Abstract Symphony [Import]

Abstract Symphony [Import]

Abstract Symphony [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. Medieval Nights
2. Golden Sea
3. Standing Alone
4. Abstract Symphony
5. Crimson Sun
6. Ceasefire
7. Black Moon Rising
8. Blood Of The Tail
9. Shadows From Beyond
10. Nitro Pitbull
11. Seekers Battlefield
12. Losers Shades Of Hell
13. Silence (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks.

Abstract Symphony,Majestic,Jvc Victor,Heavy Metal
Coates: Symphony No. 2, Homage to Van Gogh, etc.
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • An unusual, distinctive voice in new music
  • dark dark dark
 Coates: Symphony No. 2, Homage to Van Gogh, etc.

Manufacturer: Cpo Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Coates, GloriaCoates, Gloria | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00000FYA7
Release Date: 1998-12-01

Tracks:

  1. Sym No.2: 'Illuminatio In Tenebris': I. Aurora Borealis - Stuttgarter Phil/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
  2. Sym No.2: 'Illuminatio In Tenebris': II. Aurora Australis - Stuttgarter Phil/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
  3. Sym No.2: 'Illuminatio In Tenebris': III. Dawn - Stuttgarter Phil/Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
  4. Homage To Van Gogh - Musica-Viva-Ens Dresden/Jurgen Wirrmann
  5. Fragment From Leonardo's Notebooks: 'Anima Della Terra' - Orch Des Internationalen Jugendfestspieltreffens Bayreuth/Matthias Kuntzsch
  6. Time Frozen: Times Advances To No Destiny - Ens Das Neue Werk Hamburg/Dieter Cichewiecz
  7. Time Frozen: I Go Through Time - Ens Das Neue Werk Hamburg/Dieter Cichewiecz
  8. Time Frozen: Where There Is Life, There Is Time - Ens Das Neue Werk Hamburg/Dieter Cichewiecz

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars An unusual, distinctive voice in new music.......2004-01-16

This is the second of two discs of orchestral music by the American composer Gloria Coates that were released in the late 1990s by the German label cpo (the other includes the First, Fourth and Seventh Symphonies). The composer (who also paints: the cover artwork is a reproduction of her painting Illuminatio in Tenebris) has spent much of her life in Germany, developing a distinctive style that piles up simultaneous layers of music: often pitting piled-up glissandi against simple tonal melodies in a different register.

The Second Symphony of 1988 (in fact a version for large orchestra of her 1974 chamber orchestra piece Planets) is a case in point. It is written in three movements (Northern Lights, Southern Lights and Dawn), each lasting about five minutes, and the first movement mixes (often quite banal and repetitive) tonal melodies and chorales against slow, gliding microtonal canons for the strings. The string glissandi recede in importance in the first half of the finale--based on repetition of brief melodic fragments--but return in the hectic build-up to the climax.

The Quinces' Quandary: Homage to Van Gogh was written simultaneously with the Ninth Symphony and is in fact a version of it for chamber orchestra (the present recording is in fact of its world premiere in Dresden in 1995). A single movement, lasting just under 25 minutes, it progresses slowly and austerely through a sequence of microtonal glissandi, open fifths on the strings, rumblings from the percussion and--in the later stages--chorale melodies. Though the work is very striking in sonic terms, it strikes me as about twice the length the material merits, and I find myself losing interest before the end.

Fragment from Leonardo's Notebooks, "Anima della Terra", written in 1972, is the only vocal work on this disc. This ten-minute setting, part of a still-incomplete oratorio project, is scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass as well as a large orchestra. This work is far more conventionally written than the other pieces on this disc, and features slow-moving dissonant tonal music in the orchestra that gradually builds to a climax: over this rather bleak landscape intermittent eruptions occasionally burst the vocalists.

Time Frozen, a twenty-minute chamber-orchestra work analogous to the Sixth Symphony in the way that Homage to Van Gogh relates to the Ninth Symphony, was first performed in 1995, and that performance is featured here. This work is one of the most extreme examples of Coates' obsessively canonic writing, as all three movements are in canon form. The first movement is a slow canon in clashing tunings over distantly rumbling drums; the shorter second movement applies canonic procedures to slow glissandi; the finale switches to glissandi that slide up and down like wailing sirens while the rumble of drums returns.

Coates' voice is a very distinctive one, and her music is certainly intriguing, though I tend to find that one or two pieces at a time is enough for me. Her work has something of the single-minded obsessiveness of lone figures such as Ustvolskaya and Scelsi, though I think she is somewhat less of a composer than those two. Nonetheless, this disc should appeal to a small but enthusiastic subset of experimental and contemporary music enthusiasts.

5 out of 5 stars dark dark dark.......2003-06-07

This is very bleak music. It reminds one of an ascending nightmare which reaches its peak and then comes screaming slowly down. Morbidly beautiful, the symphony and "time frozen" are worth buying the CD alone. the other pieces are interesting also. recommended to fans of Lentz, Gudaydulina, Kancheli, etc.
Abstract Symphony
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Abstract Symphony
    Majestic
    Manufacturer: Massacre
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B000LX7B12
    Abstract Symphony
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Some of this songs are very good
    • MAJIC MAJESTIC
    		 Abstract Symphony
    Majestic
    Manufacturer: Jvc Victor
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music
    Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B00003WGEZ
    Release Date: 1999-11-03

    Tracks:

    1. Medieval Nights
    2. Golden Sea
    3. Standing Alone
    4. Abstract Symphony
    5. Crimson Sun
    6. Ceasefire
    7. Black Moon Rising
    8. Blood Of The Tail
    9. Shadows From Beyond
    10. Nitro Pitbull
    11. Seekers Battlefield
    12. Losers Shades Of Hell
    13. Silence (Bonus Track)

    Album Details

    Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars Some of this songs are very good.......2002-10-25

    I bought this CD looking for a sound similar to Symphony X, and I found out that it wasn't. The electric guitar sounds of this album go everywhere from complicated to awesome speed. The minus 2 stars is because less that half of this album is really worth of listening to it, the songs just simply don't do it for me. One think I can promise you, songs like "Golden Sea", "Crimson Sun" and "Nitro Pitbull" will just blow you away.

    5 out of 5 stars MAJIC MAJESTIC.......2000-08-17

    This album is absolute killa! it has everything, first of all it has meldody, technicality and one of the best vocalists Ive heard in a long time!!! The guitarists from Vanishing point actually recommended this album to me! Im so glad I bought it! Thankyou Chris.

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