classical music: Michael Flanders

classical music: Michael Flanders

classical music:

Michael Flanders

Michael Tilson Thomas, Charles Ives, ...

RCA, 2002

The Mood of Time
This collection of Ives compositions is exceptional. This CD makes for very good listening. I play it when I am alone in the car. The pensive music realy captures the mood of time.

Debussy, Ravel, Ives: Songs
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Irmgard Poppen, ...

Polygram Int'l, 2003

War's Embers: Songs by Browne, Butterworth, Farrar, Finzi, Gurney, Kelly

Stephen Varcoe, Michael George, ...

Hyperion UK, 1997

A classic recording
War's Embers draws its title from composer-poet Ivor Gurney's second volume of poetry written at the Front. Conceived by Joy Finzi, the widow of composer Gerald Finzi, it features songs by composers who fought in World War I with the exception of Finzi whose teacher ...

Unsung Musicals II (Studio Cast)

Baldwin Bergersen, Elmer Bernstein, ...

Varese Sarabande, 1995

Once again, unsung perhaps, but often wonderful
This is the second fine CD in the series of three. These selections may be songs that are not well known from shows in the same category, but some of these are real gems, sung by fine show singers. My favorites are "Lawyers" (from A Broadway Musical), "Everything in ...

Hovhaness: Celestial Gate and Other Orchestral Works

Alan Hovhaness, Rudolf Werthen, ...

Telarc, 1995

Tzaikerk Allelula Evening Songs
Alan Hovhaness was born on March 8th of 1911. Around 1940, after studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, he was appointed to the position of organist at an Armenian church near Boston. An inner prompting, around that same time, led to an intensive study of ...

Berio: The Great Works for Voice

Ted Mook, Theodore Mook, ...

Mode, 1995

Poorly engineered recording.
One of the worst engineered recordings in recent times. Recorded in a very reverberant Church in NYC. Engineering is amateur, and performances are at best serviceable. Stick with the (excellent) Berberian recording of Circles (still available on Wergo). Many ...

Walton: The Bear / Facade / The Wise Virgins
John Shaw, Norman Lumsden, ...

EMI Classics Imports, 2001

Complete Flanders & Swann

Georges Brassens, Michael Flanders, ...

Emd Int'l, 1997

Return to Sanity
Before Monty Python, before the Beatles, before "'Enery the Aigth Oi Am" there was the subtle, sweet, insdious humor of Flanders and Swann, and their lyrics remain part of the recognition rituals of Ivy Leaguers of the sixties. For any aging hippies or yuppies who ...