Tallahassee

Product Description
John Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre-Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together. Digipak. 4AD. 2002.

Tallahassee,The Mountain Goats,4ad / Ada,Alternative Pop/Rock,Indie Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tallahassee

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My Personal FAVORITE Mountain Goat's Album
One of the most fun CDs, period.
May be the best album ever
Tallahassee
Darkly Beautiful Gem

Tallahassee
Mountain Goats
Manufacturer: 4ad / Ada
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006YXH6
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

Tallahassee
First Few Desperate Hours
Southwood Plantation Road
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
The House That Dripped Blood
Idylls Of The King
No Children
See America Right
Peacocks
International Small Arm14. Alpha Rats Traffic Blues
Have To Explode
Old College Try
Oceanographer

Album Description

John Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre-Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together. Digipak. 4AD. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

My Personal FAVORITE Mountain Goat's Album.......2007-05-25

The Mountain Goat's are oft praised for John Darnielle's insightful lyrics. With that in mind, "Tallahassee" may be the greatest Mountain Goats album yet. The songs on this album are incredibly touching and well-phrased.

While some are not as musically captivating, they weave great stories. Later in his career, Darnielle went on to writing autobiographical lyrics. But this album being a concept album centered on a fictional couple, the lyrics have a more universal resonance.

I don't know anyone who's listened to "No Children" and not been blown away by the lyrics.

One of the most fun CDs, period........2006-12-26

At a recent concert, John Darnielle told the audience that there will come a day when 'No Children' will no longer be funny. However, that day has yet to come.

Like other albums, 'Tallahasse' follows a loose narrative with reoccurring characters: here they are an unhappily married couple who have decided to stick it out despite (or maybe because of) their mutual hatred. With a subject like that, one might expect angsty lyrics about wallowing in misery. Instead, we get quirky, almost perky songs with words like 'On Southwood Plantation Road. Where the dead will walk again, put on their Sunday best, and mingle with unsuspecting Christian men'.

The only possible disappointment is that if you want to know the words, you'll have to figure them out yourself or look them up online, as the CD does not come with the lyrics. Instead you get a booklet with a little story blurb and some quotes which match the tone of the album perfectly and, in my opinion, more than justify the lack of a more traditional CD insert.

May be the best album ever.......2005-10-10

I really love this album -It is a fascinating exploration of love, disppointment, hate, desire and despair. Just get it.

Tallahassee.......2005-10-05

Since 1992, John Darnielle has been creating lo-fi plot-centered music as the Mountain Goats.

Darnielle's style has always been to tell stories through song. We're not talking anything like a musical here, nothing quite so coherent as Rent. He tells his stories as a booze-hound trying to recall what he did last night, through a series of clipped, vague, and often unclear flashbacks. Most often, Darnielle lays out his stories through a series of first person stream-of-thought narrations by one or more of the albums characters. This being said, the word `narration' does not fully convey what Darnielle accomplishes through this. The result he has achieved time and time again is an experience akin to watching a person's life through their own eyes during periodic installations of their existence. Frequent listeners may expose themselves to the risk of becoming attached to the characters, who are, perhaps without exception, tragic figures in some fashion. If you want an album with a happy ending, you might try sending John Darnielle some prozac, but for the moment you're out of luck.

Tallahassee, like its predecessors, is as much a story as it is music. Given this fairly unique brand of story telling, listeners who just throw the CD on for background music, or listen distractedly, may find the album very dissatisfactory. Few emotionally powerful stories can be appreciated by half-hearted attention, and Tallahassee is no different.

Focusing on the characters that make up the "Alpha Couple", an unhappy couple who have been the subject of many previous songs, the picture painted throughout this album is of a hopelessly broken marriage, and the couple struggling desperately to fix it. Don't worry, I won't leave you in suspense: they fail utterly in every aspect, save that they manage not to murder each other. But through their failure the listener is made to experience the full spectrum of crippling emotions both high and low that such a failing marriage entails. There are also several good doses of dark humor at its darkest to keep the mood nice and light for the listener.

By the climax of the album, Oceanographer's Choice, there is little doubt left that the aching love the characters feel for one another comes incredibly close to matching the depth of their hatred. Those who, like myself, are familiar with Edward Albee's play, `Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' may see strong similarities between the Alpha Couple and George and Martha. Those who aren't may just find themselves kind of depressed.

Below, written in a format that behooves a writer, I have reviewed the album track by track, judging each with a thumbs up or thumbs down as I see fit. For those of you who are lazy and just want advice as to which songs they ought most to seek, this is my advice: listening to a track outside the context of the album is much like watching only a scene from a movie. It would be incomplete, and thus give the listener a very incomplete appreciation. This is not recommended. But, if you simply must taste of the album's wares before committing yourself, I would recommend Tallahassee or Game Shows Touch Our Lives. That being said, on with the track-by-track review!

Tallahassee: The album begins with the appropriately titled song Tallahassee. Using lyrics loaded with poetic description (one of Darnielle's specialties), the song that sets the albums opening scene feels almost cinematic. "Window facing an ill-kept front yard / Plums on the tree heavy with nectar / Prayers to summon the destroying angel / Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector". Put to relaxing, if ever-so-slightly nervous guitars, the mood of this song can hardly be defied by an attentive listener. Weariness is not an emotion often expressed in any opening, but if I had to pick, that would be the emotion this song best conveys. Not the weariness of any thing in particular, but an overall weariness of life, the sort that comes only after being stressed so much for so long, until one has no more stress to muster. The sort of emotional surrender through which one can actually come out the other side and appreciate the beauty of everything. This song, as with the rest of the album, is told through the narrative of the Alpha Male. Thumbs up

First Few Desperate Hours: The slight nervousness of the first song segways into significantly more intense guitar strumming. "Bad luck comes in from Tampa." the song begins, and this becomes something of choral line. "Bad luck comes in from Tampa/ on the back of a truck / doing 90 down the interstate". As the song progresses, nervousness is clearly the mood of the day, as the characters uncomfortably await the cryptically vague "bad luck" to arrive. Unfortunately, if the listener is like me, they might find the music just slightly too monotonous, and the lyrics just a little too vague to convey the anxiety the characters are feeling. There are some beautiful lyrics, and with time this song has grown on me, but I don't think it's quite what it could have been. Thumbs Down.

Southwood Plantation Road: The song is almost deceptively upbeat in its music, and Darnielle's guitar perfectly accents his lyrics and the overall content of the song. On an almost cheerful tone, the listener is given a taste of how life in the house of the Alpha Couple is going. "I am not gonna lose you / we are going to stay married" Darnielle cheerfully but forcefully insists "On Southwood Plantation Road. Where the dead will walk again / put on their Sunday best / and mingle with unsuspecting Christian men". Both the overarching feel and concept of the album are captured quite well in this song. Love, optimism, pessimism, frustration, and dark humor are all expressed in the same breath by John Darnielle's peppy, upbeat voice. Thumbs Up

Game Shows Touch Our Lives: Set to music so soft and deep that I have always found it hard not to lose myself in it, Game Shows Touch Our Lives is without a doubt my favorite song on the album. It is beyond the limited ability of my ears to distinguish every instrument being played. Whatever the combination, it compliments Darnielle's vocals, which in and of itself could not have been done any better, with absolute perfection. "Shadows crawled across the living room's length / I held onto you with a desperate strength / with everything / everything in me". In my opinion, Darnielle's greatest strength as a performer is his ability to express the sincerity of his lyrics, and there is no better example than this song, in which the main character (the male of the Alpha Couple) expresses his deep desire for everything to simply be okay. "Carried you up the stairs that night / (All of this could be yours, if the price is right) /I heard cars headed down to Oblivion from up on the expressway". Thumbs Up

The House That Dripped Blood: Set to some heated guitar and some of the best use of the harmonica I've experienced, The House That Dripped Blood relates, through a narrator that sounds as if he is trying very hard not to panic, that there are some buried secrets in the house that the Alpha couple can never allow to be exposed. Again, this is done cryptically enough to annoy me somewhat as a listener, as the lyrics never directly mention what is hidden there. The music, however, is most enjoyable, as are the vocals if one can get beyond wondering what their exact meaning is. Thumbs Up

Idylls of the King: A slow pacing, pleasant strumming of guitar, and decent assortment of subtly and not-so-subtly inserted instruments all give this song potential that just never comes together quite right, at least for this listener. The song seems without much direction, both mood and melody-wise, and Darnielle's gentle but cheerful voice just never seems particularly engaged in the songs content. Thumbs Down

No Children: Lyrically, I'm not sure I believe a human being is capable of disliking this song. The guitar and keyboard seem designed mostly as a pretty-sounding drone to augment the lyrics, but they do that quite effectively. The lyrics are so bittersweet and contradictory as to make the song quite funny. "I hope our few remaining friends give up trying to save us / I hope we come up with a failsafe plot to piss off the dumb few that forgave us" for instance, and such lines as "I hope I lie and tell everyone that you were a good wife / And I hope you die / I hope we both die" sent some of the comically mixed messages the Alpha male sincerely feels. Honestly, the lyrics of the song are great in their entirety. There's not a single line that I don't love. The monotonous music makes the song wear on you after a few listens, but the lyrics make those first few times absolutely golden. Thumbs Up.

See America Right: This song is essentially John Darnielle's experiment in rap. To some drums and guitar he shouts his story of the Alpha male's bad day of car accidents and alcohol withdrawal. The contrast of this song with everything on the CD is more than a little disconcerting to the ear, and outside the context of this album I'm not sure I'd listen to it. However, within the context of the CD, I think it works rather well. The song essentially portrays the Alpha Male finally cracking, while allowing the listener some well needed venting. Thumbs Up

Peacocks: Peacocks is a soft melodious tune with some very pretty guitar work, and it conveys quite well the situation the lyrics paint, in which the Alpha male steps outside one day to find, without explanation, a peacock in his front yard. The utter confusion and befuddlement of the character comes quite well through the gentle, serene music. I'm not sure how well it fits with the rest of the album, but I'm quite fond of it. Thumbs Up

International Small Arms Traffic Blues: What I enjoy about this song can be easily exemplified with the line "Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania / Trucks loaded down with weapons crossing over every night". The lyrics, a series of metaphors for the couple's love that also hint at some very important plot advancement, make the song amusing at the least. Unfortunately, musically speaking, it's not thrilling. Vocally, Darnielle sings with a kind of whiny rasp that doesn't appeal to me. Still, the listener may well find this song good for a few listens. Thumbs Down.

Have to Explode: Set to some relaxing guitar and piano, Have to Explode conveys a gentle sense of tension building between the Alpha couple. I say this because the lyrics would seem to imply a building tension. Personally, however, I just find the song rather soothing. Whatever it was meant to convey, it is rather pretty in both vocals and tune, and whatever purpose I may read into its placement is really only an aside to what it is. And it is rather nice. Thumbs up

Old College Try: This song, gentle and relaxing like the last, manages to establish a decidedly pensive mood as our narrator attempts to make peace with his love while admitting how costly and unlikely a successful mending of their marriage would be. Again, the song carries a feel of exasperated surrender that I find attractive. It's an easy song to get lost in the mid-album shuffle, but a good one. Thumbs up

Oceanographer's Choice: Remember some tracks ago when I wrote that Game Shows Touch Our Lives was undoubtedly my favorite song on the album? I lied, there was more than a touch of doubt. This is only because I find Oceanographer's Choice to be both one of the most intense songs I've ever heard and an almost unfathomably perfect climax to the album. The song begins with the line "Guy in a skeleton costume comes up to the guy in the Superman suit / Runs through him with a broad sword". This practically sums up the song, an intense showdown between the subjects of this drama. Musically, lyrically, and vocally this song just flat out rocks. Thumbs up.

Alpha Rat's Nest: This song, which can only be described as a manically depressing, involves some extremely pop-like upbeat vocals and guitar as our narrator cheerfully describes the continuing cesspool that the Alpha Couple calls married life. "Ah, the lengthening hours in the refinery / Belching fire into the sky / We do our best vampire routines / As we suck the dying hours dry" is sung as if the singer has had one the best day of his life. The listener may easily fail to realize that this is the all the resolution they will be getting from this ongoing drama, and thus the albums ending may seem quite abrupt. But given that half the tracks on Tallahassee, including the introduction, feel very much like the last song of an album, I suppose the more expected soft, mournful tune would be a little redundant. Thumbs up

Darkly Beautiful Gem.......2004-02-08

This CD is simply beautiful. Not since Lisa Germano's Excerpts from a Love Circus has an album been so perfect in it's entirety. The songwriting is a wonderland of dark and beautiful poetry backed by music that ranges from simple elegance to out and out rockers. This is a polished piece of art and I think the music benefits greatly from the somewhat fuller production without losing it's low-fi appeal. My favorite Mountain Goats CD so far even though I have barely scratched the surface of MGs material that is available. This is a great place to start exploring the Mountain Goats musical landscape..

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Not Jo Jo's Nerve
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ASIN: B00015HV88
Release Date: 2003-10-21

Tracks:

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Customer Reviews:

Not Jo Jo's Nerve.......2006-04-21

This is a good CD, but anyone looking for Jo Jo Mayer's Drum and Bass Project Nerve this is the wrong CD!!

Rolling Stone Review.......2004-01-18

Best CD we have heard in along time really keeps your feet moving and groving can't wait for the next one keep it up

The Legendary Heifetz / Heifetz, Sandor, Bay, et al

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for shame!
Wonderful recordings by the young Jascha Heifetz
Not Up to Par

The Legendary Heifetz / Heifetz, Sandor, Bay, et al
Isaac Albeniz , Manuel De Falla , Nicolo Paganini , Arpad Sandor , Emanuel Bay , and Arthur Rubinstein
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ASIN: B00000I3V5
Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

La Ronde Des Lutins, Op. 25
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Meditation In D Major, Op.32
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Mouvements Perpetuels: No.1
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Sonata In A Major: Allegretto Poco Masso

Customer Reviews:

for shame!.......2003-05-22

[...]Heifetz is incomparable; everyone ought to have a disc of him playing showpieces, and I see no reason why this shouldn't be that disc. He recorded for RCA with better sound quality, but these early recordings are what made him famous. The second piece, a transcription of a Strauss song, is a model of "vocal-style" playing. This is what the violin should sound like. I was absolutely transfixed by this CD, and if you have any emotions you will be too. [...]

Wonderful recordings by the young Jascha Heifetz.......2002-07-19

These old (1920s) recordings are amazing in the modernity of Heifetz's musical conception and style, as well as in the reliability of his technique. They are among those recordings with which Heifetz created an entirely new aesthetic and technical standard for violin playing, a standard that is controlling to this day. He simply moved violin playing into the modern age. For example, the way Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Hilary Hahn play violin (strong, smooth, even tone; total technical reliability; carefully restrained emotion; the complete ease and understatement with which even the most difficult passages are mastered) is simply inconceivable without the pervasive influence exerted by Jascha Heifetz. And these recordings let us witness how he did it, how he single-handedly revolutionized violin playing (and, together with Toscanin and Horowitz, classical music in general). It's great stuff, and in many ways he is better, more exciting to listen to, than all those that had the misfortune of coming after him. The review below is exceptionally silly for taking Heifetz to task for minor technical issues. When he recorded these pieces, there was no splicing, no re-recording passages that didn't work out so well, no electronic tricks. not only are these recordings essential to the history of musical interpretation, they're also simply great fun to listen to.

Not Up to Par.......2001-12-31

Heifetz is one of my idols, but sadly enough, he disappoints me here. His La Ronde de Lutins is quite bad. He misses the D harmonics, and tends to be overpowered by Emanuel Bay, his pianist. He tends towards an unnecessary accelerando when playing the F sharp on all four strings. His double artificial harmonics following this passage aren't always clear, nor played as a chord. The song goes smoothly for a while, then you get to the pizzicato section. His pizzicato isn't loud enough to overpower the piano, which is playing annoyingly loud. Antonio Bazzini was a violinist himself, but never really enjoyed the fame of Paganini or Sarasate or Heifetz. He preferred to compose. He went to the Padua school of music and taught such greats as Puccini. Although his music sounds nothing like theirs, I don't really like Strauss' works, but this one I found to be nice. It is melodic and grows on you. You really love this piece after a while. The Concert Polonaise by Wieniawski is one of my favorites. An exercise in virtuosity tempered with delightful melodies. Heifetz as usual, takes it at a blazing speed. Interestingly enough, you don't notice it until the song is over. This is performed as Wieniawski would have performed it - with class and with speed. I have another recording by Aaron Rosand in which he has an orchestra accompanying him. I really like that. The Meditation by Glazunov is really romantic and dreamy. It is a great way to relax and Heifetz interprets this song beautifully. The only setback of this track is the hiss. If you are a person that likes "white noise", you won't be bothered by it. I don't believe in "white noise". For me, the hiss distracts me from the music. The Scherzo - Tarantelle is a real show off piece with little to no musicality. I like it because it is fast and catchy. L'enfant Prodigue is a song with many layers. Superficially it is very nice, but the deeper you go into it, the better it gets. Debussy was a phenomenal composer who helped with the leap from the Romantic era to the Modern era. But, he did it with grace. His early opus numbers are romantic, but as the opus numbers increase, so does the number of new stylistic devises. I love Spanish music, and Albeniz is one of my favorite Spanish composers. The song is a light song that drifts gaily through the air, infecting all that hear it with a sudden happiness. It is truly a wonderful piece. Elgar is a great composer for the violin. He wrote a truly magnificent concerto for the violin that is filled with passion. His La Capricieuse is a great encore piece. It also has a lot of musical value for violinists. If you want to learn how to do really good up bow or down bow staccato, this is a must play piece. The introduction is really stiff, and you don't want to welcome this music, but before you know it, you love it. Moritz Moszkowski was a great composer. His Guitarre, transcribed by Sarasate has become a solid piece in the violin literature. He plays it for all it's worth and doesn't flub a single note. The harmonics are pristine and float above the rest of the music, like it's supposed to. The Danza Espanola Number one is my favorite. It is really mysterious in the beginning, and then flourishes into a lively dance. The ending starts softly, then grows louder and louder to grand triumphant conclusion. The one sad thing about this is the background noise. I am not a fan of modern composers, and the Tallahassee Suite did not really appeal to my ear buds. It was nice, but lacked the depth of the romantic era. The Ruralia Hungarica is a nice song. When I close my eyes, I feel as if I'm in a whirlpool being swirled in sound. Laugh if you want, but it's the truth. The Valse by Castelnuovo - Tedesco is a song that appeals to a selective few. I am not one of those few. I find the notes to be strewn all over the place. The movement perpetuels have a delightful simple tune that just struck me a s genious. How someone make such a catchy tune that uses very few notes? Well, he does. Hora Staccato is a great song that became Heifetz's trademark. This is a good recording, except for the scratchiness in some of his down bow staccato. RCA Victor released the same recording on their CD "Heifetz Violin Greatest Hits". The Vivaldi Sonata was a bit of a disappointment because I remembered the Four Seasons and the virtuoso solo parts. Then, I realized that the Four Seasons was a later composition when he was much stronger technically. This sonata was short brief, but catchy. I think that Heifetz misses most of the musical content in it though. Paganini was the greatest technician that ever lived. Born with Marfan's syndrome, he nearly died at birth. His health was constantly bad, but he continued on. His amazingly elastic fingers allowed him to perform the most impossible feats on the violin. His 13th caprice starts out sounding like a person laughing. The fast section is pretty well played. He misses the chords though, and his attempts to reach them sound really scratchy. I much prefer the one played by Michael Rabin. That one is perfect. The Bach English Suite is pretty nice. The second part is well known Suzuki student. I really don't like it that much though. Cesar Frank was an organist. His Symphony is supposed to be like an organ, in the sense that there are no breaks. His Sonata is very nice. It flows and is very violinistic, meaning that it seems like it was made for the violin. It is really catchy and almost is at a walking speed.

Tracks:

Tallahassee
First Few Desparate Hours
Southwood Plantation Road
Game Shows Touch Our Lives
House That Dripped Blood
Icylis Of The King
No Children
See America Right
Peacocks
International Small Arms Traffic Blues
Have To Explode
Old College Try
Oceanographer's Choice
Alpha Rats Nest (Bonus Track)

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Good Bluegrass music
History in the Making

Making Smoke for Jacksonville
Old Tallahassee
Manufacturer: Old Tallahassee Productions
ProductGroup: Music
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Release Date: 2002-01-26

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Carroll County Blues
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Mainliner
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Album Description

Making Smoke for Jacksonville is a collection of railroad songs and old-time southern dance tunes.

Customer Reviews:

Good Bluegrass music.......2007-01-07

I'm not really a Bluegrass expert, but this is pretty good music from what I have heard of Bluegrass.

Musicians keep it tight and the vocals keep it real.
Overall good stuff and worth a listen for Bluegrass fans out there.

History in the Making.......2002-09-18

OK, I'll admit it up front: I'm the guitarist on this recording, and I also sang, played mandolin, and helped arrange some of the tunes. That said, this is an authentic and tasteful rendition of old and old-sounding new songs and fiddle tunes meant to bring alive for a few moments an old but rich American railroad culture, and to illustrate the talents of six local musicians who live in history-soaked Tallahassee. Brilliantly and deftly recorded by Pete Winter, another local Tallahasseean who has made his mark nationally, this is a quality production, with clean sound, authentic playing, and spirited singing and pickin'. It's good to the end!

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Complete Recorded Works
Spark Plug Smith , and Tallahassee Tight
Manufacturer: Document
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Tracks:

Mama's Doughnut - Spark Plug Smith
Motherless Boy - Spark Plug Smith
Stopped Clock Blues - Spark Plug Smith
Deserted Man Blues - Spark Plug Smith
You Put That Thing On Me - Spark Plug Smith
Sweet Evening Breeze - Spark Plug Smith
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Spark Plug Smith
Vampire Woman - Spark Plug Smith
New Blue Heaven (My Little Blue Heaven) - Spark Plug Smith
Make It Tight - Spark Plug Smith
Had A Dream That Troubled Me - Tallahassee Tight
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Tallahassee Selects
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Cascades Recording Company
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ASIN: B000J4S3FQ
Release Date: 2006-10-22

Tracks:

Paradise (Danica Winter)
Thoughts of Heaven (David Murphy)
I Know (Mimi & The HearnDogs)
All The Time In The World (Bill McGuire)
The Pull (C.E. Reid)
Forget It (Bill Richeson)
Walking From Richmond (Quanta)
St. Marks Light (Schef Wright)
Bad Dog (Deborah Lawson & Stanton Rosenthal)
Morning (Ben Edmund)
Looking For Lonely (Merelyn Falciglia)
Waitin On You (Glenn & Laurie Ring)
Caribbean Money (Del Suggs)
Ill Wait For You (Steve Meisburg)

Album Description

Produced by songwriter Del Suggs, this compilation showcases the variety of musical styles within the "Americana" genre, from roots-based acoustic, folk, and bluegrass to jazz-flavored pop and rock.

Opening with Danica Winter's anthem "Paradise," David Murphy's ponderings on "Thoughts of Heaven" flows smoothly into Mimi & The HearnDog's poignant longing on "I Know." Then, Bill McGuire's "All the Time In The World" kicks in a hint of roots rock, leading to popster C.E. Reid's "The Pull" shifting into overdrive. Bill Richeson then unleashes a bluegrass-flavored rocker in "Forget it," followed by Quanta's boogie woogie shuffle in "Walking From Richmond." Schef Wright's tribute to a lighthouse"St. Mark's Light" segues easily into Deborah Lawson & Stanton Rosenthal's "Bad Dog," about the pet we all know and love.

Ben Edmund steals your heart with "Morning," slipping into Merelyn Falciglia's "Looking For Lonely," then Glenn & Laurie Ring recall a summer night in "Waitin' On You." Producer Del Suggs presents his tale of vacation memories in "Caribbean Money," then to wrap it up, Steve Meisburg croons "I'll Wait For You."

The compilation was mastered by sound-guru Pete Winter at his world-class Winterstone Productions, and the cover art was designed and created by Laura Pichard-Murphy. All of the recordings were engineered at Winterstone Productions by Pete Winter and David Murphy, with the sole exception of "Waitin' On You," which was captured at Millenium Studio in Daytona Beach.

Tracks:

Meditation, Op. 32 - Glazunov
Caprice No. 20 In D Major - Paganini
Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 In D Minor: Allegro moderato
Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 In D Minor: Romanze: Andante non troppo
Concerto No. 2, Op. 22 In D Minor: Allegro con fuoco; Allegro moderato
Polonaise brillante No. 1, Op. 4 In D Major - Wieniawski
Concerto No. 4, Op. 31 In D Minor: Andante; Moderato
Concerto No. 4, Op. 31 In D Minor: Adagio religioso
Concerto No. 4, Op. 31 In D Minor: Scherzo:Vivace
Concerto No. 4, Op. 31 In D Minor: Finale marziale: Andante; Allegro
Mouvement perpetuel - Poulenc
Hora Staccato
King Radger: Roxana's Song
La ronde des lutins (Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 25)

Tracks:

Tallahassee Suite: Bygone Memories
Tallahassee Suite: After Sundown
Tallahassee Suite: Air et Danse negre
La Vida breve: Danza espanola No. 1
Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001 In G Minor: Adagio
Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001 In G Minor: Fugue: Allegro
Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001 In G Minor: Siciliano
Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001 In G Minor: Presto
Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005 In C Major: Adagio
Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005 In C Major: Fugue
Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005 In C Major: Largo
Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005 In C Major: Allegro assai
Lento doloroso; Allegro
Allegretto tranquillo
Allegro animato

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Jascha Heifetz Recital
Ludwig van Beethoven , Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Louis-Nicolas Clerambault , Claude Debussy , Grigoras Dinicu , Ernst von Dohnanyi , Edward Elgar , Cesar Franck , Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov , Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Fritz Kreisler , Darius Milhaud , Moritz Moszkowski , Niccolo Paganini , Francis Poulenc , Cyril Scott , Richard Strauss , Karol Szymanowski , Antonio Vivaldi , and Henryk Wieniawski
Manufacturer: Angel Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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Polish | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000002S58
Release Date: 1994-03-15

Tracks:

Son in A, Op.2 No.2, RV 31: I. Preludio - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Son in A, Op.2 No.2, RV 31: II. Capriccio - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Son in A, Op.2 No.2, RV 31: III. Corrente - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Son in A, Op.2 No.2, RV 31: IV. Recitativo - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Son in A, Op.2 No.2, RV 31: V. Giga - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Vn Son No.9 in A, Op.47 'Kreutzer': I. Adagio sostenuto-Presto - Jascha Heifetz/Benno Moiseiwitsch
Vn Son No.9 in A, Op.47 'Kreutzer': II. Andante con Vars I-IV - Jascha Heifetz/Benno Moiseiwitsch
Vn Son No.9 in A, Op.47 'Kreutzer': III. Finale (Presto) - Jascha Heifetz/Benno Moiseiwitsch
Caprices, Op.1: No.13 in B flat (Allegro) - Jascha Heifetz
Caprices, Op.1: No.20 in D (Allegretto) - Jascha Heifetz
Caprices, Op.1: No.24 in a (Tema (Quasi Presto) con Vars I-XI) - Jascha Heifetz
Son in A: I. Allegretto ben moderato - Jascha Heifetz/Arthur Rubinstein
Son in A: II. Allegro - Jascha Heifetz/Arthur Rubinstein
Son in A: III. Recitativo-Fant (Ben moderato-Molto lento) - Jascha Heifetz/Arthur Rubinstein
Son in A: IV. Allegretto poco mosso - Jascha Heifetz/Arthur Rubinstein

Tracks:

Largo in c - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
La Ronde des lutins (Scherzo fantastique), Op.25 - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
An eisamer Quelle (Stimmungsbilder, Op.9 No.2) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Poloniase No.1 in D, Op.4 - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Meditation in D, Op.32 - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Scherzo-Tarentelle in g, Op.16 - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Prld ('L'Enfant prodigue') - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Sevillanas (Sevilla) (Ste espagnola, Op.47 No.3) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
La Capricieuse, Op.17 - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Guitarre, Op.45 No.2 - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Danza espagnola No.1 ('La vida breve') - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Tallahassee Ste, Op.73: No.1 Bygone memories - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Tallahassee Ste, Op.73: No.2 After sundown - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Tallahassee Ste, Op.73: No.3 Danse negre - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Gypsy Andante (Ruralia hungarica, Op.32a No.6) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Dogberry and Verges (March of the Watch) ('Much Ado About Nothing', Op.11 No.3) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Sumare (Saudades do Brasil, Op.67 No.9) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Valse (Alt-Wien, Op.30 No.1) - Jascha Heifetz/Arpad Sandor
Mouvements perpetuels: No.1 Assez modere - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Mouvements perpetuels: No.3 Alerte - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Roxana's Song ('King Roger') - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay
Hora staccato - Jascha Heifetz/Emanuel Bay