classical music: Steve Smith     classical music:     Steve Smith      Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Original London Cast Sony, 2005 altogether a fine cast album CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, the cheerfully-mindless musical by the Sherman Brothers, was mounted for the West End stage in 2002, opened at the London Palladium and enjoyed a run of nearly three and-a-half years (the subsequent Broadway production fared less well). The ...             Andrea Andrea Bocelli, Baron Browne, ... Philips, 2004 HOW DO YOU SAY,"WOW," IN ITALIAN? BEFORE I START, LET ME SAY, THAT I AM A DANCE CLUB GUY AND THAT, ORDINARILY, THIS IS NOT MY KIND OF MUSIC. OF COURSE, I LAUGH AS I SAY THAT, AS, APPARENTLY, A NEW DOOR HAS OPENED IN MY LIFE, THANKS TO THIS MAN. A FEW YEARS AGO I HAD HEARD ANDREA DO, "CON TE ...             Maritime Rites Alvin Curran, Spoken Word, ... New World Records, 2004 In the middle 1970s I began to formulate ideas and projects leading to the making of music outside the concert halls?often in large open and naturally beautiful sites. Ports, rivers, lakes, caves, quarries, fields, and woods, always ready sources of my musical inspiration, now became my new music theaters. ?Alvin Curran Maritime Rites is a series ...             Portrait Richard Alison, Anonymous, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2000 Rock guitarist turned lutanist I listen to this album over and over and never get tired of it. O'Dette's interpretations keep sounding fresh and alive, perhaps because of his rock background. This was the popular music of the time and he plays it that way. There's no dusty mustiness of age ...             The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective Steve Smith, Sanford Sylvan, ... Nonesuch, 1999 Nonesuch delivers.Again John adams is one of the most popular living composers of"modern" classical music[I believe the cutoff point, though arbitrary is usually WWII}.I came to him late, through my husband. Modersn classical music , I said? What the hell is that?My husband kept playing bits ...             Witness: What a Mighty God - Spirituals and Gospels for Chorus Philip Brunelle, VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus, ... Clarion, 2004 Historically important choral music, wonderfully performed! For over 10 years, The VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Chorus (conducted by Philip Brunelle) has presented an enduring series of concerts showcasing the talents of trailblazing African American composers. Now this wealth of music is available outside the concert hall ...             Andrea Baron Browne, Cesare Chiodo, ... Philips, 2004 Excellent!!!!! WOW Andrea is truly a Beautiful CD. This is Andrea's 6th "pop" release (4th In the USA) and it is really his most "pop" album to date. The others are more "POPRA" a combination of tenor singing and POP, while this CD, Andrea, is pop through and through (with the ...             America Randol Alan Bass, Irving Berlin, ... Artemis Classics, 2005 Awsome This album is great!! I've heard them play in Boston and it was incredible. Now I can listen whenever I want.             The Cave Hugo Munday, Jeanne LeBlanc, ... Nonesuch, 1995 A Wonderful and Moving Performance Like reviewer Keith Thomson, I too was at first a little puzzled by the disappointment of some of the reviewers: I found "The Cave" very beautiful and very moving. Mr Thomson is very perceptive as a critic when he writes "to appreciate this piece, one must have a mind ...             Mozart - Don Giovanni / Gilfry, Orgonasova, Margiono, James, Prégardien, D'Arcangelo, Gardiner Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Eliot Gardiner, ... Deutsche Grammophon, 1995 A Marvellous Modern Don This Don Giovanni is widely considered to be the best modern recording of all, and though I haven't heard all the recordings, I think this one would be hard to top. I've played it nearly every day since I got it! For me, the star of this performance is conductor ...             Patrol Steuart Hamilton, Chris Caldwell, ... RCA, 1994 Rock-N-Roll with a Classical Patrol This is different stuff...but I like it a lot. In fact, I like Steve Martland's music more than Phillip Glass. Phillip Glass was great for a start but once he became famous, all the songs sound the same. At least with Steve Martland the music is always different. The ...             Under the Influence Paul Morgan, Steve McManus, ... Quartz, 2005 Virtuoso horn player Dave Lee explores his musical passions and influences from David Bowie to Eric Satie and Pink Floyd to Michael Nyman, taking in Peter Maxwell Davies and Kurt Weill along the way. Featuring the seminal vocalist Skye from Morcheeba, this is a truly outstanding album with extraordinary virtuoso horn playing and arrangements of ...             Play Ball Richard Adler, Elmer Bernstein, ... Telarc, 1998             Tippett: Symphonies Michael Tippett, Richard Hickox, ... Chandos, 2005             Christmas Bells Are Swingin' John M. Laverty, The Syracuse University Wind Ensemble, ... Summit(Classical), 2005 Great stuff This is some of the best brass playing around. I highly recommend it!          products you might be interested in   search for classical music christmas, orgonasova, prégardien, retrospective, spirituals, symphonies      toavi.com    web randomly chosen DVD: Marshall University - Ashes to Glory