Intimations

Track Listings

1. Bach Du, Herr, Du Krönst Allein

2. Gluck O Del Mio Dolce Ardor

3. Brahms Juchhe

4. Brahms Sapphische Ode

5. Brahms Frühlingslied

6. Schubert Aufenthalt

7. Schubert Frühlingssehnsucht

8. Schubert Die Taubenpost

9. Schumann Er Ist’s

10. Schumann Mein Schöner Stern

11. Mendelssohn Allnächtlich im Traume

12. Mendelssohn Scheidend

13. Schubert Liebesbotschaft

14. Schubert Das Fischermädchen

15. Schubert Abschied

16. C. Hammond Alleluia!

17. Grieg Mit Einer Wasserlilie

18. Grieg Ein Schwan

19. Grieg Den Aergjerrige

20. Grieg Jeg Elsker Dig!

See all 27 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Listeners’ comments
"Gorgeous"; "rich contralto voice"; "stunning"; "wonderful and varied repertoire"; "lovely songs — lovely voice"; "artistic"; "magnificent, strong and beautiful."

Album Description
Contralto Catherine Hammond sings 27 art and folk songs by Bach, Gluck, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky, and two original songs.She is accompanied on the piano by Robert Gartside, William Merrill, and Tatyana Shrago. Contributing artists are cellist Frank Hammond, flutist Stephanie Stathos, and guitarist Gerry Putnam.

Catherine Hammond studied voice with Ruth Streeter in Boston, Bernard Diamant in Montreal, Roy Henderson in London, and Robert Gartside in Lexington, Massachusetts. She holds degrees in music from Columbia University (B.A.) and Boston University (M.A.). While at Columbia, she performed solos with the Columbia University Chorus and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. In Boston she has been a member of The Cantata Singers, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Bowdoin Street Consort. Appearing frequently in recitals of art songs in several languages, she has also been a regular church soloist in the Boston area over the last ten years. She recently recorded Brahms’ Two Songs for Contralto, Cello, and Piano, with her brother, cellist Frank Hammond, and pianist Thomas Hightower, and a CD of hymns for vocal quartet and piano for Longyear Museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Catherine Hammond has also written numerous songs and instrumental pieces, a multi-media work based on Dostoyevsky’s "Dream of a Ridiculous Man," and a short musical for children called "Mask-erade." Two of her most recent compositions, "Alleluia!" based on Psalms 92 and 93, and a setting of "Mother ‘s Evening Prayer" by Mary Baker Eddy, are included on this CD.

The name of this album, "Intimations," derives from the word "intimate," which has as one of its meanings " belonging to or characterizing the inmost true self : indicative of one’s deepest nature" (Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary). On hearing these songs, the listener will undoubtedly agree on the appropriateness of the title.

Tracks:

Op.29: There Was A Time When Meadow, Grove, And Stream
Op.29: The Rainbow Comes And Goes
Op.29: Now, While The Birds Thus Sing A Joyous Song
Op.29: Ye Blessed Creatures, I Have Heard The Call
Op.29: Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting
Op.29: Earth Fills Her Lap With Pleasures Of Her Own
Op.29: O Joy! That In Our Embers
Op.29: Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing A Joyuous Song!
Op.29: And O Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, And Groves
Op.38: Molto Grave
Op.38: Allegro Vigoroso

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; For St. Cecilia

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Major Finzi, indeed!
A Major but Rarely-Heard Finzi Work

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; For St. Cecilia

Manufacturer: Naxos
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000F6YWUS
Release Date: 2006-05-16

Tracks:

Andante Sostenuto
There Was A Time When Meadow, Grove And Stream
The Rainbow Comes And Goes
Now, While The Birds Thus Sing A Joyous Song
Ye Blessed Creatures, I Have Heard The Call
Oh Evil Day! If I Were Sullen
But There's A Tree, Of Many, One
Our Birth Is But A Sleep And A Forgetting
Earth Fills Her Lap With Pleasures Of Her Own
O Joy! That In Our Embers
But For Those First Affections
Then Sing, Ye Birds, Sing, Sing A Joyous Song!
And O, Ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, And Groves
Delightful Goddess, In Whose Fashionings
Changed Is The Age; Mysterious, Man's Next Star
How Came You, Lady Of Fierce Martyrdom
How Smilingly The Saint Among Her Friends
Wherefore We Bid You To The Full Concent

Customer Reviews:

Major Finzi, indeed!.......2006-09-26

This disc has already gathered a lot of rave reviews to which I can only add my modest appraisal -a positive one- in matters of sonics and interpretive eloquence. I applaud this Naxos release, for beyond doubt it is one of the great Finzi discs. Unless the Partridge Lyrita SRCS75 is pulled out from the crypt and resurrected on cd (that's, hopefully, probable), this excellent Naxos recording will fill the bill as the finest inquiry into Wordsworth's Intimations. Missing only an ounce of limpidity as well as, admittedly, the verve of the Partridge (exemplary in terms of vocal and orchestral fluence as much as in the qualities pertaining to recorded sound), the Naxos brings together two of Finzi's greatest works in quite superb, efficient renderings that contradict the `budget price' tag affixed on its jewel case. Deservingly, conductor David Hill is taking his due place among Britain's most renown musicians. He has worked on a good deal of recordings (notably for Hyperion) in organ and choral music, including a noteworthy account of Elgar's Gerontius with the Bournemouth forces and Waynflete Singers (also on Naxos). Finzi's orchestration is followed with attention to detail; the rhythmic pulse is taut without sounding overbearing. The performance does not ignore that sort of melodic contour which is typical of the composer. The Bournemouth S.O. under Hill's astute command has `captured' the finzian mood quite well, while tenor Gilchrist's voice is magnificent. The filler, the ode `For Saint Cecilia', is very good as well and carries near demonstration-quality sound. In case I haven't made my point sufficiently clear : This album is quite a nice accomplishment.

A Major but Rarely-Heard Finzi Work.......2006-06-11

Much as I like the music of Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) I had never heard his largest work -- the longest at any rate, at almost forty minutes -- 'Intimations of Immortality' for tenor, chorus and orchestra. Based of course on Wordsworth's poem that sings of the instinctual freshness and sensitivity of childhood and laments its passing when one passes into adulthood, it is a heartfelt work from Finzi whose own childhood and youth were painful, lonely and tragic, and whose escape into music and literature set his course in adulthood, an attempt to keep that child's responsiveness alive in himself. Finzi set nine of the eleven stanzas of the Wordsworth poem -- VII and VIII are omitted -- with orchestral interludes between each of them, and it took him almost twenty years to complete, interrupted as it was by the horror of the Second World War. He finished it in 1950. The central theme of the poem (in IV) -- 'Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now, the glory and the dream?' -- is set to somber tones and is ultimately answered by the 'intimations of immortality' in IX and X -- 'O joy! that in our embers / is something that doth live ... in the faith that looks through death.' Clearly this is a deeply personal work for Finzi.

Tenor James Gilchrist and the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus provide appropriate musical expression for Finzi's setting of the alternately troubled, rapt or joyous discourse of Wordsworth's poem. The Bournemouth Symphony is its usual expert self under the direction of David Hill.

The CD is filled out with a performance of Finzi's setting of a 'Ceremonial Ode' by Edmund Blunden, 'For Saint Cecilia' written specifically for a celebration of St. Cecilia's Day in 1947. Although there is some enjoyable ceremonial music here, particularly in the use of Waltonian fanfare motifs, this is public and rather impersonal music that, for me, doesn't particularly warrant frequent hearing although it is expertly done here.

Scott Morrison

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; Dies Natalis

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Light Fare, similar to Contemporary Stage Music
Fabulous music for my ears

Finzi: Intimations of Immortality; Dies Natalis

Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002ZXX
Release Date: 1996-11-08

Tracks:

I. Intrada
II. Rhapsody (Recitativo stromentato)
III. The Rapture (Danza)
IV. Wonder (Arioso)
V. The Salutation (Aria)
Andante sostenuto
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream
Rainbow Comes and Goes, The
Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song
Ye blessCreatures, I have heard the call
Oh evil day! if I were sullen
But there's a Tree, of many, one
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own
O joy! that in our embers
But for those first affections
Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song!
And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills and Groves

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Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" is said to be one of the great masterpieces of English poetry. Finzi's setting of it has been criticized in the UK as being inappropriate due to the "fact" that "great poetry requires no musical setting." And so, by the same argument, composers should only use less-than-great texts. Now of course many of them do just that, particularly opera composers, but the truth is that when words meet music, it's the music that matters, and Finzi's is wonderful music indeed. Granted he was only a "minor master," but in the careful setting of words his talent was pretty impressive, as this lovely disc so eloquently demonstrates. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

Light Fare, similar to Contemporary Stage Music.......2007-03-03

As I search music catalogues for new things, I discovered this release of Gerald Finzi's 'Dies Natalis' and 'Intimations of Immortality', with some pretty well known performers, lead by John Mark Ainsley. I primarily address this review to similar searchers for unusual music. My overall impression is that these two works are cut from the same cloth as much of 20th Century theatre music, and that while it is 'prettier' than Gershwin or Weill, it is not as robust. There is nothing here which grabs one, in the same way that you are moved by pieces such as 'Summertime'(Gershwin) and 'Mahagoney'(Weill).

I am happy to have heard these pieces, and I believe the earlier reviewer who praises the performance. It's just that these are relatively lightweight pieces.

Fabulous music for my ears.......1999-03-29

This CD, along with the piece itself, is wonderfully composed by Gerald Finzi (I am a little partial to it because I played it with the UC Santa Cruz orchestra just recently) The choral arrangements prove to be enticing while singing in English.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon

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Would be better with a different title
BBC Narnia music=magical

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Television Scores of Geoffrey Burgon

Manufacturer: Silva America
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Release Date: 2005-11-08

Tracks:

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Customer Reviews:

Would be better with a different title.......2006-08-27

I didn't look close enough at the track list before buying this. I was very excited to see a soundtrack of the BBC versions of The Chronicles of Narnia, since I love the music in them (not to mention the movies in general). Unfortunately, the Narnia music is only the first 7 tracks.

The whole CD has great music, and I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't been expecting the whole thing to be Narnia. A lot of the other music on it reminds me of Sherlock Holmes music. It is a great CD, and I definitely recommend it...but don't expect a full CD of Narnia music.

BBC Narnia music=magical.......2006-04-10

I never get tired of hearing this narnia music over and over again. Mr. Burgon really captures the heart and soul of Narnia through his music. In opinion, it easily surpasses the new film music at times (both Tumnus themes are very good).

I did not care for all the choral (enya-like) music from the new film, and this music has none of that.

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MMC New Century, Vol. 2

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Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1995-09-22

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Skillfull
shahid Pervez
Mr "Duncan" You should pick one pseudonym and stick to it
Mr Das Gupta You should not review any more articles online
Nice

Intimations of the Goddess

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Release Date: 1999-10-03

Tracks:

Devi (Raga Bhimpalasri) 25:59
Adorned with Bliss (Raga Lalit) 34:05
Solicitude (Raga Bhairavi Alap) 11:12

Album Description

A set of three meditations by Ustad Shahid Parvez, invoking thre Calm, Beauty, Passion and Power of the Divine Mother. Played from a state of deep inwardness, these pieces are an attempt to manifest glimpses of the dazzling perfection of the Divine Creative Consciousness, Shakti, reaveling Herself through the receptive and perfect instrumentation of the artist. Dedicated to the higher evolution envisages by the modern world-teachers, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, they are examples of the work perfectly done, where the instrument steps aside, and allows the Divine Musician to reveal Herself.

Customer Reviews:

Skillfull.......2006-02-15

This album presents the typical Shahid Parvez Khan with his meditative and gayaki style in alap and jor and his astonishing virtiosity in jhala and gat. You will immidiately observe how much Ustad Shahid is influenced by his uncle the late Ustad Vilayat Khan, and also by Nikhil Banerjee when he uses the tantrakari style.
Regreatably, Shahid Parvez never reach the depth of Vilayat Khan or Nikhil Banerjee. The recording quality is not perfect, but it's tolerable.

Recommended.

shahid Pervez.......2006-01-21

ok, my personal opinion is that Ravi Shankar was amazing and that Nikhil banerjee learnt a lot from him. If you read Annapurana devis biography she mentions that she would allways scold Nikhil banerjee for copying Ravi Shankars taans and and chalan
I personally think Nikhil banerjee, Ravi Shankar and Shahid Pervez are on the same level. After years of learning and listening to this music I put Ali Akbar Khan a notch below these three
(yes even his recorings from the 50s and 60s)
And definately Shahid Pervez is the greatest his gharana has ever produced

Mr "Duncan" You should pick one pseudonym and stick to it.......2005-08-10

You should also read more carefully. The other reviewer (no relation to me) compared Shahid Pervez to Ravi and Nikhil, not Ravi and Ali Akbar. If only people would accept my judgments unquestioningly, they would cease to make fools of themselves. Decades from now, when we are all moldering in our graves, Shahid will be remembered as a very good sitarist who wasn't quite in the same league as Ravi and Nikhil.

Mr Das Gupta You should not review any more articles online.......2005-07-20

Ustadji is the finest sitarist of this century. He has left no stone unturned with regards to his work and practice. To say that Ustadji is "almost as good as Raviji and Ali Akbar" is the most absurd thing I've ever read in my life. If people tahat listen to this kind of music would study it instead of just listening to whatever has been deemed as "great" by others, then everyone would have a greater appreciation for the music. Ustadji is peerless in his art and after the past generations artists like Raviji stop performing, Ustadji will be heralded as the finest sitarist ever by everbody.

Nice.......2005-06-06

"Andrew Jones" goes a little overboard in his panegyric to this fine musician. Suffice it to say that Shahid Parvez is the best sitarist of his generation, if not yet quite up there with Ravi Shankar and Nikhil Banerjee.

This is a nice CD and definitely worth getting. My favorite Shahid recording, however, is "Excellent Sound of Sitar" (Chhanda Dhara #71189) with Zakir Hussain on tabla. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't carry it, but you can probably get it from Sona Rupa or Shrimati's.

Society of Composers, Inc.: "Intimate Thoughts..."

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Society of Composers, Inc.: "Intimate Thoughts..."

Manufacturer: Capstone
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001YV6
Release Date: 1996-11-19

Tracks:

Intimations - Susan Faust Straley/Cynthis Dewey/LSU New Music Ens
Seven Songs on Poems of James Joyce - Alice Marie Nelson/Elizabeth Lauer
Just Us - Lee Beaudoin/Linda Eagleson
Three Hymns - Madelon Michel/Tera de Marez Oyens
Wolf - Janice Fiore/David Gerber/Curt Cacioppo

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such peace!

Intimations

Manufacturer: Privately produced
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007MUC18
Release Date: 2004-10-01

Tracks:

Bach
Gluck
Brahms
Brahms
Brahms
Schubert
Schubert
Schubert
Schumann
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn
Schubert
Schubert
Schubert
C. Hammond
Grieg
Grieg
Grieg
Grieg
Grieg
Tchaikovsky
Folk Song
Folk Song
Folk Song
Folk Song
C. Hammond

Album Description

Contralto Catherine Hammond sings 27 art and folk songs by Bach, Gluck, Brahms, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky, and two original songs.She is accompanied on the piano by Robert Gartside, William Merrill, and Tatyana Shrago. Contributing artists are cellist Frank Hammond, flutist Stephanie Stathos, and guitarist Gerry Putnam.

Catherine Hammond studied voice with Ruth Streeter in Boston, Bernard Diamant in Montreal, Roy Henderson in London, and Robert Gartside in Lexington, Massachusetts. She holds degrees in music from Columbia University (B.A.) and Boston University (M.A.). While at Columbia, she performed solos with the Columbia University Chorus and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. In Boston she has been a member of The Cantata Singers, the Handel and Haydn Society, and the Bowdoin Street Consort. Appearing frequently in recitals of art songs in several languages, she has also been a regular church soloist in the Boston area over the last ten years. She recently recorded Brahms' Two Songs for Contralto, Cello, and Piano, with her brother, cellist Frank Hammond, and pianist Thomas Hightower, and a CD of hymns for vocal quartet and piano for Longyear Museum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

Catherine Hammond has also written numerous songs and instrumental pieces, a multi-media work based on Dostoyevsky's "Dream of a Ridiculous Man," and a short musical for children called "Mask-erade." Two of her most recent compositions, "Alleluia!" based on Psalms 92 and 93, and a setting of "Mother `s Evening Prayer" by Mary Baker Eddy, are included on this CD.

The name of this album, "Intimations," derives from the word "intimate," which has as one of its meanings " belonging to or characterizing the inmost true self : indicative of one's deepest nature" (Webster's 3rd New International Dictionary). On hearing these songs, the listener will undoubtedly agree on the appropriateness of the title.

Customer Reviews:

such peace!.......2005-07-05

This album is an unusual collection of beautiful, inspiring selections. This really gets my day off to a right start!

The artist has a lovely contralto voice--I hope she does another album soon.

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Unconscious in Brazil

Manufacturer: Gsp Records
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ASIN: B00004XSXJ
Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

Three African Sketches: No.1 Allegro Ritmico
Three African Sketches: No.2 Misterioso
Three African Sketches: No.3 Allegro Ritmico
Levantine Suite: I Prelude
Levantine Suite: II. Dance
Levantine Suite: III. Cantilena
Levantine Suite: IV. Passacaglia
Levantine Suite: V. Postlude
Little Cafe Suite: I. Cappuccino, Con Brio
Little Cafe Suite: II. Kwaffee, Swing Moderato
Little Cafe Suite: III. Decaf Malinconico
Little Cafe Suite: IV. Molto Espresso
Polymetric Studies: No.1 Molto Ritmico
Polymetric Studies: No.2 Con Meditazione
Polymetric Studies: No.3 Rubato, Appassionato
Polymetric Studies: No.4 Ritmico, Cantabile
Polymetric Studies: No.5 Semplice, Ben Marcato
Unconscious In Brazil
In Winter Garden: I. Adagio Rubato
In Winter Garden: II. Rubato Espress.
In Winter Garden: III. Ad Lib, Spazioso
In Winter Garden: IV. Andante Caminando
In Winter Garden: V. Adagio Rubato E Transparente
Diferencias Diferentes
Intimations: No.1
Intimations: No.2
Intimations: No.3
Intimations: No.4

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1. Bach Du, Herr, Du Krönst Allein
2. Gluck O Del Mio Dolce Ardor
3. Brahms Juchhe
4. Brahms Sapphische Ode
5. Brahms Frühlingslied
6. Schubert Aufenthalt
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17. Grieg Mit Einer Wasserlilie
18. Grieg Ein Schwan
19. Grieg Den Aergjerrige
20. Grieg Jeg Elsker Dig!