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Johnny Cash: Personal File contains 49 unreleased tracks on 2 CDS. Recovered from a vault of material housed at the House of Cash studios, Personal File includes “Tin Pan Alley hits, traditional folk and gospel tunes, new originals and favorite covers” – by Carter Family, Louvin Brothers, Johnny Horton, John Prine, Rodney Crowell, Carlene Carter, and “The Cremation Of Sam McGee”.
Compiled and produced by Gregg Geller with liner notes by Greil Marcus, Johnny Cash: Personal File is a perfect follow-up to last year’s RIAA gold and Grammy Award-winning box set Johnny Cash – The Legend.
Announcing Robert Levin’s Latest Release
Bonus DVD Included With CD With Levin Discussing Mozart & His Music,
Plus Complete Live Performance of A Sonata Movement
Playing A Instrument Identical To One Mozart Knew And Admired,
Levin Recaptures The Composer’s Brilliant, Articulate
Keyboard Style And Sound In Sonatas K. 279, K. 280, K. 281
In a bold new deutsche harmonia mundi recording of three “watershed” piano sonatas, fortepiano virtuoso Robert Levin brings fresh insights to the style and sound Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart imagined when he wrote for the keyboard at a pivotal point in his evolution. Levin performs a trio of Mozart’s sonatas, all dating from 1775 – in C, K. 279; in F, K. 280; and in B-Flat, K. 281 – on a modern copy of a fortepiano that Mozart might well have played in those years. The recording is now in stores.
Accompanying the CD is a bonus DVD featuring Levin discussing Mozart, his music and original-instrument keyboard performances of it in the modern era. The DVD also includes footage of Levin in a complete performance of the third movement of the Sonata in C, K. 279.
One of the world’s most respected and influential Mozart scholars who also holds the title of he is Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, Levin believes the three sonatas included here – with the three that followed immediately, all dating from 1775 in Munich, when the composer was 19 – are “watershed” works in the Mozart emergence as a great composer.
“In them Mozart’s freedom and variety of rhythm emerge in full flower, both in the spontaneity of melodic flow and in the choice of textures,” Levin says, noting that they reflect his evolution from a purely instrumental to a vocal composer. He adds, “It is difficult to exaggerate the achievement represented by this synthesis. It contributes in no small way to Mozart’s universality and distinguishes his music from that of his contemporaries.”
Though keyboard instruments were in a period of profound change in the late 18th century, Levin has concluded that the three sonatas on this recording were intended for performance on the fortepiano, not harpsichord. The fortepiano, he believes, best realizes the texture and articulation in the scores themselves. He adds that “Mozart favored a clear, translucent sound with sparse use of pedal, and a singing melody (‘It must flow like oil,’ he repeatedly affirmed) that he inflected with a plethora of articulate detail.
The fortepiano Levin plays on the new dhm recording is a copy made by Thomas McCobb in Philip Belt’s workshop of an 18th-century fortepiano built by Johann Andreas Stein. Mozart knew Stein’s instruments and, in 1777, even praised them in a letter to his father. For this recording, the fortepiano was tonally and mechanically refined and tuned to A430 Hz in Thomas Young #2, an 18th-century temperament that differs from the equal temperament used today in pianos.
After performances this summer in Europe and New Zealand, Robert Levin returns to the U.S. for performances this fall with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra for Mozart Piano Concerto K. 459 and Beethoven Choral Fantasy (October 4-8); Oregon Symphony Orchestra for Mozart Piano Concerto K. 459 (October 20-23); and an all-Schumann program with the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami (December 7-8). Levin will also lecture and demonstrate at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Atlanta (October 24-28), and he will serve on the jury of the sixth annual Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan (November 8-30). In early 2007, he plays concerts with the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston (January 12-14); San Antonio Symphony Orchestra (February 2-4) and at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (February 18 & March 1).
Order your copy of this release here.
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Down to the River to Pray - SATB (from the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou?) Arranged by Sheldon Curry. Vocal score for SATB choir and piano accompaniment. With vocal score notation, piano accompaniment and chord names. F Major. 11 pages. Published by Daybreak Music. Average customer rating:  |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Works For Keyboard And Four-Part Chorales Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). CD Sheet Music for piano. Printable and viewable for PC and Macintosh. Complete works for Keyboard And Four-Part Chorales. 1100 printable pages. Published by Theodore Presser Co. Average customer rating:  |
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Johann Sebastian Bach: The Complete Church Cantatas Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). CD Sheet Music (2 CDs) for choral and piano accompaniment. Printable and viewable for PC and Macintosh. The complete Church Cantatas of J.S. Bach. 5600 printable pages. Published by Theodore Presser Co. Average customer rating: |
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Fifty Nifty United States - Accompaniment CD Music by Ray Charles (1930-2004). Choral accompaniment/performance CD. Includes full performance and accompaniment (CD Only-no sheet music). Published by Shawnee Press. Average customer rating: |
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Major Choral Works: 1550-1922 CD Sheet Music for choral. The largest collection of choral vocal scores in publishing history! Printable and viewable for PC and Macintosh. 5400 pages. Published by Theodore Presser Co. |
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Christmas Homecoming Souvenir Songbook Compiled by Bill Gaither. Songbook for voice and piano. Arranged in SATB with lyrics, to be performed by voice solo with piano accompaniment, or by 4-part vocal choir. 138 pages. Published by Word Music. |
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John Rutter: For The Beauty Of The Earth Composed by John Rutter (1945-). Octavo for SATB choir and piano accompaniment. Choral. B flat major. 12 pages. Published by Hinshaw Music Inc. Average customer rating: |
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Chris Rice: Go Light Your World Composed by Chris Rice, arranged by Allen Pote. Vocal score for SATB chorus and piano accompaniment. With vocal score notation and piano accompaniment. Bb Major. 8 pages. Published by Daybreak Music. |
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The Pirates Of Penzance (The Slave Of Duty) Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert, music by Sullivan. Vocal score for mixed chorus (with solos) and piano accompaniment. From the Broadway musical “The Pirates Of Penzance”. With choral notation, piano reduction, introductory text and black & white illustrations. Text language English. 213 pages. Published by G. Schirmer. Average customer rating: |
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John Rutter: The Lord Bless You and Keep You Composed by John Rutter (1945-). Vocal score for SATB choir and organ accompaniment. Text from Numbers 6:24. With vocal score and organ accompaniment. Gb Major. 8 pages. Published by Hinshaw Music Inc. Average customer rating: |
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Paramount Pictures film, directed by Oliver Stone, opens nationwide August 9th
Original score composed by Craig Armstrong, 2005 Grammy-winner for Ray – other awards for Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, One Day in September
Distinguished by an evocative score from Grammy Award-winning composer Craig Armstrong, the original motion picture soundtrack album of Academy Award®-winning director Oliver Stone’s upcoming epic WORLD TRADE CENTER will be released on August 8. The Paramount Pictures film will open nationwide the following day, August 9.
Gathering thumbs-up critical raves from early tastemakers across the Internet since its first “sneak-peek” at the Cannes festival in May, World Trade Center is destined to take its place as one of the most important films of 2006. It tells the true story of the heroic survival and rescue of two Port Authority policemen – John McLoughlin (played by Academy Award®-winner Nicolas Cage) and Will Jimeno (played by Michael Peña, of Crash) – who were trapped in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, after they and three other officers went in to help people escape. As history notes, only 20 people were rescued alive from the WTC after the collapse of the two buildings – Jimeno and McLoughlin were the 18th and 19th.
The film also follows their families – led by McLoughlin’s wife Donna (played by Maria Bello, A History of Violence) and Jimeno’s wife Allison (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary) – as they try to find out what happened to the men, as well as the rescuers who found them in the debris field and pulled them out. (To view a trailer of the movie, go to http://imdb.com/title/tt0469641/trailers-screenplay-E27504-10-2)
Underpinning the high-strung, emotionally charged atmosphere of the movie is the original music of Craig Armstrong, the multi-talented composer and arranger who is also a prolific recording artist in his own right. Armstrong shared his first Grammy Award last year for Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for Ray. Armstrong’s other film scores include Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet,” for which he won a BAFTA and an Ivor Novello; and “Moulin Rouge,”which garnered a Golden Globe, an Ivor Novello and an American Film Institute Award. He won a third Ivor Novello for his music for Phillip Noyce’s “The Quiet American,” and also scored “Must Love Dogs,” “Fever Pitch,” “Love Actually,” “The Bone Collector” and the Oscar®-winning “One Day in September.”
A pianist who won the title Jazz Musician Of the Year at an early age, Scottish-born Armstrong later studied violin and composition at the Royal Academy in London. He later branched into theatre and became resident composer at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. His classical works include a chamber opera commis¬sioned for the Edin¬burgh festival; Visconti, a homage to filmmaker Luchino Visconti that was performed at the Stockhausen Festival at the Barbican; and various other orchestral commissions for the Northern Sinfonietta, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BT Ensemble, and the Hebrides Ensemble.
Other concert works include Northern Sound and When Morning Turns To Light for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). One Minute, a new concert work in collaboration with the Scottish fine arts duo Dalziel & Scullion, was performed by the RSNO for the opening of the new Perth Concert Hall. Other stage work includes commissions for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Armstrong has also developed an impressive career in popular music as a sought-after composer and arranger. His work with Massive Attack on their Protection album led to his signing as a solo artist with their record label, Melankolic, for whom he recorded the solo albums The Space Between Us (1998) and As If to Nothing (2002), which included collaborations with Evan Dando and David McAlmont, among others.
After the demise of Melankolic, Armstrong issued Piano Works (2004), a rad¬ically different collection of piano versions of some of his film themes, tracks he composed for Massive Attack, and entirely new pieces. It was followed by his first album for the Sony BMG-distributed Sanctuary label, Film Works (2005), a best-of-film music album. Armstrong also arranged the classic “Clair de Lune” for the recent Chanel No. 5 advertisements, starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Baz Luhrmann. As a performer, Armstrong’s most recent concerts have taken place at the Weil Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall and at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Paramount Pictures presents a Michael Shamberg/Stacey Sher/Moritz Borman Production, an Oliver Stone film, World Trade Center. Directed by Oliver Stone from a screenplay written by Andrea Berloff based on the true life events of John & Donna McLoughlin and William & Allison Jimeno, produced by Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Moritz Borman, and Debra Hill. Executive producers are Donald J. Lee, Jr. and Norm Golightly.
Gary Revel CD Album IN MY DREAMS Podcasting Now
The Gary Revel new Jongleur Music CD Album is being podcast now at podcast sites on the Internet. The 15 tracks that include the controversial song THEY SLEW THE DREAMER about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the popular easy listening title song IN MY DREAMS can be accessed at http://www.garyrevel.com/itunes_podcast.html
Original post by Rolling Stone: Music News
Introducing New Masterworks Series Pages
From The Legendary Sony Classical/CBS & Columbia Masterworks Vaults
GREAT PERFORMANCES Features Newly Remastered, Definitive Performances by Glenn Gould, Yo-Yo Ma, Leonard Bernstein, Leon Fleisher, George Szell, Eugene Ormandy, E. Power Biggs and Many More.
The Great Performances series set the standard for reissuing classic recordings when it first appeared in the LP era, and it returns now – reconceived and dramatically redesigned for the digital age – to mine the riches of the unparalleled Sony Classical/CBS and Columbia Masterworks catalogue.
Visit our new Great Performances Series website here.
Living Stereo recordings were made with only two or three microphones, which represented the best recording techniques of that era. Today, with the advent of Super Audio Compact Disc and multi-channel sound, the listener can hear the left, center and right channels exactly as the recording engineers heard them at the original recording sessions. When remastering the original recordings, John Newton and his engineering team used only three of the available six channels (or two when the original recording was two-track) on the Super Audio CD because that was the vision of the original producers. What you hear are faithful copies of these historic performances in brilliant DSD resolution. No signal processing was used to "improve" these extraordinary tapes.
Visit our new Living Stereo Series website here.
Soul Asylum - Silver Lining Ecard
Check out the new ecard here: http://www.soulasylum.com/mediaplayer