donmatthews
(in paradise, location is very irrelevant) | | Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 01:57 | |
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Tux
(The Netherlands) | | Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 01:42 | |
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
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sub-arctic
(63°50' N) | | Posted: Apr 11, 2006 - 01:40 | |
AWESOME! Now you made me really happy, Bill.
Complexity in simplicity. Pärt at his best.  |
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Inamorato
(Lower Lupinia) | | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 10:01 | |
Although this piece shows it comes from the album Tabula Rasa, it is linked to something else. If you like Cantus and want to hear what I think is one of Pärt's most moving works, the Silentium movement from Tabula Rasa, go here. It has some unremarkable pieces from his youthful Collage phase, but in Silentium, Pärt gives us a glimpse at the face of God.
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Mugro
(Lane Village, Red Sox Nation) | | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 09:50 | |
Kerly wrote:
Arvo Pärt is Estonian. 
I am proud :)
Thanks for loving it so much, you are generous. clap:
You should be proud. This is a very beautiful composition. I too am reminded of Gorecki. When that CD came out, I actually went out and bought it. It was strange for me, as I seldom go out of my way to purchase classical music. That piece did move me, though, so I went out and bought it. I might have to buy this too! |
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Idaho
| | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 09:49 | |
Snore...  |
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ThePoose
| | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 09:48 | |
Sorry--I meant ''Glass''. Now play Target Destruction.
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shampa1n
(cote du rhone) | | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 09:48 | |
very nice. didn't know it before but i do now.
thx
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ThePoose
| | Posted: Mar 27, 2006 - 09:47 | |
You have to believe that Philip Glas has listened to this piece over and over and over and over and .....
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ampersand
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The choir I'm in just sung his "Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen" for an advent service, and it was wonderful. Quirky from a musical standpoint, as during one of the pieces the alto and bass section were singing in a different *key* from the sopranos and tenors. As I commented in a blog post shortly afterward, "The whole sequence is haunting, dissonant, chantlike. We're talking the voices of angels -- that is, real angels, the ones that do battle with demons in their spare time."
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MichaelCrawford
(Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada) | | Posted: Feb 11, 2006 - 06:39 | |
This is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. I have this and two other Arvo Part CDs.
This piece is used in two different movies to accompany grim things happening: in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, when the planes hit the towers, and in the movie adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, when the American who worked undercover for the Allies in Nazi Germany is arrested for being a Nazi.
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Desire
| | Posted: Feb 11, 2006 - 06:34 | |
brokemusician wrote:This song is the cheese! And delicious cheese at that! What kind of wine would you you recommend with it? MMMMM...tasty! |
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brokemusician
(Segoverkia) | | Posted: Jan 27, 2006 - 13:45 | |
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peyotecoyote
(Toronto - the Beaches) | | Posted: Jan 27, 2006 - 13:44 | |
This is the reason I love RP so much. I don't know of anywhere else I could have experienced this piece. Thank you, thank you, thank you Bill.
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stickers11
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my god this is so sad! i'm gonna go walk into traffic after work....
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brighthue
(MetroWest, MA) | | Posted: Jan 12, 2006 - 23:26 | |
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laprincessa
| | Posted: Dec 29, 2005 - 11:15 | |
ladyj wrote:
I hear ya. especially if your just getting home from work. I think I nodded off twice. I'd listen to it again though.
I don't know about THAT, but here I am again nodding off at work... |
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stevo_b
(A New Place.....) | | Posted: Dec 29, 2005 - 11:13 | |
I like it, but maybe some cowbell?
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Kerly
(Estonia) | | Posted: Dec 14, 2005 - 23:38 | |
Marcusm wrote:Arvo Pärt is great.
Arvo Pärt is Estonian.
I am proud :)
Thanks for loving it so much, you are generous. clap:
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LittleMike
(St. Louis, MO) | | Posted: Nov 30, 2005 - 09:03 | |
KKeith... you are so right... this reminds me of Gorecki's Symphony 3. It spent more than 26 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Charts a few years back. I love this.
KKeith wrote:
Excellent description of Górecki's 3rd. It is one the most moving pieces of music that I know of. I'd like to see how Bill could work it into the mix on RP. Arvo Pärt is quite nice here too. |
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anniebear
(chapel hill, nc) | | Posted: Nov 30, 2005 - 09:02 | |
god damn I didn't think that would ever end
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robc
(Sailing the Sea of Grass) | | Posted: Nov 30, 2005 - 09:00 | |
GREAT!!! Love this piece
Bought after hearing one RP, thanks for the introduction.
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stevo_b
(A New Place.....) | | Posted: Oct 17, 2005 - 11:36 | |
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heliophagus
| | Posted: Oct 02, 2005 - 19:22 | |
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but has the "Eclectic Rock" subtitle disappeared from the station header? As a relatively new listener, the mix seems broader and better than the "Eclectic Rock" pigeonhole would typically contain. This piece is a GREAT example. Now, if only we could hear some Roy Harper (not yet on the playlist) to add some vinegar to the mix...  |
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pope183
(Vinyamar) | | Posted: Oct 02, 2005 - 19:11 | |
- wow that was a great piece - i have to have it now
more info (click here) |
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gtm256
| | Posted: Sep 18, 2005 - 01:18 | |
Excellent. |
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KevinM
(Long Beach, Ca) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 20:24 | |
topcat wrote:Boy, this really reminds me of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings. Good stuff - I gave it an 8.
I had to hear this again. I first heard it this morning at work under low volume and tiny laptop speakers. I downloaded it when I got home and have not stopped listening to it.
And yes, it also reminds me of Adagio for Strings.
I've bumped my rating from 6 this morning to 9. |
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KKeith
(NC) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 07:42 | |
Trustocity wrote:
Henri Gorecki wrote a gorgeous, very dark, very methodical piece called Symphony no. 3 that made him a rarity among composers: A superstar on the pop charts across Europe. Clocking in at around 25 minutes, the first movement starts in almost stark silence, that is, if you're listening to it in the car. Actually, the bass strings are growling in the lower registers, soon to be accompanied by other strings in the same chord. The thing builds and builds until everyone is insane with soaring and angelics and what not. Then this woman comes in and sings the showstopper, a soprano whose lyrics tell of a Polish mother (Gorecki had a World War II survivor in mind), half-crazed at the loss of her son. Then the thing takes just as long descending back down toward the growling strings and fades away. It's kick-ass.
And so is this. I love Arvo Part, and I love RP.
Excellent description of Górecki's 3rd. It is one the most moving pieces of music that I know of. I'd like to see how Bill could work it into the mix on RP. Arvo Pärt is quite nice here too. |
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serendipity_blue
(Off in the ionosphere) | | Posted: Aug 19, 2005 - 07:37 | |
Hmm...!
Haven't particularly cared for many modern composers, but this somehow strikes a chord.
It's very dramatic. I like drama in my music.
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