Shine Your Light [Live]

Track Listings

1. Jesus Can

2. I Found the Answer

3. All Things Are Possible

4. Bless His Holy Name

5. Never Alone

6. Do You Know Him?

7. In That Land

8. Let Jesus Love You

9. Shine Your Light

10. Look up and Live

11. Calling

12. Lord We Try

Shine Your Light, Music, Edwin Hawkins, Gospel, Gospel/Christian Music, Pop

Mendelssohn: Elijah
Average customer rating:

Wonderful, but not my first choice

THE BEST recording of the BEST oratorio ever...

Too bad there are so few recordings of Elijah

Mendelssohn: Elijah

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) / Auger, Stilwell, Atlanta SO, Robert Shaw

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem [A German Requiem]

ASIN: B0002XV31A
Release Date: 2005-02-15

Tracks:

Introduction: As God The Lord Of Israel Liveth
Overture
No.1 Help, Lord! Wilt Thou Quite Destroy Us?
No.2: Lord! Bow Thine Ear To Our Prayer!
No.3: Ye People, Rend Your Hearts
No.4: If With All Your Hearts
No.5: Yet Doth The Lord See It Not
No.6: Elijah! Get Thee Hence
No.7: For He Shall Give His Angels Charge Over Thee
Recitative: Now Cherith's Brook Is Dried Up
No.8: What Have I Do To Do With Thee?
No.9: Blessed Are The Men Who Fear Him
No.10: As God The Lord Of Sabaoth Liveth
No.11: Baal, We Cry To Thee: Hear And Answer Us!
No.12: Call Him Louder, For He Is A God!
No.13: Call Him Louder! He Heareth Not!
No.14: Lord God Of Abraham, Isaac And Israel!
No.15: Cast Thy Burden Upon The Lord
No.16: O Thou, Who Makest Thine Angels Spirits
No.17: Is Not His Word Like A Fire?
No.18: Woe Unto Them Who Forsake Him!
No.19: O Man Of God, Help Thy People!
No.20: Thanks Be To God!

Tracks:

No.21: Hear Ye, Israel; Hear What The Lord Speaketh
No.22: Be Not Afraid, Saith God The Lord
No.23: The Lord Hath Exalted Thee
No.24: Woe To Him, He Shall Perish
No.25: Man Of God, Now Let My Words Be Precious
No.26: It Is Enough; O Lord Now Take My Life
No.27: See, Now He Sleepeth
No.28: Lift Thine Eyes To The Mountains
No.29: He, Watching Over Israel, Slumbers Not
No.30: Arise, Elijah, For Thou Hast A Long Journey
No.31: O Rest In The Lord
No.32: He That Shall Endure To The End, Shall Be Saved
No.33: Night Falleth Round Me, O Lord!
No.34: Behold! God The Lord Passed By!
No.35: Above Him Stood The Seraphim
No.36: Go, Return Upon Thy Way
No.37: For The Mountains Shall Depart
No.38: Then Did Elijah The Prophet Break Forth
No.39: Then Shall The Righteous Shine Forth
No.40: Behold, God Hath Sent Elijah
No.41: But The Lord, From The North Hath Raised One
No.41a: O Come Everyone That Thirsteth
No.42: And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth

Customer Reviews:

Wonderful, but not my first choice.......2007-04-07

I believe this was the first recording of Elijah in English that used an "international" conductor and some international singers. Fruhbeck gives a good, dramatic sweep to the piece, with some wonderful dramatic moments. This is an old fashioned performance, with only a solo quartet, and if there is a semi-chorus, I can't tell the difference. This means that the soprano is the Widow, and an Angel, the mezzo the Angel and Queen Jezabel, etc. You really should have a libretto, but you don't get one at this price.
Fischer-Dieskau roughens up his voice for the role, and therein lies a problem. The voice spreads and his diction suffers because of it; that and his unidiomatic pronounciation, with far too many rolled "r"s. He does the drama well, but what works well in lieder works here less well on the large scale. Odd, given his success as on opera singer (check out his Iago), that here he frequently comes off blustery.
Dame Gwyneth Jones belies her reputation and gives a contolled, dramatic performance, using her "edge" to advantage in "Hear Ye, Israel". Gedda's diction is amazing, with exactly the right color for this literature, and projecting a little more blood than an English tenor.
Dame Janet Baker is my star in this performance. Dramatic, heart-rending when need be, and in wonderful voice. She'll chill your blood when she tells the people of Baal to "slaughter him, do what he hath done!".
And as for the people of Baal, the Philharmonia Chorus is wonderful. Incisive and dramatic, with beautiful tone. I could do without the trick of the boy choir for "Lift Thine Eyes", and I miss the small ensembles, but all in all a fine performance, and good recording, circa 1968.
First choice in English, Daniels/Terfel: better Elijah in Terfel, better recording, more authentic orchestra, small vocal ensembles (as per the score) but inferior women (including Fleming: beautiful tone, but where's her head?). In German, it's Sawallisch/Adam all the way.
But if you're singing Elijah, and have a score, this is a good choice.

THE BEST recording of the BEST oratorio ever..........2006-08-15

Okay, I'm gonna admit I'm biased- I first sung in the chorus of Elijah when I was 14 and it made a BIG impression on me!
This recording is in every way wonderful. Starting with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He IS Elijah to me. His singing is perfection. He has amazing phrasing and his diction makes it possible to understand the lovely, inspired libretto to this heavenly music. There are so many pieces that are ephemeral, but a couple of my favorites are: #14, Lord God of Abraham and #37, For the Mountains shall Depart. Dieskau does a great job of what I think of as compassionate, heartfelt singing. His interpretation sounds like the voice of God himself. It has a quality of kindness and yet he sounds just as convincing reprimanding the people of Baal. He is the true highlight of this recording.

That said, the rest of the cast is wonderful as well. Gwyneth Jones has a lovely, silvery voice that has a clarion bell-like tone that rings over the large orchestra with ease. She has occasional "misfire" but is a consistent performer. Dame Janet Baker and Nicolai Gedda both perform at a consistently lovely level. The orchestra and chorus are both wonderful. #15, Cast thy Burden upon the Lord, #32 He that Shall Endure to the End, and #38 Then Did Elijah are all highlights.

All said, for me the main reason to get this recording is Dieskau's Elijah- after all, he's the main character. But don't forget the lovely music. This story is exciting and passionate and sacred all at the same time. For me, it's the best oratorio that has a moving story and great music too.

Too bad there are so few recordings of Elijah.......2006-07-03

This is a good recording of an oratorio that deserves more attention. The chorus and soloists are very good--I just wish Fischer-Diskau wouldn't slide around so much in singing the title part!

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Simply amazing
Gloria: Sacred Music of John Rutter

Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter

Manufacturer: Collegium
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Be Thou My Vision

ASIN: B000AA4JBG
Release Date: 2005-09-20

Tracks:

First Movement: Allegro Vivace
Second Movement: Andante
Third Movement: Vivace E Ritmico
All Things Bright And Beautiful
Cantate Domino
O Clap Your Hands
Wedding Canticle
The Lord Is My Shepherd
A Gaelic Blessing
Hymn To The Creator Of Light
Arise, Shine
Praise Ye The Lord
For The Beauty Of The Earth
God Be In My Head
Open Thou Mine Eyes
A Prayer Of Saint Patrick
The Lord Bless You And Keep You

Customer Reviews:

Simply amazing.......2007-06-16

If I do make it to heaven, I don't know what it will look like, but I do know what it will sound like - listen to the vocals in the Second Movement: Andante . They are worth the price of the whole CD.......
a miracle, really.

Gloria: Sacred Music of John Rutter.......2007-05-14

Outstanding music and outstanding recording. A musical treat as soon as you put in the disc. This is a must for anyone interested in choral music by Rutter.

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good but with some weaknesses
Excellent, as always
their dim light shines bright
"frustrated incorporated"
The dim light tries to shine...it really does

Let Your Dim Light Shine
Soul Asylum
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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And the Horse They Rode in On
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After the Flood: Live from the Grand Forks Prom June 28, 1997

ASIN: B0000029EP
Release Date: 1995-06-06

Tracks:

Misery
Shut Down
To My Own Devices
Hopes Up
Promises Broken
Bittersweetheart
String Of Pearls
Crawl
Caged Rat
Eyes Of A Child
Just Like Anyone
Tell Me When
Nothing To Write Home About
I Did My Best

Customer Reviews:

good but with some weaknesses.......2006-07-24

Let Your Dim Light Shine is very similar in style, but not substance with Grave Dancer's Union. Very raw and grungy songs with Dave giving into to his more melodic side, but at the same time not fully withdrawing from his roots.

"Misery" surely packs in some flavor with this big, but not too big hit from the band. The song ultimately led me to the band, but not too fond of the lyrics. The music is w/o a doubt the as good as the band can get. It does grow on you eventually after a gajillion listens, so I guess that's the good thing.

I like "Shut Down" for simply what it's worth. Not too complex, over produced, or watered down. It has a nice sound, good chorus, some backing vocals, and the lyrics aren't that bad either.

Almost country, and almost folk is sort of the tune from which "To My Own Devices" comes packaged with. It's more or less a nice relaxing southern type flare with of course their Minneapolis influences. Has a nice subtle slow tempo.

One of my favorite tracks is "Hopes Up." Surprising it brings in a great beat, and maybe the best sing-a-long lyrics.

A softer approach with "Promises Brokens" is somewhat not as fresh as I'd want it to be, but nonetheless it is still very soothing.

"Bittersweetheart" rages on with a great chorus but some of the ryhmes seem a little too forceful.

Now "String of Pearls" has a great 80's vibe to it with the guitar solo breaks, and resonating metrodome thing. The 'oooohs' along with it are nice touch too. Some people may bash this song because the lyrics are garblely-junk, but really if you just let them be, it's an awesome song, and Dave tells the story with authority.

"Crawl" and "Caged Rat" sadly are just fillers on this 14 track album. I know, I know, some may disagree, but it's hard to really get into either one. Both seems somewhat forceful, but give them a break. I think that the album does need both on here, b/c they really aren't that bad of songs, just have mixed punk along with 90's retro-rock.

Another story-telling song is "Eyes of a Child." Once again, the lyrics may seem kind of out there, but I'm sure Dave knew what he was doing with this one. The song flows exactly like "String of Pearls" only with out the bells and whistles.

Nothing gets more down to human life than "Just Like Anyone." Accompianed with a music video and single, it's about a girl hoping to be noticed by other people and not some outcast. I get the impression that the girl in the song is thinking about life while sitting on the crapper. (Listen to the words, and you'll understand)

A nice electric wave of guitars and folk rock allows "Tell Me When" to be a great song. The words however, are slightly hard to pick up during the soft parts of the song.

"Nothing to Write Home About" would have been a great last song on this album for it sort of wraps up thing about just not giving a damn and moving on with the way things are going. An even better last song does come with "I Did My Best" which is beautiful piano, soft guitar, excellent drifting songs. Lyrics are outstanding too.

There are definately peaks and valleys on Let Your Dim Light Shine. The variance and uniqueness of the songs alone make it a good buy which you can probably pick up for a buck at a used CD store these days. If only for "Misery" you might get caught off guard and soon pick up on this band and the album. I did.

Excellent, as always.......2006-02-13

I'm a long time fan of Soul Asylum, this being the 4th album of theirs that I bought, and I can only wish I bought it sooner! It has everything about Soul Asylum that I love, from the brilliantly intellectual lyrics (String of Pearls) to a little bit of country (Bittersweet Heart) and a little bit of pop (Misery), carefully blended together to create a lovely album. A must buy if you are fan, and if you are new listener, perhaps a good buy to experience the variety they are capable of (you will be hooked!).

their dim light shines bright.......2005-08-14

Man oh Man, this is one fine rock n roll album. I bought it
in 1995 when I was 14 years old and its still one of my favorite records ever. I dont like to hype things too much for fear that people will be disappointed but if someone doesnt like this then we have nothing in common when it comes to music. Misery is a song among songs and is what made me a fan in the first place. Promises Broken and I Did my best are Grade A country rockers. I cant think of a bad thing to say about this album or this band, cant wait to hear what they put out next.

"frustrated incorporated".......2005-05-22

"Misery" is far and away the standout track on this album. It's a perfect pop song, much more tuneful and catchy than anything else here. There's some other good stuff, but some of it is pretty lackluster and almost irritating to be honest. "Shut Down" is pretty good. I like about half of "String of Pearls." As another reviewer here noted, the lyrics are a bit embarrassing at times. And let's face it, when it comes to hard rocking, this band is far from the hardest, although they often deliberately go for a mellower direction on this album.

I thought "Misery" would be a huge hit when I first picked up the single. It seemed to perfectly ridicule the marketing of teen-age angst while celebrating it at the same time. Some of the other reviewers here who criticized the lyrics just didn't get them: they're pretty brilliant. Now I understand why this song didn't take off - it hits a little too close to the bone for the tastes of your average angst-rock fan. I think in some way it reveals a little too much, something they'd rather not consider (especially while trying to rock out).

The dim light tries to shine...it really does.......2004-09-02

If you had a pair of functioning ears in 1992/1993, you heard Runaway Train. It became, ahem, a runaway hit on college radio then crossed over to the mainstream. Soul Asylum had their work cut out for them when it was time to make a follow-up. And they could have done better. They also could have done lots worse.

Selecting Butch Vig for producer was probably an awkward choice since Vig's work ethic involves layering lots and lots of guitars to make everything slick and pristine while Soul Asylum, at least in the past, recorded albums hit-and-run stlye with Bob Mould sitting at the knobs. So the sound of Let Your Dim Light Shine, the CD that was designed to sell at least as many copies as Grave Dancers Union, sounds like clean and produced music performed by a band that does not have their heart in the clean and produced territory.

That's too bad, because there is plenty to admire about Let Your Dim Light Shine. Although the nerve-racking punk of Husker Du has left their sound, Soul Asylum can still play a simple, catchy song with plenty of energy. Tell Me When, Just Like Anyone, Bittersweet Heart, and To My Own Devices are all nifty little pieces of what most people would typify as classic, working man's rock. They take a few gambles, like with Caged Rat (the verses are jazz-fusion, the chorus is noise) and String of Pearls (shifting meters and a long narrative of what happens to a set of pearls after they snap off a necklace).

But beware, this is not the CD for you if you can't shut out lyrics. If self-abosrbed lyrics bug you, then it will be hard to get past stanzas like "put me out of my misery/I'll do it for you if you do it for me." Egads.

Still, the music is good. It's not anything bold or new, but it's pretty good as far as cutout CDs go. It comes from a band with lots of experience under their belt recording albums and playing gigs. But I don't think they were ready for the pressure Columbia put on them.

So yes, they cracked. But not all the way.

Average customer rating:

Beautiful melody but lacks variety

Being Julia
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00065U0NG
Release Date: 2004-11-16

Tracks:

Curtain Up
Real World - The Mills Brothers
Lift
Bei Mir Bist du Sch
Farewell My Love
Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries
Never Seen Them Shine Like That Before
Birthday Presents
It Will Only End in Tears
They Didn't Believe Me
Charades
I Saw the Light On
Am I Late
Not That Sort of Girl
Take a Break
Yes, Yes - Alison Jiear
Avice Gets the Part
Reunion - The Andrews Sisters
Play for the Other Side
Mad About the Boy
Jimmy's Magic
Avice Takes a Bow
For Old Times' Sake
Laird O'Drumblair
Stage Is Set
Curtain Call
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Quite Alone

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Based on Somerset Maugham's middling novel Theater, Annette Bening stars as the title character, an aging star of the London stage whose life and the melodramas she performs have come to mirror each other. Composer Mychael Danna sets those conflicts to a score that emphasizes theatrical surfaces and rigid role-playing, utilizing a finely honed classical pastiche approach with parallels to his previous period-evoking work on Vanity Fair. His cues here are rooted in the light romantic chamber music of the 19th century, though they frequently bristle with a more contemporary energy and aplomb. Offering counterpoint to Danna's dignified, oft-precious classical confections and mining the story's more sensual human dimensions are pop chestnuts from the era (The Andrews Sisters' saucy "Bei Mir Bist Du Schon" and Mills Brothers' jaunty "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries"), as well as fine contemporary takes of "They Didn't Believe Me" and Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy" by Denzel Sinclair and Alison Jicar's elegant read of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful melody but lacks variety.......2005-04-11

Being Julia OST has a beautiful main melody which occurs over and over again throughout the tracks. I especially like "Curtain Up" and "Quite Alone". However, Being Julia OST doesn't have other strong melody to show along side with the main melody which seems a little too simple for a complete album. The movie is great too. Annette Bening's performance is outstanding.

Average customer rating:

Another gem

Shine Your Light
Edwin Hawkins
Manufacturer: Bellmark Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Live: One Last Time

ASIN: B00004SYBQ
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

Jesus Can
I Found The Answer
All Things Are Possible
Bless His Holy Name
Never Alone
Do You Know Him?
In That Land
Let Jesus Love You
Shine Your Light
Look Up And Live
Calling
Lord We Try

Customer Reviews:

Another gem.......2003-11-26

Excellent CD favorite track is In this Land. The legendary choir from Oakland delivers again.

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Shine Your Light

Manufacturer: Shepherd Staff Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CADCKI
Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Let Your Dim Light Shine
Soul Asylum
Manufacturer: Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000LX8OVS

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Promises Broken

Manufacturer: Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BGPMNS

Product Description

Japanese Version packaging with 7 tracks: 1. Promises Broken (remix), 2. Promises Broken, 3.Fearless Leader, 4. You'll Live For Now, 5. Painkiller, 6. Gone Forgotten, 7. Motell Notell. Labels are in English and Japanese, music is in English.

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Let Your Light Shine!

Manufacturer: White Family Gospel Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CA3LLI
Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

He Made Me Over
The Storm Is Passing Over
I've Got To See Jesus
Hold Me Jesus
Dedication
Amazing Grace
Time Is Winding Up
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
This Little Light Of Mine
Hold Me Jesus (instrumental)

Grave Dancers Union/Let Your Dim Light Shine

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Grave Dancers Union/Let Your Dim Light Shine

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ASIN: B00004Y3IO
Release Date: 2005-11-08

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1. Jesus Can
2. I Found the Answer
3. All Things Are Possible
4. Bless His Holy Name
5. Never Alone
6. Do You Know Him?
7. In That Land
8. Let Jesus Love You
9. Shine Your Light
10. Look up and Live
11. Calling
12. Lord We Try