Proof and Eminem Freestyle *Very Rare*
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Libbey Polaris Drinking Glasses and Tumblers, Set of 16 $24.72 A Contemporary glass part of our new heavy base collection. The glasses have a rounded heavy base that is 1-inch thick. It creates a clean contemporary look. The heavy base is rich looking. Large capacity is also a bonus with these glasses…. |
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Three By Three Seattle Tiny Mighties Magnets, 0.125 Inches Diameter, Chrome, 16 Pack (20500) $7.99 At 1/8 inch in diameter these chromed Tiny Mighties are surprisingly strong for their size, yet so small they’re almost invisible. These ultra strong magnets are commonly referred to as neodymium magnets or rare earth magnets. One Tiny Mighty is strong enough to hold 3 sheets of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. This set includes 16 magnets, from Three By Three Seattle…. |
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HELLO KITTY TOASTER KT5211 VERY RARE AND COOL $37.16 If you think Hello Kitty is so cute that you just want to eat her up, go right ahead! This colorful 2-slot toaster browns Kitty’s sweet face onto every slice of bread. The appliance features 7 shade settings and 4 toasting modes: bagel, defrost, reheat and cancel. Extra-wide slots let you warm thick slices, and a removable crumb tray makes cleanup easy. The decorative cool-touch exterior looks che… |
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Disney’s Sing Along Songs – Beach Party at Walt Disney World [VHS] $9.99 Sing, dance, and play along with Mickey and the gang in fun-filled musical adventures! It’s easy as you read the on-screen lyrics to favorite kid songs! In BEACH PARTY AT WALT DISNEY WORLD, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy, Tigger, and The Sing-Along Kids hit the waves and have a ball at Blizzard Beach, Typhoon Lagoon, Shark Reef, and more. What a cool place to have oceans of fun!… |
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Naked Tango – Very Rare Returning by ship to South America, a young girl escapes her elderly husband by swapping places with a girl committing suicide. She believes her new life will be that of an arranged marriage but finds it is in fact a trick to get her working in a brothel…. |
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My Own Private Idaho [VHS] $19.98 Mapping the spaces between fortune and degeneracy, Shakespeare and street cant, Europe and the Pacific Northwest, and gay and straight, My Own Private Idaho is the 1991 masterpiece by director Gus Van Sant. River Phoenix gave the most generous and memory-searing performance of his tragically shortened career as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic street hustler in search of his mother. His best friend, Sco… |
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Applied Magnets ® 2 X 1 x 1 Super Strong Rare Earth Neodymium Block Magnet $26.99 Rare earth neodymium magnets made by Applied Magnets are composed of top quality Neodymium, Iron, Boron raw materials, they have excellent magnetic property and extremely strong for its small size. rare earth neodymium magnets are the strongest types of permanent magnets. They have highest maximum energy product among all permanent magnets. The corrosion resistant nickel copper nickel triple layer… |
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Applied Magnets ® 4 X 1 x 1/2 Neodymium Magnet Block $27.99 Rare earth neodymium magnets made by Applied Magnets are composed of top quality Neodymium, Iron, Boron raw materials, they have excellent magnetic property and extremely strong for its small size. rare earth neodymium magnets are the strongest types of permanent magnets. They have highest maximum energy product among all permanent magnets. The corrosion resistant nickel copper nickel triple layer… |
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1 x 1 Strong Magnets – Neodymium Magnets – Rare Earth Magnets – 2 Pieces $33.99 Rare earth neodymium magnets are composed of top quality Neodymium, Iron, Boron raw materials, they have excellent magnetic property and extremely strong for its small size. rare earth neodymium magnets are the strongest types of permanent magnets. They have highest maximum energy product among all permanent magnets. The corrosion resistant nickel copper nickel triple layer coating provides smooth… |
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OEM Intel D875PBZ Audio Metal ATX I/O Shield Plate Panel $24.99 … |
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Very Rare $9.49 Very Rare |
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RSVP (Rare Songs, Very Personal) $10.49 RSVP (Rare Songs, Very Personal) |
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Very R.A.R.E. $38.39 Dynamic drummer Elvin Jones led two different units on the eight selections featured on this disc of late-’70s material. The first six were done in New York during 1978 and include Jones spearheading a great band with Art Pepper on three selections, backed by outstanding bassist Richard Davis and fine pianist Roland Hanna. This is first-rate quartet material with Pepper surging and the trio challenging him, then contrasting and complementing his solos with their own great work. The other two cuts were recorded in Tokyo and issued on a previous release. They include a turbulent, often evocative version of “A Love Supreme,” a 26-minute-plus tribute with Jones driving the band. The music is not as special as the title indicates but is well worth hearing. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi Performers: Andy McCloud III – Bass; Art Pepper – Sax (Alto); Elvin Jones – Drums; Frank Foster – Sax (Soprano), Sax (Tenor); Pat La Barbera – Sax (Tenor); Richard Davis – Bass; Roland Hanna – Piano; Roland Prince – Guitar |
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R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) $9.58 Nancy Wilson’s R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) is her duets album, but unlike other recent releases by singers in this format, which feature two vocalists (and often oddly matched ones, at that), most of the pairings here are with instrumentalists like George Shearing, Toots Thielemans, Phil Woods, and Gary Burton, which means this remains very much Wilson’s baby, dominated by her hushed and elegant vocals. Only two tracks feature other vocalists, one of which, a saccharine cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Why Did I Choose You” sung with Kenny Lattimore, is worth a plea to the gods to let Gaye return to this veil of tears and give Wilson a worthy singing partner. Less pop than her recent outings, R.S.V.P. is mostly made up of ballads, highlighted by a wonderful version of Gordon Jenkins’ “Goodbye” and the elegant, late-night regret of “Blame It on My Youth” which closes out the set, although Wilson steps up and swings on at least one track, the vibrant “Day In, Day Out.” This might not be the greatest album of her half-century-long career, but it isn’t an embarrassment, either (which can’t always be said about some of the other duet projects major vocalists have released in recent years), and it shows that Wilson can still wring every last emotion on earth out of a ballad — then return to sing the second verse. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi Performers: David Premo – Cello; Gary Burton – Vibraphone; Gary Piecka – Trombone (Bass); Jim Germann – Clarinet (Bass), Sax (Baritone); Kim Nazarian – Vocals (Background); Max Seigel – Trombone (Bass); Tatjana Mead Chamis – Viola; Toots Thielemans – Harmonica; Andres Boiarsky – Flute, Sax (Alto); |
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Rare Elements $11.98 Some electronica enthusiasts will tell you that a recording isn’t really electronica unless everything is programmed from start to finish, but such thinking is dogmatic. Truth be told, electronica can still be electronica even if it incorporates acoustic instruments — and artists who aren’t really part of electronica per se can be used for electronica purposes if the right mixologist is involved. That’s what happens on Rare Elements, which finds ten different remixers turning their attention to the recordings of Turkish multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek. Although Tekbilek’s contemporary Middle Eastern/Turkish/Sufi music isn’t electronica per se, it certainly acquires a lot of electronica appeal on Rare Elements. Remixers like Joe Claussell, Tommie Sunshine, Junior Sanchez, and Cheb i Sabbah approach Tekbilek’s work as club/dance music — and in most cases, the remixers successfully give him electronica makeovers without making him sound any less Middle Eastern. Electronic club/dance beats and Tekbilek’s traditional acoustic instruments (including the Turkish ney) have no problem coexisting on these remixes; Rare Elements demonstrates that electronica can, in fact, incorporate acoustic instruments and still sound like electronica. Of course, what one hears on Rare Elements doesn’t reflect the exact visions that Tekbilek originally had for these songs; remixes, by their very nature, are about interpretation rather than emulation. And some of Tekbilek’s fans — at least the ones who don’t have a taste for clubland electronica — will no doubt want to stick to the original versions. But for Tekbilek fans who do appreciate clubland electronica, Rare Elements is worth hearing. This 2009 release isn’t among Tekbilek’s essential albums, but it is intriguing more often than not and shows that there is no reason why world music and electronica cannot be allies. ~ Alex Henderson, Rovi Performers: Hasan Isakkut – Kanun; Joe Claussell – Clay Drums, Percussion; Omar Faruk Tekbilek – Def, Kaval, Davul, Baglama, Zurna, Bendir, Jura, Kavala, Finger Cymbals, Oud, Ney, Darbouka, Vocals; Abdullah Hashemite – Bells; Daniel Moreno – Talking Drum, Gong, Conga; Brian John Mitchell – Keyboards, Piano; Brian Mitchell – Keyboards, Piano |
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Live & Rare $7.97 Usually a live and rare compilation can have a few underlying possibilities for motive: a quick and amicable contractual fulfillment before label and band part ways, a stopgap to release something new for fans in between albums, or a simple compilation to appease a die-hard fan base with cult-like tendencies. Hedging bets, this Korn compilation serves two of those three purposes right off the bat. It’s been a while since the group offered something new, and to appease the loyalists who would very well purchase a disc of Jonathan Davis bagpiping English football anthems, Korn had the good sense to compile a disc that’s one-half a live recording of their greatest hits and one-half an assortment of rare stuff and cover songs. Recorded in 2003 at CBGB’s, Live and Rare is exactly what you’d expect from the band, and for fanatics that’s a wonderful thing. But this could also easily serve as a catch-up guide for those who never really were into Korn, but need a place to hear some of their most well-known anthems. Covers of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pts, 1, 2, 3,” Metallica’s “One,” and a hysterical take on “Earache My Eye” round things up and find the band having fun performing covers, much like Metallica’s now legendary Garage sessions. Collectors might already have all of this stuff scattered over several discs, but having them remastered and all in one place makes this an attractive disc to add to the collection. It should properly pacify rabid fans until the next full-length comes around, or until that disc of bagpipe anthems finally hits the stores. ~ Rob Theakston, Rovi Performers: Jonathan Davis – Bagpipes, Vocals; Brian Welch – Guitar; David Silveria – Drums; James “Munky” Shaffer – Guitar |
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Hot & Rare $15.98 This set of ‘hot dance’ music (orchestras mostly from the late 1920′s playing jazz-influenced dance band arrangements) differs from the previous releases put out by the Diamond Cut label in that the selections are not taken from the Edison catalog but from the libraries of two record collectors. The 24 numbers feature a wide variety of groups (from 1926-30 with a number apiece from 1932 and 1935). Best-known of the bands are Ted Weems Orchestra (heard on a classic rendition of “What a Day”), Charlie Johnson’s Paradise Ten (“You Ain’t the One”), Jean Goldkette (“My Pretty Girl” by a band that includes Bix Beiderbecke and Joe Venuti) and the Carleton Coon-Joe Sanders Nighthawks (“Darktown Strutters Ball”). Although much of the music (as played by the Bluebirds, Blue Steele, the Wanderers, the High Hatters, Al Lentz, Roane’s Pennsylvanians, Mal Hallett, Jacques Renard, Adrian Schubert, Harold Austin’s New Yorkers, the Six Jumping Jacks, Earl Gresh’s Gang Planks, Phil Baxter, and the Broadway Nitelites) is quite obscure, the performances are well-recorded and consistently enjoyable. There are lots of short solos, the obligatory vocals are mostly easy-to-take (Vaughan DeLeath is memorable on “I Wanna Be Loved by You”) and the ensembles tend to be quite hot (as opposed to sweet). Many of the titles have not been available in a very long time (some not since the original 78 was released), so even though complete recording sessions are not reissued, this is a CD that 1920s collectors will want to go out of their way to obtain. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi Performers: Frank Luther – Vocals; Irving Kaufman – Vocals; Kenny Sargent – Vocals; Knocky Parker – Piano; Parker Gibbs – Vocals; Phil Baxter – Vocals; Tom Stacks – Vocals; Vaughn DeLeath – Vocals |
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The Beatles: Rare and Unseen $15.28 Rare indeed! Containing the earliest known footage of the Beatles from February 1962 is nothing to shrug off, and the treasure trove of home movies, personal photographs, private memorabilia and recently discovered film practically seal the deal: this belongs in your Fab Four collection! Also features new interviews with friends of the band, some of whom were there from the very start, including noted fan Phil Collins, former drummer Colin Hanton, tour manager Sam Leach, press officer Tony Barrow, roadie Tony Bramwell, and more. (1 hour 30 minutes) |
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The Very Very Best of Freshies $13.59 For every one artist who scores a hit in the charts, there are at least 100 other artists who are just as good, if not better, than that lucky act. On the other hand, for every hit a particular artist has, there are likely a dozen more deserving songs in their catalog that deserve equal chart success. The Freshies manage to fall into both categories: they should have been more popular and they have plenty of songs deserving of more success than their minor hit “I’m in Love with the Girl on a Certain Megastore Check-Out Desk” (originally titled “I’m in Love with a Girl on a Virgin Manchester Megastore Check-Out Desk”!). Subtitled “Some Long and Short Titles” The Very Very Best of Freshies is the best (and cheapest) introduction to the often silly world of this outfit led by Chris Sievey, who would later find fame with his comedic alter ego, Frank Sidebottom. While dodgy production may keep the staunch audiophiles away, this collection is all about the songs, and there are plenty of great pop moments to be had here. This compilation gathers together the Freshies singles and rare recordings spanning the years 1978-1986 (plus a rare acetate recording that Sievey and his brother cut for Apple Records in 1971) and practically every song on display is a joyful, hook-filled new wave pop nugget. “Tell Her I’m Ill,” “‘I Can’t Get Bouncing Babies by the Teardrop Explodes,” “Wrap Up the Rockets and It’s Gonna Get Better,” and “If You Love Me…Buy Me a Shirt” should be better known radio classics that bring back fond memories to more than just Freshies fanatics. Even when Sievey moves away from the spiky guitar sounds of his early tracks and embraces keyboards on the mid-’80s recordings, the songs really shine. Comparisons are futile, unfortunately. Some of the early tracks sound a lot like the Donkeys, who put out some great singles during the same time period, but it’s quite likely you haven’t heard them, either. Hmmm…The Freshies should fit nicely in your collection right in between the Records (for the power pop leanings) and Jona Lewie (for their eccentricities). But perhaps that’s too obscure? Well, they would have made the perfect flagship band for Stiff Records. ~ Steve “Spaz” Schnee, Rovi Performers: Barry Spencer – Vocals, Guitar; Chris Sievey – Vocals; Lisa Stansfield – Vocals; Mike Doherty – Drums; Rick Sarko – Vocals, Bass; Steve Hopkins – Keyboards |
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Live & Rare [Clean] $7.97 Usually a live and rare compilation can have a few underlying possibilities for motive: a quick and amicable contractual fulfillment before label and band part ways, a stopgap to release something new for fans in between albums, or a simple compilation to appease a die-hard fan base with cult-like tendencies. Hedging bets, this Korn compilation serves two of those three purposes right off the bat. It’s been a while since the group offered something new, and to appease the loyalists who would very well purchase a disc of Jonathan Davis bagpiping English football anthems, Korn had the good sense to compile a disc that’s one-half a live recording of their greatest hits and one-half an assortment of rare stuff and cover songs. Recorded in 2003 at CBGB’s, Live & Rare is exactly what you’d expect from the band, and for fanatics that’s a wonderful thing. But this could also easily serve as a catch-up guide for those who never really were into Korn, but need a place to hear some of their most well-known anthems. Covers of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall, Pts, 1, 2, 3,” Metallica’s “One,” and a hysterical take on “Earache My Eye” round things up and find the band having fun performing covers, much like Metallica’s now legendary Garage, Inc. sessions. Collectors might already have all of this stuff scattered over several discs, but having them remastered and all in one place makes this an attractive disc to add to the collection. It should properly pacify rabid fans until the next full-length comes around, or until that disc of bagpipe anthems finally hits the stores. [A 'clean' version of the album was also released in 2006.] ~ Rob Theakston, Rovi Performers: Jonathan Davis – Bagpipes, Vocals; David Silveria – Drums; James “Munky” Shaffer – Guitar |
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Unreleased, Rare & Essential $14.38 Alright, let’s get the hyperbole and summation out of the way first: this 24-track collection — in wonderfully remastered sound — is simply the best single-disc collection of Yves Montand’s work available in the United States at the very least, and perhaps in the world. (The former stated simply because saying “in the United States” isn’t saying much.) The “why” is simple: try to find “Let’s Make Love” anywhere but on the soundtrack album to the film of the same name — and yes, it’s sung in English. Also, try to find his first cut “Dans les Plaines du Far West” or the Léo Ferré/ Louis Aragon surrealistic ditty “L’Etranger,” or the partisan tunes “Bella Ciao” and “Amor Dammi Quel Fazzolettino” recorded during the Second World War in his mother tongue (Montand’s real name was Ivo Livi). Like many of France’s great artists, Montand was also a virulent anti-fascist and took part in the Resistance. As for this collection, Unreleased, Rare & Essential, his standard repertoire is here as well: “À Bicyclette,” “Les Grands Boulevards,” “Coucher Ave Elle,” the Brecht-Weill number “La Chanson de Bilbao,” “Sanguine, Joli Fruit,” and “L’ Amoureuse.” These 24 cuts are a tour de force in French chanson, and a standard bearer of what was once the grand tradition of popular music in Europe. ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi |
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Rare Bird Alert $15.98 From the earliest days of his comedy career, Steve Martin has incorporated the banjo into various aspects of his act, and fellow banjo players have spoken with reverence of his skills for decades. But in recent years he has put a renewed focus on the instrument, and he won a Grammy for his album The Crow in 2010. Rare Bird Alert came along a year later, and it’s a full-fledged country/bluegrass album consisting entirely of Martin originals and recorded in collaboration with the Steep Canyon Rangers. Some of the songs are comedic: the hilarious faux-gospel harmony number “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs” is an album highlight despite its lack of an interesting melody, and “Women Like to Slow Dance” is both a wry reflection on gender differences and a straight-up bluegrass barnburner. “Jubilation Day” is one of the funnier kiss-off songs ever recorded (“Let’s always remember the good times/Like when you were out of town”), and there’s even a surprisingly straight version of Martin’s breakout novelty hit from the 1970s, “King Tut.” But other tracks are sweet and tender, such as the wonderful “You” (written for Martin’s wife) and the elegantly lovely “The Great Remember.” And there are several songs on which elegance, energy, and boundary-pushing creativity coexist joyfully — notably the gorgeous “More Bad Weather on the Way” (on which Martin plays very expert clawhammer banjo) and the brilliant instrumental “Northern Island,” which features a startlingly complex chord progression for a bluegrass number. Whether your primary interest is in the comedy or the music, this is a solidly enjoyable album. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi |
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James Dean: The Rare Movies $21.24 This special DVD includes three teleplays starring James Dean which includes “Something For An Empty Briefcase”, an archived movie stored away for over 45 years, made public for the very first time. The disc also includes bonus material featuring commercials, outtakes and movie trailers and racing footage of James Dean. A photo gallery with an audio interview of Dean describing his acting in “Rebel Without A Cause” is also showcased. |
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Greatest Hits & Rare Classics $9.59 Brenda Holloway was Motown’s second big solo female star, but she spent even less time at the label than Mary Wells. A hard-edged, gospel-tinged belter, Holloway scored two Top 20 hits in the mid-’60s with “Every Little Bit Hurts” and “When I’m Gone,” and her single “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” was later a huge smash for Blood, Sweat & Tears. Holloway lasted on Motown until 1967, then departed after becoming a born-again Christian. This album includes her biggest singles for Tamla, plus some other good, though not necessarily classic, 1960s soul numbers. ~ Ron Wynn, Rovi |
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The Rare Dawn Sessions $10.38 This CD is a bit of a disappointment, not for the music but for the packaging. During 1979-1980, Biograph came out with two Zoot Sims LPs (One to Blow On and The Big Stampede) that contained 16 selections in all. But this CD just has ten of the songs, seven of the eight tunes from the first album (why did they leave out “September in the Rain”?) and three of the eight numbers from the second date. The incomplete nature of this reissue series is a pity for the music is excellent. Sims’s tenor fits in very well with the valve trombone of Bob Brookmeyer during the earlier quintet date and also blends nicely with the cool-toned trumpet of Jerry Lloyd on the final three numbers. The music is swinging with Sims already starting to show an original musical personality built out of the sound of Lester Young. But the CD is only recommended to those listeners unable to find the two earlier LPs. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi Performers: Zoot Sims – Saxophone |
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Rare EP Tracks 1961-1991 $12.79 Cliff Richard’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations saw some remarkable releases brought together, although this one was surely one of the least interesting — despite its title holding out a lot of promise. Collectors and fans, after all, will already have gathered together the majority of Richard’s Extended Play material across a wealth of other discs, not least of all the See for Miles EP compilations in the early ’90s. This package is very much a poor echo of those sets, all the more so since anybody drawn in by the promise of material from 1991 will be disappointed to find the set petering out into Christmas songs and show tunes — at the expense of far more deserving material from the other end of the chronological span. A handful of oddities do include an alternate take of “It’s Wonderful to Be Young,” and the lesser fabled English-language versions of “Frenesi” and “Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps.” But the overall mood is largely disposable, and Richard continues to await a full examination of his complete EP catalog. ~ Dave Thompson, Rovi |
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Auber: Overtures and Rare Ballets $15.18 Composer François Auber was a major figure in nineteenth century French music, as well known as Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Auber’s immense popularity in his own time has not helped his case since his death, as conventional wisdom dictates that the reason for Auber’s neglect is the slight nature of his music’s substance. This collection, Auber: Ouvertures et ballets rares, has arrived to set the record straight, and helps to establish that Auber may be the missing link in the main musical development of the Romantic era.One can hear in the “Bolero” and “Air” from the 1823 opera Vendome en Espagne that Auber had already learned the lessons of Beethoven. By the time of La Sirène in 1844, he approaches a style strongly reminiscent of Tchaikovsky, which is striking as the Russian composer was only a year old at the time this work was composed! From the slow opening of the same work, one can easily deduce what Richard Wagner may have gleaned from the work of Auber, although Wagner openly detested the composer. The specter of Rossini never seems very far from Auber’s music, and it’s hard to say who influenced whom. But more so than in Rossini you hear glimpses of music in Auber that belong in the future, particularly resembling that of later Russian composers.This is the most satisfying-sounding disc from Sterling, and though it’s still a little distant, every detail of the orchestration is heard. Conductor B. Tommy Andersson does a fine job of interpreting this mega-obscure music. In sum, if you lament that you’ve already exhausted the main literature of the Romantic era, this disc of Auber’s orchestral music will cause you to think again. ~ Uncle Dave Lewis , Rovi |
