Divine Lady of Song

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Our 'Collectors’ Choice Music' label has released titles from virtually every great vocalist of the ’40s and ’50s, but until now, we’ve overlooked one of the greatest: Sarah Vaughan! But we’re making up for lost time with this release, which features 20 rare radio performances from the ’50s that prove (as if it still needed proving) that when it came to vocal range and expressiveness, no one can touch "Sassy." Just listen to her scat-singing on 'Sometimes I’m Happy' or that extended high note at the end of 'Green Dolphin Street'; then savor her singing on 'Lover Come Back to Me' with Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet; two versions of 'Just One of Those Things', one with the Ray Bloch Orchestra and one rapid-fire take with her regular trio; 'Corner to Corner; Misty; Careless; I Cried for You; Tenderly; Perdido; You're Mine, You; But Not for Me; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Gone with the Wind; All of Me; Don’t Blame Me; While You Are Gone' (with an orchestra led by Harry Sosnick); 'Mean to Me', and 'The More I See You'. A scattin’, swingin’ 'Collectors Choice Music' exclusive!

Tracks:

Magnolia Suite: No.1 Magnolias
Magnolia Suite: No.2 Deserted Cabin
Magnolia Suite: No.3 My Lady Love
Magnolia Suite: No.4 Mammy
Magnolia Suite: No.5 The Place Where The Rainbow Ends
In The Bottoms: Prelude: Night
In The Bottoms: His Song
In The Bottoms: Honey: Humoresque
In The Bottoms: Barcarolle: Morning
In The Bottoms: Dance: Juba
Eight Bible Vignettes: Father Abraham
Eight Bible Vignettes: Desert Interlude
Eight Bible Vignettes: As His Own Soul
Eight Bible Vignettes: Barcarolle Of Tears
Eight Bible Vignettes: I Am The True Vine
Eight Bible Vignettes: Martha Complained
Eight Bible Vignettes: Other Sheep
Eight Bible Vignettes: Madrigal Divine

Customer Reviews:

Great Composer, Great Pianist.......2005-03-31

This album contains a masterful interpretation by the spectacular pianist Denver Oldham of the beautiful, important, and often forgotten piano works of R. Nathaniel Dett. Perfection of expression is the most accurate way I can think to describe Oldham's performances both recorded and live.

Close Encounters in Early Music: Le Temps des Legendes: Medieval and Renaissance Music from Byzantium, Spain, Italy, France, Flanders, Russia

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Mistaken
Strike a chord in your heart

Close Encounters in Early Music: Le Temps des Legendes: Medieval and Renaissance Music from Byzantium, Spain, Italy, France, Flanders, Russia

Manufacturer: Opus 111
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Chants | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Classical | Indie Music | 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

Le Manuscrit Du Puy - Les Premieres Polyphonies Francaises
Ambrosian Chant
Music Of The Crusades
Codex Faenza: Instrumental Music of the Early 15th Century

ASIN: B000005W2I
Release Date: 1996-04-10

Customer Reviews:

Mistaken.......2005-10-03

When I first saw this disc, i thought the label was opus 3 (scandinavian audiophile label) since it appears in Amazon as Opus III. But, it ends to be Opus 111 (french label). Has quality, but not as much as Opus 3 usually has. A terrible mistake.

Strike a chord in your heart.......2001-01-03

This assemblage of early music includes acapella pieces as well as instrumental. It is the ultimate beginner (and expert) CD to Middle Age music. The CD features such wonderful groups as Micrologus and the Greek bizantine Choir. Opus 111 has a great selection of Bizantine music, so look for their other CDs.

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Fine reissue of a classic set

Purcell: Theatre Music

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Odes | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music
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Cantatas for Solo Countertenor
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
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Lute Music, Vol. 2

ASIN: B0001Y4JHA
Release Date: 2004-10-12

Customer Reviews:

Fine reissue of a classic set.......2006-05-24

Think about the stupidest, most formulaic Hollywood movies you can think of: cheesy action pictures, fluffy, unfunny comedies, big but stiff epics. Now imagine that one of the greatest living composers was working in Hollywood, turning out astonishing, hauntingly beautiful and stirring musical scores for these throwaway movies. That's what you get with this set: music Henry Purcell composed for some two dozen often utterly forgettable plays (trust me--I've read a number of them!) Occasionally, when he teams up with a playwright worthy of his stature, such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, or William Congreve, the results are even better, but for the most part you can enjoy the music here without knowing anything about the original plays.

This set originally appeared as separate LPs in the 70s and 80s, and has been long out of print. That's a pity, since Purcell spent a good deal of his short professional life in the theatre, either writing the incidental music contained on these CDs, or the music for his larger works, the semi-operas (King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and the like). Almost all of these works are enjoyable gems; certainly, they represent a pinnacle of English 17th century music. Purcell had a genius for spinning musical gold out of the most leaden lyrics (check out his Odes and Welcome Songs on Hyperion if you don't believe me), and he does the same with the song texts in these plays.

Hogwood and the AAM offer clean, listenable performances, and the sound on these old analog discs has been cleaned up and brightened--although they were pretty good, even in the late 70s. As with most Hogwood, emotional extremes are kept to a minimum, so the "otherworldly" nature of late 17th century music, so often emphasised in more recent Baroque performances, doesn't come across here. It would be interesting to see what a group like The King's Consort would do with this music, but this set fills the major gap in the Purcell canon quite nicely.

My only beef with the reissue, as with many reissues, is that the liner notes are rather thin for a 6-cd set--the lyrics to the songs, for example, are especially missed. Still, it's a worthwhile set, and a must for fans of Purcell, English Baroque music, or anyone who just wants to experience a taste of the last days of the Restoration stage.

Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers

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A Nice Assortment
Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists

Love's Secret and Other Songs by American Composers

Manufacturer: Vox (Classical)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

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But Yesterday Is Not Today-The American Art Song 1927-1972
All My Heart: Deborah Voigt Sings American Songs

ASIN: B000001K4P
Release Date: 1996-05-21

Tracks:

David Mourns For Absalom
Briged's Song
Sonatina To Hans Christian
The Divine Image
Love's Secret
Polaroli
The Frog And The Snake
Valentine To Sherwood Anderson
Send Home My Long Strayed Eyes
Bedlam
General William Booth Enters Into Heaven
Come Away Death
Calvinistic Evensong
Blue Mountain Ballads: Heavenly Grass
Blue Mountain Ballads: Lonesome Man
Blue Mountain Ballads: Cabin
Blue Mountain Ballads: Sugar In The Cane
The Drummer
The Faucon
The Faucon: Looking Glass River
Jazz-Boys

Tracks:

Alleluia
Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: It's All I Have To Bring
Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: So Bashful
Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: To Make A Praire
Four Poems By Emily Dickinson: And This Of All My Hopes
Nuvoletta, Op. 25
Death Be Not Proud
Lullee, Lullay
Waikiki, Op. 9, No. 2
Stopping By Woods On Snowy Evening
The Tiger
The Sea, Op. 47, No. 7
The Rose
I Rise When You Enter
Dirge In Woods
Sorrow Of Mydath
Three By E. E. Cummings: Lady Will You Come With Me Into
Three By E. E. Cummings: Now (More Near Ourselves Than We)
Three By E. E. Cummings: Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand
Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount
Mourn! Mourn, Op. 53
The Donkey

Customer Reviews:

Item not received........2006-01-15

I have not received this item yet. It is on back order. I had to rate it so put 3 stars. However sicne it hasn't been received I can't really rate it. You ought to take situations like this into consideration if you're going to do this sort of thing.

A Nice Assortment.......2001-03-13

The CD contains a nice selection of songs from composers who we may not hear that much of. I bought this CD for Copland's Dirge in Woods and it was very nice. But I found some other nice treasures on this CD too. Four vocalists, two males and two females, take on this sometimes very challenging music. The music for the most part is not soft and languid both rather has some what we would think of as mid 20th century types of chords. Unless you're into that kinda of thing, you may not want to get this CD. These aren't master works, but just nice little songs a composer might of written while taking a break between writing operas or symphonies.

Important American art songs performed by superb recitalists.......2000-05-30

This CD, a digital remastering of a recording originally released in 1962, is an extraordinary value for anyone interested in American art song, or simply in fine singing. I bought it because I wanted to hear Eleanor Steber's performance of Griffes's "Waikiki", which did not disappoint. But there are many other wonderful songs, all presented with great artistry. They range from the demanding complexity of Barber's "Nuvoletta" and Ives's "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" to the lyricism of the Ernst Bacon songs to texts by Emily Dickinson. The final song on the CD, John McCollum's performance of Henry Cowell's "The Donkey", is especially memorable; I recommend this version over the one on the Albany label's "Songs of Henry Cowell" CD (which I bought because my interest in Cowell's songs was raised by hearing "The Donkey").

Remember Bethlehem: Carols for A New Millennium

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Remember Bethlehem: Carols for A New Millennium

Manufacturer: Metronome
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music

General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music
ASIN: B000056UPR
Release Date: 2000-01-01

Tracks:

Remember Bethlehem
Snows The Land Cover
One Cold Dark Night
Lute Book Lullaby
Jacob's Ladder
God Is Born (Fantasia On A Polish Carol)
Dawn Carol
Romance Of The Epiphany
In The Bleak Midwinter
Little Star Of Bethlehem
Der Wind Auf Leeren Strassen
Entre Les Boeufs Et L'ane
Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby
Shepherd's Carol
There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue
In The Manger (Fantasia On A Polish Carol)
The Lamb
What Child Is This?
Good King Wenceslas
Ninna-Nanna A Gesu Bambino
Come Sing And Dance
Love Divine

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Divine Lady of Song
Sarah Vaughan
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music

General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music

Traditional Pop | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002LO7E2
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

Sometimes I'm Happy
Green Dolphin Street
Lover Come Back To Me
Just One Of Those Things
Just One Of Those Things
Corner To Corner
Misty
Careless
I Cried For You
Tenderly
Perdido
You're Mine, You
But Not For Me
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Gone With The Wind
All Of Me
Don't Blame Me
While You Are Gone
Mean To Me
The More I See You

Product Description

Tracks:

See Me Dancing the Polka
He Was a Careless Man
Bus Conductor's Song
My Janet (An Old English Ballad Gone Wrong)
How I Became an Actor
Lost Key
Mother and Her Child Were There!
His Nose Was on the Mantepiece
French Verbs Song
I Am Not in the Vein, My Nuse or the Perplexed Poet
Oh Butcher, Oh Baker
If You Value a Peacable Life
I'm Tired of the Moon, My Love and Myself
Go on Talking-Don't Mind Me!
I Don't Mind Flies
Baby on the Shore
I'm His Daisy
How I Became a Detective
My Lady Nature's Little Joke
Tommy's First Love
I Loved Her and I Left Her
Your Honoured and Ancient Name
Happy Old Days at Peckham
See Me Reverse

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