Encore?

Anna Russell (Performer), Anna Russell (Composer), Jimmy Carroll (Conductor), Miserable Five (Performer), Jose Rodriguez Lopez (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Anna Russell, Miserable Five, Jose Rodriguez Lopez
• Conductor: Jimmy Carroll
• Composer: Anna Russell
• Audio CD (March 24, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000062DW
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,105 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The "International Concert Comedienne" performs best-loved routines culled from the 1950s recordings Anna Russell--A Practical Banana Promotion and Anna Russell in Darkest Africa.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: RUSSELL,ANNA
Title: ENCORE?
Street Release Date: 03/24/1998
Domestic
Genre: CLASSICAL CROSSOVER

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious - move over Victor Borge & Beatrice Lily, March 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Encore? (Audio CD)

Anyone who loves classical music, Victor Borge, Flanders & Swann , Beatrice Lily, or PDQ Bach will love this album, play it over and over, and quote her to friends.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A treasure of the musical world., April 13, 2007

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Lisa K. Schreiner (Zion AR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Encore? (Audio CD)

I was first introduced to Miss Russell in 1980 by fellow musicians in Rochester NY. We spent late nights after rehearsals secretly listening and laughing ourselves sick. She had the ability to put us and our conductor in our places and made us like it! Miss Russell clearly understood opera, live concert events, touring and all aspects of the music of the world. Parts of this album were recorded in New York City USA and parts in Johannesburg South Africa. It makes no difference where the audience is, the language and experience is universal and we all laugh together. Undressed bagpipes, ears turning into gardenias, the lament for the fat ladies, and "Jolly Old Sigmund Freud" presented in the singular voice of a "ruined opera singer" are irresistible.

The best comment about this album came from my seventeen year old son. Just last year (2006) I finally got a CD copy of this priceless work of art and shared it with him. He listened totally enthralled. The selection "Hamletto, or Prosciuttino (sung in simultaneous Italian and English0" caused him to comment, "Well, now I know what Hamlet is about." He since asked me to get the others and has loved them as well. "Backwards With the Folk Song" brought back memories of Voice Lessons and dreary concerts that now can be enjoyed safely from a distance. Today's indie and emo musicians could do well to listen and learn.

I would recommend Miss Russell's work for any teenaged class, they seem to adore her sly wit. Besides, all the French Horn players in the High School band need a little teasing from time to time.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic above all classics, March 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Encore? (Audio CD)

From the velvet-voiced music reviewer herself, Anna Russell has laid many a sour note. This in itself, is what makes her so funny. She takes greater pains to sound bad as most other singers do to sound good. And the best thing about this, and all of her recordings in general is that you will never tire of them, no matter how much you play them... From those before her or after her in the musica funnia farma (P.D.Q. Bach, Victor Borge, Florence Foster Jenkins, etc.), it is in this venue of music appreciation (or as some say, depreciation), that will bring newer fans to the classical arena...