Tracklista:1. Elodie3. The Ghost That Sleeps in Me2. The Buffalo Days4. Until the Colours Run5. Green and Gold6. You Soon Learn7. Picture Show8. Another Tale from Another English Town9. Our Cool Decay
Tracklista:1. Transfusion2. Dig3. Ape Call4. Wild Dog of Kentucky5. The Fang7. Stoneage Woo6. Bullfrog Hop8. I Like Girls9. The Plaster Song10. Cowboy Soldier11. Wa-hoo12. Does a Chinese Chicken Have a Pigtail?13. Stop Your Foolin'14. Kibble Kobble (The Flying Saucer Song)15. The Lean Green Vegetable Fiend (From Tuther Side of the Moon)16. Transfusion18. The Bully Bully Man17. Zorch Boogie19. Zorch!20. The Bully Bully Man21. Orphan's Christmas Song22. Transfusion
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Boulder Buff 2. The Booglie Wooglie Piggy 3. Chattanooga Choo Choo 4. I Know Why 5. Don't Cry Cherie 6. Cradle Song 7. Sweeter That The Sweetest 8. I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest 9. Take The 'A' Train 10. Peekaboo To You 11. The Angels Came Thru 12. Under Blue Canadian Skies 13. Cowboy Serenade, The (While I'm Rollin' My Last Cigarette) 14. You And I 15. Adios 16. Are You Rusty, Gate? (Live) 17. Intermezzo (Live) 18. It Happened In Sun Valley 19. I'm Thrilled 20. The Kiss Polka 21. Delilah 22. From One Love To Another (Danza Lucumi) 23. Elmer's Tune 24. Georgia On My Mind (Live) 25. Says Who? Says You, Says I! CD 2 1. Everybody Loves My Baby (Live) 2. The Gentleman Needs A Shave (Live) 3. On Brave Old Army Team (Live) 4. Make Believe Ballroom Time 5. You've Got Me This Way 6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 7. I'd Know You Anywhere 8. Solid As A Stonewall, Jackson (Live) 9. Oh So Good (Live) 10. Anchors Aweigh (Live) 11. Tiger Rag (Live) 12. Fresh As A Daisy 13. Isn't That Just Like Love? 14. Along The Santa Fe Trail 15. Do You Know Why? 16. Somewhere 17. Yes, My Darling Daughter 18. A Stone's Throw From Heaven 19. Helpless 20. Long Time No See, Baby 21. You Are The One 22. Our Love Affair (Live) 23. Lights Out! Hold Me Tight! (Live) 24. Limehouse Blues (Live) 25. There I Go (Live) 26. Down For The Count (Live) CD 3 1. You Walk By (Live) 2. Anvil Chorus (Parts 1 & 2) 3. Daisy Mae (Live) 4. Are You Jumpin' Jack? (Live) 5. Mem'ry Of A Rose, The 6. I Do, Do You? (Do You Believe In Love?) 7. Chapel In The Valley 8. Prairieland Lulaby 9. The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me (Live) 10. Ida! Sweet As Apple Cider 11. Song Of The Volga Boatmen 12. The One I Love, The (Belongs To Somebody Else) 13. You Stepped Out Of A Dream 14. I Dreamt I Dwelt In Harlem 15. Sun Valley Jump 16. There'll Be Some Changes Made 17. Sentimental Me (Live) 18. When That Man Is Dead And Gone 19. The Spirit Is Willing 20. A Little Old Church In England 21. Perfidia 22. It's Always You 23. Spring Will Be So Sad (When She Comes This Year) 24. The Air Minded Executive CD 4 1. The Nearness Of You 2. Mister Meadowlark 3. My Blue Heaven 4. Body And Soul (Live) 5. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano 6. A Million Dreams Ago 7. Blueberry Hill 8. A Cabana In Havana 9. Be Happy 10. Angel Child 11. On The Alamo (Live) 12. The Call Of The Canyon 13. Crosstown 14. What's Your Story, Morning Glory? 15. Fifth Avenue 16. I Wouldn't Take A Million 17. A Handful Of Stars 18. Old Black Joe 19. Yesterthoughts 20. Falling Leaves 21. Shadows On The Sand 22. Goodbye, Little Darlin', Goodbye 23. Five O' Clock Whistle 24. Beat Me Daddy, Eight To The Bar 25. Ring Telephone, Ring
Tracklista: 1. Prelude from Prelude for clarinet solo 1987 (Krzysztof Penderecki) [07:35]2. Duet from Suita for oboe & piano 1954 (Stefan Kisielewski) [02:19]3. Langueur from Langueur for piano 1990 (Marzena Komsta) [06:33]4. Sonata I from Sonata for violin & piano 1953 (Krzysztof Penderecki) [02:11]5. Sonata II from Sonata for violin & piano 1953 (Krzysztof Penderecki) [03:48]6. Sonata III from Sonata for violin & piano 1953 (Krzysztof Penderecki) [06:38]7. Foggy from Sonatina for oboe & piano 1955 (Grażyna Bacewicz) [03:29]8. April for contemporary quartet 2001 (Bartłomiej Brat Oleś) [05:38]9. Per Slava from Per Slava for cello solo 1986 (Krzysztof Penderecki) [09:31]10. Seven Hands for contemporary quartet 2002 (Bartłomiej Brat Oleś) [08:18]11. Bucolique no IV from Bucoliques for piano 1952 (Witold Lutosławski) [05:33]
Tracklista:1. Bésame Mucho2. Noche De Ronda (Be Mine Tonight)3. Perfidia (Tonight)4. What a Difference a Day Made6. Say Si Si5. Medley. La Paloma/La Golondrina7. Kiss of Fire8. Without You9. Anna10. A Love Like This11. Medley. Cieliti Lindo/Chiapanecas12. Adios13. Sand in My Shoes14. You Stepped Out of a Dream15. Let's Face the Music and Dance16. The Italian Touch. Mattinata/Scapricciatiello/Torna a Sorriento17. Autumn in New York18. Ev'rything I Love19. If I Forget You20. Pennies from Heaven21. All the Things You Are22. The French Touch. Sur Le Pont D'avignon/(Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah) the Song That Haunts My Heart/Pigalle23. That's All24. Be My Love
FROM THE ASHES OF MILLIGRAM. RIYL: KARMA TO BURN 1. PACKED BAT 2. THE ANTHEM 3. YOU CAN'T EVER GET WHAT YOU WANT 4. CHIN MUSIC 5. I DON'T NEED THIS SHIT, I PLAYED BUDOKAN 6. ABABAC 7. FUCK YOU, I PLAYED ALTAMONT
Tracklista: LP 1 1. Back To Haunt 2. Gone And Forgotten 3. Patterns In The Sky 4. And So It Has Begun 5. When The Ships Arrive 6. The Pillars Of Creation LP 2 1. Faith Is Gone 2. Flee From Today 3. Shell Beach 4. Beyond The Realms Of Time 5. A Distant Knowledge 6. Hexagon
Tracklista:1. Safety Signal from a Target Town2. Perfect Soldier3. The Playground in the Desert4. Happy Birthday! Mr President5. One Minute to Midnight/Beijing Half Life
‘… an austere serenity almost unique in post-medieval Christian art’‘Palestrina sought in all things perfect balance’These two quotations, from Curt Sachs and Gustave Reese, sum up neatly the outstanding spiritual and technical qualities of Palestrina’s music, expressing for us, as for so many in the past, that instinctive feeling that it has a heavenly quality. More down to earth, those qualities of serenity and balance can be identified as superb control of structure, like strategic planning, and flawless attention to detail, like tactical efficiency. So very often one finds the word ‘felicity’—happy appropriateness, absolute rightness—describing Palestrina’s numerous works that qualify as great.This long revered archetype of the Roman Catholic liturgical composer has had his critics—not denigrators, but those who, perhaps rightly, saw him unfairly placed on a pedestal wrongly overshadowing many deserving the same acclaim. Yet, through four centuries and as strongly as ever now, Palestrina’s works keep coming back to impress, to move and uplift, spiritually refreshing and musically astonishing.In this recording Westminster Cathedral Choir presents some of Palestrina’s most loved and often quoted music. The opening melody of Sicut cervus desiderat, presented voice by voice, has been a favourite of writers demonstrating the typical ‘gradual rise in the melodic line followed by a fall that balances it with almost mathematical exactness’ (Reese, Music in the Renaissance, p. 462). The famous Super flumina Babylonis is a perfect example of the master’s ability to produce a completely unified and well proportioned whole that has within it a series of clearly defined sections each characterizing and expressing the text, gently propelling the words with musical expression. That he can do this so effectively within a growth that seems quite natural and organic is precisely why our admiration has remained loyal for four hundred years. These are not the desultory lightning flashes of a Gesualdo, nor the startling dramas that dazzle in the sounds of Lassus. Within Palestrina’s calm unfolding there is an enormous confidence and a feeling of strength. A philosopher theologian once remarked to the present writer that Palestrina’s music seemed made by a man without worries.The Missa Aeterna Christi munera has been a favourite of church choirs for good reasons: its classic simplicity, its brevity, its clear singability and its four voice parts (only the second Agnus Dei divides the tenors). It is based on three melodic strands taken from the tune which gives the Mass its title, the hymn for Matins of Apostles and Evangelists; the fourth line of the verses has a repeat of the first line’s melody. Palestrina employs these themes in turn in the opening Kyrie– Christe–Kyrie sections, passing them from voice to voice, transforming and elaborating them. He uses them in the wordy Gloria and Credo in a less complicated way, alluding to them mainly in the top voice. In the later movements, Palestrina gently plays his variations in the most serene way, until, finally, in his second Agnus Dei, he produces a passage of great tranquillity as he groups the voices in parallel at ‘dona nobis pacem’, a moment that has captivated generations of singers.To precede the Mass itself, we have given the complete Matins hymn in the version which Palestrina would surely have known at the Julian Chapel (he was there from 1571). The music and text have been edited specially for this recording from a Julian Chapel manuscript of 1564 (Capp. Giulia XIV.7). The Mass is a mature work first printed in Palestrina’s Fifth Book of Masses (1590). After the Sicut cervus desiderat and Super flumina Babylonis, both published in 1581, we hear his earlier but confident vision of the Apocalypse—Vidi turbam magnam, for six-part choir. This has Palestrina in vigorous form, constantly using word-driven accents on weak beats to keep a great momentum; there is here a special grandeur of sonority that Palestrina used for portentous texts like this. In it, and in his double-choir Magnificat which ends the recording, the composer is constantly changing the texture and colour of the music by re-grouping his vocal forces in different combinations. There is never a monotony of thick polyphony.All the music so far discussed is liturgical or votive within the liturgy, that is to say normally usable as part of the Roman Rite. The group of motets from the ‘Song of Songs’ is of extra-liturgical pieces intended for devotional use, possibly in church but probably intended for devout recreation. Church music in the liturgical sense or not, Palestrina’s set of twenty-nine motets on selections from the ‘Song of Songs’ (Canticum Canticorum Salomonis, ‘The Song of Solomon’) was tremendously popular in his own time; after its publication in 1584 it was reprinted frequently until nearly ten years after the composer’s death. There seems little doubt that Palestrina knew well and subscribed to the church’s allegorical interpretation of these extraordinary Hebrew love poems. Removed from carnality by Jewish and Christian acceptance in the Bible, transformed by doctrine into the union of Christ and His Spouse the Church, ritualized by the Latin and woven into the medieval tapestry of Marian mythology, the ‘Song of Songs’ still spell-binds in Palestrina’s delicate hands as he balances between the sacred and the erotic.Suffice to say that performances of these extraordinary pieces may emphasize either the intimate, secular and madrigalian side of the music or stress their public, sacred and motet-like nature. There can be no doubt that in Quae est ista quae progreditur Palestrina has in his mind the Catholic vision of the Virgin ascending in triumph, her foot on the crescent moon, crushing the serpent of evil. Yet in Duo ubera tua something strange and mysterious seems to have happened. Has the lofty Palestrina let his guard down for once? Is there something private, deep in there, that Palestrina should sing so passionately … ‘the hair of thy head is as royal purple braided in strands’? Fanciful perhaps, but the more you go into Palestrina’s music the more full of wonders it seems to be
Tracklista: CD 1 1. God Bless The Child 2. That Old Devil Called Love 3. Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be) 4. Mean To Me 5. Summertime 6. These Foolish Things 7. My Man 8. No Regrets 9. Billie's Blues 10. A Fine Romance 11. The Way You Look Tonight 12. Pennies From Heaven 13. I Can't Give You Anything But Love 14. I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm 15. I Must Have That Man 16. Carelessly 17. Moanin' Low 18. They Can't Take That Away From Me 19. Easy Living 20. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man CD 2 1. Strange Fruit 2. Good Morning Headache 3. Willow Weep For Me 4. You Go To My Head 5. I'm Gonna Lock My Heart 6. The Very Thought Of You 7. Long Gone Blues 8. Fine And Mellow 9. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues 10. Them There Eyes 11. Night And Day 12. Body And Soul 13. St. Louis Blues 14. All Of Me 15. Am I Blue? 16. Solitude 17. I Cover The Waterfront 18. Gloomy Sunday 19. Trav'lin' Light 20. I'll Be Seeing You CD 3 1. The Man I Love 2. Love Me Or Leave Me 3. Lady Sings The Blues 4. Lover Come Back To Me 5. Love For Sale 6. Don't Explain 7. The Blues Are Brewin' 8. T'ain't Nobody's Business If I Do 9. Crazy He Calls Me 10. Blue Moon 11. Stormy Weather 12. Stormy Blues 13. Everything Happens To Me 14. It Had To Be You 15. Come Rain Or Come Shine 16. Moonlight In Vermount 17. One For My Baby (And One For The Road) 18. Just One Of Those Things 19. You Don't Know What Love Is 20. I'm A Fool To Want You