Judd Apataw

Collection contains all of the highlights and big hits from Wynonna's three albums (Wynonna, Tell Me Why, Revelations), including "Tell Me Why," "Rock Bottom," "Girls with Guitars," and the number one singles "She Is His Only Need," "I Saw the Light," and "No One Else on Earth."

Il existe de nombreux enregistrements de la Première Symphonie de Mahler, mais très peu d'entre eux proposent de découvrir un mouvement que le compositeur retira in fine : “Blumine”. “Après tant d’auditions comparées, il est donc assez rare d’être à ce point captivé dès les premières mesures ! […] Le dosage est tout simplement magistral entre parodie et poésie, entre lyrisme et dérision, entre la “laideur” délibérée des timbres de l’orphéon villageois et l’envoûtante magie sonore des cordes… un chef évidemment possédé par Mahler.

Wynonna Judd's second album, Tell Me Why, is a more confident and diverse collection than her debut. Drawing from sources as varied as gospel, folk, and blues-rock, Wynonna doesn't necessarily deliver a pure country album, but her blend of roots genres does qualify as a cleverly constructed contemporary country record. The selection of material is first-rate, but what makes Tell Me Why her best solo effort is how she ties all of the songs together with her assured – and surprisingly subtle – vocals.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) may not have begun the trend toward English pastoral music in the early twentieth century, but he was certainly one of the movement’s leading practitioners. Starting as early as 1900 with his aptly named Bucolic Suite, the man continued to produce charming, serene, idyllic tunes for full orchestra, strings, and chorus right up until the time of his death. In this Naxos collection, English conductor James Judd leads the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra in some of the composer’s most famous short works.

What the World Needs Now Is Love may be titled after a Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, but it as far away from that song musically as one can get and still remain popular music. On her alleged return to her country roots, Wynonna Judd cannot resist the temptation to allow many forms of pop and rock into her sound. But that's fine; just fine. On her first studio outing in three years, Judd turns in a performance that is consistent all the way through, and one that seamlessly blends that astonishing voice of hers with banjos, strings, electric guitars, mandolins, pedal steels, pianos, and lots of drums.

Southern gospel and soul, rockers, and ballads all grace Wynonna Judd's fifth release as a solo artist and her first as co-producer. One of the most recognizable voices in country music, the depth and range of her voice can be heard from the first track, the rhythmic "Going Nowhere," to the last, the soulful "I Can't Wait to Meet You." Fans will be delighted to hear Judd put her rock-influenced country-pop spin on Joni Mitchell's "Help Me." And of course, what's a good Wynonna album without her signature growl?