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Various Artists: Mercury Living Presence 3 - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Mercury Living Presence 3 Artist: Various Artists Label: Decca Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 028947878964 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2015 03 23 Number of Discs: 53 Additional Details: BOXED SET This landmark release marks the point at which the entire Mercury Living Presence catalogue, as remastered by original recording producers in the 1990s, is available in physical form. Decca are also proud to present, in this concluding
Title: Mercury Living Presence 3Artist: Various Artists
Label: Decca
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 028947878964
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2015-03-23
Number of Discs: 53
Additional Details: BOXED SET
This landmark release marks the point at which the entire Mercury Living Presence catalogue, as remastered by original recording producers in the 1990s, is available in physical form. Decca are also proud to present, in this concluding cube, no fewer than 10 albums that have never before been on CD, restored and remastered from fragile tapes, to allow the fullest possible ever appreciation of a landmark label in the history of classical recorded music. Furthermore, the booklet is a model of it's kind, setting out in the fullest possible detail everything about the recording, from the engineers and producers to the microphones, tapes, dates and locations.
Tracks:
1.1 CD1: Brahms Symphonies 1;3 London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
2.1 CD2: Brahms Symphonies 2;4* Minnesota Orchestra, Antal Doráti *London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
3.1 CD3: Wiener Walzer Paprika Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Doráti
4.1 CD4: Handel-Harty: Water Music Suite; Music For The Royal Fireworks; Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti Festival Chamber Orchestra, Antal Doráti
5.1 CD5: Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 – “Scottish” ; Symphony No.4 – “Italian”; Fingal’s Cave Overture London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
6.1 CD6: Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Sibelius: Valse Triste; Liszt: Les Préludes; Smetana: The Moldau Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti, Rafael Druian London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
7.1 CD7: Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances etc. London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
8.1 CD8: Rossini ; Verdi Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
9.1 CD9: Strauss, R.: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier; Don Juan Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
10.1 CD10: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1-3/Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica Antal Doráti
11.1 CD11: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos.1-3/Arensky: Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky London Symphony Orchestra Philharmonia Hungarica Antal Doráti
12.1 CD12: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; Marche Slav; Waltz ; Polonaise London Symphony Orchestra Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
13.1 CD13: Wagner: Preludes ; Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
14.1 CD14: Frederick Fennell Conducts George Gershwin Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell
15.1 CD15: Frederick Fennell Conducts Victor Herbert Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell
16.1 CD16: Frederick Fennell Conducts Cole Porter Studio Orchestra, Frederick Fennell
17.1 CD17: Carousel Waltz ; Other Favourites London "Pops" Orchestra Eastman-Rochester "Pops" Orchestra, Frederick Fennell
18.1 CD18: Sullivan: Pineapple Poll Suite; Rossini-Respighi: La boutique fantasque; Gounod: Faust Ballet Music; Wagner: Lohengrin ; Das Rheingold Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell
19.1 CD19: Fabulous Marches For Orchestra Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell
20.1 CD20: Adam: Giselle/Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne; Strauss, J. II: Graduation Ball London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
21.1 CD21: Adam: Giselle/Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne; Strauss, J. II: Graduation Ball London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari
22.1 CD22: Bloch: Concerto Grosso No. 1 ; No. 2/Schelomo* Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson, Georges Miquelle *Georges Miquelle, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson
23.1 CD23: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; Cuban Overture Eugene List, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson
24.1 CD24: Howard Hanson - The Composer ; His Orchestra Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson
25.1 CD25: Howard Hanson - The Composer ; His Orchestra Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson
26.1 CD26: Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
27.1 CD27: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique; Hungarian March; Trojan March, etc. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
28.1 CD28: Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"/Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
29.1 CD29: Franck: Symphony in D minor/Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
30.1 CD30: Lalo: Namouna / Chausson: Symphony, etc. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
31.1 CD31: Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream; Symphony No.5 / Haydn: Symphony No.96 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
32.1 CD32: Schumann: The Symphonies Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
33.1 CD33: Schumann: The Symphonies Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
34.1 CD34: Marches ; Overtures à la Française Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
35.1 CD35: Paul Paray Conducts Wagner: Die Meistersinger suite; Der fliegende Holländer Overture; Rienzi Overture, etc. Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray
36.1 CD36: Schubert: Symphonies Nos.5 ; 8; Rosamunde Incidental Music Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
37.1 CD37: Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Symphony No. 6Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
38.1 CD38: Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes; Britten: The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
39.1 CD39: Copland: Symphony No.3 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
40.1 CD40: Respighi: Church Windows; Roman Festivals Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
41.1 CD41: Tchaikovsky: The Four Suites New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Doráti
42.1 CD42: Tchaikovsky: The Four Suites New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Doráti
43.1 CD43: Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E Flat - "Eroica" Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
44.1 CD44: Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 ; 2 Sviatoslav Richter, London Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
45.1 CD45: Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter
46.1 CD46: Beethoven: The Cello Sonatas Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter
47.1 CD47: Songs by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky ; Prokofiev Galina Vishnevskaya, Mstislav Rostropovich
48.1 CD48: World Of Flamenco Los Romeros
49.1 CD49: Baroque Concertos For Recorders ; Strings Bernard Krainis, The London Strings, Sir Neville Marriner
50.1 CD50: Hindemith: Symphony in B Flat; Schoenberg: Theme ; Variations; Stravinsky: Symphonies for Wind Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell
51.1 CD51: Soler: Works for Harpsichord Rafael Puyana Genoveva Gálvez
52.1 CD52: Tchaikovsky: Overture 1812; Capriccio Italien [1954 Mono recording – NEW TO CD!] Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Doráti
53.1 CD53: Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 4 ; 8 Borodin Quartet
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★★★★★ 4
For those that really Want to know!
Format: Paperback
I chose this rating because of the excellence of content. This author has chosen to give us, those who are truly seeking answers to difficult questions, the possibilities in finding closure or agreement with the very difficult task of merging Science, and all it entails, with our faith. I always feel pulled both ways with ther being no logical way to blend the two, I then felt I must have to give up one for the other but could not do so. This book has helped me begin the journey of understanding what I've always known to be true but could not put together. They do work. There are logical explanations for the seeming opposites of scripture and science. It's a Very important read. For years I have wished C.S. Lewis was still alive. He i have turned to for so many things. But with so many advances since his death, I have needed new thoughts as like minded as he . There are more Lewises out there!!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2013
★★★★★ 3
Thought-provoking but misses its "target audience"
Format: Paperback
First, the good. This is a thought-provoking book that takes complex subject matter and makes it very easy to understand. In "The Evolution of Adam" Dr. Enns does an excellent job on many fronts - most notably giving a brief overview of the history of biblical criticism and its importance to the evolution debate. His ability to distill ideas down to the core was impressive. If I had to recommend to someone 50 pages on biblical criticism I might tell them to read the first portion of this book. However, as I read the book I kept wondering how the path he was taking would allow him to argue for an Evangelical perspective (as he says in the introduction). In short, he does not. Not even close.
Dr. Enns must not know his target audience very well if he thinks that this book is targeted for Evangelicals. Virtually none of the positions that he espouses in this book are even close to what an Evangelical Christian would be comfortable defending. He has little regard for any historicity behind any of the biblical accounts and frequently tosses out the phrase "most scholars agree" as a trump card. He does a good job of helping understand the culture and history that surrounded the biblical accounts yet in the end the reader is left wondering where story and history actually meet or if possibly the whole thing was simply conjured up for political reasons. In the end, I think the question the reader is left with is "does it matter if anything in the Bible ACTUALLY happened?". How you answer that may well determine how much you enjoy this book.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2012
★★★★★ 5
Peter Enns "Upends" Tradition!
Format: Paperback
One cannot but deeply admire what Peter Enns has managed to produce within the span of less than 150 pages - not counting his endnotes. Kudos as well for his penetrating exegetical insights...to say nothing as regards his courage: few conservative evangelicals (and even fewer fundamentalists) will find the title "The Evolution of Adam" something that warms the heart. And yet what Enns has produced here not only is revolutionary (in a very real sense - see below) but may well prove to be one of the more controversial books on the science/theology debate of recent years.
Why so? Primarily because (according to Enns - Part Two of his book) Paul's creative use (in Romans) of the Adam and Eve story in Genesis was primarily for apologetic purposes...a matter that will be discussed in greater detail below. But we begin with Part One.
Essentially Part One (four chapters) represents Enns' understanding of the crucial importance Ancient Near Eastern influences exerted upon the biblical writers - the writer/s of the Genesis creation account in particular. Enns (correctly in my view)hammers this point repeatedly for the reader to consider - i.e., the bible (the whole of it) was not written in a cultural vacuum unsullied by the surrounding culture/s of pagan religious thought, whether ancient Sumerian, Babylonian, or Greco-Roman. Indeed, to do otherwise would have been an impossibility - somewhat like trying to walk along the Tibetan foothills while refusing to breathe its polluted 'pagan' air. None of us ever fully escapes the surrounding influences of culture - and the bible was never intended to do so; rather, God (if one believes in biblical inspiration...as Enns does) works fully within the conceptual categories of culture. Hence, the two creation accounts in Genesis come to us fully embedded with the concepts of Ancient Near Eastern thought patterns. Perhaps the most we can say here is that the Genesis accounts represent (in varying ways) the "demythologizing" of prior Ancient Near Eastern accounts: the God of Israel is not to be identified with any aspect (sun, moon, stars, etc.) of the created order.
So far so good. There's nothing really new here that hasn't been said already by any number of conservative evangelical scholars. Part Two, however, is something entirely different. Here Enns focuses his attention on Paul's creative use of the Old Testament, seeing as how the death and resurrection of Christ has caused Paul to look at the OT writings from a radically different perspective - Romans 5:12-21 in particular.
These verses have a long, long history in the Christian Church as providing the church's understanding of how sin and death entered the world of human existence:
we all "inherited" sin and death in and through the disobedience of Adam back in Eden. Not so...says Enns. And here is where his account veers off in a direction entirely different from traditional orthodox belief - for, according to Enns, Paul gave a particular 'Pauline spin' to these verses that cannot be found either in the OT itself, or in the Second Temple Judaism of which Paul himself was a part. Because the death and resurrection of Christ radically altered Paul's understanding of God's redemptive work in the world he (Paul) "found" in the Adam story an ideal explanation for why it is all Jews and Gentiles alike share in the universal experience of sin and death. Therefore, Adam's disobedience in Eden is NOT the cause of the universal human experience of sin and death (per Enns); rather, the story of Adam's disobedience served Paul's apologetic purposes...quite apart from whatever the story's original intention might have been. The true "origin" of sin and death remains a mystery, for the answer is not to be found (indeed if it can be "found" at all!) in the early Genesis account of Adam and Eve.
And here is where we encounter the book's controversial nature, for Enns' view represents a dramatic departure from the traditional view - a traditional view that has a rich theological heritage that passes directly through the Reformation all the way back to Augustine.
As previously stated, I deeply admire and respect what Enns has done here. For the most part I think he is on the right track. Furthermore, he makes mention of the fact that recent developments in biology have strongly indicated that we cannot possibly trace all modern humans back to an original "Adam and Eve." However, we knew that already...quite apart from modern biology informing us of the fact. Anthropology and paleontology had already amassed considerable evidence that proto-humans and modern humans were spread across the earth long before any conceivable Adam and Eve could have existed. Apparently, however, modern biology speaks with a more powerful voice than anthropology; thus, we are seeing a spate of books recently on the topic of whether or not Adam and Eve were historical - Enns' book being only one of a growing number. (Due to the geneologies in early Genesis we are somewhat limited in "how far back" we can place an Adam and Eve. Placing them 25 to 40 thousand years into the past in order somehow to allow them to be the true ancestors of all modern humans does a grave injustice to the geneologies that plain and simply do not allow for this sort of radical time reversal - a matter that any number of evangelicals, who have done this sort of thing, seem unwilling to appreciate. The early Genesis geneologies, even allowing for some "gaps," serve as a control against such unwarranted time expansion. An Adam and Eve of perhaps 6 to 8 thousand BC appears to be about the limit of what we can reasonably expect). In any case, Enns has raised a thorny and difficult issue in a way previous books on the question have not, and I believe his book will contribute substantially to more open theological discussion (one hopes without heated rancor) on the debate. In the meanwhile, some final thoughts.
Personally, I find it more than a tad curious that David Rohl (a somewhat controversial Egyptologist) has recently authored a book (From Eden to Exile, Greenleaf Press) in which he strongly defends an historical Adam - and yet Rohl acknowledges that he is an atheist. All this is most strange: an evangelical scholar arguing against an historical Adam while an atheistic historian argues for one! ("What fools these mortals be!")
I happen to agree with much of what Enns writes. However, I think Rohl has a point- even though how he fleshes his historical Adam out is somewhat bizarre. For one thing, I'm not entirely comfortable (despite some of Enns' powerful arguments) with a geneology of Jesus in the Gospels that would include "fictious" characters who never even existed. (I might as well inform you that my great, great grandfather was Dr. Jekyll and my great, great, great grandfather was Mr. Hyde). I don't see why getting rid of an historical Adam is at all necessary. Enns himself offers the possibility that OT Israel viewed Adam as their senior partriarch - the man who originally started the "clan." I personally see great possibilities here via leaving Adam within historical existence as Israel's original, grand patriarch.
The origin of sin and death via the Adam and Eve story is another matter entirely. Biology and anthropology together appear to just plain and simply rule it out - and sticking Adam back into the age of the Cro-Magnons and Neaderthals in order to "save" the doctrine is a clear instance of an act of sheer desperation. But I see no reason why we necessarily have to conclude that the "origin" of sin and death (if that's the right word even to use...which I'm not even sure about) can only be regarded as lost in the misty past. I think there is a possible way forward here, and even via an historical Adam, while at the same time embracing what Enns is talking about. I think there may well be a way to retain a personal Adam (perhaps 6 to 8 thousand BC), while also showing how sin and death had their origin in him...but with an entirely different understanding that is informed by Enns' book. Unfortunately, spelling all that out is - like "The Evolution of Adam" - a book unto itself. And Amazon commentary is not the place where one is allowed to "write a book" - quite apart from how lengthy my own commentary here has been.
In the meanwhile...kudos again to Enns for his truly provocative and highly insightful contribution to the cause. His vigorous defense of the incarnation, the atonement, and the resurrection is profoundly gratifying. Because of his firm stance here no one can accuse him of being unorthodox!
(NOTE: Readers interested in a critical analysis of David Rohl's "From Eden to Exile: the 5000 Year History of the People of the Bible," and why this book is of such strategic importance for Old Testament studies - scholars in particular, can easily access my recent review of this book (titled "David Rohl: A "Maverick" in Search of History") by clicking on "See All My Reviews" directly above, or by going to the book's Amazon website.
Hope you enjoy the read!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2012
★★★★★ 5
A must-have for students and researchers
Format: Spiral-bound
I use this all the time. The Concise Guide to APA Style (7th Edition) is incredibly helpful, easy to navigate, and much less overwhelming than flipping through the full manual. Great quick reference for papers, citations, and formatting.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Perfect for learning APA format
Format: Spiral-bound
If you are one learning how to write, cite and use references in APA format this is the perfect book for you. It literally breaks down everything for you and has examples of what to do. It has an example essay if you need something to reference as well. I'd recommend this book to anyone that has a strict professor or that is learning how to write APA.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2026
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