Into The Music [Import] [Original recording remastered]

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Digitally Remastered Edition of One of Morrison's Best Loved Albums. It was Universally Praised by Critics at the Time of It's Release, Following on the Renaissance Trail Blazed by "Wavelength". Lead off by the Hit Singles "Bright Side of the Road" and "Full Force Gale", Morrison was Reinvigorated and Expanded his Touring Ensemble, with Over 12 People on Stage, Including Violinist Scarlet Rivera, who Had Come to Prominence with her Distinctive Playing on Bob Dylan's "Desire" Album.

Tracks:

A Woman In Love
Play The Blues
Into The Blues
Liza
Secular Songs
My Baby's Gone
D.N.A.
Baby Blue Eyes
Deep Down
There Ain't A Girl Alive
Empty Highway
Mama Papa
Something's Gotta Blow

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On the surface, yes, this is a blues album; mostly, though, it's a Joan Armatrading album--which means she'll follow blues forms and conceits wherever she damn well pleases. On "Liza," she takes the "Mannish Boy" groove across the tracks for a pick-up on the wrong side of town; on "There Ain't a Girl Alive (Who Likes to Look in the Mirror Like You Do)," she dresses down a rival; on "Play the Blues," she simply undresses herself to a juicy, contemporary soul groove; and on "Mama Papa," the album's finest and funkiest moment, she recalls her youth on the island of St. Kitts in lines that flash with truth: "Seven people in one room/No heat/One wage/And bills to pay." It's also a guitar album: her blues chops, especially on the sprawling closer "Something's Gotta Blow," would give Robert Cray a serious run. Fiery as her playing can be, her blues riffs are mostly economical, concise, with evocative spaces between the notes. The same can't be said for the overall production values. Armatrading is still enamored with slick gimmicks: doubling and tripling her vocals and adding layers of echo on top of that, and synth pads and distortion that feel more bombastic than bright. Into the Blues is far from a return to form, but it still sends a tough, funky message. --Roy Kasten

Album Description

Into the Blues is the album that Joan Armatrading was always meant to write. Immediately you can tell how much she enjoys playing the blues as her guitar belts out these 13 hits.

Customer Reviews:

Armatrading's Dynamic Dive "Into the Blues".......2007-07-14

Although her official website describes Joan Armatrading's new CD, INTO THE BLUES, as being "blues influenced" rather than a straightforward blues album, the songs on it achieve exactly what the best of blues music does. They take us deep inside the raw agonies and ecstasies of life, love, and the struggle to live at peace with ourselves and the world. That drama is one Armatrading has set to superb guitar-playing that rivals (with all due respect) that of such icons as BB King, Eric Clapton, Prince, and Bruce Springsteen. Add to her artistry a voice which can boom like a Chicago baritone or caress like the sweetest ingénue and it becomes easy to see why this CD shot straight to number one on Billboard Magazine's blues chart.

On the title track of this phenomenal set, Armatrading proclaims, "My baby don't like rock and roll/ Not hip hop or pop/ My baby's just into the blues," then proceeds to deftly demonstrate why. We can debate whether the "baby" of which she's singing is a favorite lover or her guitar. But one thing not in question is the serious skill with which Armatrading explores various forms of the blues--rock, gospel, ballad--throughout the CD's 13 dynamic cuts.

The trademark finesse with which she's known to dissect the most intimate of relationships are in full play on the first two songs, "A Woman in Love" and "Play the Blues." She is particularly heart-wrenching on the mournfully plaintive "Empty Highway," which broods and croons and bleeds with the best of any blues ballad on record. "Baby Blue Eyes" is a blue-grass tinged number that evokes the soulful country traditions of an Allison Krauss or the Dixie Chicks. She moves beyond romantic introspection for some powerful social and spiritual commentary on both "Secular Songs" and the explosive eight-minute-long closer "Something's Gotta Blow." In the biographical "Mama Papa," fans get a rare treat as Armatrading pays tribute to her birth island of St. Kitts and the industrious parents who taught her to: "Play hard/ Fight fair/ Live life/ And love the Lord."

From the very beginning of Joan Armatrading's amazing career, starting with the 1972 release of WHATEVER'S FOR US, the rhythms and colors of the blues and jazz have helped define the brilliant depths and substance of her work. Also from the very beginning, Armatrading has demonstrated an uncanny ability to employ various musical trends and genres to amplify the uniqueness of her own creative voice. Those two traits serve her genius exceedingly well on INTO THE BLUES, a CD very much on its way to becoming a celebrated classic.

by Author-Poet Aberjhani
author of I Made My Boy Out of Poetry
and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History)

excellent, excellent, excellent.......2007-07-13

Still another new direction from someone who's worked in any number of different genres. Her venture into the blues takes her into a harder, more electric, and tighter sound that's great to hear. Her lyrics remain as good as always. Plus, she's right up there in the league of best blues guitarists around -- certainly she has to hold the title for best woman in that field.

she's back and better than ever!!.......2007-07-05

I have been a fan of Joan since the 70's and this album is certainly worth waiting for!! Beautiful voice as always, great guitar licks - definitely worth buying!!

Another Winner For Joan.......2007-07-05

Great CD - I have never been disappointed with Joan's music, and "Into The Blues" is definitely another winner for her.

It'll take a few listens for this one to settle in.......2007-06-27

First off, this is a very interesting album. Her blues guitar playing is first rate and it is a pleasant surprise for an artist who has seemed to concentrate more on the lyrics than the music at times in the past. The bulk of the songs really do not seem all that much like Chicago blues or Mississippi blues though. I guess this is St. Kitts blues.
Some of the songs sound like typical Armatrading with a funkier bluesier arrangement. They're not bad songs at all but they;re not consisitently great. Too much overdubbing on the vocals does take away from some of the songs. I'm both a blues fan and a Joan fan so this is one I had to get. It's good, it's interesting but not great. 3.5 Stars.

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As Jim Morrison might have said, "strange...beautiful..."
An eclectic gem
One of the songs "I'll Just Remember You" is an absolute favorite of mine!
Hmm, a little disappointed??
Into White

Into White
Carly Simon
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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I'll Just Remember You

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For a CD with a lot of soft songs on it--"Scarborough Fair," "Over the Rainbow," "You Are My Sunshine"--Into White sends a loud message, that being: when you're as important an artist as Carly Simon, you can pretty much sing what you want, which accounts for this disc's genre confusion. Part kids' record, part under-the-covers project, Into White feels a little like it went for a toss in the Simon residence's salad spinner; "Oh! Susanna," which has rarely sounded sweeter, is followed by a beautiful reading of the Beatles' poetic "Blackbird," which segues into a family sing-along to ex-husband James Taylor's classic "You Can Close Your Eyes" (son and daughter Ben and Sally Taylor pitch in on harmonies). Deciding whether to play it on the way to morning kindergarten or during brunch for your mellow sweetheart, then, can be brutal. But the choice to buy it or bypass it shouldn't be. Simon, vocally sure-footed as ever, wicks the warmth out of every last track and directs it with pinpoint precision to her listeners--nobody does music as comfort food better. Perhaps nobody knows how to pluck from her own catalog better, either: closing this artful jumble of a late-career disc is the abominably under-appreciated but gorgeous "Love of My Life," from the largely forgotten 1992 film This is My Life. --Tammy La Gorce

Into Green with Carly

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Album Description

"Into White" is the incredible follow-up album to Grammy and Oscar award-winner Carly Simon's 2005 best-selling "Moonlight Serenade." The record showcases 14 classic songs performed by Carly Simon, the voice of a generation. Tracks included were originally made famous by Cat Stevens ("Into White"), Judy Garland ("Over the Rainbow"), the Everly Brothers ("All I have to Do Is Dream/Devoted To You"), and James Taylor ("You Can Close Your Eyes" featuring Carly's daughter Sally Taylor and son Ben Taylor). Carly Simon fans will also be pleased to discover three brand new songs on Into White: in stores and online January 2, 2007.

Customer Reviews:

As Jim Morrison might have said, "strange...beautiful...".......2007-07-14

Once you get past Amazon's highly cynical "official" review from Tammy La Gorce..."genre confusion?"...and into the album itself, you'll find a 50 minute suite of songs that summons up the glory days of David Crosby, Windham Hill (the prime, early Ackerman-Hedges years), John Hartford and Richard Thompson.

If you want genres that are not "confused," where everything is linear and vanilla and predictable, pull up Bon Jovi's catalog. For the rest of us, I made it through the entire album without a trace of "confusion."

Nothing you've heard from Carly before will prepare you for this album. It's stark, sometimes disturbing...especially when she sings the lines "I can't sing the blues anymore; But I can sing this song; And you can sing this song, When I'm gone" in a duet with her son from her marriage to James Taylor, who sounds like...you guessed it...a young James Taylor.

Elsewhere...Carly singing "You make me happy when skies are grey" in "You Are My Sunshine," dripping with irony as her voice is full of bittersweet sorrow. A version of "Scarbourough Fair" that shimmers.

Sorry, Tammy, I haven;t gotten to the point where I'm "confused" yet.

The album is not "You're So Vain Part XXXVVVMMMCVIII."

You'll either appreciate Carly in the current day or you won't.

I did. For those who didn't, there's Bon Jovi. Or maybe Poison. Brett Michaels RAWKS, dude. Or maybe that "Cherry Pie" song by Warrant...

An eclectic gem.......2007-07-04

This is not for people who want everything stuck into categories. It is for people who want to explore. The voice has deepen and improved. She still has what it takes to be among the best. I recomment it for its range and depth and some light hearted moments, not something Simon is known for.

One of the songs "I'll Just Remember You" is an absolute favorite of mine! .......2007-06-15

I love this album even though most of the songs are classic standards, already heard over and over. Some aren't even my favorite versions of those songs but each is interpeted uniquely and lovingly by Simon and the showpiece of this CD, for me, is "I'll Just Remember You" which ought to have soared to top of the music charts and stayed there for weeks and weeks and weeks....a wonderful love ballad, poignant and touching.

For more of Simon's work, check these out:

Moonlight Serenade

An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson

Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits

Hmm, a little disappointed??.......2007-06-14

Carly's new CD is, to put it generously, listenable! However, I was expecting a little more from her latest CD. I loved listening to Moonlight Serenade, her previous CD, which is a collection of classic love songs. I must have worn out that DVD/CD for I played it non-stop since February of last year.

This CD is OK but it's not great. At least, from me. I wish I could have been more generous with my review because Carly Simon is one of the great singers of our time. However, I have listened to the CD 3 times and it never got better!

Into White.......2007-05-31

loved all the familiar songs. Carly Simon's voice is still wonderful and her children have inherited the DNA from their talented parents. Easy to keep listening to.

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LOVE 'EM
Just Getting Better and Better
I got it for 1 song and i love it all
I'd give it 10 stars if I could!!
WOW....Can these girls sing!!

Into The Rush [CD/DVD]
Aly & AJ
Manufacturer: Hollywood Records
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Rush
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Chemicals React
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On The Ride (music video)
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You don't have to have a sister to score a hit on the pop charts, but sometimes it sure does help. At a time when the Simpson, Spears, Duff, and Lohan girls are steadily oozing sisterly love across teen magazine spreads and whatever other medium will have them, sending a pair of tight-harmonizing teen queens into the studio to take on the world together makes a certain sort of business sense. Never mind, for a moment, that it's the kind that generally turns the stomach of music snobs, because the girls appointed to the task--Aly & AJ (full names: Alyson and Amanda Joy Michalka)--display genuine vocal talent. Aly, the star of the Disney Channel's Phil of the Future and AJ, a sometime presence on shows such as Six Feet Under and General Hospital, already lit up the soundtrack to Now You See It (a Disney Channel Movie) with their rendition of the '60s chestnut "Do You Believe in Magic," and Into the Rush arrives as solid reinforcement. Leadoff track "Rush" pelts listeners with a feel-good, sweet-sounding salvo on keeping it real, "Speak for Myself" aims itself insouciantly at stifling parents, and "I Am One of Them" takes down the self-importance factor a notch by addressing the issue of missing children. That all these songs save the last two ("Do You Believe In Magic" and another can't-miss '60s fave, "Walking On Sunshine") were written by Aly & AJ bodes well for them--Hilary Duff started writing and singing at Hollywood Records, too. --Tammy La Gorce

Album Description

The energy and spirit the sisters Aly & AJ's bring to their music colors the entire album Into The Rush. Aly and AJ worked with a variety of producers on Into The Rush including some of the music industry's biggest. "We've learned a lot from all of them," says Aly of the producers. "Some things we like...some things we don't like. It's all a part of the process. It's important that we have our own voice and that our emotions are a part of all of our music. This is why we're working with different producers, so that we can experience different ideas."

Their first single may have been the classic cover "Do You Believe In Magic," but the sisters have written all of the songs on this. And though they may be young teens, when it comes to writing songs, they aim high. "We want our songs to be fun, but we also want to write about deeper issues that make people think and issues that we can all relate to in one way or another," says AJ.

Aly and AJ's song "I Am One of Them" tackles the tough subject of child kidnappings. They want to bring awareness by encouraging kids to look out for one another and use precautions and safety measures to empower them. AJ contributed a track called "Protecting Me," a song featured in a "Phil of the Future" episode, which addresses the vulnerable nature of being a kid today. Says Aly: "We want to let kids know they have the power to protect themselves and one another." Aly and AJ have also written songs that address the issues of relationships, heartaches, staying true to yourself and celebrating your own uniqueness.

Customer Reviews:

LOVE 'EM.......2007-07-05

Aly & AJ are amazing. So is this "Into The Rush (CD/DVD Edition)". I love Chemicals React, and Shine are awesome.

Just Getting Better and Better.......2007-06-27

I don't know how Insomniac will be...(song samples soon?)...but this CD was excellent. Being a spiritual person, I loved Never Far Behind, In A Second, and Protecting Me the most.

Kenneth Clifton
-author of The Christian Superhero Training Guide

I got it for 1 song and i love it all.......2007-04-13

I got this CD for Do You Believe In Magic but now i love it all

I'd give it 10 stars if I could!!.......2007-03-02

This Aly and Aj CD is the best! They have the greatest voices and music. All time favs are Chemicals React and Rush. Go Aly and Aj!!!!!!!!

WOW....Can these girls sing!!.......2007-03-01

My 9-year old daughter has this CD and I really love listening to it. I adore the song, "Into the Rush," and most other songs on the CD. Aly & AJ are extremely talented!

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Falling Into You
celine dion-falling into you
Falling Into You
Second buy
Still my favorite after all these years

Falling into You
Celine Dion
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Because You Loved Me (Theme From 'Up Close & Personal')
Falling Into You
Make You Happy
Seduces Me
All By Myself
Declaration Of Love
Dreamin' Of You
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If That's What It Takes
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River Deep, Mountain High
Call The Man
Fly

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Canadian thrush Celine Dion is primarily a singles artist, which is a good thing, because the soaring, epic style she brings to nearly all of her material is thrilling in four-minute bursts, but nearly overwhelming at album length. Falling into You is Dion's finest attempt to temper that approach--mixing low-key love songs and dance pop between showstoppers such as "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" and the Up Close and Personal movie theme, "Because You Loved Me." Dion's take on Tina Turner's Phil Spector experiment "River Deep, Mountain High" is game, but there's little doubt which singer hails from the Great White North and which one is from Nutbush, Tennessee. --Daniel Durchholz

Album Details

Dion's Breakthru Classic Album Includes Two Tracks Not Found on the Us Version: "You Make Me Feel (Like a Natural Woman)" and "Your Light".

Customer Reviews:

Falling Into You.......2007-06-13

This CD was the first CD that brought me to really know who Celine Dion was. It was the first CD I bought of hers. I then started to look for other Celine Dion CDs. I now have her entire collection. Even the French ones. Celine is the BEST SINGER IN THE WORLD. You go Celine. Susan.

celine dion-falling into you.......2007-04-16

Order was fast, disc was in excellent shape, very nice music.

Falling Into You.......2007-02-24

By far the most diverse album of her career, Falling into you explored a new sound for Dion including Pop, Regaee, Gospel and even country. A project that took Dion's music and popularity to superstar levels. This album featured a true diversity and very fresh sound that has not been present on Dion's other releases.

The strong opener "It's all coming back to me now" is an epic masterpeice that draws the listener into a variety of emotions and is a very visual, dramatic song. Dion also glides through her tradmark ballads, "Because You Loved Me, All By Myself, and "I Love You" effortlessly. "Falling Into You" is a bit moody and dark and a change for Dion. Dion seems to be the most interesting when she stretches herself like on the very fresh sound of "Seduces Me".

Falling Into You is truly a fusion of new sounds and experimental music. This is by far Dion's most critically aclaimed work to date.

Second buy.......2007-01-09

Husband needed it on his iPod and the CD was at our summer home.

Still my favorite after all these years.......2006-12-23

Celine Dion's voice is too amazing for words. No matter what albums I receive of hers or what style she is singing, she's amazing. But I'm still extremely partial to this album. This is one of those albums where you can listen to every song and actually like or love every song. The first CD that made me appreciate her talent is still the best to me.

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Marvelous
Pretty Good
the music
Good incidental music but not great listening music - except the classical pieces
Great classical music accompanies bland original score

Master and Commander
Christopher Gordon , and Richard Tognetti
Manufacturer: Decca
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A trio of noted Australian musicians--Iva Davies, Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon--composed the film's score. They previously collaborated on "The Ghost of Time," a piece commissioned for the Millennium celebrations in Sydney, which came to the attention of Peter Weir. The director was so impressed, he played the piece on the Master And Commander set throughout production, and he asked its creators to write the music for his movie. The score interweaves "Old World" and "New World" music, reflecting the talents and backgrounds of its composers. Iva Davies hails from both pop and classical traditions; Richard Tognetti, one of the world's great violin virtuosos, taught Russell Crowe the ins and outs of the instrument; and film/television composer Christopher Gordon brought orchestral texture to the project. Given the period, it comes as no surprise that the score is infused with source music from Bach (Cello Suite) and Mozart, among other great classical composers. Percussion dominates portions of the score. "Drums signal the forward movement of the ship," says Davies, "that it's on a mission. It brings you back into the action." The score's biggest surprise comes with its use of synthesizers. "Peter doesn't make films in the expected way," says Davies, "and for that reason we wanted the score to be not what everyone expected. Peter wanted some scenes to have what I call a kind of 'futuristic' sense"--conveying the idea that these 19th century sailors were cutting-edge explorers.

Customer Reviews:

Marvelous.......2007-02-12

A marvelous collection of compositions which greatly enhanced this fantastic film. This CD is marvelous on its own. It did not leave my CD player for weeks.

Pretty Good.......2006-12-14

I purchased this soundtrack because I really enjoyed this music while watching the movie. But I was a little disappointed at the CD. Some soundtracks allow you to follow the entire plot like through the music (such as the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack). But this CD doesn't provide that. Several of the songs are recurring in the film but are only played once in the soundtrack. I would have liked the soundtrack to reflect the music for the whole film rather than just excerpts.

I give the music 5 stars and the CD 2-1/2 stars.

the music .......2006-11-10

The music is excellent . Flows well Better than the movie score

Good incidental music but not great listening music - except the classical pieces.......2006-11-09

The soundtrack for Master and Commander contains two distinct types of music. First there is the incidental music for the film. These pieces are heavy on the bass side of the orchestra and are often emphasized with bass drums and tympani. This music is very effective and appropriate for the scenes in the film, and I commend the composers for making a soundtrack that so seemlessly and effortlessly invokes the moods and excitement of the visuals. Unfortunately, these pieces are quite moody and slow moving - great as incidental music but not so interesting to listen to as straight orchestral music.

The second type of music is much more enjoyable to listen to. Those that have seen the film know there are several scenes in which people are playing music - for example, Aubrey and Maturin in the captain's cabin performing a cello-violin duet, or the sailors on deck playing sea shanties on tin whistles. The pieces chosen for the film range from Bach to traditional folk music, and are a welcome addition to the soundtrack. The performances are very good (including a cello solo by Yo Yo Ma), and the recording quality is excellent. Deserving special mention is the Boccherini piece (La Musica Notturna Delle Strada di Madrid), which serves as a second unofficial theme song for the movie. The piece itself is presented in its entirety, and there is a callback to the piece in the incidental music as well, which is a welcome ray of levity in an otherwise oppressive piece.

People purchasing this disc run the real risk of being disappointed - the incidental music works so well in the context of the film that you are likely to think (as I did) that the music is itself worth listening to alone. Unfortunately, I don't find this is the case, but the classical music that is included makes this a soundtrack worth having, especially for the Boccherini piece.

Great classical music accompanies bland original score.......2006-09-27

The original music to this film is dull, repetitive, and only offers the hint of good music at certain points during it's lengthy tracks. But what about all the good music you heard in the film? That was all classical music, which was used in the film incredibly well. There are three tracks in particular that save this album. The piece by Corelli is used as something the captain and doctor play together. It is one of the most beautiful pieces of baroque music of which I am aware. A second piece, Vaughn Williams "Fantasia" is the piece heard when the crewmen have to cut the line that might save their friend who fell overboard. It's a tragic scene and accompanied perfectly by the heart-breakingly glorious piece. The original piece of music is quite a bit longer than the version on the CD, but the original version also tends to drag a little in places. All the best parts are on the version of the piece in the film. The third classical piece from the album that saves it is the cello solo by Bach that plays as a theme for the galapagos islands. This solo is performed perfectly by Yo Yo Ma. These tracks make the album worth purchasing. If you already have them, avoid the album because the rest is not very enjoyable. If you wonder about this one, watch the film and listen for the music. It speaks well for itself in the film.

Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast)

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Into the Woods (remastered)
Get Into Into the Woods
Great sound - thin book(let)
Sondheim's most beloved musical

Into the Woods (1987 Original Broadway Cast)
Stephen Sondheim , Bernadette Peters , and Joanna Gleason
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I Guess This Is Goodbye/Maybe They're Magic/I Guess This Is Goodbye - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Ben Wright, Chip Zien
I Know Things Now - Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani
Very Nice Prince/First Midnight/Giants in the Sky - Kim Crosby, Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Ben Wright
Agony - Paul Gemignani, Chuck Wagner, Robert Westenberg
It Takes Two - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien
Stay with Me - Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters, Pamela Winslow
On the Steps of the Palace - Kim Crosby, Paul Gemignani
Ever After - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani
So Happy (Act II Prologue) - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani
Agony (Reprise) - Paul Gemignani, Chuck Wagner, Robert Westenberg
Lament - Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters
Any Moment/Moments in the Woods - Paul Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Robert Westenberg
Your Fault/Last Midnight - Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani, Bernadette Peters, Ben Wright, Chip Zien
No More - Tom Aldredge, Paul Gemignani, Chip Zien
No One Is Alone - Kim Crosby, Danielle Ferland, Paul Gemignani, Ben Wright, Chip Zien
Finale: People Will Listen - Bernadette Peters
Giants in the Sky [*] - John Cameron Mitchell, John Cameron Mitchell
Back to the Palace [*] - Kim Crosby, Kim Crosby
Boom Crunch [*] - Maureen Moore, Maureen Moore

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As conceived by Stephen Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine (following their Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George), Into the Woods tells the intricate tale of multiple fairy-tale characters crossing paths in the woods, not merely resolving the characters' dilemmas but also exploring what happens after happily ever after. Sondheim's chamber-scale music, recipient of the 1987 Tony for Best Score, is one of his most beautiful and accessible, and is at its most poignant in "No More," "No One Is Alone," and "Children Will Listen." The original Broadway cast is outstanding top to bottom, most notably Bernadette Peters as a rapping witch and Joanna Gleason, who won a Tony for Best Actress. The CD booklet includes production photos and--so important for a Sondheim show--full lyrics. Fortunately, this cast was also captured on video and DVD. --David Horiuchi

Album Description

A Classic Stephen Sondheim Musical Available Now at a New Low Price!

Featuresbonus tracks, digitally remastered and new liner notes.

Customer Reviews:

Good classic recording.......2007-06-16

Well worth the money for Bernadette Peters's performance as the Witch. However, not all the minor characters are as good, and I feel the London Cast is a more rounded recording in terms of quality. I feel that all the available cast recordings for Into The Woods are lacking in some way or another, but it is a hard show to do, so it is understandable.

Into the Woods (remastered).......2007-05-12

I first seen this musical on a local television station that was doing a pledge drive. I instantly fell in love with it. I think for one reason was cause i love fairy tales. and combining all our favorite fairy tales into one story was a awesome idea. I wrote the station asking them once a month when they were goign to re-air the program. they told me they might re-air it one day when it fit into their schedual. I can see/hear why Joanna Gleason won a Tony for her performance and it was amazing. I love all the songs on this CD but my favorites are as followed:

I Guess this is Goodbye/Maybe They're magic
I Know Things Now
It Takes Two
Stay with Me
On the Steps of the Palace
Lament
Any Moment/Moments in the Woods*
Your Fault/Last Midnight*
No one is Alone
Children will Listen
(* means Favorite)

I love all these songs for diffrent reason.

the Bonus tracks are very kewl. I love Kim Crosby's (the Original and only Cinderella for me) vocals on Back to the Palace. It is like she never left the character and the emotion is there. Boom crunch is my favorite of the bous tracks cause it is something i have always wanted to hear since i found out it was cut from the show.

Get Into Into the Woods .......2007-04-06

This CD was my trial for the greatcomposer Stephen Sondheim. I had wanted to know his style before I went to see his movie, Sweeny Todd, (Starring Johnny Depp and Directed By Tim Burton). I had heard that this was a great buy. I gritted my teath and bought it. I knew that people said he had a different style, but I had no idea was lying instore.

AMAZING! It was absolutely stunning! I loved the CD. It was beautiful. My Mom has not developed a liking to it, and it is very sharped and flatted (Like on a piano)But beautiful. I compare it to the wonderful musical Dreamgirls, because you love it or hate it. Just as in the way that HEnry reiger used the voices to sing and not so much music; Stephen does the same thing. Like in GIANTS IN THE SKY the actopr sings one note and the piano plays a flatted or sharped version. Ity is wonderful. The Best songs are:
PROLOGUE INTO THE WOODS
EVER AFTER
HELLO LITTLE GIRL
I KNOW THING NOW
GIANTS IN THE SKY
ACT 2 PROLOGUE
YOUR FAULT
FINALE PEOPLE WILL LISTEN
BONUS TRACKS!
GIANTS IN THE SKY

BUY THIS CD! WONDERFUL AND AMAZING!!!! BEtter than the LION KING

Great sound - thin book(let).......2007-04-01

This remaster sounds wonderful. The booklet should include the lyrics and the liner notes are just poor - uninformative and fawning. However the bonus tracks are terrific, alternate lyrics for a children's version and one cut by John Cameron Mitchell before he bloomed into Hedwig (here he's Jack).

Sondheim's most beloved musical.......2007-03-31

Of all Stephen Sondheim's musicals, INTO THE WOODS is certainly his most popular and beloved work. During it's 1987 premiere, the show introduced a whole new generation to the magic of Broadway. The original cast is still definitive, and the cast album is one of the all-time classics.

The story weaves together the familiar childhood characters Cinderella, Jack (of Beanstalk fame), Little Red Ridinghood, and Rapunzel; and explores their stories beyond the "Happily Ever After" ending. Whilst Act One is full of delights and pretty much tells the stories as we remember them, Act Two presents a darker and harrowing portrait as the characters, without the help of the Narrator, attempt to rid the kingdom of a Giant on the warpath...

The original cast is still definitive, headed by Joanna Gleason (in a Tony-winning performance) as the Baker's Wife. Her character holds the entire story together, and she reaches a heartbreaking climax with "Moments in the Woods", one of the most beautiful, tenderly-comical songs ever written for a musical. Bernadette Peters plays the Witch, who magically transforms from ugliness to beauty at the end of Act One. Peters brings a lot of gleeful comedy and schtick to the role, particularly in the "Witch's Rap", but also tugs at the heart during the "Lament"; and she gets to belt a frenzied 11 o'clock number, "Last Midnight".

The supporting cast is equally first-rate, with Kim Crosby's crystalline soprano perfectly suited to the high-flown and beautifully-drawn Cinderella; Ben Wright as Jack; and Danielle Ferland's feisty and funny Little Red Ridinghood. Chip Zien brings a lot of depth and feeling to the role of the Baker, and Robert Westenberg skillfully handles the dual roles of Cinderella's Prince and the Wolf.

This is probably Sondheim's most accessible score, but it's a deceptively-difficult one. The music is presented in a chamber-style, with emphasis on piano and strings. The entire score as a whole is fabulous, but highlights would have to include "On the Steps of the Palace", where Cinderella contemplates meeting her Prince again; "Giants in the Sky" where Jack reveals his adventures with the beanstalk; and "No More", where the Baker and his estranged father unite in their grief.

This reissue of the 1987 Original Broadway Cast has been crisply-remastered with three bonus demo songs, from a proposed children's version of the musical ("Back to the Palace", "Boom Crunch", and a re-written "Giants in the Sky").

INTO THE WOODS opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on November 5, 1987, and ran for 765 performances.

[Sony/BMG 82876-68636-2]

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Good music but...
For love
Bat 2 is great not as good as ba1 or bat 2 though.but still 5 star cd.
Amazon rose its price
"Bat Out Of Hell II" is excellent!

Bat out of Hell II: Back into Hell
Meat Loaf
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ASIN: B000002OMN
Release Date: 1993-09-14

Tracks:

I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
It Just Won't Quit
Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
Wasted Youth
Everything Louder Than Everything Else
Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
Back Into Hell
Lost Boys And Golden Girls

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At a certain point, bad taste and bombast becomes so excessive and so grandiose that they're no longer an easily dismissed irritation but an astonishing monument to the warped imagination. Such a monument is Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, the long-delayed sequel to 1977's Bat Out of Hell. Once again songwriter/producer Jim Steinman has isolated high-school parking-lot aphorisms and inflated them to Wagner-on-Broadway proportions, casting Mr. Loaf as a heavy-metal Ezio Pinza. Typical of the album's strategy is its big hit single, "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)." Steinman piles on the guitars, drums, synthesizers, and choral voices as if he were Phil Spector producing Kiss playing the Who songbook. The rest of the album tackles the themes of teenage lust, frustration, and rock & roll fantasies in similar fashion. It's somehow beside the point to complain about the puerile lyrics, the leaden rhythms, the derivative melodies, the histrionic vocals, or the overblown arrangements. Steinman knows how to push his audience's buttons, and with Meat Loaf's help, he hits those buttons with a sledgehammer. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Good music but..........2006-12-04

The music on the CD is defiantly a A Bat Out Of Hell Series Classic but the overall quality of the sound is sad; I felt as if my Bose 501 speakers had a bowl of Rice Krispies inside and as soon as I played the Bat Out Of Hell 3 their was a noticeably pleasant sound coming from the speakers;Quality!each Cd was purchased from Amazon,NEW...

For love.......2006-11-29

For some reason, people ask me - and I'm not kidding - "What is it that Meat Loaf won't do for love?"

So here's the list:

HE WON'T:

* Lie to you (and that's a fact)
* Never forget the way you feel right now, oh no, no way
* Forgive himself if you don't go all the way tonight
* Ever do it better than he does it with you (so long, so long)
* Ever stop dreaming of you every night of his life (no way)
* Forget everything and "see that it's time to move on"
* Let it all turn to dust so we'll all fall down
* Be screwing around

For those of you really curious about the inner workings of his heart and level of commitment, here's what he will, in fact, do for love...

HE WILL:

* Run right into Hell and back
* take a vow and seal a pact
* be there til the final act
* do anything you've been dreaming of
* Raise you up and help you down
* Get you right out of this Godforsaken town
* Make it all a little less cold
* Hold you sacred and hold you tight
* Colorize your life because you're so sick of black and white
* make it all a little less old
* make you some magic with his own two hands
* build you an emerald city from grains of sand
* give you something you can take home
* cater to every fantasy you got
* hose you down with holy water if you get too hot
* take you places you've never known

*all items listed are from the Meat Loaf song "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" from the album Bat Out of Hell 2

Bat 2 is great not as good as ba1 or bat 2 though.but still 5 star cd........2006-11-09

To me the first 6 songs are what make the album.After that the album gets sloppy.But the first 6 songs are an 50 minutes and something of music.And they are great songs.

Amazon rose its price.......2006-11-04

I just bought it here 1 week ago and its price was $ 6.99

"Bat Out Of Hell II" is excellent!.......2006-11-03

"Bat Out Of Hell II" is excellent! This is an excellent sequel to "Bat Out Of Hell".

Track Listing
1. I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)
2. Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back
3. Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through
4. It Just Won't Quit
5. Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)
6. Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are
7. Wasted Youth
8. Everything Louder Than Everything Else
9. Good Girls Go To Heaven (Bad Girls Go Everywhere)
10. Back Into Hell
11. Lost Boys And Golden Girls

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One of the best rock'n roll box sets ever
Oh La La!
Five Guys with Rod
alcohol, blues, cigarros, rock, trasnoche, funk, fiesta, soul y mujeres galopando....
a drummer for a long ago opening band

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Ooh La La

ASIN: B0001Z2R96
Release Date: 2004-07-20

Tracks:

Flying
On The Beach
Too Bad
If Im On The Late Side
Debris
Jealous Guy
Evil (Rehearsal)
As Long As You Tell Him
Maggie May (Live/BBC)
Cindy Incidentally (Alternate Mix)
Maybe Im Amazed (Live/BBC)
Insurance
I Came Looking For You (Rehearsal)
Last Orders Please
Wyndlesham Bay (Jodie)
I Can Feel The Fire (Live)
Tonights Number
Come See Me Baby (The Cheater)

Tracks:

Pool Hall Richard
Youre My Girl
(I Dont Want To Discuss It) (Live/BBC)
Glad And Sorry
Shake, Shudder, Shiver (Rehearsal)
Miss Judys Farm (Live/BBC)
Richmond
Thats All You Need
Rear Wheel Skid
Maybe Im Amazed
(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Dont Want To Be Right
Take A Look At The Guy (Live)
Flags And Banners
Bad N Ruin (Live/BBC)
Around The Plynth
Sweet Lady Mary
Had Me A Real Good Time
Cut Across Shorty (Live/BBC)

Tracks:

Youre So Rude
(I Know) Im Losing You (Live/BBC)
Love Lives Here
Id Rather Go Blind (Live)
Hi-Heel Sneakers/Everybody Needs
Somebody To Love
Gettin Hungry
Silicone Grown
Oh Lord Im Browned Off
Just Another Honky
Open To Ideas
Skewiff (Mend The Fuse)
Too Bad (Live)
Rock Me
Angel (Live/BBC)
Stay With Me (Live/BBC)
Ooh La La

Tracks:

The Stealer (Live/BBC)*
Around The Plynth/Gasoline Alley
(Live/BBC)*
You Can Make Me Dance, Sing Or Anything(Even Take The Dog For A Walk, Mend A Fuse, Fold Away The Ironing Board, Or Any Other Domestic Short Comings)
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Miss Judys Farm (Live/BBC)
Love In Vain (Live/BBC)
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I Feel So Good (Rehearsal)
Miss Judys Farm
Three Button Hand Me Down
Cindy Incidentally
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Flying (Live/BBC)
Bad N Ruin
Dishevelment Blues
Stay With Me

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England's Faces (1970-1975) wound up playing stadiums, but they always had a compact, pub-band feel. They were proud boozers, tuning up wasn't a major obsession, and Rod Stewart (in pre-disco prime) always sounded like he'd sung himself hoarse the night before. They kept the mood light, but ensemble work was deceptively tight, thanks to drummer Kenney Jones (later Keith Moon's replacement in the Who) and guitarist Ron Wood (post-Jeff Beck, pre-Stones), who'd switch between raunchy lead and raunchy rhythm roles between beats. Wood's blues-drenched slide work snuffed most of his rock competition, and helped define the band's wiry sound. But Faces offered more than teapot blues. Tuneful bassist Ronnie Lane's sweet voice and countryish melodies--think "Ooh La La," revived as the movie Rushmore's closing theme--both lightened and deepened the texture. Keyboardist Ian McLagan picked and sequenced 67 tracks, programming them out of chronological order, to flow like concert sets. Included are abundant rarities--out-takes, b-sides, rehearsals, BBC-broadcast excerpts--including live takes of songs Faces recorded under Stewart's name, like "Gasoline Alley" and "Maggie May." (A few tunes are heard in live and studio versions.) It's a very good selection of music that wears remarkably well. --Kevin Whitehead

Album Description

From 1969 to 1975 the Faces - Rod Stewart, Ian McLagan, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, and Kenney Jones - played their loose and joyful blues and soul-inflected rock 'n' roll with reckless abandon, consummate skill, and immeasurable charm. For those few years they were arguably the greatest band on the planet, and their influence has resonated ever since through the music of countless acts, from the Sex Pistols to The Replacements to The Black Crowes, and on and on. After the Faces dissolved in 1975, Stewart went on to solo superstardom, Wood to the Stones, Jones to The Who, McLagan to world - class session work and his own recordings, and Lane to acclaimed solo projects before he succumbed to multiple sclerosis in 1997. Greater than the sum of its parts, the Faces made now - immortal music for which there will never, ever be a last call.

Customer Reviews:

One of the best rock'n roll box sets ever.......2007-05-29

I wasn't terribly familiar with the Faces, but a friend got this and I was blown away. Booze and blues. Great stuff. A four discs are fantastic. If you like British blues this is for you.

Only negative is the packaging is the typical nonsense these days. It is a book format with four overlapping CDs. What should come is four jewel cases with a separate book. The book here is epoxied to the binder and weak and anything resembling a digipak sucks and scratches the discs.

Put the discs in jewel cases and enjoy the book.

Great stuff.

Oh La La!.......2007-04-19

Always had a soft spot in me heart for Ronnie Lane and the Faces...best show I ever saw matter of fact to this very day...what I remember of it that is...Woody's slippin' and slidin' up against Mac's snortin' B-3 (can't forget his Wurly too) and a singer (what's your name again?) that didn't require a mike...would recommend this box set w/ several thumbs up.

Five Guys with Rod.......2007-01-15

Great CD. Had 1 skipping track but other than that defect the best
collection of Rod and Faces that I've yet to hear together in one package.
Great info too on the band with an included booklet.
Truly the best from Rod's rocking era.
The best thing about these selections is that they are from a member of the band : Ian McLagan, the pianist/organist.
Very little known tracks that made the band's personality come to life are featured. Some rehearsal tracks are not too intriguing. They are rehearsals. By and Large this CD collection is well worth the money for any Faces fan who saw them live in concert in the 70's.

alcohol, blues, cigarros, rock, trasnoche, funk, fiesta, soul y mujeres galopando...........2006-10-24

gran edicion de rhino, excelente box que encierra el legado de una maravillosa banda que pudo haber sido mas grande, desprolija y sucia que los STONES!!!!!!!!! sonido muy bueno, versiones en vivo, ensayos, tomas alternativas....ademas sin las repeticiones comunes de este tipo de ediciones.....hermoso booklet, una caja de tamaño original apta para el bolsillo del caballero y la cartera de la dama....un poco incomoda la forma de guardar los cds pero en fin..UNA GRAN OBRA PARA FANS Y OYENTES CASUALES!!!!!!

a drummer for a long ago opening band.......2006-09-27

Never think for a moment that THE FACES were not the epitome of sincere & home grown good guys. They were a force in rock that could not be challenged.At 53 yrs now I wish those wonderful days could be known to a musically inept bunch of cretans

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Takes me to the Bright Side
Into Van...
Neither his best nor his worst...
Good Album
Van's Best

Into the Music
Van Morrison
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This 1979 release marked both a restoration of Van Morrison's full arsenal of powers as writer, performer, and bandleader after five years of uneven albums and a turning point toward the more interior works that would dominate his next decade. Gone is the lack of direction behind A Period of Transition as well as the commercial pragmatism of the sleeker but shallower Wavelength, replaced by an appealing synthesis of Celtic, gospel, and blues accents that mirror Morrison's own array of earthly joys and spiritual yearnings. On highlights like "Full Force Gale" and "Bright Side of the Road," the sense of revival is palpable, echoed by the lively paean of "You Make Me Feel So Free" and the welcome optimism that brightens "And the Healing Has Begun." Added luster is supplied by a superb studio cast augmenting Morrison's own band, featuring Mark Isham and Pee Wee Ellis in the horn section, with Robin Williamson's evocative Irish whistles and Ry Cooder's guitars. --Sam Sutherland

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Takes me to the Bright Side.......2007-07-12

In March of 2000, I was strolling the historic streets of the McKinney Square when this song was piped out into the street from one of the eclectic shops. It stopped me in my tracks and made me want to spin to the music! I did not recognize the artist (don't know WHERE I was during the 70's & 80's when his music first came out...guess I was busy having babies!), so I had to ask the shop owner about it. When she told me it was Van, I immediately sought it out to purchase and have been hooked ever since. Now I listen to ALL VAN, 24/7!

Into Van..........2007-07-06

Angeliou is like chocolate, I crave it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Tracks 8, 9, & 10 are classic Van also. I wore the cassette out, my CD is badly scratched and now it's on my ipod. Yes, I really love this collection.

Neither his best nor his worst..........2007-06-14

This was supposed to be Van's "comeback" - come on, how many people honestly have anything to say about A Period of Transition or Wavelength? Are either of them even in print anymore? Anyway, if this is a return to form, those two must be really bad. Because this never comes anywhere near the heights of Astral Weeks, Moondance, Tupelo Honey, His Band and Street Choir or Veedon Fleece. Even the hit Bright Side of the Road, catchy and fun as it is, is also totally lightweight, insubstantial, and not even remotely profound. Besides, isn't Van supposed to be a total misanthrope? Then what's he doing singing, "help me, share my load"? He always struck me as the kind of guy who would punch you if you came up to him on the wrong day. Similarly, Full Force Gale is given a strong vocal and an enjoyable fiddle part, but I don't buy the preachy message. Now, my favorites come a bit later on, in the form of the two longest songs: Angielou and And the Healing Has Begun, the latter being my top pick. I'm not praising either for their lyrics, though: both are just simple love songs. But simple love songs stretched out to epic proportions, with atmosphere that's hard to beat. If Van was saying something original with either of them (as he did with Madame George and You Don't Pull No Punches, But You Don't Push the River), I'd praise them to no end. But as of now they're both just good. Not great, neither of them classics or anything.
And some of this is just... what the hell? Like Troubadors, with its silly impression of an Olde Englishe Fanfare. Or Rolling Hills, AKA Full Force Gale without ANY musical merits. Or It's All in the Game, a cover of some age-old #1 hit that is probably the most boring song Van ever recorded.
You get a good mix of the good and the bad on Into the Music, and there's no Wild Night, Sweet Thing, Caravan or Domino here to save the day. If you can find it cheap (I'm thankful it was on sale for $10 - anymore, and I would've probably felt like I wasted money), go for it. But is it a masterpiece? No way.

Good Album.......2007-05-14

This has been a breath of fresh air for a Morrison starved fan. Somehow I had overlooked this album in the past years. I have several others from Van Morrison and have dearly loved them. But I'm not a complete fanatic about all his music but enjoy all his chameleon like song writing that seems to paint the present with a spectrum of the past.

This album will be kept in the CD carousel mix for a long time...

Van's Best.......2007-04-02

I'm cruising in the Karman Ghia with a Marlboro dangling from my lip and this cassette tape blasting to further my melancholy mood. Looking for his car. This Van Morrison plays to move me and sway me and I actually croon and I think it's his best!

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Gregorian plain chant
Word and tune, Motz el Son: From the Silenc
into the great silence
Sound Track of Praise
monks rock quietly

Into Great Silence

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Gregorian plain chant.......2007-06-10

The Carthusians in their authentic manner have retained the essence of plain chant, without any accompaniment. It is like being with them and seeing how it has been said, that they ae halfway to Heaven !

Word and tune, Motz el Son: From the Silenc.......2007-06-10

The musical audio companion to Into Great Silence film, Groening's selection and recording resonates with the music and sounds of a cloistered community. Evocative of Henri Nouwen's accounts of the Desert Fathers and their ministry. The components advanced by Arsenius to Flee, Be Silent, and Pray All Ways acquires a superb example in this CD. None of the cloying production of earlier popularization of gregrian chants, this music is for no audience but God's by his community.

into the great silence.......2007-05-14

I mistakenly thought I was ordering the dvd of the movie, not a sound track.

Sound Track of Praise.......2007-04-30

This is the soundtack from Philip Groenings film 'Into Great Silence'. It includes Matins - Introduction - Psalm 3, The Beginner Accepts His Robe, Introït - Veni, Et Ostende Nobis Faciem Tuam, Offertory - Super Flumina Babylonis, Vespers - Hymn (Saint Ambrose) - Psalms 144, 145, Pentecost Matins - Venite, a Reading: Exceprt from Saint Ambbrose, Corpus Christi - Canticle of Saint Ambrose..., Matins & Lauds - Psalm 96 - Canticle of the Three Chi and Salve Regina.

These are not remixed nor a sound booth recording studio production. These are taken from the movie of the same name. So if you were blessed enough to see the movie, just close your eyes and you will be back with the Chartusians as you listen. If you were moved by the movie, or aspire to the contemplative life, this is a must have. It allows you to share in a spiritual experience.

monks rock quietly.......2007-04-10

I thought this was only for monastic follwers. I was wrong. Silence rocks, and if you can't keep it down (verbally), you're SO LOST.
We look for perfection in others.They do not find it useful. We are not perfect, we only think we are.

The theater experience was phenominal, totally quiet before, during and after.
You can't go home th same person!!!

See it somewhere, anywhere, whereever you can.
You will never forgive yourself for missing tis.
10 Stars

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