Woman in Darkness

Editorial Reviews
Fanfare Magazine
"If the classical side of Andrew Lloyd Webber appeals to you...add this disc to your collection."

Album Description
Music from the 1980s and 1990s by American composer and electronic music pioneer Herbert A. Deutsch. Including his music for theater, cabaret and concert stage, with marvelous performances by the American Chamber Ensemble, pianist Nancy Deutsch, soprano Grace Anderson, flutist Patricia Spencer and others, this disk displays the full range of the composer's acoustic and electronic compositions. Set to a variety of text sources, with several pieces incorporating synthesizers or electronic tape, these works reflect women's points of view throughout the ages, and are written and performed with unusual sensitivity.

Tracks:

Sicilienne And Rigaudon - Mischa Elman/Percy Kahn
Nocturne in G, Op.37 No.2 - Vladimir de Pachmann
Ste No.1 in D, Op.43 - IV: March Miniature - Boston SO/Karl Muck
Vn Con in D, Op.35 - II: Canzonetta - Fritz Kreisler/Carl Lamson
Litanei, D.343 - Alfred Cortot
Gotterdammerung - Closing Scene - Leopold Stokowski
Ste, Op.15 - Valse - Harold Bauer/Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Mazurka in D, Op.33 No.2 - Ignace Jan Paderewski
Vn Partita No.3 in E, BWV 1006 - I: Prld - Sergei Rachmaninoff
Etude in a, Op.25 No.11 'Winter Wind' - Josef Lhevinne
Jalousie - Tango Tzigane - Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler
Vc Con No.2 in e, Op.30 - II: Lento - Andante Tranquillo (Abridged) - Emanuel Feuermann/Albert Hirsh
Schon Rosmarin - William Primrose/David Stimer
Ser in C, Op.48 - II: Waltz - Boston SO/Serge Koussevitzky
Beatrice Et Benedict - Ov - Boston SO/Charles Munch
Messiah, Pt.II, No.44 - Hallelujah Chor - Hugh Porter/Robert Shaw Chorale/Robert Shaw
Carnival Of The Animals: The Swan - Gregor Piatigorsky/Ralph Berkowitz
Don Pasquale - Ov - NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini
Mazurka In a, Op.7 No.2 - William Kapell
Cancion De Cuna (Cradle Song) - Jose Iturbi

Tracks:

Prld in c#, Op.45 - Arthur Rubinstein
Fant On Themes From Bizet's Carmen - Vladimir Horowitz
Fant in c, BWV 906 - Wanda Landowska
Coppelia - Prld: Mazurka - Boston SO/Pierre Monteux
Colas Breugnon, Op.24: Ov - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner
Porgy And Bess - Jascha Heifetz
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing - Jascha Heifetz
Five Bagatelles - No.1: Allegro - Julian Bream
I Vespri Siciliani-Ballet: The Four Seasons: Winter - New Philharmonia Orch/James Levine
L'Isle Joyeuse - Van Cliburn
La Flute De Pan: Pan And The Birds - James Galway
Rosamunde, D.797 - Ballet Music No.II - Cologne RSO/Gunter Wand
Fantasiestuck, Op.73 No.3 - Rasch Und Mit Feuer - Richard Stoltzman
Light In Darkness - Evelyn Glennie
Fanfare For The Uncommon Woman, No.1 - Saint Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin
Transcendental Etude No.5 'Feux Follets' - Evgeny Kissin
A Hymn To New England - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
Fanfare For The Common Man - San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas

Average customer rating:

Beautiful music.
5 stars for performance, 4 stars due to omissions
"Hammer & Silva...raises the hair on the back of your neck"

Hammer the Studio That Dripped Blood
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000063IUP
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Tracks:

Main Theme/Inside Castle Darcula/Lure Of The Vampire Women/Dracula's Rage/The Kiss Of The Living Dead (Dracula)
Funeral In Carpethia/Finale: Confrontation & Climax/The Fall Of Dracula (Dracula Prince Of Darkness)
Love Theme (The Scars Of Dracula)
Finale/Dracula And The Crucifix (Dracula Has Risen From The Grave)
The Blood Of Dracula (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Romance: The Young Lovers/Shadow Of The Tomb (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Ride To The Ruined Church/Romance At Dusk (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Dracula Triumphant/Pursuit/Death Of Lucy (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
The Victory Of Love (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Christina (Frankenstein Created Woman)
The Power Of Evil (The Devil Rides Out)
Invocation To The Devil/Dance Frenzy (The Devil Rides Out)
Awakening And Absolution (The Devil Rides Out)
Vampire Rhapsody (Kiss Of The Vampire)

Tracks:

Cosmic Sequence/Tumak Meets Luana/In The Domain Of The Shell People/Eruption Of The Volcano (One Million Years B.C.) - Mario Nascimbene
Main Theme/Storm Over The Sea (When Dinasours Ruled The Earth) - Mario Nascimbene
Life Of The Tribe/Finale (Creatures The World Forgot) - Mario Nascimbene
The Tomb/The Desert (The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb) - Carlo Martelli
Ayesha - She Who Must Be Obeyed (She)
Bedouin Attack & Desert Quest (She)
In The Kingdom Of She - Processional/The Cruelty Of She (She)
The Eternal Flame And The Destruction Of She (She)
Main Title (The Abominable Snowman) - Humphrey Searle
Defeat Of The Aliens/Finale (Quatermass II)
Main Titles/Anna's Theme - Christopher Gunning
Prologue (Vampire Circus) - David Whitaker
Main Themes (The Vampire Hunter) - Jamed Bernard
Pastorale/The Werewolf At Bay/Aptheosis (Curse Of The Werewolf) - Benjamin Frankel

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful music........2007-01-10

I sat back with the lights dimmed and a cup of hot coffee and enjoyed the beautiful haunting music of years gone by. Memories abound.

5 stars for performance, 4 stars due to omissions.......2006-08-29

Why doesn't this get a perfect five stars?

Simple reason.

The producers at Silva, for wahtever reason, decided to cut down their SHE suites and Hands of the Ripper suites.

On the previous Hammer releases, "Draculas - Classic Horror Films", released in 1993, recorded in 1989, they had seven additional minutes of "Hands of the Ripper" that could have been included on this set.

Additionally, The Devil Rides Out: Film Music of James Bernard, released in 1997, recorded in 1995 and 1996 had about a minute more of additional music from SHE, PLUS about seven minutes worth of suites from Quatermass and X: The Unknown.

Both discs in this new re-issue round out at around 68 minutes, so there was room for some of these omissions.

Silva Screen gets big kudos for a reissuing these recordeings in the remastered HDCD format, but I don't understand these omissions. In fact, one of the tracks included, "Vampire Hunter" isn't even from a Hammer film, and its the only recording on this collection not on previous Silva CD's.

Again, 5 stars for the performances, the 1989 performances with Neil Richardson and the Philharmonia are fantastic. (Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Vampire Circus.)

Additionally, The Westminster Philharmonic under the baton of Kenneth Alwyn do an excellent job as usual (Kiss of the Vampire, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, She, THe Abominable Snowman, Quatermass II and Curse of the Werewolf.) Finally, the City of Prague Philharmonic, who get a bad rap more often than they deserve round out hte album and IMHO, deliver the goods, under the trusty batons of Paul Bateman (Scars of Dracula, Frankenstein Created Woman, additionally, Bateman also plays the piano solo on Kiss of the Vampire.) and Nic Raine (The Devil Rides Out, One Million Years BC, When Dinosuars Ruled the Earth, Creatures The World Forgot, The Vampire Hunter)

I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could.

Much thanks to producers David Wishart, Eric Tomlinson and James Fitzpatrick and recording engineers Mike Ross-Trevor, John Luard Timperley and Jan Holzner for contributing to these fine historical film music recordings.

"Hammer & Silva...raises the hair on the back of your neck".......2002-04-09

Silva Screen takes us on tour through the castles of Transylvania with a collection of
outstanding scores from James Bernard on Disc One ~ "DRACULA" (1958)..."KISS OF
THE VAMPIRE" (1964)..."DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS"
(1966)..."FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN" (1967)..."THE DEVIL RIDES OUT"
(1968)..."DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE" (1968)..."THE SCARS OF
DRACULA" (1970)..."TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA" (1970)...even though the
blood doesn't flow as easily in "KISS OF THE VAMPIRE", the score from Bernard is
seductive, sensual to say the least for "creatures of the night", masked ball scene blends
atmospheric trance-masquerade themes, intoxicating main title is hauntingly mesmerizing with
"VAMPIRE RHAPSODY", just listen to the piano solo from our character in the film Carl
Ravna (Barry Warren), son of Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) along with daughter Sabena Ravna
(Jacqueline Wallis), a cult of vampires in early 20th century Bavarian, praying on a young
honeymoon couple...Bernard's rhapsody captures the listeners heart and BLOOD!

Let's look at Disc Two with the other Hammer themes and their composers ~ "THE
ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN" (1957-Humphrey Searle)..."QUATERMASS II"
(1957-James Bernard)..."CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF" (1960-Benjamin
Frankel)..."CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB" (1964-Carlo Martelli)..."SHE"
(1965-James Bernard)..."ONE MILLION YEARS B.C." (1966-Mario
Nascimbene)..."WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH" (1969-Mario
Nascimbene)..."HANDS OF THE RIPPER" (1971-Christopher Gunning)..."VAMPIRE
CIRCUS" (1971-David Whitaker)..."VAMPIRE HUNTER" (2000-James
Bernard)...difficult as it may be, there is a stand out ~ "THE CURSE OF THE
WEREWOLF", fine direction from Terence Fisher (director) with an outstanding cast Oliver
Reed (Leon-the Werewolf), Clifford Evans (Alfredo), Yvonne Romain (Servant Girl) and
Catherine Feller (Christina), Hammer's departure from the old stereotype of the beast is
refreshing, Reed's performance as the tormented sole, from man to wolf is touching, the score
by Ben Frankel is tense building at it's best, to say the least, setting the tone and mood for the
transformation with counterpoints is stimulating, inclusive orchestration development for what
lies ahead during a full moon.

Without a doubt the highlight pick hands down is "SHE", composer James Bernard gives of
himself without question, the SUITE takes the orchestra into lilting melodic exercises with
percussion chiming in, the harmonies are hypnotic blends of textured fabric, listen as The
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Alwyn display stirring strings and
a solo harp run the scales in "THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE DESTRUCTION OF
SHE", hold-fast arrangement has haunting echoes of Bernard's constant theme, with a final
beat from a drum in the percussion section.

Must make mention the cast of players that made this possible ~ The Philharmonia Orchestra,
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra ~ and
their various conductors Kenneth Alwyn, Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Neil
Richardson...supported by the illustrious staff from Silva Screen Records LTD ~ Reynold da
Silva (executive producer), David Stoner (associate producer), Gareth Williams (Dolby
Surround/HDCD Mastering) and of course James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), who
has the knack of developing quality in every Silva Screen release...similar to "A History Of
Horror:From Nosferatu To The Sixth Sense" (SSD-1111/2CD Set), guaranteed to raise the
hair on the back of your neck!

Tracks:

Black Shuck
Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman
Growing On Me
I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Love Is Only A Feeling
Givin' Up
Stuck In A Rut
Friday Night
Love On The Rocks With No Ice
Holding My Own
Makin' Out
Darker Than Dark

Product Description

1. Black Shuck
2. Get Your Hands Off Of My Woman
3. Growing On Me
4. I Believe In A Thing Called Love
5. Love Is Only A Feeling
6. Givin' Up
7. Stuck In A Rut
8. Friday Night
9. Love On The Rocks With No Ice
10. Holding My Own

Bonus Tracks:
11. Makin' Out
12. Darker Than Dark (original composition)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

A Darkened homage.......2004-12-31

On first listening to this album, I was apprehensive. I am a fan of the Darkness, and believe them to be a ground breaking band. Back around the late 70's, music took a tangent. It went off into a strange land where fully grown adults wore clothes too big for them, and listened endlessly to pre-fabricated music. The Darkness are taking up from where the likes of Queen and AC/DC left off.
I was worried that the combination of the emotional strings could not quite leash the power and soul of The Darkness; that classic players could not translate thier power. On hearing the album, I realised something: Much alike permission to land, this too is ground breaking. It is the soft carresing hand of classical music reaching out to the arms of today. A bridge between the expert fingers of the voilin to the guitar. In more plainer terms, I was wrong.
The take on it is absolutely fantastic. Not only does it ensoul permission to land with the sensual sounds of the strings, but also manages to keep with the fun and excitement that The Darkness have brought to modern day music. An absolute must for any Darkness fan, or anyone wanting some real fun put back into thier ears. I myself can turn on any one of these pieces and float away into another level of adoration for music. This album truly shows the abilities music has to move you, it shows how music can be enjoyed and shows a true talent I have not seen for a very, very long time.

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Woman in Darkness
Deutsch , and American Chamber Ensemble
Manufacturer: 4-Tay Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000035X5K
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

Prld & Mazurka - Nancy Deutsch
Woman In Darkness - The American Chm Ens
Measure For Measure Fant: Prld - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Claudio & Juliet's Love Song - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Interlude - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Isabella's Plea - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Angelo's Keystone Kops - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Claudio's Death Sentence - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: At The Nunnery - Patricia Spencer
Measure For Measure Fant: Finale - Patricia Spencer
Three Songs From The Vision Of Isaiah: I. - Grace Anderson/Nancy Deutsch
Three Songs From The Vision Of Isaiah: II. - Grace Anderson/Nancy Deutsch
Three Songs From The Vision Of Isaiah: III. - Grace Anderson/Nancy Deutsch
Abyss - Grace Anderson/Patricia Spencer
Dorian: Sunbeam's Soliloquy - Grace Anderson/Daniel Blau
A Birthday Gift - Edward Valenti/Nancy Deutsch
Sleight Of Hand - Karen Saunders

Album Description

Music from the 1980s and 1990s by American composer and electronic music pioneer Herbert A. Deutsch. Including his music for theater, cabaret and concert stage, with marvelous performances by the American Chamber Ensemble, pianist Nancy Deutsch, soprano Grace Anderson, flutist Patricia Spencer and others, this disk displays the full range of the composer's acoustic and electronic compositions. Set to a variety of text sources, with several pieces incorporating synthesizers or electronic tape, these works reflect women's points of view throughout the ages, and are written and performed with unusual sensitivity.

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