Shining Light [CD-single] [Import]

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Album Description
First single taken from the UK indie act's 2001 album. Tracks, 'Shining Light', 'Warmer Than Fire' and 'Gabriel'. Packaged in a 'slider pack' with room for part two.

Shall We Gather - American Hymns and Spirituals
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Excellent

Brilliant

Shall We Gather - American Hymns and Spirituals

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Wintersong

ASIN: B00005QK6L
Release Date: 2001-09-25

Tracks:

Libert Hall (Lord, In Thy Presence)
Rise, Shine, For Thy Light Is A-Comin'
Welwyn (O Brother Man)
Pisgah (The Lord's My Shepherd)
Poor Rosy
I've Just Come From The Fountain
Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler
Nettleton (Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing)
Wondrous Love (What Wondrous Love Is This)
Gospel Train
Shining Shore (My Days Are Gliding By Swiftly)
More Love
In Mercy, Lord (In Mercy, Lord, Incline Thine Ear)
Beautiful River (Shall We Gather At The River)
Some Of These Days
The Old Ship Of Zion
St. Peter (In Christ There Is No East Or West)
Missionary Chant (Awake, Our Souls)
Old Ship Of Zion (What Ship Is This?)
Inching Along
Watchman (Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night)
Hurry, On My Weary Soul
Morning Trumpet (O When Shall I See Jesus)
He's A Mighty Good Leader
Hold On
Resignation (My Shepherd Will Supply My Need)
We Shall Walk Through The Valley

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-05-09

The best "Sacred Harp" or "Shape Note" type singing that I've heard. The various renditons are clear and harmonious.
None of that tuning up, barking, la-la's or other cacophonous sounds here.

Brilliant.......2003-09-22

I couldn't recommend a CD more highly. As a musician I was amazed at the variety of the music here and the truly exceptional performances. It's seems we can always rely on Albany to put out the most interesting and highest quality recordings.

Showpieces & Encores; Gershwin, Grieg, etc

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Showpieces & Encores; Gershwin, Grieg, etc

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005R5ZE
Release Date: 2001-11-13

Tracks:

Grieg: Prelude from Holberg Suite
Tchaikovsky: Waltz from Serenade
The Moon Is Shining
Sinsalo: 3 Russian Folk Songs
The Rush Light
Clouds
Festive Dance
The Plainsmen
Vagarshapati Par
Spring
Bridge: Valse-Intermezzo in E minor
Vieuxtemps: Yankee Doodle
Gershwin: Summertime
Gershwin: Soon
Davidov: At the Fountain
Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
Rimsky-Korakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Shostakovich: Spanish Dance from The Gadfly
Piazolla: Libertango

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The Brass Band Marches on with Ives
A great collection

Remembrance: A Charles Ives Collection

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001SG3
Release Date: 1995-01-25

Tracks:

March III - With The Air (Old Kentucky Home)
Ann Street
Calcium Light Night
Holiday Quick Step
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: On the Counter
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Side Show
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Slow March
Four Songs For Brass Quintet: Tarrant Moss
Fugue in Four Keys (On The Shining Shore)
The Unanswered Question
Remembrance
Evening
Mists
A Brass Serenade: The Circus Band
A Brass Serenade: Romanzo di Central Park
A Brass Serenade: Scherzo (All The Way Around And Back)
A Brass Serenade: Scherzo (Over The Pavements)
A Brass Serenade: Gyp the Blood
A Brass Serenade: Adagio Sostenuto
A Brass Serenade: Tone Roads No. 1
A Brass Serenade: Tone Roads No. 3
A Brass Serenade: March II -With The Air (Son Of A Gambolier)
A Brass Serenade: The See'r
A Brass Serenade: Luck and Work
A Brass Serenade: Like a Sick Eagle
A Brass Serenade: Hallowe'en

Customer Reviews:

The Brass Band Marches on with Ives.......2005-05-28

The concept of transcriptions of music originally written for various instruments, orchestras, voices, piano etc goes back a long time. Ensembles comprised solely of winds, or brass, or strings gather various transcriptions (at times those of the composers who wrote the original score!) and make their repertoire more varied in adding such new insights. Such is the case with the Detroit Chamber Winds under the direction of H. Robert Reynolds and this very interesting CD is devoted to the music of Charles Ives.

Ives had great respect for brass ensembles and wrote music expressly for them. These are included as are a number of works for chamber orchestra etc. The collection is played beautifully and the recorded sound is excellent. With some reservations this 'Remembrance: A Charles Ives Collection' is not only successful but a fine addition to the Ives recordings.

Perhaps just returning from a performance of 'The Unanswered Question' performed by the LA Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting where the mystery and spirit of Emerson's poem "The Sphynx" which inspired Ives to write this brief 6-minute piece colors this listener's full appreciation of these transcriptions. Originally scored for strings, four flutes, and trumpet (in the wondrous Disney Hall acoustics Salonen stood alone on the stage conducting the off stage strings, the flutes in the organ loft and the trumpet in the highest balcony in a three way conversation that seemed to come both from within the bodies of the audience and the ether of the universe, this work fails to hold the importance of the solo brass instrument playing against a brass ensemble. A small quibble perhaps, but some of Ives' works were specifically designated for certain instruments and defy tampering.

In all a recording to add to the Ives Collection and one that is certainly well performed. Grady Harp, May 05

A great collection.......2003-05-12

A great collection of wind pieces by Charles Ives arranged, transcribed, edited, and realized in a number of fashions. The songs run the gamut of Ives's career and his many styles, the latter half of the disc dedicated to selections from his Brass Serenade.

Many of these pieces, most in fact, are difficult to find anywhere else, and are of enormous interest. One of Ives's earliest pieces, "Holiday Quickstep," for instance. There are also engaging interpretations of his more esoteric and mysterious works (The Unanswered Question, Ann Street), personal pieces written for piano and soprano (Remembrance, Evening, Mists), tone poems, and more lively, sometimes comic, sketches (Gyp the Blood or Hearst, Tarrant Moss). The performances, by the Detroit Chamber Winds, are energetic and gratifying. For most of the stuff on this disc, however, there is very little to compare it to.

Tracks:

The Daisies, Op. 2 No. 1
A Nun Takes The Veil, Op. 13 No. 1
Bessie Bobtail, Op. 2 No. 3
The Secrets Of The Old, Op. 13 No. 2
Sure On This Shining Night, Op. 13 No. 3
Barber: I Hear An Army, Op. 10 No. 3
Dover Beach, Op. 3
I Will Breathe A Mountain: Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
I Will Breathe A Mountain: How To Swing Those Obbligatos Around
I Will Breathe A Mountain: The Crazy Woman
I Will Breathe A Mountain: Just Once
I Will Breathe A Mountain: Never More Will The Wind
I Will Breathe A Mountain: The Sage
I Will Breathe A Mountain: O To Be A Dragon
I Will Breathe A Mountain: The Bustle In A House
I Will Breathe A Mountain: I Saw Eternity
I Will Breathe A Mountain: Night Practice
I Will Breathe A Mountain: The Fish
My House
So Pretty
Greeting
Take Care Of This House
Rabbit At Top Speed
Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed
Nachspiel
Dream With Me

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Though Horne is audibly at the end of her long and rich career, she did a good deed for American music with this disc, which consists of songs by Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, and a new song cycle by William Bolcom, from which the disc takes its title. Horne's voice has a quiver, a lack of center, almost as if it refuses to stop singing Rossini (Horne's lifelong specialty). However, it's worth buying for the Bolcom cycle, which is one of his best vocal works, typically an eclectic, natural outgrowth of Bernstein's style with Horne gamely employing a wide range of vocal techniques with more eloquence than one could hope for. --David Patrick Stearns

Customer Reviews:

Exceptionally moving.......2003-10-16

This is AMERICAN SONGS at their most moving and emotional best, not to mention with great melody. Unlike a lot of American song literature (not broadway type, but "serious classical art songs"), these songs are actually quite beautiful, melodic, and can touch the heart of the listener easily. There is no strain to enjoy them. There is a bit of "sameness" between them, which is my only complaint about this recording; one piece starts to sound like another, especially if you are not listening carefully while listening. Even then, it is still very lovely.

It has been mentioned that Horne is now far past her prime, and that may be, but even far past her prime she is far better than most singers half her age. There is still vibrancy, life, and depth to her voice. It communicates on a very deep level. Martin Katz, her life long accompanist, is, as usual, a revelation as an accompanist. Unlike people think, the accompanist just doesn't play in the background, he is a very vital part of making a performance work. Accompaning singers is a very new art form, and many performers of earlier ages simply had very bad accompanist. With Gerald Moore we started to have people who knew how to support the singer, actually adding to the performance giving it depth and helping the singer shine. Now we are so used to good accompanist, and are so accustomed to their high level of performance, it is very easy to forget what they add.

Katz knows Horne well, and is fully aware of when she is having troubles supporting a phrase, or when she is in best voice. He gives so much to her awesome performance through his very sensitive way of playing this music.

I would recommend this for anyone to buy: fans of modern art songs, fans of Marilyn Horne, and simply fans of good singing.

Horne brings these wonderful masterpieces to life!.......1999-07-17

Throughout the Barber, Bolcom and Bernstein, Marilyn Horne uses her ability to combine technical definition with artistic movement and expansion. Having had the opportunity to see her perform this literature live was an emotionally elevating experience. The way Horne and Katz have reworked a few of the Berstein pieces brings new life and perspectuve to these already wonderful pieces. I highly recommend this recording for the casual classical listener, as well as, for the student that enjoys learning from a master through their art.

Shining Light, Music from Aquitanian Monasteries

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Relaxing Alternative Music for the Winter Season
Incidental liturgical music. Great listening.
Sounds as pure as water

Shining Light, Music from Aquitanian Monasteries

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001TZG
Release Date: 1996-10-29

Tracks:

Lux refulget
Verbum patris humanatur o o
Ora pro nobis beate Nicolae
Cantu miro summa laude
Instrumental piece
Veri solis radius
Divinum stillant
Instrumental piece
Orienti Oriens
Per parfum virginis
Congaudet hodie
Virga Jesse floruit
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Omnis curet homo
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Resonemus hoc natali
Resonemus hoc natali (II)
Ad infantum triumphantum
Instrumental piece

Customer Reviews:

Relaxing Alternative Music for the Winter Season.......2007-01-10

"Shining Light" will lift your spirits during the gloomy winter months, and is a great alternative to over-played commercialized Christmas music. This is a wonderful collection of ancient music that provides a soothing and meditative experience.

Incidental liturgical music. Great listening........2005-12-16

'shining light' performed by Sequentia, the Ensemble for medieval music, is an excellent collection, running for over 70 minutes, of fragments of instrumental music and vocal music in Latin from monasteries in and around the southwestern French city of Limoges.

While this may not rate five stars as an academic piece, it is certainly worth the ranking as music easy on the ears, combining instrumental, male, and female choral music.

I wlll let the scholars fight it out. I simply find it an excellent collection of early music performances.

Sounds as pure as water.......2001-01-04

This disc is so beautiful, so full majesty and spirituality. It can quiet the stress and bring sweet comfort. The Sequentia singers so clean-sounding. Their voices have never sounded so pure, like the running of the streams. The chasms of the earth and the sea would be moved to the sounds.

But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972

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A favorite for 30 years
Proof that American songs can be great

But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000030FE
Release Date: 1996-09-17

Tracks:

The Children
Once Upon A Time
The Rose
Moo Is A Cow
Thomas Logge
Once A Lady Was Here
Song Of An Old Woman
Richard Cory
Luke Havergal
Miniver Cheevy
Strings In The Earth And Air
When The Shy Star Goes Forth In Heaven
O, It Was out By Donnycarney
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My Love Is In A Light Attire
Song
On The Beach At Fontana
These, My Ophelia
Sure On Thes Shining Night
The Running Sun

Customer Reviews:

A favorite for 30 years.......2006-10-05

Like the next reviewer, I had this on record, and now have the CD. I have loved this music for 30 years. If you love 20th century American music, give it a try. I wish you as much pleasure as I have received from it.

Proof that American songs can be great.......2002-07-05

I have had the lp issue of this album for many years and have enjoyed it more with each encounter. The songs by Duke, Bowles, Citkowitz, Chanler, and Copland are based on some familiar poems, but the songs are not, themselves, well-known. I particularly have liked the witty and memorable Duke settings of E.A. Robinson's "Luke Havergal" and "Miniver Cheevy," but the real musical highlight of the disc would probably be the settings of James Joyce's "Chamber Music" by Israel Citkowitz. Donald Gramm is in fine voice for his selections and Bethany Beardslee proves again her legendary status as an interpreter of all kinds of modern music. It is definitely a good thing that this has been reissued on CD and I hope it will reach a wide audience.

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Ash has released the greatest song ever!

Shining Light #2
Ash
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Visi
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056ERR
Release Date: 2001-02-12

Tracks:

Shining Light (Album Version)
Feel No Pain
Jesus Says (Hedrock Valley Beats Light Year 12 Inch Mix)

Album Description

Remastered reissue for one of the most important bands on the Polish alternative scene features two bonus tracks, 'Peanuts' & 'Wojtek' (Video). Metal Mind Records. 2004.

Customer Reviews:

Ash has released the greatest song ever!.......2001-03-18

These great kids from N. Ireland have been delighting indie and britpop fans for several years with their incredible releases like 1977 and nu-clear sounds. Shining Light, however, is their best song ever...and the best song ever.

This masterpiece has a perfect tune, great lyrics, and exact timing. It will be a joy to anyone who has ever heard indie-britpop music. They will realize what pure genius this is, what pure majesty this song is.

'Shining Light' is around five minutes long and it will eat up your time as you listen to it 50 or 60 times staight. After you are done with your inevitable infatuaiton, you can listen to the other songs 'feel no pain' and a big beat version of 'Jesus Says' and watch the video for 'Shining Light'.