Missing Numbers [Import]

Product Description
The Minneapolis quartet fell together accidentally when members of Bellwether and Janitor Bob came together for a one-off show, in a mere five days they had captured the 8 tracks featured on this moody, darkish, urban blues-influenced rock record. Notherly. 2005.

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Average customer rating: recording of ligfhter music by Shos the heavy composer yep, i'd agree A Unique Collection of Works Track 25 is the best

Shostakovich: The Film Album Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Shostakovich: Cheryomushki, The Bolt, The Gadfly (The Dance Album) Shostakovich: The Jazz Album Shostakovich: Waltzes Shostakovich: Theatre Music Shostakovich: The Gadfly; Five Days - Five Nights (Suites) ASIN: B00000I08B Release Date: 1999-02-09

Tracks:

1. The Counterplan, op. 33: Presto
2. The Counterplan, op. 33: Andante
3. The Counterplan, op. 33: The Song Of The Counterplan
4. Alone, Op.26: March. The Street
5. Alone, Op. 26: Galop
6. Alone, Op.26: Barrel Organ
7. Alone, Op.26: March
8. Alone, Op.26: Altai
9. Alone, Op.26: In Kuzmina's Hut
10. Alone, Op.26: School Children
11. Alone, Op.26: Storm Scene: Storm Breaks
12. Alone, Op.26: Storm Scene: Snow Storm
13. Alone, Op.26: Storm Scene: Calm After The Storm
14. The Tale Of The Silly Little Mouse, Op. 56: The Tale Of The Silly Little Mouse
15. Hamlet, Op.116: Introduction
16. Hamlet, Op.116: Palace Music
17. Hamlet, Op.116: Ball At The Castle
18. Hamlet, Op.116: Ball
19. Hamlet, Op.116: In The Garden
20. Hamlet, Op.116: Military Music
21. Hamlet, Op.116: Scene Of The Poisoning
22. The Great Citizen, Op.55: Funeral March
23. Sofia Perovskaya, Op.132: Waltz
24. Pirogov, Op.76A: Scherzo
25. The Gadfly, Op.97: Romance
26. Pirogov, Op.76A: Finale

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Continuing Riccardo Chailly's topical Shostakovich recordings (he's already visited the composer's jazz-inflected and dance pieces), this collection of music for film offers the series greater heft. The music here is as entangled in politics and pop culture as the jazzy and dancy material, but here the emotions are more complex and the execution more exciting.

The films Shostakovich was scoring somehow sought legitimacy or outright approval from Soviet power regimes, but as in all his music, Shostakovich enacted subtle subversions. The parade-step march cadences of The Counterplan are exaggerated just enough to integrate all kinds of conflicting dark undertows, emphasized coyly by Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The excerpts from Alone are all over the map, spooky and turbulent and bleak in equal measures, in answer to so many mandated bright, blasting musical ventures elsewhere in the Soviet cultural regime. The works continue until 1967, with a twisty waltz from Sofia Perovskaya, which seems more like a distant comment on the notion of a dance piece than music scripted for dance. For its mix of big, lit sweeps and minute, shadowy motions, this is one of the best single-CD Shostakovich sets--themed or not--in print. --Andrew Bartlett

Customer Reviews:

recording of ligfhter music by Shos the heavy composer .......2005-11-24

This recording is excellent. The works are rather light so one does not notice at first that the recording is that good. After some listebning I notice and i Am sure you will do too. Pirogorov and Sofia Petrovskaja i like best. Great recording.

yep, i'd agree.......2004-12-29

This is the perfect album for anyone who believes Shostakovich was only capable of writing music that expressed his inner turmoil.
Here is an album of the composer just doing his job (writing soundtracks for propaganda films) and showing he's capable of playing the field like a consummate pro.
Many of the melodies may sound vaguely familiar, and it's no wonder; they were often pilfered by other assembly line arrangers for Hollywood musicals and other upbeat entertainment.
I'd have to agree with the previous reviewer, who thinks track 25 is the best. It's the Romance from "The Gadfly", which is arguably Shostakovich's greatest melody, played here with perfection; the "lazy" pizzicato and slightly staggered fourth beat in the measure is something I haven't heard before on this piece, and it works very nicely for these ears.

A Unique Collection of Works.......2000-11-25

The film scores of Dmitri Shostakovich are certainly not his best works, but they are definetly worth a look. There is a great range of music on this CD, from the joyful 'Tale of the Silly Little Mouse' to the harshness of 'Hamlet', and Chailly and his players give solid performances throughout. I wouldn't really recommend this as an introduction to Shostakovich's works, but if you're a fan, then it would make a great addition to your collection.

Track 25 is the best.......1999-06-17

Shostakivich wrote some 'heavy' music, but in his better moments he wrote some beautiful melodies (e.g. The Jazz Suite) and film themes including The Tale of the silly little mouse'. What a pity that you have to wait until track 25 for the best piece - the Romance from the 'Gadfly' (Theme music from the BBC series 'Reilly, ace of spies'). The definitive recording of this piece was the version by the USSR Cinema Symphony Orchestra, with Khatchaturian conducting, but the version on this recording is also excellent.

Average customer rating: Review of this recording

Shostakovich: Viborg District/A Great Citizen/Passerby/Sofia Perovskaya Manufacturer: Russian Disc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Shostakovich: King Lear - Film Music & Incidental Music Shostakovich: The New Babylon, film score; Suite from Five Days - Five Nights ASIN: B000001LM1 Release Date: 1997-03-18

Customer Reviews:

Review of this recording.......2004-05-02

Sofia Perovskaya, op. 132§; Vyborg District, op. 50, excerpt; The Man with the Gun, op. 53§; A Great Citizen (Series II), op. 55, Funeral March§; Passer-By (Counterplan), op. 33§.
Walter Mnatsakanov, Byelorussian Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra.
Russian Disc RDCD 10018. DDD. TT 64:38.
Recorded November 1995.
§World première recordings.

Review by Fred Johnson on DSCH Journal
"Perhaps the best way to open my review of Sofia Perovskaya, the most sublime Shostakovich film score that I've heard, is to quote from Levon Hakopian's booklet notes for Russian Disc's première recording:

"Sofia Perovskaya, by Arnshtam, was released in 1968. It represents the story of the life and death of a conspicuous activist of the terrorist organisation Narodnaya Volya ("The People's Will"), responsible for the assassination of Czar Alexander II on March 1st, 1881. Perhaps this strong, even ruthless female character had attracted Shostakovich's attention because of her likeness to his favourite heroine Katerina Izmailova."

Although elements of Sofia Perovskaya's plot may recall Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the music itself is different from anything else I've heard from Shostakovich's pen. The only exception is the very beginning of the score, where the March and Execution are reminiscent of Shostakovich's older film scores. Indeed, one could almost mistake the beginning of Sofia for the much earlier Passer-by, opus 33.

After the Execution comes a movement featuring a prominent timpani role and then a quote from Mahler's First Symphony on trumpet. Following this is a whole movement devoted to a timpani solo.

Next is what is probably the gem of the film score suite: a Valse. This resembles aspects of The Godfather soundtrack, although of course that would be years distant in the future. The Valse is scored for brass and cymbal, with an oom-pah-pah beat. The trumpets play a desperate tune that leaves the impression that the heroine is dancing the last waltz of her life. The woodwinds in the middle section of the Valse try to make the proceedings a little more cheery.

There is much intense string writing in this score that brings to mind composers such as Bartok and Britten, notably in the movement entitled The Village, where the strings are interwoven with a wordless women's chorus.

The only movement that conveys a happy mood times out at a mere 48 seconds. Conversely, the longest movement of the whole score, at 6:47, is very involved, and has the whole orchestra sounding serious and intense, with prominent roles for celesta and lower strings. Here Shostakovich juxtaposes a climax, silence, and chamber-like qualities. The very short Moderato that follows recruits the whole orchestra with a sprinkling of tubular bells.

Only in the finale does the old film-composing Shostakovich return, with music that is momentarily bombastic and banal. This, however, is soon silenced by the timpani, and the strings return with an anti-climactic ending.

I agree completely with Mr. Hakopian when he writes,

"Like Katerina Izmailova, Sofia Perovskaya is portrayed in music with extreme tenderness - which is rather atypical of Shostakovich who, in general, avoided in his music every sign of "sentimentalism." For connoisseurs of Shostakovich's art it is really great luck to have this remarkable specimen of his late style available on CD."

This is a desirable CD even without the fillers, which are also noteworthy. In addition to the first recording of Sofia Perovskaya, you get an excerpt from the Vyborg District, as well as world première recordings of music from The Man with the Gun, A Great Citizen, and the Passer-By.

Until I encountered this CD, The Gadfly and Hamlet were the Shostakovich film scores for which I had the greatest respect. I also found New Babylon to be very distinctive and Alone offered something to ponder. But Sofia Perovskaya has crossed a line in my estimation. This film score is the closest thing I've ever heard in Shostakovich to what I would call art in the purist sense. I can almost see a conductor programming Sofia Perovskaya instead of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and not thinking twice about it.

Although I never "blanket-recommend" a label or conductor, on the strength of his film score entries I am prepared to make a rare exception for Mnatsakanov on Russian Disc. I can't wait to see a release from this team of The Gadfly or Hamlet."

Fred Johnson

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Missing Numbers Missing Numbers Manufacturer: Notherly Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B00080W578 Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

1. Red & the Black
2. Trouble with You
3. Sleep Don't Wake the Dead
4. Watch the Rain
5. This Is Nowhere
6. Minor Cut
7. Luv
8. Automatic

Album Description

The Minneapolis quartet fell together accidentally when members of Bellwether and Janitor Bob came together for a one-off show, in a mere five days they had captured the 8 tracks featured on this moody, darkish, urban blues-influenced rock record. Notherly. 2005.

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Shostakovich: Hypothetically Murdered Manufacturer: Cala Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000U37 Release Date: 1993-12-07

Tracks:

1. Act I (Part I): Transition to the Field Hospital
2. Act I (Part I): Gallop
3. Act I (Part I): Transition to the field
4. Act II (Part I): The Field (Landscape)
5. Act II (Part I): Intro to Act II (Petrushka)
6. Act II (Part I):Petrushka (Garmoshka)
7. Act II (Part I): Storm
8. Act II (Part I): The Arrival of the Lorry
9. Act II (Part I): Dance
10. Act II (Part I): Transition to the Kitchen (Jugglers and Waitresses)
11. Act II (Part I): Waitresses
12. Act III (Part I): Paradise 1: The Flight of the Cherubim
13. Act III (Part I): Paradise 11: The Flight of the Angels
14. Act III(Part I): Adagio
15. Act III (Part I): Bacchanalia of John of Kronstadt and Paraskeva Piatnitsa
16. Act III (Part I): Waltz
17. Act III (Part I): The Archangel Gabriel's Number
18. Act I (Part II): Polka
19. Act I (Part II): March
20. Act I (Part II): The River Bed
21. Act I (Part II): Finale to Act I: Dance of the Temporary Victors
22. Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op.46: Rebirth
23. Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op.46: Jealousy
24. Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op.46: Foreboding
25. Four Romances on Poems by Pushkin, Op.46: Stanzas
26. Five Fragments, Op.42: Moderato
27. Five Fragments, Op.42: Andante
28. Five Fragments, Op.42: Largo
29. Five Fragments, Op.42: Moderato
30. Five Fragments, Op.42: Allegretto
31. Ste No.1, sans Op. E: Waltz
32. Ste No.1, sans Op. E: Polka
33. Ste No.1, sans Op. E: Foxtrot (Blues)

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No Anecdote Missing Numbers Manufacturer: Jackpine Social Club ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FKO3Q2 Release Date: 2006-06-27

Tracks:

1. The Game
2. A Real Realizer
3. Write It On The Back Of My Hand
4. Cheaper By The Ton
5. Nothing Lasts
6. Call It Alone
7. No Anecdote
8. My Alibi
9. Lifelike
10. Likelife (Infinite Reprise)

Album Description

"Missing Numbers operates outside of traditional genre games, fast-forwarding roots influences into an idiosyncratic but resonant modern context. Kicking out diamond-hard mid-tempo space-blues that crackle with trip-hop loops and freaked-out fuzz guitar, Missing Numbers evoke strange but intriguing descriptions: Howling Wolf fronting The Bad Seeds, or King Tubby remixing The Faces with J. Mascis on lead guitar. This is modern electric blues for a grimy urban reality - broken yet beautiful, bummed but proud." - City Pages Top 10 Bands of 2004

No Anecdote is the new album from Missing Numbers. Led by songwriter and instrumentalist Jimmy Peterson, this Minneapolis band is already creating a sound and vibe totally its own. No Anecdote is a collection of songs that are dark, melodic, and totally modern, yet evocative of distant and dangerous times. Peterson's songs traffic in disenchantment, disillusionment, damaged dreams, and threadbare silver linings. He writes a sort of modern blues for a world where the cubicle is the new cotton mill and white-collar sharecroppers toil for the mortgage man. Yet the mood of the material never falls into self-pity, and there are always twisted, maddeningly catchy pop hooks hidden in the tracks. Peterson, whose utterly unique and beautifully world-weary singing style won him a Minnesota Music Award for Vocalist of the Year, has assembled his strongest collection of songs to date.

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Missing Numbers Manufacturer: Notherly Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0008FPIOK Release Date: 2005-04-19

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Shostakovich: Hypothetically Murdered/Four Romances/Five Fragments/Suite No.1 Manufacturer: Cala ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000FDLW Release Date: 1993-01-01

Tracks:

1. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Transition To The Field Hospital
2. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Gallop
3. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): Transition To The Field
4. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part I): The Field (Landscape)
5. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Intro To Act II (Petrushka)
6. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Petrushka (Garmoshka)
7. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Storm
8. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: The Arrival Of The Lorry
9. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Dance
10. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Transition To The Kitchen (Jugglers And...
11. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act II: Waitresses
12. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Paradise I: The Flight Of The Cherubim
13. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Paradise II: The Flight Of The Angels
14. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Adagio
15. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Bacchanalia Of John Von Kronstadt And... - City Of Birmingham Orch/Mark Elder C
16. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: Waltz
17. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act III: The Archangel Gabriel's Number
18. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): Polka
19. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): March
20. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): The River Bed
21. Hypothetically Murdered Orch Ste, Op.31a, Act I (Part II): Finale To Act I: Dance Of The...
22. Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 1. Rebirth
23. Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 2. Jealousy
24. Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 3. Foreboding
25. Four Romances On Poems By Pushkin, Op.46: 4. Stanzas
26. Five Fragments, Op.42: 1. Moderato
27. Five Fragments, Op.42: 2. Andante
28. Five Fragments, Op.42: 3. Largo
29. Five Fragments, Op.42: 4. Moderato
30. Five Fragments, Op.42: 5. Allegretto
31. Ste No.1, Sans Op.E: 1. Waltz
32. Ste No.1, Sans Op.E: 2. Polka - City Of Birmingham Orch/Mark Elder C
33. Ste No.1, Sans Op.E: 3. Foxtrot (Blues)

Average customer rating: A Russian hero's secret mind? Greatest music

Shostakovich: Gadfly / Hypothetically Murdered Manufacturer: Le Chant Du Monde ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Shostakovich | Shostakovich, Dmitri | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000589IN Release Date: 2001-04-10

Tracks:

1. Hypothetically Murdered: No.3: Transition Verse Le Champ
2. Hypothetically Murdered: No.4: Le Champ
3. Hypothetically Murdered: Act II, No.5: Intro (Petrouchka)-Petrouchka (Garmochka)
4. Hypothetically Murdered: No.10: Serveuses
5. Hypothetically Murdered: No.11. Paradis: Vol Du Cherubin
6. Hypothetically Murdered: No.11. Paradis: Vol Des Anges
7. Hypothetically Murdered: No.12: Adagio
8. Hypothetically Murdered: No.13: Bacchanales De Johann Von Kronstadt Et Pareskeva Pianitsa
9. Hypothetically Murdered: No.14: Valse
10. Hypothetically Murdered: No.15: Le Numero De L'Archange Gabriel
11. Hypothetically Murdered: No.18: Le Fond De La Riviere
12. Hypothetically Murdered: Act I, No.19. Finale: Danse Des Vainqueurs Provisoires
13. The Gadfly: No.1: Ov
14. The Gadfly: No.2: Contredanse
15. The Gadfly: No.3: Fete Folklorique
16. The Gadfly: No.5: Valse A L'orgue De Barbarie
17. The Gadfly: No.6: Galop
18. The Gadfly: No.7: Prld
19. The Gadfly: No.8: Romance
20. The Gadfly: No.10: Nocturne
21. The Gadfly: No.11: Scene
22. The Gadfly: No.12: Finale

Customer Reviews:

A Russian hero's secret mind?.......2003-07-28

There are three songs that I like the most. Track No. 18 (prelude), 20 (Nocturne) and 22 (finale). Nocturne is a cello concerto showing excessive romance and sorrow but just so beautiful. I don't know how many times that I listened to this Nocturne over and over again. What about Finale? It has bigger sound than any heavy metal music out there. Always reminds me the soldiers marching towards a great war. I just love this song!!!

Greatest music.......2001-12-10

This new and old fashion music it is fantastic to listen to it.
So try this music at home and relax.

Average customer rating: An interesting compilation

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Tracks:

1. The Dream Of The Cherry Blossoms
2. Hypothetically Murdered: Part I : Act I, Gallop
3. Huit Preludes: La colombe
4. String Quartet No. 3 - 3rd Movement
5. The Consolations Of Scholarship: Lamento
6. Flute Sonata No. 1 - 3rd Movement
7. Requiem: I: Salvator mundi
8. Romeo And Juliet - Juliet As A Young Girl
9. Der Unterbrochene Gedenke ('The Broken Thought')
10. 4'33 - 1. Tacet
11. The Salley Gardens
12. White Man Sleeps: 1st Movement
13. Mass - 2: Gloria
14. Sonata For Cello And Piano: Presto
15. The Lamb
16. Black Angels - Extract
17. Totus Tuus

Customer Reviews:

An interesting compilation.......2007-02-06

Don't know how you got here, but good digging. This album is a sampler from United records, a company out of the UK. It contains a fairly good cross section of 20th century composers. Many pieces stand out - Keiko Abe's, the Shostakovich piece, the Schnittke sonata. The inclusion of John Cage's 4'33 is negligible. It was the piece that drove me to dig up this CD. I knew what it was (silence), but I at least expected ambient crowd noise (I don't think it was recorded live). It being included here amidst such great music, it acts like a dead weight. I think there were surely more representative John Cage pieces they could've selected. But enough of my griping.
If you're looking for an intro into some of the more avant-garde leanings of 20th century classical, this one works halfway. Overall, a good disc with some pieces that will surely find their way into your head. You might have to look hard for this - it was on my Wish List for a year and a half without any sellers- but it can be worth it.
If ANYONE reads this, click the helpful button. I'm just curious to see if anyone else finds this CD out here in the Amazon bins.

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