Rendezvous and Dreams

On this CD:

1. Concerto for oboe & string quartet, Op. 25
Composed by Vazgen Muradian
Performed by Peter Christ

2. Rendezvous and Dream, romance for oboe & piano
Composed by Martin Scot Kosins
Performed by Lisa Bergman, Peter Christ

3. Dance Suite, for oboe, violin, viola, & cello
Composed by John Biggs
Performed by Peter Christ

4. Quintet, for oboe & string quartet
Composed by Gregory la Traille
Performed by Peter Christ, Michael Grossman

Editorial Reviews
Fanfare Magazine
"Christ's musicianship is unequivocally dead-on...the same [for] his colleagues. acoustics are perfect...performances exemplary, as is the recorded sound."

Gairt Mauerhoff, KAJX Aspen Public Radio
"We've had some spectacular oboists at our Festival, yet none better than Peter Christ. Composers on this CD are exceptional."

Album Description
Some of the best music written for the oboe for the past 100 years, these works were commissioned for this album and are heard here on their first recordings. The works are very melodic and listenable. Muradian's writing "might be characterized as late Baroque filtered through early Romantic, as if Mendelssohn had come across a volume of Armenian melodies." (International Record Review) Kosins, like the Muradian, "is certainly attractive music." (Fanfare) The Biggs Dance Suite is a masterpiece for oboe and string trio. La Traille is an exciting composer, not previously heard on recordings. Peter Christ has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the major movie studio orchestras. His "musicianship is unequivocally dead-on." (Fanfare)

Rendezvous and Dreams

Rendezvous and Dreams, Music, John Biggs, Martin Scot Kosins, Vazgen Muradian, Gregory la Traille, Peter Christ, Lisa Bergman, Michael Grossman, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Concerto

Average customer rating:

perfect score for a perfect movie

Pleasant "ethnic" melodies

Third Man & Other Original Records

The first man of the zither

This is the one you're looking for.

Third Man & Other Original Recordings
Anton Karas
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The Third Man

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Vienna, City of Dreams

ASIN: B00006J9M2
Release Date: 2004-04-05

Tracks:

Third Man Theme (The Harry Lime Theme) (Original Version)
Anton Karas Second Theme
Cafe Mozart Waltz (Original Version)
Carol Theme
That Dear Old Song (Original Version)
Rendezvous Waltz (Previously Unissued)
Farewell To Vienna (Previously Unissued)
Alt Wiener Tanz In C-Dur
Visions Of Vienna
Danube Dreams
Anton Karas Medley Pt. 1
Anton Karas Medley Pt. 2
Im In The Middle Of A Riddle (V. Kay Arment)
Where Do I Go From You? (V. Kay Armen)
Zither Rhythm Of Anton Karas
Vienna, Women And Song (Later Version)
Cherry Stones
Wo Grunes Kranzel Hangt
Silent Night, Holy Night
Vienna, City Of My Dreams
Vienna, Women And Song (Original Version)
Third Man Theme (Later Version)
Cafe Mozart Waltz (Later Version)
That Dear Old Song (Later Version)
Wenn Der Herrgott Net Will / The Third Man Theme (Brief Reprise)

Customer Reviews:

perfect score for a perfect movie.......2007-02-19

Carol Reed's veteran cinematographer Robert Krasker's quirky angles under Reed's direction perfectly framed the ready-made-for-an-art designer bombed out shadows and stark, isolated street lights of post-war Vienna and its underworld. Unique to cinema history the whole score (but for some canned incidental cafe music) was just the brilliant zither playing of Anton Karas, adding his nuances to every dramatic transition. Krasker won an Oscar, and Karas was nominated.

The "Third Man Theme" (also known as the "Harry Lime Theme") is alternately brittle, jaunty, bittersweet, romantic, wry, and even sardonic piece of music--which fits the mood of the story and the film perfectly -- that, once heard, can't be forgotten.

The "Third Man Theme" turned Anton Karas into a wealthy man after 28 years of toiling in obscurity an relative poverty in Vienna.

One night, Carol Reed was passing by a wine tavern where growers offer their own wines for sale directly, and heard Anton Karas's playing in the background. Reed had never heard a zither before and found the sound to be attractive. He approached Karas and persuaded him to play for him at his hotel, and made a recording, which Reed brought back to the studio to test. He liked the effect when the zither's sound was placed against the recorded dialogue and, ignoring the protests of many around him, hired Karas and brought him to London for 12 weeks.

Anton Karas screened the movie hundreds of times, devising music for each scene. The Third Man ended up with a vast amount of music, scored in virtually every scene of its 104 minutes. Ironically, the piece that became known as the "Third Man Theme" was something that Anton Karas had written two decades earlier and hadn't played in over 15 years. As he later explained to Reed, playing the zither for a whole night for tips was hard work, and one tended to play the easiest pieces the most often, to save the fingers.

Other zither players never got it to sound just right. The truth was that as recorded for the movie, "The Third Man Theme" was one of the first practical examples of overdubbing on a hit record, rivaling Les Paul's work--Anton Karas had gotten just the right effect working underneath Reed's kitchen table, and had gotten the piece just right by recording and mixing more than one zither part.

The Third Man was finished and prepared for release, and Reed and the production company, London Films, tried to raise interest in it through the music. None of the record companies, however, was interested in recording Karas or releasing the "Third Man Theme." The music was too strange and different, and although British movies had produced some soundtrack successes in the past, those were usually more conventional light classical pieces, not a jangly piece of music played on a central European folk instrument.

Pleasant "ethnic" melodies.......2007-01-22

The tunes on this disc have a nice, comforting sound. Some of the selections are haunting, some have a peasant-liveliness. Nothing great or revolutionary, but plain good zither music, very enjoyable.

Third Man & Other Original Records.......2006-11-10

We bought it for a friend. They loved it.

The first man of the zither.......2006-03-10

The CD didn't sound as good as the movie sound track. Ity sounded a bit rushed as if the sampling during the transfer was not sufficient

This is the one you're looking for........2004-04-26

You've been looking for the original version of the music in "The Third Man", right? Every other CD on the market wouldn't work for you. But lucky for you, this is the one! Don't go wrong.

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Peter Christ Has Done It Again!

Rendezvous and Dreams

Manufacturer: Crystal Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005O6C3
Release Date: 2001-08-12

Tracks:

Con, Op.25: Adagio Improviso/Allegro
Con, Op.25: Romanza
Con, Op.25: Finale
Rendezvous And Dreams: Rendezvous For One
Rendezvous And Dreams: La Tango De La White Butterflies
Rendezvous And Dreams: The Love I Saw But Once
Rendezvous And Dreams: Adieu Piaf, Adieu
Rendezvous And Dreams: Morning Must Come
Dance Ste: Tango
Dance Ste: Waltz
Dance Ste: Basse Danse
Dance Ste: Grecian Dance
Qnt: Allegro
Qnt: Andante
Qnt: Presto Vivo

Album Description

Some of the best music written for the oboe for the past 100 years, these works were commissioned for this album and are heard here on their first recordings. The works are very melodic and listenable. Muradian's writing "might be characterized as late Baroque filtered through early Romantic, as if Mendelssohn had come across a volume of Armenian melodies." (International Record Review) Kosins, like the Muradian, "is certainly attractive music." (Fanfare) The Biggs Dance Suite is a masterpiece for oboe and string trio. La Traille is an exciting composer, not previously heard on recordings. Peter Christ has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the major movie studio orchestras. His "musicianship is unequivocally dead-on." (Fanfare)

Customer Reviews:

Peter Christ Has Done It Again!.......2001-12-04

Peter Christ, oboist and president of Crystal records, has done it again with this new release of heretofore unrecorded music for oboe, entitled "Rendezvous and Dreams". His championing of 20th century music takes shape here very nicely with four works for oboe, three of them with string accompaniment, one with piano. As the pieces appear on the CD, the quality of the works seems to get better and better. The opening work by Armenian composer, Vazgen Muradian, strongly rooted in 18th century style, is the least individual of the works represented on this disc but has enough attraction to hold one's interest.

The gentle romanticism of Martin Scot Kosins' "Rendezvous and Dreams" provides a welcome change of direction. Oboe and piano relate quite naturally and expressively in these five short pieces.

John Biggs, well-known Southern California composer, wrote his Dance Suite for Peter Christ and Crystal Records; its musical language, though contemporary, is quite accessible and leaves one wanting more. The four seamless movements conclude with an energetic and exhilarating Grecian dance in septuple meter. (Biggs' chosen instrumentation of oboe, violin, viola and cello parallels that of the Mozart's timeless quartet in F Major.)

Gregory La Traille's three-movement work, Quintet for Oboe and String Quartet, impresses with its fine sense of continuity and energy. His music deserves to be heard more widely on recordings.

In all respects this is a fully professional recording in terms of sound, musical content and interpretation.

Yes, Peter Christ has done it again!

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