Without a Net [Live]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Feel Like a Stranger

2. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo

3. Walkin' Blues

4. Althea

5. Cassidy

6. Bird Song

7. Let It Grow

Disc: 2

1. China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider

2. Looks Like Rain

3. Eyes of the World

4. Victim or the Crime

5. Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower

6. One More Saturday Night

7. Dear Mr. Fantasy

Tracks:

Feel Like A Stranger
Mississippi Half-Step/Uptown Toodeloo
Walkin' Blues
Althea
Cassidy
Bird Song
Let It Grow

Tracks:

China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
Looks Like Rain
Eyes Of The World
Victim Or The Crime
Help On The Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower
One More Saturday Night
Dear Mr. Fantasy

Customer Reviews:

Tell it like it is! .......2006-01-16

When I'm looking for a cd and i'm reading the reviews. I look for the "not so good" reviews, because they wouldn't lie about not enjoying a cd. Unlike people who are so in love with a band, that they can't tell a bad cd when they hear one. And yes i love the Dead, but come on now, call a spade a spade. So here is my review.

I disagree with some that the sound is great. Good, maybe great no. To me the music sounded like it was recorded far away (if that makes any sense) it wasn't clear and the crowd isn't felt on this cd.

I would give it one star, mainly because compared to ALL the other Dead live cd's, this one is pretty bad. Without Pigpen, I feel that the Dead lost some of their soul and blues feel. Call me old fashion but where's that soulful organ, that i love so much. A little less piano, a little more organ.

Get Ladies and Gentlemen...The Grateful Dead Live from the Fillmore East 1971 4 disc set that is way worth the money. Trust me, I wouldn't lie about it.

For real this 2 disc set isn't worth the money. I would take it back and get any different live cd if I could, but i can't return it. I opened it.

Uncle Blunt

An excellent live Dead release.......2005-11-28

Without a Net is an excellent CD! I love the Dead!! I love this CD!! I like to keep my reviews concise so I will not mention all of the highlights. There are too many. China Cat Sunflower opens with an excellent guitar riff and goes uphill from there. Eyes of the World is an excellent song in its own right, but an appearance by Brandford Marsalis makes it so much better. Here is a summary of my review: this album is just what the title of my review said it was. Buy it and enjoy!!

There Are MUCH Better LIVE Dead Recordings.......2005-04-14

I used to have this album about 10 years ago and listened to it a lot and liked it. However, that was before the Dick's Picks series and before I got to trading bootlegs. Admittedly I'm not as big a fan of the 80s 90s Dead as the 70s and somewhat the 60s. The sound quality is great here but the jams when compared with what the band offered up in the 70s--just about any show--is sub-par. It was a great starting point for me in listening to them live in a non concert setting but again check out any of the 1970s Dick's Picks and I gurantee much better music--Jerry in good form and on fire! Plus I am a Kieth man. Sure Brent's organ is great but Kieth's piano for the most part is a gem and a great inspiration for some of Jerry's jams. In the end it's all good. Just not 5 stars this is the best Dead recording ever good.

One of the best.......2004-09-22

An excellent souvenir from the last of the Dead's stellar eras. A beautiful Casidy and great China / Rider but this Help On The Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower always makes me want to run around in circles hollering!

Worth the buy.......2004-04-07

To start off i am a huge grateful dead fan and i have prabably about 150 cd's that cover many years of there carrer. This release is very good and worth buying. it has some great music on it and the price of the album is worth the eyes of the world with Branford Marsalis on the sax alone. All and all this was among my first bunch of grateful dead cd's that i got and it got me hooked so do yourself a favor if you are thinking about listening to the grateful dead and you want to hear something from the 1990 era buy this cd. But i would also get something from the 77 era too.

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For completists only.
Great, Especially if you're not big on drawn out jams...
Rare and perfect jem
Nobody Like the Grateful Dead
Okay, certain songs are better than others

Without a Net
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Release Date: 2004-08-31

Tracks:

Feel Like a Stranger
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
Walkin' Blues
Althea
Cassidy
Bird Song
Let It Grow

Tracks:

China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
Looks Like Rain
Eyes of the World
Victim or the Crime
Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower
One More Saturday Night
Dear Mr. Fantasy

Customer Reviews:

For completists only........2007-07-06

I bought this CD when it was first released. It's been that long since I heard it (since I sold it after only three listens) so I warn you that I'm going on memory here...

I remember actually being surprised at the lack of cohesiveness on this set. It seemed to me that the band struggled and never really gelled into a groove. At the risk of sounding harsh, I'd say that this set runs a close second to "Steal Your Face" as the "Least Greatest GD Live Release Ever" (although I admit, I've never heard the Dylan collaboration).

No, WOAN is not "horrible" by any stretch; It's just missing too much of that ethereal something that makes the Dead special. Espeacially with all the great live material available these days, I'd advise fans to buy almost everything else before this one.

Great, Especially if you're not big on drawn out jams..........2007-06-20

That may be oxymoronic for a deadhead, but this album is stellar! "I Know You Rider" is probably the best version I've heard, as is "Looks Like Rain" and "Eyes of the World." Oh, and the other songs are good too.

Rare and perfect jem.......2007-05-12

This album has it all...it shows the range of the Dead during an interesting time of their lives. Jerry is actually sober and can play the songs the way only he could. They infuse jazz and funk into several of the songs in ways i have not heard on other live recordings, namely "Althea" and "Eyes of the World". This is such a great album for someone who is interested in the Dead, but has no idea where to start collecting. Start hear...here...and then go back to the beginning and listen to the growth and progression...and then you have to start collecting the [...] Picks, and any other live shows you can lay your hands on...Man cannot live by Dead alone...but it is worth a try...peace.

Nobody Like the Grateful Dead.......2007-03-25

It's 1990, not 1970 or 1980. Things sound a bit different. For tape traders, much of this might seem passe, but for those of us who hadn't really been listening to what Jerry and Brent were doing on studio albums, this album was an eye-opener. The "Franklin's Tower" on this album is one of the most joyful pieces of music I have ever heard -- period. And while the "Eyes of the World" with Branford Marsalis might sound a bit different than some of the gems from the Dick's Picks series, it's still plenty good music. Well worth your money.

Okay, certain songs are better than others.......2006-10-13

The best songs here are Bird Song, Let It Grow and Help On The Way/Slipknot->Franklin's Tower. The rest seems forgettable. Part of the problem with this release was that at the time there were still many songs that hadn't been used on live albums but unfortunatly half the songs here had already appeared elsewhere. This was also recorded during the time when the band was bringing back songs that hadn't been played in years and with the exeception of Help/slip none of that appears on here. All this has changed in recent years with the release of vault tapes.

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Heavenly Live!...
Live without a net
welcome re-issue
Great album but bad disk

Live Without a Net
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ASIN: B000HKD7XA
Release Date: 2006-10-30

Tracks:

Tower
Can You Feel It
Don't Leave Me Lonely
Telephone Exchange
I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore
Over and Over
Anyway You Want It
On the Rocks
Wild & Hot

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White Lightning
Hold Me, Squeeze Me
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2006 Issued Digitally Remastered Edition of the Band's Original 1978 Casablanca Records Two LP Live Set on Two Compact Discs that Feature all of Angel's Stand-out Tracks Performed Live. Also Includes Freshly Penned Extensive Liner Notes.

Customer Reviews:

Heavenly Live!..........2007-05-07

If you are a devoted fan of the ANGEL group, this is great recording to listen: In 1980, the band presented this to the approval of their audiences; showing their musical capability and stage presence Full of pyrotechnics and magic illusions; but the most important thing...the emotion, the music, was there!...They showed their dextresity with themes like Tower, Can you feel it, Telephone exchange, Don't leave me lonely, Feeling right, White Lightning, Hold me squeeze me or Rock & Rollers; with extended solos from Gregg Guiffria, Punky Meadows, Barry Brandt and a little one by Felix Robinson on Bass ("Over & Over"), making it a great show...

The extended keyboard solo of Gregg Giuffria, (just before the track "On the Rocks"), showed his dextresity, letting us know, the major league kind of a great kekboardist he was... Since the first two recordings: Angel (1975) and Helluva Band (1976), we put him at the side of keyboardist like Keith Emerson (E.L.P.), Rick Wakeman (Yes), Tony Banks (Genesis), Eddie Jobson (U.K.) or Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant) masters of Progressive Rock.

Punky Meadows, in the Rock & Rollers song did a great bunch of classic fast licks that for moments resembles the influence of Jeff Beck (the "Blow by Blow" recording). I must Say that the sound guitar and playing style of Punky is very distictive and original...

By the other side this recording brings two live different tracks from the official discography (at least in these moment): "Twenty Century Foxes" (From the motion picture FOXES and now at the "Anthology" CD), and "All the Young Dudes" (a well known Mott the Hopple's song). This CD is a great prove of their technical habilities and an outstanding landmark of their compositional talents!...Good Luck!

Live without a net.......2007-03-30

A Band that should have been much bigger than they were.

welcome re-issue .......2007-02-28

I had this album from the start on vinyl and must admit that the soundquality of this remastered 2006 CD is far better. Everything falls in place, even the bombs on the first track "Tower" are noticeable, as I did not before. Musically spoken the material is heavier, the rythmsection is more powerfull and especially the synthesizers and leadguitar flourish. That is not to say of the bulk of the songs, "Tower" apart. "Rock an Rollers", a good song (from the first album) is underbroken for a guitarsolo, I'd rather seen that on one of the weakier songs which would have taken profit by that. Although recorded in 1978, before the release of the 1979 studio-album "Sinful" (formely "Bad Reputation") it contains nevertheless "Wild & Hot" from that album. Furthermore there is the Bowie written but Mott the Hoople performed "All the Young Dudes" which doesn't add anything in the way Angel performes it. Finally the album ends with a song that must be seen as something of a bonus because it was not part of the show and therefore not recorded live (although audience can be heard), the filmsoundtrack "20th Century Foxes", which could have been taken from the first album but isn't and should have been added to anyone of the others as only one of the scare qualitysongs. Angel could deliver but failed to do so by writing the wrong songs, aiming not towards rockfans, the way KISS did (which is hardrock neither), although having a spectacular liveshow, but attracting only young girls with glampop and lyrics dominated by the "L-word" and therefore hardly selling albums in terms of finance. Shortly thereafter the band fragmented. This album is a good souvenir from lost times.

Great album but bad disk.......2006-11-20

I loved this album, I bought all the studio albums when the we released on cd. but I waited too long for this one. I did not want to buy it for what some people were selling it for(it had been out of print). So I waited and hoped it would be released again. And it finally wuz. So I bought it. Warning. BGO a small English label put this out. What a shame. Some of the quality is poor. lots of crackling in the background of some songs. But it is better than spending 50 for it from some people.

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In the mass of singer/songwriters that seem to surface weekly it is easy to forget that older masters of the craft still walk among us and offer vital work. Janis Ian's brilliant 2000 release God & the FBI got lost in this glut--more's the pity. Working Without A Net sums up a career to date that while producing the justly famous "Society's Child," "At Seventeen," and "Jesse," also given us such lesser known gems as "Love Is Blind," "Boots Like Emmy Lou's," and many of the others included here. Over a decade's worth of live performances reveal an emotionally wrenching singer, a fine guitarist, and a remarkably consistent writer. Hopefully Working Without A Net will make people want to go back and explore gems like Breaking Silence, and the aforementioned God & the FBI. At the very least it raises the bar for the current crop of would-be troubadours. --Michael Ross

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Encores and Transcriptions, Vol. 2

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Society's Child is also "Great" live !
Who needs a net when you can soar like this?
Unlike other "live" CD's.
Super Live Set
What Janis Ian fans have waited for

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Customer Reviews:

Society's Child is also "Great" live !.......2004-06-18

This 2CD set is brand new(2003)and the live 2 track recordings are from 1990 -2003. The excellently recorded songs are from over 30 yrs of a fine collection of the supurb songs most written by Janis herself. These songs take you all the way back to her first hit "Society's Child" when she was 14 years old. Excellent Sound, Unbeatable Singing, and No Waste of Track Room, both CDs are loaded with real treasure. What more can be said ! For the person that does not know much about Janis Ian buy this set, it has most of her famous songs and it's a great place to start ! "Enjoy"

Who needs a net when you can soar like this?.......2004-04-16

Stop reading these reviews and order this CD! If Janis isn't coming to your town, this is the next best thing to seeing her live. She is authentic, warm, funny and amazingly gifted.

Her songs have a social consciousness without being preachy. Who do you think paved the way for Suzanne Vega, Alanis Morisette, and the rest of those female singer-songwriters? Janis wrote the book on great writing. She knows how to weave a lyric that lingers for days around your heart.

This is a woman whose had an amazing 40 year career and shows no sign of slowing down. With age usually comes wisdom. Janis was wise beyond her years as a teenager. I think she has many great songs left to write, but this CD gives you a great overview of her music.

You walk into her show wondering how you'll be entertained by a four foot nothing middle aged Jewish lesbian. Buy the CD and you'll understand. JANIS ROCKS!

Unlike other "live" CD's........2004-04-06

Unlike other live CD's, this double-CD set is really "live" - recorded direct to 2-track, without edits. And isn't it wonderful to really be able to sit in on a Janis Ian concert? Ian makes her feelings about downloading and home taping known with her choice of the final track, her own version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking", which was recorded on minidisc by a fan sitting next to the mix board!
If you loath the RIAA policies, you should support Janis Ian, and read the article "The Internet Debacle" on her website at www.janisian.com!!!!

Super Live Set.......2004-01-31

I've enjoyed some great 2 CD live sets such as Bonnie Raitt's "Road Tested," Laura Nyro's "The Loom's Desire" and the James Taylor "Live" set. Janis Ian's "Working Without A Net" ranks right up with the best. First of all, a prerequisite for me, the sound quality is excellent. In the excellent notes in the booklet, she details how this was recorded on two-track, not multi-tracked and edited and cleaned up in the studio. What we hear is what happened live.

From the opening drums on "This Train Still Runs" and the train whistle blowing, we can tell we're in for a great bash. "Fly Too High" was not one I was familiar with, but it's great jazzy rendition written with Giorgio Moroder makes me hit repeat. The hits "Jesse," "Stars," & "Society's Child" shimmer like familiar jewels in new settings. The humor songs "Boots Like Emmy Lou's" & "Cosmopolitan Girl" are great fun. "Honor Them All" which I first became acquainted with on the Mothers Against Drunk Drivers CD works well as recorded in Japan. Janis talks about feeling sad when listening to "Silly Habits" because she injured her hand & will never play piano again as she did that night in Holland. The CD concludes with the wacked out version of "These Boots Were Made for Walking" which is great fun.

Janis writes, "The relationship between performer & audience at a live show is fascinating, energizing, amazing. A good audience feeds you, makes you want to exceed your best. And a good performance feeds the audience, making them feel that you're speaking to them directly." Janis indeed accomplishes this on "Working Without A Net." She & Oh Boy Records have picked some blockbuster performances from her many live tapes. Bravo!

What Janis Ian fans have waited for.......2004-01-03

This is a CD that captures the experience of Janis Ian in concert. Those who know Janis' music and concerts understand the depth of her writing and performances. From the inspirational This Train Still Runs through the power and emotion of the classic Society's Child and Tattoo, this CD shows the range of talent and hard work that have made Janis Ian one of music's most worthwhile listens.

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My favorite Getz album
A pleasing voice and acoustic guitar
That beautiful voice and guitar is all she needs.
Live at the Galaxy
kerry does it again!

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Customer Reviews:

My favorite Getz album.......2004-03-14

A beautiful album. "What Do You Want" is one of my very favorite songs of all time. It's an evocative, melancholy reflection, with a particularly memorable line: "Sometimes there is just too much "after' in your afternoon."

Getz is a gifted performer and songwriter who deserves to be widely heard.

A pleasing voice and acoustic guitar.......2003-05-19

A pleasing voice, heart-felt lyrics and a guitar is all she needs to make beauiful music and a new fan.

That beautiful voice and guitar is all she needs........2003-05-18

My favorite CD of Kerry's, as brief as it is. It showcases her sublime skills at singing and guitar playing, stripped down and pure, the way she shines the best. This CD contains several of my favorite songs of hers: "Why am I So Uncool?" "The Forgiveness Hoop" and the heart-breaking "What Do You Want," one of the deepest and truest songs I've ever heard, by anyone. This is a perfect CD for those listeners out there who don't know Kerry, because you'll hear her the way all of her fans have heard her over the years, on her own at the mike with only her beautiful voice to carry you away.

Live at the Galaxy.......2003-05-14

Great introduction to a wonderful singer/songwriter. And at $... per song it's a great bargain.

As I listened to this CD, I had to keep remembering that there is no band. Just Kerry and her guitar. The sound was so full. Each song highlights her unique guitar playing and the lyrical strength of her voice.

I was hooked by the first song "Why Am I So Uncool" (who can't relate to this feeling at some point in their life) and I loved her rendition of "Walk Away Renee".

kerry does it again!.......2003-05-13

Kerry's sultry voice will captivate you in Another Fine Mess; and After All This Time touches your soul.

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Angel shows their wares mightily in concert... Wish I'd've been there...
Heavenly Live!...

Live Without a Net
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Tower
Can You Feel It
Don't Leave Me Lonely
Telephone Exchange
I Ain't Gonna Eat out My Heart Anymore
Over and Over
Anyway You Want It
On the Rocks
Wild & Hot

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All the Young Dudes
Rock & Rollers
White Lightning
Hold Me, Squeeze Me
Got Love If You Want It
Feelin' Right
20th Century Foxes

Customer Reviews:

Angel shows their wares mightily in concert... Wish I'd've been there..........2006-06-05

A friend recently lent me his copy of this album to dub for him. I'll admit that during the 70's in Angel's heyday, I was listening to KISS and Cheap Trick records heavily, but somehow never got to hear anything by Angel until now. This double live LP won me over, especially Greg Giuffria and Barry Brandt's playing. They were a tight band in their day. Too bad there's not much visual documentation (at least to my knowledge) of the band live other than photos here and on the internet. Gene Simmons helped these guys get signed and promptly pulled the rug out from under them when he forbid them from playing together with KISS. It's a shame that this live LP came at the very end of their career. There was a brief reunion of a few of the members in the studio and a short tour in 1999, but I believe that was to be all for Angel's output. Good hooky songs, great playing, good times...
Enjoy...

Heavenly Live!..........2005-03-15

If you are a devoted fan of the ANGEL group, this is great recording to listen: In 1980, the band presented this to the approval of their audiences; showing their musical capability and stage presence Full of pyrotechnics and magic illusions; but the most important thing...the emotion, the music, was there!...They showed their dextresity with themes like Tower, Can you feel it, Telephone exchange, Don't leave me lonely, Feeling right, White Lightning, Hold me squeeze me or Rock & Rollers; with extended solos from Gregg Guiffria, Punky Meadows, Barry Brandt and little one by Felix Robinson on Bass ("Over & Over"), making it a great show...

The extended keyboard solo of Gregg Giuffria, (just before the track "On the Rocks"), showed his dextresity, letting us know, the major league kind of a great kekboardist he was... Since the first two recordings: Angel (1975) and Helluva Band (1976), we put him at the side of keyboardist like Keith Emerson (E.L.P.), Rick Wakeman (Yes), Tony Banks (Genesis), Eddie Jobson (U.K.) or Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant) masters of Progressive Rock.

Punky Meadows, in the Rock & Rollers song did a great bunch of classic fast licks that for moments resembles the influence of Jeff Beck (the "Blow by Blow" recording). I must Say that the sound guitar and playing style of Punky is very distictive and original...

By the other side this recording brings two live different tracks from the official discography (at least in these moment): "Twenty Century Foxes" (From the motion picture FOXES and now at the "Anthology" CD), and "All the Young Dudes" (a well known Mott the Hopple's song). This CD is a great prove of their technical habilities and an outstanding landmark of their compositional talents!...Good Luck!

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My Favorite Live Album Just Got Better

Without the Aid of a Safety Net
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ASIN: B0007WVA96
Release Date: 2005-06-06

Tracks:

Introduction
Harvest Home (Live)
Peace In Our Time (Live)
Just A Shadow (Live)
13 Valleys (Live)
Winter Sky (Live)
The Storm (Live)
Chance (Live)
Tracks Of My Tears (Live)
Rockin' In The Free World (Live)
All Go Together (Live)
We're Not In Kansas (Live)
Look Away (Live)
What Are You Working For (Live)
Steeltown (Live)
Stuart And the Audience
Ships (Live)
Wonderland (Live)
Long Way Home (Live)
Alone (Live)
In A Big Country (Live)
The Audience-Encore
Lost Patrol (Live)
(Hey Hey My My) Out Of The Blue (Into The Black) (Live)
Fields Of Fire (Live)

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The Full 1993 Glasgow Barrowland Show. Two-CD's. Full details TBA. EMI. 2005. * DVD also available.

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Digitally Remastered and Expanded Edition of the Scottish Group's 1995 Live Album. The Set is Now 25 Tracks Long, Still Opened by the Acoustic Set and Steadily Building to the Logical Conclusions with

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My Favorite Live Album Just Got Better.......2006-01-10

Big Country were one of the most under-appreciated bands of the last 25 years, and if you want proof of this, just pick up this excellent live album and see them at the top of their game.
Recorded in Glasgow, Scotland's Barrowlands Ballroom in front of a rabid hometown crowd, this concert shows a band that had been around long enough to give a very polished, professional rock & roll show, while still retaining the energy and passion that made their early concerts so memorable.

The first 10 tracks are acoustic performances, giving an earthy, authentic folk-rock feel to classics like "Chance", "Harvest Home", "13 Valleys", and "The Storm". The electric portion of the set kicks off in fine fashion with "All Go Together", while "Look Away", "Wonderland", and "Long Way Home" have never sounded better. Thankfully, this edition of the complete concert includes the unlisted, "spontaneous" performance of "Wild Mountain Thyme", a Scottish folk classic that sounds right at home in the hands Mr. Adamson and company.

If you think "In A Big Country" was the only good song this band ever recorded, this album will be a real eye-opener. And if you have the one-disc version of this album released in 1994, this full version is well worth having, if only for the jaw-dropping, six-minute-plus version of "Fields Of Fire".

The only drawback to this CD is the annoying, unnecessary copy-protection, but apart from that, it's an incredibly satisfying, invigorating live album.

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A Long Time Coming...
Her Best Album
Price At Her Peak
of course world class
the greatest american soprano of the 20th century

The Essential Leontyne Price

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ASIN: B000003FWD
Release Date: 1996-08-13

Tracks:

Aida: Act I: Ritorna vincitor!
Aida: Act I: E l'amor mio?
Aida: Act I: I sacri nomi di padre, d'amante
Aida: Act III: Qui Radames verra!
Aida: Act III: O patria mia
Un Ballo in Maschera: Act II: (Prelude)
Un Ballo in Maschera: Act II: Ecco l'orrido campo
Un Ballo in Maschera: Act II: Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa
Un Ballo in Maschera: Act III: A tal colpa e nulla il pianto
Un Ballo in Maschera: Act III: Morro, ma prima in grazia
Il Trovatore: Act I: Che piu t'arresti?
Il Trovatore: Act I: Tacea la notte placida
Il Trovatore: Act I: Di tale amor che dirsi
Il Trovatore: Act IV: Siam giunti
Il Trovatore: Act IV: D'amor sull'ali rosee
Ernani: Act I: Surta e la notte
Ernani: Act I: Ernani! Ernani, involami
Ernani: Act I: Tutto sprezzo che d'Ernani
La forza del destino: Act II: Son giunta! Grazie, o Dio!
La forza del destino: Act II: Madre, madre, pietosa Vergine
La forza del destino: Act II: La Vergine degli angeli
La forza del destino: Act IV: Pace, pace, mio Dio

Tracks:

Cosi fan tutte: Act I: Come scoglio immoto resta
Madama Butterfly: Act II: Piangi? Perche?; Un bel di vedremo
Madama Butterfly: Act III: Tu? tu? piccolo Iddio!
TOSCA: Act II: Vissi d'arte
Manon Lescaut: Act II: In quelle trine morbide
Manon Lescaut: Act IV: Sola, perduta, abbandonata
Dialogues des Carmelites: Act III: Mes filles, voila que s'acheve
Don Giovanni: Act I: Don Ottavio, son morta!
Don Giovanni: Act I: Or sai chi l'onore
Don Giovanni: Act II: Crudele? Ah, no, mio bene!
Don Giovanni: Act II: Non mi dir
Turandot: Act I: Signore, ascolta!
Turandot: Act III: Tu che di gel sei cinta
Ariadne auf Naxos: Es gibt ein Reich
Antony And Cleopatra: Act III: Give me my robe

Tracks:

Otello: Era piu calmo?
Otello: Mia madre aveva una povera ancella (Willow Song)
Otello: Ave Maria
Fidelio: Act I: Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?
Suor Angelica: Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto!
Carmen: L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera)
La Traviata: Act I: E strano, e strano !
La Traviata: Act I: Ah, fors' e lui
La Traviata: Act I: Sempre libera
Le nozze di Figaro: Act III: E Susanna non vien!
Le nozze di Figaro: Act III: Dove sono
Die Agyptische Helena: Act II: Awakening Scene
La rondine: Ore dolci e divine
Salome: Finale

Tracks:

Eugene Onegin: Act II: Puskai pogibnu ya
Eugene Onegin: Act II: Ya k vam pishu
Eugene Onegin: Act II: Net, nikomu na svete
Eugene Onegin: Act II: No tak i byt'!
La rondine: Act I: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
VANESSA: Act I: He Has Come, He Has Come!
VANESSA: Act I: Do Not Utter A Word
Carmen: Act I: Pres des remparts de Seville (Seguidilla)
Manon: Act II: Allons! il le faut!
Manon: Act II: Adieu, notre petite table
Macbeth: Act IV: Sleepwalking Scene: Vegliammo invan due notti
Macbeth: Act IV: Sleepwalking Scene: Una macchia e qui tuttora
La Boheme: Act IIII: Addio. Donde lieta usci (Mimi's Addio)
Die Frau ohne Schatten: Act II: Empress's Awakening Scene
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Thy Hand, Belinda!
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: When I Am Laid In Earth
Don Carlo: Act V: Tu che le vanita conoscesti del mondo

Tracks:

Otello: Act I: Gia nella notte
Otello: Act I: Quando narravi
Otello: Act I: Venga la morte!
Cosi fan tutte: Act I: Ah, guarda, sorella
Madama Butterfly: Act I: Bimba, bimba, non piangere
Madama Butterfly: Act I: Bimba dagli occhi
Madama Butterfly: Act I: Vogliatemi bene
Requiem: Recordare
Porgy And Bess: Act II: Bess, You Is My Woman
Norma: Act III: Me chiami, o Norma
Norma: Act III: Mira, o Norma
Ernani: Act II: Tu, perfida!
Ernani: Act II: Ah, morir, potessi adesso
Cosi fan tutte: Act II: Sorella, cosa dici?
Cosi fan tutte: Act II: Prendero quel brunettino
Aida: Act IV: La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse
Aida: Act IV: Presago il core della tua condanna
Aida: Act IV: Vedi? Di morte l'angelo
Aida: Act IV: O terra, addio

Tracks:

Un Ballo in Maschera: Act II: Teco io sto!
Aida: Act III: Ciel! mio padre!
Aida: Act III: Rivedrai le forest imbalsamate
Aida: Act III: In armi ora si desta il popol nostro
Aida: Act III: Padre! a costoro schiava non sono
Requiem: Angus Dei
Manon Lescaut: Act I: Oh, saro la piu bella!; Tu, tu, amore?
Cosi fan tutte: Act I: Soave sia il vento
Porgy And Bess: Act II: I Loves You, Porgy
Aida: Act II: Silenzio! Aida verso noi s'avanza
Aida: Act II: Fu la sorte dell'armi
Aida: Act II: Pieta ti prenda del mio dolor
Aida: Act II: Alla prompa che s'appresta
Il Trovatore: Act IV: Udiste?
Il Trovatore: Act IV: Mira, di acerbe lagrime
Il Trovatore: Act IV: Vivra! Contende il giubilo
Madama Butterfly: Act II: Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio (Flower Duet)
Carmen: Act IV: C'est toi! - C'est moi!
Carmen: Act IV: Ou vas-tu? - Laisse-moi!

Tracks:

Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: Villanelle
Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: Le spectre de la rose
Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: Sur les lagunes
Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: Absence
Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: Au cimetiere (Clair de lune)
Les nuits d'ete, Op.7: L'ile inconnue
Four Last Songs: Fruhling
Four Last Songs: September
Four Last Songs: Beim Schlafengehen
Four Last Songs: Im Abendrot
Clair de lune, Op.46, No.2: Clair de lune
Notre amour, Op.23, No.2: Notre amour
Au cimetiere, Op.51, No.2: Au cimetiere
Au bord de l'eau, Op.8, No.1: Au bord de l'eau
No.1, Cinq melodies de Venise, Op.58: Mandoline
Main dominee par le coeur
Miroirs brulants No.2: Je nommerai ton front
Miroirs brulants No.1: Tu vois le feu du soir
Ce doux petit visage

Tracks:

Knoxville: Summer Of 1915, Op.24: Knoxville: Summer Of 1915
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Seit ich ihn gesehen
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Er, der Herrlichste von allen
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Ich kann's nicht fassen
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Du Ring an meinem Finger
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Helft mir, ihr Schwestern
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Susser Freund, du blickest
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: An meinem Herzen, an meiner Brust
Frauenliebe und -leben, op.42: Nun hast du mir den ersten Schmerz getan
Widmung (No.1, Myrthen, Op.25): Widmung
Mignon (No.28, Liederalbum fur die Jugend, Op.79): Mignon
Volksliedchen, Op.51, No.2: Volksliedchen
Schone Wiege meiner Leiden (No.5, Liederkreis, Op.24): Schone Wiege meiner Leiden
Er ist's (No.23, Liederalbum fur die Jugend, Op.79): Er ist's
Heiss mich nicht reden (No.5, Lieder und Gesand aus Wilhelm Meister)
Lust der Sturmnacht, Op.35, No.1: Lust der Sturmnacht
Allerseelen, Op.10, No.8: Allerseelen
Schlagende Herzen
Freundliche Vision, Op.48, No.1: Freundliche Vision
Wie sollten wir geheim, Op.19, No.4: Wie sollten wir geheim
Der Gartner (Morike-Lieder No.17)
Lebe wohl (Morike-Lieder No.36)
Morgentau (From An Old Songbook)
Geh, Geliebter, geh jetzt (Spanisches Liederbuch No.34)

Tracks:

Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit - Various Artists
Let Us Break Bread Together On Our Knees - Various Artists
His Name So Sweet - Various Artists
'Roun' About De Mountain - Various Artists
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Various Artists
Sit Down, Servant - Various Artists
Were You There - Various Artists
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - Various Artists
Deep River - Various Artists
Honor! Honor! - Various Artists
My Soul's Been Anchored In De Lord - Various Artists
On Ma Journey - Various Artists
A City Called Heaven - Various Artists
Ride On, King Jesus - Various Artists
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free - Various Artists
Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass - Various Artists
Sweet Little Jesus Boy - Various Artists
There Is A Balm In Gilead - Various Artists
Let Us Cheer The Weary Traveler - Various Artists
Ev'ry Time I Feel The Spirit - Various Artists
My Way Is Cloudy - Various Artists
Nobody Knows The Touble I've Seen - Various Artists
I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - Various Artists

Tracks:

Holy, Holy, Holy
Lead, Kindly Light
Blessed Assurance
Ave Maria
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Amazing Grace
The Lord's Prayer
Pass Me Not, O Gentle Saviour
The Church's One Foundation
Bless This House
I Need Thee Every Hour
Fairest Lord Jesus
I Wonder As I Wander
Ave Maria
Porgy And Bess: Summertime
America The Beautiful
Lift Ev'ry Voice And Sing
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Tracks:

Chants tziganes, Op. 103: He Zigeuner
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Hochgeturmte Rimaflut
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Wisst ihr, wann mein Kindchen
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Lieber Gott, du weisst
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Brauner Bursche
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Roselein dreie in der Reihe
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn
Chants tziganes, Op. 103: Rote Abendwolken
Adriana Lecouvreur: Act I: Io son l'umile ancella
This Little Light O'Mine
Interview With Leontyne Price By John Pfeiffer

Amazon.com

This 11-CD set, one might say jokingly, contains all the music ever written for the soprano voice and a bit for mezzo as well. And indeed, it's a staggering collection: In addition to her great Verdi heroines (the two Leonoras, Aida, Amelia, and Elvira in Ernani), Price is heard in her Puccini roles--Manon Lescaut, Butterfly, Tosca--and at least two dozen other roles, most of which she never sang on stage. Here are her heroic, secure Leonore in Fidelio, Strauss's high-flying Egyptian Helen, Purcell's Dido, Barber's Cleopatra, Bellini's Norma, Ariadne, Verdi's Violetta and Desdemona, Bizet's Carmen, Mozart's Countess, and Fiordiligi. Some are, naturally, more successful than others; almost none are embarrassing (Carmen comes close). In addition, she sings songs by Schubert, Schumann, and Strauss--none of them as well as say, Janet Baker or Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Barber's Knoxville, etc.--quite beautifully. Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été is not very good, but a group of spirituals is. In all, however, this is an amazing display by one of the century's greatest sopranos. There may be no new depths plumbed here, but the singing is a knockout. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

A Long Time Coming..........2006-03-30

This compilation of Ms. Price's career is almost as complete as anything I've ever come across!!
An American Icon....I will forever be a loyal fan and admirer!!

Her Best Album.......2006-01-01

Along with the equally extensive "Prima Donna Collection" this is Leontyne Price's best album. Anyone who wants to become familiarized with her vocal technique and her art on record should own this album. It features her best work ever recorded. A lot of these arias and their respective soprano roles were not roles she sang on stage. Leontyne Price was not only a consummate artist, but a cautious one. The reason these arias, Lieder, Gospel and spirituals sound so beautiful and technically brilliant is because Leontyne was smart enough to sing them infrequently and in concert form. She did not take on new roles other than her repetitive Aidas, Leonoras, Butterfly, Toscas and Madame Lidoins, etc, because she was afraid of ruining her glorious voice too soon as many of her contemporary sopranos. Like soprano Zinka Milanov, Leontyne Price preserved the freshness and vitality of her voice through "operatic abstinence". Thus, the Norma, Salome, Manon, Lady Macbeth and even Traviata we hear on this album are well-rendered because she did NOT sing them on stage. She would have worn out her beautiful voice if she sung so many roles.

This collection is overwhelming. Leontyne Price proves herself to be a masterful artist of diverse repertoire. Pity she didn't really sing these on stage because she would have put Maria Callas and all the reigning divas before and after her to shame. Listen to her remarkable, unsurpassed Mozart repertoire. This she did sing in opera houses, probably because Mozart does not require a true lyrico-spinto heavyness and smaller opera houses can accomodate Mozartian voices that do not often rise above the staff/orchestra. She sang exquisite Fiordiligis at the Met. The arias from Cosi Fan Tutte here - Soave sia il vento, O Guarda Sorelle and the fiendishly difficult vocal showcase "Come Scoglio" with its vertiginious scales are all fine samples of Miss Price's artistry. She sang Susanna and Donna Anna with beauty and bravura. The Salome excerpt is quite thrilling. She would have made a terrific Salome but the role is quite difficult and it would have surely killed her voice. Leontyne Price was the number one Verdi soprano. Every opera cognoscente will tell you that. When you hear the excerpts from Verdi operas here - Lady Macbeth's Sleepwalking Scene, Aida's arias, Leonora's arias from Trovatore and Leonora's arias from Forza Del Destino, particularly La Virgine Del Angeli and the ravishing Pace Pace Mio Dio- are the best renditions of Verdi soprano singing. Anyone who wants to study how to sing in the letter-to-letter Verdi lyrico spinto style should hear these arias. A voice like Leontyne cannot be easily imitated. Maria Callas's own voice can be imitated as Romanian diva Angela Gheorghiu has proven. Leontyne was in a class of her own, a voice that is both dramatic and beautiful to hear. However, most people find fault in her lack of dramatic interpretation. I say they're not hearing hard enough. Yes, there is excessive beauty in her singing but she understood that the opera heroines should sound beautiful because they are beautiful and though I never saw her on stage, from the recordings I hear she sounds dramatic and character-driven enough for me to be satisfied. For a devoted fan of Leontyne Price, this album is the Holy Grail. She sings the most beautiful Norma, Madame Butterfly, Tosca, Aida, Violetta, Madame Lidoin, Suor Angelica, Susanna, Dona Ana, Gilda, Fiordiligi, Desdemona and countless other heroines. The last cd is a collection of Gospel, spirituals and patriotic songs. These "American", non-opera selections find her in beautiful voice and she is actually paying tribute to her roots. She was not only African-American, but a Southerner from Mississippi. Her voice must have been heavenly to hear in Church! This is the album that made me love Leontyne.

Price At Her Peak.......2005-05-02

Originally a Gospel singer, Leontyne Price rose to the heights of operatic superstardom in the 60's and 70's. She enjoyed the same success Maria Callas did in the 50's. Although Callas will forever be most people's idea of the greatest soprano of the 20th century, Leontyne Price was not a force to be reckoned with. In my opinion, and this is just me, she outshone Callas and was the greater singer as far as techinicality and musicianship. Leontyne Price's best work is recorded in this album. It is her best album, together with the Prima Donna Collection. The price is expensive but it's worth every penny. Prepare to be riveted and blown away by the dynamic strength and passion of her voice as it blasts through yours stereo. While many often point out that Leontyne Price was not much of an actress, from a purely operatic/vocal level, her voice was faultless and virtuosic, powerful, passionate, beautiful, lyrical, soulful. Never have I heard a soprano so richly endowed with strong chest register- she could sing the low octaves that are found in the roles of mezzo-soprano voices or contralto voices. But she was a dramatic soprano and that's dramatic with a capital D- all the high C's were there, perfectly in place, and she was a thrilling singer when reaching for the stratosphere with her voice.

This album contains arias from operas that I didn't even know she performed- La Traviata (yes, Leontyne Price as Violetta is a moving and powerful interpretation, executed with sublime beauty. She finds herself the equal to Callas in the role- for Callas had a big voice for a role that calls for the "dying" effect. Thus, Price, like Callas, could sing roles that call for beauty and not just dramatic vigor. It's unfortunate that unlike the stars that were rising in her time- Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills and Montserrat Caballe- Price never mastered the bel canto repertoire - Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini (although she sang a sensational Norma, excerpts are found in this recording). But her strongest suit was Verdi. She had the voice Verdi was looking for in a soprano- rich, dramatic, beautiful, able to fill up the lines with smoky and velvety hues and a gleaming high top. Check out her Amelia in Un Ballo In Maschera, her Leonora in Trovatore, her Leonora in La Forza Del Destino. Of course, her greatest role, her signature role, and one which she connected with on a personal/ancestral level was that of Aida. The first selections in this recording are from that masterpiece. As Aida, she was at her best. It was easy for her somehow, when most other sopranos tackle the role with difficulty. She conveys grace, nobility, passion and spirituality in the role of the tragic Ethiopian princess.

Further roles she excelled in that are on this recording is Desdemona in Otello, which she sung opposite Placido Domingo. Their masterful voices blend together harmonically and gloriously in the Act 1 Love Duet. She's quite the ground-breaking artist. Most Violettas in Traviata or Desdemona in Otello are Caucasian lyric soprano (Desdemona was white, Otello was black, that was Shakespeare's intention) but in opera, race does not matter and Leontyne Price's voice made her a star in a time when it was incredibly difficult for a black woman to sing opera. From the start of the century, opera was always associated with white Europeans and later on Americans. But Leontyne Price followed the inspirational example of the gutsy contralto Marian Anderson, who suffered a lot of rejection in opera due to skin color in pre-Civil Rights Movement 30's, 40's and 50's. Finally in the late 50's, Anderson, after a lifetime of singing only in private concerts and recitals, debuted at the Met as Ulrica in Un Ballo. Leontyne Price immediately picked up where she left- singing all the soprano diva roles typically associated with white singers - especially Tosca. Her Tosca is second to her Aida. As Tosca, she encompasses the diva who dies for love in the most thrilling way.

Other than Tosca, Puccini heroines were just as magnificent vehicles for her voice. She sang Madame Butterfly to great acclaim. I dont know how she did it but she suddenly ceased to be herself and became the frail, naive, lovesick Japanese Geisha. Softness and fragility is also mixed with the maturity of a woman in love, with passion and dramatic vocal color. She sang La Rondine with equal success, though this role is more along the lines of Violetta/Traviata. She sang Suor Angelica, she sang in modern works such as Barber's Antony and Cleopatra- in that infamous Zefferelli production- she sang Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, she sang in Dialoge of the Carmelites. All these are on here, along with her Baroque specialties- Dido in Dido and Aeneas. Her Mozart voice is also the best I've heard, really, even with a more dramatic and beautiful charm than other singers I've heard. She sang the acrobatic role of Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte, both Dona Ana and Donva Elvira in Don Giovanni. I prefer her as Dona Ana, she is all fire, despair, intensity and repressed desire, but she sings a hysterical and lovesick Elvira with a passion as well. She even sang the Countess in Le Nozze Di Figaro. But the sky was the limit to Price. She even sang, in a Jessie Norman way, the Wagner role of Isolde. Her "Liebestod" is the greatest I've heard since Birgit Nilsson, with a passion that stemmed from her religious Gospel heart.
This is a great album and I recommend it to any fan of Price and any fan of opera in general. If you have never heard Price and want to start somewhere, start with this one. This one or the Prima Donna Collection.

of course world class.......2000-08-14

Price is amazing. I will have to also mention that Joan Sutherland in the 1960 is even more incredible, if that's possible. Check Dame Joan out, you will not be sorry. But Price is a D flawless diamond set by Cartier, in my opinion.

the greatest american soprano of the 20th century.......1999-12-12

This collection of arias, art songs, and spirituals is truly amazing for the sheer breadth and depth of this soprano's artistry. It is hard to imagine any Verdi soprano after Ms. Price who could offer us the smoky richness of her vocal color, and there are so many wonderful selections, many of them being roles she did not perform on stage. Among my personal favorites are her scene from Dialogues of the Carmelites, the Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin, and the drama of her Lady Macbeth. For those of us who heard Ms. Price over the years in opera and concert, this collection brings back wonderful memories...It is truly a must-have for any serious opera lover.

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1. Feel Like a Stranger
2. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo
3. Walkin' Blues
4. Althea
5. Cassidy
6. Bird Song
7. Let It Grow

1. China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider
2. Looks Like Rain
3. Eyes of the World
4. Victim or the Crime
5. Help on the Way/Slipknot!/Franklin's Tower
6. One More Saturday Night
7. Dear Mr. Fantasy