Love Can Carry

Track Listings

1. My Heart Is in the Right Place

2. Best You I Can Be

3. Alive and Well

4. Precous Savior Holy Spirit

5. Love Can Carry

6. Till You Came Along

7. Don't Forget the Love

8. Just a Little Boy Just a Little Dream

9. You Called My Name

10. You Beat All I've Ever Seen

Tracks:

Sylfiden, Act One: Prld
Sylfiden, Act One: James Is Dosing In The Armchair. - The Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Harry Damgaard T
Sylfiden, Act One: Gurn Enters And Mocks The Confused James.
Sylfiden, Act One: The Wedding Guests Arrive And Greet Anna , Effy And James.
Sylfiden, Act One: Madge Sneaks In. James Discovers Her. He Tries To Get Rid Of Her.
Sylfiden, Act One: Madge Prophesies That Effy Will Not Marry James, But Gurn.
Sylfiden, Act One: James Is Now Alone.
Sylfiden, Act One: Gurn And The Guests Return.
Sylfiden, Act One: A 'Springdans', A Solo By James And A Pas De Deux With Effy And James...
Sylfiden, Act One: The Sylphide Begs James To Abandon Effy.
Sylfiden, Act Two: Night. In A Glade In The Woods.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Dance.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Dance Around James.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphs Come Between James And The Sylphide.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Scottish Peasants Come By. - The Danish Radio Sinfonietta/Harry Damgaard T
Sylfiden, Act Two: Effy And The Peasants Return, And At Madge's Urging Gurn Begs...
Sylfiden, Act Two: James Enters And Madge Tipoes In.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Sylphide Enters. He Gives Her The Beautiful Shawl And They...
Sylfiden, Act Two: She Trembles.
Sylfiden, Act Two: The Wedding Guests, Effy And Gurn Pass By.

Customer Reviews:

A FUN BALLET WITH QUITE A HISTORY!.......2000-01-30

It can be said that La Sylphide (Sylfiden as the Danes call it, was premiered by the Royal Danish Ballet in 1836), composed by Herman Severin Lovenskiold and choreographed by Bournonville, is the earliest piece of ballet music from the Romantic period that has been recorded. However, an ealier version of the same ballet by a different composer (Schneitzhoeffer)--no recordings--and choreographer has been revived by the Paris Ballet (Who knows how faithful it is to the original!). La Sylphide is a story about a female spirit, called the Sylphide, who falls in love with a young man; he too falls in love with her. But the little courtship is to be cut short by a witch. The fairy tale ends with the death of the Sylphide. The star ballerina of the first version of La Sylphide was Marie Taglioni, who was forever associated with the beginning of the Romantic ballet. Now we come to the version recorded on this CD. First, a little history. After the Danish choreographer, August Bournonville, saw Marie Taglioni dance in the role of the Sylphide at the Paris Opera, he wanted to stage his own production of the ballet. But first, he had to purchase the rights for using the score (by Schneitzhoeffer), but to his disappointment, it was too expensive. Consequently, he decided to have entirely new music written. And the man to accomplish this was Lovenskiold. So successful was this second version that the complete Bournonville choreography along with Lovenskiold's score are still used today by the Royal Danish Ballet. This is a superb "complete" performance by the Danish Radio Sinfoniette. The sound is clear and rich! Damgaard who has been the chief conductor at the Royal Danish Theatre since 1990 conducts beautifully. Under his baton, the orchestra makes the music sound alive and poignant. For those who are interested in ballets or just a great fairy tale, I highly recommend they get this CD. The only alternative recording is the one on Chandos, performed by the Royal Danish Orchestra (conducted by Garforth). It is also excellently performed (Read my review for that recording!). That CD contains an extra number (a pas de deux, which is not ever played as part of the complete ballet), which is a delight to hear! The CPO version, however, contains James' Act 1 solo, which is not in the Chandos recording. If you're a completist, get both!

Excellent recording of Lovenskiold 's Ballet.......1999-10-26

It is a beatiful recording of the first romantic ballet, who has a precursor on Taglioni's Sylphide (which can be appreciate on video recording by Ghislene Thesmar interpretation with the corps of Opera Paris Ballet, music by Scheneihoffer,available at amazon.com). The perfomance of Lovenskiold partiture by the Danish Radio Simfonieta conducted by Daamgaardt is perfect, without affectation and it reach the maximum climax on second act. I bought this record because I listen on the radio the overture and the introduction of the first act, which inmediately decided me to find out and bought this version. There is only a criticism to the booknote which is included on the CD. Taglioni 's Sylphide has been succesfull performed in our century, on the seventies by a reconstruction taken on by Pierre Lacotte and interpreted by Ghislaine Thesmar. Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires offer this version on 1974 on stage and it was suscefull received at Argentine and many great Argentine Ballerinas interpreted the beautiful role of the light Sylphide.

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Love Can Carry
Steve Gatlin
Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008F8MS
Release Date: 1994-08-16

Tracks:

My Heart Is in the Right Place
Best You I Can Be
Alive and Well
Precous Savior Holy Spirit
Love Can Carry
Till You Came Along
Don't Forget the Love
Just a Little Boy Just a Little Dream
You Called My Name
You Beat All I've Ever Seen

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John Woods Duke: Lieder
James Taylor , Donald Sulzen , and John Woods Duke
Manufacturer: Orfeo
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2002-02-26

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A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke
just spring review... great CD

Just-Spring: Art Songs of John Duke

Manufacturer: New World Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005V9UK
Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

Just-Spring
Acquainted With the Night
Water that Falls and Runs Away
I Carry Your Heart
The Mountains Are Dancing
April Elegy
Morning in Paris
There Will Be Stars
Good Morning, Midnight
Heart! We will forget him!
Bee! Im expecting you!
The Bird
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All Music, All Delight
Shes Somewhere in the Sunlight Strong
Bells in the Rain
Penguin Geometry
O, it was out by Donnycarney
Aubade
I cant be talkin of love
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Album Description

John Duke (1899-1984) is one of the acknowledged masters of the American art song. This release of twenty-three of his finest songs will afford lovers of vocal music the opportunity to discover Duke's little-known corpus. Comparison with the musical language of other notable American art song composers (Griffes, Loeffler, or Ives, for instance) reveals an unusually consistent and personal style throughout most of Duke's career, the composer venturing only slightly afield of a conventional tonal practice derived mostly from European music of the nineteenth century. Musical influences on his language, in fact, are almost entirely European; most of his songs have an accompanimental texture unmistakably his, continuing, in a way, the tradition of the German Lied, using poems in English.

Duke often claimed, both in his writings and in conversation with colleagues, to have developed his art song style somewhat self-consciously after having studied in great detail the historical, poetical, and musical contexts of three previous genres exhibiting a marriage of music and poetry: the Elizabethan song, the nineteenth-century Lied and the French mélodie of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His choice of poetry avoids almost completely the abstract in favor of the tried and true themes of love and mortality, themes that most composers have found the most suitable for musical treatment. Duke's music is taken very seriously by those who know his work intimately. After all, about how many American composers could it be said that all 265 songs have a natural feel for the voice, an elegantly matched pianistic accompaniment, a recognizable and personal style, and a musical language that never resorts to false syntax? It is easy to see why American singers love to sing his songs.

Customer Reviews:

A Generous Packet of Art Songs by American Composer John Duke.......2006-01-27

Though his name may not be a household word among American composers, to singers the lieder of John Woods Duke are a staple of the recital repertoire. A composer well respected in his lifetime (1899 - 1984), his 265 catalogued songs are the epitome of the marriage of text and music. His musical style never veered from melodic but his integration of poetry with his expressive understanding of the voice places him in the same category with Ives, Griffes, Rorem, Barber, Heggie et al.

This fine recital by soprano Lauralyn Kolb, a former student of the highly regarded Howard Swan of Occidental College and a sought after oratorio soloist and recitalist, with pianist Tina Toglia is a study in musical intelligence. Kolb's soprano voice is beautifully focused and her communication of the texts ranging from ee cummings, Emily Dickinson, Elinor Wylie, Sarah Teasdale, Robert Frost, Richard Nickson, Mark Van Doren to James Joyce is pristine and warmly sensitive. Her collaboration with Toglia demonstrates the way musicians should approach the art song. There are many excellent songs in this collection that could be singled out, but the pleasure of the recital is that the variety selected by the artists is very satisfying for a survey of works by a relatively unknown (to the public) composer. Recommended. Grady Harp, January 06

just spring review... great CD.......2005-08-20

fast shipment, everything recieved as promised. good seller to buy from. thank you.

Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs

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beautiful songs
A flawless and fascinating recital

Carole Bogard: A Collection of American Songs

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beautiful songs.......2007-05-09

A welcome reissue in CD format from old LP's of Carpenters compositions : song cycles of very well known lyrics. Particularly fascinating are the renderings of poems from "Gitanjali", a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore in English translated from original Bengali; a work that got Nobel prize in 1913 (Not the Pullitzer prize as mentioned in th accompanying text). The songs on lyrics/poems by other poets, all americans are just as beautiful. Well done.

A flawless and fascinating recital.......2005-04-14

This 2-CD set by soprano Carole Bogard is an absolute must-have for lovers of American songs, song recitals in general, or great singing. Culled from three long-out-of-print LPs and some performance tapes recorded for broadcast in Europe, it includes songs by Carpenter, Flanagan, Copland, Rorem, and the little-known Richard Cumming and John Woods Duke. And yet, there is not a single weak track on the entire set. Every song is interesting (something that cannot be said for many similar recitals recorded today), and each and every song is performed with musical acuity and an attention to words.

Particularly interesting, to me, were the songs by John Alden Carpenter. Largely neglected by modern singers and scholars, Carpenter wrote what many feel is the most successful fusion of classical music with jazz, the ballet tone-poem "Skyscrapers." It had the misfortune to premiere in 1924, the same year as Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"; but whereas "Rhapsody" was more of a pastiche, "Skyscrapers" blends the jazz and classical aspects flawlessly, producing an exciting and well-crafted work that deserves a wider audience.

The Carpenter songs presented here are not jazzy, but they do reveal a greater depth of feeling and originality in construction than one hears nowadays from the songs of Andre Previn or Jake Heggie. And the other pieces are equally excellent.

I highly recommend this album, especially for Sunday afternoon or summertime listening...between the excellence of the songs and the excellence of Bogard's singing, you just melt into the music and become one with the warm, intimate feeling that this recital engenders.

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BEATLES GO BAROQUE
Great treatment of Beatles songs

Let It Be...J.S. Bach
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000C9N
Release Date: 1996-01-09

Tracks:

The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No. 1 (After HAndels Concerto Grosso No. 1, Op.6: She Loves You (A Tempo Giusto)
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No. 1 (After HAndels Concerto Grosso No. 1, Op.6: Lady Madonna (Allegro)
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No. 1 (After HAndels Concerto Grosso No. 1, Op.6: Fool On The Hill (Adagio)
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No. 1 (After HAndels Concerto Grosso No. 1, Op.6: Honey Pie (Allegro)
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No. 1 (After HAndels Concerto Grosso No. 1, Op.6: Penny Lane (Allegro)
The Beatles' Concero Grosso No.2 (After Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'): A Hard Day's Night
The Beatles' Concero Grosso No.2 (After Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'): Girl
The Beatles' Concero Grosso No.2 (After Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'): And I Love Her
The Beatles' Concero Grosso No.2 (After Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'): Paperback Writer
The Beatles' Concero Grosso No.2 (After Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'): Help
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): The Long And Winding Road
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): Eight Days A Week
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): She's leaving home
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): We Can Work It Out
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): Hey Jude
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.3 (After Bach's Orchestral Suite No.2): Yellow Submarine
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.4: Here Comes The Sun
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.4: Michelle
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.4: Goodnight
The Beatles' Concerto Grosso No.4: Carry That Weight

Customer Reviews:

BEATLES GO BAROQUE.......2001-06-01

ME GUSTAN LOS BEATLES Y ESTE C.D. ES DE COLECCION, LO QUIERO TENER.

Great treatment of Beatles songs.......1999-12-19

Presenting Beatles tunes in a Baroque treatment is not new (Back in 1965, Joshua Rifkin released an album tailored this way). The album presents the songs gathered on a concerto grosso form in a particular composer style (Haendel, Vivaldi, Bach). The main problem however is that being such so well known tunes, the tendence is to think them as separate pieces instead of being part of a whole. This does not prevent the effect to be great. The selection of the songs is good. In some cases the theme is merely a quotation to start a variation in the best baroque tradition, not only related to the melody line but to the harmonic structure. Some themes due to their rich chord progresion work better under a baroque treatment. Curiosly those on a minor key such as "Girl" and "Michelle", the latter adopting a fugue structure. Echoes of the composers can be heard on a few themes. "Lady Madonna" resembles the first bars of Haendel's "Hallelujah Chorus" and Vivaldi's "The Spring" can be heard on "Paperback writer"

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1. My Heart Is in the Right Place
2. Best You I Can Be
3. Alive and Well
4. Precous Savior Holy Spirit
5. Love Can Carry
6. Till You Came Along
7. Don't Forget the Love
8. Just a Little Boy Just a Little Dream
9. You Called My Name
10. You Beat All I've Ever Seen