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The LA Weekly described her performance "like a Renaissance Fair being held on Mars" and awarded her "Best New Genre/Uncategorizable Artist of 2003 at the LA Music Awards.

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"Dew offers abstract meditations on obsession amid a psychedelic-acoustic cabaret that suggests Sam Phillips borrowing Tom Waits' bottle-banging percussion" BT-Entertainment Weekly

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What the Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
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Stunning, Original and Very Listenable

What the Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have
Sarah Blasko
Manufacturer: Dew Process
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The Bird & The Bee

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Year Zero

ASIN: B000ION1S6
Release Date: 2007-07-10

Tracks:

For You
Garden's End
[Explain]
Albatross
Planet New Year
Amazing Things
Always on This Line
Woman by the Well
Hammer
Queen of Apology
Showstopper
I Could Never Belong to You

Album Details

Sarah Blasko's First Album, the Overture and the Underscore, Propelled her Into the Public Consciousness as a Purveyor of Inventive, Intelligent Pop Music, Sparking Critical Acclaim, a Raft of Aria Nominations, a Gold Album, Sold-out Tours and a Performance at the Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony. What the Sea Wants the Sea Will have is her Follow Up. The Album Displays a More Succinct, a More Lucid and a More Forthright Sarah Blasko.

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Stunning, Original and Very Listenable.......2007-04-28

My first experience of Sarah Blasko was live, at the Melbourne "Make Poverty History" concert in Melbourne, November 2006. Bono and Pearl Jam opened the show, and then Sarah (if I may call her that) wandered onto the stage.
She did 5 or 6 songs, and I couldn't wait to get to a store and buy this album. I love it, and I think most people will.
Her style is original, though she reminds me at times of Nico, and perhaps even Dido...with a touch of Bjork maybe. But still, original!
As impressive as her singing is her songwriting - strong, relevant stories set to evocative and superbly arranged music.
She really is quite a talent, and it's early days yet. Buying this album (her second) gets in you in close to the Ground Floor of her musical career, and I think it will be an interesting ride.
At this stage she seems more comfortable as a boutique artist - small venues, intimate shows. I wonder where she will take herself and her music in the longer term.
But enough of that.....for now, we have a wonderful album, produced to perfection and beautifully presented.
This is an album for a wide variety of musical tastes, and I recommend it especially for people who want something different, who are looking for someone who is emerging, and who are hoping for someone who has something strong to say.
And after all, she has already had Bono and Pearl Jam as her opening act - quite an achievement.

The King's Singers Original Debut Recording

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King's Singers Debut
Thirty years old: still terrific
This is vintage King's Singers!

The King's Singers Original Debut Recording

Manufacturer: Chandos
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Good Vibrations
The King"s Singers: English Renaissance

ASIN: B000000A9F
Release Date: 1994-05-10

Tracks:

The Peanut Vendor
Shenandoah
Cherry Ripe
Summertime
Time Was
Scarborough Fair
None But The Lonely Heart
Linstead Market
The Oak And The Ash
Wives And Lovers
Blow Away The Morning Dew
The Green Leaves Of Summer
What Kind Of Things

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As the line in the opening track, "The Peanut Vendor", says: "Fifty million monkeys can't be wrong." And back in 1971, the purchasers of this debut LP (originally The King's Singers: By Appointment) found overwhelming proof in its vinyl grooves that a refreshingly new quality product was on the market. Soon the unlikely lads known as The King's Singers were all over television screens in the company of the likes of Val Doonican, Shirley Bassey, and Nana Mouskouri--also, of course, performing bucketloads of serious repertoire in concerts. For those who rushed to buy the original, this re-release is a real trip down memory lane, the excellent sound enhanced by the extra detail and color in the CD transfer (though, please note, there's less than 35 minutes of music). "Cherry Ripe," "Scarborough Fair," and Bacharach's "Wives and Lovers" are here, along with lots more, performed with that familiar mix of vocal perfection and effortless poise and complemented by the discreet contribution of the Gordon Langford Trio. --Andrew Green

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King's Singers Debut.......2007-01-12

I am a real fan of the King's Singers, and this album was very well received. I loved it. Recommend it to anyone.

Thirty years old: still terrific.......2003-02-02

We have loved this album for 30 years. We are so pleased it has been released on CD. It was originally part of a very small collection of gramophone records, and is now one of hundreds of CDs, but it is one we keep playing and playing.

The singing is flawless, the songs are wonderful and the arrangements are very clever. What more could you want?

It includes The Kings' Singers theme song, "What Kind of Things (do the Kings' Singers sing?)" which is a humorous description of the variety in their music and in their vocal ranges.

Other highlights are:
Summertime, which is quite close to the orignal sheet music, carefully arranged for 6 voices.

The folk song Scarborough Fair adheres quite closely to the Simon and Garfunkel arrangement, whereas The Oak and the Ash and Blow Away the Morning Dew are special creations for the group by Gordon Langford.

Time Was and The Green Leaves of Summer show the group's ability to create a wonderful mood through slow, soulful singing.

Highly recommended. Timeless music.

This is vintage King's Singers!.......2001-06-09

In the thirty or more years that the King's Singers have been going, they've released dozens of CDs. And as much as I adore some of their recent recordings, I still regard this first album as some of their best work.

This performance is both of a very high quality and is also a magnificent showcase of the variety of things the King's Singers sing. I doubt you would find many other recordings which contain works by Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Bacharach as well as traditional folksongs from the British Isles and America - especially not recordings that are of such a high standard. The vocal harmonies are just delicious, and the Gordon Langford Trio also provides a brilliant accompaniment and gives songs like The Peanut Vendor, Shenandoah and Summertime a delightful relaxed feeling. Then there is also the lighthearted and whimsical What Kind of Things - a song all about what sort of music the King's Singers sing!

Tracks:

The Day Of The Clipper
The Dawning Of The Day
Cruiscin Lan
Poem: White Swans And Black/Grey October Clouds
Red Is The Rose
Bower Madden (Tune: Off To California)
The Cocky Farmer
Morning Glory
Clear Away In The Morning
The Newry Highwayman
The Parting Song (Journey's End)

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Two for the Early Dew - Tommy Makem and Lian Clancy.......2007-02-02

This is a good album and should be added to your collection (my favorite cut was about the swans)

Often overlooked gem for Irish and/or Clancy-Makem fans.......2000-08-02

If you're a fan of the Clancy Brothers and/or Tommy Makem, or if you enjoy Celtic folk performed with masterful sensitivity, then this CD should grace your collection. In my opinion, this album is one of the pair's best (along with "Makem and Clancy Concert"). The haunting beauty of songs like "Clear Away in the Morning" and "Dawning of the Day", with fine singing and sweet playing, are worth the price of admission alone. There is not actually a clinker on the album, and careful listening proves the old notion that the Irish have a magic way with words and music. In many ways, this CD is a balm for the aches and pains of our hurried way modern of living. Just put this disc on after a hard day and see what I mean...it will take you back to simpler days.

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Incinerate
Dew-Scented
Manufacturer: Nuclear Blast Americ
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Binding: Audio CD

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The Hinderers
Road to Bloodshed
Fiction
The Blackening
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ASIN: B000N3SSTE
Release Date: 2007-04-03

Tracks:

Exordium (Intro)
Vanish Away
Final Warning
That's Why I Despise You
Fraud
Into the Arms of Misery
Perdition for All
Now or Never
Aftermath
Everything Undone
Contraddictions
Retain the Scars
Exitus (Outro)

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Skybound [*]
War Ensemble [*]
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Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell [*]

Britten: The Canticles; Ian Bostridge, David Daniels

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Benjamin Britten and English as a Musical Language
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Britten: The Canticles; Ian Bostridge, David Daniels
Ian Bostridge , David Daniels , Christopher Maltman , Julius Drake , Aline Brewer , Timothy Brown , and Benjamin Britten
Manufacturer: EMI Classics
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Ian Bostridge - Songs of Faure, Debussy & Poulenc

ASIN: B00005UV9G
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Tracks:

Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine
Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac
Canticle III: Still Falls the Rain
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi
Canticle V: The Death of Saint Narcissus
The Plough Boy
The Salley Gardens
The foggy, foggy dew
There's none to soothe
O Waly, Waly
The Ash Grove
Greensleeves

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If you were assembling a latter-day dream team for a package program of all five Britten Canticles, this would probably be it. With one or two exceptions, it delivers everything you'd want. Ian Bostridge--the most literate tenor on God's earth--was born to sing this repertory, observing subtleties of text and niceties of diction without compromise to the beauty of fine-spun legato lines. David Daniels, an accomplished actor, sings the boy in Abraham and Isaac with exactly the right mix of pathos and restraint. Christopher Maltman provides the vocal equivalent of lithe, young, gym-toned muscularity in "Journey of the Magi" and the group of folk-song settings that pad out the disc. And Julius Drake homes in as if by instinct on what really tells in the accompaniments: a figure here that signals something to the voice, a chord there that transforms the color of a phrase. The two supporting instrumentalists (Timothy Brown, horn, and Aline Brewer, harp) add to the pleasure of it all. Just one reservation: Bostridge doesn't quite have the climactic roar of joy required for "My Beloved Is Mine" or the authoritative weight for Abraham, and Daniels can sound womanly, as well as overartful in the folk songs (although not everyone feels comfortable with countertenors singing folksongs). And in any case, it's not enough to counter the outstanding virtues of the disc. --Michael White

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Benjamin Britten and English as a Musical Language.......2007-01-22

Benjamin Britten was a prolific composer who managed to conquer every range of musical writing - chamber works, symphonies, operas, big choral works, song cycles for both soloist and orchestra and soloist and piano, children's works, ballets, works for amateur performers (such as the Church Parables), concerti, and works for solo instruments. There are few composers even today who understood the complexities of the English language as a source of lyrics as did Britten and though all of his works are penultimate examples of this talent, surely the Five Canticles are the zenith of this gift.

The Canticles were composed over a thirty-year period (1947 - 1974) and are a microcosm of Britten's development as a composer and philosopher. The five works are all inspired by religious themes and yet they also can be seen as occult references to Britten's own homage to his sexual proclivity. Here the canticles are sung impeccably by Ian Bostridge, tenor, David Daniels, countertenor, and Christopher Maltman, baritone and the series is beautifully united by the pianism of Julius Drake (with collaboration of harpist Aline Brewer and horn player Timothy Brown). To review each canticle would take far too much space, but at least some mention must be paid to the opening of the second canticle (Abraham and Isaac) in which the voice of God telling Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son is intoned by close harmony duet by Bostridge and Daniels: the effect is ethereal and wholly spiritual. Each of the five canticles is successful on every level.

Accompanying the Canticles are seven of Britten's Folksong arrangements and each of the three singers is given time and interpretive flair for each one. It would be difficult to imagine three better matched singers than Bostridge, Daniels, and Maltman - three artists who continue to grow in stature (these recordings were made in 2001). This CD contains some of Britten's more difficult works - but also some of his most sublime. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, January 07

Excellent.......2006-09-03

This is a really nice recording of the Britten Canticles with some of the folk song arrangements added to fill out the CD. The quality of singing is excellent though some aspects of interpretation could be argued. Excellent accompaniment as well.

Three Amazing Voices at Their Peak .......2004-08-17

With tones alternately dream-like and discordant, Benjamin Britten could certainly write music that can challenge as well as soothe, and his five canticles are no exception. Amazingly, he wrote these canticles over a 26-year period, the first in 1947 and the last in 1973 near his death, yet in spite of each canticle's individuality, they feel very much like parts of a whole. The two longest canticles, "Abraham and Isaac" (Canticle 2) and "Journey of the Magi" (Canticle 4, based on the poem by T.S. Eliot), are the most dramatically effective. Canticle 2 is especially moving because of the touching story it tells of the sacrifice of the child Isaac for his father Abraham only to be spared at the last minute. Canticle 4 provides an emotional retelling of the Three Kings' journey to the Christ child heightened by the immaculate blending of the three distinct voice types. It is no coincidence that countertenor David Daniels plays a prominent role in both as he is a highly skilled and versatile actor when it comes to playing a king or evoking the pleas of an innocent child. The voice, of course, is unparalleled. Tenor Ian Bostridge sings prominently on all five canticles and does quite well throughout, in particular, with his diction and tone. He is called on to exhibit a wide variety of emotions, and he rises to the challenge despite the towering shadow of Peter Pears.

The last twenty minutes of the disc are devoted to a wide array of English folk songs, and this is where each singer gets an opportunity to shine in solo turns. In particular, baritone Christopher Maltman does a fine job on "The Plough Boy" and "The Salley Gardens". Although Britten is not for everyone's taste, this is a beautifully realized recording with three great singers at their peak, and special mention needs to go to pianist Julius Drake who accompanies with great skill.

Literate, Schmiterate.......2003-12-10

What you need is a tenor with gonads. These canticles rank among my favorite works by any composer, and I do like Bostridge sometimes, but I can't stand the hooting around I hear on this disc. I mostly agree with the editorial review in the details, but not at all with its recommendation. I think the negatives far outweight the positives. Try the Hyperion release with Anthony Rolfe Johnson. It's also flawed, but far more satisfactory.

Exquisite Singing in Lesser Known Britten.......2002-12-27

This may be the vocal CD of the year. Bostridge, Daniels and Maltman sing this repertoire with all of the conviction of the original London recordings. And the Canticles themselves are pinnacles of Britten's vocal art.

Neither art songs nor operatic scena, in the Canticles Britten fashions his own vocal form, based in part on the extended Baroque solo cantata as realized by Purcell. Each Canticle is based on a poem with religious overtones, and set with sensitivity to the prosody and shades of meaning conveyed by the poet. The first Canticle, set to a parody of the Song of Songs by Anglican poet Frances Quarles, is fashioned in the most Purcellian manner of the Canticles, complete with Baroque devices like the canon and the ground bass. Each stanza is given a different form, almost like a suite, though unified by melodic material. The second stanza is a setting of the story of Abraham and Isaac from the Chester Miracle plays for tenor and countertenor (originally for alto, the tendency now is to use countertenor.) The work is dramatic, a mini-scena with many sections forcasting a very different setting of this story in the War Requiem. Canticle III is composed for tenor and horn and uses the very beautiful Sitwell poem, Still Falls the Rain. Britten's music matches the deep pathos of the poem. The final two Canticles use poetry by T.S. Eliot. They are in Britten's late style, tonal and yet austere and richly dissonant. Canticle V in particular has overtones of the music Britten would use for his final operatic masterpiece, Death in Venice.

The performances on this CD are stupendous. Ian Bostridge is probably the finest interpreter of English art song alive today. His attention to diction, nuance of text, beauty of tone and intelligence make these for me even better than the marvelous Peter Pears performances of these works. David Daniels is the finest countertenor working today. His tone is honey-sweet but never weird or cloying as Alfred Deller could be. And he strikes the perfect tone as Isaac, both childlike and saintly. Maltman too is in fine form in Canticle IV. The instrumentalists are also superb. Special mention goes to Julius Drake, who is a technically brilliant and sensitive accompanist in music that sounds simple but is deceptively tricky.

The disc is rounded out by several of Britten's beautiful settings of English folk songs. A marvelous way to end a truly spectacular vocal disc.

Sybreed, Slave Design as heard on Hell Boy soundtrack
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Sybreed, Slave Design as heard on Hell Boy soundtrack

Manufacturer: Reality Entertainment
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ASIN: B000QTD6LA
Release Date: 2007-04-24

Tracks:

Bioactive
ReEvolution
Decoy
Synthetic Breed
Next Day Will Never Come
Machine Gun Messiah
Take the Red Pill
Rusted
Static Currents
Critical Mass
ReEvolution
Decoy

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SYBREED sounds like nothing you've ever heard....literally. Unless of course you've heard a hybrid mix of Meshuggah, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo and Fear Factory, all taking place on a sonic landscape that reminds you of the Matrix - complete with visceral screams of human suffering and the never ending madness taking place here on Planet Earth. SYBREED morphed itself into existence in the year 2003. There was once a band called RAIN who made records and toured with the likes of Napalm Death, Immortal, Dew-Scented, Digger, Nightwish, Lacuna Coil and others but they broke-up because there was a higher calling from the Gods of the Underworld. While tampering with the rituals put forth in the Egyptian book of spells, BEN, the one who sings, called forth from the ashes of what was once RAIN and there merged a new collective that can only be called SYBREED. When all four members first stood in front of each other in an empty war-torn warehouse in the industrial part of Switzerland it was clear that DROP, the one who plays guitar, would bring the light and then the vision. BURN would play the bass and provide the storm and ALEX would command the crushing, relentless hammer on Drums. Truth is stranger than fiction and SYBREED are as much like teenage super heroes as they are musicians. By day, they might be seen eating at McDonald?s or even cavorting with humans, when night falls however, it's another story. Like a Phoenix, SYBREED transcends what we know as "normal" when they unleash their collective power through sound and lyric and literally become young gods on-stage. SYBREED paints a cold world where violence and brutality breed megalomaniacs and paranoid schizophrenics are the leaders of the apocalypse. The world they paint could be the one we live in now, science says it's possible. If it is, be sure that SYBREED will provide the siren spreading the word to the people that there is much to fight for and much to live for. Perhaps it's not too late for mankind, the oceans and the forests: perhaps what Sybreed seems to know so well can remain part of some other dimension. On September 4th, Reality Entertainment will release SYBREED's debut album, Slave Design. The album was produced by DROP whose visions of the future have culminated into 10 auditory masterpieces. Like nothing before it, Slave Design is a sprawling epic journey into some of the most frightening, disturbing and distressing areas of human denial, while at times soothing the soul with melodies from another world. Reality Entertainment considers SYBREED to be the next generation of metal - a true innovator with an agenda not to conquer the world with its music but to save it. SYBREED MUSIC IS FEATURED ON HELLY BOY, SWORD OF STORMS OUT SOON! www.reality-entertainment.com

Songs by Dvorak: Biblical Songs Op. 99; Songs on Folk Tunes / Martinu: Songs on One Page for voice & piano, H. 294 / Janacek: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs

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Songs by Dvorak: Biblical Songs Op. 99; Songs on Folk Tunes / Martinu: Songs on One Page for voice & piano, H. 294 / Janacek: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs

Manufacturer: RCA
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Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

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A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion
One of the most extraordinary works ever written
Music to Amaze Your Ears

Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

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ASIN: B000000B0N
Release Date: 1997-04-22

Tracks:

Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Sunbeams On A Coffin Decorated With Sweet Smelling Flowers -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinklying Of Stars In The Blue Sky At Sunset -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Light And The Depths
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Refraction Of Sunbeams In The Waves
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinkling Of A Pearl Of Dew In The Sun On A Beautiful Summer's Morning
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Longing - Despair - Ecstasy
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Soul Of The World - Abyss - All Soul's Day
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): I Wish...!
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Chaos - Ruin - Far And Near -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Flowers Wither
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Glimpse Of The Sun Through Tears -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Bells Pealing: Look Here He Comes!
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The Gospel Of Flowers - From The Far Distance -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The New Day -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The End: Antichrist - Christ
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): I. Like Words For A Summer's Day Saga
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): II. A Scent Of Mull And Mud
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): III. A Golden Flake Hovers Above
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): IV. The Flowering Summer Was Linked To The Harvest

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Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was the odd duck of Danish music. He remained doggedly Romantic at a time when Romanticism was out, and he had his own funny little experiments with music that noboby particularly liked. We owe a debt to Chandos and Danacord for keeping Langgaard's music current. Music of the Spheres (1916-18) predates Gyorgy Ligeti by 50 years with its bright, pointillistic assertions and groups of ideas that evolve to their own inner logic. As demonstrated in Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures), Langgaard's music has an openness that allows his tone clusters to expand, contract, or simply repeat (as Ligeti would do much later). Discover Langgaard. --Paul Cook

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A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion.......2006-12-11

This Chandos disc containing two pieces by Danish composer Rued Langgaard is one of the most pleasant surprises this fan of modern-classical music has come across. Langgaard (1893-1952) was an outsider and eccentric in Danish music life, a virtuoso organist who succeeded only in his late forties at getting a position, and a composer of wild tales of the Antichrist coming into the world who found it almost impossible to get his music played. In the late 1960s, his music was rediscovered by scholars and his importance in Danish musical history is now certain, but he is still little-known in the modern-classical scene. We should be grateful to the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir and Gennady Rozhdestvensky for their performance and to Chandos for releasing the recording.

"Music of the Spheres" for soprano, chorus, orchestra, and distant orchestra (1916-1918) is stunning. The innovations here are considerable: exploiting the performance space in the use of two orchestras, writing for an "open" piano where glissandi are produced directly on the strings, and of course the clusters and polyphonic webs, massive and seemingly motionless blocks of sound reminiscent of Gyorgy Ligeti. Indeed, the Hungarian composer exclaimed that he was a Langaard imitator when Per Norgard showed him a copy of the score in 1968. But the purity of the string writing reminds me of Alexander Knaifel, and the massive proportions of the orchestral writing at its loudest is somewhat like Sandstroem's "The High Mass".

But, as is often said, it wouldn't matter how much Langgaard were ahead of his time in "Music of the Spheres" if the music wasn't great. And it is, one of the most moving half-hours of orchestral music I'm acquainted with. Langgaard was a Romantic in a time when Romanticism was out of fashion, and the proportions of what the listener may recognize as struggle, momentary defeat, and victory are just as powerful as in Mahler.

"Music of the Spheres" is an exceptional piece in Langgaard's total output. The "Four Tone Pictures" for soprano and orchestra are somewhat more typical of his art. Written on poems by J. Blicher-Clausen, Ivan Turgeniev, and Holger Drachmann, they are fairly tame lieder. These suggest that the modern-classical fan can pass on most of Langgaard's music, but "Music of the Spheres" is so good that at least this disc should be in your collection.

One of the most extraordinary works ever written.......2003-11-21

Music of the Spheres, by the eccentric Danish composer Rued Langgaard, really is the work that has everything. Written between 1916 and 1918, it uses a multitude of techniques that would not be rediscovered until after the wars. Multifarious tone clusters, floating micropolyphony, a piano played directly on the strings, an entire offstage orchestra, blurred choral singing, prefigurations of minimalism: you name it, this work has it. Yet it also has Scriabinesque ecstasy, Straussian opulence and a wacked-out religious subtext in which Christ and Antichrist clash in the violent climax to the whole work.

None of this would matter, though, if the music weren't any good. But it is good--probably the best thing Langgaard ever wrote (so far I've heard about 30 of his works, and none of them matches this one). The various short episodes flow one into another with perfect clarity and logic, the orchestration is superlative, and the dramatic writing at the climax is sonically overwhelming. Fortunately, Chandos match this work with a tremendous performance by the Danish National Radio Symphony and Choir, conducted by that indefatigable servant of underperformed music, Gennady Rozhdestvensky. This recording should be considered the best currently available, and it outstrips the rivals with ease.

Any other work isn't likely to fare so well in comparison to this, but the Four Tone Pictures are by no means eclipsed. Opulent songs in a Straussian harmonic language--though lacking the German composer's gift for melody--they are the perfect way to come down from the musical high of Music of the Spheres.

Music to Amaze Your Ears.......2003-07-23

Rued Langgaard was the man that time forgot. Completely neglected in his native Denmark because he did not fall within the prevailing neo-classic aesthetic set by Nielsen, Langgaard was rediscovered in the 60s when Per Norgard gave a score of Music of the Spheres to Gyorg Ligeti at a competition and after a minute Ligeti announced, "it seems as though I am a Langgaard imitator." Though Langgaard was essentially a conservative late romantic composer, he was capable of some real moments of innovation. He not only presaged Ligeti's color style, but also elements of minimalism, most especially in his string quartets.

Music of the Spheres is Langgaard at his most original. This work is a stunning series of small tone pictures. From the very beginning of the work, with the shimmering cluster of string harmonies over ominous timpani, through out the work, experiment reigns. Langgaard is always tonal, but in this work shows a fascination with orchestral sound and tonal clusters that was probably about 50 years ahead of the times. And yet, in the middle of the work there are sections that could come directly from Schonberg's early Gurrelieder or even the symphonies of Gade. It is a truly astonishing aural sound feast and should be a staple of the repertoire.

The accompanying Tone Pictures, four tone poems on nature themes, are also quite beautiful, though much more conventional as music. Here is Langgaard the Romantic and he is quite a good Romantic actually. The orchestrations are lush, the harmony sensuous and there is just enough oddness to mark the work as Langgaard's and no one else's.

This Chandos disc is exemplary in sound and the performance by Rozhdestvensky is definitive I think. Even if you are afraid of unusual or experimental work, this is a disc that you can take to your heart. It is stunning and beautiful and has my highest recommendation.

Celtic Harp: The Morning Dew
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Celtic Harp: The Morning Dew
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Throw It Up (Chamillionaire, Big Tuck)
Freak Part 2 (Play N Skillz, Bun B, Pitbull)
Too Selfish (Bava Blakes)
OG Ron Intro
Rapid Ric
Whut Dew Intro (Rapid Ric)
Smoke, Drank (Mr. Magic, Youngbloods)
Smoke, Drank Texas Remix (Slim Thug, Killa Kyleon)
Shorty Wanna Ride Texas Blend (Young Buck)
Don't Fake (Trae, Bun B, Devin Tha Dude)
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