.......2004-10-09
Shakespeare, for me, is like cough syrup. It's good to have once in a while, but a spoon of it once a year is all you need. Nothing against the Bard, I just wouldn't want him over for my dinner party. But I try to keep an open mind - at least for a few minutes - so I popped the disc into an SACD player and listened.
I heard something new, and something unexpected. Here, the Phoenix Bach Choir doesn't offer some type of trite and foolishly cheerful Renaissance romp, but instead, new settings of old texts.
First, the quality of the recording is superb - listening in 5.1 surround it feels as though the group is singing to you in your living room, albeit in a much better acoustic without the drapes, carpet and recliner. Second, the quality of the sound of the ensemble is exquisite, even in extreme dynamic ranges or technically difficult passages. Bruffy and his singers offer impeccable blend, ideal choral balance, spot-on intonation, careful attention to the ebb and flow of the text, and absolute control of technique, especially in complex polyphonic sections.
These qualities should be reason enough for anyone to buy the album, even though these attributes should be (but often aren't) par for the course for professional choral ensembles.
While the introspective interpretation of the music is an excellent quality, the innovative sounds of these (perhaps unfamiliar) composers are truly wonderful. All of the composers featured on the album have written music during the past 100 years, and the several songs are fresh and accessible. The Matthew Harris "Shakespeare Songs" are absolutely addictive - you'll find yourself humming these tunes while you make your morning muffins. The Nils Lindberg "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is a mellow and jazzy piece, conjuring images of a choral ensemble around the piano at a martini bar. Alan Murray's "O Mistress Mine" is a very English-sounding anthem that, words aside, wouldn't sound out of place in an Anglican church service.
To be fair, the other selections on the disc are not as immediately pleasing. The dark, edgy pieces by Frank Martin and Steven Sametz are the best examples, full of brooding and bite. The Vaughan Williams pieces are much more bitter than one might expect from this beloved composer. Unfortunately, these melancholy, hazy selections tend to get buried together on the album, so be sure to sample things out of order as you listen. I suspect that these other pieces are like a good coffee that one must appreciate over several tastings. But perhaps this coffee needs another spoonful of sugar.
But after the SACD has stopped spinning, I realize that this music has offered me a window to profundity. As I encountered this offering of art, bringing to it all of my prior judgements and feelings, I found that this music activates a point of resonance within myself. Upon reflection, I realized what I heard was the hum of the universal experience of the human condition, the clear ring of music that is carefully laid out as a mirror before the soul.
While most of this album is dark, brooding, and edgy, there is a familiar echo in the sonorities that stays with you like a distant, bittersweet, mysterious, but much treasured, memory.
Spoonful of Sugar.......2004-10-07
Shakespeare, for me, is like cough syrup. It's good to have once in a while, but a spoon of it once a year is all you need. Nothing against the Bard, I just wouldn't want him over for my dinner party. But I try to keep an open mind - at least for a few minutes - so I popped the disc into an SACD player and listened.
I heard something new, and something unexpected. Here, the Phoenix Bach Choir doesn't offer some type of trite and foolishly cheerful Renaissance romp, but instead, new settings of old texts.
First, the quality of the recording is superb - listening in 5.1 surround it feels as though the group is singing to you in your living room, albeit in a much better acoustic without the drapes, carpet and recliner. Second, the quality of the sound of the ensemble is exquisite, even in extreme dynamic ranges or technically difficult passages. Bruffy and his singers offer impeccable blend, ideal choral balance, spot-on intonation, careful attention to the ebb and flow of the text, and absolute control of technique, especially in complex polyphonic sections.
These qualities should be reason enough for anyone to buy the album, even though these attributes should be (but often aren't) par for the course for professional choral ensembles.
While the introspective interpretation of the music is an excellent quality, the innovative sounds of these (perhaps unfamiliar) composers are truly wonderful. All of the composers featured on the album have written music during the past 100 years, and the several songs are fresh and accessible. The Matthew Harris "Shakespeare Songs" are absolutely addictive - you'll find yourself humming these tunes while you make your morning muffins. The Nils Lindberg "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is a mellow and jazzy piece, conjuring images of a choral ensemble around the piano at a martini bar. Alan Murray's "O Mistress Mine" is a very English-sounding anthem that, words aside, wouldn't sound out of place in an Anglican church service.
To be fair, the other selections on the disc are not as immediately pleasing. The dark, edgy pieces by Frank Martin and Steven Sametz are the best examples, full of brooding and bite. The Vaughan Williams pieces are much more bitter than one might expect from this beloved composer. Unfortunately, these melancholy, hazy selections tend to get buried together on the album, so be sure to sample things out of order as you listen. I suspect that these other pieces are like a good coffee that one must appreciate over several tastings. Perhaps this coffee needs another spoonful of sugar.
But after the SACD has stopped spinning, I realize that this music has offered me a window to profundity. As I encountered this offering of art, bringing to it all of my prior judgements and feelings, I found that this music activates a point of resonance within myself. Upon reflection, I realized what I heard was the hum of the universal experience of the human condition, the clear ring of music that is carefully laid out as a mirror before the soul.
While most of this album is dark, brooding, and edgy, there is a familiar echo in the sonorities that stays with you like a distant, bittersweet, mysterious, but much treasured, memory.
Average customer rating:
- Graceful music
- Not what I wanted
- Greensleeves (Baird/McFarlane)
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Greensleeves: A Collection of English Lute Songs
Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
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ASIN: B000001Q89
Release Date: 1993-08-31 |
Tracks:
- It Was A Lover And His Lass
- Author Of Light
- Lute Solo: Watkin's Ale
- So Beauty On The Waters Stood
- When Laura Smiles
- Lute Solo: Galliard
- In Darkness Let Me Dwell
- Lute Solo: Bonny Sweet Boy
- Greensleeves
- Wand' ring In This Place
- Lute Solo: Packington's Pound
- Shall I Come Sweet Love To Thee?
- Sorrow Stay
- Sweet Youth Go Bruise Thy Pillow
- Lute Solo: Kemp's Jig
- It Fell On A Summer's Day
- Come Again
- Lute Solo: Wilson's Wild
- Awau With These Self Loving Lads
- Mark How The Blushful Morn
- Never Weather-Beaten Sail
- Lute Solo: The Cradle Pavan
- If Thou Longst So Much To Learn
- Lute Solo: Robinson's May
- TIme Stands Still
Customer Reviews:
Graceful music.......2005-09-27
The lute is a string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep, round back. In many ways, it is related to later similar instructments such as the guitar and banjo. It descends from a Middle Eastern instrument similar to the oud. The lute was one of the major musical instruments of the Middle Ages, and much music was composed for the lute, both as a stand-alone instrument as well as an accompaniment for singers.
This disc has some samples of both. Some songs are anonymous compositions, often derivative of much older folk tunes. Others are original compositions whose composers are known by name. Among these names are John Dowland, Thomas Morley, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Michael Cavendish, Thomas Campion, Nicholas Lanier, and Anthony Holborne, all of the 1500s/1600s. The music here involves both the 8-course lute and the 10-course lute (during the later Baroque time, lutes could have as many as 28 strings!).
The lute was eventually displaced by keyboard and other instruments, so in many ways its life is that of the music of the past. However, with recordings such as these, the lute lives again in vibrant form. Ronn McFarlane learned to play on a cheap steel-string guitar, but continued to study in a rather eclectic fashion, eventually studying at the Shenandoah Conservatory and the Peabody Conservatory prior to settling upon the lute as his primary instrument. In this recording, he is paired with Julianne Baird, a soprano with significant recording experience.
McFarlane and Baird emphasise the simplicity and lightness of the songs here; while some lute music and some folk tunes can be very elaborately arranged, here the performers strive for a more direct elegance. The particular period emphasised is Elizabethean; McFarlane and Baird sound as if they have come directly from the Queen's court directly.
This is a beautiful recording.
Not what I wanted.......2002-02-13
i should have read the description more clearly...this is partially vocal, not all instrumental. Nothimg wrong with the CD, but I only like instrumental.
Greensleeves (Baird/McFarlane).......2000-09-30
Incredible! Stunning musicianship from beginning to end. For fans of Dowland, this recording is a gem. The blend of lute and voice on 'In darkness let me dwell' is downright haunting. This recording is an absolute pleasure. 5 stars just might be an understatement here...
Average customer rating:
- Legendary selections by a legendary voice
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Legendary Irish Tenor
Manufacturer: Goldies
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ASIN: B00005RVT2
Release Date: 2001-11-26 |
Tracks:
- Mother Machree
- Kathleen Mavourneen
- Killarney
- Dear Little Shamrock
- Ave Maria
- Little Love, A Little Kiss
- Macushla
- Wearing of the Green
- Where the River Shannon Flows
- Eileen Alannah
- Molly Brannigan
- Low Back'd Car
- I'll Sing Thee Songs of Araby
- Angels Guard Thee
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- My Wild Irish Rose
- Serenata
- Come into the Garden, Maud
- Turn Ye to Me
- Somewhere a Voice Is Calling
- Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
- Barcarolle
- Sunshine of Your Smile
- When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
- Rose of Tralee
- Ireland, Mother Ireland
- Mother O' Mine
- Bard of Armagh
- Irish Emigrant
Tracks:
- I Hear You Calling Me
- Star of the County Down
- Londonderry Air
- She Moved Thro' the Fair
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
- Kerry Dance
- South Winds
- By the Shortcut to the Rosses
- Fairy Tree
- Harp That Once Thro' Tara's Halls
- Garden Where the Praties Grow
- I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
- Bantry Bay
- Dawning of the Day
Customer Reviews:
Legendary selections by a legendary voice.......2004-03-24
With special emphasis on the variety presented in this collection, this album has a broadness of scope that will appeal to anyone who appreciates the magic of the human voice.
McCormack was perhaps the most popular entertainer in the world during his career, comparable with the superstars of today, only richer in the currency of his day.
Though purists may have criticized his shift to the popular venue as opportunism, and perhaps desertion of his training in the classical tradtions, he was simply presenting what people wanted to hear. Whether he set a pattern of career management followed by modern entertainers or was simply happiest when the accolades flowed over him matters not. The talent and richness are his legacy to us.
His range and vocal dexterity are well illustrated and represented by this larger than usual collection, and anyone with a particular favorite tune in his rather loose genre will likely find it here.
After a journey through this collection, listeners may well gain another special melody or two for addition to their personal list of "best ever" songs and singers.
Although it may be considered a bit foolish, some will choose this album for only one or two tracks. Some call that trait wasteful, but when a jewel of performance is played again and again, the teardrop may fall once more, and the heart will thrill yet again.
This album will please many musical palates, even those who claim no special fondness for "Irish Tenors."
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Soprano in Hollywood
Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
All Works by Gershwin
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| Porter, Cole
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ASIN: B000004BR0
Release Date: 1996-10-15 |
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- When You're Away
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- Love Is Where You Find It
- One Night of Love
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- So in Love
- Smilin' Through
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4 Da Bass Lover
Bass Patrol
Manufacturer: Joey Boy Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
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Bass
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| Music
General
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Bass
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ASIN: B00000DUTH
Release Date: 1994-08-24 |
Tracks:
- Meet the Stranger
- Full Moon
- All Hoez, Pt. 2
- D's -N- Vogues
- Bump the Funk
- Sugar Hill
- Freebassin'
- Down for Whatever
- 4 Da' Bass Lovers
- Cruzin'
- Let It Bop
- Earthquake
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- Stunning Collection of Ballads
- stunning, captivating, wonderful...
- Beautiful clear vocals/mildly haunting music
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The True Lover's Farewell - Appalachian Folk Ballads
Custer LaRue , Mary Anne Ballard , Mark Cudek , and Ronn McFarlane
Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Chamber Music
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ASIN: B000001QAR
Release Date: 1995-03-28 |
Tracks:
- Turtledove
- Fair Margagret And Sweet William
- Gypsen Davey
- Arise, Arise, Ye Slumbering Sleeper
- Soldier Boy For Me
- Lord Bateman
- Berayna
- The Outlandish Knight
- Lady Gay (The Wife Of Usher's Well)
- Johnny Home From Sea
- Charlie's Sweet
- Earl Brand
- The Lady And The Dragoon
- The Nightingale
- The Rebel Soldier
- The True Lover's Farewell
Customer Reviews:
Stunning Collection of Ballads.......2004-06-22
This is one of the most marvelous records of Appalachian ballads. The songs are almost entirely from the Cecil Sharp publication. The Baltimore Consort does a tremendous job of accompanying. I've been playing this CD over and over and I never seem to tire of it. I highly recommend this CD.
stunning, captivating, wonderful..........2002-04-01
I have long admired the vocal talents of Custer LaRue. She is a truly impressive singer and an even greater performer. If I had a hall of fame for Musicians, she would be one of the first inductees.
I had great expectations for "The True Lover's Farewell" when I received it for Christmas. It has not disappointed me. It is a disc of stunning beauty, captivating drama, and wonderful music. It has become a mainstay of my musical diet--earning lots of playtime on my stereo.
Some of the more remarkable pieces here are: "Turtledove," "Soldier Boy for Me," "Berayna," and "The Nightingale." LaRue's voice is indeed beautiful, but what continues to win me over is her expressiveness. In the hands of Mrs. LaRue, each song becomes a story, a drama. This is perhaps seen most clearly on "The Nightingale." Yet choosing for favorites here is a matter of choosing the best of consistently great stuff.
The musicians (Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek and the mighty Ronn McFarlane) are all co-members with Mrs. LaRue in the amazing Baltimore Consort.
This disc is the total package. Once again, Dorian Recordings continues to blow me away with their consistent excellence. I give "The True Lover's Farewell" my highest recommendation.
Beautiful clear vocals/mildly haunting music.......2000-06-30
I first heard Custer Larue live with the Baltimore Consort. "The True Lover's Farewell" contains what I consider the best selection from that live performance. This is great music listen to when reading, studying, working, but most especially when spending a romantic evening with your true love.
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Shakespeare's Songbook, Vols. 1 & 2
Manufacturer: Azica
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B0002IQL08
Release Date: 2004-07-06 |
Tracks:
- Ah Robin (Round)
- And Let Me The Cannikin Clink
- And Will He Not Come Again
- Be Merry, Be Merry
- Black Spirits
- Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
- Bonny Sweet Robin
- But Shall I Go Mourn
- Can'st Thou Not Hit It
- Come Away
- Come Away, Hecate
- Come Live With Me
- Come O'er The Burn
- Come Thou Monarch (Version 2)(Round)
- Come Unto These Yellow Sands
- A Cup Of Wine
- Farewell, Dear Heart
- Fathers That Wear Rags
- Fear No More
- Fie On Sinful Fantasy
- Fill The Cup (Round)
- Flout 'Em And Cout 'Em (Round)
- Fools Had Ne'er Less Grace
- For I'll Cut My Green Coat
- The Friar And The Nun
- Full Fathom Five
- The George Alow (Version 1)
- Get You Hence
- The God Of Love
- Hark, Hark The Lark
- Have I Caught My Heavenly Jewel
- Heart's Ease
- Hold Thy Peace (Version 2)(Round)
- Honor, Riches
- I Am Gone Sir
- I Loathe The I Did Love
- It Was A Lover And His Lass
- Jepha
- Jog On
- Jolly Shepherd (Round)
- King Stephen Was A Worthy Peer
- Lawn As White
- Love, Love, Nothing But Love (Version 2)
- The Master, The Swabber (Version 2)
- No More Dams
- An Old Hare Hoar (Version 1)
- O Mistress Mine (Version 1)
- Orpheus With His Lute
- O Sweet Oliver
- Pardon Goddess Of The Night
- Roses Their Sharp Spines
- Sigh No More, Ladies
- Some Men For Sudden Joy (Version 1)
- Take, O Take Those Lips
- Tell Me, Where Is Fancy Bred
- That Sir Which Serves
- There Dwelt A Man In Babylon (Version 1)
- There Was Three Fools
- Three Merry Men (Round)
- Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day
- Under The Greenwood Tree
- Up And Down (Round)
- Urns And Odours Bring Away
- Walsingham
- Was This Fair Face
- Wedding Is Great Juno's Crown
- What Shall He Have (Round)
- When Arthur First In Court
- When Daffodils Begin To Peer
- When Daisies Pied
- When Griping Grief
- When Icicles Hang By The Wall
- When That I Was And A Little Tyne Boy
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- Why Let The Strucken Deer
- Willow, Willow (Version 1)
- Will You Buy Any Tape
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- You Spotted Snakes
Tracks:
- Awake, Awake
- Battle Of Agincourt
- Bride's Goodmorrow
- Broom
- Callino
- Carmen's Whitle
- Chi Passa
- Come Kiss Me, Kate (Round)
- Come Thou Monarch (Version 1)
- Cup Of Wine (Version 1)
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- Daphne
- Diana (2 Versions)
- Dulcina
- Eglamore
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- Fortune My Foe
- George Alow (Version 2)
- Glass Doth Run
- Goddesses
- Go From My Window
- Greensleeves (2 Versions)
- Guy Of Warwick
- Hem Boys (2 Versions)
- Hey Ho for A Husband (2 Versions)
- Hobbyhorse
- Hold Thy Peace (Versions 1 & 3)
- Hunt's Up
- I Cannot Come Every Day (2 Versions)
- In Crete
- In Peascod Time
- Jack Boy (Round)
- King Cophetua
- King Lear
- King Solomon
- Light O Love
- Loath To Depart (2 Versions)
- Love, Love (Version 1)
- Master, Swabber (Version 1)
- Mounsier Mingo
- Mounsieur's Almaine
- My Mind To Me
- Nutmegs (Of All The Birds)
- Nutmegs (Wooing Of The Baker's Daughter)
- O Death (2 Versions)
- Old Hare Hoar (Version 2)
- O Mistress Mine (Version 2)
- O' The Twelfth Day Of December
- Oyster Pie
- Peg A Ramsey (2 Versions)
- Phillida (3 Versions)
- Please One
- Pyramus
- Queen Dido (2 Versions)
- Ratcatcher
- Rich Jew
- Robin Goodfellow
- Robin Hood
- Rogero
- Rowland
- Sellenger's Round
- Shore's Wife (2 Versions)
- Sick, Sick (3 Vesions)
- Some Men For Sudden Joy (Round)
- There Dwelt A Man (Version 2)
- Titus Andronicus
- Tom A Bedlam (2 Versions)
- Troilus
- Troy Town
- Wellady
- Whenas We Sat In Babylon
- Where Is The Life
- Whoop
- Why Let The Strucken (If Care Do Cause)
- Willow, Willow (Version 2)
- Will Ye Buy A Fine Dog
- With A Fading
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