Peter Pan [Import]

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Average customer rating: Wonderful Recording of a True Original Great for those of us who grew up plus Broadway music lovers Perfection! Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 Newa York Cast) Peter pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording

Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 New York Cast) Moose Charlap , and Jule Styne Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Musicals | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Peter Pan (1997 Studio Cast) Peter Pan Peter Pan South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast) West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast) ASIN: B000002W5G Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Prologue
3. Tender Shepherd
4. I've Gotta Crow
5. Never Never Land
6. I'm Flying
7. Pirate Song
8. Hook's Tango
9. Indians
10. Wendy
11. Tarantella
12. I Won't Grow Up
13. Oh, My Systerious Lady
14. Ugg-A-Wugg
15. Distant Melody
16. Captain Hook's Waltz
17. Finale: I've Gotta Crow/Tender Shepherd/I Won't Grow Up/Never Never Land (Reprises)

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful Recording of a True Original.......2007-07-02

After watching a high school performance of this musical comedy, I wanted to be able to listen to these wonderful songs as originally performed. Unfortunately, my first attempt was the CD of the Disney cartoon version - which was a big disappointment on several levels. This recording was exactly as I had hoped - it captures the Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard vocals wonderfully (even 50 years later!). Although this is not my favorite musical comedy of them all, this recording helps me understand why this show played so long on Broadway and why Mary Martin will ALWAYS be Peter Pan for many people. Highly recommended!

Great for those of us who grew up plus Broadway music lovers.......2007-03-13

This cd brought back the memories of the "real" Peter Pan and Capt Hook --Mary Martin & Cyril Ritchard. The music is happy, makes you want to sing along and in general generates really good feelings

Perfection!.......2007-03-12

Every note, every lyric from Mary Martin's throat is crystal clear, exquisite perfection! If you are of a "certain" age, tears will spring to your eyes at the first notes. Never Never Land is a song that goes beyond the magic island where Peter lives to an ode to finding your place in the world and happiness.
It may be miles beyond the moon
Or right there where you stand
Just keep an open mind
And then suddenly you'll find
Never never land

The Jule Styne / Betty Comden and Adolph Green music is glorious and should be perfomed more often. What a showcase this music would be for young singers.

Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 Newa York Cast).......2007-03-08

Excellent Excellent I remember this on TV in 1955. I loved it then. I loved it now. It made wonderful memories. Mary Martin was magnificent! All baby boomers should hear this. Retro smiles!!!!

Peter pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording.......2006-08-08

I was fortunate enough to record the Mary Martin TV version of Peter Pan and want to know if it was ever put out in VHS or DVD if so where can I get it. I'd like to keep this wonderful version of Peter Pan for my grandchildren.
If you know where to get it please email me at tmcmillen@lecenter.com
Thanks
Terri

Average customer rating: It's Dreamy My Favorite Composer of all time An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!! It's simply lovely

American Dreamer: Songs of Stephen Foster; Thomas Hampson; Jay Unger; Molly Mason Thomas Hampson , Jay Ungar , Molly Mason , Garrison Keillor , David Alpher , Mark Rust , Michael Parloff , Peter Ecklund , John Kirk , Arnold Kinsella , and Stephen Foster Manufacturer: Angel Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Hampson, Thomas | ( H ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Tin Pan Alley | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music $9.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Hampson, Thomas | ( H ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Song of Home Song of America Harvest Home Civil War Classics Stephen Foster Song Book ASIN: B000002SK7 Release Date: 1992-10-20

Tracks:

1. Opening Solo Violin
2. Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
3. Hard Times Come Again No More
4. The Voice Of Bygone Days
5. Foster Favorites Medley (Ring, Ring The Banjo (1851) Oh! Susanna (1848) Camptown Races (1850)
6. Open Thy Lattice, Love (1844)
7. Beautiful Dreamer (1864)
8. That's What's The Matter
9. Old Home Medley (Old Folks at Home (1851) My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (1853)
10. Molly! Do You Love Me? (1850)
11. Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair (1851)
12. Comrades, Fill No Glass For Me (1855)
13. Dancing On The River (Nelly Bly (1850) The Glendy Burk (1860) Angelina Baker (1850)
14. My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman (1863)
15. Gentle Annie (1856)
16. Linger In Blissful Repose (1858)
17. Ah! May The Red Rose Live Alway (1850)

Customer Reviews:

It's Dreamy.......2007-01-10

This is a very wonderful recording of Stephen Foster by a master singer.
Foster's songs are of a more innocent and naive time in the American psyche, a time that it would not hurt us to remember, given the wretched brutality of American culture today (something you'll appreciate after listening to this recording).

The songs are beautifully sung by Mr. Hamspon, and the musical accompaniment with piano, mandolin, tuba, banjo, etc. seems a perfect setting for this period music. I enjoyed the musical interludes of Foster songs (not sung by Mr. Hampson), such as "Oh, Suzanna", "My Old Kentucky Home", and "Camptown Races." They are foot-stompin' and finger-snappin' good in a non-syncopated way.

Mr. Hampson's voice is so beautiful, and he has done such a wonderful job with these song's you'll just have to hear it, and when you do, tell me that you're not dreaming.

I remember reading a quote by John Phillip Sousa that decried the use of syncopation in American popular music. I never understood it until listening to this recording. The richness and intensity of American popular music (as experienced in the work of Stephen Foster) has been lost.
Everything has to be so cool today, thanks to syncopation, and "cool" really means no emotion.

If emotion is what you want, emotion is what you'll get with Stephen Foster's songs. It was a time when the death of loved ones (especially those who died in their youth) was experienced more often (see "I Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" and "Gentle Annie"). And we were not protected from the vicissitudes of fate by myriad government programs, modern medicine and universal prosperity (see "Hard Times").
Husbands and wives had their differences then, as today, (see the amusing song "My Wife is a Most Knowin' Woman") The passion of the Civil War (Foster was a Unionist),is reflected in a wonderful, fun song, "That's What's the Matter."

If you love good music, and you have heart which can be stirred, and you love your country, this is for you.

I love this recording. It has opened up the door to my "beautiful dreams," dreams of bygone days, lost love, and whatever else we pine for.

I wanted to buy several copies for my friends, but somehow I felt that the impact of this recording was so personal, that it could not be shared with others. Not that they couldn't enjoy it, but that I could not begin to share the intense emotion and reverie stirred in my heart by these beautiful songs.

My Favorite Composer of all time.......2006-08-20

Growing up playing his stuff on piano, I love the instrumentality of this CD..the violins give off that wail that he speaks of..I am not sure what it is about Stephen Foster but these verses..grab me like no other..there is so much sensitivity to it..

I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair
Born like a vapor on the summer air
I see her tripping where the bright streams play
Happy as the daisies that dance on her way
Many were the wild notes her merry voice would pour

but the violins in this CD make this CD the best out there..
FYI should you be into astrology Stephen Foster is definition of Cancer...Sun and Moon conjunct in Cancer with mars in Scorpio..i love his lyrics..almost to the point of obsession..

An American classic from Hampson that brings smiles and tears.......2006-07-17

Stephen Foster was the greatest American composer of sentimental parlor ballads--he so perfectly imitated folk songs that his music wound up turning into them. In an age of home music-making and later of families sitting around the radio, Foster's songs were a staple, often performed by crossover artists from opera like Lawrence Tibbett. Those were plump, ripe styles of singing, highly flavored by church hymns.

In this 1992 collection of 17 Foster favorites, plus a few rareties, Hampson drops the platform manner and goes straight for heartfelt sincerity. His tone is plain yet sweet, his expression intimate. He is accompanied by instruments redolent of the Victorian drawing room (guitar, fiddle, upright piano), and the mood they create brings tears and smiles of remembrance. This music is embedded in America's genes, and it's wonderful to realize that every note is still alive and throbbing with feeling.

OMG!!! More than 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars, one of the best album in the world!!!.......2005-11-25

Simply one word, WOW!!!
Thomas Hampson's voice is simply fantasic. His voice is very different from regular operatic baritone voice, very sweet, and rich. I really cant believe an operatic baritone can sing folk song like THIS good, in my opinion he sounds even better than his opera works in this album. His voice and the background music matches perfectly, the outcome would move u to tears, and u can feel the origin of MUSIC. This album really shows what the word MUSIC means, and the songs simply just ALL beautiful. I like his "beautiful dreamer", "my life is well knowing woman", and "jeanie with the light brown hair" the most. When I listen the songs I would just imagine that I am in the world of past USA, and I can feel the life of the ppl in the past USA~ just like watching an old classic movie, it would touch ur heart and fall in love with this album.

It's simply lovely.......2004-12-14

I didn't know Stephen Foster (I thought): wrong: Oh Susanna, etc, I knew, but had no idea who the composer was.

This CD is a revelation. The melodies are so beautiful, as are the poems, and Thomas Hampson just brings them to life as wonderfully as ever. I especially love "Beautiful Dreamer" - it gives me butterflies - and "My wife is a most knowing woman" - the way he makes the voices and the indignation is just brilliant. If one needed reminding what a brilliant singer Mr Hampson is - this disk does it.

Average customer rating: Amazing. This Just Soars Good instruments sound affect. Soaring score most underrated movie

Peter Pan James Newton Howard Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Film Scores | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Sing-A-Longs | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Peter Pan (Widescreen Edition) Hook: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Finding Neverland Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl Lady in the Water ASIN: B00011D190 Release Date: 2003-12-16

Tracks:

1. Main Title
2. Flying
3. Learning to Fly
4. Tinkerbell
5. Is That a Kiss?
6. Peter's Shadow
7. A Note from the Teacher
8. Build a House Around Her
9. Come Meet Father
10. Fetch Long Tom
11. Mermaids
12. Fairy Dance
13. Set Them Free
14. I Do Believe in Fairies
15. Poison
16. Please Don't Die
17. Flying Jolly Roger
18. Peter Returns

Customer Reviews:

Amazing........2007-07-12

one of my favorite soundtracks and movies. the music is enchanting and takes you to a place far away from the worries of this world. it is filled with love, hope, and the mysteries of imagination. buy this album and experience the power of music.

This Just Soars.......2007-04-08

It's no surprise that Disney is now using this recording's main theme to market its theme parks, because there has rarely been music that so gorgeously suggests the rapture of flight as a child imagines it. The entire score is by turns charming and exciting, and stands well on its own (it's terrific for long road trips, with its movement and color). A wonderful score to a wonderful film....

Good instruments sound affect........2007-01-10

Me and my daughter enjoy the cd, but the only thing was wrong i assume the cd was going to sing word instead of instrument maybe the cd will be available soon. I'm preparing the song through out the peterpan movie.

Soaring score.......2007-01-06

I saw this movie when it came out. Immediately afterward, I went to the store to get it--had to wait three weeks for it to come in, but it was totally worth it. I listened to nothing but this and the Wicked soundtrack for months. The music is so beautiful and moving--I still listen to it all the time because it's both soothing and uplifting. And it has definitely appeared on the recent Disney commercials! I was so excited when I heard it. :)

most underrated movie.......2006-12-26

Not only was this the most underrated movie of the year, but the soundtrack is now being used by Disney for their theme park commercials (and it wasnt even a Disney movie, it was Universal/ Columbia no less)

Average customer rating:

Peter Pan Original Soundtrack ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Soundtracks | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Alice in Wonderland Pinocchio Dumbo Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs Bedknobs and Broomsticks ASIN: B000E0VKYQ Release Date: 2006-09-19

Tracks:

1. Main Title (The Second Star To The Right)/All This Has Happened Before
2. The Last Night In The Nursery
3. On The Rooftop/What's A Kiss/Perturbed Pixie
4. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!
5. A Pirate's Life
6. Blast That Peter Pan/A Pirate's Life (Reprise)
7. The Legend Of The Croc/Double The Powder And The Shorten The Fuse/Follow Tinker Bell
8. Just When I Brought You A Mother/Banished
9. Following The Leader
10. Hide And Sneak/No Let 'Em Go
11. Mermaid Lagoon/Bad Day At Skull Rock
12. Plotting A Pixie's Plight
13. What Made The Red Man Red/Tinksnapped
14. Rumor Has It/Hangman's Tree
15. Big Chief Flying Eagle/I Had A Mother Once
16. Your Mother And Mine
17. Good-Bye Peter/Shanghaied
18. Captain Hook Never Breaks A Promise/The Elegant Captain Hook/A Little Surprise/Oh Tink/The Pen Or The Plank
19. No Splash/Take That/I'm A condfish/Crocbait/The Hero Of Never Land
20. Home Again/Mermaids, Pirates, And Indians/Finale (You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!)
21. Never Smile At A Crocodile
22. The Boatswain's Song

Average customer rating: Peter Pan Flying High Great revival to the Original Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan excellent studio recording of PETER PAN A great revival

Peter Pan (1997 Studio Cast) Jule Styne , and Cathy Rigby Manufacturer: Jay Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Musical Theater | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Broadway & Vocalists | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 New York Cast) Peter Pan Peter Pan (2005 Studio Cast) - Leonard Bernstein Peter Pan (2000 Television Soundtrack) The Musical Adventures Of Peter Pan (1996 Studio Compilation) ASIN: B000006C5V Release Date: 1998-02-03

Tracks:

1. Overture
2. Prologue
3. Tender Shepherd
4. I Gotta Crow
5. Neverland
6. I'm Flying
7. Pirate March
8. A Princely Scheme (Hook's Tango)
9. Wendy
10. Another Princely Scheme (Hook's Tarantella)
11. I Won't Grow Up
12. Ugh-A-Wug
13. Distant Melody
14. Hook's Waltz
15. I Gotta Crow (Reprise)
16. Finale Act Two

Amazon.com

Mary Martin created Broadway's most famous "trousers" role in the original 1954 cast of Peter Pan, but former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby has proven to be a worthy successor. She earned a Tony nomination for the 1991 revival, has toured extensively, and starred in the 2000 video production. While the classic J.M. Barrie story of the boy who wouldn't grow up has seen many musical treatments (including Leonard Bernstein in 1950 and Disney in 1953), this version is probably the best known, with such Moose Charlap-Carolyn Leigh songs as "I Gotta Crow," "Tender Shepherd," "I'm Flying," and "I Won't Grow Up," plus some additional material by Jule Styne and Betty Comden and Adolph Green (most notably "Neverland"). It's a charming family show well represented in this 1997 recording featuring Rigby along with Elisa Sagardia (Wendy) and Paul Shoeffler (Hook). --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews:

Peter Pan Flying High.......2006-03-03

My daughter is playing Wendy in a community youth theater production of Peter Pan. She has been singing along with the CD ever since we received it in the mail. Wonderful sound quality.

Great revival to the Original .......2005-03-14

Ever since I saw Cathy Rigby play Peter Pan in the 1997 production I was like Holy crap she plays this role very well!
The production on this CD is very well done! Unlike Mary Martin's CD! Mary Martin's CD is the worst Peter Pan CD I've ever heard! Cathy Rigby on the other hand she beats Mary Martin's production by a huge landslide! They also add parts of the play into the CD which makes the CD even more exciting! I saw Cathy Rigby on her final tour of Peter Pan and she was so amazing! Cathy Rigby Rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cathy Rigby Is Peter Pan.......2004-12-20

Cathy Rigby is a very good Peter Pan. Her recording surpasses Mary Martin's by a landslide! Her voice is very good on this recording. She also has a DVD out for her production of Peter Pan. Cathy Rigby Rules

excellent studio recording of PETER PAN.......2004-01-21

This 1997 studio cast album of PETER PAN is a fine testament to this magical musical. Cathy Rigby, star of various Broadway runs and national tours of the show, gives thrilling voice to the title character, and is joined by a first-rate supporting cast.

Paul Schoeffler, also a veteran of the Broadway/national tour, is a great Captain Hook, especially during "Hook's Waltz" and "Hook's Tango". Traditionally, he also portrays the bombastic Mr Darling.

Elisa Sagardia is, like Rigby and Schoeffler, reprising her role of Wendy from the Broadway/national tour. She gives a lovely weight to "Tender Shepherd" and "Distant Melody". She also has a great voice.

Rounding out the cast are Susan Lamontagne as Tiger Lily, Lee Honey-Jones as John, Myles Anderson as Michael, Helen Hobson as Mrs Darling, Anne McVey as Liza, Susan Dale as Jane, Julian Forsythe as Smee and Jenny Agutter as the Narrator. [CDJAY 1280]

A great revival.......2000-12-31

Forty some ye3ars ago I saw Peter Pan on its premier performance on television. I bought the record with Mary Martin and I have loved it. I have to say that the Cathy Rigby recording is even better. Cathy beings a youthful presence in her songs. The recording itself is technologically better. The recording includes bits from the play not on the original. And the whole recoding seems to have a life the original does not have. "I'm Flying" is exhilerating. "Once Upon a Time Long Ago" has a more haunting ache. The timing of the songs is different, but not worse than the original. Ms. Rigby is not trying to copy Ms. Martin. Which means for Peter Pan lovers there are two distinctive performances to appreciate. I wish I could see Ms. Rigby on stage. I saw Sandy Duncan some years ago and she was good. This is a great recording.

Average customer rating: heartwarrming songs Brings back dear memories

Peter Pan: Classic Soundtrack Series (1953 Film) Sammy Cahn , Sammy Fain , Frank Churchill , and Oliver Wallace Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Disney Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Peter Pan (1997 Studio Cast) Peter Pan Cinderella Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 New York Cast) Jungle Book ASIN: B000001M4B Release Date: 1998-02-03

Tracks:

1. Main Title (The Second Star To The Right)/All This Has Happend Before - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus
2. The Last Night In The Nursery - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus
3. On The Rooftop/What's A Kiss/Perturbed Pixie - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus
4. You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! - Bobby Driscoll/Kathryn Beaumont/Paul Collins/Tommy Luske/The Jud Conlon Chorus
5. A Pirate's Life - Oliver Wallace/The Jud Conlon Chorus
6. Blast That Peter Pan/A Pirate's Life (Reprise) - Oliver Wallace/The Jud Conlon Chorus
7. The Legend Of The Croc/Double The Powder And Shorten The Fuse/Follow Tinker Bell - Oliver Wallace/The Jud Conlon Chorus
8. Just When I Brought You A Mother/Banished - Oliver Wallace/The Jud Conlon Chorus
9. Following The Leader - Oliver Wallace
10. Hide And Sneak/No Let' em Go - Oliver Wallace
11. Mermaid Lagoon/Bad Day At Skull Rock - Oliver Wallace
12. Plotting A Pixie's Plight - Oliver Wallace
13. What Made The Red Man Red/Tinknapped - Oliver Wallace
14. Rumor Has It/Hangman's Tree - Oliver Wallace
15. Big Chief Flying Eagle/I Had A Mother Once - Oliver Wallace
16. Your Mother And Mine - Sammy Fain/Kathryn Beaumont
17. Good-Bye Peter/Shanghaied - Sammy Fain/Kathryn Beaumont
18. Captain Hook Never Breaks A Promise/The Elegant Captain Hook/A Little Surprise... - Hans Conried/Bill Thompson/The Jud Conlon Chorus
19. No Splash/Take That/I'm A Codfish!/Crocbait/The Hero Of Never Land - Sammy Fain/Hans Conried/Bill Thompson/The Jud Conlon Chorus
20. Home Again/Mermaids,Pirates, And Indians/Finale (You Can Fly! You Can Fly!/You .. - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus
21. Never Smile At A Crocodile (Bonus Track) - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus
22. The Boatswain's Song (Demo Recording) - Sammy Fain/The Jud Conlon Chorus

Customer Reviews:

heartwarrming songs.......2006-10-01

the songs warm your heart. They bring back memories of a time once forgotten, hidden beneath sad thoughts. Yet, once you listen to these songs, you forget all your sadness.

Brings back dear memories.......2005-09-18

I love the music to Disney's Peter Pan! The one that tugs at the heart the most for me would have to be "The Second Star to the Right." The harmonies and the certain style of the music just gets me teary. The rest of the songs are quite enjoyable too!

Average customer rating: Moderate Walking Workout

Shape Fitness Music: Walk, Vol. 2 Moderate Pace 70s Hits Various Artists Manufacturer: Peter Pan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Disco | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Exercise | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Shape Fitness Music: Walk, Vol. 1: Easy To Moderate Pace 60's Hits Shape Fitness Music: Walk, Vol. 3: High Energy Body Moves: Non-Stop Disco Workout Shape Fitness Music: Cardio, Vol. 3: Disco and Funk Shape Fitness Music - Walk 3: High Energy Hits ASIN: B000IHY9XO Release Date: 2006-12-12

Tracks:

1. Freak
2. Funkytown
3. Ring My Bell
4. Boogie Oogie Oogie
5. Bad Girls
6. Relight My Fire
7. Disco Inferno
8. Enough Is Enough
9. Let's All Chant
10. Xanadu
11. I Will Survive
12. Hustle

Customer Reviews:

Moderate Walking Workout.......2007-04-03

For "active beginners" if there is such a thing... The pace is about 126-132 bpm-suitable for treadmill or outdoor walking.

Average customer rating: Delightful Disney Music Uncle Walt would be quite honored! Fabulous CD sleeping to Disney this is a treasure

Heigh-Ho! Mozart Manufacturer: Delos Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Wedding Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Bibbidi Bobbidi Bach: More Favorite Disney Tunes Beauty and the Beat: Favorite Disney Tunes in Steelband Style Ragtime at the Magical Kingdoms O Mickey, Where Art Thou? Heigh Ho Banjo Bluegrass Salutes Favorite Disney Songs ASIN: B000000709 Release Date: 1995-06-16

Tracks:

1. Colors of the Wind in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
2. Heigh-Ho! In the Style Of - Shanghai Quartet
3. Beauty and the Beast in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
4. Second Star to the Right in the Style Of - Voices of Ascension
5. Under the Sea in the Style Of - Millar Brass Ensemble
6. I Wanna Be Like You in the Style Of - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
7. Can You Feel the Love Tonight? - English Chamber Orchestra
8. With a Smile and a Song in the Style Of - Carol Rosenberger
9. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? [In the Style Of] [In the Style Of... - English Chamber Orchestra
10. Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra
11. Main Street Electrical Parade [in the Style Of Mozart] [In the Style of - Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
12. Feed the Birds [In the Style Of...] - Shanghai Quartet
13. Little April Shower in the Style Of - Anthony Newman
14. Winnie the Pooh in the Style Of - Shanghai Quartet
15. Prince Ali in the Style Of - Millar Brass Ensemble
16. When You Wish upon a Star in the Style Of - English Chamber Orchestra

Customer Reviews:

Delightful Disney Music.......2007-03-28

These Disney tunes done in the style of classic composers are so much fun. Children and adults alike will enjoy these songs over and over.

Uncle Walt would be quite honored!.......2006-12-20

For many a baby boomer, Walt Disney meant animation. But, besides that, music played an important part in the telling of the story. So interested in music was the animator that he fashioned one of his greatest triumphs ("Fantasia") on the works of the great masters.

Well, Donald Frasier and a bevy of musicians have compiled a wonderful collection of interpretations of familiar Disney tunes, many from Walt's time, along with a few latter day compositions.

Every selection is a winner, destined to make the listener reflect and recall the films from which they came. And if one is familiar with composer whose musical style is "copied" here, the album is a treasure.

Fabulous CD.......2006-10-04

Being a classical music connoisseur, I often listen to my local public classical radio station to hear the works of the great composers of old and of today. One day the station played "Colors of the Wind" and announced it was from this CD. I fell in love with it. I am a huge Disney fan who has over 350 Disney songs on my iPod. Pretty much the only music I listen to is either classical or Disney. And having them combined makes this CD euphoria for the ears.

Each song is in the style of a different classical composer, and usually in the style of one of their more specific songs. One with a trained ear will hear chords and melodies in almost perfect similitude of the original.

I can listen to this CD over and over and never get bored. How could you be bored when you're hearing all of your favorite old Disney songs in a new exciting way?

sleeping to Disney.......2006-07-30

I am really pleased that there is a classical music cd that has only Disney classics so that I can play them for my infant daughter while she sleeps. We are big Disney fans and it's fun to play these instead of the regular classical music. They sound just like the original songs. I would have given 5 stars but I wish they would have had all instrumental music, one of the songs has a choir singing, but it still sound good.

this is a treasure.......2003-05-11

Disney music is always uplifting. Classical music is beautiful. Combine the two - and you get THIS! "Colors of the Wind" is glorious, followed by the enchanting title track. "Beauty and the Beast" is true to the romance of the original. "The Second Star to the Right" is magical. Everything is awesome - and flawless. I initially bought this because I love The Main Street Electrical Parade music, and that is definiely a highlight here - but so are ALL the other songs! This is GOOD STUFF! It is so excellent that it can be a very beneficial introduction to classical music - for kids AND adults.

Average customer rating: WORTHY RECORDING OF LITTLE-KNOWN BERNSTEIN MUSIC. A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted Eder over does it; Frey to be commended A+ for Score, D for Sloppy scholarship A beautiful and touching rendition of the classic story.

Peter Pan (2005 Studio Cast) - Leonard Bernstein Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Bernstein | Bernstein, Leonard | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Musicals | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: By Myself: The Songs of Judy Garland Sondheim Sings, Vol. 2: 1946-1960 Broadway's Lost Treasures III - The Best of the Tony Awards The Light in the Piazza (2005 Original Broadway Cast) Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Revival Cast) ASIN: B0009EZ0Q6 Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. Prelude to Act I
2. Who Am I?
3. Peter's Tears
4. Shadow Dance
5. Flight to Neverland
6. Flying Music
7. Prelude to Act II=20
8. Pirate Song
9. Croc Music
10. Wendy's Entrance
11. Build My House
12. Scene Change
13. Neverland
14. Pirate's Song - reprise
15. Lagoon Fight
16. Scene Change
17. Peter Peter
18. Indian-Pirate Fight
19. Hook's Poison
20. Tink Sick - Tink Lives!
21. Captain Hook Soliloquy
22. Prelude to Act III
23. Crew Dance
24. Plank Round
25. Fight
26. Scene Change
27. Dream With Me
28. Underscore
29. Scene Change
30. Spring Will Come Again (Bonus Track)

Amazon.com

Peter Pan is Leonard Bernstein's least-known musical--or at least chunk of a musical. Featuring four Bernstein songs, the show opened on Broadway in 1950; it starred Jean Arthur (then nearly 50!) as Peter Pan and Boris Karloff as Captain Hook. The show used Alec Wilder's underscore, but Bernstein had composed one as well, and his finally sees the light of day on this CD after years of research and restoration by conductor Alexander Frey. Was it worth the effort? Absolutely. Bernstein fans will of course crave the CD, but it should delight newcomers as well. The instrumental tracks display a wide stylistic palette, and the songs are simply wonderful. Just check out "Who Am I" (sung by Linda Eder) and you will hear a ballad as lovely as any‹cabaret singers in search of rare material would be well advised to look into it. Baritone Daniel Nardiccio does warm justice to Bernstein's near-operatic passages in "Pirate Song" and "Captain Hook's Soliloquy" (reminiscent of Candide). As if this weren't enough, the CD concludes with the wistful "Spring Will Come Again," which Bernstein had written for a possible musical adaptation of The Skin of Our Teeth. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews:

WORTHY RECORDING OF LITTLE-KNOWN BERNSTEIN MUSIC. .......2006-02-02

Please allow me to add a few comments about this recording for which Kevin Killian, Michael G. Brennan, Larry Moore and others have already written excellent reviews. I am in total agreement with most of their observations, and a say a hearty "Amen" to Mr. Moore's input regarding the lack of information in the liner notes.

This is not your ordinary PETER PAN, which you will see upon removing the disc from the case. You are now staring into the gaping jaws of a crocodile. Not nearly as popular as the Jule Styne/Betty Comden/Adolph Green version, and far darker, it's easy to understand why Bernstein's version is rarely staged. In fact, it's not really a musical, but rather a play with songs and incidental music. The handful of songs are all performed by Wendy, Captain Hook, and the pirates -- "none for Peter, none for Nana, none for John and Michael." Furthermore, two of the songs included on this recording ("Captain Hook's Soliloquy" and "Dream with Me") were dropped from the original production because they were too difficult for the stars. I guess Boris Karloff just didn't have the chops to sing Hook's "aria."

Bernstein's incidental music also never made it to Broadway, perhaps because of its complexity and challenge to the average Broadway pit orchestra. Instead, Alec Wilder wrote new incidental music for the play.

Alexander Frey conducts what is called the Amber Orchestra, which I assume is the orchestra of the Karlin Theater in Prague, Czechoslovakia, the ensemble he conducts as his "day job." Orchestra and conductor do great honor to the original orchestrations by Trude Rittman & Hershy Kay and also to the additional orchestrations of conductor Frey and others. But, like Larry Moore, I wish the liner notes would have told us who orchestrated what. (You can find all that information on archivmusic.com.) The voices were recorded in New York and later mixed with the orchestra. Broadway goes Eastern European! Similarly, not one, but two Eastern European orchestras ar heard on the recording of SHERRY: the Czech Philharmonic Chamber & the Bratislava Radio Symphony. Pity it's too costly to record orchestras in America.

When it comes to writing music for the theater, no one comes close to Leonard Bernstein. There are multiple recordings of ON THE TOWN, WONDERFUL TOWN, WEST SIDE STORY, & CANDIDE and now we have Alexander Frey and the folks at KOCH Classics to thank for resurrecting and preserving this little known Bernstein score. In addition to Bernstein's Broadway scores, I enthusiastically recommend "The White House Cantata" (assembled from the score of 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE), "The Chichester Psalms," the chamber opera "Trouble in Tahiti," and any of the fine recording of his songs.

I doubt if we'll ever see another composer who will write so beautifully for the American theatre.

A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted.......2005-11-10

A fabulous recording-beautifully sung, beautifully conducted
This world premiere recording of Leonard Bernstein's Peter Pan should win a Grammy. With a steller cast led by Broadway superstars Linda Eder and Daniel Narducci, and fabulously conducted by Alexander Frey (who restored and brought this lost masterpiece to life), this great music sings and dances for the first time. I'm absolutely enchanted and you will be as well.

Eder over does it; Frey to be commended.......2005-10-22

For those familiar with the earlier recording of Bernstein's Peter Pan (Arthur/Karloff), the release of an expanded recording of this neglected Bernstein work is a real excitement. The tracks include an indepth study by Frey of the music score, in its wholistic beauty, including even small segments of under a minute. Other works are resurrected, originally cut from the final score; why they would cut "Dream of Me" is beyond me.

However, Eder cast as Wendy does not sit well. Timid, motherly Wendy is not synonymous with big, broadway star. What should be simple songs, as they are written as well as should be sung, are instead aggrandized broadway hits. Yes, Eder has a gorgeous voice, but here a bit misplaced. I much prefer the casting of Wendy in the original recording. However, in favor of Eder, the CD is not replicating the narrative and non-music portions as did the original CD, so the work may as well be a set of disjointed pieces, not a flowing piece of arias and spoken scenes. Therefore, her portrayal of Wendy as a whole is not as crucial had there been a script to read.

The "bonus track" reinstalled an appreciation for the thematic material of the second Chichester pslam. I'm left wondering if there are other restorations to be made from the abandonded "Skin of Our Teeth" project. Here, I have no qualms with Eder's interpretation; soft, delicate, flowing.

This is certainly a hallmark in Bernstein recordings. A must for any Bernstein fan.

A+ for Score, D for Sloppy scholarship.......2005-09-04

This recording is a valuable addition to the music of Leonard Bernstein, but rather an embarassment in the scholarship of assembling a lost show. On the plus side, the music is enchanting, Linda Eder truly stunning in a mix of musical innocence and sophistication, and it is conducted and played quite well. On the negative side, Daniel Narducci's soft baritone has neither enough menace or comedy.

As to reconstructing a lost score, the scholarship is not so hot: what actually existed from the original show and orchestrations? Who orchestrated what among the new pieces? As far as that goes, what of Trude Rittmann and Hershy Kay: who orchestrated what in the original? How does the size of the orchestra on the recording compare to the original production orchestration?

On the music not used in the original, what pieces exist in full and what choices were made in completing others? The recording's notes are woefully inept.

Why use the lovely, but over-inflated, arrangement of "Dream With Me" from the 1977 BY BERNSTEIN revue at the Chelsea Theatre instead of newly orchestrating the extant song sheet? The song, written for ON THE TOWN, needs to fit the song style of PETER PAN's incidental music and not turn into a concert number. In the original production, there were only two Mermaids singing "Neverland." Why a women's chorus with a bad top soprano?

I've always felt the Bernstein score should be available for productions of the play, but this "edition" needs some thought before it's published or made available for performance.

A beautiful and touching rendition of the classic story........2005-08-27

This album is a delightful pendant to the original cast recording with Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff, with the underscoring and orchestrations the true stars of the show, as this recording is their first hearing. Most of the songs are somewhat familiar to Bernstein fans, and much of Bernstein's rendering of Barrie's story is highly sophisticated. A few texts come across as a bit preachy, especially since they are supposed to be sung by a small child, but the overall mood of sweetness tinged with melancholy is exactly right, in keeping with the more serious aspects of the original book: it's all about growing up, and how painful the experience can be. Kudos to Alexander Frey for resurrecting this neglected minor masterpiece.

Linda Eder and Daniel Narducci perform beautifully, particularly Eder (who I've never heard before! There is a touch of Barbara Cook about her). Mr. Narducci's Captain Hook is a little too bland and soft-grained for my taste -- it's difficult to top the great Boris Karloff -- but he does well in Hook's aria (yes, it's a REAL aria). This piece itself, dropped from the original show, is defeated by a text that's too good to set to music, but it's interesting to hear what Peter Pan might have sounded like if it had been turned into an opera.

There are a few surprises in this score. Some of the fight music foreshadows sections of "West Side Story," a few portions may sound a bit like "Candide," but at the point where Tink comes back to life, the orchestra plays a section of the dances from "On The Town!"

My misgivings about the recording have to do with the liner notes. Daniel Felsenfeld refers to Bernstein's "Candide" as a forgotten show. (It has been making the rounds in the opera houses of the world for quite some time, thanks to Bernstein's final revisions; it even had a Broadway revival a few years back; the original cast album is still the best rendition of the score and readily available); also, the singers who make up the chorus, infrequent as their appearances are, remain uncredited (Perhaps it's better not to know who the ladies are. The Mermaid's Song is laden with vibrato and off-pitch sopranos. The gentlemen are great as the pirates); the photos of the recording session are uncredited, and the people in them unidentified (although Bernstein himself is pretty recognizable); Mr. Felsenfeld himself is a mystery -- there is nothing in the booklet to tell us what his part of the project was, if any.

Still, this is an excellent and important recording to have. Now that Bernstein's original music has been discovered and revealed, it's time for someone to stage it!

Average customer rating: Great singing Only Roberta

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Tracks:

1. I Hate Music! (A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs): My Name Is Barbara
2. I Hate Music! (A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs): Jupiter Has Seven Moons
3. I Hate Music! (A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs): I Hate Music!
4. I Hate Music! (A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs): A Big Indian And A Little Indian
5. I Hate Music! (A Cycle Of Five Kid Songs): I'm A Person Too
6. La Bonne Cuisine (From 'La Bonne Cuisine Francaise' ): Plum Pudding
7. La Bonne Cuisine (From 'La Bonne Cuisine Francaise' ): Queues De Boef
8. La Bonne Cuisine (From 'La Bonne Cuisine Francaise' ): Tavouk Gueuksis
9. La Bonne Cuisine (From 'La Bonne Cuisine Francaise' ): Civet A Toute Vitesse
10. La Bonne Cuisine (English Version): Plum Pudding
11. La Bonne Cuisine (English Version): Ox-Tails
12. La Bonne Cuisine (English Version): Tavouk Gueunksis
13. La Bonne Cuisine (English Version): Rabbit At Top Speed
14. Two Love Songs: Extinguish My Eyes
15. Two Love Songs: When My Soul Touches Yours
16. So Pretty
17. Piccola Ser
18. Silhouette (Galilee)
19. Mass: A Simple Song
20. Mass: I Go On
21. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Take Care Of This House
22. Candide: It Must Be So
23. Candide: Candide's Lament
24. Peter Pan: My House
25. Peter Pan: Peter, Peter
26. Peter Pan: Who Am I?
27. Peter Pan: Never-Land

Customer Reviews:

Great singing.......2006-03-01

Roberta Alexander is stunning in these songs of Bernstein. Her voice simply shimmers. Really beautiful.

Only Roberta.......2003-12-02

Roberta Alexander is right on top of this recording. She has a beautiful and strong voice, but more importantly, she has perfect command of the music and idiom of these and Ives' songs. The emotional range of the songs is very wide, ranging from playful to thoughtful to sorrowful but she makes all of them sound very natural.

The Five Kid Songs express the imagination of a small child (Jupiter has seven moons, or is it nine? Saturn has a million billion trillion sixty-nine) and it would be very easy to perform them in a childish way, talking down as many adults do - the composer expressly stated that they should not be performed this way and in fact Alexander sings them with a perfectly natural innocence. La Bonne Cuisine is sung with a strong drive, and although it's hard to imagine what anyone should do with excerpts from a cooking book it's still compelling music. The other songs are also nice but not as memorable - as for the songs from Candide, they are beautiful but get the complete recording on Deutsche Grammophon, directed by Bernstein himself (there are two; I prefer the live version, ASIN B000001GD2).

Tan Crone does more than just provide a background; she adds her own interpretation on piano to add even more feeling to the music.

Bernstein's songs do not have the depth of Ives', but this is still a very nice collection. I will have to check out the Barber and Copland recordings on the same label as well.

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