Ricochet Sun

1. Inward Sun (....Color of Shadow)

2. Zebole' (....Unity)

3. Intro/Train to Kingston

4. Train to Kingston

5. Hills of Ocho Rios

6. Ricochet Sun

7. Beyond the Village

8. Tears (....The Ripple Effect)

9. Kinwani

10. Full Moon Door

11. Intro/The Truth

12. Truth (....The Last Language)

Ricochet Sun,Opafire,Higher Octave,Ethnic Fusion,Int'l & World Music,Jazz Music,Pop

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Average customer rating:

Ricochet Sun Opafire Manufacturer: Higher Octave ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Without a Trace Opafire ASIN: B000003Z0Y Release Date: 1995-02-27

Tracks:

1. Inward Sun (..Color Of Shadow)
2. Zebole (...Unity)
3. Intro/Train To Kingston
4. Train To Kingston
5. Hills Of Ocho Rios
6. Ricochet Sun
7. Beyond The Village
8. Tears (...The Ripple Effect)
9. Kinwani
10. Full Moon Door
11. Intro/The Truth
12. The Truth (...The Last Language)

Average customer rating: Lesser performances of three fine works

Sofia Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun [Hybrid SACD] Sofia Gubaidulina , Wispelwey , and Reuss Manufacturer: Channel Classics Nl ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gubaidulina, Sofia | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Wispelwey, Pieter | ( W ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00029RS5O Release Date: 2004-09-14

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20. Staccato-Legato
21. Legato-Staccato
22. Ricochet
23. Arco-Pizzicato
24. Pizzicato-Arco
25. In Croce For Cello And Bajan

Customer Reviews:

Lesser performances of three fine works.......2006-08-06

This Channel Classics disc featuring the cellist Pieter Wispelwey contains three cello-centered pieces by deeply religious Russian-Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina. Wispelwey is accompanied by the bayan (Russian accordion) player An Raskin, and the Collegium Vocale Gent conducted by Daniel Reuss.

"The Canticle of the Sun" for cello and chamber choir (1997) is one of Gubaidulina's largest works of the 1990s, and it's based on a classic inspiration. The poem of Francis of Assisi is one of the first works of Italian literature and one of the world's all-time great artistic creations. In it the friar, composing in his Umbrian dialect, glorifies God and calls as witnesses the sun, the moon, the stars, water, fire, the earth, life, and even death. The cello is the centre of the piece, its music carries the praise of God upwards through ascending notes and underscores the awesomeness of God's power through haunting descents. However, the cellist occasionally gives up his independent role, emulating the percussionists by beating his instrument with a stick, and even joining them when he puts down his bow and plays a bass drum with a rubber ball.

Gubaidulina says that, recognising that Francis of Assisi was a humble man, she wrote the choral part such that it would stay in the background, putting most of the expression into the writing for cello. I would say she only partially succeeded. Granted, the reading of the text is humble and simple, but most of the moments of ecstasy in the piece come when the choir sings vocalisations ("ah ah ah"). If you knows the choral moment at the end of her JOHANNES-PASSION after the baritone soloist sings "Svershilos'", you know what kind of rapture we are occasionally treated to here.

This work has been around for less than a decade, but there are already three recordings available. We may take the one on EMI with Rostropovich and the London Voices as definitive, as Gubaidulina supervised the performance and the cellist who inspired the work performs. There is also a performance on Chandos by the Danish National Choir conducted by Stefan Parkman with David Geringas on cello. The performance of Collegium Vocale Gent and Wispelwey here falls into second place alongside the Chandos one, but the sound quality is much better here.

The collection "Ten Preludes" for solo piano (1974) began as a pedagogical exercise, and in fact were originally titled "Ten Etudes". The work has been performed many, many times since its premier in 1977 and is possibly Gubaidulina's most widely recorded piece. Each of the Preludes explores a single technique of bowing or plucking, but there is great artistry in the music. It is interesting to see Gubaidulina's first exploration of the techniques that would later play a great role in the "Canticle". For some inexplicable reason, however, Wispelwey performances only five of the Preludes here, even though the whole set is good listening and there'd be space on the disc.

"In Croce" was originally written in 1979 as a piece for organ and cello but is represented here in a 1991 arrangement for cello and bayan by Elsbeth Moser which Gubaidulina has approved. It is an exploration of "vertical" music (the organ or bayan) intersected by the "horizontal" (cello), thus forming the cruciform symbolism so common in Gubaidulina's work. Personally, I prefer the performance of the cello and organ version by Ivashkin and Hicks released by Chandos, for the organ just seems to work better than the bayan. For the alternative arragement, that by Moser and Kliegel on Naxos is moving and worth hearing, less restrained than Ivashkin's but perhaps more passionately religious. The Wispelwey and Raskin performance isn't particularly offensive, but doesn't do much for me.

One regrets that the liner notes, while informative, are rather poorly typeset and abound with typos. There's something rather second-rate about the whole disc. If you're interested in "The Canticle of the Sun", I'd recommend getting the EMI recording first, and "In Croce" can be had at budget-price from Naxos, while other preformances of the "Preludes" usually has the whole ten.

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