Round the Garden

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
All of the songs on our Makin' Music Rockin' Rhythms tapes are CD's are carefully and lovingly written, adapted, produced and recorded to introduce and reinforce many of your child's important developmental milestones. Every song is interactive, encouraging maximum participation by using action songs, fingerplays, chants, shaker egg and rhythm stick songs, and other musical props. All of our 45-minute audios include a wide variety of music, including original, seasonal, ethnic and traditional songs, which assures your child's exposure to all types of music. We strive to make our audios "adult friendly", knowing that you, as parents and educators, will be listening to them over and over again! A songbook that gives clear and specific direction, including suggestions for children with special needs is available separately.

Tracks:

Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'
Summertime
I Could Write a Book
It Never Entered My Mind
I Can Cook Too
Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please
If I Loved You
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Thou Swell
I Left My Heart at the Stage Door Canteen
There's No Business Like Show Business
South American Way

Tracks:

Shall We Dance
Ohio
Luck Be a Lady
Mack the Knife
There's a Small Hotel
Once in Love with Amy
Yodel Blues
Lazy Afternoon
There Must Be Somethin' Better Than Love
You're Just in Love
Now Is the Time

Tracks:

Impossible Dream
Love Makes the World Go 'Round
Try to Remember
Put on a Happy Face
I Say Hello
Happiness
She Loves Me
What Kind of Fool Am I?
Shy
Consider Yourself
Poor Little Person

Tracks:

Magic to Do
They're Playing My Song
I Don't Know How to Love Him
I Won't Send Roses
Good Morning Starshine
Don't Cry for Me, Argentina
Hard Candy Christmas
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Won't You Charleston with Me?
Applause

Tracks:

Phantom of the Opera
Memory
On My Own
Muddy Water
How Could I Ever Know
American Dream
I Know Him So Well
Dr. Jazz
Me and My Girl
Suddenly Seymour

Tracks:

Mamma Mia!
Popular
Seasons of Love
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
Whatever Lola Wants
Crazy
How Deep Is Your Love
Stars
People Like Us
I Go to Rio

Halcyon Days: A Treasury of British Light Music

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Halcyon Days: A Treasury of British Light Music

Manufacturer: Asv Living Era
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music

Rondos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

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Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Marches | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000Y37NI
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

Overture
Lento, Ma Non Troppo
Gaily, But Not Quick
Cantilena
Vivace
Miss Melanie
Raf March Past
Very Slow
Maestoso; Alla Marcia Funebre
Fairly Slowly, But Evenly Flowing In Strict Time
Allegretto Rubato
Overture, Op.52
Fantasia On 'Greensleeves'
Country Dance: Allegretto E Leggiero
Burlesco: Allegro
Adagio
Sarabande: Maestoso
Bourree: Vivace
Rondo In A Flat
Allegro
Lento Moderato
Con Brio

Tracks:

March
Plymouth Hoe (A Nautical Overture)
Nelson's Column, Trafalgar Square
Tower Hill
The Horse Guards, Whitehall
Rotten Row
Covent Garden
Westminster
Knightsbridge March
No.1 Wheatly Processional
No.2 Constant Billy
No.4 Jockie To The Fair
No.5 Ladies Of Pleasure
No.6 Princess Royal
Malltraeth (Pastorale)
Cemaes (Scherzo)
March Of The Bowmen
City Of Lincoln March
Overture, Op.3
Londonderry Air

Tracks:

The Devil's Galop
Sailing By
High Adventure
The Watermill
Loch Laggan
Psalm 23 - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Southern Rhapsody
Ecce Homo - CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR
Girls In Grey
Halcyon Days
March Glorious
An English Overture
Spitfire Prelude And Fugue
Carry On Suite
Carry On Up The Khyber
Andante Expressivo
The Dam Busters March
Tarka The Otter
The African Queen

Tracks:

Caramba
Two Interlinked French Melodies
Kanikani
Preambule
Barcarolle
Provencale
By The Sleepy Lagoon
A L'ombre D'un Buissonet
Triste Est Le ciel
Allons Gay
A Mountain Tune
Tambourin
Passepied
Sarabande
Farandole
Petite Promenade
Andante/Medium Beguine
Song Dance
Fado
Kolo
In The French Countryside
Carpet Dance
Slow Waltz
End Titles

Tracks:

Miniature Overture (Help!)
March (When I'm 64)
Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy (Can't Buy Me Love)
Arabian Dance (It's For You)
Chinese Dance (Ticket To Ride)
Dance Of The Reed Flutes (She Loves You)
Waltz Of The Flowers (From Me To You)
Pas De Deux (All My Loving)
Sarabande
The Reception
The Orgy (Rondo)
Danza Gaya
Scene 1
Malaguena (Vivace)
Habanera (Moderato)
Tango (Vivace)
The Hiring Fair
Carousing
Round Dance
Pas De Deux
Hornpipe
March
Doll's Dance
Round Dance
Bobby Shaftoe
The Keel Row
The 98th Jacks Listed!

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A mixed bag from Giulini
Thanks to EMI ; Thanks to Amazon.
A nostalgic return to an outstanding period for Giulini
Splendid EMI Commemorative of Giulini and CSO
Genius Well Served

The Chicago Recordings

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Mahler: Symphony No. 9 / Schubert: Symphony No. 8
Beethoven: Symphonies 6, 8 & 9; Carlo Maria Giulini; London Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis & Mass in C Major
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (The Mahler Arrangements)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 2

ASIN: B0001ZMBV0
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

I. Langsam, Schleppend, Wie Ein Naturlaut
II. Kraftig Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell
III. Feierlich Und Gemessen, Ohne Zu Schleppen
IV. Sturmisch Bewegt
Combat And Tumult - Interview Of The Prince
Romeo Alone - Melancholy - Distant Noises Of Music And Dancing - Festivities At The Capulets'

Tracks:

Scherzo: Queen Mab, Or The Dream Fairy
Love Scene - Night - The Capulets' Garden
Romeo At The Tomb Of The Capulets - Invocation - Juliet's Reawakening - Frenzied Joy, Despair - Last Agonies And Death Of The Two Lovers
I. Poco Sostenuto - Vivace
II. Allegretto
III. Presto - Assai Meno Presto - Presto - Assai Meno Presto - Presto
IV. Allegro Con Brio

Tracks:

I. Felerlich, Misterioso
II. Scherzo (Bewegt, Lebhaft) - Trio (Schnell) - Scherzo (Da Capo)
III. Adagio (Langsam, Felerlich)
I. Allegro Non Troppo

Tracks:

II. Andante Moderato
III. Allegro Giocoso
IV. Allegro Energico E Passionato
Introduction
Dance Of The Firebird
Round Dance Of The Princess
Dance Of King Kastchel
Berceuse
Finale
Russian Dance
Petrushka's Room
The Moor's Room
The Shrovetide Fair

Amazon.com

The recordings that Giulini made with the Chicago Symphony between 1969 and 1976 document an extraordinary partnership and remain among the finest of the conductor's career. Giulini's Mahler First is more lyric than most, yet with enough energy to satisfy Mahlerians; the last movement a tribute to the conductor's unerring sense of orchestral balances even in crushing climaxes. His rendition of the orchestral movements of Berlioz's "dramatic symphony" Romeo and Juliet excels in its poetry, the warmly caressing Chicago strings in the Love Scene irresistible. The Beethoven Seventh is an eloquent blend of the Dionysian and Apollonian approaches to this "dance symphony," with glowing horns, driving rhythms and lovely solo turns. Giulini's later remakes of the Beethoven and other works in the set often were soporific; here, he's on target. This Bruckner Ninth, for example, is grandly rhetorical but full of passion. The Brahms Fourth is a highly personal account, with a ravishing slow movement, while the Stravinsky ballet suites reveal the Chicagoans at their most refined; the Firebird exquisitely colored, Petrushka, amazingly precise. Classic recordings, well transferred; a bargain that shouldn't be missed. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

A mixed bag from Giulini.......2006-12-14

I have always been a fan of Giulini's conducting since I began listening to Classical. In this case, I bought this disk for four reasons 1. You can never have too many recordings of Bruckner or Mahler. 2. It's Giulini for God's Sake. 3. I was curious to hear a remastering of his sensational Brahms 4. 4. I could finally get his fantastic Firebird Suite on CD. Mission accomplished...however the Brahms and Stravinsky are the highlights on this disk and I already had those recordings (although it was nice to get an upgrade to CD). The Mahler is clearly outclassed by competition from Kubelik and Horenstein. The Bruckner bested by Jochum or Tintner on Naxos. I don't regret buying the disk, however, while I have multiple recordings of the Brahms and Stravinskky...Giulini's readings will always have a special place for me.

Thanks to EMI ; Thanks to Amazon. .......2005-10-14

Giulini is always among my favorite conductors and this set includes some of his great recordings with CSO(1969-1976,studio,stereo) that you can not find their another editions: Beethoven 7 and Bruckner 9 ( + Mahler 1, Brahms 4, Berlioz-Romeo&Juliet, Stravinsky-Petroushka&Firebird Suites.)
CSO on its top form under the baton of Giulini...Very well recorded sounds by EMI...Wonderfull edition(not cardboard!)...Incredible price for 4 CD... Highly,highly,highly recommended...

A nostalgic return to an outstanding period for Giulini.......2005-10-09

The reviewer who says that these are among the most celebrated of classical recordings is exaggerating. Giulini's Chicago recordings for EMI were mostly commercial failures and quickly vanished from sight after a brief life on LP. After a spectacular early stretch with Don Giovanni, the Marriage of Figaro, and the Verdi Requiem, Giulini should have shot to the top tier of recording artists.

But as one hears on this excellent but not great collection, Giulini's Mahler is not as exciting as Bernstein's, his Berlioz not as gripping as Colin Davis's, his Brahms not as full of integrity as Klemperer's or Karajan's. He stood well below those great condcutors for much of his career, and yet Giulini was undoubtedly special. He just continued throughout his career to be spotty. His Bruckner Seventh on a live BBC recording is spectacular, even better than his inward, mystical recordings of the Burckner Eighth and Ninth for DG. I greatly admire his DG Schumann Rhenish Sym., his Erocia and Beethoven Fifth, and a live War Requiem and Schubert Ninth, both on BBC--while also acknowledging that he made many other recordings that didn't touch greatness.

I think Giulini had greatness in him, but there was some inner chemistry that had to fire, and even he didn't know when that would happen. In this regard he was like Klaus Tennstedt, who was even more erratic.

Giulini should have given us a great Mahelr Ninth and Das Lied von der Erde, but he didn't. HIs Missa Solemnis and Beethoven Ninth should have been towering spiritual achievements, but they are actually almost routine by great conductor standards. Sadly, he had no sublime autumn to his career; the late recordings on Sony and DG are distressingly slack and ponderous, often parodying his famous spirituality on the podium.

I think eveyrthing in this bargain set is of a high standard, not Giulini at his very peak but close.

Splendid EMI Commemorative of Giulini and CSO.......2005-02-22

During the period from 1969 to 1976, distinguished conductor Carlo Maria Giulini made magnificient recordings for both EMI and Deutsche Grammophon with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, while serving as the orchestra's Principal Guest Conductor. These recordings remain among the most celebrated classical music recordings ever made, most notably his Mahler symphony recordings. In honor of the retired conductor's 90th birthday, EMI has issued most of his finest Chicago Symphony Orchestra recordings; most notably a very intensely lyrical Mahler 1st Symphony that earned a 1971 Grammy Award for best orchestral recording and a fine Brahms 4th Symphony. Often underrated as among the 20th Century's greatest conductors, I am delighted that EMI has recognized Giulini's legacy by issuing this fine 4 CD set.

Genius Well Served.......2004-10-07

Carlo Maria Giulini's long collaboration with the musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra yielded some of the most magnificent performances of the twentieth century. But while the CSO's brilliance was widely known, Giulini's success in focusing attention on the music rather than himself kept his own prodigious talents hidden from portions of the art-music world. This remarkable four-CD set helps to correct that oversight. Included in the collection is the long-overdue reissue of the Giulini-CSO Mahler Symphony #1, which won a Grammy for best orchestral LP in 1971, and a ravishing account of the Brahms Symphony #4, which Giulini first conducted at a concert celebrating the liberation of Rome in 1944.

Giulini performances mesmerized listeners from the opening downbeat, and the spell was rarely broken. Every phrase was shaped, yet sounded entirely natural. The music breathed as if driven by the human soul, rather than by the inanimate metronome. No detail was too small, yet the whole was not lost. The sound had an inner glow, with the viola and cello parts bathing the top and bottom lines with color and warmth. Lyrical passages flowed with a transcendent beauty; fiery sections cut the air with knife-edged precision and power. Climaxes accomplished their purpose without skewing orchestral balances. Through it all, players eagerly and lovingly responded to Giulini's overarching request: "Touch the heart."

Because of his sensitivity to the music's architecture, Giulini preferred to record entire movements in a single take. As such, his performances should be experienced in context, i.e., from beginning to end. Also, Giulini's extraordinary attention to detail is best appreciated in a suitably quiet setting, and on excellent sound equipment.

Giulini sought to make every moment of every performance meaningful and memorable. He loathed the mundane in music-making, and saw his role as "serving genius." Giulini interpretations often left listeners with the sense that they had just heard a great masterpiece for the first time.

"There was never any show about him," longtime Philharmonia Orchestra violinist Gillian Eastwood told WFMT Radio and EMI Classics as part of a four-hour documentary celebrating the now-retired conductor's ninetieth birthday in May 2004. "He was genuine, he was sincere in his music, he worried about everyone individually. The likes of him we shall never, ever see again."

Which is all the more reason to treasure these performances for the ages.

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeoman of the Guard & Trial by Jury

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The Wrong Point

Gilbert & Sullivan: The Yeoman of the Guard & Trial by Jury

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina
The Illusionist (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B00008LJF0
Release Date: 2003-05-13

Tracks:

Overture
When Maiden Loves, She Sits And Sighs
Tower Warders, Under Orders
When Our Gallant Norman Foes
Alas! I Waver To And Fro
Is Life A Boon?
Here's A Man Of Jollity
I Have A Song To Sing, O!
How Say You, Maiden
I've Jibe And Joke And Quip And Crank
'Tis Done! I Am A Bride
Were I Thy Bride
Oh, Sergeant Meryll, Is It True

Tracks:

Night Has Spread Her Pall Once More
Oh! A Private Buffoon Is A Lighthearted Loon
Hereupon We're Both Agreed
Free From His Fetters Grim
Strange Adventure
Hark! What Was That, Sir?
A Man Who Would Woo A Fair Maid
When A Wooer Goes A-Wooing
Rapture, Rapture
Comes A Pretty Young Bride
Hark The Hour Of Ten Is Sounding - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
When First My Old, Old Love I Knew - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
When I, Good Friends, Was Called To The Bar - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Where Is The Plaintiff - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
May It Please You, My Lud! - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
Oh, Gentlemen, Listen, I Pray - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
A Nice Dilemma We Have Here - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
I Love Him, I Love Him - The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company

Customer Reviews:

The Wrong Point.......2005-03-04

*Yeoman* is a brilliant/problematic piece of work. This recording captures much of the grandeur of the piece and there are some terrific performances here. However, for my tastes, the whole show hinges on the comedic/tragic performance of Jack Point. In this recording John Reed as Point is musically ineffective and dramatically flacid. That's enough to turn me elsewhere.

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Round and Round the Garden
John M. Feierabend & Luann Saunders
Manufacturer: Gia Publications
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

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Frog in the Meadow
The Book of Wiggles and Tickles: Wonderful Songs and Rhymes Passed Down from Generation to Generation (First Steps in Music)
There's a Hole in the Bucket
The Book of Bounces: Wonderful Songs and Rhymes Passed Down from Generation to Generation (First Steps in Music)
Frog in the Meadow: Music, Now I'm Two! (First Steps in Music)

ASIN: B00004WKCF
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

Giggles
Bounces: Ride-O
Bounces: Here Come Three Kings
Bounces: Ride A Cock-Horse
Bounces: This Is Bill Anderson
Bounces: To Market, To Market
Bounces: O Misses Sippy-O
Wiggles & Tickles: Let's Go To The Wood
Wiggles & Tickles: Row, Row, A Fishing We Will Go
Wiggles & Tickles: This Little Baby
Wiggles & Tickles: This Little Piggy Went To The Market
Wiggles & Tickles: This Kitty Said
Wiggles & Tickles: This Little Mousie
Simple Songs & Circles: Fais Dodo
Simple Songs & Circles: Rock-A-Bye
Simple Songs & Circles: Rain, Rain, Go Away
Wiggles & Tickles: A Little Flea Went Walking
Wiggles & Tickles: Bumble Bee
Wiggles & Tickles: Old Hawk Goes
Wiggles & Tickles: These Are Baby's Fingers
Wiggles & Tickles: Bird Fly Away, Away
Wiggles & Tickles: 'Round And'Round THe Garden
Tapping & Clapping: Pitter, Patter
Tapping & Clapping: Pat-A-Cake
Tapping & Clapping: Shoe The Horse
Tapping & Clapping: Climb Up The Ladder
Tapping & Clapping: Shoe The Colt
Tapping & Clapping: Soft Kitty
Lullabies: Ally Bally
Lullabies: Bim Bam, Biri, Biri, Bam
Lullabies: Hush, My Babe, Lie Still And Slumber
Bounces: Riding Here To Get Married
Bounces: Handy Spandy
Bounces: Trot On To Boston
Bounces: Bimbo, Bimbo
Bounces: Bossy-Cow
Bounces: Ride, Charley, Ride
Wiggles & Tickles: Seesaw, Margery Daw
Wiggles & Tickles: The First Little Pig
Wiggles & Tickles: This Little Wind
Wiggles & Tickles: Fire! Fire!
Wiggles & Tickles: Laughing Baby Susan
Wiggles & Tickles: The Dog Says, 'Bow Wow'
Simple Songs & Circles: Johnny Had One Friend
Simple Songs & Circles: There She Goes
Simple Songs & Circles: 'Round And 'Round
Wiggles & Tickles: I'm Gonna Bore A Hole
Wiggles & Tickles: My Father Was A Butcher
Wiggles & Tickles: Shear The Sheep
Wiggles & Tickles: Tommy Thumb Is Up
Wiggles & Tickles: 1,2,3
Wiggles & Tickles: What Do I See?
Tapping & Clapping: Hot Cross Buns
Tapping & Clapping: Clap Hands 'Til Daddy Comes Home
Tapping & Clapping: Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Tapping & Clapping: Little Hand
Tapping & Clapping: There Was A Mouse
Tapping & Clapping: Two Little Eyes
Lullabies: Baloo Baleerie
Lullabies: Bye-O, Bye-O, Bye-O Baby
Lullabies: Little Baby Sweetly Sleep

Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

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Tiszta forrás (Pure Springs): Hungarian Folk Tunes and Their Arrangements in Works by Bartók and Kodály

Manufacturer: Hungaroton
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00007138S
Release Date: 2002-10-29

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Religious music from the 19th century
A wonderful listening treat

I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B0002NY90W
Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

Today, today is my own time
The Coming Day
Rose of Sharon
In this pleasant place I will go
The Earth Is Renewed
I've a spiritual garden to weed
Lord give me of Thy living bread
Redeeming Love
Good Brethren will you receive my love
Round Dance
Compassion
Toil On, Pray On
As Stars and Diamonds
Receive a Father's love
Pearl of Great Price
In love and peace we will increase
Simple Gift
With the lamb on Mt. Zion
The Charms of My Mother
"Great I" Medley: Dismission of Great I
Love Is Little
Harmony of Angels
I Am Filled With Heavenly Treasures
Mother's Chair
Let us grow up strength in Zion
My Mother's way's the way for me
Let us sow to the spirit of love
May I see as I am seen
Wake Up
I love to sing and worship God
Move on with the gift
How pretty 'tis to see
Good Elder, dear Brethren and Sisters, I love you
Grateful Remembrance
Learned of Angel
God Is Infinitely Able
God's Blessing
Farewell, farewell our dear gospel friends
Prayer for the Nations

Album Description

Shaker music is a unique body of American sacred folk music, created by eighteen American Shaker communities over a period of one hundred and forty years (1780-1920). This rich tradition of song continues to serve the Shaker community in the twenty-first century because it embodies their history, records the testimony of Shakers "who have gone before," articulates the religious principles on which Shakerism is founded, and reflects the faith of the contemporary community. Shaker music was created and nurtured in communities that prized isolation from worldly ways. Shaker melodies, although related to the larger tradition of Anglo-American folk songs, are not bound by their form, tonality, melodic or rhythmic structure.

The Enfield Shaker singers are a vocal ensemble of adults and children devoted to the study and performance of Shaker music. The group is open to all without audition, and is made up of both trained musicians and amateur singers. We draw heavily on the repertoire received or composed in the two societies that were the New Hampshire Bishopric—Canterbury and Enfield. Since the New Hampshire societies enriched their repertoire with songs from all the other Shaker communities, they also sing songs of the New York, Maine, Massachusetts, Ohio and Kentucky Shakers.

The Enfield Shaker Singers are drawn to Shaker spirituals that illuminate Shaker communal values and broaden our definitions of the sacred. The songs included on this recording illustrate some of the many ways music served Shaker communities. Most Shaker song texts are theologically direct, emotionally honest, and expressive of our shared humanity.

On this recording we offer thirty-nine songs we have come to love. Some have special meaning for individuals. We associate others with a particular singer in the group, or an occasion when it was sung. Each song offers us slightly different insights into Shaker aspiration, and Shaker faith. We hope that, through this recording, others will also come to love and sing them too. —Mary Ann Haagen, from the liner notes

Customer Reviews:

Religious music from the 19th century.......2007-07-07

If one likes the songs of the Shakers written in the late 18th and early 19 century that were without musical instruments, then you may like this CD. I found 8 songs out of the 30 or more on the CD that I liked, the others I did not care for much. This is no fault of the creators of the Cd, it is simply the style of the Shakers of the past.

A wonderful listening treat.......2005-01-11

This CD is a delight! The simple melodies, surprising harmonies, and clarity of the voices makes you want to sing along. Listening makes one smile, regardless of one's religious persuasion. Thank you for giving us these songs and preserving the tradition of this music.

The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks

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Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer
A Richard Crooks Collection

The Stanford Archive Series: Richard Crooks

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000072Q
Release Date: 1997-05-20

Tracks:

Die schone Mullerin: Das Wandern
Die schone Mullerin: Wohin?
Die schone Mullerin: Halt!
Die schone Mullerin: Danksagung an den Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Am eierabend
Die schone Mullerin: Der Neugierige
Die schone Mullerin: Ungeduld
Die schone Mullerin: Morgengruss
Die schone Mullerin: Des M Blumen
Die schone Mullerin: Thrnregen
Die schone Mullerin: Mein!
Die schone Mullerin: Pause
Die schone Mullerin: Mit dem grautenbande
Die schone Mullerin: Der Jr
Die schone Mullerin: Eifersucht und Stolz
Die schone Mullerin: Die liebe Farbe
Die schone Mullerin: Die bose Farbe
Die schone Mullerin: Trockne Blumen
Die schone Mullerin: Der Muller und der Bach
Die schone Mullerin: Des Baches Wiegenlied
Serenade
I Love Thee
Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Passing By
Clorinda
L'Adieu du Matin
I Love Thee
For Music
Hark How Still
On Wings Of Song

Tracks:

Charity
The Student Prince In Heidelberg; Serenade
The Desert Song; One Flower Grows Alone In Your Garden
Sacrament (A Love Song)
Prize Song, Act III
Lohengrin: In fernem land, Act III
Carmen: Hier am Herzen (Blumenarie), Act II
Aida: O ware ich erkoren... Holde Aida (Celeste Aida) Act I, Scene I
Elisir d'Amore: Heimlich aus ihrem Auge (Una furtiva lagrima), Act II
Absent Yet Present
Love's Old Sweet Song
Die Nacht
Morgen
L'Arlesiana: E la solita storia (Lamento di Federico), Act II
Comus: Prech Me Not Your Musty Rules
Dearest Maiden, Hear My Song
Friederike: O Maiden, My Maiden
O Perfect Love
For You With Love
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Cantata 147, No. 10)
The Americans Come
The Americans Come
De Camptown Races
Beautiful Dreamer

Customer Reviews:

Richard Crooks: A Fine Man and a Master Singer.......2006-06-23

I most heartily agree with what the earlier reviewer has written of Richard Crooks and of this excellent Stanford Archive set.

The 2 CD set is a most welcome release, and I note that, for now at least, one seller has it available at the bargain price of $14.95. Collectors of the recordings of singers from the early years of last century please note, and snap it up while still on offer at such a modest cost.

These historic recordings have a bad habit of vanishing because too often there is insufficient apparent interest shown by potential buyers. I am relieved to have bought a copy and urge others to do so. Making due allowance for some poor quality recordings by today's high fidelity standards, there are wonderful treasures to enjoy indeed in this set.

A Richard Crooks Collection.......2003-12-06

American tenor Richard Crooks (1900-1972) would have been just another fine opera and recital singer if it had not been for the popularity of a long-running radio program, "The Voice of Firestone," which he hosted for many years. For this writer, the real difference came in the rare opportunity to actually meet the retired singer at his home in Portola Valley, California, on December 31, 1969. A close friend of mine had known Crooks for several years and he finally arranged for a meeting that memorable day.

Already, however, I had heard many of Crooks' 78-rpm recordings for RCA Victor. Crooks had retired in 1945, due to serious health problems, but he actually could still sing quite well, as can be determined by hearing some of the rare private recordings of Crooks singing at a wedding in 1968. Those recordings, included in this wonderful compilation, are proof that Crooks still had the same beautiful, lyrical voice which had so distinguished his singing over the years. Sadly, Crooks was already battling the cancer that would ultimately take his life in September 1972.

This two-CD compilation, prepared by the Stanford (University) Archives of Recorded Sound, goes back to one of Crooks' earliest recordings, an unreleased Columbia recording of "The Americans Come." It also includes some of his early Victor recordings. Among these is the "Serenade" from Rudolf Friml's "The Student Prince." (Crooks also sang with the Victor Light Opera Company in some of their medley recordings, which were so popular during the 1920's. One of the recordings is a medley of songs from "The Student Prince," in which Crooks alternates with another tenor, Lambert Murphy, on some of the solos.)

One of the amazing releases in this collection is Franz Schubert's "Die schone Mullerin," in which Crooks is wonderfully accompanied by Frank LaForge. Remarkably, Victor never issued these recordings. The only problem is that there are occasional flaws in the original masters, but the brilliant singing comes through.

Crooks often talked about singing in public when he was only 10 years old. Famed German contralto Ernestine Schumann Heink was present at the performance and, at the very end, she planted a big kiss on the boy, to his embarassment. Crooks also spoke of hearing Enrico Caruso sing at the Metropolitan Opera; he said that Caruso's recordings are like listening to the tenor in the lobby with the doors closed!

There are some interesting curiosities in this collection, too, such as some recordings of various operatic arias recorded in Germany and sung in German, regardless of the original language. However, operas were usually sung in German in Germany in the 1920's and 1930's, so Crooks was simply following the custom of the time.

There is also the double-sided 12-inch 78-rpm RCA Victor "Red Seal" disk that Crooks always said was his favorite: two famous arias by Richard Wagner, the "Prize Song" from "Meistersinger" and "En fernem land" from "Lohengrin." One marvels at not only the beauty and sweetness of Crooks' voice but his amazing diction. His training and experience in Germany served him well.

One of the special treats is hearing two Stephen Foster classics, "De Camptown Races" and "Beautiful Dreamer," sung with Bing Crosby on 1940's radio broadcasts. When this writer met Crooks in 1969, he told how he remained in touch with Bing, who lived a few miles north of him. It's clear that the two, very different singers admired each other and they also had some fun singing such songs.