Over The Sunset Hill

Track Listings
1. Little Soldier for Jesus    
2. Jesse James Prayed    
3. Snow Covered Mound    
4. I'll Be With Dad and Mother    
5. Thou Long Expected Jesus    
6. Be Ready to Go    
7. Over the Sunset Hill    
8. Going Up Home to Live in Green Pastures    
9. What Kind of Man    
10. I Want a Clear Record    
11. Prepare Me O Lord    
12. I Wanna Go Home    

Over The Sunset Hill, Music, Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass, Bluegrass-Gospel, Contemporary Bluegrass, Country, Pop, Traditional Bluegrass, Truck Driving Country
Rorem: Organ Works
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • A FANTASTIC RECORDING
  • Fantastic Avant Garde!
 Rorem: Organ Works

Manufacturer: Delos Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000006WZ
Release Date: 1992-12-11

Tracks:

  1. A Quaker Reader: First-Day Thoughts
  2. A Quaker Reader: Mary Dyer Did Hand As A Flag...
  3. A Quaker Reader: Evidence Of Things Not Seen
  4. A Quaker Reader: There Is A Spirit That Delights To Do No Evil
  5. A Quaker Reader: The World Of Silence
  6. A Quaker Reader: Bewitching Attire Of The Most Charming Simplicity...
  7. A Quaker Reader: A Secret Power
  8. A Quaker Reader: No Darkness At All...
  9. A Quaker Reader: One Sigh Rightly Begotten
  10. A Quaker Reader: Return Home To Within
  11. A Quaker Reader: Ocean Of Light
  12. Views From The Oldest House: Sunrise On Sunset Hill
  13. Views From The Oldest House: Elms
  14. Views From The Oldest House: The Nest In Old North Church
  15. Views From The Oldest House: Spires
  16. Views From The Oldest House: Rain Over The Quaker Graveyard
  17. Views From The Oldest House: Sunday Night

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A FANTASTIC RECORDING.......2005-07-02

Top notch music played impeccably by one of the 20th century's greatest organists. Highly recommended to add to your Rorem collection, or as an introduction.

I would have to disagree with another reviewer who finds "Views from the Oldest House" inferior. It's just different. Unless slightly more accessible is inferior.

I would have to agree that the organ isn't all that satisfying. It's rather brittle to the point of not musical, in addition to what the other reviewer said. However, it certainly has clarity, if you want to study the score, and certainly Crozier does a good job overcoming the instrument's restraints.

I also would give the recording five stars, except for the organ. Five stars for the performance, though!

4 out of 5 stars Fantastic Avant Garde!.......2004-03-08

This CD is such a delight!

Ned Rorem is one of America's foremost contemporary classical composers. This compact disc displays his most spiritual and mystical work: "A Quaker Reader," wich teaches us great lessons in the Anglo-American spirituality of the Quakers. The music though is not in Quaker style. It's in Ned Rorem style, that is to say a great and ellaborate world of sounds, simplistic as well as highly complex. Titles such as: "A Secret Power" and "Mary Dyer did hang as a flag" reveal to us that Rorem had something diffrent to tell than most other composers.
The latter is a very strange piece of music wich tells the story of a Quaker who is hung on the gallows. The tundering reverbs in the pedals illustrate the spastic shaking of the feet of Mary Dyer (what an idea!).

The second work that can be heard is "Views from the Eldest house". Though somewhat inferior in comparison to "A Quaker Reader", it are some nice paintings of the setting of the rural American country life.

Catherine Crozier has a great and almost perfect way of performing. Every note is hit with an exact ammount of precision. Although Crozier has long passed her seventies, she plays like a bazooka! There's not a passage that's to agressive for her, nor a passage where she laks in overall balance.

It would have rated this CD with 5 stars if it weren't for the lousy organ itself. The music gets much to flat, crushing the entire imagination of the listener. Sounds drown in themselves and other chords, chamades are to much on the foreground and don't even get me started about the Pedal-organ! it is way to soft to compete with the music on the manuals (no 32's!).

I still think you should buy this CD. Just imagine Crozier playing on an Aeolian-Skinner or a Fisk organ instead of a Moller organ....
Over The Sunset Hill
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    		Over The Sunset Hill
    Ralph Stanley
    Manufacturer: King
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B0000017BN
    Release Date: 1998-01-06

    Tracks:

    1. A Little Soldier for Jesus
    2. Jesse James Prayed
    3. Snow Covered Mound
    4. I'll Be With Dad And Mother
    5. Thou Long Expected Jesus
    6. Be Ready To Go
    7. Over The Sunset Hill
    8. Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures
    9. What Kind Of Man
    10. I Want A Clear Record
    11. Prepare Me O Lord
    12. I Wanna Go Home
    Over The Sunset Hill
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      		Over The Sunset Hill
      Ralph Stanley
      Manufacturer: Gusto
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B0001NBNLQ
      Release Date: 2004-03-16

      Tracks:

      1. A Little Soldier For Jesus
      2. Jesse James Prayed
      3. Snow Covered Mound
      4. I'll Be With Dad And Mother
      5. Thou Long Expected Jesus
      6. Be Ready To Go
      7. Over The Sunset Hill
      8. Going Up Home To Live In Green Pastures
      9. What Kind Of Man
      10. I Want A Clear Record
      11. Prepare Me O Lord
      12. I Wanna Go Home

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