Scene 3 [Limited Edition] [Import]

Product Description
Limited edition Japanese pressing includes a bonus DVD (NTSC/Region 2). Universal. 2005.

Scene 3,Aska,Teichiku,Rock/Pop,World Music

Average customer rating: Essential Performances from a Great & Beloved Singer

Philips and Decca Recordings, 1961-1979 (Limited Edition) Janet Baker , John Shirley-Quirk , Graham Sheen , Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Hector Berlioz , Giovanni Bononcini , Benjamin Britten , Giulio Caccini , and Antonio Caldara Manufacturer: Philips ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Berlioz | Berlioz, Hector | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Britten | Britten, Sir Benjamin | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Caldara, Antonio | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chausson, Ernest | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Giordani, Giuseppe | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gluck | Gluck, Christoph W. | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Franz Joseph Haydn | Haydn, Franz Joseph | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Martini | Martini, Giovanni Battist | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Paisiello | Paisiello, Giovanni | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Pergolesi | Pergolesi, Gio Battista | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Piccinni, Niccolò | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rameau | Rameau, Jean Philippe | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Alessandro Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schubert | Schubert, Franz | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Stradella | Stradella, Alessandro | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Very Best of Janet Baker Artistry of Elly Ameling (Coll) Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx Clara Haskil: Philips Recordings, 1951-1960 The Very Best of Régine Crespin ASIN: B0000B0A0Q Release Date: 2003-11-25

Customer Reviews:

Essential Performances from a Great & Beloved Singer.......2004-01-09

For those of us who grew up on Janet Baker's recordings (and were lucky enough to hear her "live" as well), the sound of her voice and her singular artstic personality - British restraint coupled with fierce emotional and spiritual commitment - are indelibly imprinted in our minds and hearts. The closest current equivalent is Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, another superb artist who has charted her own course, and not surprisingly there is some overlap of repertoire, in the music of J.S. Bach, of course, but also Berlioz's Didon and Beatrice, Handel's Ariodante and Britten's Phaedra (composed for Baker).
This wonderful compilation is complementary to EMI's 2-CD "The Very Best of Janet Baker" -- no overlap of repertoire whatsoever. Unlike that set, which focused on concert repertoire (with orchestra or piano) there's a generous sampling here of Baker's operatic roles including Handel, Mozart, Purcell, Rameau, Gluck, and Britten. Also welcome is "Phaedra," one of Britten's strongest late works. And it's good to have the Berlioz: "Cleopatre" and "Herminie" complete, the big aria from "Beatrice et Benedict." (Why EMI included nothing from her recording of the last 2 scenes of "Les Troyens" is unfathomable.) The wide time-span allows us to hear Baker's voice in all its youthful, "sappy" warmth, as well as in its artistic maturity (though truth to tell she was pretty much a complete artist from the start). There are a few signs of wear in later items, nothing serious, in fact rather less than I remembered. I could have done with fewer of the "Arie Amorose" in favor of more cuts from her Gluck LP, which I believe has never been issued complete on CD, but that's just personal preference. The focus here is entirely on orchestrally accompanied works (or, in the case of the marvelous early disc of Ravel, Chausson & Delage songs, with chamber ensemble) so for Baker the supreme interpreter of English, German and French song you'll need to go elsewhere (the EMI has a fair sampling, especially of her Schubert). But everything here is indispensible.

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See Stone Manufacturer: Silent Planet ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B00070IU50

Product Description

There are 5 songs on this CD: Thank You, Broken Glass, Good Enough, Parallel Universe and the (Gershwin) classic Someone to Watch Over Me

Average customer rating: Simply beautiful... Steve Nieve-Worldly Wise For the tired people not crappy like the operating system A great record from a great keyboard player

Windows Manufacturer: Rapide Epistle ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0001M3X9M Release Date: 2004-02-21

Tracks:

1. Windows 1
2. Windows 2
3. Windows 3
4. Windows 4
5. Windows 5
6. Windows 6
7. Windows 7
8. Windows 8
9. Windows 9

Album Description

Everywhere he travels, he records sound out of the window, with his portable DAT machine. He also takes a snap-shot of each window with a digital camera. Two musical themes, one representing a man, the other a woman, interact with these ambiances, so that the music and the couple the music seeks to represent, embark on a voyage,  as if  searching each other, across all the planet, and beyond… Meditative music to concentrate you, listen while you work. Contemplative.

Customer Reviews:

Simply beautiful..........2004-10-18

I have little I can add to the excellent, perceptive and accurate reviews that preceed this one. All the other 5 totally 'get' what Steve Nieve is saying on this sublime album, and frankly for the (sadly) rather exclusively small club of people who own this cd, we have a real musical gem, a masterpiece, an album that thankfully goes so far to counter-balance the endless poor quality rubbish the music industry churns out. This is thoughtful, unique, beautiful, qenuinely therapeutic (in the nicest sense of the word) music, that repays your time and concentration by the spade-load. BUY THIS ALBUM! BUY IT FOR THE YOUR FRIENDS. they really will thank you!
PS: I agree, I wish it was 2 hours long...

Steve Nieve-Worldly Wise.......2004-04-04

Steve Nieve is not just another supporting player, he is THE keyboard player of our generation. Sometimes lost in Elvis' shadow, Steve steps front and center here with haunting melodies and diverse, subtle movements of sound and emotion, imploring the listener to use imagination to see and hear the moment the music defines. Unimaginative folk need not apply, this album requires thoughtfulness and investment, time and attention, whether looking out your car window (recommended listening venue) or your bedroom window Steve's personal view of the windows he has seen will add to your enjoyment of that memory or the moment you are in. An interesting, singular view from an interesting worldly wise traveller.

For the tired people.......2004-04-04

This album has bestiful tunes. These songs has a power of healing. So, I recommend this album to the tired people. If you feel this music, you will want to travel somewhere. And you will search your window.

not crappy like the operating system.......2004-03-26

It is always interesting to hear solo projects from musicians strongly associated with past group efforts. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Nieve's career has been essentially defined by his association with Elvis Costello as the keyboard player for the Attractions (renamed The Imposters in recent years due to the replacement of the original bassist). Costello is one of the great songwriters of the rock era (or of all popular music for that matter) and the contribution of the Attractions to his success cannot be overestimated. Albums like "This Year's Model" and "Armed Forces" are classics that regularly end up on various all-time best lists. Though Costello plays guitar, it is really Nieve's complex web of highly imaginative keyboard orchestrations, combined with the technical facility to pull-off just about anything his mind can dream up, that really defines and accentuates the harmonic structure of Costello's songs.

Over the years, Nieve has released the occasional solo project consisting of music that does not stray too far from that for which he is known. That is why listeners of "Windows - Music for Musician(s) and Open Windows" will most likely be taken off-guard. Nieve's travels around the globe over the past twenty five or so years have given him plenty of opportunity to contemplate windows - and contemplate windows - and contemplate windows. Tour bus windows, hotel room windows, restaurant windows, car windows... As anyone who has traveled extensively for business can tell you, there is quite a bit of time for contemplation - and this CD captures the various moods perfectly. Always at Nieve's side during these travels was a DAT recorder and camera to document the audio and visual associations for each of the windows. "Windows" is a very effective collage of sounds recorded through the windows (people talking, sirens, music, rain...) accompanied by Nieve's keyboards recorded in various studios around the world. While extensive liner notes are lacking, performance credits would indicate that Nieve also plays saxophone on "Declan's Window" and guitar on "window #7."

On his web site (http://www.stevenieve.com) Nieve has said that "Two musical themes, one representing a man, the other a woman, interact with these ambiances, so that the music and the couple the music seeks to represent, embark on a voyage, as if searching each other, across all the planet, and beyond......" At the risk of misinterpretation, I would say that "window #1" which opens the CD in a solo piano style evocative of Erik Satie's Gnossiennes would represent the man - and window #2 with its fleeting reference to Nino Rota's theme from "Romeo and Juliet" would represent the woman. Maybe we can get one of those "I am the author and here is what I have to say" posts to clarify.

Window #9 (Muriel's window) is easily my favorite track, with its haywire oscillator connected to an amplifier via a cable that is badly in need of an electronics technician with a soldering iron, this is traditionally the type of sound that musicians have considered to be undesirable noise, yet Nieve has created an endlessly fascinating melody from the pseudo-random static.

My only complaint is that, at 47 minutes, "Windows" is a bit short. Odd for a CD that represents embarking on a voyage across the planet and beyond...

A great record from a great keyboard player.......2004-03-15

Windows is a quiet record you can listen when you feel really tired and worried. Between Ambient and Rock, Steve Nieve released an instrumental cd which will bring you anywhere its author may have been during the recording. Different moods, different styles, it's a journey with one of the greatest keyboard player of our times.

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Penuckle...the God the Feminine Face of God Limited Edition...Original Masters Penuckle Manufacturer: ROTATION MUSIC ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGGXS Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

1. Putang Ina Mo
2. Elements
3. 3 M. C's (Featuring Mr. Beasley and Big Chris)
4. Flights Cancelled
5. KBLN (Africa)
6. Strange
7. Underwater Dormitory (Swimming with the Dolphins)
8. Aztec Love
9. Questions and Comments
10. Letter to Karen
11. Leanni Lea (Hip Hop Anthem)
12. Mrs. Jones
13. That's What You Want
14. Persistance
15. Godself (The Secret Doctrine) Pt. 1
16. Bust!

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