Triptych [Import]

Product Description
Windsor, Ontario's hard-rocking trio released this project in 1999. Though they sound not unlike a heavier, slicker produced Stone Temple Pilots, TTP's 'Triptych' is nonetheless a decent rock album. Features 'Heaven Coming Down', 'Touch', 'The Messenger' & nine more.

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Triptych [Import]

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If you already own the original, don't bother...
GREAT CD
Great Acoustic arrangements...
Demon Hunter Kicks it!
Awesome CD/DVD...but skip the acoustic...

The Triptych
Demon Hunter
Manufacturer: Tooth & Nail Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Summer of Darkness
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Vices
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ASIN: B000IONKZU
Release Date: 2006-10-31

Tracks:

The Flame That Guides Us Home
Not I
Undying
Relentless Intolerance
Deteriorate
The Soldier's Song
Fire To My Soul
One Thousand Apologies
The Science Of Lies
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Ribcage
The Tide Began To Rise
My Throat Is An Open Grave (Acoustic)
My Heartstrings Come Undone (Acoustic)
The Tide Began To Rise (Acoustic)
Undying (Wild Boar Remix)

Customer Reviews:

If you already own the original, don't bother..........2007-06-19

Demon Hunter is my favourite band. Period. However, this special edition was very disappointing for me, as I already own the original release of The Triptych. It has a few extra acoustic tracks (which I never care for anyway) and some poorly remixed favourites that were perfect already. The making of was ineresting, but unsatisfying.

I regret purchasing this, if not for the simple addition to my fan collection, and never even pull it out anymore.

RECOMMENDATION: If you already own the original and can live without a few mediocre bonus tracks and so-so making of videos, save the cash for their next (hopeful) studio release.

GREAT CD.......2007-03-09

I enjoy every song on this cd. Most people don't even know about this band!

Great Acoustic arrangements..........2007-01-29

I'm surprised how many of you all didn't like the acoustic arrangements - you're free to make up your own mind, but as for me, I thought they were exceptionally well done. Yes, I love the electric versions, but there is something raw and deep about these particular acoustic arrangements - in my opinion they build on the originals.

Demon Hunter Kicks it!.......2007-01-10

Awesome Album... DVD & Bonus Acoustic tracks are worth the purchase... dont have it? get it TODAY! Hunters won't be dissapointed!

Awesome CD/DVD...but skip the acoustic..........2006-12-29

I'm not under 13. I forgot my Amazon password.

This is the best Speical Edition CD I own and thank god I got it for Christmas. Reviews of the song

1. The Flame That Guides us Home- Very cool intro to Not I.

2. Not I- Awesome song to start off this awesome CD.

3. Undying- Great song and my first video from them.

4. Relentless Intolerence- Really good guitar and lyrics.

5. Deteriorate- At first, I hated it. Sounded like Linkin Park kind of singing. But after a few listen, it became one of my favorites.

6. The Soldier Song- My favorite song off this album. Very great song for the people who are fighting the war in Iraq. I love the solo too.

7. Fire To My Soul- For some reason this song should be the song to start of this album. Anywho, this is a great song.

8. One Thousand Apologies- Same as Deteriorate.

9. The Science of Lies- My second favorite and I love the drums during the chourse.

10. Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck- Never heard of the Prong version of this song but it sounds a really good song from Prong and Demon Hunter.

11. Ribcage- Last heavy song on this album and my third favorite.

12. The Tide Begin To Rise- Nice slow clam song

13-15- There all acoustic...and not my type of music.

16. Undying Remix- Great remix I'm also a fan of techno music.

Now the DVD
Awesome DVD! They're 3 different section of this DVD; The making of The Triptych, On the road on The Undying Tour, a live performance at Pomona, Cailfornia, and music videos of Infected, Not Ready To Die, Undying, One Thousand Apologies, and the making of One Thousand Apologies.

This Specail Edition is for any fan of Demon Hunter.

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Crucial
* FANTASTIC !!! *
Pick this up for Blackboard Jungle Dub alone!

Dub-Triptych
Lee Perry & The Upsetters
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Trojan Us
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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King Tubby's in Fine Style
King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown Deluxe Edition
Panic in Babylon
Heart of the Congos
Trojan Dub Box Set 1 (Spec)

ASIN: B000294SHA
Release Date: 2004-06-22

Tracks:

Cloak & Dagger
Sharp Razor V/S
Hail Stone
Musical Transplant (Adapted)
Liquid Serenade (Adapted)
Side Gate
Iron Claw
V/S Iron Side
Rude Walking
V/S Bad Walking (H Andy)
Caveman Skank
Pe-We Special
Table Turning
Jungle Lion (Instrumental)
Cloak & Dagger Horns Dub Plate Pressure

Tracks:

Black Panta
V/S Panta Rock
Khaska Macka
Elephant Rock
African Skank
Dreamland Skank
Jungle Jim
Drum Rock
Dub Organizer
Lovers Skank
Mooving Skank
Apeman Skank
Jungle Fever
Kaya Skank
Dub Revelutions
WOmans Dub
Kojak
Doctor On The Go
Bush Weed
Dreadlock Talking
Own Man
Dub The Rhythm
Rain Drops

Customer Reviews:

Crucial.......2005-08-13

Check it out. I've been told for years how these recordings changed the development of music in JA, but have never beem able to truly hear it before. I have 3 versions of BJD and one of RD and all sound like mush compared to this. A revelation.

* FANTASTIC !!! *.......2005-06-19

This two-disc beauty represents three Lee "Scratch" Perry LPs, "Blackboard Jungle Dub," "Revolution Dub," and "Cloak & Dagger." Perry fans know that these are some of the greatest recordings Scratch ever produced. We have listened for years to junky distorted versions of "Blackboard Jungle," and a lot of this music we haven't even heard at all. Finally we are redeemed. The quality on "Dub-Triptych" is absolutely amazing, and your old granny could tell the difference between these versions and previous releases. This stuff has not been presented properly and in its entirety since the original LPs came out, and the sound here may be even better than it was then. Don't forget, with "Blackboard Jungle" we are talking about one of the greatest, many say THE greatest, dub LPs of all time. "Blackbaord Jungle" dub represents the best Jamaican musicians, the most creative producer (Perry) and, in case I didn't mention, mixing done not only by Scratch, but also by King Tubby!

In short, this is some of the best dub and instrumental Upsetters music ever, presented with what is possibly its best sound ever, and available in its entirety for the first time in the digital era. There are even a few extra goodies thrown in to boot, and with 52 TRACKS TOTAL, this set is also a great bargain. "Dub-Triptych" is quite simply one of the best Lee "Scratch" Perry releases ever, end of story.

Purchase without hesitation, and ENJOY!

Pick this up for Blackboard Jungle Dub alone!.......2004-12-20

Dub Triptych is a 2 disc compilation of 3 early Lee Perry dub albums that have been out of proper print or never released -- Cloak & Dagger(1973), Blackboard Jungle Dub(1973) and Revolution Dub(1975).

while Cloak & Dagger slightly hints at what was to come, Blackboard Jungle Dub is full on dub: eerie sound effects, slow-fi beats and sly, brooding bass. tracks like Black Panta, Khasha Macka and Drum Rock make for a dense & ghostly atmosphere, while tracks like Elephant Rock and Kaya Skank are more up-beat and aggressive. being one of the first dub albums, it remains a concentrated record with zero filler.

Revolution Dub is slightly uneven with the first five tracks being a little more interesting than the rest. Bush Weed, an ultra slow slab of bass-heavy spookiness, is the album's best moment.

Dub Triptych also captures the developement of a movement perfectly. as you listen to both cd's in order you can hear the mixes getting denser, filling with a cerebral atmosphere. also, take note of Perry & the Upsetter's obvious influence on other groups from Bauhaus to Massive Attack to even Skinny Puppy.

definately worth it since you're getting 3 albums for roughly the price of one, and one of them being a classic.

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Incredible sound!
Superb on all counts
Schuman at His Best and Most Schumanesque
Excellent Recording of a little known work
If I weren't normally so straight-laced, I'd say "Boffo!"

William Schuman: Violin Concerto
Jose Serebrier , and Philip Quint
Manufacturer: Naxos American
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005AYEH
Release Date: 2001-05-15

Tracks:

Schuman: Violin Concerto: Allegro risoluto
Schuman: Violin Concerto: Introduzione
Schuman: New England Triptych: Be Glad then America
Schuman: New England Triptych: When Jesus Wept
Schuman: New England Triptych: Chester
Ives: Variations on "America"

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Although Schuman wrote his Violin Concerto in the 1950s, it seems very much at home in today's world. Loud, abrasive, aggressive, it is punctuated by deafening crashes; the opening sets the stage with a solo that leaps back and forth with dizzying speed and momentum. The violinist seems to spend a lot of time competing with the percussion, but the second theme is poetic and tender, giving the violin a chance to do what it does best: sing. It also gets to converse with the orchestral soloists; indeed, the orchestra is an equal partner rather than an accompanying group. The second of the two movements, oddly titled "Introduzione," includes a rhythmically pungent, witty, charming Scherzo, and a long orchestral fugue, as well as more singing sections and more bangs and crashes. The solo part is fiendishly difficult, with runs at top speed, stratospheric passages, double and triple stops, and one long and one short cadenza.

In addition, it is full of instantaneous changes of mood and character, demanding utmost control of tone, nuance, inflection, and expression. Philip Quint negotiates all these technical and musical hurdles with easy virtuosity, aplomb, poise, and stylistic empathy. His tone soars rapturously in the lyrical parts, his playing is forceful but never rough. The two pieces of Americana show Schuman in a different, gentle, intimate light, though the first of the Triptych also abounds with brass and percussion. Ives's Variations, masterfully orchestrated, are a grand joke, poking fun at every imaginable dance form and even including his trademark polytonal imitation of two bands playing simultaneously. These "American Classics," interestingly, are performed entirely by non-American players: a Russian-born violinist, an English orchestra, and a conductor of Polish-Uruguayan descent. Music is indeed a universal language. --Edith Eisler

Customer Reviews:

Incredible sound!.......2005-12-15

I have just bought this CD because it was a rainy saturday afternoon and just fancied listening to something new! When I put it on to listen I couldn't believe just how perfect the recording sounds!! What an amazing combination of 'raw' sounding energy and excitement combined with a beautiful elegance. The balamce between the soloist and orchestra is better than I have heard on any other recording I own. Pretty impressive piceces too! Well done Naxos!!!

Superb on all counts.......2003-04-09

This can be a very short review. The music is splendid, alternately compelling and delightful. The performances leave nothing to be desired. The sound is in the demonstration class. This would be a wonderful CD at full price; at the Naxos price, it's a no-brainer. Don't miss this one.

Schuman at His Best and Most Schumanesque.......2002-05-16

I wish I could wax as enthusiastic about the Violin Concerto as other reviewers have done. As Serebrier says in his sympathetic liner notes, the concerto has all the drama--I'd say histrionics--of Schuman's symphonies, a drama that for me is much ado about--little. Though Schuman is clearly a fine craftsman and a great orchestrator, I can't buy into the rhetorical seriousness of much of his orchestral music. One problem is certainly that unlike his contemporary symphonists Aaron Copland and Roy Harris, he is "tune-challenged."

Thematically, his work always seems impoverished to me, except of course in his finest and most popular orchestral work, "New England Triptych," for which William Billings supplied the tunes. Schuman supplies the drama, which here is marvellously apt, from the curious tension of "Be Glad then America" through the pathos of "When Jesus Wept" to the clamorous "Chester," over whose jingoism Schuman seems to equivocate in a most fascinating manner. This piece defines the phrase "cautiously optimistic" in musical terms; perhaps Schuman was thinking of the awful cost of patriotism in the 20th century.

The orchestration of Ives' "Variations on America," originally for organ, is again Schuman in a populist vein, and given the younger composer's skills as orchestrator, this good-natured send-up of American patriotism is enormously entertaining. Serebrier delivers these works with all the requisite verve, and I can't imagine them being any better done. Indeed, past performances I've heard on disc pale besides these, especially in Naxos' beautifully engineered recordings.

But, about the concerto: Though I may find its drama uncompelling, certainly Peter Quint and Serebrier can't be faulted. Quint, a Russian-American, seems very much a violinist on the make. Unless I miss my guess, he will have an exciting career. For Schuman lovers, his performance will certainly enthrall. For the rest of us, he makes the most of a work that isn't quite an American classic.

Excellent Recording of a little known work.......2002-01-09

This is an excellent recording of a piece that does not get performed or recorded often. In fact this is the only recording of Schuman's violin concerto I have ever run across. Philip Quint plays flawlessly. I am very impressed with his superb abilities.

If I weren't normally so straight-laced, I'd say "Boffo!".......2001-08-10

This latest release in the Naxos "American Classics" series solves two problems for me, gets me to retire a CD that has well earned its retirement, and throws up a fresh challenge.

One problem solved is a lengthy search I had been making for the CD transfer of a 30-year-old LP, by Paul Zukofsky with Michael Tilson Thomas and the Boston Symphony, of the premiere recording of the "final" version of Schuman's Violin Concerto. While I had at least one stop-gap CD (Robert McDuffie, with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra) to tide me over, that performance never seemed to have the same visceral excitement that Zukofsky's did. This new Naxos performance, featuring Philip Quint (my first hearing of Mr. Quint) not only puts into retirement the McDuffie/Slatkin recording; it also exceeds the Zukofsky/Tilson Thomas recording by a comfortable margin. Quint is fully the technical and lyrical equal of Zukofsky. More importantly, the performance of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under the direction of José Serebrier is stunningly virtuosic, and the whole is captured in equally stunning sound. The extended timpani solo that opens the second movement, to mention just one performance highlight beyond the solo work of Mr. Quint, is a bravura performance and the sound quality is of a level that would do any high-end audiophile label proud.

Another problem solved is a similar search for a CD transfer of an elderly LP, this one a recording of Ives's "Variations on `America'" as orchestrated by Schuman, with Morton Gould and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. (This, when it was intially released, had been coupled with the world premiere recording of Ives's First Symphony and "The Unanswered Question." A CD transfer of the First Symphony had an entirely different coupling.) These variations - whether in the original organ version (which Ives's father forbade him to play in church, lest "the boys giggle") or in this famous Schuman orchestration - are a lot of fun for most Americans. Since the tune is also "God Save The Queen," one hopes that the Bournemouth musicians got an equal level of enjoyment out of the performance. The recording certainly suggests that they did.

The CD that truly gets retired with this Naxos acquisition is the Howard Hanson/Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra recording of Schuman's "New England Triptych." Despite its age (1963), it has held up exceedingly well, and was always one of the very best of the Mercury Living Presence CD transfers. But this new Naxos performance is the hands-down winner on all counts: orchestral precision, ability to follow inner voices with ease, sublime string playing in the "When Jesus Wept" movement, the best percussion work I've ever heard in the concluding "Chester" movement, and of course sonics.

To this Bill Schuman aficianado, these three works - when taken with his masterpiece, his Third Symphony - serve well to sample his abilities as a composer. (Well, the Ives orchestration may be considered "Schuman Lite," but it's certainly fun.) Each of these Naxos takes is at the top of its class, in my not-so-humble opinion. To get all three together, at this price, can best be described as a "ka-ching!" (the sound of a cash register, if you've never seen the expression before).

This is not the first time that I've commented on the work of Serebrier at these Amazon.com pages. An earlier review of his Reference Recordings CD of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sheherazade" and "Great Russian Easter Overture," with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, garnered equally high praise (but coming at a considerably higher price than this Naxos CD, of course). What Serebrier seems to bring to these quite disparate sets of works, orchestras and labels is an attention to detail, a precision of orchestral performance, and a balance of all choirs and instruments in the orchestras that is significantly above the norm. I sense that part of his conductorial "toolkit" is his skill in getting the musicians to truly listen to each other as they play; failing this, I'd be at a loss to explain the results he obtains. Admittedly, this is a small sample on which to base an opinion, much less a conclusion, but it is my opinion that Maestro Serebrier is a "sleeper" amidst the current flock of publicist-driven music directors. Which gets me, finally, to the challenge: Will this new Naxos disc survive my "test-to-destruction" efforts that some recently memorable Naxos discs have? I think it will.

Bob Zeidler

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3rd Offering from a Great Band
is it christian?
christian metal music is freaking good
To "Jester God"
I agree with the kid

The Triptych
Demon Hunter
Manufacturer: Solid State Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-10-25

Tracks:

The Light That Guides Us Home
Not I
Undying
Relentless Intolerance
Deteriorate
The Soldier's Song
Fire To My Soul
One Thousand Apologies
The Science Of Lies
Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck
Ribcage
The Tide Began To Rise

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3rd Offering from a Great Band.......2007-02-14

So basically, Demon Hunter's third album blew me away. The sound quality and effects of the album added to the raw talent of these guys to create a freaking awesome album! Aaron Sprinkle did a GREAT job in creating this album with the band, and the bonus tracks on the special edition are definetely worth it, as well as the behind the scenes stuff. It's great to see the band behind closed doors, and it gives you a better idea of why they make the music they do. If you don't own this album and want something to satiate your need for heavy guitars, growling vocals and thundering bass and drums, look no further!

is it christian?.......2007-02-02

Is this christian? I am listeing to the cd and I like it a lot.I need to know if its christian they seen a little funny.

christian metal music is freaking good.......2006-12-03

The dude that thinks christian metal is gay is freaking gay!!
Christian metal music rocks!
that works!!
that one guy has had 2 much time with his mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To "Jester God".......2006-10-22

First off dude, i feel that you understand that paradoxes exist, and in that i am glad. But i fear that you dont understand exactly what may be a paradox. For example, "Christian Metal" is not a paradox because technically metal does not constitute that singing of Christ and God are in any way against the rules of metal. They do not co-exist in opposite directions, thus proving that Christian Metal is not a paradox. An example of a true paradox is an omnipitant (all powerful) God becoming vulnerable and weak for the sake of man and saving man only through His death and utter humility and vulnerability. Another one is that God became a human. God is a being whom is not bound by the limits of time or anything else. Humans, though, ARE bound by time, space, and the flesh. So, by a being whom is boundless becoming a being that is bound is a paradox.
Second off, what if i were to say, "the only good metal is metal that is about God." Wouldnt that be kinda arrogant? I love all metal, whether it speaks of God or not. But the point is, is that by excluding and judging bands on if they sing about God or not is a completely irrational decision that unnecessarily hurts yourself and others. For you are missing out on good talent and you are making judgments upon those whom you dont know and on something you probably know very very little about. In fact, most of the metal out there that doesnt talk about God talks about themselves and their own experiences. Is that not selfish? Are they not only making themselves idols for you to praise and even vainly worship (although, I do understand that that is not always the case)? But the second someone talks/sings about God,(someone OTHER than themselves) ye who shut off Christians all around are immediately offended and discard the talent and work of the band.
Well anyway, im not angry, so you know, just wanted to clear a couple things up with you.
The Triptych sounds good. I dont have any of their CD's yet, but they sound good. Live and Die for and like Christ.

I agree with the kid.......2006-09-15

Star wars vet, have you even listened to this cd? Listen to the tracks "Relenteless Intolerance","Not I","Undying","The Soldier's Song","The Science of Lies","Ribcage" and "Snap your fingers, snap your neck". This is metal! All growling lyrics, all deep, distorted cords, this is a great cd to workout to. Even the few light rock songs like "Thousand Apollogies" are awsome. This is a must cd for metal fans, of all variation. I'm 14 by the way, I just couldn't find my password.

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excellent collection
A Classic Performance of Schuman!
American Masterpieces - For pleasure or music ed. resource

American Masterpieces

Manufacturer: Sony
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Release Date: 1997-07-01

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Candide: Overture
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Customer Reviews:

excellent collection.......2002-06-11

i'm just going to write about my favorite piece on here, which has been heard by all who saw Platoon. that is Barber's Adagio. hearing this piece conducted here by Bernstein sends chills down my spine, especially in the well done section using silence after the climactic rise in notes!

A Classic Performance of Schuman!.......2000-09-17

I must agree with the previous reviewer, that "American Masterpieces" comprises a very thoughtful collection yet suffers slightly from poor interpretation of certain pieces. But the presence alone of the classic performance of William Schuman's "New England Triptych" by Andre Kostelanetz and the New York Philharmonic makes this compilation all worth it. I have looked forward for this particular version of Schuman's work to be released on compact disc for several years, in the meantime not being entirely satisfied with other versions that have circulated, i.e. Howard Hanson/the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra on the Mercury Living Presence label, -very poorly executed with an off-key, off-timed horn in the first movement, or the version on the RCA label by Leonard Slatkin and the St.Louis Symph.Orch. which is very well done, yet to my ear still does not compare to the depth and lively energy with which Kostelanetz and the New York Philharmonic presents this work.

I was disappointed with the manner with which the first two pieces by Berstein and Ives were conducted. The "Candide Orchestra" lacked the sensitivity of the performance by Lukas Foss /Milwaukee SO on the Pro Arte label, while Slatkin does a much better job with the Ives piece for RCA.

But the remainder of colorful material following Schuman on this CD - even with the overdone "Adagio for Strings" by Barber - makes for a very rewarding listening experience, with the only disappointing exception of the third piece ( "A Narrative") curiously missing from Virgil Thomson's "Acadian Songs and Dances", yet present on an old scratchy, mono LP that I have on the Decca label (Thomas Scherman /the Little Orchestra Society). Did Thomson later revise this suite? Or did this CD run out of space? If the latter is true, one can only wish that Barber's overplayed "Adagio" would have been bumped to make room for the entirety of Thomson's superb "Acadian Songs".

American Masterpieces - For pleasure or music ed. resource.......2000-07-28

The American Masterpieces CD is an excellent compilation of music that is uniquely American. Much of the material is based on folk sources, and all of it is thoughtfully selected. The only negative is that some of the music is not the best version available, but I'm sure that's due to the limitations of the Sony label. The "Adagio for Strings," for example, is taken at a slightly fast tempo, lessening the dramatic impact of the build-up. The selections are a music educator's delight. Bernstein's "Candide Overture" is perfection. Ives' "Variations on America" is a wonderful study in the use of a familiar theme in an unusual manner. "When Jesus Wept" can be sung by a chorus and then compared with Schuman's treatment. Gould's "American Salute" is an exciting study in theme and variations on the familiar tune, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." And, of course, Gershwin's "Promenade" is delightful, and an excellent follow-up for the Fantasia 2000 film. The reason I bought the recording was for the Gottschalk "Grand Walkaround" and "Jamaican Rumba" by Benjamin. Both are based on American folk materials (Sweet Potatoes - Louisiana, and Mango Walk, respectively). The original songs can be sung, compared, performed in an Orff arrangement, and then presented in the orchestral interpretations. The folk songs are both found in the McGraw Hill music series, Share the Music, Grade 5. If you like this CD, try the American Salute CD from Musical Heritage Society.

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American Album

Manufacturer: RCA
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Release Date: 1991-03-08

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Fanfare For The Common Man
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Herrmann: Symphony No. 1; Schuman: New England Triptych

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Wonderful music magnificently recorded
Herrmann's Symphony! Excellent.

Herrmann: Symphony No. 1; Schuman: New England Triptych

Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics
ProductGroup: Music
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Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores

ASIN: B000001SF8
Release Date: 1993-06-16

Tracks:

Symphony No. 1: Maestoso - Allegro
Symphony No. 1: Scherzo
Symphony No. 1: Andante sostenuto
Symphony No. 1: Rondo - Finale
New England Triptych: Be Glad Then, America
New England Triptych: When Jesus Wept
New England Triptych: Chester

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Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) was one of America's greatest composers of film scores. Most notably, he wrote scores for many of the great Alfred Hitchcock films--Psycho, Vertigo, Torn Curtain, and North by Northwest. He always wanted to write music that had its own visual character, that could stand apart from any film. Which it does. Here, in his Symphony 1, he has taken all his film-score talent and put it to good use in a symphonic work. Herrmann was influenced by the generation of American composers of the '30s, particularly Copland, as well as William Schuman. Schuman's New England Triptych is already a classic. --Paul Cook

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Wonderful music magnificently recorded.......2005-12-20

I didn't expect something this wonderful from the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra when I found this performance of Bernard Herrmann's Symphony No. 1. Herrmann is doubtless most well known for his fantastic film music ranging from "Psycho" to "Journey to the Center of the Earth".

His musical imagination is effectively on display in sonata form in the symphony, a boisterous piece where the brass prevail in all four movements. The obvious influence of Mahler and Bruckner show through the symphonic canvass, which is rich in detail and interesting throughout. The other American music on the disk, Schumann's "New England Tryptich", is better performed than when I last heard it on a Naxos CD that accompanied a recording of that composer's Violin Concerto.

Special plaudits go to the recording itself, which was made in the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra's home hall. It is clear, rich, detailed and has marvelous depth. It is one of the best recordings I have ever heard of brass-domainated music given that reverb is kept to a minimum and there is wonderful clarity throughout the recording.

I don't know anything about conductor James Sedares but he seems to very well understand the combined canon of Herrmann and Schuman, which sound very much alike in this recording. No lover of 20th century American music should let this remarkable issue pass without at least one hearing.

Herrmann's Symphony! Excellent........2004-10-06

Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Herrmann wrote this marvelous symphony in 1941. It is a distinctly rich work for full scale orchestra. Each of the four movements has a character of its own ranging from introspective searching to joyfull triumph. There is no specific thematic material that ties the movements together but the whole is quite satifying. Herrmann knew how to use orchestral color across a broad canvass. He was a master composer. And his symphony merits more exposure in the orchestral repertoire.

Schuman's New England Triptych, written in 1956, compliments the Herrmann very well on this disc. Again, each of the three movements have their own identity and work together nicely. The whole bears repeated listening.

James Sedares and the Phoenix Symphony perform both works admirably. The 1992 recording is DDD. Informative liner notes and a great photograph of Herrmann at the Grand Canyon. A keeper.

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By half of Lemon Jelly; no new material. Caveat emptor.

The Triptych
Lemon Jelly
Manufacturer: Family Recordings
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We Are the Night
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Our Love to Admire
Easy Tiger
Sound of Silver

ASIN: B000MRNTKY
Release Date: 2007-03-19

Tracks:

Appa - Badmarsh & Shri
Spin - Impossible Dreamers
Mr Matawe (Keet It Up) - Flying Fish
Selecter - The Selecter
Private Party - Bobby Nunn
Disco Dynamite - Mr. Flash,
Amor Dei - BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Perpetuum Mobile - The Penguin Cafe Orchestra,
Ode to Joy - Pete Seeger
Want 2 Need 2 [Trentemoller Remix] - Sharon Phillips
Kita Kita - Gaspar Lawal
Funk Music [Tonka Remix] - Dave Angel
Adolescent Sex - Japan
Touch of Jazz - Nick Straker
Don't Be Cruel - Billy Swan
One Way Ticket - Mama Cass
Music Box - Native Force
Rocker - Thin Lizzy
Funk Soul Sensation - Jemini the Gifted One
Supernatural Thing - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Nothin' - N.O.R.E.
Come Together - Graffiti
Straw Dogs - Tomahawk
Oooh Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You) - Billy Hawks
Coffee in the Pot - Supergrass
St Louis Blues - Bob Wills & His Texas Cowboys,
It's Better to Have (And Don't Need) - Don Covay
He's on the Phone - Saint Etienne
Sometimes Always - The Jesus and Mary Chain
My Resistance Is Low - Bernard Cribbins

Tracks:

Flatbush Waltz - Andy Statman
Grokster - Etienne de Crecy
Get Up (Before the Night Is Over) - Technotronic
Good Life - Kaori
Garden Party - Mezzoforte
Cripple Creek - Leo Kottke
Chrome Radio Rocks - Toes
Xmas Rapping - Kurtis Blow
Movin' On [Tony Humphries Remix] - Bananarama
I Want More - Ege Bam Yasi
Mr No - John Foxx
Torch Song - Todd Rundgren
Dictionary of Modern Marriage - XTC
Real Hip Hop - Das EFX
Love Rears Its Ugly Head [Soulpower Hip Hop Mix] - Living Colour
Amalgam - Dudley Moore
Falling Up - Theo Parrish
Crazy - Jesse Johnson
Boogie Down Bronx - Man Parrish
Calico Girlfriend - Michael Nesmith
Blue Bongo - Ramsey Lewis
Madison Time - Ray Bryant
Don't You Push Me Down - Wally Whyton
Hydraulic Pump - P-Funk All Stars
Cars and Trains - George Michael
Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
Moonshot - Sounds Orchestral
Night Flight - Pentangle
Wayfaring Stranger - Anita Kerr Quartet
Mam Says - Drilla
Let's Be Natural - The Rutles

Tracks:

Threshold - Steve Miller
Words of Wisedom - Grand Funk Railroad
Feeling Alright - James Last
Maybe Tomorrow - The Chords
Scrambled Eggs - Roni Size
Musica Per Anna - Gianfranco Plenizio,
I Like It - Grand Puba
Madeleine - The Durutti Column
Minuet - Kenny Rankin
Happy Dayz - Bugz in the Attic
Dirty Raver - Acen
Key - Wuf Ticket,
Celibataires - Michel Houellebeck,
Get Carter - Peak
Homicide - Shades of Rhythm
That's My Style - Freq Nasty
Ring Bell - Miriam Makeba
Pass the Joint - Rick James
Bed and Breakfast Man - Madness
Get to Know You - Maxwell
Trying to Get Over - D-Train
Topknot - Cornershop, Mia and Jonah
Are You My Baby - Wendy & Lisa
Oooh Child - The Five Stairsteps
America the Beautiful/The Times They Are a Changin' - Spirit
Midday Sun - Ian O'Brien
Brown Eyed Girl - The Isley Brothers
Misty Roses - Tim Hardin
Three Live Wires - Bob Wallis

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Following in the Footsteps of Dirty Vegas, Tom Middleton, Tim "Love" Lee, Saint Etienne, Snow Patrol, Jarvis Cocker and Steve Mackey and Joey Negro, Family Recordings Present "The Triptych", an Comprehensive and Thoroughly Enjoyable Mix CD from Half of the Lemon Jelly Duo, Fred Deakin. Part of the Ever-excellent Series, "The Trip", this is by Far Most Ambitious Release Yet. Devoid of Genre Bias Or the Latest Fad to Latch on To, "The Triptych" Consists of 90 (That's Nine Zero) Tracks Lovingly Mined from Fred's Vast Record Collection and Then Mixed to Perfection Over Three Discs for Your Listening Pleasure. The Design is all by Deakin and it Includes a 20 Page Booklet with a Note from Deakin on Why He Chose Every Single Track on the Album.

Customer Reviews:

By half of Lemon Jelly; no new material. Caveat emptor........2007-07-15

While Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly did pull this triple compilation together, don't be deceived and thing this is a Lemon Jelly album. It has quite a range of material on it, but may not align with your idea of what a Lemon Jelly album is. Additionally, there is no new Lemon Jelly track included either.

But if you're looking for a mixed chill out/trippy/funky album, perhaps you might enjoy it.

John Foulds: Dynamic Triptych; Music-Pictures III

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Colorful and Intriguing Music
ANOTHER FIVE STAR HELPING OF FOULDS
John Foulds: Ahead of his time (and a bit of a nutjob...)

John Foulds: Dynamic Triptych; Music-Pictures III

Manufacturer: Warner Classics
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EQHV52
Release Date: 2006-05-23

Tracks:

I. Dynamic Mode
II. Dynamic Timbre
III. Dynamic Rhythm
April - England (Impressions Of Time And Place No.1), Op.48 No.1
I. The Ancient Of Days
II. Colombine
III. Old Greek Legend
IV. The Tocsin
The Song Of Ram Dass
Keltic Lament, Op.29 No.2

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Colorful and Intriguing Music .......2006-08-09

John Foulds' music came as a complete surprise. I had read an excellent review of this disc and heard a little of the music over the radio which led me to buy the CD. John Folds (1880-1939) was a remarkable man of wide interests who traveled widely, painted landscapes in watercolor, wrote novels and explored the music of many diverse cultures that came to be reflected in his own music.

This disc is actually the second recorded by the City of Birmingham Orchestra. The first selection is a piano concerto by in the hands of John Foulds it becomes Dynamic Triptych. The music was intended to be a single movement work but it quickly became something much larger. The movements go under the names: Dynamic Mode, Dynamic Timbre and Dynamic Rhythm. The first movement is dynamic indeed, fiery was a word used in the notes. It is a very energetic movement that one connects to immediately for the sheer brilliance of the music. Dynamic Timbre is a slow movement that aims at creating instrumental colors and Dynamic Rhythm takes us back to the energy of the first movement and is based on a 2/4 rhythm that Folds builds on. April - England began as a piano piece written on April 21, 1926, the Vernal Equinox. In 1932, Foulds orchestrated and expanded the music into a delightfully bucolic work written with a marvelous palette of colors. Music Pictures III was performed in 1912 and was written to reflect Foulds' musical response to several paintings. The first movement is titled Ancient of Days and is based on a picture by William Blake depicting God as an architect. The second movement is a depicting of a dancing Columbine from a painting by Alfred Brunet, a charming dance sequence. The third and final picture is Old Greek Legend, which was based on two pictures dealing with historical subjects. More important, the last movement was an experiment in the Greek modes of music writing, following in the footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams - the boisterous music brings the suite to a rousing close. The Song of Ram Dass, composed in 1 is a beautiful miniature, dreamy like an Oriental night.

This disc is a must for anyone loving colorfully written orchestral music. The music is perfectly played by the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Peter Donohoe shines in the Triptych. I was immediately attracted to John Foulds music and I think he will appeal to many listeners.

ANOTHER FIVE STAR HELPING OF FOULDS.......2006-06-26

I was delighted to discover the music of John Foulds, the now almost forgotten English composer, through the CBSO and Sakari Oramo's first disc of his music which was released on Warner Classics in 2004. Foulds (1880-1939)was, like Holst, fascinated by Indian music and, like his other contemporary Vaughan Williams, by modal music. Combine this with his use of whole-tone scales (a la Debussy) and quarter tones and you get an idea of what a rich musical brew he cooks up in his works. They are colourful, dramatic and full of energy. This is romantic music but with a cutting edge due to that unsual musical pallette he uses. The "Dynamic Triptych" is a piano concerto that crackles with energy. The first movement sounds a little like Prokofiev with its pounding rhythms and whirling dervish final movement. The lyrical middle movement has one of Foulds' musical thumbprints - the use of a quarter tone scale that makes the music sound like an old fashioned gramophone slowly winding down. A weird effect the first time you hear it! "The Song of Ram Dass" is a glittering orchestral miniature using exotic eastern sounds which so fascinated Foulds and which, indirectly, cost him his life: he died of cholera in India where he went to work for Indian radio. "April England" was one of the few works by Foulds that were performed in his own lifetime. It's a real dazzler: the musial equivalent of one of those speeded-up BBC nature films where a whole season is shown in just a minute: where flowers bud and burst into flower and then germinate and shed their petals as we watch. Like Dylan Thomas's "The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower" Foulds' captures the endless energy of creative nature. The whole disc is brilliantly played and the engineering captures the large warm acoustic of Birmingham's Symphony Hall. Another musical triumph - do try to listen to it. Or better still take a chance and buy it (and the first CBSO / Foulds disc) you won't be disappointed.

John Foulds: Ahead of his time (and a bit of a nutjob...).......2006-05-25

Sadly, the composer John Foulds (1880-1939) is mainly remembered -- when he is remembered at all -- for his contributions to that regrettable little genre known as "British Light Music."

Who would have guessed that in addition to crowd-pleasing, pastoral ditties, Foulds also wrote some remarkably progressive, innovative, and frankly ass-kicking stuff. Thankfully, Sakari Oramo and his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra have taken up the music of John Foulds as a cause of sorts recently, and their previous CD unearthing this neglected composer's revelatory Three Mantras was clearly more than just a flash in the pan.

Their new John Foulds recording features a piano concerto titled Dynamic Triptych, and if you heard this piece during a "blindfold test," you might think you were listening to the best damn thing the overperformed, overcelebrated (and arguably overrated) neo-romanto-post-minimalist composer John Adams ever wrote.

You would then be shocked to learn that this piece was actually written about 75 years ago by this "no-name" British composer who was way ahead of his time in his explorations of Asian music, microtones, and mysticism. Foulds was also a bit of a nutjob who believed he possessed psychic powers and claimed that his music was often dictated to him by spirits. Well, whatever he was doing, it worked.

Triptych is action-packed, varied, arresting, and yes, "dynamic." The first movement brims with dazzling, shimmering pianistic and orchestral pyrotechnics reminiscent of Scriabin, Prokofiev, Poulenc and perhaps even Cecil Taylor with surging, goosebump-inducing climaxes and swirling modal scales. The mysterious second movement is meditative yet restless, and includes some strange and startling sliding string glissandi, while the final movement is propulsive, rhythmic, and almost jazzy, sounding like a wild hybrid of Bartok and Gershwin at times. It's astonishing to me that this exciting and entirely appealing work has languished unrecorded and unperformed for so many decades. Cheers to Sakari Oramo (and the formidable pianist Peter Donohoe) for resurrecting it... and on a widely distributed "major label" release, no less!

Needless to say, Dynamic Triptych is a tough act to follow, and while the other works on this CD don't match its sheer breadth and audacious originality, there are still some other interesting things to discover.

Music-Pictures, Group III, recorded here for the first time, predates Triptych and is Foulds's attempt to represent four specific paintings musically. Foulds's Pictures aren't nearly as evocative and colorful as Mussorgsky's, but this series of short tone poems is charming and enjoyable enough regardless. The Song of Ram Dass and Keltic Lament are also rather soundtracky and less cerebral miniatures, but both are entirely pleasant examples of Foulds's "light music" alter-ego.

April -- England (Impressions of Time and Place No. 1) starts off in a similar vein, but then evolves into an increasingly complex and brilliantly orchestrated series of variations, at times dense with counterpoint and peppered with spiky Stravinskian neo-Classical harmonies. This is a breathtaking symphonic showpiece that would be the perfect concert overture... if only orchestras would play it.

As if all of that weren't enough, Warner Classics has recently gotten on the "enhanced content" bandwagon, and if you pop this CD in your computer you'll have access to some rather nifty extra goodies such as downloadable PDFs of the original scores (so you can play along at home) and an audio download of a movement from Foulds's Indian Suite (I don't understand why they didn't just include this track on the actual CD, but whatever...)

John Foulds was obviously a truly unique musical visionary of the early 20th century, and it's a minor miracle that his music is finally reaching a wider audience. Hear him and be thankful.