Lili'Uokalani Symphony

On this CD:

1. Lili'uokalani Symphony
Composed by Lalo Schifrin
Performed by Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Lalo Schifrin, Lynell Bright, Nola Nabulu

Tracks:

First Movt
Second Movt
Third Movt
Fourth Movt

Customer Reviews:

Only The Wise and Bold Have Trailed.......2006-03-17

I often wondered where so many successful popular musical artists had migrated to. In a existential point of view, most likely, with the coming of age, the well-deserved retirement in some paradisiacal island or country. Professionally, from one gig to another, from one drop to the next to the ultimate, from one assignment/contract to another, from one festival to the next... somewhat a marathon of sameness. Accuradio has definitely widened my scope of knowledge re: music in general, but particularly, en suite, a track of those missing links which comprised my musical taste, built through decades of listening and enjoying. Now, I find a Dave Brubeck conducting his masterpiece with the London Symphony Orchestra and Lalo Schifrin, the Argentinian jazz-fiend and Hollywood score writer in his youth, turned a masterful Symphonic composer, both in their ripe age. It seems to me that a few wise and bold artists with their extraordinarily wider view of their tools of work and true potential, dig in deeply, interweaving instrument sounds to emerge with gems of majestic proportions. Indeed gratifying for composers and music lovers alike.

Average customer rating:

5 Stars, but don't get me started about recording quality...

Frederick Swann In Hawaii

Manufacturer: Gothic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
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Four Masterworks for Organ

ASIN: B000003J9V
Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

Rondeau - Fanfare
March On A Theme OnHandel
The Bells Of St. Anne de Beaupre
Tuba Tune
Passacaglia (Symphony In G)
Toccata For Flutes
Clair de Lune
Carillon du Longpont
The Queens Prayer
Fantansia and Fugue in G

Customer Reviews:

5 Stars, but don't get me started about recording quality..........2004-03-24

I may be a bit biased, but I can't rate a CD by Frederick Swann with less than 5 stars but I have to say that the recording quality is a bit of dissapointment (one wouldn't expect this of the prestigious Gothic label, but then again it isn't recorded by Gothic but by a local studio).

Tracks:

Triumphal March
Org Sym: Adagio
Toccata Uber Die Glocken Des Domes Zu St. Gallen
Hornpipe Humoresque
American Rhap
Two Transcriptions On Popular Tunes: Londonderry Air
Two Transcriptions On Popular Tunes: Aloha Oe
A Joyous March
Adagio, Op.11
Sym No.6, Op.59: Final

Customer Reviews:

A Sometimes Gentle Giant Sings Down Under .......2005-04-05

The Sydney (Australia) Town Hall organ (Hill & Son, 1890) is a fine old 19th century style orchestral organ which was the world's largest when it was built in England and then dismantled and shipped to Sydney to adorn the fancy new town hall. It sported the first full-length 64-foot stop, the wood Contra Bassoon in the Pedal Division, a suggestion of Mr. Hill in his proposal. With six divisions, five manuals, and nearly 150 stops the organ is one of the world's large instruments, and its case is unusually beautiful as we see on the cover photograph.

Here it is expertly and artistically played by Willibald Guggenmos, a German organist with an active international career, in an unusually varied program of mostly 20th century works by English, French, American, and Swiss composers.

The Hollins "Triumphal March" is a stirring, well-crafted English march featuring the powerful lower stops of the organ. Guggenmos's own transcription of the Adagio from Saint-Saens's Third "Organ" Symphony reveals the tonal beauty and gentleness with which the organ can charm the ear. Paul Huber's toccata on the cathedral bells at St. Gallen is a familiar work displaying the fire and brilliance of the organ.

Rawsthorne's "Hornpipe Humoresque" will make you smile if you have any sense of musical humor at all: starting out with the familiar sailor's tune, he plays around until he's cleverly touched upon popular works by Bach, Vivaldi, and Widor and mock-heroically introduced "Brittania Rules the Waves"--all in only a bit over three minutes. Pietro Yon, an Italian-born American, offers in his "American Rhapsody" a similar potpourri of well-known tunes, but in this case they are American favorites (though you might wonder, since it starts out with the German "O Tannenbaum," justified as the American equivalent "O Maryland"). Edwin Lemare, a hugely successful organist of the turn of the century, shows how lovely the organ can sound in his transcriptions of "Londonderry Air" and "Aloha Oe," the old Hawaiian national anthem by Queen Liliuokalani.

Leo Sowerby presents another fiery, brilliant piece in his "Joyous March" and then Samuel Barber, another American, soothes us with the unmatchable beauty and peacefulness of his "Adagio for Strings", arranged for organ by Wm. Strickland.

Louis Vierne ends the program with the finale from his 6th Organ Symphony, again displaying the power and brilliance of the Hill Organ.

The recorded sound is excellent: the hall's reverberation is enough to enliven the sound, but not so much that it muddies it. For those accustomed to the (German or Dutch) baroque organ with its clear, sparkling, silvery sheen of sound this recording will be a decided change of pace, for the strength of this instrument is at the other end of the sound spectrum in its powerful and reedy bass stops, complemented by the warmth, color, charm, variety, and subtlety of its orchestral palette. This giant of an organ can be as gentle as a lamb!

I greatly enjoy this recording and find it a unique and delightful addition to my organ listening repertoire.

ADDENDUM: After submitting the above review I realized I'd neglected to point out a short glitch in my (new) copy of it: at the very end of the last track the final chord sounds and as the reverberation continues there's a sudden dropout of sound for a moment and then a kind of post-echo of the reverberation. It seems to be a manufacturing problem, possibly an ill-conceived attempt at copy protection. It's annoying, but I still rate the CD at 5 stars for its unique content and artistry. (A possible solution would be to extract the tracks and edit to remove or minimize the glitch, then burn the edited copy for your personal listening pleasure.)

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