title: Careful, might come broken

text: I bought this as a gift to surprise my fiance.. years ago lol it came in broken but it still worked so we weren't that mad. I'm sure if it was anyone else though, they would've returned it. But it still worked, so why bother? Just a warning that it could come in broken.


title: Twelve Kingdoms: Piano Memories

text: "Piano Memories" is one of several CD's containing music from or inspired by the remarkable anime fantasy series "Twelve Kingdoms."  The hauntingly beautiful music for that series was composed by Kunihiko Ryo, and he is the composer and performer of the pieces on "Piano Memories."  If you've seen any of the series (available on DVD), you'll know how strikingly lovely the music is.  "Piano Memories" contains ten pieces; though some don't even remotely seem evocative of the "Twelve Kingdoms" score, they flow together with one another perfectly, and each is wonderful.  This is one of those CD's that's a delight on first encounter and becomes more treasured with every replay.  The talented Kunihiko Ryo stands up there with Laura Sullivan, Ann Sweeten, George Winston, and our other brilliant New Age keyboard masters.  I also highly recommend "Twelve Kingdoms: Memories," which contains ten more pieces by Kunihiko Ryo.  Neither of the two CD's is strictly a series soundtrack (what I'd hoped for on ordering the music), but between the two CD's, some of the actual score and all of the feeling of the series' music is presented, and augmented, and this is even better.


title: Five Stars

text: Thanks


title: Great 12GB 2CDs Live!

text:
This is a great 2CDs live of 12GB. Great sound quality and very nice production. Not much to say about it, but if you already have other 12GB cds.
There's one track"Liu San Jie" I want to pay attention to this song.
This is the original version of "Liu San Jie", it's almost 6'30" long, too more 2 mins longer than the version in " Beautiful Energy" and "Eastern Energy". It starts with" bird, water stream, lake, cannoe..." with a very beautiful imagination scene of "Gui Lin" because this song is about Liu San Jie in Gui lin.  Very beautiful and relaxing,  nice tranquail....


title: Needs to be available in Audiobook!

text: I adore this book and the Kensington series, but please have the series available in audiobook.


title: MUST OWN. A movie to cherish.

text: This movie shows how people are especially during a divorce. Great people watching in this movie! LOVE Andie and Dennis's marriage in this movie...true love and devotion.


title: Hard to find movie

text: Great service at great price<br />A++++++


title: Dulcimer Music for All Seasons

text: Dave Neiman is a master dulcimer player who shines in a variety of settings. If you cannot make it to a live performance of his, the CD "Early Works" is a perfect one to have around the house. My family and I are on our second copy...and often enjoy listening to it when we read, cook, eat, or play.


title: shoulda sampled this first...

text:
im a big believer in 'grown folks music'; caint a grown man get a 'soundtrack of his life' that doesnt revolve around hoochiemamas and men with way too much jewelry in they mouths???

i mean, JUST ONCE!?!?

on that side, sista hathaway comes thru...

this is definitely nothing you'll find on the radio.

but sista hathaway mighta came at us a lil TOO grown; this has little heat, no passion, not much insight...

joe sample might be one of her influences, but she's too young to be considering him one of her 'contemporaries'.

she doesnt hafta measure up to her daddy, but she definitely hasta show us signs of life and living.

but i'ma ABSOLUTELY LOVE this album when i turn 60 tho...

 22 years before that happens... hopefully, young sista will find her inner voice to go along side her brilliant outer voice.


title: Don't bother!

text: I was very disappointed with this CD. The volume of the songs went to extremes up and down, so some you could hardly hear until you turned up the volume and then the next song was blasting loud. Also the way the songs were sung was in such a melancholy tone, it was depressing instead of joyful.


title: If you like classics —you’ll love this.

text: My husband and often listen to this CD as we are about to go to sleep.  It is mostly soothing , feels classical but the main tune of most of these hymns is there.  It’s awesome to have a contemporary musician/composer of such a high level.  I’m looking for more of his  CDs.


title: Five Stars

text: The item was exactly as advertised, Jackie is the angel from above for sure!!


title: Another Work Of Art

text: New England Roads is a beautiful c.d. Ackerman has a way of creating in each and every work a feeling of all that's right in the world.


title: Very happy with the cd

text: This was given as a gift. My husband is very happy with the gift.


title: Five Stars

text: Very good teaching!


title: Very happy with these CDs.

text: I used to have these two CDs since the 90's, but I lost them so I decided to go for this package. No problem at all. In my opinion, these twoCDs and specialy Avalancha, are the best albums of HDS.


title: A Bright Light from a Brilliant Bluesman

text:
When Mojo Collins left behind the psychedelic sixties and the Fillmore and returned to North Carolina, he rediscovered his love and appreciation of his native state, and particularly the beautiful Outer Banks. A consummate songwriter, he poured that passion into the songs on Diamond Shoals, Tales Untold, first released on vinyl in 1979. A re-release in 1990 added five new songs, and this digitally remastered 20th anniversary edition was released in 1999 to celebrate the move of the historic Cape Hatteras lighthouse and Collins' receipt of the prestigious 1999-2000 North Carolina Arts Council Music Fellowship in Songwriting.

A Southern blues legend, Mojo is a musician whose songs embrace many genres. The title song of this CD is a dreamy, ethereal composition which will indeed, as he hopes, "take you away." "Sam and Omie's Shuffle," "Lonesome Raleigh Blues," and "Wanchese Harbor Song" are my personal favorites-each a very different illustration of Mojo's multi-facets.

If you love Carolina and the Outer Banks, get this. If you've never been there, this CD will make you feel as if you know this land and its history intimately.

Listen, enjoy, and then go out and hunt down some of Mojo's other great CDs, like the all-out blues "Workin' Da Mojo," or "Live 2 Hard drive," the lyrical "That Ole Carolina Tradition," or his musical travelogue, "Welcome to the Outer Banks."


title: Love it! Used to listed to it when I ...

text: Love it! Used to listed to it when I was in college, and so glad I was able to get a copy here on Amazon! Thank you Amazon!!


title: Sharon Needles Rockin' Hits

text: A great album with dance beats fun songs from Drag superstar Sharon Needles.


title: Five Stars

text: Exxxxxxxcellent find.


title: Five Stars

text: As advertised


title: Best Christmas Music Mix

text: I bought this CD at Starbucks.  I love the mix they created for this CD.  I own 5 CD's of Christmas songs including 4 of A Very Special Christmas series.  They're all good but this new CD is my favorite so far.  You look a the list and the artists and you can tell it's a good one.


title: RIP, JFC.

text: Bought this record in hopes that it would be on par with the "Live at the Glass House" record (which is damn near impossible to find a hard copy of). It's actually recorded in a studio according to the liner notes (some radio thing, I believe). Production quality is good and it's a decent mix of old and new JFC material. Not as good as "Last Show..." but it's a decent second.

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title: Retrospective (25+ years later)

text:
I bought this when it came out in 1994 and his eponymous album the year before (can you call an album 'eponymous' if you change your stage name to a new stage name just before you release the album?). I was a huge Pixies fan and, naturally, bought the Breeders/Black/KD 6000 spin-offs. I've got to give Kelly Deal credit for coming up with a name that will still be fururistically fashionable for at least another 4000 years.

Blacks eponomous album wasn't bad, but it wasn't fireworks compared with Pixies work either. The opening track, "Los Angeles", was enough to bring me back to the CD store (remember those?) to pick up his second release.

My initial impression of TAOTY was, 'did Black Francis accidentally singe his eyebrows off trying to light a cigarette over a gas stove?' But he's never been one to play the part of supermodel, so I quickly overlooked it and moved onto the good stuff.

After 25+ years, I can pinpoint why I didn't buy a third Frank Black release in a single question: what does Frank Black sound like?

There are many really great songs on the album, but it suffers from a cohesive 'sound'. On the one hand, the variety is nice/refreshing, but on another, it comes off as a bunch of loose, unrelated ideas. There also seems to be that lack of identity within the songs. You could listen to a Pixies song and immediately pick up on who contributed what. Within TAOTY, you can't. No other personalities are allowed to get too much of the spotlight, and I actually think that's to the album and band's long-term  detriment.

Also, Black voice has a sweet spot (screaming, whispering), and it doesn't live on this album outside of very short moments. What made the Pixies sound work so well vocally was the female counter-point. Perhaps that's due to Black's limited range.

Alright, enough bashing! And besides, these are just my thoughts on why I didn't buy the third album and why I believe his solo effort didn't go further. We also have to consider that this album was trying to stand out in a sonic landscape that was more grunge influenced (i.e. Soundgarden, STP), pop-punk (Green Day), etc.

There are a lot of really good songs but "Fazer Eyes" is an absolute stand-out. It's smooth and sexy. It has a Hendrix/Van Halenesque solo that pulls you out of this world. It can stand toe-to-toe with anything Black wrote for the Pixies. I'd say "Pie in the Sky" and "Thalassocracy" are strong points on the album as well.


Shipping was fast and the packaging was very good so my item woudnlt get damaged. The item arrived as described and it sounds amazing when I play it! The Neverending Story is my favorite movie of all time, so I was very happy to add this to my collection.


title: Bringing back memories

text: This box set was absolutely great!  I popped in 5 CD's at a time and never looked at the packaging to see the order of the songs. So each song was a surprise, and singing along was a hoot. Each song was accompanied by a wonderful teenage memory!


title: Very Relaxing

text: Smooth expression's, calm and relaxing


title: Great CD/DVD

text: This was bought as a gift, but I got to listen to it.  The arrangements are fantastic!


title: EXCELLENT PURCHASE!

text: I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS BN CD FOR YEARS.<br />SO SO COMPLETELY BLOWN AWAY......THE ADDITIONAL TRACKS ARE A LIKE OWNING A WHOLE ANOTHER BN ALBUM.


title: Love this EAGLES CD!

text: Seller sent a very good quality CD to me.


title: great product!

text: todo ok


title: Buyer beware

text: Looked with great anticipation for this collection because I have had good results in the past with time life music collections.<br />Buyer beware the discs are duplicated from previous releases and not different.


title: Good Sarah Brightman Album

text: Good Quality Sarah Brightman Recording, however it included at least three tracks which were similar to her other album.


title: Missing songs

text: Before you buy this CD, please know that it is missing two songs from the Strange Pleasure album. It is Missing "I hear the Colours" and "I wanna Be Back Home" Sad to see that this is the case, and I would not recommend the money for this CD


title: Five Stars

text: Very nice cd ;)


title: Five Stars

text: Gift she was happy.


title: great sound, great songs, great talent

text: this is not a Greatest Hits Live CD, although it has a few of their hits on it, and one of their misses.  Hair is missing (yawn) Love American Style is not on here ( There is a God!), but there is NOT A BAD TRACK on this album.  I only wish I could get a copy on CD or the DVD of the show.  Silver Threads And Golden Needles has been covered by everyone from Dusty Springfield and her sisters ( as the Springfields) to Linda Rondstat and Dolly Parton.  The version on this album puts the rest to shame.  The harmonies on this album are fantastic... Susan's lead vocals are great on the songs she does.  BUY IT !


title: A double-live CD with some questionable liner notes and censored content

text:
It's great that this is a good recording of a 1984 concert in Rochester, but it's still a censored version, even if it is the whole concert. The quality is great, but the censorship (except missing a word in "Shoot 'em Down" for some reason) is laughable.

The 2nd CD is much shorter and of lesser quality, but it's still Twisted Sister at their best. Only get this if you need more live recordings, because the liner notes suddenly start talking about Quiet Riot. :)  Halfway through the liner notes, someone at the record label pasted in Quiet Riot's bio.  Sad, really, but nothing earth-shattering. The recordings are what matter, and they'd get 5 stars if they weren't censored. Still, it's a GREAT live CD with an amazing drum solo section by the late, great A.J. Pero.

I realize it was censored for broadcast, but if they found the real recordings, those should've been uncensored.


title: Useful so far

text:
I'm only on the third CD of 13.  So far this reminds me of a combination of the Sedona Method, Emotrance, and affect bridging techniques. Not much new for me so far, though the guided sessions and imagery are quite useful, and good practice for me and I am keeping at it. I'm already noticing benefits of being more relaxed and not as much stored stress in my body.

The narator's voice is a bit monotonous, though I think that it does help to get you into useful trance state when it comes time for him to lead you through the many guided sessions he takes you through, so it's probably intentional.  I'm really glad there's nothing religious in this course which is usually an immediate turn-off for me, and the course seems very practical and quick results oriented based on my experience with it so far.

I've had the book for years and never read it, and I figured the CDs would be a way to get through the material. So, when I saw the used set of 13 "like new" CDs on Amazon for only $39, I went for it.  The CDs look brand new and unused and work great.  Combined with the book I now have a reference manual and a complete course.

I've given it 4 stars because it's a bit monotonous. I realize I am still going through the foundational material and that may change later on for all I know.


title: Emotional, Raw, Powerful

text: Marilyn Manson, the artist, may be one of the most talented song writers of our generation.  The emotion he conveys when he wants to, it's almost haunting.  I wasn't a fan of Eat Me, Drink Me, but I loved The Pale Emperor, which peaked my interest for his more recent releases.  We Are Chaos is another masterpiece.  If you've ever enjoyed any of this artist's releases (Superstar, Animals, Grotesque), then you will enjoy this.  The raw power of previous albums is here, with a new maturity of the subject matter and lyrical writings.  Truly a great release.


title: Talkin 'Bout Love!

text:
30 years ago I was in high school and hanging out at my local record store (who misses those?) when the Store Manager told me I should buy the CD of a new band, Blue Murder, which had just come in.  Seeing as how he hadn't steered me wrong yet, I bought the CD.  To this day, I still listen to first Blue Murder album.  If you've never heard it, you're missing out.

Fast forward too many years to talk about... and while killing time on the internet, I find out John Sykes was quietly releasing new solo albums from 1995 - 2000.  Of course, this was during the time that if you weren't wearing a flannel shirt and being introspective about life, you didn't get any publicity.  I mean, I grew up in Washington State wearing flannel shirts, but that was because it's cold there in the winter, not as a music fashion statement.  I still preferred my rock to be fun.

As is usual for my luck, you can no longer buy his albums, because they're out of print.  But, thanks to sites where people sell CD's they no longer want, or have picked up at estate sales, I've managed to track down all of his albums.  With that said, I received Nuclear Cowboy first.  And let me just say, I find it AMAZING.

John Sykes guitar playing is something otherworldly.  He transitions from pounding, crunching riffs to slower melodic sounds effortlessly.  His voice on this album is just as strong as it was on the first Blue Murder album.  The songs, while out and out rock, are so catchy.  I've found myself humming or quietly singing choruses from multiple songs on this album since listening.  And the song I headlined this review with, Talkin 'Bout Love, is just amazing.  What a powerful song about ending a relationship, and again, the guitar playing is just unbelievable on this song.  It's not a ballad, the riffs just pound.

If you can get a copy of this, you won't be disappointed.  John Sykes is truly one of those artists that's never received the fame his talent deserves.  While radio stations play what they think is cool or good, ungodly talents like John Sykes are left to be spread by word of mouth.  And hopefully, there is one person that will read this review, find a copy of this album, listen to it in awe and spread the word of the talent that is John Sykes to someone else.  At this point, that's all we can do.


title: So Surprised!

text:
I recently purchased the release of Jack Russell's Great White, Once Bitten Acoustic Bytes.  I was honestly amazed at how good this album is.  So, I decided to see what the rest of Great White has been up to.

Great White has released so much great music over the years.  I have all of the albums with Jack Russell from the original Great White to the 2009 release of Rising.  I've never been a fan of bands changing their lead singers, especially after 30 years.  But, thanks to Amazon Prime, I was able to listen to Full Circle without buying it.  I have to say, I was blown away.  Terry Ilous is just fine on the vocals, but the real reason for 5 stars is the music.  Mark Kendall, Michael Lardie, Scott Snyder, Audie Desbrow and Terry Ilous have put together a great musical release.

I enjoyed it so much I decided to buy the album.  The only problem, you can only buy the MP3 version on Amazon.  I checked ebay for the CD, nope.  I know I'm in the minority, but I prefer to purchase CD's to add to my collection.  So, if you're looking for this on CD, I have good news for you.  You can purchase the CD on Great White's website for $20.  The MP3 version is much cheaper on Amazon, but again, I enjoyed it enough I want to add it to the collection.  And because it was so good, I decided to pick up Elation too (haven't listened to that yet).


title: A jam-packed album of contemporary rock

text:
KFOG CDs are not very easy to get a hold of if you don't happen to live in the Bay Area or listen to sponsoring radio station KFOG very often (if at all). There's also the fact that the puppies can usually go for almost $30 dollar used on Amazon; however, if you're a fan of the station, the fact that all proceeds go towards local (San Fransisco) food banks, and/or the showcase of live performances by some of the best (old and new) voices in the world of rock then none of that should prevent you from picking this or any other KFOG album.

Volume 21 is one of the largest albums to date, with 21 tracks crammed snugly on one disc. Pick it up today and enjoy!


title: Bringing back memories from high school.

text: I have an old cassette of this concert that I recorded off KLOS in 78. Most of the tunes are from that concert but a few are from previous concerts that week. They played 5 nights in a row of which I attended two. The recording is far superior to the one I've been carefully listening to on cassette. It's nostalgia at its best.


title: Five Stars

text: Item as described


title: The Best of LUV

text:
It's LUV!  A collection of their best.

If you like LUV (or are looking for something a bit different), get this album.  It's worth it.


title: Warlocks come to VA!

text: Any Dead fan will simply love this boxset! it's simply a must have!! The Grateful Dead in their PRIME!


title: Nobody know's I'm a movie star

text: Did not go through with the purchase but I know this album is amazing. Get it if you want to hear Kenny Power's brother rock out


title: Super Music

text: Super CD with fantastic Roy Orbison music.


title: It’s got a great beat and easy to dance to!

text: I love their harmonies. It’s amazing how their dance routines are mimicked much like ABBA back in the day. Come to think of it their harmonies are to ABBA as Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound was to Sonny and Cher.


title: Beside Still Waters presents Inspiring Classics

text: I just plain love all of Beside Still Waters music. It is quiet, peacefull, and arranged beautifully. I wish I had all that they have produced. I can't seem to find it. I have 1 and 2 and this one and I know there are many more.


title: TRACKS ARE....

text:
1. Green Man
2. Clementine
3. Child
4. Are You With Me?
5. Naturally
6. Ask Him To
7. Backpocket and Me
8. Move On
9. Secondhand Wonderland
10. My Love
11. I Am What I Am
12. Is That What It's All About
13. Confused
14. Home
15. Child (acoustic version)
16. Johnny
17. Mr You


title: INFO...

text:
1. Forever Friends 3:16
2. I'm Just Me 2:27
3. I Hear Music 3:13
4. All Around Me 3:50
5. Star Of The Team 3:53
6. I'm Always Here 4 U 4:46
7. Forever True 2:14
8. Getting Things Done 3:04
9. Invite Me In 3:44
10. Forever Friends 3:15


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Won't Give Up My Music

2. What Cha Gonna Do?

3. You Remain (On My Mind)

4. Peace & Harmony

5. Got To Be Real

6. Little Things

7. Kiss N' Tell

8. Just Be My Friend

9. Closer To You

10. Days Of Sunshine

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title: TRACKS ARE...

text: 1. If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked A Cake 2. Li'l Liza Jane 3. The Cat Came Back (Again) 4. Piggyback Ride 5. The Bump 6. Poco 7. Ka-Lim-Ba 8. Never Smile At A Crocodile 9. Roller Skating 10. Joshua 11. The Rattlin' Bog 12. Julie Gerond And The Polka Dot Pony


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: Don't Really Remember, On Your Own, Brother, Feet in Stone, To the Garden, 4U, Die, Konshins, Rise Again.


title: INFO.....

text:
Formed in the spring of '96, URSA MAJOR uniquely combines midwestern guitar rock, modern power pop and poetic imagery. Following the release of the band's debut CD, Driven Deep, the track, Don't Turn Away was selected to appear on the 102.1 The Edge New Rock Search CD (1997)....

(1) Don't Turn Away

(2) Carbon Copy Love

(3) Weight Of The World

(4) Looking For A Way

(5) Falling From The Blue Sky

(6) Every Single Time

(7) Unlike Anyone

(8) Driven Deep

(9) Count To Ten

(10) Someone To Blame

(11) Down And Out

(12) Unwilling To Part


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: CD 1........ 1. Warning 2. Overture/Second 3. Nebulous 4. Bad Omen 5. Happily Ever After Again 6. Average Joe 7. Falling Down Again 8. Book Of Rejection (Live) 9. The Single 10. Can't Stop 11. Talkin' (Live) 12. Bus To Nowhere 13. Chocolate Chip Cookies 14. Too You 15. Hell Or Heaven 16. Bystander 17. Mole 18. Moth To A Flame 19. All Is Not Lost 20. Stuck In The Middle Of A Song 21. Outro/Disappear CD 2........ 1. Oh Canada 2. Still Talkin' 3. Roly Poly 4. Soup Line 5. All On Myself 6. Ancient Eyes 7. Pirates 8. Lonely Only (Book Of Rejection Vol.II) 9. How Much Is That Doggie? 10. It's A Dog's Life/Pretending 11. Warthogs Can Fly 12. People 13. Moderation 14. A Way In 15. The Single (Dance Remix) 16. So Close Yet So Far 17. UFO (Live) 18. Cathy 19. Sheila 20. Serendipity 21. Hold Strong (Live)


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Heading Home

2. Nova Scotia

3. Music (Riding Through The Night)

4. Getting Dark Again

5. House Painted Green

6. The Long Black Veil

7. Rail Ties

8. Caribou Way

9. The Outside Track

10. Parade Square

11. Ballad Of St. Anne's Reel

12. Mull Of Kintyre


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: 1. Dark Promises (4:01) 2. Relentless (3:57) 3. Blinking Life (4:17) 4. Flowers of the Street (4:08) 5. Dry Land (4:48) 6. Pleasure's Mine (3:44) 7. Darkside (5:01) 8. Dogs of Progress (3:52) 9. Statues in Time (4:07)


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Mercy Me

2. This Love Is

3. Field of Your Soul

4. Fractured Pieces

5. Do You Want What I Got

6. Carve a Tunnel

7. Love Can Change the World

8. New Horizons

9. Homeland

10. Carry On


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Original -- Leftfield

2. Live Forever -- Oasis

3. C'mon Billy -- PJ Harvey

4. Blue -- Elastica

5. Sofa (of my Lethargy) -- Supergrass

6. Overcome -- Tricky

7. Days Like This -- Van Morrison

8. Oh Mr Rex! -- Guy Barker

9. Wandering Star -- Portishead

10. Seven Last Words From The Cross (excerpt) -- James MacMillan


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Time On The Move

2. Oh Carol! [Carbonara Mix]

3. Stop That Train (My Girl Is Gone)

4. I Love You

5. A Litttle Bit Of Magic (The Midas Touch)

6. Save The Last Dance

7. Over & Over

8. No Money No love

9. Suspicious Minds

10. Body Talk

11. Praise Without Raise

12. Time On The Move (Soul Version)


title: INFO...

text:
Rudyard Wilberforce St. Francis Fearon was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, and came to Canada in 1974. He currently works at Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, where he has found fertile ground to develop as a writer. Rudy sits on the board of the Art Bar reading series, and organizes and hosts the annual Black History Month readings.....

FREE SOIL is an enhanced CD of poetry containing 67 tracks interspersed with two drum solos and a concluding flute solo. The poems are epigrammatic and witty, and diverse in its coverage of themes; race, culture, politics, identity, etc.


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1.  Spirit Travel

2.  Dream Dancers

3.  Birth of a Mountain

4.  First Flight

5.  Vision Sea

6.  Celebration

7.  Alone, Dancing with the Wind

8.  Last Call

9.  Empty House

10.  Balloon Walk on the Clouds

11.  Memories Of Friends

12.  Wild Horse

13.  Past Reflection

14.  Lauren

15.  Souls Collect

16.  Return to One


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: 1. (4:11) Leave it right where you have it 2. (4:02) Never got a chance to say goodbye 3. (4:30) Grind 4. (3:47) Crazy 5. (3:57) Was it all that bad 6. (2:44) Not spending time (coolin song


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: 1. Normal Madness 2. Cool As Hell 3. Mrs. Atom-Bomb 4. Holidys in Amsterdam 5. Crazy 6. Can Your Jackyl Do The Hyde 7. Famous F*ck 8. Stranded On Earth 9. Happy Judgement Day 10. Cosmic Dictator 11. Oh Yeah 12. Ready To Piss Off 13. North To Alaska 14. Good Morning Revolution 15. No Place To Gogo 16. I Believe In Elvis


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Reflection Of Jesus

2. Clouds Of Thunder

3. But For You

4. Walk Away

5. The Naked Man

6. Jungle Drum

7. Through The Ages

8. On Main Street

9. Ain't Too Late

10. When It All Comes Down


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Tobins's Favorite/Willie Clancy's/Paddy Taylor's

2. Merry Harriers/Ban Tinceiri

3. Paddy Fahy's/The Butterfly/The Mountain Top/The Boys On The Hilltop

4. The Wounded Hussar/Slieve Russell/The Humours Of Balllyloughlin

5. Diamontina Drover

6. Mike Coogan's/Dick Tobin's/High Point Polka

7. McGettrick's/London Bridge

8. Hop Jig/Reels

9. Rocky Road To Dublin/West Clare Reels

10. The Whinny Hills Of Leitrim/The Arragh Mountains

11. An Paistin Fionn/The Flowers Of Munster

12. Scully Casey's/Joe Cooley's/Micho Russell's

13. Donal Og/Scatter The Mud/Coen's/Trim the Velvet

14. Jefferson's March/The Star Above The Garter/Johnny O'Leary's

15. Spring Hill Mine Disaster

16. O'Carolan's Welcome/A Fig For A Kiss/The Whistling Thief

17. The Gossoon That Bate His Father/The Old Woman Of The House/Matt Peoples' Reel


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Play That Funky Music -- Wild Cherry

2. Brick House -- Commodores

3. Superfreak -- Rick James

4. You Sexy Thing -- Hot Chocolate

5. Get Down On It -- Kool & The Gang

6. Tear The Roof Off The Sucker -- Parliament

7. Low Rider -- War

8. Car Wash -- Rose Royce

9. Fire -- Ohio Players

10. Boogie Oogie Oogie -- A Taste Of Honey

11. Funkytown -- Lipps Inc.

12. Early In The Morning -- The Gap Band


title: TRACKS ARE...

text: 1. Desolation Angel 2. Primitive Emotion 3. The Drifter 4. Shadows In The Night 5. Paradise Highway 6. Dreaming Girl 7. Mystery Street 8. The Wild One 9. Searching For Satisfaction 10. Twilight Is Over 11. Running With The Storm


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. What A Friend We Have In Jesus

2. For All The Saints

3. Our Father, By Whose Name

4. God Of Grace And God Of Glory

5. My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less

6. Take My Life And Let It Be

7. When In Our Music God Is Glorified

8. Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

9. America, The Beautiful

10. There's A Wideness In God's Mercy

11. O Spirit Of Life

12. The Lord's My Shepherd

13. God, Our Father

14. I Love To Tell The Story

15. O Perfect Love

16. In Thee Is Gladness

17. Ye Servants Of God

18. Christ Is Risen

19. When Israel Was In Egypt's Land

20. I Sing The Mighty Power

21. You Are The Way

22. Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus

23. God, Whose Almighty Word

24. Great Is Thy Faithfulness

25. Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

26. Sing Of Bethlehem

27. For The Healing Of The Nations

28. Come Away To The Skies

29. God Bless Our Native Land

30. Abide With Me

31. I Want Jesus

32. How Good, Lord, To Be Here

33. Rise Up, O Saints Of God

34. Amazing Grace

35. Toccata & Fugue In D Minor


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. All Creatures Of Our God And King

2. The Lord Is In His Holy Temple/Holy, Holy, Holy

3. O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

4. Let Us Break Bread Together

5. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

6. I Will Sing Of My Redeemer

7. The Lord's Prayer

8. It Is Well With My Soul

9. Crown Him With Many Crowns/Christ The Lord Is Risin Today

10. Be Thou My Vision


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Every Beat of Your Heart

2. What Can U do

3. Attraction

4. Goodbye to Yesterday

5. Lady Stardust

6. Close Your Eyes


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. One Dream - Ernie Smith

2. Everything I Own - Ken Boothe

3. Ire Tempo - Lord Laro

4. I Man Born Ya - Pluto

5. Games That Lovers Play - Ken Lazarus

6. Mystic Mood - Willie Lindo

7. Creators Medley - Lord Creator

8. Nice To Be With You - Boris Gardner

9. Dancing Mood - Pluto

10. Pum Pum A Go Kill You - Ken Lazarus

11. No Woman No Cry - Ken Boothe

12. This Son Will Last Forever - Funky Brown

13. Sammy - Ernie Smith

14. Baby I Love - Ken Lazarus

15. Hi-Life - Granville Williams

16. Pitta Patta - Black Patch

17. The Old Beruit - Thunderbirds

18. Poorman - John Jones

19. Any Little Bit Of Love - Techniques

20. The Yesterme, Yesteryou, Yesterday - Gaylets

21. Love Me Tender - Ken Lazarus


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Mile Of Me

2. Only You

3. This Love

4. To Believe

5. Jesus Is There

6. One Day Before Someday

7. Fascinated

8. Diamonds In The Road

9. Waiting

10. It's A Hard Life Wherever You Go

11. Your Grace


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. When I'm With You

2. Touch Talk

3. Old Fashion Love Affair

4. Miss Unbelievable

5. Kiss Me, Baby

6. Hello Stranger

7. The Wonder Of Your Love

8. Any Way You Wanna - Lupe Lu

9. Blue Skies

10. The Tracks Of My Tears

11. Overlooked Generation


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Winter Wonderland -- Tanya Tucker

2. Blue Christmas -- Sawyer Brown

3. Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree -- Eddie Rabbitt

4. Thank God For Kids -- Eddy Raven

5. O Holy Night -- Glen Campbell

6. Do You Hear What I Hear? -- Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers

7. The First Noel -- Suzy Bogguss

8. Silver Bells -- Gary Morris

9. Away In A Manger -- Lacy J. Dalton

10. Jingle-Bell Rock -- Wild Rose


title: TRACKS ARE...

text:
1. Summertime

2. Sitting In The Park

3. I Do Love You

4. Secret Love

5. Moon River

6. We'll Always Be Together

7. Temptation 'Bout To Get Me

8. Cross My Heart

9. Reap What You Sow

10. Why Do I Love You So?


title: Tracks are...

text: I Love the Way, Come be my Lover, Movin' On, Job, Smile, I've Been Waiting (Larl Larl Boleeyan), Merry, People are You Ready, Reach, Ignorant Black Man.


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Chances Are -- Johnny Mathis

2. The Candy Man -- Sammy Davis Jr.

3. Young At Heart -- Frank Sinatra

4. It's Impossible -- Perry Como

5. She Believes In Me -- Kenny Rogers

6. Allegheny Moon -- Patti Page

7. I Believe -- Frankie Laine

8. My Man -- Barbra Streisand

9. The Shadow Of Your Smile -- Tony Bennett

10. Too Young -- Nat King Cole

11. You And Me Against The World -- Helen Reddy

12. Alfie -- Dionne Warwick

13. Moon River -- Andy Williams

14. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing -- Four Aces

15. This Could Be The Start Of Something Big -- Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé

16. Try To Remember -- Ed Ames

17. Arril Love -- Pat Boone

18. With Pen In Hand -- Vikki Carr


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Honeycomb--Jimmie Rodgers

2. My True Love--Jack Scott

3. So Many Ways --Brook Benton

4. Breathless --Jerry Lee Lewis

5. Six Nights A Week --The Crests

6. Susie Darlin'--Robin Luke

7. There goes by Baby  -- The Drifters

8. You were Mine -- The Fireflies

9. Tragedy--Thomas Wayne

10. Mr Blue -- The Fleetwoods

11. My Prayer --The Platters

12. Slow Twistin' -- Chubby Checker

13. Just Because--Lloyd Price

14. Under the Boardwalk--The Drifters

15. She Say (Oom Dooby Doom) -- The Diamonds


title: Tracks are...

text: 1. Are You Lonesome Tonight? Elvis Presley 3:08 2. Blue Velvet Bobby Vinton 2:50 3. Love Theme from Romeo & Juliet Henry Mancini and His Orchestra 2:36 4. Can't Get Used to Losing You Andy Williams 2:22 5. Release Me Engelbert Humperdinck 3:20 6. Make the World Go Away Eddy Arnold 2:40 7. Spanish Eyes Al Martino 2:48 8. Don't Break the Heart That Loves You Connie Francis 3:04 9. Ramblin' Rose Nat King Cole 2:49 10. Can't Help Falling in Love Elvis Presley 3:01 11. The End of the World Skeeter Davis 2:38 12. Since I Fell for You Lenny Welch 2:55 13. When I Fall in Love The Lettermen 2:28 14. Moon River Henry Mancini and His Orchestra 2:40


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Get Real
2. Miss The Child
3. Pioneers
4. Make It With You/He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (Medley)
5. Sweet
6. Make Christina Dance
7. Downtown
8. Solid Air
9. This
10. Today


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Keep It Slammin'

2. It's In My Nature

3. Call The Cops

4. Donna Lee

5. Princess

6. Wherever You Are

7. Check For Yourself

8. Back In Time

9. That's A Friend

10. You Gotta Be Down

11. It's Not The Way

12. Mr Metro (The Remake)


title: Tracks are...

text: 1 Transfiguration, 2 The Flesh Is Weak, 3 Seven, 4 Omnicide, 5 Radio, 6 Overexposed, 7 Love Story, 8 Once Upon A Valentine, 9 Honeymoon.


title: Tracks are...

text: CD 1............ When you're smiling, Early morning blues, Just one of those things, Sugar (That Sugar Baby O'Mine), Jive at five, New Orleans, Riverboat shuffle, Davenport blues, Nobody's sweetheart, Caprice in Milan for Giuseppe (Joe) Venuti, Original Dixieland one step, Elligton medley: Prelude to a kiss, Take the "a" train, After you've gone Gershwin medley from "Porgy and Bess": It ain't necessarily so Bess, You is my woman, Summertime. CD 2................ Somebody loves me, The man I love, I want to be happy, But not for me, Jubilee, Blue and sentimental, Danzon Elligton medley: Sophisticated Lady, Lush life, Fidgety feet, Goose pimples, Bessie couldn't help it, In the dark.


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Livin' In Da Project - David Holder

2. Away - Mantra Featuring Lydia Rhodes

3. Music Makes Me High - Ito

4. What You Gonna Do Baby - Funk Legacy

5. Psycho - Rythm Masters

6. Broken - Dave Lalla

7. Jump - Da'Principal

8. Stay Right There - The Groove Lab EP

9. Don't Turn Your Back - Pancake

10. North'N Damen - Mazi Featuring Mikkhiel

11. Jammin' Ronnie Richards

12. Beau Mot Plage - Isolee

13. Harvest Moon - Onionz, Tony & Dano

14. Lisen 2 Da Musik - Eddie Matos

15. For The Love Of Money - Joe Smooth


title: Tracks are...

text: 1. Even The Bad Times Are Good - Tremeloes (The) 2. Happy Together - Turtles (The) 3. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 4. Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac 5. Handbags & Gladrags - Chris Farlowe 6. Itchycoo Park - Small Faces (The) 7. Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Satus Quo 8. Colours - Donovan (Rock) 9. Lady Jane - David Garrick 10. Silence Is Golden - Tremeloes (The) 11. Elenore - Turtles (The) 12. Somebody To Love - Jefferson Airplane 13. Wasn't Born To Follow - Byrds (The) 14. Angel Of The Morning - P.P. Arnold 15. Sittin' On A Fence - Twice As Much 16. Sunny Goodge Street - Donovan (Rock) 17. Lazy Sunday - Small Faces (The) 18. Ice In The Sun - Status Quo 19. High In The Sky - Amen Corner 20. Everlasting Love - Love Affair


title: Tracks are...

text: 1. O Du Froehliche 2. Vom Himmel Hoch O Englein Kommt 3. Maria Durch Den Dornwald 4. Suesser Die Glocken Nie Klingen 5. O Jesulein Suess 6. Kommet, Ihr Hirten 7. Leise Rieselt Det Schnee 8. Wie Schoen Leuchtet Det Morgenstern 9. Alle Jahre Wieder 10. Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen 11. In Dulci Jubilo 12. Gelobet Seist Du, Jesu Christ 13. Lobt Gott, Ihr Christen Allzugleich 14. Ich Steh` An Deiner Krippen Hier 15. Joseph, Lieber Joseph Mein 16. Uns Ist Ein Kindlein Heut Geborn 17. Vom Himmel Hoch, Da Komm Ich Her 18. Stille Nacht (Silent Night)


title: Tracks are...

text:
1. Bells

2. Elemental

3. The Tides After Shiftin'

4. Faceless Wonder

5. Jordy

6. Shorelines

7. Matt's Tune

8. So Far From Home

9. Diggin'

10. It Works Great On Paper


title: Rising Star

text: Mallorie Haley has been the opening act for many country artists, including Kenny Chesney, Tanya Tucker, Chris LeDoux, Pam Tillis, George Jones, Clay Walker, Aaron Tippin, Tracy Byrd, Holly Dunn, Joe Diffie, Lila McCann, Ray Price, Daryl Singletary, Chad Brock, Rhett Akins, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and Kenny Rogers.


title: Wonderful, and as I remembered it from 40 years ...

text: Wonderful, and as I remembered it from 40 years ago.  Very good condition, and as represented by seller.  Thank you!


title: 2 songs not on the cd

text: I like the cd but the 2 extra songs were not on there


title: The music is timeless.

text: You will be dancing in the streets,like a Mummer.


title: Unforgettable, classic

text: I wasn't there for the original Hot August Night, but I was at this show and it was unforgettable. I was there the night Jack Black went onstage for Sweet Carline!


title: It is the greatest

text: Can’t ever go wrong with Neil Young.


title: Kevin Sorbo's More Than A Pretty Face

text: This autobiographical story gives the reader an amazing and moving look inside the life of a man most people look at and say, "Well, he's got everything, doesn't he?"  With humor, and understatement, and painful honesty that he says is still difficult for him to give, Kevin Sorbo relates the often hair-raising story of his medical crisis.  Just when he'd climbed to the top and was living his dreams, he was dropped by circumstances that no one could or would have predicted.  Healthy, fit, athletic, talented...Kevin was all that, and he was also a ticking time bomb that exploded with devastating effects.  This is a terrific read - get it!


title: Well made.

text: Very well made. Heavy duty. Exactly what I was looking for


title: Love this music

text: Great song writer.  Love his ability to write great lyrics!  People make fun of his quavering voice but he is great to listen to.  Stevie Nicks made a career with a quavering voice as well.


title: Voices as Soft as the Tradewinds

text: This out-of-print CD is a gem for Hawaiian music lovers, capturing the nahenahe sounds of Hawaiian music in the 1950s.


title: Truly Magical

text: Billy Dean and the Washington Children's Choir singing O Holy Night makes this purchase worth it - no matter the cost. Amazing.


title: Their best album

text: Sealed and Everything came in plus a couple extra goodies, I probs will buy again from them. On a side note this will forever be my favorite album from them and the repacking just as amazing


title: Jack Jones

text: If you like or love Jack Jones you’ll love this album! All of his music is great, but this is awesome


title: GOSPEL MUSIC EXQUISITELY DONE!

text: This is one of Leon C. Robert's most AWESOME compositions. The most excellent EXSULTET is on this recording. The song ANOTHER DAY takes you to a special understanding of the composer's faith walk with God. A must have for anyone who loves gospel music.


title: Perfect!

text: Lively and delightful!  It will send your toes a-tapping!


title: Masterful!

text: You can't go wrong with Alfred Brendel!  Magnificent interpretations of these powerful works!


title: A Fan of the Word of God....

text:
I had the great pleasure of getting this CD at a concert at my church. I was skeptical- yet, for what- cause I love it. It is a CD seeped in the Word and it is real. The guys who put it together are off the chain live and on disc. My personal favorite is Welcome to Censorship..... HIZZZZZZZZOT!

Buy it,it will bless you!


title: Great CD. I bought from a great company on Amazon.

text: Great Time Life CD.


title: good cd

text: to listen to


title: Great value

text: Alot of great songs! Well worth the $ spent.


title: Good CD

text: Years ago i was walking around one of the malls in St Louis with some friends and I actually met this band and bought their CD from them, i was thinking about this CD again today and wondering what ever happened to them as i was adding music to my new phone (this was one of the CDs i added to my phone today too lol) I always wished that they would have made it big love this CD


title: Great buy !!

text: It had the CD plus a cute ornament. Plus it has an activity book that's good for children.


title: Great Southern Gospel Music

text: I have loved to hear The Singing Cookes since I first heard them in 1991...If you like your Gospel music being played with a little bit of Country instruments...The you're going to love this CD.


title: Just not very good, Arrived on time but music selection and quality ...

text: Just not very good,  Arrived on time but music selection and quality just not there


title: THAT I CAN RELAX

text: AWESOME MUSIC


title: One of the most talented bands , ever!

text: Great music from my pasr


title: Too Fast, too Furious

text: This was an unexpected gem. The song 100 M.P.H. was definitely enough to justify buying the album but to get several others that were hits in their own right like Strawberry Lover.  That really sealed the deal. They eventually faded into nothingness which was a sad shame.They had  the gift but it seems that it wasn't properly nurtured.  Unfortunately, I purchased that first release but it was lost to Tropical Storm Allison in Houston.  I get depressed every time I think about it.


title: Damaged

text: Came with a very damaged case. CD was in OK condition


title: Still setting the performance bar high after all these decades

text: Quality performances


title: One Star

text: Most of the info is good but this is very cheap/cheesy in person. Overpriced for sure.


title: Side sleeper- If you need neck support, get this pillow!

text: I read a review saying the pillow was a little flimsy. When it arrived I sort of felt the same, wasn’t as hard or thick as I wanted. HOWEVER, this pillow has been my saving grace! I’m a side sleeper. Perfect support on the outsides for my neck. Comfortable insert in middle for a back sleeper. My neck is no longer in pain. Perfect support for me. My husband is jealous he doesn’t have one.


title: Classic!!!Must Have!!!

text: Awesome!!! Highly recommend.


title: but so far it is good.

text: Still trying it out, but so far it is good.


title: Five Stars

text: Nice and sweet. Good music. Excellent vocals.


title: Five Stars

text: Beautiful music


title: Not as shown

text: This item is shown with a cover,sadly, arrived without one.


title: Songs & Stories - Very entertaining

text: Lily May Ledford was a member of the Coon Creek Girls who recorded in the 1930's.  This cd pulls recordings from her live concerts as well as a few studio recordings.  Between songs there are some heartfelt - humorous stories that really make the cd and music stand out.  You can imagine sitting in the audience and hearing Lily May recall such intricate details from her memories decades earlier.  A 13 minute story on their visit to perform for President Franklin Roosevelt and the King of England is a highlight.  Not to mention - Lily May's deep Appalachian vocals and her fiddle and banjo picking are superb.  CD is not easy to find but worth every penny.


title: wow....just wow...WOW

text: After seeing her in concert, I can honestly say that Piers Morgan had no clue what talent is (he tore her up during America's Got Talent when she was a contestant).  This album will carry you through every emotion you own and a few you didn't know you were capable of.  This artist is so much talent in a small energetic package and she manages to pack an entire concert into a single album.  I have listened to the album continuously since seeing her in concert three weeks ago.  She puts on a heck of a show and her music plays through just about every genera with skill and mastery.  You will not regret purchasing this album or listening to this music.  Best purchase is a long time.  Thank you Lindsey for this gift to the world of music!!


title: Beautiful music from a great artist.

text: Having known this artist from her T.K. Llegs days, This is a nice album of fun pensive lyrical songs. <>Steve Amiaga


title: Four Stars

text: No one sings Come Thou Fount better than him...


title: The Boy Tears It Up on the included tracks!

text: I first heard this album in 1994 while visiting an off-beat clothing store.  I knew when I got back home I HAD to have it, so I purchased it when I returned home.  I fell in love with it, and would have NEVER parted with it, but it was destroyed by a friend (I no longer loan friends ANY music I own).  Luckily, I was able to find a cd on Amazon.  THANK GOD!  I don't think I could live without this cd.  Every hard-core Boy George fan should have this in their collection.  I recommend storing it electronically in itunes or another mp3 program, just in case.......AMAZING!  It's hard to come by and is no longer in print, so I suggest if you find one, you pick it up immediately!


title: Five Stars

text: Very good item.


title: Five Stars

text: Excellent Product.


title: Two Stars

text: Ol item.


title: I have never seen this edition before. The spine ...

text: I have never seen this edition before. The spine of the cover is shot, but finding this edition is a wow. I suspect it was issued only one year in 1957<br />and then the cover was changed.


title: Despite labels claim Dynamic Range NOT preserved. Confusing release.

text:
When compared to many modern day remasters this Rubellan release does have decent Dynamic Range (DR) . However compared the original release of "Love Life" a large amount of Dynamic Range (DR) was lost.

The point of mentioning (DR) is that the label advertised that full (DR) was maintained. However that is not the case compared to the original CD mastering as 20-30% of the (DR) is lost.

Original CD (DR) :
DR13 When We Make Love
DR13 Touch
DR15 Beg, Steal Or Borrow
DR14 Now It's My Turn
DR14 Dancing In Berlin
DR15 Rumor Of Love
DR13 Pictures Of You
DR15 In My Dreams
DR15 No More Words
DR14 For All Tomorrow's Lies
DR12 Fall
DR13 Lost In The Crowd

Rubellan Expanded Remaster (DR) :
DR11 When We Make Love
DR10 Touch
DR12 Beg, Steal Or Borrow
DR11 Now It's My Turn
DR11 Dancing In Berlin
DR11 Pictures Of You
DR12 In My Dreams
DR12 No More Words
DR12 For All Tomorrow's Lies
DR11 Fall
DR12 Rumor Of Love
DR10 Lost In The Crowd
DR12 No More Words (Dance Remix)
DR11 Now It's My Turn (Remix)
DR11 Dancing In Berlin (Dance Remix)

I have done a rather detailed compared between the original CD and the Rubellan Expanded Remaster and the sound on the original CD was more to my liking on every track that present on both CD's.

The bonus tracks on the Rubellan Expanded Remasters are nice to have.

My feeling is if this release had adhered to what they had advertised, it could have been audiophile. As 2020 masterings go  it is very good but the sound quality for me personally is middle of the road; not good but it's also certainly not bad.

Seems to me this Rubellan remaster is not loud (DR lacking) enough to please those who love all LOUD all the time, nor does it preserve enough (DR) to make audiophiles happy.  I really do not get what crowd this release was aimed at? But given the all LOUD crowd in 2020 tends not to purchase physical media, Rubellan should considered going all the way to make happy the largest Digital Physical media purchasing group that still remains and those are audiophiles/ quasi-audiophiles or those who like old school SQ


title: Good CD, timely

text: nobody who loves opera shoud miss this incredible perfomance. Good CD, timely arrival


title: Must raise the overall rating after an inappropriate 1* review that is an Amazon service issue!

text: I've owned this box set for years; an exceptional bargain of generally excellent performances - great summaries have already been given and I agree; also, there are numerous very good to outstanding reviews, e.g. ClassicsToday gives the performances and recording 10/10.  I'm mainly posting to up the overall rating of this set which was downgraded by an inappropriate review complaining about Amazon service with no mention of the music and recording - should be deleted by Amazon.


title: Hummel's Septets on Period Instruments deserves a top rating!

text: On listening to this recording in my collection and reviewing comments here, I was rather surprised by a mediocre rating of 3* with the implication that the fortepiano was to blame - the fortepiano emerged in the classical period and evolved into the early Romantic era.  The instrument used in these recordings (with two different excellent performers) was a ca. 1817 fortepiano by Jacob Bertsche (restored by Robert Brown, Salzburg); thus, the instrument was made in the middle of Hummel's life and at a time when these works were composed (1816 &1829).  Furthermore, listening to the recording on headphones, I hear absolutely no problem w/ 'jumbled' notes and the instrument's inability to keep up the pace; indeed I own dozens of fortepiano performances - these were the same instruments used by Beethoven & Chopin (among many others) at the time.  Yes, the fortepiano sounds different from a modern one, but better reflects the sound of these compositions in the early 19th century.


title: Performance deserves a much higher overall rating!

text: There are only 2 reviews of the Hecker & Helmchen performances of the Brahms Cello Sonatas with a 2* (poor in my mind) rating that has wrongly downgraded this excellent offering - now, there are plenty of other recordings of these works over the years so the competition is stiff.  However, a number of 'expert reviewers' rate this recording as one of the best, e.g. Dubins from Fanfare who has reviewed likely a dozen or more offerings of these works recommends as an 'urgent acquisition'; also, Gramophone and MusicWeb conclude the performances of this young married lady-man team as excellent.  I've probably heard only a half dozen performances of these cello sonatas, now own 3 and have 'culled out' 3 others - the other that I've kept is with Isserlis & Hough on Hyperion which is also well rated - I like both but the musicians do perform in different manners with Hecker having a more 'romantic' flowing cello sound and her husband providing superb accompaniment - in my mind, this Alpha Classics CD should have at least a 4* rating, so hopefully my addition will up the overall score?  My only negatives are the timing is short (52+ mins) w/ only the two sonatas included, another 20 minutes or more of music could have been added; plus, the liner notes include a superficial interview with the musicians and their brief bios - nothing about Brahms or the works on the disc.


title: Please ignore the low reviews on this set!

text: There are already several excellent reviews of Uchida's performance of Mozart's piano sonatas, so no need to repeat or elaborate on these well done efforts.  But I must warn against putting much credence into the lowly ratings (of 1 to 2 *) - these should be stricken from the reviews listing.  I bought this set when released based on having own several single discs in the past, the excellent reviews received in several of the publications already mentioned, and opinions of those I respect in the Good Music Guide forum (good-music-guide.com); if fact, there is an ongoing thread there w/ a poll, and Uchida is receiving about a third of the votes (dozen or so pianists listed) as the top cycle for these compositions.  Surprisingly, Klara Wurtz's box set of these pieces on the Brilliant label (i.e. a great value) is in second in the poll - indeed, I purchased this as a 'second' set elsewhere for only $20 - just superb (5* ratings on Amazon), and will need several more hearings to see who I prefer.  But, I don't believe you can go wrong w/ either of these box sets.


title: Hypnotic Blues

text: I can't get enough of Hey Joe Opus bluegrass violin and all. I am in a blues trance with Otis Taylor.  Have been listening to this, and his live performances of Hey Joe for hours and hours while sheltering in place, working from home. Takes the Jimmy Hendricks version of Hey Joe to a new plain. This is an album about choices or other points of no return.  This album and White African are my favorites.


title: The Final Option Soundtrack is Awesome!

text:
This soundtrack is shared on the same CD with Billion Dollar Brain, frankly I have never heard of that film.
This is the only Final Option soundtrack on CD to the best of my knowledge and it sounds great!!
The film is offered elsewhere and is a great movie about the British SAS Regiment!


title: The Best Doing the Best,  Say No More!

text:
12-16-2013  Today is the 243rd anniversary of the greatest or one of the three greatest composers in history, Ludwig von Beethoven.  H e hailed from Bonn, and died at the age of57 in Vienna, his funeral a state affair, attended by thousands of admirerers and a torch-bearer named Schubert, who oddly, woould follow his contlmpoary into eternety in about one year. Most of us, me included, have lamented that he died too young, as if the quality of life were more importaNT THAn the quantity thereof.  But, with thisa man, quality WAS a factor.  The myths and legends regarding his gruff and often indifferencdnt behavior, lack of demostrable manners and seething contempt for the upper crust in society cannot be understood without try ing to come to grips with the crushing sadness of his hearing loss.  In the famous Hellingstaat  Confessiion, of 1809, he tries to explain just what it is like to be deaf.  The lonliness, isolation, shame and to say the very least, extreme embarassment, of not being able to participate ineven the tritest of conversations, must of bveen unbearable.  I am always suprised he didn't attempt suicided, a rational escape, aS I COULD SEE IT.  No, Beethoven fought back.  Defiant to the end, he actually was, the "dream patient," a sick man with no desire, whatsoever, to go quietly.  AZ fighter to the end, they generally live longer, thought not always happier, but leave behgind a trail of loved ones and admirerers thaqt  is the envy of every truly popular and famous person.  And, yet, he could not have cared less.  He was Beethoven, and Beethoven he would remain.  An artist.  A performer.  A creator.  A force into history, he knew he was composing for the ages, far fgrom the stylish drawing doorms of the societal courts of Enlightenment Europe.
  On this birthday, where does one begin to sample this great man?  Well, I would suggest to you that instead of sampling, why not just roll the dice, snag a couple of items and look them over, provided they're not all in the same mold---All symphonies or all conertos, for instance.  My bvlindman's selection was meant to bem, since by lottery, I dreq out the violin concerto, some trios, a few symphoonies and this piano music, as a focus for today and the next few days as well.  First up, is the Philips 2 for 1 CD set of "Favorite Piano Sonati, including most of the biggies, The "Pathetique, "  "Moonlight,"  "Tempest " and "WALDSTEIN." PLUS A COUPLE OF OTHERS.  ALL ARE PERFORMED BY THE  Beethoven scholar of the keyboard, Alfreed Brendel.

  Thyese sonati were recorded between Sept. 1970 and June 1977, or just under 7 years time and cd ! begins with the Pathetique, #8 in c-minor, written in 1799, the year the composer first began noticing his hearing loss.  Yet, probably think it some temporary malady that would surely pass, he pushed on AND , At thisa time, Ludwig was busy with his 1st symphony, some chamber music  and songs, while also keeping up an often infuriating series of "hand-holdings,"  (private piano lessons, for the well to do), whicxh he saw as interuptions in his creaTIVE INTEREST------COMPOSING.  SHOW ME A COMPOSER WHOI WOULD RATHER TRAIN STUDENTS THAN COMPOSE PRIVATELY, AND I'LL SHOW YOU SOMEONE WHO IS NOT ON THE SAME PAGE AS THE REST OF US.  THE 8TH PROVIDES PLENTY OF STURM UND DRANG AND THE TENSION IS RELEASED CAREFDULLY AND JUDICIOUSLY BY THE MASTER BRENDEL, WHY, I FEEL HE IS PLAYING JUST FOR ME.  The 40 + year old Philips sound is fine, though it could certainly be better.  Maybe a treatment by the people at Pentatone, as with the Philips Boston Colin Davis sampling of the Sibelius 5th and 7th symphonies in Super Audio.  Yea----Super Audio Brendel/Beethoven, I'd buy it.  Wouldn't you?  The Pathetique's adagio cantabile never misses a beat, with t more andante flow to it than other pianists provide, I still like it.  The trio is intimate, touching and nostaalgic and reminds us that, about this time, the composer was madly in love with his mysterious "immortal beloved," a lady never revealed to history and interesting enough to make into a movie.  Ordinarily, I distance myself from the cinema bcause of the liberties taken in telling the story, but the Gary Oldman film is not bad, a runner-up to Amadeusa, and does give some hint asd to life in the very early 19th Cxentury,. and Beethoven's burden on the onset of deafness.  How awful he must of felt, and why he didn't vent his rage at the Church, at God or , worse of all, bitterly withdraw into the gloom of artistic silence, ala Sibelius.  But, for Beethoven, the price we would of paid would have been so much more crippling than regards the great Finnish master.  What?!!!  No Missa solemnis?  No  9th Symphony, no Hammmerklavier or # 30, 31,or 32 sonati??  Impossible, youy say?  It CVOULD have happened, if not for this man's remarkable courage and downright valor.  Had he tried and failed, the crushing weight of his failure would have rested upon his shoulder, and his alone.  Let's face it, Europe then, as now, didn't give a rat's ass about Herr Beethgoven and was totally clueless as to the magnitude of geneous in their midst.  But, now, of course, we know.  We ALL know!! And, as the MoonLight starts up, we can begin to appreciate his private acts of personal bravory, a display passed down to us by precious few other men.
  I believe an entrepeneur gave the sonata in c-sharp minor, #14, the sub-title "Moonlight," and it has always fit niceley.  I put it on my personal blacklist of indefinate storage because I felt it overf familiar and that I knew it too well.  Listening, one day, quite unassumingly, I suddenly discovered how perfect it really was.  How, symmetrical and perfectly proportioned and, most of all, how passionately the emotional rfestraint waS BUILT INTO IT WAS.  BRFENDEL CAN PERFORM THISA WORK AT GRAQMMY WINNING LEVEL, IN HIS SLEEP.  BUT, HERE IHE IS, THANKFULLY fully engaged.  Written around 1800-01 when the young composer was 30-31 years old, he was beginning to form ideas for the upcoming eroica Symphony, yet it was still four tosix years into the future, over the horizon.The finale of the Moonlight is loaded with fury and energy, so far from the world of the opening,, with it's bittersweet lament of , perhazps, unrequited love.  Beethoven, we musty remember, was eons away from the perennial "sourpuss," he is portrayed to have been in the popular media.  But this invalid profile is not suprising, given the gross negligence of the contemptuous modern mind ( CAN I USE THE TERM "MIND" WHEN REFERING TO TV, RAIO AND NEWSPAPERS?  Doesn't mind mean intelligence and wisdom?  If so, my use in coinnection with modern media is bachanded to be sure.  They haven't a clue who or what this man was.  They can'\t really help, however, it is beyond their self-inflicted pride and vanity.  Skipping ahead to "Les Adieux," the sonata #26, it is in E-Flat Major and was written in 1809-10 with the composer entering his 30's.  "Les Adieux" fell between the 6th and 7th symphonies, and is a contemporary with the great Emperor Concerto, the #5 of 1809.  He was also busy prodicing the oewverture and incidental music for Goethe's play on Egmont, the Protestant anti-Catholic Dutchman who lead a rfebellionna dcarmed uprising against the troops of the King of Spain, Philip II in the 16th Century tale of the wars for independence that the Netherlands endured against the most powerful empire on the planet, Catholic Spain.  This was a project that Beethoven simply loved, due largely to his rabid pro-democracy views and delight in scoffing atg tghe snobs of the leading families on the continent.  This was, as in Mozart's day, a popular pastime, provided some dsuke, or princess wasn't offended too much.  If that happened, then it could be---"OFF with his Head!!"  That is NOT good.At this time, also, Beethoven was into his 10th string quartet, and his terrific piano trio, the Archduke," which I may eview nest.
  "Les Adieux," bears a n intro of about 1:30 then launches into a deliberate and flowing melody of lyrical warmth presented by Brendelwith his usal technial surefootedness and always his wonderful economy with rubato and key pressure.  ith Mr. Brendel, every note has it's own environment and little package it keeps in.  The pianist take them out, one at a time, and presents them to us in a manner that treatsd them like fdine , tiny jewels, each a diamond, fore instance.  If so, then they are all to be accounted for, and put back into thewse recepticles for futer use.  I know of no other pianist, that comes to mind rfegarding this analogy, and I wonder what the master of the keyboard would think of my idea.  A bit off the wall? Pehaps, but not totally unreasonazble.  When I first saw and heard Brendel live was in the Chicago Symphony c oncert of about the Spring of 1973 or a biut later.  He worked with guest conductor SXergiu Commisiona and prfesenrtted to thed Orchestra Hall audience one cold and snowy night, the Piano Concerot #2 of Liszt.  I HADN'T MET MY FUTURE WIFE YET, BUT HAD A date.  I wonder where she is today.  I recall the thingf that impressed me then, as it does still today, was his touch on the keys.  We all say that this pianist ore that one has a majical touch better than anybody else, but with Brendel, I feel this IS true.  His impact on the keys and the amout of pressure and sustainabliity are singular to this wonderful Austro-Germanic performer who just keeps rolling along.  Brendel's Beethocen and SCHUBERFT AND SOME LISZT ARE SIMPLY REMAZRKABLE, NOT SO MUCH AS AN EVEN FAIR RECORDING, ALL EXQUISITE.

  The 2nd CD contains the sonata numbers 17, 21, and 23, the Tempers", "WALDSTEIN," AND TRHE "APPASSIO0NATA OR OVER 73 MINUTES of three of the composer's mture sonati.  A very brief intro of only a few seconds leads into a passionate and dramatic allegro of 8:46 followed by an adagio and concluding allegretto lasting 8:23 and 6:40 respectively.  Brendel's sense of rhythm and key impact is varying, asx the music dictates and his dexterity is , as usual, impressive and fun to hear.  ONE CAN EASILY HEAR HIM RTHINKING SYMPHONICALLY, EVEN IN PENNING A SOLO SONATA.  THIS IS THE GENEOUS OF A COMPLETE COMPOSER, AT HOME IN BOTH THE RECITAL AND CONCERT HALLSTHEN AS NOW.WRITTEN IN 1801-02, BEETHOVEN WAS 31-32 Y/O AND HADC ALREADY GIVEN US MOST OF HIS BEST MATERIAL, yet these late sonati are not the least afterthought, but aggreewsaive and progressive pieces and not leftovers, after the thunder of the symphonies, Fidelio and rthe solo concertos.  He isn't closing his carreer, but rather simply turning trhe page.  None of these 3w works were intended as mere drawing reoom trivialities but as striong and significant contributions to the grfowing repertoire for the early piano, indeed, at this time, perhaps the pianoforte axs  his 5 great keyboard concertos could and were played by that interesting invention.  I have a recording of the Emperor played on pianoforte and it is really nice.  Nothing beats the grand sound of as grand, but, IF IT'S beethoven, one would almost think his works could be played with pots and pans!  Only kidding!  The Tempest's adagio is a reflective and tender section of relaxed tempo and gentle nuances.  Beethoven WAS capable of soft and intimate music, like any other man, it is just as interesting as any other music, but his big, powerful stuff is just too popular that little gem such as this lovely adagio, often slip pasxt unnoticed.  Hit the brakes and sacor this oasis of beauty, a garden of poetry in a harsh and tumultuous tgime.  The beautiful Allegretto is one of the composer's mose richly compesed pieces as it literaly drips with sentiment and feeling.  Very human and direct music rom the heart, this 6:40, this could easily be encored at any pianist's recital, let alone one by the man himself.
  The Waldstein,"xsonata #21 is in the key of C and is his Op. 53.  It was born in the early days of 1804, close on the heels of the mighty 3rd Symphony and just prior to the G Major 4th Piano Concerto.  The concluding Rondois an allegretto moderato and bears a striking resemblence to the17th's "Allegretto" ewnding of the afore mentioned 6:40.  The Wakdstein was I rfecall , the first sonata of the master's that I learned, it's catchy skipping, whirling oopening movement is a delight, and the mixture of fast/slow and loud/soft is masterful.  Generous in scope, it runs a leisurely 24:54 on this Philips set and it's simplic ity is easily digested by the eager, and, back in the early 1970's, I was eager, boiy, was I ever.  I didn't find enoufgh hours in a dewy to learn new works, and shunned almost nothing.  When we're young, we are so much more open minded thsan today, still, I relish the thought that any day now, perhaps today or tommorrow, will be another day of discovery.  And, of course, it dowen't have to be with Beethoven, but with anyone.  Back in trhe later 90's I iscovered Gorecki's 3rd XSymphony, the "symphony of Sorrowfvul Songs," bdeing playeddcd on the overhead while I thumbed through the stock at a Bay Area Tower Records Store in rtheir glass walled off classical section of the store that was not unlike a vision of, hell, complete with it's earsplitting , repeteativer mechanized heavy metal "music" and the patrons, typically 20-27 yerars old yuppies, most of the nocturnal characters with a tackle-box of hardwarestuck on their faces, tattoos abuntanly and undiscreetly placed and a skateboard, i.e. snowboard attitude and temperament.  The motto of trhese kids seems to be, "look at me,everyone!"  I gratefully made my way rthrough this dinof humnity for the quiet saolace of the musc room and was able then, to takew my time.  Gorecki hit me like the piercing of a heart, as did the violin sonatias ogf brahms, out of the blue.  I had several ecperiences like these with Sibelius and more recently Carl Nielsxen.  I trust there are more beyond the horizon, ands if you're like most admirerers of trhe great Beethoven, don't just sit on the 9th Symphony, for 2 reasons  Number 1 is thisa.  The 9th si NOT his best, the 3rd is. and, secondly, Sitting on the 9th or ANY other work, is a waste of timew.  Move on, and open you mind to the virtually limitless treasure trove that awaits us all in trhe world of music.  Therefore, happy listening and buy this wonderful 5StaR PHILIPS CD SET.  Highly recommended and worth evey penny-----
  In closing, God Bless you and keep you------Happy Birthday, Ludcwig.  Tony.


title: SirColinDavis, R. I. P.  with Mozartand the Angels  To Be Continued

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110-26-2013  It wswith sadnessI learned last week of he death of this fine English conductorand this reviewis dedicated to hismemory. A musician what had alongand successfulcareer with both the London and BBC symphonyorchestras,it is thise two fine ensembledthat are featured here inhis Philips  for one set.  Davis was,as weall know,also a very goodconductor of Elga,berlioz and sibelius, amongstothers.  his sibelius cyclewith Boston is stillone of the finest products ofoany conductor doing anyone'ssymphonies.  Pentatonere-relesedthe Sibelius 5th and 7th Symphonies with davis and Boston, in super audio and the sound is terrific.  as a gesture of respect,I would hopethe other symphonieswillgetthe same treatment.  Would be nice.

  The first work in this doublereleaseis the Mass in c-minor, the"Great Mass"  K. 427, the lsstor next to last mass beforethe Requiem.  Mozart also had written the majority ofhis operasby this time, of whixh he composed 19of hese works for the stage.  This is clearly apparent in the soloist writing.  The K. 427 was written for 2 soprnoes, atenor and a bass------momezzoof contralto, abit unusualfor his day,or anyone's, for thtmatter.  K.427 ws written in **** and fist performed ON  *********************.  AFTER A HEARTFELT AND MOVING KYRIE, the music is  suprisingly powerfull and deeply moving, there is a "Gloria' that runs for over 26 minutes..  Sopranos Helen Donath and Heather Harper split the duties of soloist in this very long section.  Since he Catholic Mass, of which the composer is witting the music for,is the central prayer for us Catholics, usually a musical treatment of this sacred text is the longest piece, but not here.  ratherr, it is this big and wondeful Gloria, and, it is nearly twice as long as the credo Track#6.  " Qui tollis" is for chorus and orchestra alone and is stunnuingly powerful and deeply felt.  I liked it the very first time I heard it.

  The afore mentined"Credo" is a somewhat short 12:04 and features the same fine LSO Chorus in an energetic and grand rendition of the text.  Again ,Mozart does the unexpeted.  Instead of the usally stern and somewwhat apologetic reading, Mozart gives us music of a festive and actually celebratory  nature.  Most  r"Credos" are essentially penetint and sober in sound, and generally feature a solo or soloists contribution in the section"et in carnatu  est" recalling Our Lord's death and resurrection, before  ending, ofen in a fuge of joyous style.. Track #8  "Jesu Christe---Cum Sancto Spiriti launches a gorgeous fuge , at the opening, andante and somewhat tentative but building nicely in strength of faith aznd intensity of belief.  It brings a much needed smile to thew face and wqarmth to the heart, assuring us that everything will be alright, and Salvation truly is witrhin our grasp.  Some scholars believe Mozart was shakey on personal matters of doctrine but hi music sings of bold affirmation and possitive outcomes.  I pray he was not confounded.


title: The Search is Over!!

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0-22-2013  I don't recall how long it took me to find this cd, but it was a chore.  it is actually, the transfer of a Philips 2LP set from the early 1970's of the premiere recording of the Mahler 10th symphony in the "FinalPerforming Version of Derrick cooke," or simply put, "Cooke II".  The New Philharmonia was led by Wynn Morris, WhO??  That's whatI said, but Mr.Morris became a dear friend instantly.  From the very opening seconds of the LP and then the CD, I was a Morris Man.  Such delicacy, such radiance and such balance,I didn't think possible for this very tough work.  Sustaining the quality over nearly 80 minutes is a feat of great importance.  This is one of music's most beautiful,heartfelt and deeply moving utterances and by a man of almost unreproachable intellect, but the tenderest of hearts.  Alma was cheating on Mahler, and he knew it, but he could not stop loving her.  How he must of suffered.  Haitink said he had a talent for suffering, and implied that it was this talent that made his music so powerful, so personal and so deeply tragic.  We rarely get a glimpse of a man's inner being.  I know i keep mine pretty much under wraps, most of us men do.  It's our nature, but, every once in a while, someone comes along and bears his.  It it is interesting, like Mahler's we're grateful,  if it isn't, we're bored.  Mahler was one of art's most charismatic figures and just to hear him think out loud, if I had a time machine, and could be a fly on a wall, would have been a treat.  But, we can still hear him, by listening to the music, we can hear his mind working.  Why, we can even hear him speak, to Alma, to us, to Gid.

  Before I get carried away, this cd .  The recording is on the Scribdenum Label, and i presume it is Dutch company, associated with Philips.  It also  includes a live Rotterdam phil. recording of the Mahler 8th, but my other 8ths have this one beat  badly.  The radio sound is canny and thin, as one would expect.  Get this set for the 10th.  tempi are luxurious and easy going and the music has a lovelyalmostblleticflowto it.  Melodic IS THE WORD throughout this wonderful 84?:52 length, the longest of the 5or more 10th I own.  I have on my shelves currently, Chailly's LONDON recording, very nice, as well  as this one, and both Rattle's the Birmingham and the BPO EMI remake.  Currently Haitink is doing a Mahler cycle with the Chicago Symphony.  I wonder, if, since this will probably be his last one, would he do the CookeII #10?  My guess is, no, but I'm hoping anyway.  But we still have this one.

  Morris' opening movement runs a rapturous 28:17 and, more than any other example,can stand alone as it often does on recordings with the completion work behind it.  If this Adagio was ALL we had, as we once thought, Morris' would be enough,more than  enough.  It is exquisite in it's poignancy and delicacy.  Took my breath away, and will yours.  The sound is rich and warm and the harps are simply celestial.  The quality of the Philhrmonia playing hs to be heard to be believed.  The winds are extra fine.  Long, long breath holds yields silky smooth lines that defy verbal justification.  It almost sounds as if a computer generated these magical tones.  Wonder work by the "Phil."  The Scherzo I is nearly 12 1/2 minutes nd has plenty of snap and snarl, lots of buoyancy and bounce and lilt scattered all around in fine Ländler style.

  I don't recall a better "Purgatorio," than this one, full of contrast in it's alltoo short duration.  I wish mahler had expanded it and given us more, simply more,but still, the compactness of this energetic  and jaunty 4:21 is lots of fun.  The contrasts between moods are excellently tailored by morris and the Phil follows him everywhere.

  Scherzo II is more personal than  the first one and hints more at the impending sadness of the conclusion.  I think, although it is very difficult to explain why, the 1st Scherzo is a little brighter, if that is a fair word to use.  Overall, the Mahler 10th covers a landscape of feelings, moods and tonal colors, all generate from the enormous brain of this towering intellect.  But remember, the predominant message her is one of love.  Call it a farewell to the world, a farewell to the Symphony or a farewell to tonality, it is , none the less, an "Abscheid" Symphony through and through.  the theme of acceptance and resignation hangs on every note and bar.  despite the two scherzo and a fleet of foot Purgatorio, this is still a slow, relatively quiet long work, more whispered than cried out, though his cry will be heard in the final seconds with searing realism.

  The Finale runs 26:21 and though not as long and Giulini's Adagio for the Bruckner 9th w/the VPO or some of Tintner's long Bruckner adagios, like in the 8th and 9th also, this Mahler 10th final movement,  being like the examplesI've cited, valedictorian in nature as they are,still seems as ling or longer than the Bruckner"good-byes."  I trust I make myself obscure, (L. O. l.).  Morris seems to achieve a sort of suspension in this music,as it sounds as though actually hovers over us in an angelic fashion that defies our sensibilities.  Is the music actually standing still?  It seems so, and this produces an effect than is nearlyparalyzinginits transcendent beauty.  The music is more than simply slow, it is almost static.  I think that Mahler is the only composer, with the possible accept ion of Bruckner in some places, who could make music within silence.  Know what I mean?He produces music and feeling when his instruments are totally idle.  How can this be?  I don't have an  answer, but I think I know it when I "hear "it.  Even now, as I type, I wonder how this is possible.

  The 6 loud timpani strikes that open he Finale are sharp and hash in their clarity  and the deep growningbrass of the trombones and tubas set the stage for the beautiful and almost "redemptive' sound of the middle strings as they rise up from the depths an d carry aloft a solo flute's beautiful song of love and calm.  the air around this instrument is adds a sense of space and distance to it, as if it were sounding from afar.  It is a call to rest, that we hear.  Finally,after nearly 60 minutes of struggling with the forces of sadness, the composer seems to be seeing and feeling some light in his mind.  I remember that upon my initial hearing of this music back in the 70's that here at about the3:30minute mark of the 5ht movement, I finally start to think that"things will be alright."  I  recall feeling a weight coming off my shoulders that evening as my wife,then my darling fiancee, sat in my living room in Chicago and listened to the PhilipsLP I described in the beginning of this review.  HOW DO I REMEMBER FROM 40 YEARS AGO???  Easy, music this great is not hard to remember.  The solo flute passes off the theme to the muted strings and slowly Morris swells the orchestra to it's to proper volume and intensity and the whole wall of sound begins to sweep us away.  The overlapping ,descending arpeggios are of jaw-dropping beauty and , with the aid of a remote control, are easily replayed a couple of times for sheer pleasure.  The capricious little interlude around the 7:30 mark is handled with appropriate pacing and is not a all out of character with it's surroundingsSimply, it doesn't  harm the mood or disturb it.  Just another touch that Morris has that makes this such a wonderful reading.  Even the massive tutti at 9:25 is soft-edged and not the least bitter, much as Giulini would do if he had recorded this music, which I regret he did not. But, I DO think Sanderling did, and I'll check when this review is finished.  From here on out the music simply gathersit'smomentumslowly and gracefully and builds to a shattering and searing conclusion, as the violins leap heavenward  as the composer's final anguished cry of heart-break.  I suspect that, at the recording sessions for this October 1972 taping in London, that Morris and the orchestra were limp with exhaustion both physically and emotionally spent as this music is want to do.  i cannot recommend this recording more than I do now.  By all means, pick up Rattle's BPO recording from 1999 on EMI, and if, it is at a good price, toss in his Birmingham performance as well for contrast.

  This is a glowing , very glowing 5 STAR reading by  Wyn Morris and the new Philharmonia Orchestra.  As I stated way back at the start of this review, the included Mahler 8th is a poor recording and I chose not to include it here in this look at the 10th.  There are, as we all know, several fine alternate 8th out there, so, by ALL MEANS, buy this disk for the Mahler 10th.  IT IS GREAT-----DO NOT MISS OUT!!!!!!!---Happy Listening-------Tony


title: Nearly Definative

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10-20-2013  Several factors led me to finally purchase this 3 cd set of the 5 concerti for piano and orchestra by Beethoven, here are a few of them.  Number 1,and on everyone's top spot should be the artistry of Alfred Brendel, perhaps the greatest Beethoven interpreter of the 20th Century,if not more.  I believe this is the 3rd or 4th complete cycle he's put to record and, who knows, might he do still another in the future?  I try to carefully use superlatives in my writing, however, when the subject is Brendel, I sometimes trip over my tongue, which is normal for me.  For the most part, all I have ever really known well in Beethoven has been through Brendel.  His long association with Philips Records and his annual visits to Chicago on what seems like a never ending tour has brought me clearest evidence that he must be the finest pianist of the age.  Three are other, to be sure.  Fine and wonderful musicians from every corner of the globe, especially in recent decades, but this delightful and engaging artist with a quirky sense of humor, i read, has laid down a carpet of excellence and quality that the world can only look up to, but rarely equal.  Let me put it another way, His "Moonlight,"  or his "Tempest' may not be the best on record, in one's opinion, but, if you're new to this music and want a good recording tolerant from, as I often did,you CAN NOT go wrong with Brendel.  I bet the farm on it. (l.o.L)

  Several years ago,in the 70's, pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy and Sir George Solti recoded these works with the Chicago symphony Orchestra in Orchestra Hall on London records and the result s were, as you would think, quite good..I don't as of yet, own a copy, but i may purchase one soon.  They were very good, butwerethey Definitive?  I think not, but pe rhaps these readings are.  the difference?  Well, one id the pianist.  Ashkenazy is a dramatic and passionate keyboard wizard and can play anything very well,often great, but being aBeethoven specialist, like Alfred, is a whole different ball game.  I'll just go ahead and say it.  I have NEVER heard anyone play the keys as does Brendel and I don't know what his secret is, but it is his and his alone!No ONE and I mean NO ONE has the Brendel touch and in Beethoven it makes all the difference in the world.  Try this, buy these concerti,or even dig out a 1970's performance, perhaps with Haitink and the Concertgebouw or, for that matter, and probably better yet, one of his Philips installments of the 32 Sonati  and listen with good, really good headphones.  picture the finger, their tips, contacting the keys, and nothing else.  CONCENTRATE!!! on the sound and listen, if you must, over and over to Brendel,  if you're not taken, I have no hope for you.  (L. O. L.).  Some of my Brendel Philips Sonati on lp are still on my shelves,and are very playable.  As I listen to them again after having been hibernating for 35 =years, I am still utterly dumbfounded by what I STILL hear.  WOW!!!!  And,  to make matters even more wonderful, this is a Beethoven quality, I don't hear much with his schubert.  The differences are so subtle and frankly, I'm not sure why.  I'm sure Mr.  brendel could explain.  What I wouldn't give to be a good pianist and attend aMaster Class with THE master,himself.  Well, here it is, a 3 cd box set with master class quality but no talking, just GREAT music.

  Add to that, a world class accompanist in
JAMES LEVINE, the top American orchestra, the elite CSO,and expert live micing  in orchestra Hall before a real living audience, taped in july 1983 and you have a winner.  Why I waited so long to buy this set for myself is beyond me.  I am so pleased with it, I can barely contain my enthusiasm.  Solti/Ashkenazy would be a good comparison, so would the dated Barenboim/Klemperer,and there are also terrific cycles from Perhia /Haitink on  Sony and other, to be sure.  I do
own Fleisher and Szell,and that is a closerunner-up, but no cigar.  Brendel/Levine are still the top dogs.I've yet to memorize #1 and #2, but 3 through #5 are the bow on the package.  The concluding rondo;allegro
 produces a shower of applause that I'sure went on for several minutes  I can't say I've  ever heard a more tender #3 largo as this 10:03 eloquent love song.

  Brendel and Levine hold the Chicago audience and me the listener, in the palm of their hands, like no other.
  I would guess the concerti probably was played over three nights back in July 1983 And had
 such fillers as  smaller Symphonies and some overtures of Beethoven, rather stock fare, but all part of what I think
I  can recall as a small Beethoven Festival.  Boy, you lucky folks in the Windy City.  Probably the best thing about this releases is that , as I suspect, Philips said , one day, i know, let's get Alfred Brendel and Jim Levine together in Chicago for a live Beethoven concerti cycle in,  say three nights .  Sound likes a good.  idea, hell yes!!  Does music need another
 cycle/  perhaps not, but ,AH will it sell???  That's the only part don't like, but music is business.  artistically, this move by The Dutch based electronics giant Philips, is a solid one and a winner.  i sure am pleased to have this permanent record of what I heard, or at least CLOSE to what my wife and i heard  years ago.

  When, and I stress WHEN you buy this selection, listen to the 5 works one after another so you can hear how the excitement and quality of these individual pieces grows into a substantial representation of the great Beethoven's mastery  of the concerto form.  As he made a major statement, so did these folks responsible for the object of this review.  I cannot give it more praise than I have done. it is truly a desert island selection.  Buy them today and ENJOY!!!!!  Many happy hours of listening-----------Tony.


title: it was for my sister

text: shes ok with it ..


title: Great price.

text: Arrived very quickly.  Great price. Thanks


title: Five Stars

text: love it


title: Five Stars

text: sweet


title: great cd, very fast service

text: great cd , very fast service,thank you A+A+


title: good one

text: a good one but the flipside is better its over there is better and very funny


title: all because of magulong pamilya

text: i bought this cd because of magulong pamilya. i had the 45 record when i was a kid. and now i have the cd. the first song on this cd is magulong pamilya which has the best melody of any song i ever heard. if you wanna listen to it go to you tube and type in isang magulong pamilya.it is awesome


title: Lost Songs

text: Love this CD, some of our great singers with flops that should have been hits & would have been if not for the British invasion, oh well, try it.


Got from Ebay, lots cheaper, thank goodness for i don't like it. If this is suppose to be country, it isn't. Music is too loud, singing is too loud, reminds me of Miranda, just sing it loud, terrible what they try to pass off as country now a day.


title: Nice set "BUT"  ""NOT""  Original versions.

text: Great sound, great songs,"BUT"-- These are not the original versions, these are the versions he later  re recorded for RCA. Still worth having but definitely a differnce between this and the original.


title: "WHO WOULD HAVE KNOWN? "

text: Now this was a big surprise, so glad was able to listen to samples or else would have just skipped it but have now listened to the whole CD and love every song. Why oh why didn't Jack Larson do some more recording, an amazing voice lost to the passage of time. This has my highest recommendations, songs are great and singers are  even better.


title: "Excellent- A Forgotten Star"

text: Now this is my kind of music, beautiul old country and best thing is these are the "ORIGINAL" recordings. When I play the track "Too Much To Lose" it's just like my old 45, not a re-recorded version. This is Country when Country was Country, not the crap that's out now. If you like Real country with a male singer who could tug at your heart then this is for you.


title: Ral  Donner - More than an Elvis Imitator

text:
Ral Donner hit the scene in the early 60's and blew everyone's mind with

"GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND"  for everyone thought it was Elvis under another name. He only lasted for a couple years but released some great stuff. This cd is definitely worth buying if you can find it. Three of the songs on this cd are really hard to find,  " I Got Burned" , " Run Little Linda", and " I Wish This Night Would Never End " ( this last one should have been a " HUGE" hit for it is great, but it got lost in the British Invasion ). So if you liked Elvis, then look for this one.


title: Elvis un-dubbed

text: Elvis, un-dubbed and sounding simply spectacular. However...go to Elvis.com and buy this for $29.99  ;)


title: Discover Anatoli Liadov's Enchanting Music

text: Westerners who like Russian composers usually know the giants, like Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and the Grand Master, Tchaikovsky.  But Liadov was a giant too, he just wasn't as prolific as the more famous fellows.  His music evokes essential Russian characters like Baba Yaga, the grandmother witch.  When you listen to "The Enchanted Lake," you will see that magical place, and his "Eight Russian Folk Songs" will transport you to the Age of Fairy Tales.  For heaven's sake, buy this album!  It's the only one I could find for Liadov on this site, and it's a gem!


title: More semi-heresy

text: I'm surpised no one else has reviewed this beautiful album, and I hope it will become available again, because it's my favorite Copland album.  As much as I love the Copland standards like "Appalachian Spring" and "Fanfare For The Common Man," I love the pieces on this album the best.  They're performed masterfully by David Shifrin (on the clarinet) and Gerard Schwarz (with the New York Chamber Symphony).  It's tough to find Copland's "Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra" and "Quiet City" together on the same album, and the companion pieces on this EMI recording complement them perfectly.  Grab this album wherever you can find it.


title: Gorgeous

text: This is one of the most beautiful albums ever recorded, and this CD edition has marvelous sound clarity, even better than the LP edition I still have.  I would classify it as classical rather than new age -- the pieces are based on real, ancient music, and sound just the way you would expect them to if you could climb into a time machine and visit each of these civilizations.  Perfect!  And finally back in print!  Hooray!


title: Five Stars

text: Just what I wanted.


title: Buy the American release.

text: For the extra money I paid for this CD I should have bought the American release.  I had the Vinyl LP when I had a record collection.  I am a ZZ Top fan and saw them at Freedom Hall in Louisville KY. in 1976 wearing the same stage outfits as they are on the cover of this CD.  What a show that was!!  My expectations might have been set too high but I'm not sold on the extra expense for this CD.  Don't get me wrong I'm glad to have and hear these fantastic early ZZ Top songs again, but I could have done this more economically.


title: bmielke2

text: Love this CD. These guys have so many wonderful songs. There music is so uplifting with a powerful message of hope and love.


title: THE GRAMMY'S 50 ANNIVERSARY CD

text: GLAD YOU HAD THIS AS IT IS NOT BEING PUBLISHED ANYMORE THAT I KNOW OF AND IT IS GREAT MUSIC......


title: Old school funk

text: Have this on vinyl, wanted to be more mobile


title: Five Stars

text: It was in superb condition.


title: Very happy with this cd

text: excellent recording. like the selections. If you like John Lennon this is a treat.


title: Five Stars

text: Great collection for Beatle fans


title: Good sound quality

text: A must for die hard Beatle fans. Good sound quality. Bought the entire series and happy. If you have other similar series it is the same material. I had my vinyl versions ruined so happy to get these. Great packaging.


title: Typical Dr Love

text: Remixes by the original artists in most if not all cases.


title: Beautiful sounds

text: My original CD was worn out being very old.  I've been looking for another CD for YEARS, and finally someone re-produced it.  Music is different, eerie, and lovely.  Wish these artists still made music together.


title: JYJ still the gods

text: JYJ are amazing, the music is different, but perfect like everything the gods create, voices flawless and feelings like nobody else can express, love it..


title: Timur rules!

text: Another great CD!  it just keeps getting better and better. incredible songs. blondinki & brunetki - wow. ipIT3g - another WOW. perspektivi ochen horoshi!


title: Yes

text: I got the product, everything was real.


title: Great deliver fast and great package.

text: I really liked how it came. The package was safe. It was unharmed and with all the things it said it would. I really liked how they handled and send my order


title: Awesome Music

text: We have every Music Together CD and this does not disappoint!


title: wonderful

text: what a great singer.  loved the songs. he is good looking. so glad i bought the cd  thank you for asking


title: Nice relazing music..

text: The songs are very well done and there is a nice selection..  I love the flute.. I would like to see these girls to a Cd with some other accompaniment.  I like this CD but I really have to be in the mode for it


title: THE DARK SIDE HAS WON!!

text:
I cannot find one positive thing to say about this film. Except Yoda did a great job in his fight scene.
I only went to see attack of the clones, out of respect for George, for
giving me-us- STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKE'S BACK AND THE RETURN OF THE JETI. Which were masterpieces! I can only say that I am glad to have been
around when these three episode's hit the screen.
The character's are one dimensional- a cardboard cutout would have been just as good. McGregor, and Jackson tried,but the script kept getting in the way,(what am I saying-there was no script) The film wondered all over the screen with trite dialog you wouldn't expect in a scene of 'Scobby Doo', speaking
of Doo that could sum-up this latest failure of the Star Wars trilogy. I overheard a young man leaving the theater to say" that was totally unacceptable", and I agree!! Save your money, rent one of the first three or stay home and watch
them from your collection, I will from now on as I don't intend to see episode-3
ciao yaaah69


title: Obscure yet incredibly delicious

text: CD - used exclusively for listening.  A great pleasure to the ears.


title: Music to Howl over!

text: This Howling Wolf CD is an example of old school blues and I love listening to it, Audio Is an 8 out of 10. I really had know issue with this CD!


title: just a horrible disapointment, really sucks

text: Really excruciating to sit through, I wanted to leave but the theater was packed. It ends like the cover of romance novel, fabio and all.<br />I love Vincent Cassel, but why did he decide to be in this movie!? If you want a gory french flic done well, stay in and rent "The Crimson Rivers" if you have any smarts in you.


title: Reminiscient of the original three

text: Epsiode two, attack of the clones, was a big improvement from the phantom menace.  It even reminded me of the original three back in the seventies.  I liked the fact that you get to see all of these great characters that preceded everyone in the original three.  I liked Obi-Wan's faceoff with Jenga Fett.  You also get to see Bobba Fett as a little kid - it was so cool.  The action was perhaps the best I've seen in a Star Wars movie.  It rivaled that of Return of the Jedi.  The cinematography was the best I've seen out of any star wars film.  There should have been more twists in the story though.  It was very simple and formulaic.  But there was still alot going on in the film.  There is the romance between Anakin and Padme, the fiery relationship between Anakin and his master Obi-Wan Kenobe, and also you get to see Yoda fight.  One thing that I didn't like about that was that Yoda is using a cane to help him when he walks and then all of the sudden he's doing all these flips.  It was weird to see that because they weren't consistent.  He shouldn't have had to use a cane in the first place.  Isn't he like fifty years younger than the original three episodes?  Other than these minor complaints the movie was very satisfying.  It was as close as you could get to the original three but not quite.  It was a great movie.


title: Four Great CD's

text:
For any NIN fan, these are a staple.
The Downward Spiral is one of the most influential albums of the 90's, Broken is a great ep, Further Down is a good collection of remixes, and Closer is always a good song.
Really though, you should already own these and this little sale is not all that amazing.