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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: No. Can you describe your favorite piece? posted by kerr on February 16, 2007 at 13:20:43:
Describing music is tough. It is, at various points: tense, floating, longing, abstract. It's easy to envision a huge thundercloud moving over a stormy sea. Other times, it is simply ethereal and wispy-frail...peace and resignation to things beyond comprehension. It is among the most deeply moving "abstract music" I've experienced. Simply awesome -- and gorgeous -- as pure sound. Try the recording below on for size first. If it hooks you, get ANY OTHER RECORDING YOU CAN FIND. The ECM issues are all readily available, but there's also a handful of CDs on the Megadisc label that are indispensible, and include large-scale orchestral and choral works not otherwise obtainable. The Megadisc issues, unfortunately, are hard to come by -- getting harder every day, it appears:-(The major labels ignored Silvestrov (there is one Sony recording from 10 years ago of Symphony 5, and it's an expensive collectors item that I do not own), and it's likely too late in the Classical music business for anyone to rectify the situation. If the music of Silvestrov gets to you, you'll be like me -- sitting there marvelling at the glow of this profound music, and shaking your head at a world gone mad -- or a world that has only given us passing illusions that it was not always so. Silvestrov's music is like a stream, a current, a breeze, a sigh, a scream.
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