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John Adams - Harmonielehre · The Chairman Dances · Tromba lontana · Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Sir Simon Rattle | |||||||||||||
  | 100% Recommended by our customers. Label: EMI Classics Catalog: Music Release date: 1994-04-12 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0724355505125 Upc: 724355505125  Tip: compare prices with similar classical music CDsArtists:
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| Album tracks: (3) |
 Part 1 | Part 2: The Anfortas Wound | Part 3: Meister Eckhardt and Quack |
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Written on December 24, 2004 Summary: So satisfying... I wish there were more than 5 stars to rate this magnificent rendering of "Harmonielehre" (literally meaning "harmony lesson") which, in complete agreement with a couple other reviewers, is definitely worth the price of admission. As a musician, I listen to many things, not the least of which is the quality of a recording. The CBSO's version under the gifted baton of Sir Simon Rattle is soul-satisfyingly clean and, considering the incredible complexity of the composition, amazingly tight. Sir Rattle weaves a rich texture with subtle decrescendos in the midst of slow-but-thrillingly-sure crescendos that caused my hair to stand up and gooseflesh to appear...thus the word "satisfying" just fits all the way through. I can't for the life of me understand how anyone could view Adams' work as "repetitive"...every note and rhythmic pattern he has written here, it seems to me, fall much more into the category of "sequential," which therefore makes it all function. Counting by the musicians in this brilliant work must be very challenging...I would love to see the score. Every instrument supports every other...all dancing together even in rhythmic contrasts to one another to form this extraordinary whole. I love the mixture of the repeated rhythmic passages followed by the sweepingly romantic...every style, every color in the musical palette is represented in this piece. I cannot recommend this work, and this recording, highly enough. Written on July 14, 2004 Summary: A nice collection of groundbreaking works In John Adams's work I find a signicant degree of complexity, intensity, and themes that are strongly tied with rhythmic cadence. What I enjoy most about his works is how well he uses the entire orchestra and creates this subtle layer of complexity. I truely hope these recordings inspire a new generation of composers to also find new musical ideas and express them through the traditional medium of an acoustic orchestra. Harmonielehre and Chairman Dances represent two success stories along these lines. Written on June 22, 2004 Summary: For "Harmonielehre" alone this recording is priceless. Back when I was a teen, I used to make compilation tapes of various radio stations at random. Somedays jazz or "world music" or sometimes classical. Well, one of the classical tapes I made had "Harmonielehre: Part III. Meister Eckhardt And Quackie" on it, but I never knew who it was, other than a "minimalist" of some stripe. All that I knew was its crescendo ending struck me as one of the most transcendent pieces of music I had ever heard, or, to speak more mystically (forgive me), it was the sound I heard in my dreams, the archetypal sound of my inner life or something approximate. For around 15 years, after becoming acquainted with Reich, Glass, even Arvo Part, I never knew who it was until I checked out this recording from my local library by chance. Finally and gloriously, I felt like I was reunited with a lost relative--that's how important this work is to me. Now that I own it, I am always blown away by it. For "Harmonielehre" alone this recording is priceless. Written on June 5, 2003 Summary: Great Recording of a Great Work Maestro Rattle is truly one of the best conductors in the world right now, and his earlier recordings with England's CBSO should not be overlooked becuase they lack a high powered orchestra. This recording of some of John Adams' finest, indeed some of the best music written in the latter half of the 20th Century, is truly not something to be missed. While true that the CBSO does at times show its weaknesses, Rattle more than makes up for it with his masterful handling of Adams' minimilism, and I for one never get bored or annyoed with the repetitive nature of the music. Don't for a second let the repetiviness of some of the detractor's comments steer you away from the works of Adams, after a few listenings, the subtle changes start of catch your ear and you hear just how intricately composed this music is. Adams is a true master in this age of music.  Written on May 24, 2003 Summary: One of the great works of the late 20th century This is not your father's minimalism, and "endless mechanical repetition" is so far from the truth as to make you wonder whether the reviewer actually listened to the CD. "Harmonielehre" is simply brilliant. I've loved it since I bought an earlier recording a decade or so ago. While it has some Philip Glass-ish qualities to it, it's not the stark and relentless minimalism so trendy and so easily parodied in the 1980s; indeed, in its melodic passages I seem to hear at least equally the influence of, say, Shostakovich in this piece. The other pieces haven't engaged my interest as much yet, but they're newer to me; in any case, "Harmonielehre" is worth the price on its own. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 1994-04-12 | 2004-08-31 | 2006-09-26 | 2002-07-30 | 2007-02-27 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0724355505125 | 0075597981629 | 0075597985726 | 0075597963625 | 0636943928523 |
| Upc | 724355505125 | 755979816298 | 075597985726 | 075597963625 | 636943928523 |
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