Review: Yodeling the Classics (Mary Schneider)

Subject: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: Melani
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 10:31 AM

Given the eclectic musical taste on this forum, I'm sure many of you will be just as delighted as I am with an astonishing CD I have just encountered: "Yodeling the Classics," by Mary Schneider, "Australia's Queen of Yodeling," featuring selectiond from Brahms, Mozart, Strauss, Bizet and more, and including such well-known favorites as "The William Tel Overture" and "Brahms' Lullaby." It is available on amazon.com, with sound samples. Enjoy!

Subject: RE: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 05:19 PM

"Astonishing" is a good word for it, Melani, my goodness! I like some yodeling, but this woman really takes it to new...um...heights, um... depending on your perspective. I would not have believed it without hearing it. Thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: Helen
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 09:19 PM

Mary Schneider's yodelling and some footage of what looked like a full operatic cast on ice skates was used as a station id for ABC-tv (Australia's national broadcaster, government owned).

I don't know the one she sang for that - I recognised the tune, but couldn't put a name to it.

Brilliant! It would stop me dead in my tracks to watch it, every time it came on.

Helen

Subject: RE: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: Jeri
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 09:42 PM

If you go to the site Kat linked to, click on "Customers also bought...these albums." Some of them look pretty interesting! ("Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider Music," "Hey Lucille, Are You a Lesbian" and "Delerium in Hi-Fi" among them.)

Subject: RE: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 30 Jun 01 - 10:56 PM

Delirium in hi-fi, yeah! A friend of mine has had that LP since he was a kid. A monument to high camp, and this yodeling CD is a scream! :-)

Subject: RE: Just Discovered Amazing CD
From: wysiwyg
Date: 01 Jul 01 - 03:20 PM

How about some yodeling Carolan, that would be a hoot... fast, like the Chipmunks.

~S~