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Chamber Symphony Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams Music | List Price | $16.97 (You save $3.82) | | Label | Nonesuch | | All Time Sales Rank |  6567  | | CD Universe Part number | 1242804 | | Catalog number | 79219 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 25, 1994 | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 53 minutes |
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Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams Songs Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams Music Composers on Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams CD : John Adams Conductors on Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams CD : John Adams Ensembles on Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams CD : London Sinfonietta Genres on Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams CD : 20th Century Period, Symphony Purchase Adams: Chamber Symphony, Grand Pianola Music / John Adams To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Adams: Harmonielehre, Etc / Rattle, City Of Birmingham So CD (1994)
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Music For Mallet Instruments
Personnel: Steve Reich (marimba); Nurit Tillis (piano, organ); Edmund Niemann (piano); James Preiss (vibraphone, percussion); Bob Becker , Russ Hartenberger (marimba, percussion); Tim Ferchen (marimba); Garry Kvistad (glockenspiel, percussion); Thad Wheeler (glockenspiel).
Recording information: CTS Studios, London, England (11/1988).
These two long pieces may be Reich's least ambitious music, but they're easy to make an acquaintance with -- unlike Drumming and Tehillim. The Four Sections is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Reich's percussion ensemble, and yet manages to project more personality than the ensemble alone does on Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ. The Four Sections is plain enjoyable. Under Michael Tilson Thomas' baton, the melodic patterns are pleasing, while the woodwinds and strings maintain the same bright, sharp momentum as the ensemble. Like Roy Lichtenstein's cover art, the title refers to the sections of the orchestra, with each section granted its own entrance and brief solo moments. You could even whistle some of it, but probably won't unless you can provide your own drone. Side two is where the lack of ambition isn't quite enough. The percussion and chanted voices of Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ get across by recalling the pulsing orchestrations of The Desert Music and the glassine harmonies of Music for 18 Musicians. But using Nurit Tillis' organ chords seems almost like cheating. The charm of Reich's finest minimalist experiments was to let harmony and rhythm dig themselves out of the woodwork -- or the wallpaper, in some peoples' opinion. The organ tends to resolve the harmonies too quickly, like it's rushing the percussionists along. ~ John Young
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Track Listing of songs: Whispering; Lullaby Of the Leaves; Alone; Five foot two, eyes of blue; Concerto d'automno, for voice & orchestra; Lover, song; Show Boat, musical in 2 acts: Only Make Believe/Why Do I Love You; Caribbean Honeymoon; Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A; Only a rose; Top Hat, White Tie and Tails, song; Funiculi Funicula, for voice & orchestra; What A Perfect Combination; Somewhere Over ...
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| | Henry Brant Collection Vol 2 / Oberlin Wind Ensemble CD (2004)
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Personnel: Henry Brant (harp, flute, piano, marimba); Daniel Kobialka (violin, viola); Lawrence Wallace, Michael Barbour (violin); Helmut Braunlich (viola); Michael Finckel (cello); Michael Kelly (clarinet, bass clarinet); Carole Augmann (bassoon); Emil George (French horn); Lewis Paer (double bass); Adam Rudolph (drums).
Recording information: 1750 Arch Records Label (10/10/1974-??/??/1988); New Directions Concert, Finney Chapel, Oberlin College (10/10/1974-??/??/1988).
Composer Henry Brant is a significant figure in contemporary music and, in 2006, is the second to last man standing who participated in the first wave of American modernism (Elliott Carter is the other). Brant has never been well represented on recordings but, thanks to Innova, listeners are finally getting a comprehensive overview of the extensive catalog of this pioneer of American avant-garde, whose couple of hundred works span from the early '30s to the present time. Innova's The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 2 includes three pieces belonging to the concerted genre, featuring a soloist or soloists along with an instrumental backing of some kind. As Brant has always trod his own path, reinventing the wheel with each new piece, it is inevitable that he should turn out a few duds, and unfortunately the opening work on Innova's The Henry Brant Collection, Vol. 2, Nomads, is one of them. It is a "third stream" triple concerto presented at Oberlin University in 1974 for improvised voice, saxophone, and a jazz drummer as soloist, with the Oberlin Wind Ensemble providing the ripieno, the only part of Nomads that is composed. The wind band tromps through music that would be suitable for a 1960s AIP-produced horror film as the improvised voice hollers about God knows what, the saxophone attempts to out-Pharoah Sanders Pharoah Sanders, and the drummer produces a jumble of drums. Nomads is staggeringly awful -- like a tape that Alexander von Schlippenbach would have burned. However, as a "party piece" for a get-together of aspiring composer types, Nomads might have some functionality.
Solar Moth helps to redeem Brant at this point. It features the talents of another pioneer, violinist Daniel Kobialka, inventor of the Zeta Polyphonic violin. Kobialka lays down some dazzling tracks that are combined with layers of Brant himself contributing accompaniment on a variety of instruments. Solar Moth is quite good, although it is dense, tense, and claustrophobic, and over time can get on your nerves if you are not prepared to devote your undivided attention to it. This late analog studio recording was originally issued on Thomas Buckner's 1750 Arch Records label and is amazingly clear and realistic. Best of all is the double bass concerto Ghost Nets from 1988; the solo double bass part, played by Lewis Paer, is generous and different from the norm, although a lot of it is scored up in the cello range. The American Camerata under Brant and John Stephens provide a solid and respectful foundation, and the quality of the recording is outstanding. In sum, The Henry ...
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