Composed by Johann II Strauss
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
2. Suite for orchestra No 3 in D major, BWV 1068 Air on a G String
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
3. Gaîté Parisienne, ballet Can Can
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
4. Ritual Fire Dance (from "El Amor brujo"), for orchestra and various arrangements Ritual Fire Dance
Composed by Manuel de Falla
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
5. Les Contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts Barcarolle
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
6. Carmen, opéra-comique in 4 acts March of the Torreadors
Composed by Georges Bizet
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
7. Suite bergamasque, for piano, L. 75 Clair de Lune
Composed by Claude Debussy
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
8. The Flight of the Bumble Bee, musical picture for orchestra (from The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Composed by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
9. Fantasia on Greensleeves, for harp, flute, & strings (arranged by R. Greaves; from the opera Sir John In Love)
Composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
10. Thais, opera Meditation
Composed by Jules Massenet
with Andre and his Orchestra Kostelanetz
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Britten: The Canticles; Ian Bostridge, David Daniels
Ian Bostridge , David Daniels , Christopher Maltman , Julius Drake , Aline Brewer , Timothy Brown , and Benjamin Britten Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005UV9G Release Date: 2002-11-05 |
Tracks:
- Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine
- Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
- Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
- Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi
- Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus
- The Plough Boy
- The Salley Gardens
- The foggy, foggy dew
- There's none to soothe
- O Waly, Waly
- The Ash Grove
- Greensleeves
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If you were assembling a latter-day dream team for a package program of all five Britten Canticles, this would probably be it. With one or two exceptions, it delivers everything you'd want. Ian Bostridge--the most literate tenor on God's earth--was born to sing this repertory, observing subtleties of text and niceties of diction without compromise to the beauty of fine-spun legato lines. David Daniels, an accomplished actor, sings the boy in Abraham and Isaac with exactly the right mix of pathos and restraint. Christopher Maltman provides the vocal equivalent of lithe, young, gym-toned muscularity in "Journey of the Magi" and the group of folk-song settings that pad out the disc. And Julius Drake homes in as if by instinct on what really tells in the accompaniments: a figure here that signals something to the voice, a chord there that transforms the color of a phrase. The two supporting instrumentalists (Timothy Brown, horn, and Aline Brewer, harp) add to the pleasure of it all. Just one reservation: Bostridge doesn't quite have the climactic roar of joy required for "My Beloved Is Mine" or the authoritative weight for Abraham, and Daniels can sound womanly, as well as overartful in the folk songs (although not everyone feels comfortable with countertenors singing folksongs). And in any case, it's not enough to counter the outstanding virtues of the disc. --Michael WhiteCustomer Reviews:
Benjamin Britten and English as a Musical Language.......2007-01-22
The Canticles were composed over a thirty-year period (1947 - 1974) and are a microcosm of Britten's development as a composer and philosopher. The five works are all inspired by religious themes and yet they also can be seen as occult references to Britten's own homage to his sexual proclivity. Here the canticles are sung impeccably by Ian Bostridge, tenor, David Daniels, countertenor, and Christopher Maltman, baritone and the series is beautifully united by the pianism of Julius Drake (with collaboration of harpist Aline Brewer and horn player Timothy Brown). To review each canticle would take far too much space, but at least some mention must be paid to the opening of the second canticle (Abraham and Isaac) in which the voice of God telling Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son is intoned by close harmony duet by Bostridge and Daniels: the effect is ethereal and wholly spiritual. Each of the five canticles is successful on every level.
Accompanying the Canticles are seven of Britten's Folksong arrangements and each of the three singers is given time and interpretive flair for each one. It would be difficult to imagine three better matched singers than Bostridge, Daniels, and Maltman - three artists who continue to grow in stature (these recordings were made in 2001). This CD contains some of Britten's more difficult works - but also some of his most sublime. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 07
Excellent.......2006-09-03
Three Amazing Voices at Their Peak .......2004-08-17
The last twenty minutes of the disc are devoted to a wide array of English folk songs, and this is where each singer gets an opportunity to shine in solo turns. In particular, baritone Christopher Maltman does a fine job on "The Plough Boy" and "The Salley Gardens". Although Britten is not for everyone's taste, this is a beautifully realized recording with three great singers at their peak, and special mention needs to go to pianist Julius Drake who accompanies with great skill.
Literate, Schmiterate.......2003-12-10
Exquisite Singing in Lesser Known Britten.......2002-12-27
Neither art songs nor operatic scena, in the Canticles Britten fashions his own vocal form, based in part on the extended Baroque solo cantata as realized by Purcell. Each Canticle is based on a poem with religious overtones, and set with sensitivity to the prosody and shades of meaning conveyed by the poet. The first Canticle, set to a parody of the Song of Songs by Anglican poet Frances Quarles, is fashioned in the most Purcellian manner of the Canticles, complete with Baroque devices like the canon and the ground bass. Each stanza is given a different form, almost like a suite, though unified by melodic material. The second stanza is a setting of the story of Abraham and Isaac from the Chester Miracle plays for tenor and countertenor (originally for alto, the tendency now is to use countertenor.) The work is dramatic, a mini-scena with many sections forcasting a very different setting of this story in the War Requiem. Canticle III is composed for tenor and horn and uses the very beautiful Sitwell poem, Still Falls the Rain. Britten's music matches the deep pathos of the poem. The final two Canticles use poetry by T.S. Eliot. They are in Britten's late style, tonal and yet austere and richly dissonant. Canticle V in particular has overtones of the music Britten would use for his final operatic masterpiece, Death in Venice.
The performances on this CD are stupendous. Ian Bostridge is probably the finest interpreter of English art song alive today. His attention to diction, nuance of text, beauty of tone and intelligence make these for me even better than the marvelous Peter Pears performances of these works. David Daniels is the finest countertenor working today. His tone is honey-sweet but never weird or cloying as Alfred Deller could be. And he strikes the perfect tone as Isaac, both childlike and saintly. Maltman too is in fine form in Canticle IV. The instrumentalists are also superb. Special mention goes to Julius Drake, who is a technically brilliant and sensitive accompanist in music that sounds simple but is deceptively tricky.
The disc is rounded out by several of Britten's beautiful settings of English folk songs. A marvelous way to end a truly spectacular vocal disc.
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A Little Chrismas Music: Kiri Te Kanawa; The King's Singers
various/traditional , Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , The King's Singers , London Sinfonia , and Richard Hickox Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002RRF Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Here We Come A-Wassailing
- It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
- The Little Drummer Boy
- I Wonder As I Wander
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprungen
- Ding Dong! Merrily On High
- Stille Nacht
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- A Little Christmas Music (Medley A La Mozart)
- The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla)
- The Boar's Head Carol
- Gaudete
- Joy To The World
- Three Spanish Carols: Riu, Riu, Chiu
- Three Spanish Carols: El Nino Querido
- Three Spanish Carols: Villancico Catalan
- Deck The Hall
- The Wexford Carol
- The Gift (Simple Gifts)
- Patapan And Farandole
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a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-11-29
This album is really a mixture of Christmas tunes and that's partly what makes it interesting. And, of course it is masterfully sung by the King's singers;I enjoy all their discs; especially the recording of Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. Some of the arrangements on this disc are somewhat esoteric, and I'm not too fond of the very STRANGE arrangement (again by Daryl Runswick) of the Coventry Carol, but 'to each his own'. Their opening selection:"Here We Come a-wassailing" (arr. Robert Chilcott) is a great opening number and I must say that it's the best arrangement I have ever heard of this selection.
Let's face it:the KING'S SINGERS are perfection. But don't forget our American group:Chanticleer.
like all but one track.......2006-02-02
Heaven is here!.......2005-10-26
A Very Mixed Bag.......2003-08-15
Band 12, "The Coventry Carol," the longest cut on the CD, demands special mention: it is downright awful. The annotator of this CD writes cosily, "And of course there are the old traditional English Christmas songs, all mulled wine and mince pies." Nothing could be less descriptive of what we get here, where the misguided, pretentious, weird, grotesquely ugly, far-out dissonant-modern arrangement does its utmost to pervert and spoil this lovely old English carol, twisting and distorting it into something almost unrecognizable; this cut is a real horror. (Sir David Willcocks, the famed King's College choirmaster under whom the King's Singers trained and sang as youths, would be appalled. The man responsible for this travesty, one Daryl Runswick, also arranged two other selections; his consistently tasteless arrangements comprise three of the four worst on the CD.)
The performing forces vary from the a cappella singers to accompaniments with brass ensemble or orchestra. The variable but undistinguished engineering (EMI's Abbey Road studios, 1989)--over-processed, over-bright, hard-edged, and occasionally canned-sounding--is an additional drawback. If you like traditional Christmas music (as I do) you might want to think twice before buying this CD. At least try to listen to it first. Caveat emptor.
Among My Top 10 Christmas Recordings.......2002-12-26
Because the recording is so excellent on the whole, one disappointment stands out: I wish that Coventry Carol had been saved for another recording. The dissonances conjure up distressing images at odds with the overall effect they seem to have been trying to accomplish with the recording, and I can certainly imagine that in another context, I might have been interested and emotionally moved, rather than unsettled and annoyed.
In any case, this has remained for years one of my favorite Christmas recordings, and I have to give it 5 stars.
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Lowell Liebermann: Complete Chamber Music for Flute
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009WVR5 Release Date: 2003-07-22 |
Tracks:
- Five Pieces from "Album for the Young," Op. 79. Ostinato
- Five Pieces from "Album for the Young," Op. 79. Starry Night
- Five Pieces from "Album for the Young," Op. 79. Melancholy
- Five Pieces from "Album for the Young," Op. 79. Hommage a Faure
- Five Pieces from "Album for the Young," Op. 79. Hommage a Alkan
- Sonata for flute and guitar, Op. 25. Nocturne - Adagio comodo
- Sonata for flute and guitar, Op. 25. Allegro
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Ophelia
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Etude
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Forgotten Waltz
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Etude
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Hongroise
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Cypher
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. Fanfare
- Eight Pieces for solo flute, Op. 59. March
- Sonata for flute and harp, Op. 56. Grave; Allegro
- Soliloquy for solo flute, Op. 44. Adagio con rubato
- Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 23. Lento con rubato
- Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 23. Presto energico
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. A Poet to His Beloved
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. He Thinks of His Past Greatness
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
- A Poet to His Beloved, Op. 40. He Wishes for the Clothes of Heaven
Customer Reviews:
LIEBERMANN LOVES ALEXA"S CD!!!.......2003-10-10
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Micro-Classics: Arrangements and Derangements of Some of the World's Most Beloved Melodies
Manufacturer: Newport Classic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004TY0Y Release Date: 1993-10-04 |
Tracks:
- Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) - Overture
- de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance, for orchestra (from "El Amor brujo")
- Satie: Gymnopedie for Piano No.1
- Praetorius: Courante And Spagnoletta
- J.S. Bach: Boure
- Bizet: Carmen - Entr'acte
- Bizet: Carmen - Chanson Boh
- Gounod: Ave Maria (Meditation on Prelude No. 1 of Bach)
- J.S. Bach: Badinerie
- Unknown: El Condor Pasa
- Borodin: Polovstian Dances
- Romanian Folk Song: Mountains And High Fir Trees
- J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2 in F Major - Finale
- Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - Trepak
- Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker - Valse Des Fleurs
- Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals - The Elephant
- Rossini: La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) - Overture
- Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - Largo From 'Winter Concerto'
- Rossini: The Cats' Duet
- Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - Finale
- Debussy: La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin, prelude for piano
- Romanian Folk Song: The Skylark
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Henry Purcell: Odes and Anthems
Manufacturer: Vanguard Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001Z4992 Release Date: 2004-06-08 |
Customer Reviews:
Dated but fascinating.......2005-05-09
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Dave Heath: Sirocco
Manufacturer: Black Box Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000088NTK Release Date: 2003-03-25 |
Tracks:
- First Movement - John Anderson
- Second Movement - John Anderson
- Third Movement - John Anderson
- First Movement: Ceilidh - Ittai Shapira
- Second Movement: Lament For Collessie - Ittai Shapira
- Third Movement: The Cooper Of Clapham - Ittai Shapira
- Home From The Storm For Flute And Chamber Orchestra - William Bennett
- The Sapphire For Oboe And Chamber Orchestra - John Anderson
- Did Anyone See What Happened? - David Thomas
- He Chose Me - David Thomas
- Ich Hatt Einen Herzallerliebsten... - David Thomas
- Lochalsh For Solo Violin - Ittai Shapira
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Beloved Classics
Manufacturer: Sony Special Product ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000002Z3O Release Date: 2001-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Blue Danube Waltz
- Air On The G Str
- Gaite Parisienne: Can Can
- El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance
- Tales Of Hoffmann: Barcarolle
- Carmen: March Of The Torreadors
- Clair De Lune
- Flight Of The Bumble Bee
- Greensleeves
- Thais: Meditation
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Halilem
Manufacturer: Pneuma Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004ZBFX Release Date: 2000-10-03 |
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Music for Flute & Guitar by Rachmaninoff, Sor, Debussy, Mendelssohn, Greeson & Villa-Lobos
Manufacturer: Nuance ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CA32P8 Release Date: 1996-01-01 |
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Verdi's Greatest Arias
Manufacturer: Prism Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0000039Z8 Release Date: 1997-07-15 |
Tracks:
- La Boheme: Your Tiny Hand Is Frozen - Luciano Pavarotti
- La Boheme: Yes. My Name Is Mimi - Renata Tebaldi
- Madame Butterfly: Love Me Well - Yeend/Lanza
- Madame Butterfly: One Fine Day - Renata Tebaldi
- Tosca: Strange Harmony Of Contrasts - Placido Domingo
- Tosca: I Have Lived For Art - Nilsson
- Tosca: The Stars Shine Brightly - Placido Domingo
- Tosca: O Sweet Hands - Nilsson/Placido Domingo
- Gianni Schicchi: O My Beloved Father - Tebaldi
- Turandot: My Lords, Hear Me - Leontyne Price
- Turandot: In This Reign - Nilsson
- Turandot: No-One Shall Sleep - Liciano Pavarotti
- Turandot: You Who Are Made Of Ice - Leontyne Price
- Turandot: Princess Of Death - Nilsson/Corelli
Music Review:
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- Classical Blockbusters
- Classical Favorites, Vol. 2 (Box Set) [Box set]
- Dances & Waltzes [Box set]
- Dream Melodies, Vol. 1-5 (Box Set) [Box set]
- Dream Melodies, Vols. 6-10 (Box Set) [Box set]
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