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Terfel/Bostridge/Von Otter/ Gardiner Rake's Progress Music | List Price | $33.96 (You save $2.67) | | Label | Deutsche Grammophon | | Orig Year | 8/10/1999 | | All Time Sales Rank |  7130  | | CD Universe Part number | 1057912 | | Catalog number | 459648 | | Discs | 2 | | Release Date | Aug 10, 1999 |
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Internationally acclaimed conductor Carlos Kleiber leads a gorgeous performance of Richard Strauss's great opera DER ROSENKAVALIER. Performed in 1994 with the Vienna Opera, Strauss's masterpiece is given suitable passion and drama by the performances of the lovely Anne Sofie von Otter (as Octavian,) Kurt Moll (as Baron Ochs aud Lerchenau,) Felicity Lott (as The Marschallin,) and a strong supporting cast.
1994 masterpiece from Carlos Kleiber with an all-star cast including Anne Sofie von Otter and Barbara Bonney.
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Leonard Bernstein's chamber opera satirizing America's 'comfortable' suburbia of the 1950's is featured in a new production by Tom Cairns and features a young, vibrant cast. It's a unique musical comedy inspired by American comedy and jazz, mixing old and new forms to create a popular entertainment of a rare breed.
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Singer/composer Michael Gira's 1980s band Swans, with their considerable darkness/bleakness quotient, were perhaps the only outfit that could make Joy Division and Leonard Cohen sound practically jolly. Gira's Angels of Light project, however, is another matter entirely. While the Angels' music is still somewhat grim in lyrical content and vocal timbre, the overwhelmingly intense Swans-like approach has largely given way to a bittersweet melodic presentation. The autumnal, reflective tone is enhanced by Gira's neo-folk proteges Akron/Family, who serve as the backing band.
The title THE ANGELS OF LIGHT SING "OTHER PEOPLE" refers not to other songwriters, but rather songs about particular people who've inspired/affected Gira in one way or another. He must know some fascinating characters: "Michael's White Hands" is a tapestry of buzzing, jangling string instruments conveying a chant/rant about a disorienting parallel world, the likes of which the Doors' Jim Morrison used to visit. "To Live Through Someone" has a catchy lilt that recalls British Isles' folk music, and the sweetly sung background vocals provide a welcome contrast to Gira's chilly, yet strangely compassionate, old-hermit-of-the-forest delivery. For those feeling haunted the memory of someone (or some particular time), SING "OTHER PEOPLE" may be an ideal form of musical catharsis.
Audio Remixer: Adrian Barber.
Liner Note Author: Scott Schinder.
Recording information: Atlantic Studios, NY (07/1966-03/1969); Chalk Farm Studios (07/1966-03/1969); Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (07/1966-03/1969); IBC Studios, London, England (07/1966-03/1969); Mayfair ...
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Slovenian pianist Bojan Gorisek is internationally recognized for having recorded all of Erik Satie's compositions for piano. He has also interpreted work by Charles Ives, George Crumb, and fellow Slovenians Marij Kogoj, Aldo Kumar, and Milko Lazar, with whom he has performed concert duets. Released in 2007, Avant-Dernieres Pensees ("Next-to-Last Thoughts") is an excellent introduction to both the pianist and the composer. In addition to the well known Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes, this sampling includes posthumously published and peripheral works culled from the elliptic mosaic of Satie's oeuvre. Inscribed with directions that they be played dolorously, sadly, and solemnly, the three Gymnopedies, composed during the spring of 1888, were named for dances performed by naked boys at ancient Greek festivals held in honor of fallen warriors. The Gnossiennes, composed between 1889 and 1897, may have been inspired by the Minoan palace of Knossos in Crete and/or by Gnosticism in general. These marvelously ruminative pieces are garnished with performance instructions like "wonder about yourself" and "don't be proud." The first three date from 1890; number four is from 1991, number five was composed in 1889, and number six ("to be played with conviction and a sense of sadness") in 1897. Gnossiennes one and seven are the longest in the set, and act as ethereal bookends; the seventh was originally used in Act I of Le Fils des Etoiles (1891) and reappeared later as the first of the Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear (1903).
The waltz Je Te Veux [I Want You], a café-concert song from 1897, is a merry example of the sort of stuff Satie performed for the public ten years earlier at the Chat Noir in Montmartre. Discovered among preliminary drafts of his Cold Pieces (1897), Caresse is a little two-minute episode that feels a lot like one of Satie's tranced-out Rosicrucian meditations. Three pieces composed between 1906 and 1913 are grouped under the heading of "Intimate and Secret Musics" with the subtitles Nostalgia, Cold Musing, and Peevish Example. In addition to his compositional innovations, Satie exercised his poetic sensibilities and a deliciously weird sense of humor as he pioneered the art of affixing strange titles to musical works. Perhaps the most notorious examples are the Embryons Desseches (1913), a title that translates literally as "Desiccated Embryos." Intriguingly, these are presented as musical portraits of undersea animals with the scientific names Holothuria, Edriophthalma, and Podolphthalma. The lovely Edriophthalma is a wistful take-off on Chopin's famous funeral march. The Holothuria (which Satie disdainfully observes is called by the ignorant a Sea Cucumber) is said (by him) to purr like a cat while emitting a silky residue. The music accompanying this image is lively and playful, and ends (as does Podolphthalma) with a send-up of conventional repetitious 19th century symphonic finales. This humorous device was utilized during the '60s by the Bonzo Dog Band to close their wacky version of the pop tune Release Me.
Seven little dances from Satie's lyric comedy Le Piege de Meduse ("The Trap of Medusa") range from 15 to 43 seconds in duration, touching upon various popular forms including quadrille, valse, mazurka and polka. The Medusa in question is not the fearsome Gorgon of mythological antiquity but a cocky patriarch who forces his daughter's suitor to answer the question "Can you dance on one eye?" The twenty Sports and Diversions (1914) are prefaced with a "bitter preamble" bearing the title "Unappetizing Chorale." This deliberately stodgy minute's worth is dedicated to "The Shriveled Up" and "The Stupified," "To those who do not like me" -- in short, to narrow-minded ...
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