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Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 Songs Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 Music Composers on Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 CD : Krzysztof Penderecki Conductors on Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 CD : Antoni Wit Genres on Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 CD : Symphony Purchase Penderecki: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Penderecki: Orchestral Works Vol 1 / Antoni Wit, Polish Rso CD (2000)
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Track Listing of songs: School For Scandal Overture: the School For Scandal Overture, Op. 5; Symphony No. 1: Allegro Ma Non Troppo; Symphony No. 1: Allegro Molto; Symphony No. 1: Andante Tranquillo; First Essay For Orchestra: First Essay For Orchestra, Op. 12; Symphony No. 2: Allegro Ma Non Troppo; Symphony No. 2: Andante, Un Poco Mosso; Symphony No. 2: Presto, Senza Battuto;
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Track Listing of songs: Righteous Man; Operation; Hey Stoopid; Civil Oppression Dub; Zero Tolerance; Alibi's; Anti Socialistic; Opportunities; Smoke Rasta Dub; Stop; Wake Up Late; Fuck the Police; American Man; To a Party;
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Some people are capable of remembering an incredible amount of information (numbers, physical details, sports statistics, facts). They use a technique that consists of picturing memory as a building, each room having its own furniture, each object representing a specific bit of information -- the idea being that if you can remember the "plan" of the building, you'll be able to remember where you've left the information. Tullius Rooms is a piece for piano, electronics, and ambient recordings whose architecture mimics this mnemonic trick. The 126 musical cells are each different, ranging in style from Baroque to contemporary and electro-acoustic, and are meant to form a coherent whole -- an architecture -- despite their diverse, sometimes antagonistic features. Performed here by Josh Dillon at the piano and the composer Marko Ciciliani on electronics and "inside piano" (piano frame), the piece fails to make its concept appear convincing and to transcend its process. The clashes of styles bring little to the table. Some motifs are pleasant, but their fragmentary nature prevents the listener from being swept away. The occasional use of electronics and prerecorded soundscapes never goes beyond the artificial add-on, except in the last section where a dialogue is engaged between piano and electronics. On the other hand, the physical use of the pianist, who is asked to whistle a note or grunt in specific places and occasionally hit the piano frame, is well integrated to the work. Tullius Rooms exerts a certain curiosity, but the listener gets tired of the grand tour long before its 78 minutes are over. ~ François Couture
From Antiquity up through the Renaissance, there are reports of people who had the ability to retain unimaginable amounts of information. These people accomplished such feats of recollection by means of a particular technique - the ars memorativa - which worked in the following way. One created a personal, imaginary building, all of the different spatial divisions of which one came to know well. In order to remember a particular subject, one would place various virtual objects in the rooms of the building. These objects would symbolically represent information. To recall something later,one would imagine oneself walking through that particular part of thebuilding which housed the objects pertaining to the subject at hand and would then "decode" them.The idea of a fictitious building which, although uninhabited, is still'imbued,' serves as the inspiration for this piece and as a metaphor for its formal organization. The form consists of 126 sections that were derived by means of a magic square. The architectural metaphor lends itself well to the piece and its sections, in that although the physical characteristics of individual rooms may greatly differ, together the rooms form an edifice.A second aspect in the piece is derived from architecture, in that theacoustic characteristics of the hall in which this piece is performed playan important musical role, as do those of the piano and the musician's body. These last two are also utilized as 'architectural' entities untothemselves. Furthermore, artificial and remote acoustics are brought in by means of electronics and soundscapes. Tullius Rooms is a diverse musical landscape of piano sound, electronic material, singing, whistling and percussive or 'performance' actions.biography:Marko Ciciliani (*1970 Zagreb/Croatia) received his musical training as a composer in The Hague, New York and Hamburg. He has written for a huge variety of settings like orchestra, chamber and solo scores, with and without electronics. Ciciliani is also active as a performer and improviser and has worked in various collaborative projects in the fields of theater, dance, video and music.Ciciliani's involvement as a performer led him in his more recentcompositions to leave a high amount of control, regarding the form of the piece and several aspects of its materials, to the interpreters. This tak
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