Silent Knight [Original recording remastered]

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2002 reissue of the Canadian progressive rock act's 1980 album includes one bonus track, 'Don't Be Late' (Video Track), plus unseen photos, liner notes, original artwork & updated booklet. Steamhammer.

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Silent Knight [Original recording remastered]

Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley

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The greatest songs ever?
A musical treasure-box
a beautiful journey into melancholy

Dowland - The Collected Works / The Consort of Musicke, Rooley
John Dowland , Anthony Rooley , Emma Kirkby , Christopher Wilson , The Consort of Musicke , Colin Tilney , Anthony Bailes , Jakob Lindberg , Nigel North , Glenda Simpson , Peter Holman , and John Donne
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ASIN: B000004CYV
Release Date: 2007-03-13

Tracks:

First Booke Of Songes: I. Unquiet Thoughts
First Booke Of Songes: II. Who Ever Thinks Or Hopes Of Love
First Booke Of Songes: III. My Thoughts Are Wing'd With Hopes
First Booke Of Songes: IV. If My Complaints Could Passions Move
First Booke Of Songes: V. Can She Excuse My Wrongs
First Booke Of Songes: VI. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
First Booke Of Songes: VII. Dear, If You Change
First Booke Of Songes: VIII. Burst Fourth My Tears
First Booke Of Songes: IX. Go Crystal Tears
First Booke Of Songes: X. Think'st Thou Then By Thy Feigning
First Booke Of Songes: XI. Come Away, Come Sweet Love
First Booke Of Songes: XII. Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
First Booke Of Songes: XIII. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
First Booke Of Songes: XIV. All Ye, Whom Love Or Fortune Hath Betray'd
First Booke Of Songes: XV. Wilt Thou Unkind Thus Reave Me
First Booke Of Songes: XVI. Would My Conceit
First Booke Of Songes: XVII. Come Again: Sweet Love Doth Now Invite
First Booke Of Songes: XVIII. His Golden Locks
First Booke Of Songes: XIX. Awake, Sweet Love
First Booke Of Songes: XX. Come, Heavy Sleep
First Booke Of Songes: XXI. Away With These Self-Loving Lads

Tracks:

Second Booke Of Songs: I. I Saw My Lady Weep
Second Booke Of Songs: II. Flow My Tears
Second Booke Of Songs: III. Sorrow, Stay
Second Booke Of Songs: IV. Die Not Before Thy Day
Second Booke Of Songs: V. Mourn, Mourn, Day Is With Darkness Fled
Second Booke Of Songs: VI. Time's Eldest Son
Second Booke Of Songs: VII. Then Sit Thee Down
Second Booke Of Songs: VIII. When Others Sing Venite
Second Booke Of Songs: IX. Praise Blindness Eyes
Second Booke Of Songs: X. O Sweet Woods
Second Booke Of Songs: XI. If Floods Of Tears
Second Booke Of Songs: XII. Fine Knacks For Ladies
Second Booke Of Songs: XIII. Now Cease My Wand'ring Eyes
Second Booke Of Songs: XIV. Come Ye Heavy States Of Night
Second Booke Of Songs: XV. White As Lilies Was Her Face
Second Booke Of Songs: XVI. Woeful Heart
Second Booke Of Songs: XVII. A Shepherd In A Shade
Second Booke Of Songs: XVIII. Faction That Ever Dwells
Second Booke Of Songs: XIX. Shall I Sue
Second Booke Of Songs: XX. Toss Not My Soul
Second Booke Of Songs: XXI. Clear Or Cloudy
Second Booke Of Songs: XXII. Humour Say What Mak'st Thou Here

Tracks:

Third Booke Of Songs 1603: I. Farewell, Too Fair
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: II. Time Stands Still
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: III. Behold A Wonder Here
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IV. Daphne Was Not So Chaste
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: V. Me, Me, And None But Me
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VI. When Phoebus First Did Daphne Love
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VII. Say, Love, If Ever Thou Didst Find
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: VIII. Flow Not So Fast, Ye Fountains
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: IX. What If I Never Speed?
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: X. Love Stood Amazed
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XI. Lend Your Ears To My Sorrow
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XII. By A Fountain Where I Lay
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIII. O What Hath Overwrought
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIV. Farewell, Unkind
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XV. Weep You No More, Sad Fountains
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVI. Fie On This Feigning!
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVII. I Must Complain
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XVIII. It Was A Time When Silly Bees
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XIX. The Lowest Trees Have Tops
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XX. What Poor Astronomers Are They
Third Booke Of Songs 1603: XXI. Come When I Call

Tracks:

A Pilgrimes Solace: I. Disdain Me Still
A Pilgrimes Solace: II. Sweet Stay Awhile
A Pilgrimes Solace: III. To Ask For All Thy Love
A Pilgrimes Solace: IV. Love, Those Beams That Breed
A Pilgrimes Solace: V. Shall I Strive Wih Words To Move?
A Pilgrimes Solace: VI. Were Every Thought An Eye
A Pilgrimes Solace: VII. Stay, Time, Awhile Thy Flying
A Pilgrimes Solace: VIII. Tell Me, True Love
A Pilgrimes Solace: IX. Go Nightly Cares
A Pilgrimes Solace: X. From Silent Night
A Pilgrimes Solace: XI. Lasso vita mia
A Pilgrimes Solace: XII. In This Trembling Shadow Cast
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIII. If That A Sinner's Sights
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIV. Thou Mighty God
A Pilgrimes Solace: XV. When David's Life
A Pilgrimes Solace: XVI. When The Poor Cripple

Tracks:

A Pilgrimes Solace: XVII. Where Sin Sore Wounding
A Pilgrimes Solace: XVIII. My Heart And Tongue Were Twins
A Pilgrimes Solace: XIX. Up Merry Mates
A Pilgrimes Solace: XX. Welcome Black Night
A Pilgrimes Solace: XXI. Cease, Cease These False Sports
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Lachrimae Pavane
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can Shee
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: The Frogge
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Frog's Galliard
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavana And Galiarda
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Paduana Lachrymae
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Can She Excuse
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavion Solus cum sola
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Dowland's Almayne
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Piper's Paven And Galliard
Keyboard Transcriptions Of Dowland's Music By Other Musicians: Pavan Lachrymae

Tracks:

Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: I. The Lamentation Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: II. Domine ne in furore
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: III. Miserere mei Deus
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: IV. The Humble Suit Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: V. The Humble Complaint Of A Sinner
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VI. De profundis
Mr. Henry Noell Lamentations: VII. Domine exaudi
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Gementes
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Tristes
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Coactae
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Amantis
Lachrimae: Lachrimae Verae
Lachrimae: Mr. John Langton's Pavan
Lachrimae: Mr. Nicholas Gryffith His Galiard
Lachrimae: Sir John Souch His Galiard
Lachrimae: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens
Lachrimae: Mr. Giles Hobies Galiard
Lachrimae: The King Of Denmark's Galiard
Lachrimae: Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall
Lachrimae: Mr. Henry Noell His Galiard
Lachrimae: The Earl Of Essex Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. Bucton His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. George Whitehead His Almand
Lachrimae: Captain Digorie Piper His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mr. Thomas Collier His Galiard
Lachrimae: Mrs. Nichols Almand

Tracks:

Sacred Songs: Sorrow, Come!
Sacred Songs: I Shame At Mine Unworthiness
Sacred Songs: An Heart That's Broken And Contrite
Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Psalms: Psalm 38: Put Me Not To Rebuke O Lord
Psalms: Psalm 130: Lord To Thee I Make My Moan
Psalms: Psalm 104: My Soul Praise The Lord
Psalms: Psalm 100: All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Psalms: Psalm 134: Behold And Have Regard
A Prayer For The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
Instrumental Music: Solus cum sola pavan
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
Instrumental Music: Galliard
Instrumental Music: Pipers Pavan
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae
Instrumental Music: Lady Rich Galliard
Instrumental Music: Earl Of Essex Galliard
Instrumental Music: If My Complaints
Instrumental Music: Lachrimae Doolande
Instrumental Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home
Instrumental Music: My Lord Chamberlaine His Galliard
Instrumental Music: Comagain
Instrumental Music: Pavan Lachrymae
Instrumental Music: Sorrow Stay

Tracks:

Lute Music: Preludium
Lute Music: Lachrimae
Lute Music: Can She Excuse
Lute Music: Dr. Case's Pavan
Lute Music: Melancholy Galliard
Lute Music: Sir John Smith, His Almain
Lute Music: Fantasia
Lute Music: A Dream
Lute Music: Almain
Lute Music: The Queen's Galliard
Lute Music: Coranto
Lute Music: Resolution
Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux Galliard
Lute Music: Almain
Lute Music: Mr. Dowland's MIdnight
Lute Music: Fantasia
Lute Music: Loth To Depart
Lute Music: The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
Lute Music: The Earl Of Essex, His Galliard
Lute Music: Pavan
Lute Music: John Dowland's Galliard
Lute Music: Aloe
Lute Music: The Lady Clifton's Spirit
Lute Music: What If A Day
Lute Music: Mr. Giles Hobie's Galliard
Lute Music: Come Away (Song arrangement)
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: Lachrimae (Basic Version)
Lute Music: Galliard To Lachrimae
Lute Music: [Jig]
Lute Music: Galliard On 'Wasingham'
Lute Music: Complaint (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Mignarda (Galliard)
Lute Music: Semper Dowland Semper Dolens (Pavan)
Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
Lute Music: A Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Piper's Pavan
Lute Music: Captain Digorie Piper's Galliard
Lute Music: Lady Laiton's Almain
Lute Music: Dowland's Galliard
Lute Music: Dowland's First Galliard
Lute Music: Tarleton's Jig
Lute Music: Walsingham (ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Lord Willoughbie's Welcome Home (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Sir Henry Guilforde, His Almain
Lute Music: Pavan (Related To 'Lachrimae')
Lute Music: Mr. Langton's Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. Clifton's Almain
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Lady Hunsdon's Puffe (Almain)
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Go From My Window (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: Pavana Johan Douland
Lute Music: Mrs. Brigide Fleetwood's Pavan (Solus sine sola)
Lute Music: La mia Barbara
Lute Music: Sir Henry Umpton's Funeral (Pavan)
Lute Music: Lachrimae
Lute Music: Farewell Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)
Lute Music: Farewell (On The 'In Nomine' Theme)
Lute Music: The King of Denmark's Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. Vaux's Jig
Lute Music: Mrs. Nichol's Almain
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Lord Strang's March
Lute Music: Mrs. Winter's Jump
Lute Music: Can She Excuse (Galliard)
Lute Music: The Shoemaker's Wife, A Toy
Lute Music: Mrs. Norrish's Delight
Lute Music: Galliard
Lute Music: Mrs. White's Thing (Almain)
Lute Music: Mrs. White's Nothing
Lute Music: The Frog Galliard
Lute Music: Solus cum sola
Lute Music: The Lord Viscount Lisle, His Galliard
Lute Music: Orlando Sleepeth (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Robin (Ballad Setting)
Lute Music: Galliard (On A Galliard By Daniel Bacheler)
Lute Music: Forlorn Hope Fancy (Chromatic Fantasia)

Tracks:

Lute Music: The Lady Russell's Pavan
Lute Music: Fancy (Fantasia)
Lute Music: Sir John Langton's Pavan
Lute Music: Earl Of Derby, His Galliard
Lute Music: A Coy Toy
Lute Music: Fortune My Foe
Lute Music: [Almain]
Lute Music: Mr. Knight's Galliard
Lute Music: Sir John Souch His Galliard
Lute Music: Tarletone's Riserrectione
Lute Music: The Lady Rich, Her Galliard
Consort Music: Lachrimae Pavan
Consort Music: Can She Excuse Galliard
Consort Music: Captain Piper's Pavan And Galliard
Consort Music: The Frog Galliard
Consort Music: Round Battell Galliard
Consort Music: Fortune My Foe
Consort Music: Dowland's First Galliard
Consort Music: Katherine Darcie's Galliard
Consort Music: Tarleton's Jigge
Consort Music: Almain a 2
Consort Music: Mistress Nichols Almain a 2
Fullsack And Hildebrandt: Auserlesener Paduanen und Galliarden: Susanna Fair (Galliard)
Haussmann: Rest von polnischen und andern Tanzen: Mistress Nichols Alman a 5
Opusculum: Mr. John Langton Pavan And Galliard
Opusculum: La mia Barbara Pavan and Galliard
Opusculum: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae Pavan and Galliard

Tracks:

Consort Music: Mistress NIchols Almain
Consort Music: Volta a 4 ('Ioh. Douland')
Consort Music: Were Every Thought an Eye
Consort Music: Lady If You So Spite Me
Consort Music: Pavan a 4
A Musicall Banquet: I. My Heavy Sprite (Anthony Holborne)
A Musicall Banquet: II. Change Thy Mind Since She Doth Change (Richard Martin)
A Musicall Banquet: III. O Eyes, Leave Off Your Weeping (Robert Hales)
A Musicall Banquet: IV. Go, My Flock, Go Get You Hence (Anon.)
A Musicall Banquet: V. O Dear Life, When Shall It Be? (Anon.)
A Musicall Banquet: VI. To Plead My Faith (Daniel Bacheler)
A Musicall Banquet: VII. In A Grove Most Rich Of Shade (Guillaume Tessier)
A Musicall Banquet: VIII. Far From Triumphing Court
A Musicall Banquet: IX. Lady, If You So Spite Me
A Musicall Banquet: X. In Darkness Let Me Dwell
A Musicall Banquet: XI. Si le parler et le silence (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XII. Ce penser qui sans fin tirannise ma vie (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XIII. Vous que le Bonheur rappelle (Pierre Guedron)
A Musicall Banquet: XIV. Passava Amor su arco desarmado (Anon. Spanish)
A Musicall Banquet: XV. Sta notte mi sognava (Anon. Italian)
A Musicall Banquet: XVI. Vuestros ojos tienen d'Amor (Anon. Spanish)
A Musicall Banquet: XVII. Se di farmi morire (Domenico Maria Megli)
A Musicall Banquet: XVIII. Dovro dunque morire? (Giulio Caccini)
A Musicall Banquet: XIX. Amarilli mia bella (Giulio Caccini)
A Musicall Banquet: XX. O bella piu (Anon, Italian)

Customer Reviews:

The greatest songs ever?.......2007-07-26

I heard 'clear or cloudy', from this recording, on the radio recently and had to purchase it. It is strange but it is the sort of song that makes life prior to listening to it different from life after. I find it sad that so many people haven't heard it. There are also many other wonderful works in this collection. Given you get twelve well recorded CDs with top quality performances, this has to be one of the bargains of the age.

Please buy it.

A musical treasure-box.......2006-09-10

Both the music and this actual product are masterpieces. John Dowland's collected works here - covering 12 compact discs - exhibit the depth and power of this composer, a composer who many now regard as suffering from clinical depression. I doubt that the issue of the diagnosis of Dowland's depression can ever be settled, however, it is certainly obvious from his music, so completely on display here, that he was a man with very dark depths and corners in his mind. Dowland's various manifestations and "takes" on his own tune, "Flow my tears"/"Lachrimae" are here. This tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it when I was a child. It seems to sum up Dowland's feelings - at least Dowland seems to have thought so.

The First, Second, Third and Fourth Bookes of Songes, A Musicall Banquet, the keyboard transcriptions, all the lute music, consort music are here and virtually everything else written or supposedly written by John Dowland. Anthony Rooley and The Consort of Musicke perform this music with style and feeling throughout. This 12 CD set is something of a monument to the ensemble - I only wish they'd finished their collection of Monteverdi madrigals, which was equally good (La Venexiana are currently doing a magnificent job of recording all Monteverdi's books of madrigals for the GLOSSA label).

This is an expensive set, however, you will probably never need to buy another John Dowland CD again after buying and listening to this collection.

I bought this CD set on a mild Summer evening of 1998 and listened to it while sitting in my sun room - which a glorious orange sunset in progress, and a glass of wine. It brought back so many memories.

a beautiful journey into melancholy.......2001-06-15

I'm amazed at how many people tend to associate John Dowland's music with a tragic sense of drama. While no doubt this is art highly based on sadness, the "tragic" sense of it is more a legacy from the Romantic period. During the Renaissance, however, sadness was undestood as a very aesthetic way of approaching life. That is also the reason why Shakespeare's tragedies appear more sophisticated than his comedies.

Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, discovered that meditating on a sad theme is, at the same time, a way of discovering a special beauty that we tend to avoid (maybe because of the "tragic" heritage of the Romantics). So, in the end, meditating on sadness is an uplifting experience! This box set is a journey into melancholy that includes songs, chamber music, pieces for lute, some rare sacred music and -as a highlight- Dowland's beautiful collection of seven pieces for viola which he called "Lachrimae" (Tears).

Silent Knight
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The # 1 Progressive Rock Album ever !

possibly the best Saga album out there...

Silent Might

Dear lord, make it stop!

Better after repeated listenings

Silent Knight
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Manufacturer: Steamhammer Us [Spv]
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Release Date: 2002-08-13

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Don't Be Late (Chapeter 2)
What's It Gonna Be?
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Compromise
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Album Description

2002 reissue of the Canadian progressive rock act's 1980 album includes one bonus track, 'Don't Be Late' (Video Track), plus unseen photos, liner notes, original artwork & updated booklet. Steamhammer.

Customer Reviews:

The # 1 Progressive Rock Album ever !.......2006-06-03

"Don't Be Late" is the best progressive song ever. Forget about Yes and Pink FLoyd, Forget about Dream Theater or Rush. This album is it.

possibly the best Saga album out there..........2006-05-12

After creating such a fine album just a year earlier (Images at Twilight), Saga went on to deliever what I believe is their most accessable and consistent work and what a fine album Silent Knight is.

Starting off exactly where Images left off, the band blows the listener away with Don't Be Late. That track alone is worth the whole disc, but wait there's more to come. In fact, all the songs are out of this world as the band manages at the same to stay true to their progressive roots and incorporate some of the radio friendly elements with the traditional song structure and keeping their songs under 5-6 minutes in length.

My other personal favorites are Help Me Out and Careful Where You Step, but once again, all of the songs are really of the highest quality - it's hard to believe the disc was released quarter a century ago.

The following year Saga would go on and release their most famous Worlds Apart that features my personal all time favorite song Wind Him Up that is very close to Silent Knight in style with the rest of the songs on WA leaning towards a new path the band would choose later on (progressive pop comes to mind) and stay with for the rest of the 80s, eventually returning to their roots in the 90s yet failing to match the quality of their earlier albums.

So there you have it folks, the album that should not be overlooked by you, progressive melodic pompous rock lovers.

Enjoy it!

Silent Might.......2005-01-23

Having been a Saga fan (off and on) for two decades, and having purchased this album shortly after its release, this album, within the bands "learning curve", is one of their best, as many others have also attested to. Yes, most of the songs are earmarked as "early syth stuff" from a part rock, part pop sounding band from the early 1980's (this was released in 1980), yet there is always the majority who knows for sure what really sounds atleast somewhat well crafted. This is Saga's third release, and for a band that will have eventally been around for atleast 25 years (as of this year), you can be sure that atleast two or three songs off of "Silent Kningt" will hook you for a good long time, or atleast make you buy another two or three (or four) of their cd's over some time.
As with most bands or artists with something to say in their initial years, Saga surely had someting to say and play from the get go and for several albums afterward. In "Silent Knight", Saga was dripping with potential yet they were inches away from expressing the true spring/summer of what they could really pull off, which they did on their next release "Worlds Apart".
"Silent Knight" doesn't have too many moments you will want to skip past, but I'm willing to bet that the parts that you do decide to skip past will eventually egnrave its marks upon your brain only because they are, in the end, just interesting or nice to listen to only after you have digested all the other "really really good stuff" off of this release.

Dear lord, make it stop!.......2004-12-21

I've heard good things about Saga for a while now, and after reading a review for Pain of Salvation's "The Perfect Element", in which one reviewer compared the singer to Daniel Gildenlow, I was especially intrigued.

Wow. This is quite unpleasant. Horribly cheesy, overwrought, and just plain embarrassing. And to say that Gildenlow has ripped this guy off in any way is just plain wrong. For one thing, they sound nothing alike, and second, Gildenlow is about a thousand times better, with a much smoother tone, way more versatility, and much much less cheese.

Prog took a really nasty turn for the worst in the 80's, and this is a prime example. Go buy "The Perfect Element". It's a masterpiece. To say that any part of it is even remotely ripped off from this tripe is an insult of the highest degree.

Better after repeated listenings.......2004-07-04

Saga's third album was initially disappointing for me. It has no catchy hooks for the pop-rock listener, nor does it have the nine-minute bombastic epics to satisfy the prog-rock freak. As a result it went virtually unlistened-to for its first few months in my collection. However twenty years later I regard it as one of the strongest of Saga's early offerings, and I will still gladly put on this album before any other of Saga's first five (I'm afraid the pop direction since the Worlds Apart album killed my interest in the band).

The majestic rock-waltz "Time to Go" probably best exemplifies this album as a whole: it's slow 6/8 tempo disqualifies it from being a hit single, and its 4:20 playing time hardly qualifies it as an epic, but its symphonic sweep and disciplined songcraft are as pleasing to the ear now as they were then.

Dedicated Saga fans will point you to "Don't Be Late" (chapter two of the bands "saga") as an album highlight, but I personally find it to be garden-variety prog; i.e., a bit plodding until the instrumental section finally gets the thing going.

The other song highlight is the power-rock gem "Compromise", but this album is not so much about individual songs as it is about a musical experience from beginning to end. In fact the strongest highlights of the album lie *within* particular songs, like the opening strains of "Too Much To Lose" or the butt-kicking ending of "Careful Where You Step".

Saga's first five albums display the band's musical journey from art to pop; their subsequent Worlds Apart album was their biggest success because the art served to give substance to the pop. In Silent Knight, however, the pop served to provide restraint and focus to the art, which leaves this album somehow grander and less dated.

Tracks:

We Three Kings of Orient Are - Virgil Fox
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Virgil Fox
Silent Night - Ursula Connors, Virgil Fox,
No Candle Was There and No Fire - Virgil Fox,
We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Virgil Fox
Good King Wenceslas - Fireside Singers
Sleep of the Infant Jesus (Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jesus) - Dick Leibert
Once in Royal David's City - Dick Leibert
Toyland - Fireside Singers
Ave Maria - John Paire, Leslie Pearson, Westminster Brass Ensemble
O Holy Night - Fireside Singers
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks - The Ambrosian Singers
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - John Paire, Leslie Pearson, Westminster Brass Ensemble

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Holiday Belles

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Silent Night Deadly Knight

Manufacturer: Fallout Shelter Recordings
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ASIN: B000CAAFC6
Release Date: 2002-08-13

Tracks:

Reflections of a Madman
Childish Mic Affair
Determination
Candy Apples
Freestyle 1
Deadly But Calm
Explosion
Freestyle 2
Dead Serious
Room For Improvement
Final Night
Freestyle 3
Bring Protection
Full Contact
Freestyle 4
Rockin' Beverly Hills
Saga pt.3

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Silent Masterpiece
Definitely their best cd
17 Years Old and Broken Hearted
SILENT KNIGHT ~ SAGA
Saga's Medieval Funk & Progressive Pomp

Silent Knight
Saga
Manufacturer: Universal/Polygram
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000073IW
Release Date: 2002-08-28

Tracks:

Don't Be Late (Chapter Two)
What's It Gonna Be?
Time to Go
Compromise
Too Much to Lose (Chapter Seven)
Help Me Out
Someone Should
Careful Where You Step

Customer Reviews:

Silent Masterpiece.......2002-10-04

Silent Knight is without question, one of Saga's finest moments. Every track is a winner and the band play superbly throughout. My only gripe is that the disc it a bit short, clocking in at 37.44. Favourite tracks are 'Don't Be Late', 'What's It Gonna Be?', 'Help Me Out' and 'Careful Where You Step'.

Definitely their best cd.......2002-07-29

This cd is a long lost classic porgressive rock cd. Every song on it superb..if only it would have been the follow up to world's apart(although heads or tales is quite good) it could have probaly sold more than it did. Did you that the music label dropped them after this relaese..opps ..world's went on to sell 5 million world wide. Anyway, let's get the cd my favorite's are help me out, compromise, too much too lose, and it's time to go. The production, timing and play on this cd are all first rate.

17 Years Old and Broken Hearted.......2002-03-14

I bought this album when I was 17. I bought it during the cold winter of 1982. At the time I was close friends with a girl - let's call her C - who was devastatingly attractive, gorgeous, precocious, a year younger than me, but so much older in other ways. C didn't want to be my girlfriend - just a platonic friend. I went out one Saturday afternoon and bought this LP and Journey's Departure. I still remember sitting, alone, in my bedroom on a wintry November's evening and hearing Don't Be Late, the 1st song on this album. I remember the rush of melancholia that hit me during the chorus. Every song here is beautiful. Tunes that stick in the mind like musical fish-hooks, those lovely Michael Sadler vocals. I still think of C when I hear this album. She's dead now, sadly, but Silent Knight lives on in my heart and in my dreams.

SILENT KNIGHT ~ SAGA.......2001-06-04

This is the best long play of this band. if it would be posseble toget it on CD.would you let me know pleace thang you. GERSON

P.s Answer in spanish

Saga's Medieval Funk & Progressive Pomp.......1998-12-08

This might be Saga's best album. There isn't a bad song here. The 1st song, Don't be Late, is to Saga what Stairway to Heaven is to Led Zeppelin. This is early 80's progressive rock at its finest.

Average customer rating:

Great start and finish..the in between tracks are variable

Signature Series: Hometown Christmas 1

Manufacturer: Reader's Digest
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Signature Series: Hometown Christmas 2

ASIN: B0000DBJBR
Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

Joy To The World - Peter Knight
Ding Dong! Merrily On High - The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral
White Christmas - Lynn Anderson
The First Noel - Peter Knight
O Little Town Of Bethlehem - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
What Child Is This - The Ambrosian Singers
Sweet Little Jesus Boy - The Stylistics
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Lynn Anderson
Silent Night - Peter Knight
O Christmas Tree - The Ambrosian Singers
The Little Drummer Boy - The Fireside Singers
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - The Fireside Singers
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing - Peter Knight

Customer Reviews:

Great start and finish..the in between tracks are variable.......2006-09-21

Back in 1963 Readers Digest issued a Christmas album that blasted every other Christmas record out of the water. And I mean blasted. With spectacular arrangements by Charles Gerhardt, the 4 record set covered traditional carols, popular Christmas songs arranged into a sparkling orchestral suite, a selection of ten German carols as well as ten French carols, a suite of carols arranged for Brass, organ and carillon, and collection of highlights from Handel's MESSIAH. Four (4) Lp records for $7.99 ($1 more if you wanted stereo.) The album was titled JOYOUS MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS TIME, and indeed it was a joyous album from first to last.

This album eventually sold over a million copies and can still be found for sale in used record stores and on E-bay - usually the copies are well worn from having been played so often.

Sadly RD has not seen fit to transfer the entire program to CD.

Instead collectors must track down the material scattered over several CD's released by RD and some released by Sony Music Special Products.

This CD presents the original opening and closing tracks from the album ("Joy to The World" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing") both introduced by a spectacular fanfare that helps bookend the collection. (Of course originally if you played through all 4 LPs the bookend would be nearly 3 hours apart!)

There is also a Volume Two of this disc available separately containg several more tracks from the original album.

The tracks here from the original collection include the opening two selections ("Joy To The World"; "O Little Town of Bethlehem") and the final two ("It Came Upon a Midnight clear" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.") These are all spectacular!

The rest of the disc is variable. There are other digest tracks featuring The Ambosian Singers ("O Christmas Tree", "What Child is This?" and "Silent Night" although the last track is mis-identified: It is listed as being performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Peter Knight. Though Knight DID record this carol, the version here is by The Ambrosian Singers.)

The rest of the disc ranges from pleasant ("Ding Dong Merrily on High", "The First Noel") to tracks that are just in the wrong style for this collection (Lynn Anderson's "White Christmas", The Stylistics' "Sweet Little Jesus Boy") to downright awful (ANY track by the Fireside Singers!)

Those in search of the rest of JMFCT here is how you can assemble most of it:

(Record One, Side One): Carols for Chorus (with the Royal Philharmonic conducted by Peter Knight)

"Joy to the World" & "O Little Town of Bethlehem" from this CD.
"Deck The Halls" & "Away in a Manager" from Volume Two of this CD.
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" & "Angels We Have Heard on High" from the RD 3-CD collection CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE YEARS. You can also obtain all 6 selection from the Sony Special Products CD called JOYOUS CHRISTMAS.

(Record Two, Side One):
Richard Benson's CHRISTMAS SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA from the RD 3-CD set JOY TO THE WORLD (released in 1994)

(Record Four Side One):
German Carols - not available on CD.

(Record Three; Side One and Two)
Highlight's from Handel's MESSIAH on the Sony Special Products CD titled REJOICE! MESSIAH HIGHLIGHTS

(Record Four Side Two):
French Carols - not available on CD.

(Record Two; Side Two): Carols for Organ and Bells featuring Leslie Pearson, organ; The Westminster Brass; The London Bell ringers; and John Paice, carillon.

The First Noel - available on O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL from Sony Special Products
Good King Wenceslas - available in the RD 3-CD set THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS
Ave Maria, O Come O Come Emmanuel & Christmas is Coming can be found on YULETIDE CLASSICS from Sony Special Products
Carol of the Bells is on the RD 3-CD set JOY TO THE WORLD mentioned above. It can also be found on the RD CD called REFLECTIONS: O HOLY NIGHT.

(Record One; Side Two): Carols For Chorus (with the Royal Philharmonic conducted by Peter Knight)

"O Come All Ye Faithful" - from Volume Two of this CD
"We Three Kings" & "The 12 Days of Christmas " from the RD 3-CD collection CHRISTMAS THROUGH THE YEARS (mentioned above.)
"O Holy Night" from Volume Two of this CD
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" & "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" from this CD.

Average customer rating:

Best Loved Christmas Carols

Manufacturer: The Orchard
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005QDH3
Release Date: 2001-12-05

Tracks:

Away in a Manger - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Holly and the Ivy - The Cathedral Singers
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Joy to the World - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful) - The London Symphony Orchestra
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht, Heilge Nacht) - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
O Little Town of Bethlehem - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
We Three Kings of Orient Are - Robert Shaw
God Rist Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
What Child Is This? - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
First No(The First Nowell) - Philadelphia Orchestra
Good Christian Men, Rejoice - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Angels We Have Heard on High (Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes) - The London Symphony Orchestra
Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly - Norman Luboff Choir
Twelve Days of Christmas - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Good King Wenceslas - The London Symphony Orchestra
Here We Come a Caroling (Wassail Song) - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Philadelphia Orchestra
O Tannenbaum - Marilyn Horne
O Holy Night (Cantique de No - Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Angels from the Realms of Glory - The Ambrosian Singers
Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming (Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen)

Album Description

25 of the best-loved Carols performed by classic choirs & orchestras.

Average customer rating:

Silent Masterpiece
Definitely their best cd
17 Years Old and Broken Hearted
SILENT KNIGHT ~ SAGA
Saga's Medieval Funk & Progressive Pomp

Silent Knight
Saga
Manufacturer: Bonaire Records/Ka
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001QID
Release Date: 1989-12-06

Tracks:

Don't Be Late (Chapter Two)
What's It Gonna Be?
Time To Go
Compromise
Too Much To Lose (Chapter Seven)
Help Me Out
Someone Should
Careful Where You Step

Customer Reviews:

Silent Masterpiece.......2002-10-04

Definitely their best cd.......2002-07-29

17 Years Old and Broken Hearted.......2002-03-14

SILENT KNIGHT ~ SAGA.......2001-06-04

This is the best long play of this band. if it would be posseble toget it on CD.would you let me know pleace thang you. GERSON

P.s Answer in spanish

Saga's Medieval Funk & Progressive Pomp.......1998-12-08

This might be Saga's best album. There isn't a bad song here. The 1st song, Don't be Late, is to Saga what Stairway to Heaven is to Led Zeppelin. This is early 80's progressive rock at its finest.

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