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elf queen lore is a record label that distributes world beat music, sounds that are a jumbalya of trobical beats.

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Troubador,Sundance,Elf Queen Records,A musical mix of reggae & world beat flavor, with a dash of positive lyrics, a tropical sound, all cooked up with much love.

Average customer rating: Savall family extravaganza

Du temps & de l'instant Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Marais | Marais, Marin | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Lux Feminae Orient - Occident Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002) Music In Europe 1550-1650 Harmonie Universelle ASIN: B0009JOMDI Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. Cantiga De Amigo V: Quantas Sabedes Amare
2. Nastaran
3. Noumui, Noumi Yaladatii
4. Variations Sur O Sonjal
5. La Canco Del Lladre
6. Romanesca & Pasamezzo
7. La Salve
8. Paxarico Tu Te Llamas
9. Apo Xeno Meros
10. Ghazali Tal Jahri
11. Durme, Hermosa Donzella
12. Tarantela D'apres
13. Jaroslaw
14. Canarios
15. Fantasiant
16. Muzettes I-II (IV.28.29)
17. El Cant Dels Aucells
18. Diferencias Sobre La Guaracha
19. Sentirete Una Canzonetta

Customer Reviews:

Savall family extravaganza.......2006-01-27

Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras are the two giants in the Catalan early music scene. On this album they enlist the help of percussionist Pedro Estevan and their two children to produce some truly exceptional music. Jordi Savall, the most famous family member, almost fades into the background, although he is obviously the rock that anchors the album. His playing is superb, and it seems as though it was most likely him who chose the excellent repertoire. Figueras, like wine, is only improving with age. Also like wine, however, she's a bit of an acquired taste; I am a huge fan of straight tone singing and even I took a while to get used to her bizarre, raw sound. It's worth it, however, as she is one of the most intriguing singers of this era.

Daughter Arianna is a world-class artist in her own right. Like her father, she is multi-talented; she sings, plays the harp, and composes (her contribution to this album, "La Salve," is beautiful and affecting, but some of the selections on her own solo album "Bella Terra" are far superior). Like her mother, her voice is haunting and beautiful, more polished than the elder woman but slightly less interesting. She sounds particularly lovely in the background of the first track. Ferran Savall also lends his voice to the album, although his singing is far less classical sounding, which may be a plus to some listeners. "Noumi, Noumi, Yaladatii," which Figueras has previously recorded as a solo, includes a vocalise from Ferran astonishing in its power, although his one solo on this album, "La Canco Del Lladre," is the least impressive track, as his voice can be irritating after a while and the song itself is repetitive and overlong.

The instrumental tracks are universally excellent. Jordi Savall is one of the world's best viola da gamba players and this album proves that he is still at the top of his game. Arianna's virtuosic harp solo is one of the album's highlights; her playing is less restrained and more visceral than most harpists. Pedro Estevan seems to have very little to do, but a little goes a long way with this music.

I sincerely hope that this will not be the last album to feature the Savall-Figueras family together. These five musicians have produced an album of surreal beauty, not to be missed.

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Troubadours: Minnesänger and Other Courtly Arts Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music $9.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Le siècle de l'Ars nova: A Revolution in the Late Middle Ages Ars subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance Century 1/Various L'émergence de la musique instrumentale A History of Music - Century (volume) 5 - La Naissance de la Polyphonie (The Birth of Polyphony) ASIN: B000A6OC4Y Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. A L'entrada Del Temps Clar (Anonyme Fin XIIe Siecle) - Unlisted
2. Vida - Rene Clemencic
3. Sitot Me Soi - Clemencic Consort
4. Volez Vous Que Je Vous Chant (Anonyme) - Unlisted
5. Efforcier M'estuet Ma Voiz (Instrumental) - Julian Podger
6. Conduit : Hyer Matin A L'enjornee - Julian Podger
7. Motet : Hyer Matin/Benedicamus Domino - Julian Podger
8. Ja Pour Yver - Julian Podger
9. Deus Est Ensi Conme Li Pellicanz - Andrew Lawrence-King
10. Entre Adan Et Anikel/Chies Bien Seans - Paul Hillier
11. Bailemos Nos Ja Todas Tres CSM 116 (Texte : Airas Nunez) - Unlisted
12. Todos Los Santos CSM 15 (Instrumental) - Unlisted
13. Quantas Sabedes Amar (Cantigas De Amigo) - The Dufay Collective
14. Sic An, Guldin Huon! - Unlisted
15. Ich Lobe Ein Wip (Instrumental) - Unlisted
16. Owe Dirre Not - The Newberry Consort
17. Bacche, Bene Venies (CB 200) - Clemencic Consort
18. Deduc Syon Uberrimas (CB 34) - Clemencic Consort

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Table of Plenty John Michael Talbot Manufacturer: Troubador for Lord, Music Services Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: The John Michael Talbot Collection: A Library Of 35 Favorite Songs City of GOD Songs for Worship, Vols. 1 & 2 Birth of Jesus: A Celebration of Christmas Simple Heart ASIN: B000BWO49A

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Songs of worship form John Michael Talbot.

Average customer rating: The Light of Women's Songs A family project? EXTRAORDINARY!!

Lux Feminae Montserrat Figueras , Tina Aagaard , and Arianna Savall Manufacturer: Alia Vox Spain ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Figueras, Montserrat | ( F ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Orient - Occident Du temps & de l'instant Ninna Nanna: Lullabies (1500-2002) Diáspora Sefardí Bella Terra ASIN: B000CBSVXU Release Date: 2006-06-13

Tracks:

1. O Lux: Prosa - Flavit Auster
2. I. Femina Antiqua: Sibila Latina
3. II. Femina Nova: Jarcha - Gar Kom Lebare
4. II. Femina Nova: Canco - Estat Ai En Greu Cossirier
5. III. Femina Ludica: Villancet - Soleta So Jo Aci
6. III. Femina Ludica: Villancico - Nina Y Vina
7. III. Femina Ludica: Villancico - Yo Me soy La Morenica
8. IV. Femina Mistica: Alma, Buscarte has En Mi
9. V. Femina Amans: Hal Sabil Likhalwa
10. V. Femina Amans: Cantiga D'Amigo - Ondas Do Mar
11. VI. Femina Mater: Villancet - Soleta I Verge Estich
12. VI. Femina Mater: Nana - Aurtxo Txikia Negarrez
13. VII. Femina Gemens: Plany D'Estelina
14. VII. Femina Gemens: Saeta Antigua
15. O Lux: Prosa - Flavit Auster

Customer Reviews:

The Light of Women's Songs.......2007-04-14

The commentary on this CD opens with the most appropiate acknowledgement. Montserrat declares that "to thank others is to recognise we are not alone". Her statement is in recognition of the many roles every woman must play in life. Those roles are honoured by the grandest voice available to offer paeans for their variety and intensity.

Any attempt to describe Montserrat's vocal abilities can only show the paucity of language. As she takes us through the history of women in song, the spectrum of sublime joy through unfulfilled love to lamentations of forced marriages and forced religious dogmas. The artist conveys us through a heart-tugging array of emotions in more than a dozen steps, each a tribute to women and to Montserrat's soaring voice. Her presentation has the great advantage of seeming to come from a back garden or near-by meadow than from a studio stage. She brings an intimacy to her performances few other vocalists can match.

As with any such collection, setting your player to "Random, Repeat All" will provide endless joy as you listen to each outstanding rendition. Whether in sequence or "shuffled", the quality of her voice and the expertise of the ensemble backing her, delights the listener with the variety and emotion evoked. In some of the tracks, Montserrat is joined by other voices, Tina Aagaard and the Savalls' daughter Arianna. Among the outstanding pieces is yet another version of the canto Sibila, the chants of the Sybils which the team has rendered in several CDs performed in various locations. This one is particularly well performed, as might be done in a small chapel.

No disc by Montserrat and her consort group is ever a poor investment. This one, produced by Savall's speciality firm of Alia Vox, is another of their examples of premium quality. The sound is rich and commanding, and the accompanying notes again bespeaking of Savall's and Figuera's firm dedication to deep and thorough scholarship. The disk demands space of anyone favouring the finest sounds a human voice can produce. As a gift, it will grant you in a special place in the heart of the recipient. It is a passport to the finest listening. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

A family project?.......2006-09-12

This CD is very good. Jordi Savall, as Daniel Morris affirms, has done a formidable work... But... why Montserrat Figueras is in every CD? yes, she knows how to sing this repertoire... But there are GREAT singers who can do much better. We keept buying this material because it is good and important, but, Please, give us other choices!

EXTRAORDINARY!!.......2006-08-06

I own nearly 100 titles of Jordi Savall (Montserrat's husband), and continue to purchase new releases on his Alia Vox label. Everything in which the two of them are involved is uniformly excellent, even if a particular disc is not always my cup of tea, but sometimes there are recordings that are absolute standouts, of which this is indeed one. Just skimming through the tracks, I knew this CD was special, and listening to it in its entirety confirms that impression. This is music to be savored, music to be heard when you need refuge, an exceptional programme of lovely pieces for an exceptional voice, medieval to renaissance. Encased in a virtual hardback book of words and art, this CD is beyond even the typical high accolades Savall and Figueras merit. Do NOT miss this one!

Average customer rating: A MUST BUY!!! Great music, Excellent Value! This truly is essential!

The Essential Hyperion (Label Highlight Compilation) Henry Purcell , Charles Villiers Stanford , Sheppard, John , Haydn, Joseph , Satie, Erik , Schumann, Robert , and Shostakovich, Dmitri Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Sextets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Arne | Arne, Thomas Augustin | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Boccherini | Boccherini, Luigi | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Busoni | Busoni, Ferruccio | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Bruckner | Bruckner, Anton | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Corelli | Corelli, Arcangelo | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Dvorák, Antonín | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | 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Tracks:

1. Concerto For Two Trumpets, 1687: Allegro
2. Abdelazer: Rondeau
3. Who Can From Joy Refrain?: A Prince Of Glorious Race
4. The Morning: The Glitt'ring Sun
5. The Ephesian Matron, Or The Widow's Tears: Vaudeville
6. Magnificat In G
7. Libera Nos
8. Cantigas de amigo: My Love's Coming Home
9. My Lady, You Do Great Wrong
10. Locus iste
11. Symphony No 14 In A: Tempo di Minuetto
12. Symphony No 94 In G (The 'Surprise' Symphony): Finale
13. Gymnopedie No. 1: Gymnopedie No. 1 (Orchestrated By Debussy)
14. Liederkreis op. 39: Waldesgesprach
15. Album Leaf In Waltz Form
16. Prelude And Fugue In A, Op. 87, No. 7
17. Phil The Fluter's Ball
18. Piano Concerto In C Sharp Minor, Op. 30: Allegro
19. O salutaris hostia
20. Da quel sembiante, D. 688, No. 3
21. Sonata In G Minor, Op. 5, No. 5: Vivace
22. Clarinet Quartet No 1 In E Flat, Op. 2: Rondo
23. String Sextet In A, Op. 48: Furiant
24. Sherzo In A minor, Op. 81, No. 2
25. Come You, Mary, Op. 21, No. 2
26. Chorale Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g' mein'
27. Deus in adiutorium
28. Sortie In E Flat

Customer Reviews:

A MUST BUY!!!.......2001-03-03

If I had to choose one CD to spend a month locked in isolation with, this would be the one. Its varied but it flows well together. It's restive and soothing. The quality is beyond excellent!!! At the price, anyone is a fool not to own it, and give it lavishly as gifts. Its gorgeous, lush and fabulous! Everyone that hears it in our home, falls in love with it!

Great music, Excellent Value!.......2000-07-26

Rarely can one buy so much good music for so little. This compilation features almost 80 minutes of high quality music.

This truly is essential!.......1999-10-23

What a brilliant idea from one of our leading record companies! On this disc, they have assembled a programme of highlights from their vast collection of choral, vocal, orchestral, and solo instrumental music that is very satisfying. As with most CDs of this sort, it is a case of some tracks not appealing as much as others- I for instance am a lover of choral music so the gorgeous renditions of Stanford's "Magnificat" by St. Paul's Cathedral Choir or John Sheppard's divine motet "Libera Nos" by the Sixteen are obvious preferences of mine. However, whether you seek dyed-in-the-wool orchestral classics as Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, less familiar works performed by period artists (such as "'E irei Madr'a Vigo" by ancient Spanish composer Martin Codax), or snippets of breathtaking instrumental solos (such as the rousing performance of Lefebure-Wely's "Sortie in E flat" which is sadly only an excerpt), this disc is bound to have something on it for you. And all of it is finely recorded.

Average customer rating: he's back............ Pat MacDonald is a manic depressive genius Why oh why isn't he a superstar Fully worth waiting for non-existant cd

Troubador Stomp Pat MacDonald Manufacturer: Broken Halo Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pat MacDonald Sleeps With His Guitar Hundred Lovers Looks Like Dark to Me West Shrunken Heads ASIN: B000KWZ9CC Release Date: 2007-03-27

Tracks:

1. Land Of Stomp
2. The Governor
3. Bridge Hater Song
4. Seeing Things
5. I Never Will
6. Shake Well
7. This Band Sucks
8. Too High
9. Wish You Would Die
10. My Troubled Mind
11. Steele Bridge Sono
12. Thanks Man

Customer Reviews:

he's back............ .......2007-07-16

I'm a long time fan of Timbuk3 and Pat & Barbara(Kooyman) Macdonald. I use their/his/her material on my community radio show often. (I cringe to hear them described as 'one hit wonders'; they are much better than that.) This cd is a great improvement from his previous effort. He is still an angry man. The songs have a tendency to stick to the same groove. I think he could have varied the selections a bit more.He's good enough not to get stuck in a musical rut. I wish liner notes were included with this release including lyrics. He tends to mumble at times. This should have been the follow up to the 'Sleeps With His Guitar' cd.

Pat MacDonald is a manic depressive genius.......2007-06-27

It is too bad that so many artists are afflicted with severe depression... too bad for THEM, that is. The rest of us are free to enjoy the fruits of their cynical genius. Pat Mac Donald is one such tortured soul.

Timbuk 3, his Austin, Texas-based combo, helped to keep me angry through the Reagan/Bush years. Now, from his new European home, he has done the same for the W years. Great music, scathing lyrics and a window into a sharp, yet tormented mind. My idea of a great album!

Why oh why isn't he a superstar.......2007-06-20

This album (are they still called albums?) is more harder edged then is others and it is GREAT! hate to say it, but his pain sure makes some fantastic music. I recommend this album, and all of his others, to any one who is sick of all the prefabracted pop rock alternative music out there. Come back to the States Pat, and claim your place in the music world.

Fully worth waiting for.......2007-04-10

Pat Macdonald, one of the now-solo halfs of Timbuk3, continues to create a deeply uncompromised music out of the idioms of the deadliest swamp blues, strained through a sharply agonized 21st century intelligence. Pat can't, won't let go of the pain, until it's time, if that time ever comes. This music was made like a Japanese samurai's sword - heated, bent, and folded, over and over, until it becomes as hard as it is supple. The edge of this music is razor-thin - three revenge songs from an collapsed marriage (according to the liner notes) - but Pat Macdonald had made an album about survival, not defeat. Not a bad song on it. Get it right now.

non-existant cd.......2007-03-15

has anyone heard this cd i have been waiting for my cd to arrive for months

Average customer rating: Wonderful sampler Recommended despite some failures I you liked the movie "Kingdom of Heaven"...

Music from the Time of the Crusades Manufacturer: Virgin Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Machaut | Machaut, Guillaume de | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ballads | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Rondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sacred & Religious | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Music Of The Crusades Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart): Troubadours & Trouvères in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Marie de Champagne & Geoffroy, Duke of Brittany - Alla Francesca Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection Music of the Gothic Era On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim) ASIN: B000B7HZ4Q Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Danse Royale
2. O Quanta Qualia (Hymnus) - Pierre Abelard
3. Ab Joi Et Ab Joven M'apais Condesa De Dia - Bernart De Ventadorn
4. Razos Es Qu'ieu M'esbaudei - Peire Cardenal
5. La Spagna
6. Trope: Gaudeamus Hodie
7. Organum
8. Antienne Ecce Annuntio Vobis
9. Trope: Qui Es Sine Principio
10. Trope: Radix Lesse Virga
11. Istampitta Gaetta
12. Ay Deus Se Sa Bora Meu Amigo - Martim Codax
13. Rorate Caeli Desuper (Gregorian Chant)
14. Trotto

Tracks:

1. Saltarello
2. Non Perch'i Speri, Donna (Ballad)
3. Nesciens Mater (Gregorian Chant) - From The Old Hall Manuscript
4. Nesciens Mater (Bitteriing) - From The Old Hall Manuscript
5. Indescort
6. L'amoureuse Flour D'este
7. Se Vrai Secours Briefvement Ne M'eslye
8. A Vous Douce Debonaire - Jehan De Lescurel
9. Hareu! Hareu! Le Feu -- Helas! Ou Sera Pris Confors (Motet) - Guillamume De Machaut
10. Amours Me Fait Desirer (Ballad) - Guillamume De Machaut
11. Trop Plus Est Belle - Guillamume De Machaut
12. Quarte Estampie Royale
13. Lanquan Li Jorn - Jaufre Rudel De Blaye
14. Can Lo Rossinhols - Jaufre Rudel De Blaye
15. Lou Rossinhol - Traditional
16. L'autrier, Just Una Sebissa - Marcabru
17. Le Roi A Fait & Chanson De Toile - Traditional
18. Veris Ad Imperia
19. Gracieusette, Virelai - Jehan De Lescurel
20. Douce Amour, Confortez Moi, Virelai - Jehan De Lescurel

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful sampler.......2006-07-28

Let the great Christian Age fill your soul through this wonderful compilation of music both sacred and secular. In contrast to many other early and medieval music collections which may seem monotonous to the modern ear accustomed to "intolerable music" (in Solzhenitsyn's phrase), the range of percussive dances, complex harmony, and elaborate melodies don't let your attention wander. Highly recommended for all those knights and princesses in spirit. Chivalry lives!

Recommended despite some failures.......2006-03-28

The music on this two CD compilation is excellent: well-performed, as authentic as modern scholarship allows, and wide-ranging in context.

The problem is that for anyone really interested in the material, even as a recreational listener, the liner notes are appallingly general. Perhaps even more irritating is the fact that there are no transcriptions or translations of the vocal pieces. Given the high quality of the rest of the package, this is a puzzling lapse.

I you liked the movie "Kingdom of Heaven"..........2006-03-19

..and, like me, you are curious about the music of the time, then this is an excellant collection. This is a two CD set and seems to be a fairly good sampling of the music from that era. It also makes good background music should you need to focus on something else.

The only downside was that Windows Media Player couldn't find any album information. It's usually not a big deal to add the music information yourself, but the titles on this CD were the originals, ie. long & in Latin, Italian, and whatever else..

All in all, it was a good value for the price.

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The Chants of Camino De Santiago [Jade] Manufacturer: Jade / Bmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004VK8G Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

1. Jhesus Christ
2. A Que Por Muy Gran Fremosura
3. Romance De Don Boyso
4. Pregoneros Van Y Vienen
5. Nani, Nani
6. El Rey De Francia
7. Ondas Do Mar
8. Mia Yrmana
9. Lanquan Li Jorn
10. La Perneta
11. Gratulantes Celebremus Festum
12. Non E Gran Cousa
13. Mariam Matrem
14. Ad Superni
15. O Maria Maris Stella
16. Cuncti Potens Genitor Deus
17. Benedicamus Domino
18. Sancta Mater Graciae/Dou Way, Robin
19. Dum Pater Familias

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This record will transport you into a different world of sound and spirit: simpler, purer, more tranquil and serene. The program consists of chants from the 12th to the 15th centuries and includes several Sephardic songs--some quite dancelike, some rather mournful. Though the melodic range of the chants is naturally very limited, and the prevailing mood is devotional and somber, they have a lot of textural diversity. Some are purely instrumental, others are for one or two unaccompanied voices. When the tenor and bass sing alone, the latter provides a drone to the former's more florid line, or they move in open intervals, alternating between unison and solo. Their duets with the soprano combine unison, conversational give and take, and counterpoint. Most of the chants use a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations, with fascinating results. The final song employs the entire group; vigorous, assertive, and celebratory, it keeps adding voices and instruments, becoming increasingly elaborate.

The performing group is most admirable. Several singers also play numerous instruments, which include a citole, a cornemuse, a hackbrett simulating a psalterion, a Persian def, and a Syrian rek, in addition to the more familiar vieles and a large variety of flutes and percussion. Among the singers, tenor Hervé Lamy is outstanding. His voice is sweet and velvety, his expressiveness both chaste and intense.

The disc's packaging is odd. The booklet gives neither the texts nor any information about the music or the performers. But both the makers of the instruments, which are, of course, modern reproductions of the ancient originals, and the dates when they were made are listed in meticulous detail. --Edith Eisler

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Live in London: The BBC Recordings 1972-1973 Judee Sill Manufacturer: Troubador ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Baroque Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000PHX17W Release Date: 2007-04-23

Tracks:

1. Jesus Was a Cross Maker
2. Lady-O
3. Lamb Ran Away with the Crown
4. Enchanted Sky Machines
5. Kiss
6. Down Where the Valleys Are Low
7. There's a Rugged Road
8. Phoenix
9. Donor
10. Soldier of the Heart
11. Interview
12. Enchanted Sky Machines
13. Kiss
14. Down Where the Valleys Are Low
15. Phoenix
16. Jesus Was a Cross Maker
17. Kiss
18. Down Where the Valleys Are Low

Album Description

2007 collection from the cult Folk singer, officially licensed from the Judee Sill estate and the BBC. These nearly forgotten performances are the only known unreleased audio recordings in existence from Sill. Interest in her life and music has never been higher and these recordings reveal a true talent that deserved so much more during her short lifetime. Features 19 tracks recorded in '72 and '73. Troubadour.

Album Details

Judee (Judy) Sill (October 7, 1944 - November 23, 1979) was an American Singer and Songwriter. The First Artist Signed to David Geffen's Asylum Label, She Released Two Albums Before Disappearing Into Obscurity and Eventually Dying of Drug Abuse in 1979 [1]. Her Eponymous Debut Album was Released to Major Acclaim in 1971 and was Followed Two Years Later by Heart Food. She Recorded Demos for a Third Album in 1974 and They were Released in 2005 under the Title Dreams Come True. Sill was Heavily Influenced by Bach's Metric Forms and Suites, While Lyrically her Work Drew Substantially on Christian Themes of Rapture and Redemption.

Average customer rating: SEMI-SEPHARDIC HEAVEN Brilliant

Music for Alfonso the Wise Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Dance in the Garden of Mirth: Medieval Instrumental Music - The Dufay Collective The Dufay Collective:Miri It Is Cancionero: Music for the Spanish Court 1470-1520 Cancionero Istanpitta: Musiques de Fête à la Cour des Visconti ASIN: B0006Z2LLU Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

1. Muit, Amar
2. Ontre Todalas
3. Tant Aos Peccadores
4. Todo Los Santos
5. Que Muyto Meu Pago
6. Quen A Virgen
7. Bailemos Nos Ja Todas Tres
8. Dansa: Bailemos Nos Ja Todas Tres
9. Martin Jograr
10. Macar E Door
11. Non Soffre Santa Maria
12. Ondas Do Mare De Vigo
13. Mandad' Ei Comigo
14. Mia Irmana Fremosa
15. Interlude
16. Ay Deus Se Sab' Ora Meu Amigo
17. Quantas Sabedes Amar
18. Interlude/Eno Sagrado En Vigo
19. Ai Ondas Que Eu Vin Veer

Customer Reviews:

SEMI-SEPHARDIC HEAVEN.......2007-02-15

This record is new to me, as is most music of this type, from this era. I've a taste for middle-eastern music, both Islamic and otherwise -- including Hindu -- and am wild about most Hungarian and Slavic music. The frankly Sephardic music I've heard I find rapturous and profoundly satisfying. This music of EL SABIO fits into that category, easily, and the musicality of the performers is distinctive in the best way.

A new favorite has appeared on my shelves.

Brilliant.......2006-08-02

This compilation is dedicated to the works and compositions of Alfonso X, 13th century King of Castile and Leon, and a Renaissance man long before the concept of Renaissance had even been conceived. Alfonso was responsible for a tremendous period of advancement in learning in medieval Europe, and was a remarkable scholar and composer in his own right. At a time when the Bishop of Paris enjoyed a library of only four volumes, Alfonso had sponsored a library in Castile with over 30,000, collecting the works Christians, Muslims and Jews into one massive complex devoted to learning and freedom of thought. In this latter vein, Alfonso was also a competent astrologer, and, some say, adept of the esoteric Art. Irrespective of this, he was ill favored by the Church, predominantly due to his tolerance of the Muslims and Jews, with whom the Christian residents of Castile lived in harmony in contrast to the balance of the known world of the day.

DuFay Collective are, in a word, brilliant, basically the Pink Martini of the music of the period. Their music never fails to transport you back in time. In this collaboration with the 13th century Castilian King, they have produced a phenomenal, almost mystical album, whose compositions are highly reminiscent of those of Hildegard von Bingen, and the evocative and mystical harmony of the album Diadema, by Vox.

Of all of the works by DuFay to date, this is, by far, my favorite. It takes the mind and soul to other places. It is truly a masterpiece, and a collaborative effort across 700 years between an enlightened King at the end of the Dark Ages, and master performers of medieval music in modern times.

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