| 1. Bleed |
| 2. Reprisal |
| 3. Plagued Mind |
| 4. Epitaph |
| 5. Darkest Fears |
| 6. Chaotic Vein |
| 7. Black Dawn |
| 8. Manifest |
| 9. Desolate |
| 10. Dirge |
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Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 & 53; The Prayer of St. Gregory
Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000BK53H4 Release Date: 2005-11-15 |
Tracks:
- Andante
- Allegro
- Andante Espressivo
- Andante
- Adagio
- Andante Espressivo
- Allegro Moderato
- Andante Maestoso
- Prayer Of Saint Gregory, Op.62b
- Maestoso Sostenuto
- Moderato Sostenuto Con Molta Espressione
Customer Reviews:
Same old Hovhaness.......2007-02-19
Hovhaness for Winds.......2005-12-04
By far the most amazing thing in this program is the noisy eruption shortly after the trumpet's oration in the first movement of 'Return and Rebuild the Desolate Place.' If one tried to imagine the cacophony of hell, one couldn't do better than this. And it sounds for all the world as if it is aleatoric, with each instrument going its satanic way, each one slowly dropping out until all that's left are sinister low growling trombone glisses. Wow! What an imagination Hohvaness had to come up with this!
The performances by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra (what an ungainly name!), which I take to be a student group, is quite good. Solo trumpet work is done beautifully by John Wallace, as one would expect by this fine Scots trumpeter who has recently become the principal of the Academy.
I would suggest that whoever listens to this CD make sure not to listen to the whole CD in one sitting, but rather to each piece on its own. Otherwise there is some tendency for it to all run together and sound alike. Close listening, however, reveals that each piece has its own charms.
Scott Morrison
Hovhaness' Wind Symphonies.......2005-11-26
Hovhaness' symphonies are generally short and programmatic. The three wind symphonies on this CD emphasize the mystical, spiritual music of the composer. They consist of long choral passages for brass intertwined with solos for many different wind instruments, and for gongs, bells, cymbals, and drums. Much of the music, for the solos in particular, is modal in character, and it is contrasted with tonal passages in the larger ensembles. (Jean Sibelius did the same thing at times and Sibelius was a great influence on Hovhaness.) Hovhaness makes extensive use of counterpoint. The music is, and was composed to be, immediately accessible to a broad audience.
The three movement Symphony no. 4, opus 165, probably Hovhaness' best-known wind work, was composed in 1958. It contrasts brass chorales for trombone and trumpet with long solo themes in the bass clarinet and bassoon. It closes with an extended fugue. The unusual second movement features a haunting solo for xylophone extending the length of the music. It reminded me of a Milt Jackson solo for the Modern Jazz Quartet, which was active at the time this work was composed. The final opens with an extended brass chorale followed by solos for trumpet and winds. Bells and gongs give a mystical character to this symphony throughout.
Hovhaness' three -movement symphony no. 20, "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain" opus 223 dates from 1969 and was one the composer's works commissioned and performed first by a high school band. Each movement represents a pilgrimage. The tripartite first movement opens with a clarinet solo, followed by an English horn solo, and a long, lyrical climactic section. The second movement begins with a long solo for alto saxophone, and the band gradually joins in over a low droning theme and the roll of drums. The finale features a brass chorale and fugue. Here again percussion and chimes add much to this piece.
The final symphony on this disk, the two-movement "Star Dawn" opus 377 dates from 1983. Hovhaness apparently was fascinated by the possiblity of space travel, an interest I find it best to disregard in hearing the music. Chorale sections are contrasted with long, flowing solo passages for clarinet in the first movement. A drum-roll opens the second movement followed by a long reedy solo and a fugual close. The accompaniment of bells is to represent the stars or, perhaps,human yearning.
The CD includes two short Hovhaness works for band. The "Prayer of Saint Gregory" is a short piece Hovhaness arranged from an earlier composition for trumpet solo, played here by John Wallace, and band The trumpet solo predominates in this brief work with a meditative, searching character. The other short work, "Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places" also features John Wallace on the trumpet. The work opens with a piercing trumpet solo, followed by a loud helter-skelter passage for the ensemble. The second movement also is lead by the trumpet and is a call to rebuild the world from chaos.
This CD and its earlier companion will introduce the listener to the music of Alan Hovhaness. I understand that further releases of Hovhaness' music may be in the offing on Naxos. Naxos is performing a real service to lovers of music in its ongoing "American Classics" series.
Robin Friedman
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Desolate Son
Palodine Manufacturer: Tarnished ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I9Z79C Release Date: 2007-03-27 |
Tracks:
- Fire in the Field
- Sadlands
- Sugar Water Orphan
- Vengeance
- Frozen
- Devils Song
- Devour Me
- How to Use
- Maker
- Morgantown
Product Description
A provocative portrayal of violence, remorse & final words. Alternating in mood from fierce to somber, DS is bound together by rich vocals, lush instrumentation & final touches of pedal steel, dobro & bass. Imagine the energy of PJ Harvey, the subtlety of Mazzy Star & the convictions of a hellfire Southern Preacher
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Hovhaness: Chamber Symphony 'Mountains and Rivers Without End'; Prayer of St. Gregory for trumpet and string orchestra; Symphony No. 6 'Celestial Gate'; Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Symphony 'Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places'
Manufacturer: Koch Int'l Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000001SGT Release Date: 1994-01-04 |
Tracks:
- Mountains And Rivers Without End - Chamber Symphony
- Prayer Of St. Gregory For Trumpet And String Orchestra
- Aria From Horoutiun For Trumpet And String Orchestra
- Symphony No. 6 - Celestial Gate
- Return And Rebuild The Desolate Places
- Return And Rebuild The Desolate Places
Amazon.com
Alan Hovhaness (b. 1911) is an Armenian-American composer who has probably done more experimenting with modes, styles, and instruments in his music than any composer in this country. Mountains and Rivers Without End (1968) was inspired by the Korean landscape and opens with extended sliding passages for the trombone. His music has often been described as being mystical and you'll find that here, especially in Prayer of St. Gregory (1946) and the Aria from Haroutiun (1948) that also make extensive use of the trumpet. His Symphony 6 Celestial Gate (1955) is about as mystical as you can get and as good as you can get. --Paul CookCustomer Reviews:
Sounds and Melodies without End.......2005-01-31
Hovhaness was an American composer of Armenian
ancestry born in Somerville,Massachusetts to Armenian
and Scottish immigrants. Hovhaness is my most
favorite of all American composers. In this
recording we listen to some of his most and
less recorded works. From the "Prayer of St. Gregory"
to a less known Trumpet Concerto(Return and Rebuild
the Desolate Places). "Mountains and Rivers Without End"
is in one movement, and what the composer calls a chamber
symphony and is score for flute, oboe, trumpet, trombone
clarinet, timpani, harp and percussion. On this chamber
symphony the trombone opens the work with a melody
that repeats all over the work. The Trumpet Concerto
"Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places" was written
in two movements for trumpet and band(there are several
pieces by Hovhaness for a solo instrument and band, a
usual practice of this composer)composed originally
in 1944 and later arranged in 1965. The opening movement
the trumpet plays, against tone clusters; the second was
influenced by an Armenian painting. Hovhaness is a composer
whose music one has to listen to, to realize that
one has found music by a genius in an age of
"musical opportunists" and false atonal music.
Great CD.......2001-12-28
Gekker is fabulous.......2000-06-09
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The Desolate One
Just-Ice Manufacturer: Traffic Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000GG4SN8 Release Date: 2006-07-25 |
Tracks:
- The Desolate One
- ...And Justice For All
- Hardhead
- Welfare Recipients
- Na Touch Da Just
- In the Jungle
- Hijack
- Ram Dance Hall Session w/ Heavy D
- It's Time I Release
Product Description
A former bouncer at punk clubs, Joseph Williams, Jr. was the first of the New York rappers to embrace gangsta rap, and when he burst out of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound, tattooed, aggressive -- he resembled Mike Tyson in more than just looks, and with a mouthful of gold teeth, he certainly stood out. His debut album Back to the Old School proved he was more than just a pretty face. It came out on the independent New York label Sleeping Bag, and certainly sounded like no other Hip Hop album, thanks to his fast, forceful rhymes, DMX's human beatbox as well as the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik. When he was held by Washington, D.C., police regarding the murder of a drug dealer in 1987 ("Murder, Drugs, and the Rap Star" read a Washington Post headline), it gave him an even greater notoriety (he was never charged with the murder). Declaring war on D.C.'s go-go scene and loudly criticizing Run D.M.C. (then the ruling New York rap outfit), Just-Ice set a pattern for many a future Hip Hop feud. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip-hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was the start of a new era. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's Kool & Deadly and 1989's The Desolate One, swapping out Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes, reminicent of the original Boogie Down Productions set and sound. A must have CD for Hip Hop heads and Old School afficionados alike... Includes the incredible "Na Touch Da Just" and reggae influenced "Ram Dance Hall Session" featuring an up and coming Heavy D.Album Description
A former bouncer at punk clubs, Joseph Williams, Jr. was the first of the New York rappers to embrace gangsta rap, and when he burst out of Ft. Greene, Brooklyn as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound, tattooed, aggressive -- he resembled Mike Tyson in more than just looks, and with a mouthful of gold teeth, he certainly stood out. He came out on the independent New York label Sleeping Bag, and certainly sounded like no other Hip Hop artist, thanks to his fast, forceful rhymes, DMX's human beatbox as well as the distinctive production of Mantronix's Kurtis Mantronik. Little could halt Just-Ice's ascension to hip-hop stardom, though the departure of Mantronik from Sleeping Bag was the start of a new era. KRS-One stepped in to produce 1987's Kool & Deadly and 1989's The Desolate One, swapping out Mantronik's hi-tech skills for raw, elemental beats and rhymes, reminiscent of the original Boogie Down Productions set and sound. A must have CD for Hip Hop heads and Old School aficionados alike... Includes the incredible 'Na Touch Da Just' and reggae influenced 'Ram Dance Hall Session' featuring an up and coming Heavy D.Customer Reviews:
Just-Ice Continues his Hardcore Style on 3rd LP.......2007-06-06
The title track which opens the album, "The Desolate One" samples Earth Wind & Fire's "Can't Hide Love" (perhaps the only obvious sample on the album), and finds Just taking rivals to task lyrically.
Just-Ice's baritone fits KRS-One's beat selection quite well, and the artist flexes his reggae influence on several songs, like "Na Touch Da Just", "Hijack" and "Ram Dance Hall Sessions" (featuring Heavy D). "Welfare Recipients" criticizes welfare culture, but it's not clear if the artist is being satirical or condemning.
This re-release by Traffic Entertainment includes one bonus track, "It's Time I Release".
1. The Desolate One
2. ...And Justice For All
3. Hardhead
4. Welfare Recipients
5. Na Touch Da Just
6. In the Jungle
7. Hijack
8. Ram Dance Hall Session w/ Heavy D
9. It's Time I Release
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CCMIX: New Electroacoustic Music From Paris
Manufacturer: Mode ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005NG62 Release Date: 2001-09-11 |
Tracks:
- Mycenae Alpha - Roland Auzet/Claire Talibart
- L'Autel De La Perte Et De La Transformation - Roland Auzet/Claire Talibart
- Comme Etrangers Et Voyageurs Sur La Terre - Roland Auzet/Claire Talibart
- Saxatile - Daniel Kientzy
- Xoomij - Nicholas Isherwood
- Eua'on - SWF Orch Of Baden-Baden/Olaf Henzold
- Eua'on'ome - SWF Orch Of Baden-Baden/Olaf Henzold
Tracks:
- Polytope De Cluny - Kazuko Takada
- Gestes De L'ecrit - Kazuko Takada
- Illusions In Desolate Fields - Kazuko Takada
- Purity - The Arditti Qt
- Sonal Atoms - The Arditti Qt
- La Fleuve De Desir III - The Arditti Qt
Customer Reviews:
Wow!.......2007-05-27
Wonderfull !!!.......2003-10-16
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Next Stop Armageddon
The God Awfuls Manufacturer: Kung Fu Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00013MS92 Release Date: 2004-02-24 |
Tracks:
- Disconnected Youth
- Power Animal
- Calling
- East Side One
- 1979
- Watch It Fall
- Sister
- Tonight
- N.R.A.
- No Angels
- Orion
- Bullets & Batons
- American Nightmare
Customer Reviews:
Original twist on an old favorite.......2005-01-15
True Punk!.......2004-07-04
BEST SONG: POWER ANIMAL
Best thing to hit punk in a while.......2004-06-23
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Desolate
Zan Lyons Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004SU65 Release Date: 2000-09-19 |
Tracks:
- Suicide
- Desolate
- Caustic Tide
- Oblivion
- Demons
- Abort
- Serial Killer Stories
- Warring Factions
- Existence Apparently
Album Details
Absolutley Stunning Debut Album. One of the Strongest Leftfield Albums this Year! Comes Across Like Aphex Twin Meets Godspeed/ Rachels, Strings and Muted Orchestration on One Hand, Full on Dirty Breakbeat on the Other.Customer Reviews:
desolate.......2001-11-16
this album its a must for all people that love ambient electro music, have you ever heard future sound of london?
well here it is the dark side of it, same brain travels, same extracensorial trips "but" gothic.
i've been into this kind of music for a while and it think that if you really love music "any kind" you just got to open your self to this kind of expirience.
it all stars with this ambient driven trip, thats stars taking you into your deepest thougths, starts showing you things and places that are already there but you have never seen before,starts telling you thing thats only "you" can understand and sudenly when you think that you are "safe" in that alter-world you(he,she,us,we) created...........shows you some of the dark side of your subconcius mind...... on a very subliminal way.
you'll love it!!!!!!!!
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Night of the Black Wyvern [RARE]
Utopia Banished Manufacturer: Fast Lane ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000ELXWCS |
Product Description
1. By Mourning 2. Desolate Winds 3. The Plague 4. Night of the Black Wyvern 5. As it Descends 6. In Darkness We Burn 7. Voice of Disharmony 8. Forged in Blood 9. Utopia Banished 10. Forshadowing the Endless Quest
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Chinese Orchestral Music
Manufacturer: Marco Polo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000466G Release Date: 1995-09-26 |
Tracks:
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Evening Party
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Senjidma
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Rebirth In The Mountains
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Flute At Night In A Desolate Village
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Great World
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Overture
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Variations On A Chinese Folk Theme
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Variations On A Xinjiang Folk Tune
- Chinese Orchestral Works: First Xinjiang Dance
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Second Xinjiang Dance
- Chinese Orchestral Works: In Memoriam
- Chinese Orchestral Works: Metropolitan Scene Fantasia
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Unveiled Ghostly Shadows
Darkness Enshroud Manufacturer: Moribund Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000TZ1WZS |
Product Description
Tracklisting: 1 A Channeling Of Nythra (3:28), 2 Finsternis (4:18), 3 Sanguinarius Umbra (4:47) Piano [Grand] - Philip Jones (2), 4 De Nocte Simulacrum Sugere' Consugere' (2:39), 5 In Darkness Filled Beauty (7:07), 6 Unveiled Ghostly Shadows (4:04), 7 A Dream Of Black Horror (4:00), 8 Von Den Toten Auferstehen (3:07), 9 Dominus Sathanas - Trance 6464 (5:13), 10 Rouse Leviathan Of The Depths (11:48), 11 A Raven Flies Into A Sunless Empire (3:29), 12 A Mire Of Shadows (3:26), 13 Awakening Of The Dark Gods (1:17) Effects - Desolate WingsRock Music:
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- Do Yo Dlo
- Eggnog [EP]
- Eternity Becomes a Lie
- Evil Shade of Gray
- Fear No Evil
- Fornever Laid to Rest
- Gallery of Suicide [Clean]
- Golden Child [Soundtrack]
- Guitar Player Presents Legends of Guitar: The '70s, Vol. 1
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op.10 & 28