annie haslam's STILL LIFE
PM WONG
and keyed in Annie Haslam in the Search field.
Suddenly it came back with a few Annie's songs
and one that caught my eye was
"Paul Mauriat-Annie Haslam Still Life"
I wondered what the heck Paul ( which many "progressive
" music lovers regard as bland and elevator musician)
had to do with Annie.
Anyway, i downloaded the song and gosh, it's a most beautiful
one, and i must have heard it played as a classical
music excerpt.
Anyone knows about the origin of this song
and is the full length one even better.
(Annie's version is a bit short for such a lovely
tune)
David Samuel Barr
>
> Isn't mp3 wonderful ? I was wandering in www.winmx.com
> and keyed in Annie Haslam in the Search field.
> Suddenly it came back with a few Annie's songs
> and one that caught my eye was
> "Paul Mauriat-Annie Haslam Still Life"
>
> music lovers regard as bland and elevator musician)
> had to do with Annie.
> Anyway, i downloaded the song and gosh, it's a most beautiful
> one, and i must have heard it played as a classical
> music excerpt.
> Anyone knows about the origin of this song
> and is the full length one even better.
> (Annie's version is a bit short for such a lovely
> tune)
Paul Mauriat had nothing whatsoever to do with this recording.
The album, "Still Life", was first released on Spartan Records in 1985.
It is formally credited to "Louis Clark and the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra featuring Annie Haslam", though everyone treats it as an Annie
Haslam solo album (it's actually more of an extension of the Clark/RPO
series of hit "Hooked On Classics" albums; Clark also had done the
orchestral arrangements for Renaissance's "Song for All Seasons" album
in 1978).
All twelve tracks are adaptations of classical themes, eleven of them
with new English lyrics by Betty Thatcher-Newsinger (the 12th, Mozart's
"Ave Verum Corpus", is sung in the original Latin text). The songs and
their original musical sources are:
"Forever Bound" (Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, 2nd movement)
"Still Life" (Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air)
"One Day" (Faure: Dolly, Berceuse)
"Shine" (Satie: Gymnopedie No. 2)
"Careless Love" (Chopin: Etude, Op. 10, No. 3)
"Glitter and Dust" (Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake)
"The Day You Strayed" (Faure: Pavane) [Annie also recorded this same
tune with different lyrics as "The Sweetest Kiss" on her 1994 "Blessing
in Disguise" album]
"Save Us All" (Albinoni/Giazotto: Adagio) [Renaissance had previously
recorded this same tune with different Thatcher-Newsinger lyrics as
"Cold is Being" on their 1974 "Turn of the Cards" album]
"Skaila" (Delius: Koanga, La Calinda)
"Bitter Sweet" (Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, The Swan)
"Chains and Threads" (Wagner: Tannhauser)
Bo Bo
> The album, "Still Life", was first released on Spartan Records in 1985.
any chance it's available on (legitimate) CD ?
bobo
Raymond McKeithen II
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> > The album, "Still Life", was first released on Spartan Records in 1985.
>
>
> any chance it's available on (legitimate) CD ?
>
> bobo
>
Spartan (UK) LCTV1
One Way (USA) 7676 321190 2
Apollon (Japan) APCY-8209
I don't know about the other two, but I've seen the One Way one listed at
Artist Shop.
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Raymond
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Chris Bekhuis
> PM WONG wrote:
> >
> > Isn't mp3 wonderful ? I was wandering in www.winmx.com
> > and keyed in Annie Haslam in the Search field.
> > Suddenly it came back with a few Annie's songs
> > and one that caught my eye was
> > "Paul Mauriat-Annie Haslam Still Life"
> >
> > I wondered what the heck Paul (which many "progressive"
> > music lovers regard as bland and elevator musician)
> > had to do with Annie.
> > Anyway, i downloaded the song and gosh, it's a most beautiful
> > one, and i must have heard it played as a classical
> > music excerpt.
> > Anyone knows about the origin of this song
> > and is the full length one even better.
> > (Annie's version is a bit short for such a lovely
> > tune)
>
>
> Paul Mauriat had nothing whatsoever to do with this recording.
>
> The album, "Still Life", was first released on Spartan Records in 1985.
> It is formally credited to "Louis Clark and the Royal Philharmonic
> Orchestra featuring Annie Haslam", though everyone treats it as an Annie
> Haslam solo album (it's actually more of an extension of the Clark/RPO
> series of hit "Hooked On Classics" albums; Clark also had done the
> orchestral arrangements for Renaissance's "Song for All Seasons" album
> in 1978).
This all sound rather intriguing... Any opinions on it's artistic merit?
--
Chris Bekhuis
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