Ars Langa Vita Brevis [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import]

The Nice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Castle Essential
• ASIN: B00000AFC6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #415,881 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Daddy, Where Did I Come From?

2. Little Arabella

3. Happy Freuds

4. Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite

5. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: Prelude

6. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 1st Movement - Awakening

7. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 2nd Movement - Realisation

8. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 3rd Movement - Acceptance "Brandenburger"

9. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: 4th Movement - Denial

10. Ars Longa Vita Brevis: Coda - Extension to the Big Note

11. Acceptance Bradenburger (3rd Movment) [Edit][*]

12. Happy Freuds [Edit][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What you need is missing, August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ars Langa Vita Brevis (Audio CD)

Why oh why does this not include "America" ? The Immediate reissue from a few years back had it,I have the cassette and was hoping to get the complete thing on CD.The 1973 vinyl reissue even had it.So what happened ?An important piece of music missing from the album it was intended to be heard on makes this yet another example of the criminal attitude running amo in the music industry.If that one song had been included this would be a five star disc and an essential part of any collection that even cares about rock music,prog rock in particular.A worthy investment would be the 5 cd set from Rhino called Supernatural Fairytales-The Progressive Years.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars stick with repertoire, April 3, 2000

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oval - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ars Langa Vita Brevis (Audio CD)

Yes in the UK there was no America on this album. The Castle release gives no real benefit at all. The masters are from the UK issue which was poorly mixed and produced. A shame that the USA tapes for this and the third Nice Cd werent used they are much clearer. The Castle reissue shows up some more tape faults on Karelia and is a little bass light. Stick with the Repertoire issues if you can find them. The Castle reissue of "Nice" even has an awful edit between Rondo and She Belongs to Me

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and Original, September 18, 2008

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E. Minkovitch (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ars Langa Vita Brevis (Audio CD)

There is no rating high enough to give this album. Its value as an influence and inspiration on an entire decade of music is inestimable, so one should overlook the poor production and some other weaknesses. This is the album that started the whole progressive rock genre, during the height of the psychedelia in 1968. The vocal stylings and guitar work are very much in the 60's, yet there is an entirely new dimention in there, and that is of course created by Keith Emerson's driving, swirling organ, well supported by drums and bass and foreshadowing things to come later with Emeson Lake and Palmer. Rock music weds classical on this album, and their child is progressive rock, precocious, curious and capricious. The new genre is already fully formed here as shown by epics like Korelia and the title track, which take up most of the album. The arrangements are brilliant, the playing masterful and the attitude punkish, with a good measure of twisted humor. No progressive rock fan should be without this early masterpiece.