Where You Been

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With Paul Westerberg's croon and the slacker guitar of a Neil Young, J Mascis is forever assured of critical huzzahs. "Out There" and "Not the Same" are loud, lazy rock & roll, American-style. --Jeff Bateman --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Where You Been

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My favorite Dino Jr. album
Top five guitarist of all time!
Found, but never lost
Solid Alt Rock From DJ
Essential alt-country-grunge-punk.

Where You Been
Dinosaur Jr.
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MH5
Release Date: 1993-02-09

Tracks:

Out There
Start Choppin
What Else Is New
On The Way
Not The Same
Get Me
Drawerings
Hide
Goin Home
I Ain't Sayin

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With Paul Westerberg's croon and the slacker guitar of a Neil Young, J Mascis is forever assured of critical huzzahs. "Out There" and "Not the Same" are loud, lazy rock & roll, American-style. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

My favorite Dino Jr. album.......2007-01-27

I recently got into this band and I have to say, out of all the releases, this one is my favorite. There's not a bad song on here and the album packs energy from start to finish.

If you were to get one Dino Jr. album, you can't go wrong with "Where You Been".

Top five guitarist of all time!.......2004-07-04

I just got done listening to "Get Me" and was compelled to write this review. I've owned this disk for a long time, but it rarely gets a spin. I guess I've heard it so many times and there is so much good music out there to discover that I don't have the time to listen to it much. Anyway, I write this review because after listening to "Get Me" once again I am reminded of how talented a guitarist J. Mascis is. I put him up there with Jerry Garcia, Trey Anastasio, Jimmy Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn. He's that good. Overall, this disk is not only a series of good songs, but of extraordinary guitar work. Some people may be put off by the poor vocals, but still this disk is better than 95% of the music released in the 1990s.

Found, but never lost.......2004-05-13

To start off with, I must say that I am not one to blurt out grandiose declarative statements about the greatness of something. I will have to make an exception in the case of D.J.'s Where You Been. I first discovered Dinosaur Jr. back when this album first came out. I heard them on the radio and was mightily impressed. I really hadn't heard anybody quite like them before. At this time, I was very much interested in the grunge movement, particularly Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains. I also found I had a strong interest in the Pixies, and a mild interest in Sonic Youth, both of whom hailed from the same Mass. area as DJ. While I still enjoy all of these groups for myriad of reasons, the one group I never tired of was Dinosaur Jr. and in particular this album. I actually started out loving "I ain't saying", but when I bought the cd I lost interest in it. I really dug "Start Choppin'" for its simple bubbly rhythm. For me, "Get Me" is a real gem with its astounding guitar solos and mutterings of J. Most of the other tracks are very good. Easy to listen all through. The thing about DJ that I have always found comforting is that vocally it invokes a sort of "throw my hands in the air" apathy that has carried me through some pretty tough times over the years. Besides, I could actually sing along and very often it would be of a quality near par to J's(lol).
The music is enough to make even the most dedicated lyricists overlook the scratchy, oft-out of key vocals and generally incomprehensible words. I would argue that the lyrics and vocals are part and parsal to the overall DJ experience, though.

I have purchased this album twice, and am getting ready to buy another copy of it. After hearing this album, I started checking out DJ's other albums. They were hard to find where I lived at the time, but it became a bit of an obsession to find them. I think GreenMind is a very solid album, maybe even my second favorite and I very much enjoy the EP-Whatever's Cool With Me. The live version of the GreenMind classic "Thumb" is superb and well-worth the cost of the cd. I am not a huge fan of DJ's early stuff, though I own all of it and listen to it on occasion. Fossils is a fun album though.

The album following Where You Been, Without a Sound, was initially disappointing to me. I was rather possessive of "my" band and when they started to gain a little attention, I resented the "johnny come lately's" even though I suppose I was one too, as I look back. I didn't give the cd a chance, but as I have listened to it since, I have gained a healthy respect for it. Their last original cd, which I can't remember the name of is also a solid effort.

All in all, I must say that Where You Been was one of the first cd's that I could listen to not stop all the way through. I would recommend this to anyone who is nostalgic for the bygone 90's or just those interested in some obscure guitar-driven rock that is fresh and still holds up 10+ years after it was released. When you look at the poor state of rock these days, DJ really shines, especially to those of you who haven't heard much of their music.

Solid Alt Rock From DJ.......2004-04-21

While Green Mind saw J. Mascis steering Dinosaur Jr's sound to a more diverse and enhanced destination, Where You Been is that destination. The album starts out strong with "Out There," a great rocker, simmering with screaming guitars and woeful vocals. "Start Choppin" was a hit off the album, with a video in steady rotation on MTV. It starts off with a light, catchy riff that suddenly explodes into a wall of distorted guitar strumming, with J singing: "I ain't tellin' you a secret / I ain't tellin' you goodbye." The song continues to build on the initial catchy guitar line and would fit easily on Green Mind.

Dinosaur Jr. has always excelled at somehow marrying metal/punk with country twang and melody, and that is never more evident than on Where You Been. "What Else is New?" demonstrates this perfectly, where J. even kind of does a bit of a yodel-type singing along with a very folky guitar line that suddenly blisters into mad Hendrix solos and then ends with strings, and timpani drums. "On the Way" is a fast-paced track that could be a leftover from Bug, and proves that J & Co. are still proficient rockers. "Not the Same" holds the surprise of the album, with more timpani drums, flutes and stark vocals sung in falsetto. Not my favorite DJ song, but interesting and is effective if I'm in the right mood.

For me, the album is topped with "Get Me," an amazing song that starts off with slight strumming, then building into a giant riff that climaxes with more solos that say more than all the words on any DJ album. This is a song that, like Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue," can be heard a thousand times and not get tiresome. "Drawerings" falters a bit with a riff that even sounds like the one in "Get Me" but without the same feeling (though I still do like the solos on this one). "Hide" is another fast rocker but doesn't have the catchy chorus of "On the Way." "Goin Home" is one of my favorites - with a great keyboard line and twangy guitars, the song shows the musical breadth of DJ. The album ends with "I Ain't Sayin," which could sum up Mascis' entire lyrical catalog, cause he really ain't sayin much except "I'm rollin' home to you." This album deserves a place in your home if you consider yourself a DJ fan.

Essential alt-country-grunge-punk........2004-04-04

It's hard to say which album is the best of theirs, but I'd go with this or "Green Mind". Neither are as rough as the early albums, or as smooth as the late ones, but just solid rockin' "DJ". The popular songs were "Out There" and "Start choppin'", but I also like "Get Me" and the excellent "Goin' Home". That's probably one of my favorite "DJ" songs ever. As with every album, they're not all winners, but front to back this is one of the best. Newcomers might just want the "Ear Bleeding Country" collection. It's sweet too.

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not to great
Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$
You get what you pay for.
Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...

100 Favorite Patriotic Songs

Manufacturer: Bci / Eclipse Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000A1HT8
Release Date: 2003-08-12

Tracks:

America the Beautiful
All Quiet on the Potomac Tonight
Ballad of the Green Berets
On Top of Old Smokey
Coyote Warrior
Semper Fidelis
Breeze from Alabama
Onward Christian Soldiers
Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
Patriot
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Marines' Hymn
America Is
When Johnny Comes Marchin' Home
Happy the Soldier
American Trilogy
Home Sweet Home
Washington Post March
Enraptured I Gaze
Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair
Yellow Rose of Texas
Over There
Simple Gifts
Liberty Bell
Star Spangled Banner

Tracks:

God Bless the USA
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Katy Cruel
I Vow to Thee My Country
King Cotton
Beautiful Dreamer
America
American Patrol
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Beauty
Mohican Dream
Red, White and Blue
Some Folks
Liberty Song
Pomp and Circumstance
Hail to the Chief
Bennington Rifles
Peace on the Battlefield
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Under the Double Eagle
Red River Valley
My Country 'Tis of Thee
Camptown Races
Wild Blue Yonder
Hands Across the Sea
Fanfare for the Common Man

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Stars and Stripes Forever
Living in America
Home on the Range
Old Colony Times
Clementine
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Ring Ring de Banjo
Yankee Doodle
Largo from "The New World"
To a Wild Rose
Hail Columbia
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Gettysburg
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny
Capitan
Prairie Daughter
Little Brown Jug
Marching Through Georgia
Entertainer
Steamboat Around the Bend
Revolutionary Tea
Cassions Keep Rollin' Along
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
Amazing Grace
Grand Old Flag

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God Bless America
National Emblem
Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
Anchors Away
Oh, Susannah
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Toast
Dixie
St. Louis Blues
Appalachian Spring
Bonnie Blue Flag
Old Hundreth
Swanee River
Battle Cry of Freedom
U. S Field Artillery
Sidewalks of New York
Chester
Auld Lang Syne
Kingdom Come
My Old Kentucky Home
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Shenandoah
Abraham's Daughter
This Land Is Your Land

Customer Reviews:

not to great.......2007-04-04

We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.

Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22

I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.

You get what you pay for........2004-07-04

You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.

Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04

I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.

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Was great before...

Where You Been
Dinosaur Jr.
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EXZH5G
Release Date: 2006-05-16

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Out There
Start Choppin
What Else Is New
On The Way
Not the Same
Get Me
Drawerings
Hide
Goin Home
I Ain't Sayin
Hide
Keepblin
What Else Is New

Album Description

Fronted by singer-songwriter/guitarist J Mascis, Dinosaur Jr. formed in Massachusetts in 1984. Their emergence was a musical shot heard round the world as Mascis and company put the heroics of lead guitar back into the forefront of the indie rock realm-amazingly, it was a revolutionary idea at the time. Post-punk and pre-grunge, they were an intense force to be reckoned with, and when the band signed to Sire in '91, Mascis' shreddingly unique alt-rock sound was cranked up for vast new audiences of eardrums. These expanded remasters of Dinosaur Jr's first two major label albums spotlight one of the most distinctive and influential artists of the '90s in prime form.

Customer Reviews:

Was great before..........2006-06-04

Now it's even better! If you like this cd, you'll like it even more now. Rhino did a great job remastering this album. The extra tracks aren't that great, but the sound is. I heard bass and second guitars that once were only present when wearing great headphones. Great release!

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No One Will Know Where You've Been
The Roadside Graves
Manufacturer: Young American
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Where Have You Been? Live in Montreux 1976-1994

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Where Have You Been? Live in Montreux 1976-1994
Luther Allison
Manufacturer: Ruf Records
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 1996-08-20

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Best of Broadway: Some Enchanted Evening

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Some Enchanted Evening is enchanting!

Best of Broadway: Some Enchanted Evening

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Customer Reviews:

Some Enchanted Evening is enchanting!.......2002-07-26

This album takes you on a stroll down memory lane, enchanting all the way. It is relaxing and soothing listening, and will be great background music for a candlelit dinner for two, an evening party with a mix of ages and backgrounds, or just to sing with while you get some work done. The orchestration is excellent and the performances wonderfully smooth. A hit for everyone!

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Great Musicals

Manufacturer: Rajon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000682FF4
Release Date: 2004-11-15

Tracks:

Oklahoma Suite: Oklahoma!/Oh, What a Beautiful Morning/The Surrey With
My Fair Lady Suite: Ascot Gavotte/Wouldn't It Be Loverly?/With a ...
Annie Get Your Gun Suite: Doin' What Comes Natur'lly/You Can't Get ...
King and I Suite: The March of Siamese Children/I Whistle a Happy Tune
Sound of Music Suite: The Sound of Music/My Favourite Things/Do-Re-Mi
West Side Story: The Jet Song/America/Tonight/Something's Coming/Maria

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Porgy and Bess Suite: Summertime/I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'/I Loves ...
South Pacific Suite: Bali Ha'i/A Cockeyed Optimist/Some Enchanted ...
Guys and Dolls Suite: Luck Be a Lady/Fugue for Tinhorns/Follow the ...
Carousel Suite: The Carousel Waltz/Mister Snow/June Is Bustin' Out All

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Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will ...
Evita: Don't Cry for Me Argentina/Another Suitcase in Another Hall
Jesus Christ Superstar: Jesus Christ Superstar/I Don't Know How to ...
Cats: Memory/Macavity the Mystery Cat/Mister Misoffeles
Phantom of the Opera: Phantom of the Opera/All I Ask of You/Angel ...

Album Description

Australian exclusive 3-CD set from the Rajon label's 'Great Series'. 2004.

Overture: American Musical Theatre, Vol. 3 (1946-1952)

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Overture: American Musical Theatre, Vol. 3 (1946-1952)

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Release Date: 1993-12-03

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There's No Business Like Show Business/The Girl That I Marry/I Got The Sun In The Morning/They...
Almost Like Being In Love/Come Rain Or Come Shine
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String Quartet Writing is Alive and Well

Fuchs: Quartets 2, 3, & 4

Manufacturer: Albany Records
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Release Date: 2001-10-30

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Str Qt No.4 'Bergonzi': Energico - Meno Mosso - Vivo

Customer Reviews:

String Quartet Writing is Alive and Well.......2003-01-12

String quartet writing is alive and well in America. Before I bought this CD I had never heard of Kenneth Fuchs. But members of the American String Quartet are old friends and I typically buy their new releases. I'm glad I did.

Fuchs, Director of the School of Music at the University of Oklahoma, and formerly Dean of Students and Academics at the Manhattan School of Music, is a real composer. On the basis of these three quartets, one can say that he has a genuine lyrical gift, as well as a masterful sense of form, expert counterpoint, rhythmic verve, and drama.

The Second Quartet has five movements inspired by five different pieces of Robert Motherwell, whose collages the composer had first seen in New York in 1984. Full-color photographs of the five collages are included in the liner notes and it was helpful to look at them while listening to the music. Fuchs's style is generally tonal, but with enough spicy dissonance to make the harmonies interesting, and there are even some serial sections which, however, are still tonal-sounding. If I had to compare his sound to any other composer's, I'd probably have to mention that of Shostakovich; what composer writing quartets in the second half of the 20th century could avoid his influence? Shostakovich's hollow-eyed terror, however, is missing. And occasionally, as in the second movement, there is a melismatic ecstasy reminiscent of Vaughan Williams's 'The Lark Ascending.' The third movement combines elements of the first two, while responding to 'The Marriage', one of Motherwell's pieces, and, in the composer's wry comment, 'it ends badly.' The fourth movement functions as the work's development and leads to the fifth movement, which one could consider the quartet's recapitulation; the musical landscapes of the earlier movements are recalled in an affirmative mood.

The Third Quartet, in three movements and subtitled 'Whispers of Heavenly Death', was composed 'as a gift for the American String Quartet,' after they had toured with the Second Quartet. Each of the movements has an epigram from Whitman's 'Darest Thou Now O Soul.' The materials in the three movements are related, and like the working-out of the materials in Bartók's 'Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta', the harmonic language becomes more diatonic as the work progresses, with an accompanying easing of tension. Like the Second Quartet, this one ends on an affirmative note.

The Fourth Quartet, subtitled 'Bergonzi', was written for the Bergonzi Quartet, in 1998. Its one ten-minute movement has three distinct sections -- Energico - Meno mosso - Vivo -- played without interruption. The first section introduces a tremolo figure on the viola followed by a lyrical, almost swooning, figure on the cello and these become the major figures in the succeeding lyrical second and energetic third sections.

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Winterreise: Gute Nacht - Franz Schubert
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Winterreise: Gefrorene Trn - Franz Schubert
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Winterreise: Wasserflut - Franz Schubert
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Winterreise: Der Leiermann - Franz Schubert

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Die schone Mullerin: Das Wandern
Die schone Mullerin: Wohin?
Die schone Mullerin: Halt!
Die schone Mullerin: Danksagung an den Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Am Feierabend
Die schone Mullerin: Der Neugierige
Die schone Mullerin: Ungeduld
Die schone Mullerin: Morgengruss
Die schone Mullerin: Des Mullers Blumen
Die schone Mullerin: Tranenregen
Die schone Mullerin: Mein!
Die schone Mullerin: Pause
Die schone Mullerin: Mit dem grunen Lautebande
Die schone Mullerin: Der Jager
Die schone Mullerin: Eifersucht und Stolz
Die schone Mullerin: Die liebe Farbe
Die schone Mullerin: Die bose Farbe
Die schone Mullerin: Trockne Blumen
Die schone Mullerin: Der Muller und der Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Des Baches Wiegenlied
4 Lieder: Nacht und Traume D 827
4 Lieder: Standchen
4 Lieder: Du bist die Ruh
4 Lieder: Erlkonig

Tracks:

Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft
Schwanengesang: Kriegers Ahnung
Schwanengesang: Fruhlingssehnsucht
Schwanengesang: Standchen
Schwanengesang: Aufenthalt
Schwanengesang: In der Ferne
Schwanengesang: Abschied
Schwanengesang: Der Atlas
Schwanengesang: Ihr Bild
Schwanengesang: Das Fischermadchen
Schwanengesang: Die Stadt
Schwanengesang: Am Meer
Schwanengesang: Der Doppelganger
Schwanengesang: Die Taubenpost
9 Lieder: Vollendung
9 Lieder: Die Erde
9 Lieder: An die Musik
9 Lieder: An Silvia
9 Lieder: Heideroslein
9 Lieder: Im Abendrot
9 Lieder: Der Musensohn
9 Lieder: Die Forelle
9 Lieder: Der Tod und das Madchen

Tracks:

An die Leier
Philoktet
Memnon
Fahrt zum Hades
Lied des Orpheus, als er in die Holle ging
Orest auf Tauris
Der entsuhnte Orest
Fragment aus dem Aeschylus
Der zurnenden Diana
Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren
Heliopolis I
Freiwilliges Versinken
Das Weinen
Schiffers Scheidelied
Der Kreuzzug
Vor meiner Wiege
Fruhlingslied
Jagers Liebeslied

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Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Im wunderschonen Monat Mai
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Aus meinen Tranen spriessen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube, die Sonne
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Wenn ich in deine
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich will meine Seele tauchen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Im Rhein, im schonen Strome
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich grolle nicht
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Und wussten's die blumen die kleinen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Das ist ein Floten und Geigen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Hor ich das Liedchen kiligen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Am leuchteden Sommermorgen
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Ich hab im Traum geweinet
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Allnachtilch im Traume
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Aus alten Marchen winkt es
Dichterliebe Op. 48 Les Amours du poete Heinrich Heine: Die alten bosen Lieder
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Lust der Sturmnacht
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stirb, Lieb und Freud
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wanderlied
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Erstes Grun
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Sehsucht nach der Waldgagend
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Auf das Trinkglas einet verstorbenen Fredes
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wandrung
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stille Liebe
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Frage
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Stille Tranen
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Wer machete dich so krank?
12 Gedichte Op. 35 Justinus Kerner: Alte Laute
7 Lieder: Freisinn
7 Lieder: Schneeglockchen
7 Lieder: Standchen
7 Lieder: Laute di menien
7 Lieder: Des sennen Abschied
7 Lieder: Des sennen Abschied
7 Lieder: Talismane

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Liederkreis Op 24: Morgens steh ich auf und frage
Liederkreis Op 24: Es treibt mich hin
Liederkreis Op 24: Ich wandelte unter den baumen
Liederkreis Op 24: Lieb liebchen
Liederkreis Op 24: Schone Wiege meiner leiden
Liederkreis Op 24: Warte, warte, wilder Schiffmann
Liederkreis Op 24: Berg' undBurgen schaun herunter
Liederkreis Op 24: Anfangs wolt ich fast verzagen
Liederkreis Op 24: Mit Myrten und rosen
11 Lieder: Der Kontrabandiste
11 Lieder: Zigeunerliedchen I
11 Lieder: Zigeunerliedchen II
11 Lieder: Tief im Herzen
11 Lieder: Melancholie
11 Lieder: Sehnsucht
11 Lieder: Gestandnis
11 Lieder: O wie lieblich
11 Lieder: Weh, wie zornig
11 Lieder: Der Hidalgo
11 Lieder: Romanze
Myrten op. 25: Widmung
Myrten op. 25: Der Nussbaum
Myrten op. 25: Lied aus dem Schenkenbuch I
Myrten op. 25: Lied aus dem Schenkenbuch II
Myrten op. 25: Die Lotosblume
Myrten op. 25: Du bist wie eine Blume
Myrten op. 25: Auden hebraischen Geangen
Myrten op. 25: Du bist wie eine Blume
Myrten op. 25: Zum Schluss
5 Lieder: Die feindlichen Bruder
5 Lieder: Abends am Strand
5 Lieder: Die beiden Grenadiere
5 Lieder: Mein schoner Stern
5 Lieder: Wein Wagen

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An die ferne Geliebte, op.98: Auf dem Huegel sitz ich, spaehend - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Wo die Berge so blau - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven: Leichte Segler in den Hoehen - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Diese Wolken in den Hoehen - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Es kehret der Maien, es bluehet die Au - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Lieder: Adelaide, op.46 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ich liebe dich, so wie du mich, WoO 123 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
L'amante impaziente, op.82-3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
L'amante impaziente, op.82-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Ariette (Der Kuss), op.128 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
In questa tomba oscura, WoO 133 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur, op.48-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Maigesang, op.52-4 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Marmotte, op.52-7 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Seufzer eines Ungeliebten-Gegeliebe, WoO 118 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Andenken, WoO 136 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Der Wachtelschlag, WoO 129 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Aus Goethes Faust (Mephistos Flohlied), op.75-3 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
3 Gesaenge, op.83: I. Wonne der Wehmut - Ludwig Van Beethoven
II. Sehnsucht - Ludwig Van Beethoven
III. Mit einem gemalten Band - Ludwig Van Beethoven
An die Hoffnung, op.94 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Lied aus der Ferne, WoO 137 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Der Juengling in der Fremde, WoO 138 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Der Liebende, WoO 139 - Ludwig Van Beethoven
Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel, WoO 150 - Ludwig Van Beethoven