Noire [Import]

1. Les Notes

2. Oublie Le Mal

3. 10 Ans

4. Le Jour

5. Qui Se Ressemble

6. Vous Les Mentours

7. L'etoile

8. Parents

9. Dans Les Mains

10. L'ecriture

11. Rancune

12. Complexe

13. Vous Les Mentours

14. Les Notes

Noire,Natali Lorio,Wea,World Music

Average customer rating: Seductive, Beautifully Dark and Haunting Ferry good. HIs Best! Good, but I expected a little more . . . Ferry, the painter

Bête Noire Bryan Ferry Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Boys and Girls Mamouna Avalon Taxi Frantic ASIN: B00002DEB9 Release Date: 2002-01-14

Tracks:

1. Limbo
2. Kiss and Tell
3. New Town
4. Day and Night
5. Zamba
6. Right Stuff
7. Seven Deadly Sins
8. Name of the Game
9. Bete Noir

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Roxy Master's Second Post Roxy Solo Album. Produced with Former Madonna Helmsman Patrick Leonard. Includes the Hits 'kiss and Tell' (From the Film Bright Lights Big City'), 'limbo' and 'the Right Stuff'.

Customer Reviews:

Seductive, Beautifully Dark and Haunting.......2007-01-18

I had first heard of Bryan Ferry as the front man of Roxy Music and I simply adored the song "Avalon." I had really liked Ferry's voice and I loved the songs "Slave to Love" and "Don't Stop the Dance" from the Boys and Girls album but at that point had not purchased his music. When the "Limbo" video first aired on MTV back 1987, I simply fell in love with his voice and style and the song itself. Shortly after, the video for "Kiss and Tell" was released and I loved that song even more than "Limbo." Even then I still had not purchased any of his music or Roxy Music for that matter.

Those songs lingered with me for years until I finally bought the Bete Noire CD in 2000.

This album is a masterpiece. All the songs are rich yet beautifully dark and haunting. This album's production utilizes some of the best producers, musicians and session singers of the era. The guitar riffs and bass lines on this album are fantastic. I don't think there is any song on this album that I don't like.

The sound is timeless and Ferry's voice, along with the backing vocalists is very soulful. When I'm in a mood to lay back in relax, I put on this CD. It's perfect for listening to when you are inside on a rainy day having, your favorite glass of wine.

If you have never heard this album or any of Bryan Ferry's songs, you will not be disappointed. Bete Noire is top-notch and worth buying.

Ferry good........2006-08-21

Bryan Ferry might be an aquired taste, but there's no doubt he's made some classic tunes, especially with Roxy Music. Of his solo work I've come to like this the best. "Boys And Girls" is also excellent, and has a few hits of it's own. I find this album as a whole to be very good, but I'll admit it's "Limbo" and "Kiss And Tell" that make it so damn great. Few songs are as catchy and emotionally pleasing, to me anyway. Come to think of it, I'm shocked he hasn't had a proper solo collection out yet. Still, this is one of the first albums to get of his, if not the first. There's a reason I have it on CD, cassette, and vinyl.

HIs Best!.......2006-05-28

The epitome of the genre and his crowning achievement. Every song is a winner.

Good, but I expected a little more . . ........2006-05-01

I've always admired Ferry's style, he's suave, smooth, and sort of "dark" in some ways; however, Bete Noir isn't as spooky and interesting as I thought it would be. Aside from a few songs like "Limbo," "Kiss and Tell," and I think "New Town," there aren't really any stand-out tracks.

I would have liked to hear more moody and introspectiveness on this cd, more of the dark glamour that we hear on "Limbo," for example. Perhaps that is too much to ask, but that's just my personal opinion!

(By the way, the video for "Limbo" is great. I need to find this!)

Ferry, the painter.......2006-02-14

Bryan Ferry is hidden by his own shadow. He was the front man for Roxy Music and remains so whenever the band regroups. But he has been issuing solo albums since almost the beginning of his Roxy career. Initially, these were seen as side projects, where he could explore his love of (and peculiar take on) pop standards, or subsequently where he could present more American-style rock songs and arrangements.

When Roxy Music finally drifted off into Avalon, Ferry made solo albums that continued to pursue diverse agendas -- sometimes rocking, sometimes Roxy-like, sometimes paying tribute to the compositions of songwriters from Richard Rodgers to Bob Dylan.

1987's "Bete Noire," all of it written or co-written by Ferry, is one that deserves much more attention, but it is among the hardest to find. Even the major downloading services don't include it. It is seen as a follow-up to "Boys and Girls," but it is, in my view, far superior. Its more muscular rhythms recall the hard-disco sound he brought to Roxy Music with "Love is the Drug" and the album "Manifesto." But the dreaminess of the melodies and musical arrangements resemble "Avalon"'s excursions into shimmmering romanticism and spacy fantasies. The two strands tied together are irresistable.

Ferry's best music is assembled carefully, like an abstract painting, everything for effect, mood and color. Here, even the lyrics have a curiously atmospheric quality, in which cliches and movie titles swirl around to convey feelings without drawing you in to a particular story or point of view. This is music of the night, and music of nights recollected half in dreams.

The title cut, the final song on the album, connects the electronic, amplified music that dominates the previous eight songs with a much longer tradition of late-night romantic dreaminess. The instrumentation on this one song is mostly accordions, violins and percussion, and you could imagine hearing this played in a French or Italian cafe. What he demonstrates is that, the music has changed in our era, but only on the surface, new instruments in service of the old heartbreaks, nostalgia and imaginined worlds far away.

Average customer rating: The Boys and Girls of Avalon go for a night of Dancing An Excellent Album .........perfect................................. This is CD at it's Finest One of Bryan's Best

Bête Noire Bryan Ferry Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | Classic Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Boys and Girls Taxi Frantic Roxy Music - Street Life: 20 Greatest Hits Mamouna ASIN: B000002LC4 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Limbo
2. Kiss And Tell
3. New Town
4. Day For Night
5. Zamba
6. The Right Stuff
7. Seven Deadly Sins
8. The Name Of The Game
9. Bete Noire

Customer Reviews:

The Boys and Girls of Avalon go for a night of Dancing.......2004-06-28

Having tasted more American Success with "Avalon" and "Boys and Girls" than in his entire career, Bryan Ferry went for broke with 1987's "Bete Noir." He opted for Patrick Leonard as producer, and while that might have shocked many at the time, as Leonard's best known client was Madonna, it added a dance floor edge to parts of "Bete Noir" that actually enhanced Ferry's romantic detachment as opposed to nullifying it. (Leonard's eventual Toy/3rd Matinee band projects show he was deeper than many folks originally may have thought. Check out their albums on Amazon.)

Those extra measures of bass and rhythm gave Ferry his sole American solo hit with "Kiss and Tell," which was featured in the Michael J. Fox and Keifer Sutherland (pre "24" years) movie adaptation of "Bright Lights, Big City." "The Right Stuff" and "Limbo" also were possessed of a higher energy than prior Ferry solo albums, but that didn't mean Ferry had completely lost his flair for the melancholic. "Day For Night" and "The Name Of The Game" depict the artist as tortured soul, a familiar character in Ferry's repertoire.

The collaborators were also a who's who of the time. Johnny Marr of The Smiths co-wrote "The Right Stuff" and spiked it with a great lead line; David Gilmour, Andy Newmark and Guy Pratt also put in appearances. This mix of musicians (with emphasis on MUSICAL) and Ferry's willingness to make an album concurrent with the times via the linkup with Leonard make "Bete Noir" the best of his solo albums. This album, "Boys and Girls" and "Avalon" make a great trilogy -- get them all.

An Excellent Album.......2003-09-02

I am still listening to this album more than 15 years after I first heard it. This album, and Avalon, are the best albums in the Ferry/Roxy Music canon. Unlike other Ferry/Roxy Music albums which have consisted of maybe one or two mind-blowingly great songs along with 8-9 mediocre ones, this album is consistent. It has great uptempo songs such as "Kiss and Tell" and "Seven Deadly Sins" "Day for Night" and "Limbo", and very good slow melodies such as "The Name of the Game" and the hauting "Zamba".

There is obviously some sort of cinema/film theme at work in this album - cinematic references are peppered throughout. "Seven Deadly Sins", "The Right Stuff", and "Day For Night" are all film titles. The refrain in "The Right Stuff" references "The Chimes at Midnight", a 1965 Orson Welles film. "Kiss and Tell" was the theme to the 1988 film "Bright Lights, Big City". Finally, the album title suggests film noir. I confess I have no idea what the point of the cinematic references may be, but they serve as an interesting footnote to what should be considered a classic album.

.........perfect........................................2003-05-15

When I was going through reviews of this album, the word "perfect" kept popping up amongst the more erudite music minds of the press. A dubious distinction indeed, but after several listenings you realize that Ferry's Noire has crossed that line into "perfect." While his subsequent work has been inconsistent, you can take heart that Bryan has a peak in his career to fall back upon. Go buy this CD and enjoy the perfection.

This is CD at it's Finest.......2003-02-22

Anyone reading this is most likely familiar with "The Master".Perhaps your collection is incomplete.Well,without this masterpiece of listening heaven it is just that.
Patrick Leonard deserves much credit here as co-writer/producer of this gorgeous work, as does Yanick Etienne,David Gilmore and an All-Star group of magnificent players.
My congratulations to all the virtuoso members of this ultra-fine creation.

One of Bryan's Best.......2002-12-20

When Roxy Music split in 1983, Bryan Ferry made the decision to go forward with the style of music they had so perfected with the landmark "Avalon" album in 1982. First, he did "Boys and Girls," in 1985, which was decent, but I find it to be too slow and tranquil at times. In 1987, he got it entirely right with this album.
Sure there are slower moments, but there are some terrific upbeat, dance moments here. What makes this album work is its diversity. Bryan and company toy with various clubby dance rhythms on tracks like Limbo, Kiss and Tell, and the Right Stuff; they slow things down considerably with the epic and powerful "Name of the Game," and even close the entire album out with the title track, a fun and clever tango.
Also worth mentioning here is Ferry's terrific lyrics. THough a musician and singer of the highest regard, his lyrics have never been as deep and clever as many of his contemporaries. That is not the case here. "Bete Noire" is filled with some of Ferry's finest wordplay.
Though it's 15 years old now, this album still sounds fresh and vibrant. It reflects Bryan Ferry at what was somewhat of a creative peak in the 80's.

Average customer rating: Rum-Rum Rumble rumble Sublime versions and top class recordings. Deceptive Durufle Duruflés Requiem and original intentions.

Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de Jean Racine; Duruflé: Requiem; Quatre Motets Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Duruflé, Maurice | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Fauré, Gabriel | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) / Auger, Stilwell, Atlanta SO, Robert Shaw Fauré · Duruflé - Requiem / J. Blegen · J. Morris · Atlanta SO · Shaw ASIN: B00000420Y Release Date: 1995-06-13

Tracks:

1. Requiem, Op. 48: Introit - Kyrie - Various Artists
2. Requiem, Op. 48: Offertoire - Various Artists
3. Requiem, Op. 48: III. Sanctus - Various Artists
4. Requiem, Op. 48: IV. Pie Jesu - Various Artists
5. Requiem, Op. 48: V. Agnus Dei - Various Artists
6. Requiem, Op. 48: VI. Libera me - Various Artists
7. Requiem, Op. 48: VII. In paradisum - Various Artists
8. Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 - Various Artists
9. Messe basse: : I. Kyrie - Various Artists
10. Messe basse: Sanctus - Various Artists
11. Messe basse: Benedictus - Various Artists
12. Messe basse: Agnus Dei - Various Artists
13. G Major: Kyrie - Various Artists
14. G Major: Gloria - Francis Poulenc
15. G Major: Sanctus - Francis Poulenc
16. G Major: Benedictus - Francis Poulenc
17. G Major: Agnus Dei - Francis Poulenc
18. Salve Regina - Francis Poulenc

Tracks:

1. Requiem: Introit--Kyrie - Faure/Durufle
2. Requiem: Domine Jesu Christe - Faure/Durufle
3. Requiem: Sanctus - Faure/Durufle
4. Requiem: Pie Jesu - Faure/Durufle
5. Requiem: Agnus Dei - Faure/Durufle
6. Requiem: Lux Aeterna - Faure/Durufle
7. Requiem: Libera me - Faure/Durufle
8. Requiem: In Paradisum - Faure/Durufle
9. Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain - Faure/Durufle
10. Quatre Motets: Ubi caritas et amor - Faure/Durufle
11. Quatre Motets: Tota pulchra es - Faure/Durufle
12. Quatre Motets: Tu es Petrus - Faure/Durufle
13. Quatre Motets: Tantum ergo Sacramentum - Faure/Durufle
14. Litanies a la Vierge Noire - Faure/Durufle
15. Exultate Deo - Faure/Durufle

Customer Reviews:

Rum-Rum.......2007-03-14

Any review of this recording that fails to mention the distracting background noise makes one wonder how closely the reviewer was listening. Throughout the Duruflé Requiem, there is a consistent noise that sounds like a needle stuck in a grove at the end of an old LP: "rum-rum, rum-rum, rum-rum..." While it is possible one might not hear it played back through speakers, it is impossible to miss through headphones.

As to the performance, I prefer the austere sound of the organ against the ethereal sounds of the chorus. My only reservation lies with the boy tremble, whose vocal output is unsteady, almost nervous sounding, as though he were being forced to sing. I don't think an idea performance with organ accompaniment exists, but this performance comes as close as any I have heard.

Rumble rumble.......2006-10-15

I just got this CD a few weeks ago because I wanted both the Faure and the Durufle. I'm not going to pick on anybody for supposed intonation problems (I listen to Bob Dylan and Ryan Adams regularly) or anything else. I really like the recordings of every piece I've heard on this CD set.

But has anybody else noticed some pretty major traffic noises during the Durufle Quatre Motets, specificall track 11? It sounds like they recorded next to a race track.

Outside of that, I think this set is a worthwhile investment.

Sublime versions and top class recordings........2006-09-03

This version of Durufle's Requiem is just mesmerizing, I have the Telarc, which is great... until you listen to this one.
Sound quality is top notch too for a seventies recording.

Deceptive Durufle.......2003-11-27

If one were to listen solely to the Faure Requiem and some of the other choral works on this 2 CD compilation, this would be a decent recording of great French choral music. However, as someone looking for a good recording of the Durufle, I was highly disappointed. Not only is the recording simply an organ reduction of full score, but the quality of singing was below what one would expect to find on a CD from a major label. Marked by under-developed techniques and inconsistencies in pitch, the recording is good if you need to learn the work in a hurry, but little else. If you're in the market for a Faure recording, this will do the job and you can preview the Durufle, but look elsewhere for a serious recording of such a rich work.

Duruflés Requiem and original intentions........2003-02-02

Both Duruflé and Fauré wrote their Requiems for choir and organ first. The orchestrations were afterthoughts bending to the excesses of public appeal and publishers demands. Both works can be wonderful with orchestra and on this CD you will find, as usual with St. Martin in the Fields, a beautiful recording of the Fauré Requem with orchestra. However, on this CD you will find the Duruflé Requiem in the original choir and organ only version, and this, in my opinion, is not only the preferable way to listen to the work - in it's original casting, but this performance is the best around with a most lush and complex tone from the trebles in the boy choir.

Average customer rating: I Will Nevertheless Give It Another Go

Poulenc: Sacred & Secular Choral Works Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music A Cappella | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B0001RVQLE Release Date: 2004-08-10

Tracks:

1. Exultate Deo, Motet pour Les Fetes Solennelles
2. Litanies A La Vierge Noire - Marie-Claire Alain
3. No.1 Timor Et Tremor
4. No.2 Vinea Mea Electa
5. No.3 Tenebrae Factae Sunt
6. No.4 Tristis Est Anima Mea
7. Salve Regina
8. O Jesu
9. O Proles
10. Laus Regi
11. Si Quaeris
12. Ave Verum Corpus, Motet A 3 Voix De Femmes
13. No.1 O Magnum Mysterium
14. No.2 Quem Vidistis
15. No.3 Videntes Stellam
16. No.4 Hodie Christus natus Est

Tracks:

1. No.1 La Blance Neige
2. No.2 A Peine Defiguree
3. No.3 Par Une Nuit Nouvelle
4. No.4 Tous Les Droits
5. No.5 Belle Et Ressemblante
6. No.6 Marie
7. No.7 Luire
8. De Tous Les Printemps Du Monde
9. En Chantant Les Servantes S'Elancent
10. Aussi Bas Que Le Silence
11. Toi Ma Patience
12. Du Ciel Et Des Planetes
13. Le Jour M'etone Et La Nuit Me Fait Peur
14. La Menace Sous Le Ciel Rouge
15. Liberte
16. No.1 Margoton Va-T-A L'eau
17. No.2 La Belle Se Sied Au Pied De La Tour
18. No.3 Pilons L'orge
19. No.4 Clic, Clac, Dansez Sabots
20. No.5 C'est La P'tit Fill' Du Prince
21. No.6 La Belle Si Nous Etions
22. No.7 Ah! Mon Beau Laboureur
23. No.8 Les Tisserands
24. Des Grandes Cuillers De Neige
25. La Bonne Neige
26. Bois Meurtri
27. La Nuit, Le Froid, La Solitude
28. Chanson A Boire

Customer Reviews:

I Will Nevertheless Give It Another Go.......2005-07-04

Needless to say, I haven't given this album enough time. Actually, I haven't given Poulenc or even French music as a whole enough time. The first time I heard these two CDs, I thought I must have the two mixed up as the secular sounds more sacred to my ears whereas the secular is sacred enough! Didn't Tortelier, one of the century's greatest cellists, advised his students to stay away from French music albeit the reason given was the audience like Mozart and Beethoven more? Perhaps I also fall within this category...

There is nothing wrong with the recording it is actually quite nice. But the voices are all quite outstanding from the rest! I have heard some foreigners singing Poulenc quite differently. Perhaps the latter was not exactly a French reading, for I have heard some French Baroque music by Couperin and some French organ music that sound like them. Or, perhaps I have been listening to too much Brahms' chorales lately getting too serious in terms of taste. And in any event, despite my love for Debussy, Ravel, Faure... I don't know what to make out of this album-- at least not as yet. Perhaps I just need to give them some more time: this is a French choir singing their own music after all!

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Mikio Hoshido Plays Akira Miyoshi Manufacturer: Camerata ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001ZHS Release Date: 1995-09-18

Tracks:

1. Constellation Noire
2. Protase 'de Loin a Rien'
3. 5 Poems: Champs
4. 5 Poems: Sein
5. 5 Poems: Vers la fin d'Ete
6. 5 Poems: Mandarine
7. 5 Poems: En Fuite
8. 'Epitase' en 'Ixtacchihuatl'

Average customer rating: Poulenc's Choral Masterpieces

Poulenc: Gloria, Stabat Mater, Litanies à la Vierge noire Manufacturer: Virgin Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004YU7S Release Date: 2001-05-08

Tracks:

1. Gloria: I. Gloria
2. Gloria: II. Laudamus Te
3. Gloria: III. Domine Deus
4. Gloria: IV. Domine Fili Unigenite
5. Gloria: V. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
6. Gloria: VI. Qui Sedes
7. Stabat Mater: I. Stabat Mater Dolorosa
8. Stabat Mater: II. Cujus Animam Gementem
9. Stabat Mater: III. O Quam Tristis
10. Stabat Mater: IV. Quae Moerebat
11. Stabat Mater: V. Quis Est Homo
12. Stabat Mater: VI. Vidit Suum
13. Stabat Mater: VII. Eja Mater
14. Stabat Mater: VIII. Fac Ut Ardeat
15. Stabat Mater: IX. Sancta Mater
16. Stabat Mater: X. Fac Ut Portem
17. Stabat Mater: XI. Inflammatus Et Accensus
18. Stabat Mater: XII. Quando Corpus
19. Litanies A La Vierge Noire: Notre-Dame De Rocamadour

Customer Reviews:

Poulenc's Choral Masterpieces.......2005-12-20

Francis Poulenc's sacred choral music is saturated in "Catholic worldliness", a state of mind where there is no real division between sacred and profane. Here, rather than being whisked away to a rarefied heavenly never-never land, the listener lives exuberantly in the "world" with all its earthiness. I believe this is the quality which some critics of Poulenc's time mistook for vulgarity when they heard the roguish yet strangely consistent mixture of asceticism and perfumed sweetness, austerity and debonair wit that make up the woof and warp of his music.

Poulenc's two big chorus-and-orchestra works from the 1950's represent the apex of his choral output. The exuberant GLORIA (1959) seems to sum up the essence of Poulenc - bright, jewel-like ideas expressed with crystaline clarity, simplicity, and directness. For me, the ideal recording of this piece is the one on Deutsche Grammophon with Seiji Ozawa, which dances with vitality and color. Hickox and his forces do a fine enough job here, but they don't take fire the way the Osawa version does; the lack of a bright acoustic doesn't help. STABAT MATER (1950) builds a compelling dramatic structure out of a series of miniature "altarpieces" which run the expressive gamut from stoic monumentality to childlike faith. Poulenc's chaste "white" style, deeply influenced by neoclassical Stravinsky, is at its most effective and powerful here. The orchestra and chorus are superb here, shaping the piece forcefully in terms of pacing and dynamics and creating a dramatic, emotional experience. Soprano Catherine Dubosc (who can be heard singing the role of Blanche in Poulenc's opera DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES on EMI) floats her ethereal solos in both the GLORIA and the STABAT with pure, white tone. Hers is a somewhat unconventional voice, with a quality of human frailty. LITANIES A LA VIERGE NOIRE, an intense supplicatory prayer for women's chorus, is a seminal work in Poulenc's output as it marks his return to the Catholic faith around 1935. The version with strings and percussion accompaniment presented here (there is also a version with organ accompaniment) is austere, mysterious, and moving. All in all, this is a worthy collection of Poulenc choral masterpieces.

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Pounding the Box Manufacturer: Lesbian Snake Charmers Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007Y3KGK

Product Description

"Pounding The Box" released by San Francisco Bay Area underground artist Jai J. Noire. Recorded on a 4 track and in a friend's living room. Truly iconoclastic, she writes with playful dark humor in "Jackson Pollack," ham fisted fury in "Lucky Me," and tenderness in "Strip and Dance." Pin pointing Noire's musical style is like trying to hit the proverbial moving target, and yet, you always know that it's a Jai J. Noire song; whispering or howling, the voice is distinctive and haunting, her guitar style savage and beautiful; lyrically free from cliché, the images sharp and arresting: "I am the gauze she tears to cover her wounds/So please avert your eyes/she's drawing smiling faces on her scars up in her room/ so please just go and wave bye-bye." (from "Thistles" copyright 1997, Jai Jai Noire, published by Angiron Music, ASCAP, all rights reserved, used by permission.) "I watched her grind and sway on snakeskin heels/my little double of Jayne Mansfield/ holding out for cash with a strip & dance/December breasts rubbed raw on someone's wool pants" (from "Strip & Dance" copyright 1995, Jai J. Noire, published by Angiron Music, ASCAP, all rights reserved, used by permission.) "Pounding The Box" contains the songs: Little Pill * Thistles * Red Rose Petals * Strip & Dance * Lucky Me * Montreal * Passing * Jackson Pollack Allez! (Go!) * Fingerprint * Transmission * Strawberry Girl

Average customer rating: Exclusively for fans of French pop music

Love Me Please Love Me Boule Noire Manufacturer: Unidisc Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000AR0J Release Date: 1996-03-01

Tracks:

1. Aimer d'Amour
2. Anges, Californie
3. Et Je
4. Constance
5. Combien de Temps
6. Fleur de Peau
7. Douce Musique
8. Barbados Girl [Version Francaise]
9. Dansons, C'Es Bon!
10. Tu M'Habitais
11. Il Me Faut une Femme
12. J'Ai Besion d'Amour
13. Haiti
14. Veux-Tu Danser
15. On Est Si Bien
16. Discomania
17. Love Me, Please Love Me

Customer Reviews:

Exclusively for fans of French pop music.......2000-11-10

I am amazed you've got this one! "Aimer D'Amour" is really good and the rest is OK. The beat overall is cool.

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Average customer rating: Nice, but... Clearly performed, good music. Glorious!

Poulenc: Gloria, etc. Manufacturer: Collegium ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Poulenc | Poulenc, Francis | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000031H9 Release Date: 1993-09-11

Tracks:

1. Gloria
2. Gloria: Laudamus te
3. Gloria: Domine Deus
4. Gloria: Domine Fili unigenite
5. Gloria: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
6. Gloria: Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
7. Salve Regina
8. Ave verum corpus
9. Exultate Deo
10. Litanies a la Vierge Noire
11. Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence: I. Timor et tremor
12. Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence: II. Vinea mea electa
13. Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence: III. Tenebrae factae sunt
14. Quatre Motets pour un temps de penitence: IV. Tristis est anima mea
15. Quatre motets pour le temps de noel: I. O magnum mysterium
16. Quatre motets pour le temps de noel: II. Quem vidistis pastores dicite
17. Quatre motets pour le temps de noel: III. Videntes stellam
18. Quatre motets pour le temps de noel: IV. Hodie Christus natus est

Customer Reviews:

Nice, but..........2001-01-04

This is a good interpretation of Poulenc's Gloria but by no means it beats Hickox's recorded version of this famous work:the "andamento"!...

Clearly performed, good music........2000-06-21

Anyone want to get aquainted with Poulenc's choral music should buy this CD. You will find some unexpectedly neat,good music in it. Here they are performed in a quite clear, correct atmosphere and interpretation. Rutter and Cambridge singers handle these good music very well. The record gets a bit over-echoed, but it is still ok.

Glorious!.......1999-12-21

The Poulance Gloria is world class music at its best and the Rutter recording is the best rendition I've ever heard.

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