Noble Heart

Editorial Reviews
Pete Swanson - Great Falls Tribune
The "heart" of Gladstone's release relies on the power of lyrical content to hold the listener's ear as he continually seeks to enlighten his audience - a Gladstone trademark.

Frank Miele, The Daily InterLake
Gladstone continues to have a powerful message and a powerful voice to share it with.

Album Description
What do a sheep dog, a world-class athlete and a group of Navajo heroes have in common? Featured in songs on Jack Gladstone's album, "Noble Heart," their tales celebrate the proud, individual spirit. The themes of this album are self-sacrifice, love of sport and homeland, and the bond of friendship, and the songs reaffirm a sense of awe, wonder and playfulness.

Noble Heart

Léhar: The Land of Smiles; The Merry Widow; The Count of Luxembourg (Highlights)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow "
 Léhar: The Land of Smiles; The Merry Widow; The Count of Luxembourg (Highlights)

Manufacturer: Class. for Pleas. Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00009KHY2
Release Date: 2003-09-02

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Arguably "The Best" English "Merry Widow ".......2006-09-12

This is the "Merry Widow" with English translation by Christopher Hassel sung by June Bronhill. I loved this rendition ever since I first heard it in about 1960. What's to love? First the translation is the best I've heard. The language doesn't sound "stilted" as some others. And, you can understand almost every word sung. Plus, the famous song, "Vilja" has some wording that moves me every time I hear it: The soprano sings, "Love me and I'll DIE for you!" with the word "die" somewhat emphasized. I don't know, there's just something "powerful" about someone saying they'd "die" for love! AND, at the end of "Vilja" the chorus and soprano raise to a crescendo hitting a high note together. In many renditions the chorus is heard but not the soprano on the final high note. In THIS version, the soprano, June Bronhill, can be heard rising to the final high note with an incressing crescendo and fortissimo louder than the chorus and holding the final high note---which gives a very thrilling effect as she holds that final note, I assure you!

The "problem" is that this June Bronhill, Reid, and Hassel version is hard to find on CD. For example, this CD is made in Holland and "there is one left" so it says on Amazon. But, if you can find it, I think it would be very much worth a listen. Then, after hearing it, if you think there's a "better" Merry Widow, please let ME know! Thanks. Email:boland7214@aol.
At the Sign of the Crumhorn
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The best of the 4 I recently bought
  • a little jewel of Renaissance music
 At the Sign of the Crumhorn

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B00004GLLP
Release Date: 2000-04-11

Tracks:

  1. Come Out All
  2. Needles, Needles
  3. Den III. Ende VI. Ronde + Quatre Branles
  4. In Sorrow Must I Die
  5. I Carry In My Heart
  6. Be Sure To Drink In Moderation
  7. A Venus Creature
  8. How Sorrowful Is My Heart
  9. New Almanack
  10. In The Middle Of May
  11. A Guild Has It's Wench
  12. My Heart Has Secretly Departed
  13. My Beloved's Brown Eyes
  14. Ye Noble Young Spirits
  15. Ronde IV-I-VI
  16. Fool's Entr'acte
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  18. Hoboken Dance
  19. I Went Out Last Night
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  22. You Are The Most Precious
  23. Pain And Sorrow + I Mourn
  24. O Time So Heartily Full Of Melodies
  25. Now Take Note
  26. Here We Come
  27. A Girl Came Walking By I
  28. A Girl Came Walking By II
  29. Ronde III - IV

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best of the 4 I recently bought.......2005-04-27

For some reason I recently decided to buy a variety of Early Music CDs from Amazon. I purchased four, including this one, enough to spend $25 for free shipping. Of the four (the others being 'Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore', 'Music of the Troubadours', and 'Music of the Crusades'), this is my favorite.

I particularly like the song whose title is translated on this page as 'Be sure to drink in moderation' - I don't know enough contemporary Dutch to know if learning to sing this as recorded on this CD would be comprehensible to native speakers of Dutch today, but I certainly hope so, because it would make a terrific ice breaker at parties in Holland.

As for the music, it's hard to imagine that a gaggle of trained geese would sound as good as these Crumhorns. This album really rocks.

5 out of 5 stars a little jewel of Renaissance music.......2004-01-17

If you are looking for an album with all types of renaissance-music from the Low Countries this is the album. Different composers from that time-area and different types of music are recorded. Some songs are very modest, others makes it difficult not to hum with. This cd is a jewel worth listening. Renaissancofiles: this album should be in your collection.
Psalms of David Complete
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Brilliant Recordings
  • A- for effort
  • What can you say?
 Psalms of David Complete
Choir of St Paul's Cathedral , and Scott
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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ASIN: B00006GO6J
Release Date: 2002-10-08

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This complete 12-disc survey of The Psalms of David from St. Paul's Cathedral is both a remarkable historical record of Anglican chant at its finest and an astonishing musical experience. Contained here are all 150 psalms in their traditional English garb from the 1549 Book of Common Prayer, with revised or entirely new musical settings as published in The New St. Paul's Cathedral Psalter, edited by the choir's musical director John Scott, itself a revision of the 1875 Cathedral Psalter. As such, these recordings represent the very backbone of the Anglican liturgy, but even a casual listener will be in no doubt that they also offer music that is both contemplative and richly varied when removed from its liturgical context.

The art of "pointing"--or setting--psalm texts has been essayed by many English composers, from William Croft through the Wesleys and William Boyce in earlier times to the great flowering in the late 19th century under Stainer and Barnby, with further contributions from Parry, Stanford, Elgar, Howells, and a host of choirmasters and organists, including Sir David Willcocks and John Scott himself. All are represented here. Recorded throughout in the vast acoustic of their cathedral, the St. Paul's choristers enunciate the words precisely, backed by inventive though unobtrusive organ accompaniment. Taken individually, it's possible to isolate moments when the choir seem to drag their feet or fail to give due weight to the words (Psalm 125, "They that put their trust in the Lord," seems far too subdued, for example), and the massive Psalm 119 is awkwardly split across discs 10 and 11, but overall this set is nothing less than a document of invaluable cultural and musical significance. --Mark Walker

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant Recordings.......2007-06-11

In our view the changes in pointing, and excellent selection of chants, give deeper meanings to the Psalms than those achieved in the "standard?" Parish Psalter.

We found great Spirituality and a wonderful sense of Worship whilst listening to this set. This is often sacrificed for brilliance of musical performance in other recordings.

Unfortunately the "St.Paul's Psalter" is not available (June 2007) but we are told that a new print run may happen within 12 months. This would be a most valuable companion to the recordings when and if it becomes available.

4 out of 5 stars A- for effort.......2006-02-23

This grand undertaking deserves high praise, and I'm struck, listening to chant after chant, how much Anglican chant as it used to be until the changes of the 70s was one of the great Victorian contributions to English life and art. For anyone who wants to hear almost the entire repertoire of Anglican chant deployed in singing the whole book of Psalms, this is an unrivalled source. It is wonderful, too, to hear the Coverdale translation: you realize what the churches have lost by abandoning the proper & regular singing of the Psalms. So one is immensely grateful to Hyperion for putting out this recording. It's not perfect, though.

The rhythmic pacing, though a little slow for my taste, is steady and sensitive, the diction clear, and the organ accompaniment superb (Providing an expressive accompaniment to a choir singing in 4-part free rhythm, and improvising descants to the melody at the same time, isn't easy). And of course there's the cavernous acoustic of St. Paul's, very impressive in the more thunderous psalms. Unfortunately, though, the "forward" style favored for the St. Paul's boys produces a sound that's unpleasantly chesty in the lower registers and reedy in the higher ones. The poorly integrated choral sound caused by this kind of voice-production can be downright unpleasant for anyone used to, or trained in, the classic English choral style. In fact, one has to wonder why this choir was chosen for such a huge project: even allowing for the near-universal decline in standards of vocal training for boys in England, better sounds than this can still be heard.

5 out of 5 stars What can you say?.......2003-01-03

I almost hate to criticize this terrific thing. After all, where else can you get all 150 Psalms in a single collection sung by one of the world's great choirs?

How much do I like it? I bought it *twice*. I originally bought all the CDs separately, before they came out with a single boxed set. They were stolen from my car (and, God willing, maybe they converted some poor thief to Anglican Cathedral Music and got him into church). After they were stolen, I immediately bought them again.

One of the great pleasures of life is listening to the Morning and Evening Psalms while driving to and from work, and making listening a regular feature of Morning and Evening Prayer.

So what's the criticism? The sound is a bit muddy, so the words can be rather difficult to understand without reading along (which is a real problem when driving), and personally, I prefer the Psalter from the 1979 BCP instead of the old one, from the Great Bible. But that's unreasonable. They ARE a British choir after all. Those are the only criticisms.

Anyhow, if you have a taste for choral cathedral music, this is genuinely indispensible. St. Paul's has given the world a great blessing.
Shine Through My Dreams: Original 1917-1950 Recordings
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Gathering lilacs and rarer flowers.
 Shine Through My Dreams: Original 1917-1950 Recordings

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ASIN: B000063579
Release Date: 2002-06-18

Tracks:

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  2. Fold Your Wings
  3. The Radiance In Your Eyes
  4. Every Bit Of Loving In The World
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  6. Give Me Back My Heart
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  13. The Leap Year Waltz
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  15. We'll gather Lilacs
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  17. Waltz Of My Heart
  18. Keep The Home Fires Burning

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Gathering lilacs and rarer flowers........2002-08-22

Justice is done to Welsh-born composer, pianist, actor and man of the theatre Ivor Novello in this Naxos CD. The artists who first performed them are heard in 18 items, recorded between 1917 and 1950. Ivor Novello himself is heard in two of them, providing some spoken repartee as he accompanies Edna Best at the piano. Most were recorded in the 1930s. The sound quality is good enough for the lyrics to be clearly heard. They bespeak a long-vanished era, but the music still has charm.

Film buffs can nowadays most easily see Ivor Novello in an Alfred Hitchcock film of 1926, "The Lodger". Actor Jeremy Northam portrayed him in the recent film, "Gosford Park". Ivor Novello starred in his last production, "King's Rhapsody", and died nine days before I saw it in London in March 1951.
Evensong
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Marvelous music, marvelous music, mediocre recording.....
 Evensong

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

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ASIN: B000001SI0
Release Date: 1995-08-22

Tracks:

  1. Introit - 'The Lord Is In His Holy Temple'
  2. Improvisation
  3. Preces - Rector And The Choir
  4. Psalm 133 - Ecce, quam bonum!
  5. Psalm 134 - Ecce nunc
  6. Isaiah 35 - First Lesson
  7. Hymn - We Sing Of God
  8. Magnificat - The Evening Service In A Minor
  9. John 17:13-23 - Second Lesson
  10. Nunc Dimittis - The Evening Service In A Minor
  11. The Apostles Creed
  12. Responses - Rector And The Choir
  13. Anthem - O God, My Heart Is Ready (Text From Psalm 108)
  14. Prayers
  15. Blessing
  16. Hymn - Abide With Me (Eventide)
  17. Anthem - Judge Eternal
  18. Anthem - Christ, Whose Glory
  19. Organ Voluntary - Magnificat (Organbook II)

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Next time you're in New York, treat yourself to an Evensong service at St. Thomas Church on Fifth Avenue. The next best thing is this recording, which gives you a satisfying taste of the church's atmosphere and choral excellence. It's got everything, from readings of lessons and choral psalm singing, to hymns with descants, organ solos, and anthems by Ned Rorem, Gerre Hancock, and Frederick Candlyn. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Marvelous music, marvelous music, mediocre recording............2004-03-10

Who said America doesn't have a fantastic boy-choir tradition?

He should be slapped in the face....

First of all, I've always admired Gerre Hancock for his bold music selections. He may be dismissed as a "modernist" by the more conservative choral conducters, but one who has an ear for good music will know what makes an outstanding musical performance. I'm very happy Hancock has decided again to perform something of Ned Rorem, wich suits the sound of the 5th Avenue choir very well. One would also want to mention Hancocks own musical compositions, like Judge Eternal, wich are marvelous work of art! His improvisation on the organ however is a little bit a of a disappointment (what you wouldn't expect of somebody who was a protegé of Jean Langlais for crying out loud). But he makes up for that in other CD's. The last piece on the CD, performed by Peter Stoltzfus (an outstanding young talent) is Rorem's Magnificat from organbook II, an organsolo wich absolutly MINDBLOWING!

I would have almost rated this CD 4-stars because of the mediocre (but not bad) recording, but one should hold in mind that the recording opperandi for such a broad space as St.Thomas can be very demanding. Still, an overall must for music, choral and organlovers alike!
Sacred Music Complete
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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 Sacred Music Complete
Purcell , King , and Kings Consort
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5 out of 5 stars great, great!!!.......2006-12-05

This is the way ,I think, Purcell should sound. No pomp and surcomstance but only great music.

5 out of 5 stars ALL THE MUSIC YOU EVER NEED!!.......2003-05-23

This boxed set is by far one of the best purchases I have ever made. As a Purcell freak, this hits every button I have. The cast of characters include the inequitable Robert King, New College Choir, Bowman, and a host of other venerable persons. Likewise the attention to period performance of these works makes it an essential addition to the library of any serious anglophile/Musicologist etc. Now if only the Britten Realizations of all Purcell's songs could be recorded alongside the originals! You will Love this set!
Albert Ketelbey: In a Monastery Garden; In a Chinese Temple Garden; Sanctuary of the Heart; Will You Forgive?
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    		Albert Ketelbey: In a Monastery Garden; In a Chinese Temple Garden; Sanctuary of the Heart; Will You Forgive?

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    Webster Booth: Handel Arias; Operatic Arias
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    3. Messiah: Comfort Ye, My People
    4. Messiah: Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted
    5. Messiah: Thy Rebuke Hath Broken His Heart
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    9. Jephtha: Waft Her, Angels, Through The Skies
    10. Samson: Total Eclipse
    11. Serse: Ombra Mai Fu
    12. Il Seraglio: Constanze, Constanze
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    18. La Boheme: In A Coupe
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    5 out of 5 stars The finest British oratorio tenor.......2005-01-14

    Webster Booth is remembered today for his musical association with his wife, Anne Ziegler, but he was also one of the finest oratorio tenors of the twentieth century.

    On this CD he is in command of every emotional nuance of the recitative. 'Deeper and deeper still' from Jephtha is a good example of the emotional range. His diction is perfect and the Handelian runs are effortless.

    He had an amazingly wide range, extending from a baritonal quality in the lower registers to the effortless high notes in the arias from 'Acis and Galatea'.

    He also sings some standard operatic arias on the CD. All these are sung in English and he observes every expression mark to the letter.

    I can thoroughly recommend this CD to potential buyers.















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      Release Date: 2003-04-22

      Tracks:

      1. Is It Pain, Is It Pleasure That Fills Me
      2. Send Me, But, My Beloved
      3. No Hope Remains In My Affliction
      4. I Implore Thee And Tremble
      5. Verdant Pastures, Leafy Woodlands
      6. Noble Forests, Sombre And Shady
      7. Blow Gently, You Breezes
      8. Torture And Agony
      9. I Will Take The Handsome, Dark One
      10. Banished, Rejected, God Save Me!
      11. Who Knows What Feeling
      12. My Heart I Give You
      13. In A Cosy Chambre Separee
      14. Tender Flower, Starved Of Water
      15. Three Score And Ten
      16. When Happy Days
      17. Just As The Sun Awakens
      18. If You Are Near
      The Merry Widow & The Desert Song
      Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
      • DO NOT BUY THIS CD!!!
      • Robin Hood Revisited
      		 The Merry Widow & The Desert Song

      Manufacturer: Box Office
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000001ZRJ
      Release Date: 2000-01-01

      Tracks:

      1. The Merry Widow: Overture - Franz Lehar
      2. The Merry Widow: In Marsovia - Kitty Carlisle And Chorus
      3. The Merry Widow: Maxim's - Wilbur Evans
      4. The Merry Widow: Finale Of Act I - Kitty Carlisle/Wilbur Evans
      5. The Merry Widow: Down In Dear Marsovia - Jeffry Alexander
      6. The Merry Widow: Vilia - Kitty Carlisle
      7. The Merry Widow: Women - Wilbur Evans/Felix Knight
      8. The Merry Widow: Love In My Heart - Felix Knight
      9. The Merry Widow: Finale Of Act II - Kitty Carlisle/Wilbur Evans
      10. The Merry Widow: The Girls At Maxim's - Lisette Verea
      11. The Merry Widow: I Love You So (The Merry Widow Waltz) - Wilbur Evans/Kitty Carlisle
      12. The Merry Widow: Finale - Wilbur Evans/Kitty Carlisle
      13. The Desert Song: Opening Chorus And Riff Song - Wilbur Evans
      14. The Desert Song: French Military Marching Song - Kitty Carlisle
      15. The Desert Song: Romance - Kitty Carlisle
      16. The Desert Song: Then You Will Know - Kitty Carlisle/Wilbur Evans
      17. The Desert Song: The Desert Song - Kitty Carlisle/Wilbur Evans
      18. The Desert Song: Finale Of Act I - Kitty Carlisle/Wilbur Evans/Felix Knight/Vicki Vola
      19. The Desert Song: One Flower In Your Garden - Felix Knight
      20. The Desert Song: One Alone - Wilbur Evans
      21. The Desert Song: The Sabre Song - Kitty Carlisle
      22. The Desert Song: Finale - Kitty Carlisle
      23. Kitty Carlisle Selections: Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum - Carmen Jones/Georges Bizet/Oscar Hammerstein II
      24. Kitty Carlisle Selections: Jalousie - Jacob Gade/Vera Bloom
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      Customer Reviews:

      1 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS CD!!!.......2002-03-28

      The performances are great and both THE MERRY WIDOW and THE DESERT SONG are given very theatrical recordings here.

      The problem is sound quality. These are bootleg Cds dubbed from poor quality 78 RPMS with no attempt to clean up the sound. It is muddy, scratchy, noisy and distant. Also several of the sides were transferred running off-speed!!

      Happily Decca Broadway has sued to have these bogus discs taken off the market and have announced plans to issue these same titles under their own label. Decca owns the original masters so the sound will be much better. Do yourself a favour and wait a few months for the Decca releases, and avoid at all costs this an any other releases from Encore/Box-Office!!

      4 out of 5 stars Robin Hood Revisited.......2001-04-04

      Many years ago, when i was a child, I used to listen to The Desert Song on the original 78 rpm records. Since one song took in an entire record side, I got to be choosy as to what i wanted to hear, and in what order. Somehow, no matter what the record selection might be on the turntable stack, it always included the musical tale of the Red Shadow (aka Paul, the French commander's son), in his quest for justice, love, and adventure in North Africa.

      The Desert Song is one of those old-time musicals that they just don't seem to make any more...perhaps we have become too cynical, too worldly, to believe that once upon a time, people would go out by themselves, shuck off their privilaged existance, get together with a band of loyal henchmen (the Riffs in this case), and right wrongs, chastise villians, win the girl, and reveal their secret identity at the very end....and do all this set to some well-written music, including one of the great polyamorous love ballads of all time - "If One Flower Grows Alone In Your Garden".

      Put some fun, adventure, and old-fashioned idealism back into your life and let yourself be recruited by the Red Shadow and his band, happily roistering in the secret cave hide-out, as they plan their next sorty against the evil-doers of a simpler - and possibly better - world.

      The Merry Widow ain't half bad, either!

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