Five Bridges [Import]

The Nice | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B000024ZSR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,885 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Fantasia 1st Bridge/2nd Bridge

2. Chorale 3rd Bridge

3. High Level Fugue 4th Bridge

4. Finale 5th Bridge

5. Intermezzo 'Karelia Suite'

6. Pathetique (Symphony No 6 3rd Movement)

7. Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No. 6

8. One Of Those People

9. The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack

10. Flower King Of Flies

11. Bonnie K

12. Diary Of An Empty Day

13. America

Editorial Reviews

Mid-price reissue of 4th album by Keith Emerson's pre-Emerson, Lake & Palmer band, originally released in 1970, features 13 tracks including 5 bonus tracks, 'The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack', 'Flower King Of Flies', 'Bonnie K', 'Diary Of An Empty Day', & 'America'. Virgin. 1990. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, October 7, 2003

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Steven C. Short (Puyallup, Wa United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Five Bridges (Audio CD)

I've been waiting for this on CD since I wore out the tapes. The sound is much cleaner than the records or cassette tapes. Unlike Keith Emerson with the Nice it includes Country Pie/Brandenburg Concerto No.6, plus 5 bonus tracks. Recorded live in Oct of 1969 it's the next best thing to having been there. If you liked the orchestration on ELP Works Live Tour then this one will take you back to the early days of Emerson and the Nice.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic holds up well, May 3, 2009

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Felton P. Dunn "music geek" (Canton, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Five Bridges (Audio CD)

After not hearing this album for quite a few years, it was very enjoyable to listen again. I was surprised how some moments of it are as inculcated in my memory as any Beatle song or other item of the era. Lee and Brian play with authority, Emerson is amazing--this was my first exposure to his stuff. Over time, I acquired the 3 Immediate albums and Elegy besides this (LPs long gone now). For me, this remains the high point of the Nice; I did go on to follow ELP for awhile and saw them once in Atlanta in 1971. It struck me at one moment that the Nice were better rehearsed than the orchestra! Naturally, rehearsing an orchestra is a far more complicated and expensive proposition. And no doubt Emerson and Eger would make some changes or corrections in that process, which would hinder polishing things. That said, the orchestra plays quite well. An energized and joyous live performance. Absolutely recommended.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time to Rosin up the bows, and crank up the Hammond through the Marshall stacks, February 14, 2007

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K. Lewis "thrasher" (OZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Five Bridges (Audio CD)

Only 24 years old at the time, Keith Emerson writes a Concerto and this is the live premier caught on tape at the Fairfield hall. If ever their was a time when reefer smoke was in the same hall as a tuxedoed stuffy orchestra, this is it. THis is also the first time this was done anywhere, before Deep Purples Concerto a year later, the Moody Blues did it, bu tonly in the studio and Yes tried to play live their Time and a Word record with an orchestra with disasterous results, But Keith, Lee and Brian pull it off here, what an amazing record.
As a bonus, they included in this long awaited release, side one of the record "Autuum to Spring"