Divine Brown [Import]

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Most urban-pop music aficionados in Canada have already known for the last few years that when you need a vocalist to shut the house down, you call Divine Brown. When Brown belts out her typically tender soul music numbers, it's as clear a partnership of soul, pop and jazz as you'll hear in the clubs or on the airwaves. Her pipes must be the product of another time period, when vocal chops really mattered. With her self-titled debut, Brown makes a successful leap from slightly-below-the-radar local vocal phenomenon to full-on, ready-for-the-world soul chanteuse who after one week broke a radio record with the release of her first single, 'Old Skool Love'. 13 tracks. Universal. 2005.

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Simply the best copy of Rutter's Requiem!
Requiem
Absolutely Beautiful
A glorious piece
Rutter brought me into the 20th century with this recording.

Rutter: Requiem

Manufacturer: Naxos
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John Rutter: Requiem
Be Thou My Vision
Rutter: Gloria
Requiem & Magnificat/Rutter, Cambridge Singers

ASIN: B00008OP1S
Release Date: 2003-04-29

Tracks:

Requiem Aeternam
Out Of The Deep
Pie Jesu - Elin Manahan Thomas
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
The Lord Is My Shephard
Lux Aeterna - Elin Manahan Thomas
Arise, Shine
Come Down, O Love Divine
Musica Dei Donum - Karen Jones
A Clare Benediction
Go Forth Into The World In Peace
Toccata In Seven
Variations On An Easter Theme For Organ

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Produced by the composer himself, this is the first recording of the original ensemble version of John Rutter's radiant Requiem. Written in 1985, the work is not a conventional setting of the Requiem Mass but comprises a personal selection of texts from the Catholic liturgy and the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. John Rutter maintains intimate ties with Clare College and many of his anthems are left as a musical legacy to the college. Among these are two simple, tender Blessings: Go forth into the world in peace, dedicated to the choir on the eve of its first tour to America; and A Clare Benediction, written as a gift to Rutter's alma mater. This recording is dedicated to the memory of Christopher Rutter.

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Simply the best copy of Rutter's Requiem!.......2007-06-27

In my opinion, this copy of Rutter's Requiem is the best one available. The orchestra does not overpower the chorus. The soprano soloist, Elin Manahan Thomas, is sublime.

Requiem.......2006-07-07

This CD has some of the most beautiful sacred music I have ever heard. Though a requiem is focused on a person's death, Rutter's Requiem leads you to consider the living Christ. "Requiem aeternam" and "Sanctus" are both uplifting and worshipful, and "Toccata in seven" is pure fun.

Absolutely Beautiful.......2006-06-09

Beautiful is one of those words that I don't use often and I don't use lightly, but this recording of John Rutter's Requiem and other choral works is worthy of description with the full weight of the word. All seven movements of his magnificent requiem are flowing with rich, delicate beauty. Rutter uses the full palate that the orchestra and the chorus has to offer such as the light sustained oboe throughout "The Lord is My Shepherd" and the bellowing low cello in "Out of the Deep." It's cool to hear a mix of Latin and English texts throughout the work. The soprano solo on "Pie Jesu" is breathtaking and the work closes with the sonorous, harmonicaly rich "Lux aeterna." The "Sanctus" is triumphant and the incredibly haunting "Agnus Dei" sends chills up the spine. The main theme introduced in the first movement is just beautiful. I am sure that if I heard Rutter's Requiem performed live and well, it would certainly bring tears to my eyes. It is a simply beautiful piece of music and is very well interpreted on this album. There is an excellent attention to the text and the shape of the phrases. A truly wonderful recording.

As for the other works on this album, they are just as impressive. The bombastic, sonorous "Arise, Shine" has enough G-force to plaster you to the back of your seat. It is wonderful to listen to the dialog between the chorus and the flute in "Musica Dei donum." "A Clare Benediction" is absolutely beautiful, as is "Go Forth into the World With Peace." The chords in "Come Down O Lord Divine" are incredible.

As for the organ pieces, the "Toccata in Seven" is bright and exciting, though a little heavy in some sections. The epic "Variations on an Easter Theme" is just astounding. Rutter takes us through a labyrinth of harmonic and rhythmic variation on a simple theme with wild obligados, fierce runs, dynamic shifts, tense harmonies, argumentative counterpoint and lyrical melodies. This is an amazingly exciting piece with two organists using all eight of the appendages between the two of them to make some amazing music.

This is quite a great collection of great sacred music from one of the best composers around today. Not to mention, you cannot beat Naxos' value. For under 10 bucks, this CD is a must.

A glorious piece.......2005-12-16

--Music--
Rutter's Requiem was written in 1985. In Catholic liturgy, a requiem is a Mass for the Dead, and as such involves strong tones both of mourning and loss as well as elements of hope and eternal life as reflected in Christian belief. Rutter states that, like Brahms and Faure, there are elements that depart from the traditional lines of a Catholic requiem. Rutter takes some of the texts from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Both the first and second movements, Requiem aeternam and 'Out of the Deep', set very dark, low, sombre tones. The use of strings at the beginning of 'Out of the Deep' is very effective, together with funeral-dirge like vocals. This contrasts greatly with the Pie Jesu, light and spiritual. The Sanctus is almost playful in aspect, and the Agnus Dei and Lux aeterna draw the listener higher and higher into the fullness of expectation of God's presence.

--John Rutter--
Rutter was born in London and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. This was where his career as a composer, arranger and conductor began. His early work was with groups at King's College Chapel at Cambridge as well as the Bath Choir and Philharmonic Orchestra. He has worked for the BBC providing music for educational series such as 'The Archaeology of the Bible Lands', until in 1979 he began forming the Cambridge Singers, and has continued a remarkable career of performance and recording as their director ever since.

This recording is produced by Rutter, but is performed by the London Sinfonia, a group that he has worked with but is not the usual Cambridge Singers. This performance compares favourably with Rutter's own group, with areas in which there is greater subtlety and depth.

Rutter brought me into the 20th century with this recording........2005-10-01

Prefering Classical, Baroque, & Romantic Music and particulary Requiems, I only gave this recording a chance because I could not find another requiem at the time, shortly after my parents had died. Having sung a few of Rutter's compositions in university I knew of his quality and flavor. To my surprise and complete amazement this piece and this particular recording was an incredible salve on the deepedst of open wounds. To this day, 10 years later, this is one of my top ten favorite albums. I have heard other renditions of Rutter's Requiem, however, none have had the intensity that this one has had, conducted by John Rutter, himself.

I feel this is the greatest of Rutters compositions and as of now , this is the best production of his Requiem I have heard yet. IMHO

Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music

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Life of the Worlds: Journeys in Jewish Sacred Music

Manufacturer: Five Souls Music
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Binding: Audio CD

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Tuning The Soul: Worlds of Jewish Sacred Music
Kabbalah Music: Songs of the Jewish Mystics
Sing My Heart
Abayudaya - Music from the Jewish People of Uganda
Sacred Chants of the Contemporary Synagogue

ASIN: B000172L72
Release Date: 2003-12-03

Tracks:

Ha'aderet Veha'emunah/LeKhay Olamim - Yemen
Le'El Adir Neranenah - Afghanistan
Bati Legani - Eastern Europe
Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden - Eastern Europe
Sephardi Yerushalmi Khatsi Kaddish - Jerusalem/Spain
Navah Tehilah - Afghanistan
Hayoshevet Baganim - Yemen
Eyn Keloheynu - Morocco
Modeh Ani/Elohay Neshamah - Salonica
Eli Shema Koli - Morocco
Reb Nachman's Niggun - Ukraine
Hishtapkhut Hanefesh - Belarus
Niggun of the Alter Rebbe - Belarus
Ve'erastikh Li - Salonica
El Mistater - Poland
Ashrey - Eastern Europe/Spain
Yemeni Shema - Yemen
Grandfather Sang a Song - Eastern Europe

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The modern-day traditional Jewish music revival is filled with artists exploring klezmer's Eastern-European roots, but you'll hear no clarinet and little violin on cantor/educator Richard Kaplan's Life Of The Worlds. Although these are traditional songs, there is a broad range of the Diaspora represented on his second album, including Afghani, Spanish, Moroccan, and Algerian traditions. Kaplan dives into the sacred and the secular, the prophetic and the exultant, finding commonalities amongst different tribes and fusing them together. Musical accompaniment comes in the form of an occasional flute, piano, and violin as well as Moroccan clay drums, oud, dumbek, and other pre-modern-era instruments, but the instrument at the center of each song is Kaplan's voice--his high baritone majestically soars, quavers with sensitivity, and rings out with joy. To hear him sing solo versions of traditional Niggiun is to hear a world-class master savor the multifaceted nuance of each note and transcend the concept of song, turning it into religion and high art. --Tad Hendrickson

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A remarkable collection of vocal performances of Jewish sacred music from the Middle East, Andalusia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia - songs of exultation, longing, love, and Divine immanence - accompanied by an ensemble of masterful musicians.

Instruments include: oud, ney, kanun, Egyptian accordian, violin, mandolin, dumbek, doira, riqq, Yemenite can, tar, saz, clarinet, mey (Turkish duduk), tilinca (Rumanian shepherd's flute), piano, string bass, balaban (Klezmer drum set), cimbalom, and a chorus of voices.

Among many special songs, the CD features an 'eco-lament' (ecological lament) based on lament melodies for the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It is called "Lament on the Destruction of the Garden of Eden" (Kinah Lekhurban Gan Eden), and updates the use of these tunes to mourn the wounding of our larger temple, Gaia - Mother Earth.

LIFE OF THE WORLDS contains 18 songs, 77 minutes of music, and contains a 32-page booklet which includes informative song descriptions; all texts are provided in transliteration, English translation, and in Hebrew or Yiddish.

This CD was three years in the making, and presents the first recordings in North America of several songs from the treasure-chest of Jewish sacred music.

Divine Brown
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This is my Old Skool Love

Nothing but love

girl can sing her behind off

It's about time!

Don't sleep on this one

Divine Brown
Divine Brown
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Jonas

L.O.V.E.

SOULidified

Get Used to It

ASIN: B0009R19PE
Release Date: 2005-06-13

Tracks:

Old Skool Love
Twist My Hair
U Shook Me
Help Me
Deja Vu
Something Bout You
My Cryin' Eyes
Another Affair
Without You
Boss Playa
Single Momma
Longer Than I
Warrior

Album Description

Most urban-pop music aficionados in Canada have already known for the last few years that when you need a vocalist to shut the house down, you call Divine Brown. When Brown belts out her typically tender soul music numbers, it's as clear a partnership of soul, pop and jazz as you'll hear in the clubs or on the airwaves. Her pipes must be the product of another time period, when vocal chops really mattered. With her self-titled debut, Brown makes a successful leap from slightly-below-the-radar local vocal phenomenon to full-on, ready-for-the-world soul chanteuse who after one week broke a radio record with the release of her first single, 'Old Skool Love'. 13 tracks. Universal. 2005.

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Most Urban-pop Music Aficionados in Canada have Already Known for the Last Few Years that When You Need a Vocalist to Shut the House Down, You Call Divine Brown. When Brown Belts Out her Typically Tender Soul Music Numbers, It's as Clear a Partnership of Soul, Pop and Jazz as You'll Hear in the Clubs Or on the Airwaves. Her Pipes Must Be the Product of Another Time Period, When Vocal Chops Really Mattered. With her Self-titled Debut, Brown Makes a Successful Leap from Slightly-below-the-radar Local Vocal Phenomenon to Full-on, Ready-for-the-world Soul Chanteuse who after One Week Broke a Radio Record with the Release of her First Single, "Old Skool Love"!

Customer Reviews:

This is my Old Skool Love.......2005-08-10

I am completely in love with this album. It is such a welcomed change to hear REAL soul music come from a Canadian artist. Divine Brown joins the ranks of other soulsters including Alicia Keys, Angie Stone, Musiq, Anthony Hamilton et al.

The first track and single 'Old Skool Love' takes the listener back about 30 years to a time when soul music was prevalent on the airwaves with a pleading and yearning melody. Just listen to the lyrics - "still miss that Old Skool Love/not quite the do-right love/your love was fine/but never on time"...brilliant!

Brown's rendition of Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me' is nothing short of exquisite. Other standout tracks include 'You Hooked Me All Night Long', 'Another Affair', 'Without You', 'Something Bout You' and 'Warrior'. The whole album is a treat for soul music lovers everywhere.

I hope this album picks up momentum in the United States and around the world. I don't want to be a pessimist but my fear is that this album will be underrated and underappreciated in Canada. This is too good an album to let slide through the cracks.

Nothing but love.......2005-07-10

Divine Brown's self titled debut album is one of this years best kept secrets. From the hugely popular and opening track "Old Skool Love" to the closing "Warrior" this release takes you on a very enjoyable voyage.
Divine's lyrics and vocal arrangements are a welcome change to Jessica Simpson and sister(s) overproduced pop tracks. If you are lookinf for good old R&B with a commanding voice and presence that sends chills down your spine, click order and enjoy

girl can sing her behind off.......2005-06-27

now here's a true talent present in the music industry. The girl can sing great, has good songwriting and instrument playing skills. This is true r&b with an old school vibe to it.

It's about time!.......2005-06-07

Divine Brown is without a doubt the best new artist to come out of Canada. It's been quite awhile since we've had this kind of powerhouse R&B vocalist, and this album is a treat to listen to. Divine is not only a great singer but also plays some of the music on this album. She truly brings back the meaning of what R&B really is... not just a funky backing track, but also a great vocalist. Too many so-called R&B acts these days just don't have the vocal chops to compete with the stars of the past, but Divine sure does. Every track on this album works... she does a fine job of mixing contemporary R&B with the sounds of the past. I'm not going to single out a particular track, because I think they're all great, so give her a chance. Let us hope the rest of the world will catch on, too.

Don't sleep on this one.......2005-06-04

There's something seductive about the debut album of an underground artist. Perhaps its that deep soul sound you get before an artist starts churning out pop singles and filler tracks. I listened to this on puretracks and I'm hitting it up for sure. The simple soul, rhythm and blues feeling will take you back to the 'old skool' days of lounging in on live jazz performances. It has the soul of John Legend but with much more of an old school aura.

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Sir Thomas Allen makes the point in a note with this delightful collection of 25 ballads that he rates it beside his many recordings of music heavyweights like Wagner and Verdi. There is no need to justify his enthusiasm, for it is clear from the outset that he treats the music with the sort of complete respect that has made him one of our most-loved singers. It is too easy to be dismissive of this repertoire, but when it is taken at its own value and sung and played with honesty, as it is here, the results are heartwarming. Allen recalls hearing the songs in the family home following the two world wars, "a time when there seemed a need for reassurance." Perhaps that time is with us again, and these performances strike a chord. There are many old friends here and perhaps some new discoveries. Who can resist the beautifully constructed "Love, could I only tell thee" or that old potboiler "The Lost Chord", especially when given with such warmth? A picture shows Allen and family in full vocal spate. At the piano is his father, to whose memory he dedicates the disc. --Keith Clarke

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Fond Affection - Works of Ernst Bacon
Bacon , Brown , Burtis , Sharp , Musta , and Burton
Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
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ASIN: B0000646U4
Release Date: 2002-03-01

Tracks:

Is There Such A Thing As Day?
My River Runs To Thee
When Roses Cease To Bloom, Dear
Schilflied
The Red Rose
Gentle Greeting
Fond Affection
The Commonplace
Grand Is the Seen
Lingering Last Drops
The Last Invocation
The Divine Ship
Omaha
Its ComingThe Postponeless Creature
How Still The Bells
Farewell To A Name And A Number
Brady

Album Description

Ernst Bacon was one of that pioneering generation of composers, along with Thomson, Copland, Harris and others, who found a voice for American music. Born in Chicago on May 26, 1898, his Austrian mother gave him a love of song and an early start on the piano. Although his varied career included appearances as pianist and conductor, along with teaching and directing positions, his deepest preoccupation was always composing. His musical awards included a Pulitzer Fellowship in 1932 for his Symphony in D Minor and three Guggenheim Fellowships.

As a composer, Bacon belonged to no “school” and followed no fads. He was largely self-taught in composition, except for two years study with Karl Weigl in Vienna in the early '20s. While there, he experienced the depression of post-war Europe first hand and concluded that the European avant-garde movement, reflecting the pessimism of that era and region, was not appropriate to America. Returning to Chicago, he set out to write music that expressed the vitality and affirmation of our own country.

At the age of nineteen, while majoring in mathematics at Northwestern University, Bacon wrote a complex treatise exploring all possible harmonies, which was published by The Open Court Publishing Company (“Our Musical Idiom,” The Monist, October 1917). However, when he began to compose music in his twenties, he rejected a cerebral approach, taking the position that music is an art, not a science. He felt that its source should be intuitive and imaginative, rather than abstract and analytical.

From his first job as opera coach at the Eastman School in the mid '20s, he went on to receive a master's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and to teach at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Ernest Bloch. During

the '30s he was director of the WPA Federal Music Project and Orchestra in San Francisco and was a founder of the Carmel Bach Festival. From 1938 to 1945 he headed the School of Music at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he established the New Spartanburg Music Festival. At Syracuse University, he was director of the School of Music from 1945 to 1947 and composer-in-residence and professor of piano until his retirement in 1963.

In 1964 he returned to the West, settling in the small town of Orinda, California, east of the Berkeley hills. Here, as everywhere else, he drew his greatest inspiration from nature, jotting down notes as he explored local trails. His fertile imagination and constant creative efforts left little time for self-promotion, and although nearly blind in old age, he continued to compose until the very end of his ninety-one years.

Throughout his long career, Ernst Bacon's chief aim as a composer was to express the spirit of America in music as Whitman, Emerson, Melville and others had done in literature. He was deeply immersed in our country's history and folklore, as well as its indigenous music; and was inspired by the poetry, folk songs, jazz rhythms and geography of America as well as the landscape itself—which he hiked, climbed and also painted. All of these elements found their way into his music.

Those who influenced Bacon included Carl Sandburg, Thornton Wilder and Roland Hayes. Bacon's music expresses the common touch and humor of Sandburg; the profound simplicity of Wilder; and the melodic beauty that Roland Hayes expressed so movingly in his singing. As with Schubert, a large body of more than 250 art songs is the heart of an oeuvre that also includes numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works, as well as descriptive pieces for piano.

Tracks:

In The Csitari Mountain Foothills/Storm Warning
Jerusalem Ridge
French Schottische/One Summer's Morning/10th of December/Polka Suwanna From Rzeszow/Dick's Maggot...
Nova Scotia January/Waltz From Cape Breton
Traditional Bolivian/Columbito Tecumano
Mazurka Limousin/Bouree
The Athol Highlanders
Over The Stone/Maid From The Parish Of Penderyn
Shuffle Creek/The Old Brown Case/The Reconciliation
Jesu Babe Divine/Ganivelle/Jabadaw/The Titan

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A wonderful group and a great CD!.......2001-01-31

This CD is WONDERFUL! The content is inexplicable, but I will try. The band is made of 3 (or was it 4) guys who play a combination of diferent types of violin/fiddle, wood flute/ other types of flute, and a hammered dulcimer. They travel all around the world and "discover" old folk music, which they play. I saw them in concert about 5 years ago, (when I was 14 or 15) and the memory has stayed with me since. Their music is magical, and I am so glad that I have found it again as my old tape is quite worn out.

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Chaplet of Divine Mercy
Susanna & Gerry Brown
Manufacturer: Heartbeat Records
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ASIN: B000P1KTT6
Release Date: 2000-03-13

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The Chaplet

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This recording of the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy allows us to pray together the words of Our Lord Jesus Christ as given to Blessed Faustina in 1935. We also hear the story of Blessed Faustina's life and we have the opportunity to reflect on several of the messages given to her by Jesus.The new Divine Mercy song Lord Jesus I Love Thee calls on us to sing together and witness our love of Jesus in the Divine Mercy

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Dance Party: Volume 1

Manufacturer: Master Tone
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ASIN: B000BP5O6E

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Includes: Ladies Night by Kool & the Gang; I Got You (I Feel Good) by James Brown; Use Me by Al Jarreau; Can You Feel the Force by The Real Thing; Joy by Marvin Gaye; Boys and Girls We are the Jackson Five by the Jackson Five, Keep on Dancing by the Commodores; It's Gonna Work Out Fine by Ike & Tina Turner; Victory by Kool & The Gang; Dirty Ol Men by Three Degrees; My Chico by Sabrina, My Girl by The Jackson Five, Is It Love Your After by Rose Royce, Soul Man by Sam and Dave, and Shoot Your Shot by Divine