Music of Charles University (Box Set) [Box set]

Track Listings

1. Benedicamus Domino

2. A Cornish Carol

3. A Cornish Christmas Carol

4. Corpus Christi

5. I Saw A Fair Maiden

6. As Dew In Aprylle

7. The Birds

8. Carillon, Carilla

9. Adam Lay Ybounden

10. The Rich Cavalcade

11. Song For Christmas Day

12. The Five Lesser Joys Of Mary

13. Out Of The Orient Crystal Skies

14. My Little Sweet Darling

15. Born Is The Babe

16. Sweet Was The Song The Virgin Sung

17. Where Riches Is Everlastingly

18. What Cheer? Good Cheer!

19. The Frostbound Wood

20. The First Mercy

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Tracks:

Good News, The Chariot's Coming
Steal Away
Sit Down
I's Me, O Lord, Standin' in the Need of Prayer
Go Down, Moses
Tone de Bell
I'se Been 'Buked
Gwina Lay Down My Life
Mary, Don't You Weep
I Ain't A-Gonna Grieve
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho
Deep River
Git on Board, Li'l Children
Spiritual Medley: I Got a Robe - Steal Away - Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spi
Down to de Rivah
Spiritual Medley: I Will Pray - I Want to Be a Christian - Gwine Ride U
I'm Gonna Shout All Over God's Heab'n
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Lord, I Can't Stay Away
Dere's No Hiding Place Down Dere
Were You There?
Ev'ry Time I Feel de Spirit
De Blind Man Stood on the Road and Cried
Story of Job
Rock My Soul
Crucifixion (He Never Said a Mumberlin' Word)
Plenty Good Room
Recessional ('Roun' 'Bout de Mountain)
Blow, Gabriel, Blow
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen

Album Details

The Good News is that all the Musical Riches of the Negro Spiritual have Now Been Uniquely Summed Up in a Single, Inspirational Sequence on Living Era's New CD. Here Are all the Most Famous Songs, Rendered by their Greatest Interpreters from the 20s to the 40s. There Are Five Each from Robeson (Deep River . . .), Anderson (Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child . . .) And Hayes (Steal Away . . .), Backed Up by Eight from Other Fine, If Less Well-known, Singers as Well, Like the Delightful Edna Thomas, Aimee Semple Mcpherson And, Notably, John Payne. In Addition There Are Eight Tracks from Such Groups as the Great Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (Rock My Soul . . .).

Customer Reviews:

Great Recollections!.......2007-05-24

All the spiritual songs and music you heard a long time ago. So good to hear them again.

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Wrong name of the composer!
Great CD
Thanks, Kansas
Superb Contemporary Wind Ensemble Works, Splendidly Presented

Redline Tango

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Customer Reviews:

Wrong name of the composer!.......2006-08-01

Just for the record, the composer's name is MIKE Mower, not MICHAEL Mower as advertised on the Redline Tango album.

I'm quite sure of that! Sincerely, Mike Mower

Great CD.......2006-05-09

Hello all
I am Avguste Antonov and I am the pianist performing my friend Carter Pann's great piece Slalom.
I would like to first thank the previous reviewer for his comments and his critic of my playing.
The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble is a great ensemble and its director,Professor Lynch is wonderful to work with.It has been my plaisir and honor to play for 3 years with the University of Kansas Wind Ensemble and it has been a great plaisir to work with Professor Lynch.
Every piece on this CD is great and shows the competence of the Wind Ensemble and I do like all of the recorded pieces.However,I do have a particular liking for Slalom.
I met Carter Pann in 2002(I think),when the KU Wind Ensemble performed the premiere of Slalom(Wind Ensemble version).We have since become great friends and when Professor Lynch informed me of the recording and that I would be recording Slalom,I was very excited.Excited for Carter and excited for myself as I had the opportunity to record a piece that I love,a piece written by a friend.Needless to say the recording was a success.
I am proud to have been apart of the KU Wind Ensemble and I am proud to have been apart of this venture.
I hope everyone gets the same plaisir in listening as we,the Wind Ensemble members had in playing and recording this CD.
As far as Slalom is concerned,I would like to thank Carter for the wonderful writing(Carter,this piece is almost mine now,lol),Professor Lynch for his guidance throughout the years and concerrning Slalom.I would like to also thank the members of the KU Wind Ensemble for their wonderful playing,which made mine so much easier.I just hope that I will have other opportunities to perform Slalom
To all prospective buyers,please don't hesitate to buy this CD.You won't regret it.
To those that already bought this CD,enjoy the great music.Enjoy the Kansas University Wind Ensemble

Avguste Antonov
http://www.avgusteantonov.com

Thanks, Kansas.......2006-05-04

The University of Kansas Wind Ensemble plays with innovation, heart and soul i.e. they reach, in my opinion, well beyond the technical. The flute concerto by Michael Mowers and played by David Fedele is probably the toughest sell on this CD but it grew on me rapidly with each passage. I began hearing the variations amidst a relaxed and wonderfully played flute. I noticed that the Kansas Wind Ensemble never seemed to give in to a totally supportive role during the concerto i.e. when it was their turn, they performed with both expression and energy. I wonder if this isn't the 21st Century 'revolution' of Wind Ensemble against supporting strings all those past years. The tone poem Slalom by Carter Pann and the innovative and hot Redline Tango by John Mackey are, in my opinion, further evidence of this youthful 'revolution'. It is my hope now that Wind Ensemble will make its way from the high schools and college campus' into the concert halls of the major cities. Regardless, I plan to wear this CD out. Thanks, Kansas

Superb Contemporary Wind Ensemble Works, Splendidly Presented.......2006-04-25

[Caveat: I was on the faculty of the medical school at Kansas University many years ago, and you might think that would prejudice me in favor of this release from the KU Wind Ensemble. And perhaps it does. But I truly believe that on its own merits this CD is worthy of being the first release in Naxos's new 'Wind Band Classics' series.]

One of the areas of classical music composition that tends not to get much attention is that for the wind ensemble. Here we have five such works, each with its own particular merits, and all of them written (or arranged) within the past five years or so. Most immediately attractive is 'Slalom' by Carter Pann, a young composer whose Piano Concerto and Dance Partita I raved about when they were released by Naxos six years ago. This ten-minute piece attempts, successfully, to recreate in sound the sensation of downhill skiing. It is filled with whirling winds, exciting brass, and brazen percussion -- Pann is an extraordinary orchestrator -- and has an extremely virtuosic piano obbligato part played to a fare-thee-well by Avguste Antonov, a piano major at KU. This is followed by a really quite wonderful orchestration for wind ensemble of the 'Alcotts' movement of Charles Ives's beloved piano sonata, the 'Concord.' The Alcotts movement is most lyrical and harmonically the tamest of the sonata's movements. I had my doubts going in, but I was immediately won over by Jonathan Elkus's orchestration. I suppose the most complimentary thing I could say about it is that it sounds as if the music truly was conceived by Ives for this combination of instruments. The KU ensemble, already having shown themselves capable of playing with pizzazz in the Pann piece, show that they can be tenderly lyrical and convey the right sense of nostalgia that Ives's music requires.

The centerpiece of the CD is Michael Mower's 'Concerto for Flute and Wind Band' with KU flute professor David Fedele as the extraordinary soloist. The three-movement work uses everything from jazz, rock and salsa to baroque counterpoint to make its effects and it does so easily. I particularly liked the expressive middle movement and the almost demented jazziness of the finale. I suspect there isn't anything that flutist Fedele can't do; he simply flies in the outer movements and sings lyrically in the middle section. I could easily imagine this work entering the flute concerto repertoire.

The ensemble's conductor, John P. Lynch, wrote a tone poem based on the Negro spiritual 'Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?' and the ensemble plays it here. In his notes he writes that his intention was to portray 'a philosophical rhetorical question examining various contemporary views of the message of religion.' Frankly, without the composer's notes on the piece, it never would have occurred to me that this was what he was doing. But as an extended tone poem based on the spiritual it works, and that's really all should ask of absolute music.

The final work, the winner of the 2005 American Bandmasters' Association Ostwald Composition Contest, is John Mackey's 'Redline Tango.' The tango is in three sections. The title 'Redline Tango' refers to the practice of pushing an engine to its limits, 'redlining' it. Certainly in terms of wind band virtuosity, this work definitely accomplishes that. The middle section is the tango in its lowdown and 'sleazy' form (using the composer's own term for it) and the outer sections have moto perpetuo sixteenth notes that call for extreme virtuosity on the part of the musicians. The University of Kansas ensemble meets all expectations skillfuly in that regard.

Sound is excellent. Timing is a little short -- 50:56 minutes. And for those of us who love the Lawrence campus of Kansas University there is a magnificent aerial autumn picture of the campus that makes this recently transplanted Kansan a little nostalgic.

Scott Morrison

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Customer Reviews:

The 2 Drottningham Suites.......2004-03-30

"All is played with expressive delicacy and a feeling for graceful detail by this modern instrument orchestra" (Gramophone)

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Outastanding Peformance on a Great Instrument.......1998-12-14

Joan Lippincott has established herself in the forefront of American organ virtuosi. On this disc you are treated to the combination of her formidable talent at the disposal of some truly great literature peformed on a wonderful instrument.

The huge Noel Mander organ of the Princeton University Chapel is the perfect vehicle for works of the English Cathedral and French Symphonic schools. This disc features moving performances of two quite different examples of the English School, the Mendelssohn Sonata No. 3 in A major and the Herbert Howells Rhapsody No. 3.

In her approach to the Mendelssohn, Miss Lippincott evokes the grandeur and dignity of the Gothic building in her shaping of the phrases of the first section of the first movement. The organ is well recorded and the sound quality is splendid. The fugal section of the first movement is unwoven with drive and plenty of rhythmic tension which makes the return to the first section material feel very much like a grand coming home. Lippincott avoids the sentimental pitfalls that so often make the second movement seem trivial. Instead, she evokes an intimate, meditative atmosphere from the delicate, predictable harmonies of the charming, smaller movement.

The Howells Rhapsody is a rarely heard example of twentieth century British cathedral music. Not unlike Durufle, also featured on this album, Howells's music delves into atmosphere and mysticism while employing a progressive harmonic vocabulary. However, Howells approach is distinctly British and relies on the ethos of the instrument and room for effect rather than relying on chant. His piece calls for a cathedralesque room for acoustic effect and an organ of similar proportion. In this case, Lippincott has both at her disposal and the effect is stunning.

The featured Durufle work is a particularly beautiful example of this composer's post-Romantic treatment of chant. Due to its length and difficulty, it is too rarely performed. It would be hard to match this performance or recording. Joan Lippincott manages to capture the improvisatory nature of the opening "Prelude," evocative of the rushing winds of the Spirit and sowing the seeds of the chant theme which is not fully birthed until the third movement. Her approach to the second movement, "Adagio," carries off the build up of tension and registration masterfully. Between her exciting perormance and the quality of the recorded sound of this magnificent instrument, the heavens seem to open before the announcement of the "Chorale." The variations are performed with a sensitivity to the texts which they represent and the overall effect is splendid.

The complete Widor Symphony No. 6 rounds out the disc. Lippincott achieves that delicate balance of structure and fantasy which this work demands. There is plenty of brilliance and panache, but there is also an attention to what is realy going on here that puts this performance on another level.

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A New York Retrospective: VII
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A New York Retrospective: Angel And Stone

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wind music at its best
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Customer Reviews:

wind music at its best.......2004-05-16

A wonderful selection of wind band music, some not often heard. Superb playing by the University of Massachusetts Wind Ensemble. Of particular interest to me was the Wilson. Check out the interpretation of Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy - terrific!

wonderful recording of concert band songs.......1999-03-09

This album has a very nice selection of songs by different composers. I particularly like track number three "Dance of the New World" This is a good collection for band students or directors.

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Carols from the Yard: The Eighty-Fifth Annual Carol Service

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Carols From the Yard
atmospheric christmas service with gorgeous singing

Carols from the Yard: The Eighty-Fifth Annual Carol Service
Harold Edwin Darke , Gerald Near , Michael Praetorius , Franz Xaver Gruber , George Frideric Handel , William Byrd , John Cook , Nancy B. Granert , Rachel Dobrow , Awet Andemicael , Chris Thorpe , Daniel Gallisa , Coventry Edwards-Pitt , Murray Forbes Somerville , Carrie Benes , Sharon Kunde , The Harvard University Choir , and Murray Forbes Somerville
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Carols From the Yard.......2007-02-09

Not your run of the mill Christmas carol recording. A good addition to carols played in the background at meals during Christmas.

atmospheric christmas service with gorgeous singing.......2003-11-20

i love this disc! a live recording of a service at harvard university, the choir is gorgeous, the choice of music varied and high quality. from palestrina to a haunting new piece by american composer peter niedmann, every carol adds to the experience so by the end, you feel sated and ready to go home and have some hot cider with your friends. buy this record, and you won't be disappointed!

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1. Benedicamus Domino
2. A Cornish Carol
3. A Cornish Christmas Carol
4. Corpus Christi
5. I Saw A Fair Maiden
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