Stevenson, Ronald

Average customer rating: (No title) Clarity,simplicity and refinement is what Grianger craves Fantastic Grainger Recital!

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Tracks:

1. Jutish Medley
2. Colonial Song
3. Molly On The Shore
4. Harvest Hymn
5. A Reel
6. Spoon River
7. Country Gardens
8. Walking Tune
9. Mock Morris
10. Ramble On Love (From Der Rosenkavalier)
11. Shepherd's Hey
12. Irish Tune From County Derry
13. Handel In The Strand
14. A March-Jig
15. The Hunter In His Career
16. Scotch Strathspey And Reel
17. 'The Gum-Suckers' March (From 'In a Nutshell' Ste)
18. The Merry King
19. In Dahomey (Cakewalk Smasher)

Customer Reviews:

(No title).......2000-12-07

Clarity,simplicity and refinement is what Grianger craves.......2000-10-03

Hamelin has been scouring the neglected piano repertoire,for quite some time, Alkan,Sorabji,Catoire,Medtner,Busoni,late Listz,Roslavets, Villa-Lobos,and quite recently Frederic Rzewski's political/mural ,the Variations on the powerful Chilean folk tune.I wish other pianists had this vision. The Jutish melody here did have a reference to a political situation, the Jute Mill was the site of rebellion in 19th century agrarian British culture.

Whether Hamelin puts off the overtly emotional is a matter of taste and judgement. I tend to get excited about clarity first,and Grainger's music begs for clarity,for if you ever heard excessive rubatos,and durational liberties, the content of the wonderfully simple melodies, their charm and reverie would have escaped into mediocrity and sacrificed at the head-block of performative indulgence. I think Hamelin treads a fine line,between what should emote and what should remain within the refinement of pianistic timbral clarity.

Fantastic Grainger Recital!.......2000-01-08

Average customer rating: Every last note...

Percy Grainger: The Complete Piano Music Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Intermezzos | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Marches | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Lullabies & Berceuse | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Bargain Box Sets | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Bargain Box Sets | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Opera & Vocal General | Opera & Vocal | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Boccherini: Clavier Quintets (Complete) York Bowen: Piano Music Karl Czerny: The Art of Finger Dexterity, Op. 740 Schumann: Songs / Lieder (Box Set) Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music ASIN: B0000037AX Release Date: 1997-11-18

Tracks:

1. Handel In The Strand
2. Bridal Lullaby
3. English Waltz
4. Mock Morris
5. To A Nordic Princess
6. In A Nutshell-Ste: I. Arrival Platform Humlet
7. In A Nutshell-Ste: II. Gay But Wistful
8. In A Nutshell-Ste: III. Pastoral
9. In A Nutshell-Ste: IV. 'The Gum-Suckers' March
10. Peace
11. Saxon Twi-Play
12. Andante Con Moto
13. Children's March
14. The Immovable Do
15. Sailor's Song
16. Colonial Song
17. Walking Tune
18. Harvest Hymn
19. In Dahomey

Tracks:

1. b flat Pno Con (Opening)
2. Cradle-Song
3. Love Walked In
4. Second Pno Con (3rd Movt)
5. Now, O Now, I Needs Must Part
6. Nimrod
7. Ramble On The Last Love-Duet
8. Chinese Melody-Beautiful Fresh Flower
9. Paraphrase On The Flower Waltz
10. Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster'
11. American Song-The Rag-Time Girl
12. 'Blithe Bells'
13. Fugue In a
14. The Man I Love

Tracks:

1. Country Gardens
2. The Merry King
3. Molly On The Shore
4. Irish Tune From County Derry
5. Knight And Shepard's Daughter
6. The Nightingale And The Two Sisters
7. Jutish Medley
8. Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol
9. The Rival Brothers
10. Near Woodstock Town
11. Will Ye Gang To The Hielands, Lizzie Lindsay
12. The Brisk Young Sailor
13. One More Day My John (Easy Version)
14. Rimmer And Goldcastle
15. Spoon River
16. The Widow's Party
17. The Hunter In His Career
18. My Robin Is To The Greenwood Gone
19. Died For Love
20. Scotch Strathspey
21. One More Day My John (Complex Version)
22. Bristol Town
23. Hard-Hearted Barb'ra Helen
24. Mo Ninghean Dhu
25. Lisbon (Dublin Bay)
26. Stalt Vesselil
27. O Gin I Were Where Gowrie Rins
28. Shepard's Hey

Tracks:

1. Four Irish Dances: I. A March-Jig
2. Four Irish Dances: II. A Slow Dance
3. Four Irish Dances: III. The Leprechaun's Dance
4. Four Irish Dances: IV. A Reel
5. Nell
6. Apres Un Reve
7. Pno Con, First Movt
8. Tiger-Tiger
9. Air And Dance
10. Hornpipe
11. Toccata And Fugue in d
12. Lullaby From 'Tribute To Foster' (Easy Grainger)
13. Angelus Ad Virginem
14. Klavierstuck in E
15. Eastern Intermezzo
16. The Bigelow March
17. Pno Con, First Movt
18. At Twilight
19. Klavierstuck in a
20. Klavierstuck in B Flat
21. Klavierstuck in D

Tracks:

1. Children's March: 'Over The Hills And Far Away'
2. Up-Country Song (Colonial Song)
3. English Dance
4. Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
5. 'Spoon River'-American Folk Dance
6. Train Music
7. Zanzibar Boat-Song
8. Paganini Varations, No.12
9. Green Bushes-Passacaglia On An English Folksong
10. William Byrd's Air And Variations For The Virginals 'The Carman's Whistle'
11. 'A Dance Rhapsody'
12. Girl Crazy: Embraceable You
13. The Warriors-Music To An Imaginary Ballet

Customer Reviews:

Every last note..........2006-06-14

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The Essence of Busoni Manufacturer: Altarus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Busoni | Busoni, Ferruccio | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Toccatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IY2 Release Date: 1996-08-01

Average customer rating: A Salute to one of the Greatest Pianists of our Time

In Memoriam of John Ogdon 1937-1989 Manufacturer: Altarus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Busoni | Busoni, Ferruccio | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IYB Release Date: 1995-11-29

Tracks:

1. Prelude And Fugue On A Theme By Liszt
2. Pansophiae For John Ogdon

Tracks:

1. Fantasia Contrappuntistica
2. Fantasia nach J.S. Bach
3. Elegies: No. 2, All'Italia!
4. Piano Sonatina No. 1
5. Dance Suite

Customer Reviews:

A Salute to one of the Greatest Pianists of our Time.......2000-07-03

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Free Rambles Dished Up by Percy Grainger Manufacturer: White Line ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000JIOF Release Date: 1999-11-16

Tracks:

1. Toccata And Fuge in d
2. Der Rosenkavalier: Ramble On The Last Love Duet
3. Nell
4. Apres Un Reve
5. Country Gardens
6. Colonial Song
7. Irish Tune From Country Derry
8. Now, O Now I Needs Must Part
9. Paraphrase On Tchikovsky's Flower Waltz
10. Paganini Vars No.12
11. Cradle Song
12. Sea Songs Sketch
13. Nimrod
14. Pastoral
15. The Man I Love
16. Love Walked In
17. Embraceable You
18. In Dahomey

Average customer rating: A whisper from the past Hers is a voice in its final bloom

Adelina Patti Manufacturer: Pearl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bellini, Vincenzo | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Foster, Stephen | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Gounod | Gounod, Charles | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Moore | Moore, Thomas | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomas | Thomas, Ambroise | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Romances | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music French | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music German | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000WT0 Release Date: 1992-12-23

Tracks:

1. Le nozze di Figaro: Voi Che sapete
2. Pur dicesti
3. 'Swanee river': Old folks at home
4. Don Giovanni: Batti, batti o bel Masetto
5. Faust: Air des bijioux 'Jewel song'
6. Il bacia
7. The last rose of summer
8. Ave maria
9. Robin Adir
10. Home Sweet home
11. Si vous n' avez rien a me dire
12. Comin' thro'mthe rye
13. The banks of Allan Water
14. On the parting
15. 'twas within a mile
16. A New Year message to Patti's Husband, baron Rolf Cederstrom.
17. Kathleen Mavourneen
18. La Serenata
19. Norma: Casta diva
20. Mignon: Connais-tu le pays?
21. La Sonnambula: Ah non credea mirarti
22. La Calasera

Customer Reviews:

A whisper from the past.......2003-09-17

Well, now those same recordings (even if not quite complete as the former set I had) are out there to listen to again. The remastering is a revelation. Yes, there is surface noise, so those who can't hear past that, I would NOT recommend you buy this recording. You are NOT going to hear any flights of coloratura to take your breath away (such singing Adelina was noted for, and did well); remember, the woman was OLD when these recordings were made, and had been retired a while. Yet, even making them thrilled her, for at first hearing she screamed out "Now I know why I am Patti."

Patti was of a long ago generation that now is nothing more than a mention in the ancient history books. However, she was one singer who not only reflected the tastes of her time, but actually knew most of the composers of the music she sang. When listening to this set, one wonders, "Was that how Gounod taught her to sing the role?" The composers she sang approved of the portamento, the extremely smooth legato, and the mellow quality of her voice. We can never know for sure, but we are led to wonder just what in her singing style is a reflection of the composer's intent.

Even with age, and with a less than perfect support, Patti is able to captivate us with her charm, her personality, and yes, her singing. People have commented on how she sounds more mezzo than soprano, and that is a reflection of the way singers sang at that time. Voices were trained with a strong full lower and middle register; high notes as we are used to hearing them were not considered appealing, though at the time of these recordings they were becoming more and more acceptable. High notes were not necessarily weak, but the volume we associate with them today simply was seen as tasteless. The voice was full at the bottom, and gradually lightened, yet still very penitrating. Thus, the rich sound we hear in Patti's singing (for alas, we hear no high notes at all) was probably the natural heart of her voice throughout her career. The caressing sweet high notes she was praised for would most likely have had that same richness along with a more brilliant focus.

This is all technical, and maybe not too interesting, but it helps the buyer have an idea of what they are going to listen to. One thing I have to comment on, and that is Patti's trill. In all recording I doubt there has been a more beautiful trill recorded. It is even, warm, and so perfect. Sutherland's comes close in mellow beauty, but most sopranos, though perfectly executed, seem to have none of Patti's warmth in their trills (Melba's was technically perfect, but compared to Patti is cold and lifeless). Even Ponselle's, in all its stunning volume and briliance, has nothing on Patti.

This is not a recording for everyone, and to some hearing things like "Old folks at home" may see like a cheap shot considering Patti's greatness in an era of super great singers. Again, the woman was old, and she recorded what she could (and even a few things she couldn't do) and left us with a glimpse, even if ever so clouded, of the wonderful joys of singing audiences of the past basked in regularly.

Hers is a voice in its final bloom.......2003-08-17

Average customer rating:

Grainger: Dished Up for Piano, Vol.5 Manufacturer: Nimbus Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Variations | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000E0A0 Release Date: 1992-12-02

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Salute To Scotland Manufacturer: Altarus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Piano | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Folk Songs | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IY1 Release Date: 1995-11-29

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Twentieth-Century Operatic Fantasias Manufacturer: Altarus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IY3 Release Date: 1996-09-01

Tracks:

1. Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy On Themes From Busoni's 'Doktor Faust': Prelude And Fugue
2. Prelude, Fugue and Fantasy On Themes From Busoni's 'Doktor Faust': Fantasy
3. Rosenkavalier - Ramble
4. Wiegenlied aus Wozzeck
5. Wat Tyler: The Minstrel's Lay
6. Peter Grimes Fantasy

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The Transcendental Tradition: Ronald Stevenson in Concert Manufacturer: Apr UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Busoni | Busoni, Ferruccio | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Godowsky | Godowsky, Leopold | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Grainger | Grainger, Percy Aldridge | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Liszt | Liszt, Franz | ( L ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Fugues | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000BOIWVO Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Du Bist Die Ruh' S558/3
2. Etude No. 18a
3. Gavotte D'Orphee
4. Ramble On Love
5. Love Walked In
6. The Man I Love
7. Peter Grimes Fantasy
8. Chaconne
9. Prelude
10. Fugue
11. Fantasy

Music Composers:

1. Still, William Grant
2. Stockhausen, Karlheinz
3. Straus, Oscar
4. Strauss, Eduard
5. Strauss, Johann, Jr.
6. Strauss, Johann Sr.
7. Strauss, Josef
8. Strauss, Richard
9. Stravinsky, Igor
10. Strayhorn, Billy

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