Anna Russell - A Timeless Treasure

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	• The Anna Russell Album Anna Russell, Harry Dworkin, ... Sony, 1991 average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

But it's missing two pieces...

I first bought the 90-minute cassette tape of this some years ago, and then bought the CD. I've discovered, from comparing the tape with the CD, that there are two pieces on the cassette tape that are missing from the CD (hence the 4-star rating, rather than a 5). The two missing pieces are: "Contemporary music for the tone-deaf singers: My Heart is Red", and "For the untrained singer: I Gave my Love a Cherry." Why the CD doesn't contain these two pieces is beyond me.

Other than that, it's a wonderful example of Anna Rusell at her best. Hopefully, you won't die laughing while listening to this, so that you can listen to it over and over again.

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Still funny after all these years

I heard this performance back in the '60's and most of it is still full of fun and can still make opera lovers laugh.

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Anna Russell Album

Very witty and a beautiful mockery of all those classical music buffs who take themselves so very very seriously and see themselves as representatives of HIGH ART an blather on about their impeccable taste and knowledge

The Anna Russel Album

Miss Russel quite funny as usual, but buyers should be warned that these CDs are cheap reissues lacking the original booklet with all the texts and lyrics.

Unfortunately they are not advertised as such !!!!!!

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Anna Russell - A Timeless Treasure

Anna Russell's humor as well as her knowledge of music never gets old. Her body of work continues today to be as entertaining as ever. Her review of "The Ring Cycle" is still the best preparation for experiencing the entire Ring that one could ever hope to hear.

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This set of Anna Russell's inspired satirical monologues should be labeled with a warning notice. Why? Because after listening to her whirlwind explication of Wagner's Ring Cycle, even the most confirmed Wagnerite will be unable to listen to the Ring for weeks to come. Just listening to Russell declare in an incredulous voice: "I'm not making this up, y'know" is enough to induce you to shed bucketloads of laughter-induced tears. Gilbert and Sullivan fans will find their heroes savaged in her concoction of a typical G&S product, complete with a soprano lead who "loves below her station." Other targets include "the nymphs and shepherds" style of quavery English singing, complete with "hey-nonny-nonny's," coloratura mad scenes, and much else, including Russian folk songs, like her "Da, nyet, da, nyet." This disc is packed with laughs, chuckles, smiles, and everything. --Dan Davis

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Tracks
Introduction to the Concert (By the Women's Club President) [Live] | How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera [Live] | Coloratura Aria "Canto Dolciamente Pipo" (From the Opera La Cantatrice | I Love the Spring [Live] | Da, Nyet, Da, Nyet [Live] | Ah, Lover! (From the Operetta The Prince of Philadelphia) [Live] | Schlumph, Je N'Ai Pas la Plume de Ma Tante [Live] | Schreechenrauf [Live] | Ring of the Nibelungs (An Analysis) [Live]

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