Totem

1. Zone VI

2. Totem

3. Red Wind

4. Eternal Dance

5. Ritual

6. Eliana

7. Canción de Manuel

Totem,Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors,Raven,Ethnic Fusion,Minimalism,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Techno-Tribal

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Average customer rating: A Tremendous Recording Dark, dismal & depressing cello Essential recording Soft Cello for the soul and the mind. Music to hear a hundred times or more

Cello Manufacturer: Ecm Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music ECM Classical | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ECM Jazz & World | ECM Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Dark Wood Epigraphs The River Eight String Religion Journal October ASIN: B00000DTFW Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

1. Darkwood I
2. No Place Nowhere
3. Fables
4. Darkwood ll
5. Lament
6. Two Or Three Things
7. Indiana Indian
8. Totem
9. Psalm
10. Choral
11. The Bell
12. In November
13. Darkwood lll

Customer Reviews:

A Tremendous Recording.......2004-01-30

I've never heard cello music sound like this. It was first introduced to me by a friend. I don't find his work to be confined to being "New Age" or "Classical". It's very univeral.

Each recording layers intense drones and pluckings of the cello's voice which still have me guessing at how he could create such noises!

It might feel a bit dark and solemn upon the first listen, but its a lot more complex than that. David Darling is a magician of a craftsman, and this record never stops astounding me.

Dark, dismal & depressing cello.......2003-07-16

Buy this CD only if, for some reason, you need appropriate mood music for sipping absinthe or hemlock . . . whichever.

Essential recording.......2002-03-07

artist: David Darling
title: Cello
label: Editions of Contemporary Music
[released 1992] ECM 1464 (cd#511982)

Revisiting old acquaintances portends, sometimes, a pleasant journey. I still remember those long lost ECM LP's i had years ago ; for some time, i explore the current ECM catalog which contains many splendid silver discs.

There are things that, for mysterious reasons, did not resurface on the market, such as a fine atmospheric recording by french-horn player John Clark ("Faces" [1980] ECM 1176). Similarly, i regret an excellent album from Arild Andersen ("Clouds In My Head" [1975] ECM 1059). Alas, looks like several great ECM recordings from the LP era will never make it on cd. But, as a consolation, one thing is sure : In the bunch of recent recordings (those of the 'CD era') there are truly superb ones---many of them as remarkable as the first generations ECM's.

That leads us to this admirable recording, certainly one of the great albums on ECM in the 1990's and, indeed, from their entire catalog. Listening to David Darling's "Cello", i felt immediate images ; here the cinematic quality of the music emphasizes communication between musician and listener. The beautifully crafted sonic universe is rendered at no less than audiophile quality level, thanks to Manfred Eicher's production at Rainbow Studio in Norway (top engineering is a usual trademark of this label).

For this work Darling uses the acoustic cello and completes with the aerial and wonderful sonorities of the eight-string electric cello, to which sometimes he adds special effects such as the use of a digital delay. The recording has lots of space, an ethereal, vast and contemplative atmosphere, not unlike that of John Surman's "Upon Reflection" (ECM 1148). To my view, here is music to unfold the sky ; i imagine myself dancing alone, in a field, looking at the passage of clouds above my head, under the winds of a vast autumnal landscape. I don't want to sound esoteric---this music is neither esoteric nor is it really new age... It is pure and simple contemporary in good old ECM fashion.

David Darling succeeds in the presentation of his solo works (more compositions than improvisations, i guess): Darkwood 1 is much like the overture to a classical composition. In fact, the album starts on a mood that recalls the eerie pastoral response typical of the finest classical/folk works from Scandinavia or England. The sonic crossroads of "Cello" build bridges between different styles of music---folk, classical, jazz and world music. The result is an extraordinary sort of contemporary music, in my opinion... The album surpasses the abusive limitations of a definite genre.

"Cello" is all about atmosphere. Still, it is at once strange and melodic. Most of the tracks sound enigmatically distant and sombre like a late November afternoon. I can't think of another record that can bear comparison to this one.

Darling is a classically trained musician who played with the Paul Winter Consort in the early 1970s. He also played music with many notable jazz musicians, including Jan Garbarek and Ralph Towner. This CD shows to great effect the 'verbal' utterance and articulation of this wondrous orchestral and solo instrument. Another unusual and, indeed, essential recording by the ECM label. *****

Soft Cello for the soul and the mind........2001-11-26

Generally I don't beleive that New Age music has to be so Preachy as it tends to do.......after all, not everyone who listens to New Age music listens to it to Meditate or to Reap its universal messege of oneness......I personally dont agree with all that stuff........I listen to it strickly for the peacefullness and to escape from the Rock music sometimes.

David Darling is proving himself in my mind to do exactly what I buy his music for..........I find myself listening to "Cello" in my car in the morning before going into a stressful day of work.
I listen to his music on the way home from such a day also.
I leave it up to God to ease my thoughts and my restless spirit,
However......listening to this music is like taking an Asprin....
it at least gets you prepared for whats ahead and perhaps prevents more headaches to come.

I Own Six David Darling Cds.....the 2 Musical Messege Cd's.....
"8 String Religion"........"Darkwood"........"Cello" and "Cello Blue".
I Can't say I favor one over the other.
David also worked along with my favorite Piano music.....Michael Jones on an LP called "Amber".......I own that on LP but cant find it anywhere on CD..........I highly recommend that to those who enjoy David.

Music to hear a hundred times or more.......2001-04-28

I've had this CD for at least five years and it has never really left my pile of CD's that I listen to on a regular basis. It is quiet but tough and never vapid. There is grit here as well as serenity. I always liked the music in Godards films and several of the pieces here are dedicated to Godard and are very evocative of his films. The best CD I have heard by David Darling.

Average customer rating: Not 'Metal' by any stretch ! Instantly Fell In Love with this Middle Ages Rock Album! Amazing new album

Totem Faun Manufacturer: Dancing Ferret ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Goth | Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Renaissance Illuminate Signum Irfan Best Of Corvus Corax ASIN: B000MV9OK4 Release Date: 2007-07-16

Tracks:

1. Rad
2. 2 Falken
3. Sieben
4. November
5. Tinta
6. Unicorne
7. Karuna
8. Gaia
9. Zeit nach dem Sturm
10. Der Stille Grund

Album Description

"Medieval Pagan Folk" is what the band calls their style. Recommended for fans of Qntal, Clannad, Medieval Baebes, Loreena McKennitt and Dead Can Dance.

Customer Reviews:

Not 'Metal' by any stretch !.......2007-07-29

I had bought this album because one of the reviews had called it 'fast, Celtic, metal'. It does sound a bit Celtic, but is by no means 'fast'! I would have to file this one under 'easy listening'. I am not disapointed I bought this CD, it does fit in w/ Lorrena McKenitt CD's, which I like. All the songs on this CD are slow ! Just want the buyer to beware of this.

Instantly Fell In Love with this Middle Ages Rock Album!.......2007-05-06

About the Band:
Faun is a German mittealter (middle ages) rock band, very similar in style to other well known bands such as Qntal and Corvus Corax. Making their debut in 2002, the ensemble of five musicians describes themselves as a pagan folk band. Though like Qntal, some of their songs incorporate modern electronics, the majority of their compositions are written around the use of traditional music and medieval themes. In addition to medieval instruments including the hurdy-gurdy, didgeridoo, bagpipes, celtic harp, various flutes, and countless types of percussive instruments, sometimes the band makes use of more modern stringed instruments such as the cello.

About the Album:
Released in 2007, Totem is the band's fourth full length album. On my first listening to the album, I was thoroughly captivated by fast pace and uplifting spirit of the songs and Lisa's and Fiona's lush German vocals (don't worry, the liner notes are written in both German and English). As somebody who owns and highly recommends their previous album, Renaissance, Totem is a strong showing that Faun is continuing to grow. I honestly felt that Totem was better than its predecessor, but if you find you enjoy this album I would also recommend also purchasing Renaissance as well.

Though the credited lyrics to several of the tracks are given to famous poets including Homer and J.v. Eichendorff, the arrangements in Totem are really the product of the group's frontman, Oliver Sa Tyr. O.S.Tyr also provides the male vox.

What I liked most about this album was the diversity in tracks. All too often bands are compared to Dead Can Dance. While I think that is the best way to introduce new comers to the heavenly voices and world music genres, since Totem offers so many different sounds within the scope of one album, it might be better if I tried to compare individual tracks to other similar artists in the genres. First, the heavy use of electronics in contrast to strong female vocals in the second track, "2 Falken", really reminded me of "Vogelefluc" from Qntal's Qntal IV: Ozymandias. The O.S.Tyr's vocals and the mix of instruments used in next track, "Sieben", really reminded me of "Monsalvato" from Irfan's self-titled album. One of the biggest surprises for me was placing a connection between the fifth track, "Tinta", and Concrete Blonde's "Darkening of the Light" from Bloodletting. The connection between these two tracks is they are both a bit downbeat and have a similar melody. "KaRun" is truly a short, dance friendly medieval piece that will appeal to Estampie fans. My favorite track, "Gaia", prominently features both Lisa's and Fiona's voices at the same time in an arrangement as already suggested will appeal to fans of Loreena Mckennitt or fans of other German heavenly voices bands such as Love Is Colder Than Death or Das Zeichen.

Recommend Tracks:
- Gaia
- 2 Falken
- Tinta

Amazing new album.......2007-03-17

I've never listened to Faun before purchasing this album. I was intrigued b/c it is compared to Qntal and Loreena Mckennitt and I like those two artists. Faun is a very serious, heavy, fast paced (for the most part) metal sounding celtic music with a good beat, rhythm, and vocals. Male and female vocals, traditional celtic sounding. These guys are professional and I recommend for anyone that likes that kind of music and is looking for good quality stuff. My favorite bands are Tool and Skinny Puppy so this is a little stretch for me, but I like good music :)

Average customer rating: VERY RHYTHMIC PERCUSSION DRUMS

Totem Gabrielle Roth & the Mirrors Manufacturer: Raven ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bones Trance Ritual Initiation Luna ASIN: B0000000C6 Release Date: 1994-05-09

Tracks:

1. Zone VI
2. Totem
3. Red Wind
4. Eternal Dance
5. Ritual
6. Eliana
7. La Cancion De Manuel

Customer Reviews:

VERY RHYTHMIC PERCUSSION DRUMS.......1999-03-08

A very rhythmic and primitive drum sequence. Great percussion with a warm tribal feeling, yet gives a cold urban feel with its limited quantity of synthesizers.

Average customer rating: one of their best I loved this CD! Not as early as you might think Pleonastic a good one

Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae) Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Machaut | Machaut, Guillaume de | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Part | Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Schnittke | Schnittke, Alfred | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Kronos Quartet | ( K ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Dowland, John | ( D ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Hildegard of Bingen | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Machaut, Guillaume de | ( M ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Part, Arvo | ( P ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Schnittke, Alfred | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Kronos Quartet | ( K ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Kronos Quartet : Winter Was Hard Kronos Caravan Kronos Quartet Kronos Quartet: At The Grave of Richard Wagner Black Angels ASIN: B000005J4S Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

1. Kyrie I
2. Rachell's Weepinge
3. Langdans efter Byfans Mats
4. Lachrymae Antiqua
5. Psalom
6. Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales: 1. Olympos' Pentatonic - 2. Archytas' Enharmonic
7. Long-Ge
8. Totem Ancestor
9. Kyrie II
10. Brudmarsch fra Osta
11. Using The Apostate Tyrant As His Tool
12. Synchrony No.2
13. Quodlibet
14. Viderunt Omnes
15. Kyrie III
16. Four Part Fantasia No. 2
17. O Virtus Sapientie
18. Uleg-Khem
19. Farwell My Good I. Forever
20. Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief
21. Requiem Mass: Bells: Tolling Of The Knell

Amazon.com essential recording

Don't get too comfortable with this disc's opening minutes, which sound convincingly like a well-tuned consort of viols performing two short pieces by Machaut and Tye. These two works from the 14th and 16th centuries quickly give way to a piece from 1997 by David Lamb. Then come Arvo Part, Harry Partch, John Cage, and even Moondog, a.k.a. Louis Hardin. Additional instruments come and go- -harmonium, bagpipe, zhong ruan, nyckelharpa, drum--all of which complement and enhance the string sounds. Later, we hear music by Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, and even Purcell. Most of the selections from early composers are arrangements by the Kronos Quartet and others, but it's a tribute to the recording's producers that in spite of the music's diversity, everything works together to make a coherent, cohesive, intellectually, and musically challenging program. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

one of their best.......2005-04-14

If you like simple, string quartet music as much as I do, then you've got to listen to this. It is a generous 68 minutes of plaintive music--no discontinuities and surpises like on their Black Angels recording. It is all slow and mournful.

I loved this CD!.......2002-11-02

When I was listening to MSN I came across it. I love Early Music and they had a Radio station that was playing it. I decided to listen to it. So as I was lisitening to it I came across the song Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief. That is the besty song I ever heard in a long time. I like the other songs but this one really spoke to me. It was quite moving if I might say.

Not as early as you might think.......2000-06-07

Yes, there is "old" music on this disc. But works in olden style by John Cage, Arvo Part, et al are also present. Quite a challenging program on the listener - but rewarding as well. I am particularly found of Kronos' setting of Alfred Shnittke's "Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled With Grief". Very eclectic recording performed with usual finesse of the Kronos Quartet - and some guests.

Pleonastic.......2000-03-10

Kronos Quarter has been an agile and versatile instrument in the hands of modern composers. It has (re)interpreted music from many sources in a coherent way, thus creating a very distinctive sound. This album offers a mixed program of composers, juxtaposing the modern and the antique. The thesis of the album is (I think) that early composers are surprisingly palatable to modern sensibilities, and that they are close in spirit to a vast array of contemporary musicians. Also, it seems that the bond linking all these authors is a certain state of affliction; hence the subtitle of the album "lachrymae antiquae", ancient tears. Yet, overall, I found this a pretentious album, even in its use of latin. After so many years of philologically accurate renditions of the early masters, performed on period intruments, the operation of K.Q. sounds at least inappropriate if not even a bit obnoxious. It often seems that they are sacrificing the original intentions of the authors to the altar of this "modernity" thesis. The listener should judge by him/herself.

Summing up, I would just say that this is first of all a K.Q. album "inspired by" early music. I would just point out that it doesn't add much to the understanding neither of Machaut & co., nor of K.Q., which is still a great ensemble.

a good one.......1999-12-02

Who can say, as of now, how much of the music the KQ plays will fall, deservedly or not, by the wayside and how much of it will continue for the ages? At any rate, this CD is rewarding. I like the mix of quirky pieces with the staid, even if the title "Early Music" is misleading (since few original instruments are utilized in this record). Fine work; highly recommended.

Average customer rating: Thank You, Naxos! Uncaged Acceptable performances of minor Cage Berman's Cage

John Cage: Music for Prepared Piano, Vol. 2 Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano John Cage: In a Landscape Insomnia Silence: Lectures and Writings John Cage: Early Piano Music ASIN: B00005A8A6 Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

1. The Perilous Night: No.1
2. The Perilous Night: No.2
3. The Perilous Night: No.3
4. The Perilous Night: No.4
5. The Perilous Night: No.5
6. The Perilous Night: No.6
7. Tossed As It Is Untroubled
8. Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle
9. Roots Of An Unfocus
10. Primitive
11. Mysterious Adventure
12. And The Earth Shall Bear Again
13. The Unavailable Memory Of
14. Music For Marcel Duchamp
15. Totem Ancestor
16. A Room
17. Prld For Meditation

Amazon.com

John Cage abdicated his role as composer around 1950 to become a bystander as random sounds went by. Before that, he wrote some of the most fascinating music produced in America. Some of Cage's best early music was written for percussion ensembles. When the limited space at a dance performance forced him to become an inventor, he thought up a one-man percussion ensemble: the "prepared piano," a standard piano altered by clamping objects onto the strings. The music on this disc covers a wide range of moods and temperament, from the ghostly "Daughters of the Lonesome Isle" to the aggressive "And the Earth Shall Bear Again." Most of the pieces are imaginative enough to stand up to repeated listening. Boris Berman, a Russian-born pianist who now runs Yale's piano department, is better known for playing music like Scriabin and Prokofiev. But he seems completely in command of this radical idiom, with only a bit of rushing here and there keeping him from perfection. With its vivid sound and fascinating repertoire, this disc is another notable Naxos bargain. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Thank You, Naxos!.......2006-01-20

The term "John Cage" seems to haunt my mind as long as I live. He certainly was one of the most controversial American composers during his days; he was the key figure to introduce "chance" and the "prepared piano" - by placing different small objects on the strings, the instrument produces various timbre, thus creating sort of a one-man percussion ensemble!

"4:33" is the first piece I knew by Cage, and I did listen to bits and pieces from radios and such, but I didn't have a single CD to own and have myself fully introduced to Cage's radical music. Plus, all this avant-garde albums are incredibly hard to find in high-profile Classical labels including Deustche Grammophon and Sony.

That's when I relied on Naxos, which currently holds one of the largest arrays of Classical music. And sure enough, I immediately bought what I needed; the first two Cage CDs released, performed by Russian pianist Boris Berman - the first one featuring "Sonatas and Interludes" for prepared piano, and this album. At a budget price, there is only little risk out of my wallet. So thank you, Naxos! Now I can listen to Cage's music wherever I can.

Of the two albums, I like this one better, because it features (except for the brief cycle "The Perilous Night") different separate pieces, each with distinct "preparations", moods, and colors the instrument can produce with all those objects inside. My favorite are "Tossed as it is Untroubled" and "Music for Marcel Duchamp", both with a foreign folk-like quality. I also like the extravagant "Mysterious Adventure" and the percussive "Primitive". Another particularly bizarre work is "Root of an Unfocus". There are some relatively calm pieces too, including "The Unavailable Memory of", "A Room", and "Prelude for Meditation".

A great CD for other people new with John Cage's music, but a good CD for Cage fans and experts too.

Uncaged.......2004-06-12

Try this album, patiently listening all the way through, and I think you will want immediately to play it again. Cranky music, perhaps, but absolutely fascinating. Cage was a grand experimenter, and here he even reconstructs a piano to achieve just the exact sonorities he wants, brilliantly played by Boris Berman. Haunting music, like nothing heard before. Bob Finley

Acceptable performances of minor Cage.......2003-12-18

Following up on his recording of the complete Sonatas and Interludes, Boris Berman's second Cage disc for Naxos takes on a miscellany of music for prepared piano that gives a good overview of the composer's music for dance of the 1940s. The overall tone of the music is generally rhythmic and percussive rather than melodic; hence Cage's placing of objects on the piano strings to completely change the piano sound.

This disc contains three larger works and nine shorter ones. The Perilous Night is in six movements--the other works here are all in one movement--and explores a variety of sounds, rhythms and timbres. Daughters of the Lonesome Isle alternates between ghostly sound and vigorous dancelike rhythms, while Mysterious Adventure is a wide-ranging--if discursive--eight minute fantasy.

The shorter works tend even more towards vigorously rhythmic writing: Primitive, Totem Ancestor and And the Earth Shall Bear Again are near-orgiastic dances (I particularly like how, in the last of these pieces, Cage prepares the bass notes of the piano but leaves the treble untouched). In contrast, The Unavailable Memory of, Prelude for Meditation and Music for Marcel Duchamp are slow, meditative works, often monophonic. The rhythmic vagaries of Tossed as it is Untroubled, Root of an Unfocus and A Room add a little variety to the music, and probably come as close as any of these pieces to Cage's later style.

This is an interesting disc, and provides a strong foretaste of Minimalism, though an hour of largely similar works is a little much to take in one sitting. Berman's performances are acceptable, but nothing more: most of the works here have received superior readings on rival recordings by pianists such as Karis, Tan, Drury and Schleiermacher. Recommended to those on a budget, or for whom the collection is attractive.

Berman's Cage.......2001-05-08

My only complain comes from his choice of tempo for a piece such as "Music For Marcel Duchamp", which is the fastest i've ever heard (at 5'06 aprox)and lacks the mesmeric atmosphere that got me hooked on it the first time I listened to it.

Average customer rating:

Totem Zazie Manufacturer: Universal France ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD France | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Rock | International | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music French Pop | Euro Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Euro Dance | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: J'Aime Pas l'Amour Zen Pomme C Rodéo Made in Love ASIN: B000M9BTR2 Release Date: 2007-02-09

Tracks:

1. Des Rails
2. Je Suis un Homme
3. Ange Bless
4. Jet Lag
5. Ca
6. Duo - Paolo Nutini, Zazie
7. Na
8. Flower Power
9. Totem
10. 07 Dec.
11. J'ais L
12. Yin Yang
13. Vue du Ciel
14. [CD-Rom Track]

Album Details

2007, Studio Release from French Pop Star. Zazie Has Sold Over Three Million Records in her Career. 12 Tracks, featuring the Duet with Paolo Nutini.

Average customer rating: Early beautiful meditative Cage

Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 Manufacturer: MD&G Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: John Cage - Complete Piano Music, Vol. 3 - "Music Of Changes" / Schleiermacher John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 8 (Hommage à Satie) John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 2 John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 7 John Cage: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 5 (Two Pianos) ASIN: B0000021HL Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

1. Bucchanale
2. Totem Ancestor
3. And The Earth Shall Bear Again
4. Primative
5. I.
6. II.
7. Our Spring Will Come
8. A Room
9. Tossed As It Is Untroubled
10. I.
11. II.
12. III.
13. IV.
14. V.
15. VI.
16. Root Of An Unfocus

Tracks:

1. The Unavailable Memory Of
2. Spontaneous Earth
3. Triple Paced
4. I.
5. II.
6. III.
7. Prelude For Meditation
8. Mysterious Adventure
9. Daughters Of The Lonesome Isle
10. Music For Marcel Duchamp
11. I.
12. II.

Tracks:

1. Sonata I.
2. Sonata II.
3. Sonata III.
4. Sonata IV.
5. Interlude I.
6. Sonata V.
7. Sonata VI.
8. Sonata VII.
9. Sonata VIII.
10. Interlude II.
11. Interlude III.
12. Sonata IX.
13. Sonata X.
14. Sonata XI.
15. Sonata XII.
16. Interlude IV.
17. Sonata XIII.
18. Sonata XIV.
19. Sonata XV.
20. Sonata XVI.

Customer Reviews:

Early beautiful meditative Cage.......2005-01-26

You will not be disappointed or dismissive of this early music, primarily for prepared piano, an instrument that has sort of fallen out of existence. I know of no vigorous repertoire that had followed Cage's innovations. The idea for placing nuts and bolts, woodscrews and erasers between the piano's internal strings was from Henry Cowell, a piano timbral innovator in his own right. Cage developed the instrument as an accompaniment to the performances of Merce Cunningham dance in the early Forties, and the idea simple took off toward theatre,toward performance art and associative images, Lincoln Kirstein also commissioned works from Cage. Well here you get the full weight of this repertoire, and my favorite is "Perilous Night", it reveals the "subjectivity" residing in Cage despite his numerous attempts to circumvent his persona, Well it comes through here although you always sense that timbre and rhythm remain the primary focus of this early music.Also the un=prepared works, single exposed threadbare lines are what interested early Cage .The timbral differences of the piano preparation are interesting in and of itself and seem to engage concept and image;as "prelude and meditation",a minimal work of three four lines, only a few strings are prepared, or the "Music for Marcel Duchamp" where only the middle register of the piano is utilized with a single melody written in alto clef. This work has more a lyric interest yet having a deeply sombre feel to it.

The more expansive "Sonatas and Interludes" are all here, and there are now dozens of recordings,(like a standard within the repertoire,as Chopin's "preludes") and some play them fast(Joshua Pierce) others slow. I prefer the John Tilbury, Decca recording (now unavailable) but here as well the renderings/readings are quite engaging. The negative feature to all this music is that the timbre seems to never suggest anything more than what it is, it is like anything remains beautiful. Perhaps that is why there has not been a "thousand flowers" blooming from this instrument. It has astatic quality to it,one-dimensional. Cage you feel knew this and did introduce as much variety, distributions of densities, and rhythms, textures, and the structural plan as well adheres to maintaining an agenda for variety. The "Sonatas" here being the primary focus, the exposition, and the "Interludes" the digression relief from the gestural whole.

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Customer Reviews:

A Great Intro to American Classical Music - Almost a Short Course!.......2005-07-12

Many reasonably sophisticated American and European musiclovers still think there are really no American classical music composers of note other than perhaps Gershwin and Copland. It is to the credit of the Naxos label, via their 'American Classics' series, that the lie is put to that notion. Each month there are new issues from Naxos containing music by American composers. And it was a brilliant idea for them to take selections from their dozens of releases of this music to put together this sampler of such music to illustrate a 100+ page essay on the subject by an eminent writer on music, Barrymore Laurence Scherer. The combination of 2 CDs of music tracks, Scherer's essay, a chronological outline, suggestions for further listening, even a map showing where various composers were born helps the 'student' learn much about our nation's musical heritage.

There are selections by twenty-eight composers stretching from the amazing Wagnerian 'Macbeth' Overture by William Henry Fry (1813-1864) to the very recent 'Rapture,' a percussion concerto by Michael Torke (b. 1961). Some selections are complete movements, others are shorter passages from larger works. Included are such gems as the first movement of Arthur Foote's Piano Quartet, the third movement of Henry Hadley's Fourth Symphony, Charles Ives's 'The Unanswered Question,' 'King Cotton' by John Philip Sousa, 'Maple Leaf Rag' by Scott Joplin, a passage (the exciting Spanish Waltz) from Walter Piston's 'The Incredible Flutist,' the finale of Copland's 'Billy the Kid,' the opening of Samuel Barber's luminous 'Knoxville - Summer of 1915,' 'Tonight' from Bernstein's 'West Side Story,' the opening of George Rochberg's masterful Violin Concerto, and John Adams's incredibly popular 'Short Ride in a Fast Machine.' Plus selections by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Edward MacDowell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Wakefield Cadman, George Gershwin, George Antheil, Zez Confrey, William Schuman, John Cage, Gunther Schuller, Alan Hovhaness, Elliott Carter and Philip Glass. The performances are more than acceptable and in some instances ('Knoxville,' Rochberg's Violin Concerto) definitive.

I would heartily recommend this set (especially at its superbudget price) to anyone wanting to know more about the history of American classical music -- Scherer is a master of cogent, clear prose -- and wishing to hear examples of the broad range it has taken over the past couple of centuries. I can easily imagine this set being used in a music appreciation course. And I am sure it will spark interest in the newcomer to this branch of classical music.

2 CDs TT=ca. 160 mins.

Scott Morrison

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