Visions Within

1. Visions Within

2. Wings on Fire/Dele Yaman - Yvonne Tanielian

3. Blue Azure

4. Ashes to Dust

Visions Within,Raven,Natural Visions,New Age / Meditation,Pop

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Dimensional Visions Manufacturer: Frank Danna ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA42TI Release Date: 2001-07-10

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Visions Within Raven Manufacturer: Natural Visions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000001IXQ Release Date: 2005-05-16

Tracks:

1. Visions Within...
2. Wings On Fire/Dele Yaman...
3. Blue Azure...
4. Ashes To Dust...

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Eleanor Cory: Of Mere Being Manufacturer: CRI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00005T6HI Release Date: 2001-11-01

Tracks:

1. Visions For Six Players: I. - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
2. Visions For Six Players: II. - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
3. Visions For Six Players: III. - St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
4. Play Within A Play For Piano - Margaret Kampmeier
5. Of Mere Being For Chorus And Brass Quintet - William Purvis
6. Interviews For Viola And Piano - Louise Schulman
7. Bouquet For Eight Players: I. Adagio - New York New Music Ensemble
8. Bouquet For Eight Players: II. Grave - New York New Music Ensemble
9. Bouquet For Eight Players: III. Vivace - New York New Music Ensemble

Album Description

This is an era of pluralism, with many different musical languages vying for the attention of both creators and listeners. A composer today has no single “common language” bequeathed to her or him, but must choose between competing idioms, even if that choice simply means sticking with the style of one's predecessors. The plethora of information, and the power of media to disperse it, makes it impossible to ignore the enlarged aesthetic field on which music plays today.

For some composers, the response is to hunker down, to choose a single expressive mode and hang tough. For others, eclecticism rules, in a cornucopia of quasi-random, postmodern profusion. And then there is a middle way (not middle-of-the-road), the way of synthesis. Composers of this ilk draw on multiple sources, but their aim is to meld them, to create a seamless blend of elements, where the music can glide continuously over an expressive/stylistic spectrum.

Eleanor Cory is such a synthesist. Her music is the result of intensive investigation of her options and the concomitant amassing of real technique to accomplish any expressive goal she sets. From work to work, despite their distinct personalities, certain common concerns and interests assert themselves. They include:

A love of counterpoint. Cory creates music from setting lines in motion. A musical idea is a thread for her, which weaves and braids with other such ideas to create the tapestry of a piece. At times the lines can be angularly expressive, at others arpeggiated, and often, they coalesce into pulsating 16th-note textures of repeated notes.

A grasp on a wide range of harmonic stances. Cory's roots are in the modernist classical tradition (a master of which, Charles Wuorinen, was one of her teachers), but these works show a natural feel for harmonic languages that range from the highly chromatic (often the starting point of these works), to the modal (both octatonic and church modes, as one hears in the solo piano work), to the diatonic, and to jazz harmony (for example, Bouquet). The composer also studied with a true American maverick, Meyer Kupferman, whose music blends jazz with serialist elements, so she is reinventing a worthy tradition here. An impulse to blend languages and aesthetics.

This is the element of synthesis mentioned above. Even when a music arises with strong associations, like certain jazzy moments in these pieces, it may be a surprise, but it is a welcome one, well prepared. This music never feels like a pastiche of elements. One senses the connections between different languages, as they often share some element—motivic or harmonic—that links them beneath the surface.

Looking at the specific works on this disc, the title of the composer's 1996 Play Within a Play refers to the piece's motivating idea, which in turn guides its structure. The music consists of one style that introduces and concludes the piece (more “abstract,” as Cory describes it), and “frames” a more spacious and consonant music, in theme and variations form. That enclosed section is analogous to the play which occurs within Hamlet, highly stylized, yet which by its conclusion has set the action in the drama in a new light. Similarly, the return of the framing musical materials feels different because of what has preceded them in the variations. Yet equally striking to the listener is how the music “within” the piece alludes so effortlessly and fluently to American jazz. The lyrical chorale of the theme and its pensive offshoots suggest Bill Evans, and the spiky runs Bud Powell.

The 1997 Of Mere Being is notable for the sound of its forces, chorus with brass quintet. Cory treats the two as equal partners in dialogue, presenting a joint interpretation of the text by Wallace Stevens. The composer found certain aspects of the poem ripe for musical treatment and extension, such as in the section which creates an entire accompaniment out of the alternation of “happy/unhappy.” Its great cou

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Inner Visions Manufacturer: Capstone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00009QGBS Release Date: 2003-06-24

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Visions Within Raven Manufacturer: Natural Visions ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music British Metal | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00005Y9PR Release Date: 1995-11-21

Tracks:

1. Visions Within
2. Wings on Fire/Dele Yaman - Yvonne Tanielian
3. Blue Azure
4. Ashes to Dust

Average customer rating: Inspirational Beyond Excellent Visions Critique

Visions: Duo Nuova Timothy McAllister , and Kevin Class Manufacturer: Centaur ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bolcom, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Ravel, Maurice | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Saxophone | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Scena: Contemporary Music for Saxophone ASIN: B0000057Z7 Release Date: 1996-08-01

Tracks:

1. Piece en forme de Habanera
2. Lessons of the Sky
3. Lilith: The Female Demon
4. Lilith: Succuba
5. Lilith: Will-o-the Wisp
6. Lilith: Child Stealer
7. Lilith: The Night Dance
8. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Lentamente
9. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Con vivacita
10. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Con eleganza
11. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Assai moderato
12. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Ridicolosamente
13. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Dolente
14. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Poetico
15. Visions Fugitives, Op.22: Comodo
16. Distances Within Me
17. Son in G: Grave
18. Son in G: Allegro
19. Son in G: Adagio
20. Son in G: Allegro Molto

Customer Reviews:

Inspirational.......2002-02-15

I absolutely adore this recording. The way Mr McAllister delivers the music is quite astonishing. I also like each and every single piece that he has put on this CD. I bought it for a recording of the Lennon "Distances Within Me" however, I was suprised to find out that there isn't a single track on this disc that I don't enjoy more and more everyday. As a young saxophonist, I try to stay focused on getting better and better everyday as a performer, student and as a future teacher of saxophone myself. At the risk of sounding somewhat "over inspired" I can honestly say that Mr McAllister's playing is the reason why I have decided to pursue the saxophone as a career.

In other words....
I liked it and I think you would too

Beyond Excellent.......2000-02-25

Mr. McAllister's approach to this music is innovative, virtuosic, and interesting. He not only understands the elements which are contained in this music, but feels the music that he is playing. The pieces which are so rarely recorded are indeed masterpieces for the saxophone and should be studied with great care. Mr. McAllister and Mr. Class combine to form an excellent sax/piano team and I await further recordings made by the two. This is one buy that I am very glad that I made. I would definitely recommend this CD to anyone interested in something unique and marvelous.

Visions Critique.......1999-12-16

This CD is one of the best classical CD's I have ever heard by a duo. The artistic and technical expertise is superb. These artists are magnificent and any young musician wishing to perform classical music on the saxophone must have this CD. The saxophone is severely underated when used to perform classical music and this CD shows the listener how exciting it can sound. I hope Duo Nuova records many more CD's as they have "the right stuff." They are magnificent performers and put new meaning to classical and contemporary music which is underappreciated.

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