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“Salisbury Cathedral” by John Constable

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“Malvern Hall” by John Constable

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Customer Review: French disguised as British
The movie may be worth more than 2 stars, but this is a generous rating for the DVD. The sound is distorted and fuzzy. All dialog is dubbed in the continental fashion of the time. It was very difficult to tell what was being said, however much of the humor was visual. Alas, the picture has been haphazardly cropped to full screen and some significant action cannot be seen, in addition to closing titles running off screen. Colors are quite drab. You never know what quality to expect from a Wham!USA disc - I have some British comedies that are near perfect in picture and sound, and others suffer the same fate as this. All this took away from my enjoyment of the movie itself. I might have a more favorable experience with a restored widescreen transfer with cleaned up sound. Then again, the music felt much more French than British. I guess I’m just spoiled by Carry On series and the Doctor movies.
Customer Review: The Counterfeit Constable-British Slapstick
If you like the dry, British sense of humor, you will enjoy this film. There are some especially funny moments in the first 20 minutes. Mark Lester made his first film appearance in The Counterfeit Constable, and appears periodically throughout the story as part of a sort of running gag. He was 2 1/2 at the time. There are several foot chases and close calls, reminiscent of Benny Hill. This is an entertaining movie, full of broad, slapstick humor. There is very mild sexual content, no objectionable language, and no violence. The Counterfeit Constable is completely suitable for family viewing.
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Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore; Kryrie in D minor; Ave verum corpus; Exsultate, jubilate
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Customer Review: SIMPLY EXQUISITE
I too bought this recording several years ago, and it has stood the test of time against many competing recordings. The interpretations of the Laudate Dominum and Laudate Pueri of the Vespers are simply the stuff of heaven, and the rest of the recording just knocks it out of the park. Colin Davis’ direction is wonderful, and the chorus and soloists, to include the marvelous Kiri Te Kanawa, are top notch. I highly recommend this recording to any fan of Mozart’s sacred music.
Customer Review: Mozart treasures.
I bought this recording on LP in the late 1970’s. The performances by Sir Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with Kiri Te Kanawa, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Ryland Davies and Gwynne Howell are all very good. Sir Colin’s reading of “Ave Verum Corpus” is beautifully serene, so much so that I had it played at my mother’s funeral in 1980. This sublime motet, composed in 1791, the year of Mozart’s death, is thought to have been written for the service of Corpus Christi and dedicated to Anton Stoll, a worthy school teacher in Baden, near Vienna. Stoll’s kindnesses were so appreciated by the composer that he wrote for him what Paumgartner described as “perhaps the loftiest work of art that Mozart has created.” Considering the greatness of the large body of Mozart’s work, that is, indeed, lofty praise. I would not be without this CD, which is worth the small price just for Ave Verum Corpus alone. But you won’t be disappointed with the other works on this CD either.

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Baker Sings Haydn, Schumann, Schubert, Wolf, R. Strauss
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Customer Review: BAKER’S DOZEN OR SO
What a wonderful place the BBC’s archive of recorded music must be. This time they have allowed us to hear some of the great Dame’s work from 1968 and 1970 at the Aldeburgh festival and from their own studios. Baker was in her prime around then, and I certainly have to agree with the somewhat gushing liner-note that we can hear her at her very best on this disc. The selection itself greatly appeals to me. I already owned Schumann’s Frauenliebe cycle (given in full here) done by von Otter, and also Wolf’s Spanish songbook from Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau out of which she gives us two numbers, so it is fascinating now to own Baker’s versions of these. I expect shortly to own the complete Strauss songs from Fischer-Dieskau, but the two Schubert songs are completely new to me, the other two Schumann songs may or may not be, and although I have heard Haydn’s Arianna before it’s not something one hears each time one turns on the radio, and I welcome it also as a new treasure in my collection. Despite having the `atmosphere’ that comes from a live session, the Aldeburgh items are less vivid on account of the recording. It’s not bad by any means, but the piano sound is rather heavy, and this bothers me just slightly in the Frauenliebe songs and unslightly in the Haydn. This composition is a chamber cantata with piano accompaniment giving us the anguished sentiments of Ariadne as she longs successively for Theseus and for death. It takes rather over a quarter of an hour, dividing in roughly equal parts into two `recitatives’ and two arias, the `recitatives’ being more what we would usually call scenas. There is some lovely and committed singing from Dame Janet here, as indeed there also is in the Schumann. Dame Janet does not choose to sock the latter to us in the way von Otter characteristically does, and I shall always have a particular fondness for von Otter’s exuberant Er der Herrlichste, but I can take it done with a little more maidenly decorum as well, and Baker is outstanding is the grief-laden final song. I just wish that the recording had had a little more immediacy about it. That lack is rectified in the BBC’s studio recordings, and they give us a chance to hear Baker in full voice. The recording may still not be quite up to 2005 standard, but it should not bother anyone either. Schubert, Schumann, Wolf and Strauss all find the singer right at the top of her form, and the piano is distinctly better treated by the recording. I wonder how many of Schubert’s 606 songs I actually know, but the theoretical maximum before hearing this recital was 604. The two here are high-quality Schubert, and Der blinde Knabe is actually a translation of Cibber’s tear-jerker The Blind Boy, which many will recall from our schooldays. The translation is by one Craigher, and I don’t know whether this is the author of the poem to a more famous Schubert masterpiece The Young Nun, although I suppose that’s likely. No texts are provided, and the liner-note is an exasperating string of platitudes and ooh-ah. One reads `These performances give unalloyed pleasure’. Says who, pray? My pleasure is a little alloyed by the recording at Aldeburgh, if I may say so. We also learn `What singles out Dame Janet’s interpretations…is a complete identification with each piece…’ Is this saying that no other singer does that, and if not what (if anything) is it saying? Nevertheless I remain grateful to the BBC for this superb disc. It’s an exhibition disc, letting us hear one great singer and artist at her best, and that does not dispose me to make laborious comparisons. Amid their preoccupations with charters, licence-fees, management restructuring, efficiency drives, digital television and other earthly concerns I hope fervently that they will continue to build up their golden treasury and to keep sharing it with the rest of us.
Customer Review: Extraordinary!
Janet Baker was probably the finest singer produced by the UK, and she is in remarkably fine fettle here: passionate, expressive, fulsome, even expansive. Her live performances as captured here have little of the finicky-ness of some of her studio recordings, but have greater staying power as a result. The Frauenliebe is rivalled only by Brigitte Fassbaender’s extraordinary recording, and certainly eclipses Baker’s two studio recordings of the cycle. Do yourself a favor and bathe in this one. It’s glorious!

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Customer Review: EVANLY CHOIRS - iachyd da!
Last week, I discovered the Constable Evans mysteries and am now going thru ‘em like they’re gas cards. EVANLY CHOIRS (1999) is the third book in the series and it’s another good ‘un. Author Rhys Bowen excels in bringing to life the day-to-day, as well as the occasionally shady, goings-on in the sleepy, mountainous village of Llanfair, North Wales. What also adds to the homey, small town feel of the book is the cast of endearingly quirky characters imbued with colorful names such as Evans-the-Meat, Evans-the-Post, Roberts-the-Pump, Harry-the-Pub, etc. The antics of Llanfair’s two dueling reverends - whose respective chapels stubbornly face off across the street from each other - are also an ongoing treat. Evan Evans, known as Evans-the-Law, continues to be ingratiating as the pleasant and unassuming village bobby who inevitably becomes mired in corpses but who usually ends up solving the murder cases, much to the chagrin of his snobbish ranking superior D.I. Hughes, who toils in the next town over and who looks down on our protagonist. This time out, things are hopping in the usually serene Llanfair. It’s time for the eisteddfod, the annually held Welsh cultural gathering, and Constable Evans has been tapped to lend his amateurish voice to the competing local choir. The odds of winning are very slim until world renowned but volatile tenor Ifor Llewellyn, a local boy made very good, comes home on a medical sabbatical and is talked into joining the Llanfair choir. However, Ifor proves to be a difficult customer to deal with, as he callously engages in loud, late night arguments and exhibits a cruel side in his dealings with choir director Austin Mostyn. Soon, the excesses of the famous opera singer come to haunt him and embroils Evan Evans and his friend Sgt. Watkins in a hunt for a killer as Llanfair is rocked with yet another puzzling murder. The murder mystery holds enough fascination (not that it’s the conundrum of the century or anything, mind you) that dedicated clue chasers will come out of this feeling contented. EVANLY CHOIRS goes down easy, like a mug of hot cocoa, and will leave the reader with a warm, toasty feeling. The Constable Evans series is a comfortable throwback to the books I grew up reading from authors like Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. The leisurely pace, the bucolic settings, and the memorable characters definitely are a callback to a different era. Several notches below the energy and high tension level of a James Patterson or a Jeffrey Deaver book, Rhys Bowen instead invites her reader to take a deep breath, take in the mountain scenery, listen to the flavors and rhythms of the Welsh language (she does throw in a smattering of Welsh in her characters’ conversations), and while away some moments in the diverting company of Evan Evans and his opinionated and sometimes very insular village flock. Bowen’s recipe to success includes equal portions of crime drama and pastoral vignette. She also mixes in a dash of quiet humor, a blossoming romance, and an unobstrusive insight into small town lifestyles and sensibilities. And, hey, if nothing else, EVANLY CHOIRS will have you hankering for your first pint of Brains beer.
Customer Review: About what you’d expect, I think
I’m giving this book a generous four stars because it delivers what it’s audience expects, almost to a tee (or is that tea?) As one does not expect Hemingway (or even Christie) in today’s light mystery, one can be satisfied with a light, weekend read. Ms. Bowen is even capable of a couple of nice twists in each of the first three Evans mysteries. (I’ve read the first three primarily on the strength of having lived in Wales a few years ago and feeling a bit nostalgiac!) I do like the characters, as well, though the supporting cast is pretty flat. My only complaint of any merit, and this is for the first two books, as well, is that the editing is extraordinarily lax. In one book Evan will have travelled from one town to another at the end of a chapter, only to be packing his bags to make that same trip at the beginning of the next. In this book, misspellings here and there, a character’s first name changing from Robert to John. They’re not glaring errors, but enough to take me out of the story. It costs the books a star in each case. I know, it’s nitpicking. Perhaps you wouldn’t even notice it if I didn’t bring it to your attention. Sorry for having done so. Iachyd da and happy reading!

Introducing The Complete Mozart Edition
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Customer Review: Introducing The Complete Mozart Edition
This is a wonderful piece of music and I enjoy listening to it very much while working. The compilation is superb and I play it over and over again. My predicament now is that it was stolen with my notebook computer three months ago and have been looking forward to replacing it. I have tried most record stores but to no avail. If there is anyone out that can help me to locate one, I shall be very grateful.

1881 PORTRAIT HENRY-CONSTABLE SPORTING DRAMATIC NEWS
Old Print. page of WOOD ENGRAVINGS FROM ONE OF THE FOLLOWING . THE GRAPHIC, or The illustrated London News, size is aprox 15.5 x 11 inches full page or prorata for part pages. All are original and not modern copies. THE ILLUS
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Art Poster Print - Dedham Vale, 1828 - Artist: John Constable- Poster Size: 14 X 12
John Constable:Dedham Vale, 182814 X 12 inches. High Quality Art Work. ASuperShop sells over 300,000 different art pieces. Browse our store for framed and unframed posters and shop for all your art needs at ASuperShop. This Dedham Vale, 1828 is made with High Quality Poster paper and is made for years of enjoyment. Note: This item is not available for express shipping. Brand New Quality Product
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Praise for the Powerscourt series:

“Fine prose, high society, and [a] complex plot recommend this series.”-Library Journal

“One hopes to see more of Lord Powerscourt and his friends in the near future.”-Publishers Weekly

In 1905, Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates a series of art thefts from stately homes of the Protestant gentry in Ireland. Then people begin to vanish. As Powerscourt closes in on the killer, his own life is threatened and his patriotism is questioned.

David Dickinson, a BBC editor, lives in West London.

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Customer Review: A Disappointment
Anxiously awaiting the next installment of the Lord Francis Powerscourt series, I pre-ordered this book. I’m sorry to say it was a disappointment. I WAS hoping this book would have less of the grizzly murder and torture scenes David Dickinson seemed to delight in in his previous books like Death of a Chancellor and Death on the Nevskii Prospekt. However, in Murder On The Holy Mountain there is only one murder, briefly described. At the very end of the book, almost as an afterthought, Dickinson mentions that, yes, the victim was horribly tortured. Oh. This book was SO tame it seemed like it was written by a different author. The book is short on story and long on filler. There is a sub-story about donkeys that goes nowhere. There are songs, poetry and even parts of the Latin Mass quoted liberally. If you’re looking for a mini-course in the woeful political history of Ireland, this book is for you. I found it distractingly didactic.
Customer Review: Excellent historical thriller
In 1905, though semi retired, English private investigator Lord Francis Powerscourt accompanied by his wife Lucy travel to Ireland to look into some odd art thefts. Someone is stealing low valued familial portraits from the mansions of Protestant Lords, but ignoring highly valuable masterpieces from some of the Masters. Francis struggles with the motive as money is obviously not the objective; so he assumes a political statement is being made. However, when the portraits with altered faces begin to reappear on the walls they were stolen from, Francis ponders even more the motive behind the crime. Soon after that the bewildered sleuth rescues kidnapped Protestant noblewomen from Irish nationalists but not before someone is murdered inside the chapel at Croagh Patrick while the pilgrimage has begun. Moving deeper into the Edwardian Era from the Victorian Age of much of the previous Powerscourt historical mysteries; David Dickinson provides a deep period piece. The story line obviously contains a strong investigative whodunit, but also much more as the audience obtains a feel for Ireland’s struggle to become a modern nation. Powerscourt personally feels the tugs, but it is the larger scale of early twentieth century pragmatism warring with rich ancient tradition that makes this book incredible. Harriet Klausner
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Customer Review: LOVE IT!!!
I loved these books the series last 3 books and I enjoyed going on adventures with our main character and her friends. This is a book my daughters will read and enjoy.
Customer Review: Singer of all Songs
A bit predictable, but a nice book to read during class when the teacher’s lecturing about something boring.
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Art Poster Print - Mill At Dedham - Artist: John Constable - Poster Size: 31 X 23 inches

“Mill At Dedham” by John Constable

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Sweatshirt Navy Blue ” Aboriginal Community Constable ” Occupations
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Customer Review: Introducing The Complete Mozart Edition
This is a wonderful piece of music and I enjoy listening to it very much while working. The compilation is superb and I play it over and over again. My predicament now is that it was stolen with my notebook computer three months ago and have been looking forward to replacing it. I have tried most record stores but to no avail. If there is anyone out that can help me to locate one, I shall be very grateful.
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Customer Review: Ah Bach!
For those who love J. S. Bach, the two most stirring works are the Brandenburg 1 and 2. Having all of the Brandenburgs together, shows the ’story’ in music of this master of the musical notes.
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