Inscape

Product Description
In the Greek Mythology, DRYADE is the nymph of the trees: she was born, lives and dies with the one she's attached to. That's also the name some musicians chose for their French young band playing melodic heavy-metal. Since their formation in 1997, they created an ever-evolving style. An evolution that led them to record a first album, "Existence", in 2001. The specialised press then spoke of a talented and creative band with its own identity and a promising future. Some four years later, the first step is overtaken with "Inscape" that’s released on the Brennus label. The musicians now consider a more introspective, emotionally more intense music while keeping the obvious aspect of its talkative energy. Between instinctive impulses and artistic feats, English and French languages, "Inscape" asserts itself as a true revelation on a French scene that doesn’t lack for it however. This needs discovering !

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Average customer rating: Copland's conduction of GREAT CITY is better than Slatkin's Another masterpiece...

The Copland Collection: Orchestral Works, 1948-1971 Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Variations | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music London Philharmonic Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music New York Philharmonic Orchestra | ( N ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Copland Collection: Orchestral & Ballet Works, 1936-1948 Aaron Copland: The Essence of America [Box Set] Copland: Symphony No. 3; Quiet City A Copland Celebration Vol. 2 A Copland Celebration Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000027JC Release Date: 1991-09-26

Tracks:

1. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): I. Morning On The Ranch
2. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): II. The Gift
3. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): III. Dream March And Circus Music
4. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): IV. Walk To The Bunkhouse
5. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): V. Grandfather's Story
6. The Red Pony, Film Suite For Orchestra (1948): VI. Happy Ending
7. Preamble For A Solemn Occasion (1949): Preamble For A Solemn Occasion
8. Orchestral Variations (1957): Theme: Grave
9. Orchestral Variations (1957): Variation I - Varation XX
10. Orchestral Variations (1957): Coda: Subito lento moderato
11. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): I. Introduction: Moderato (Tempo di Valzer); Espressivo un poco rubato
12. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): II. Allegretto con tenerezza (un poco rubato)
13. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): III. Scherzando; Moderato
14. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): IV. Pas de trois. Lento
15. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): V. Con brio
16. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): VI. Con moto
17. Dance Panels (1959, Revised 1962) (Ballet In Seven Sections): VII. Molto ritmico; Coda; come prima; Moderato

Tracks:

1. Connotations (1961-1962) For Orchestra
2. Down A Country Lane (1962)
3. Music For A Great City (1963-1964): I. Skyline
4. Music For A Great City (1963-1964): II. Night Thoughts
5. Music For A Great City (1963-1964): III. Subway Jam
6. Music For A Great City (1963-1964): IV. Toward The Bridge
7. Inscape (1967)
8. Three Latin-American Sketches: 1. Estribillo (1971)
9. Three Latin-American Sketches: 2. Paisaje Mexicano (1959)
10. Three Latin-American Sketches: 3. Danza de Jalisco (1959)

Customer Reviews:

Copland's conduction of GREAT CITY is better than Slatkin's.......2005-09-05

SKYLINE is a fun track that's based on the premise of Big City Overload. And naturally it's immediately followed by the low-key introspective NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Consider Lenny Bernstein's main theme from his MASS. I'm talking about the tune that was done klezmer-style and chorale-style. When the chorale sings it, it contains a descending 4-note phrase. Followed by a descending 5-note phrase. Okay--now listen for a certain passage in NIGHT THOUGHTS that sounds similar to Bernstein's passage. The only basic difference is that both of Copland's phrases are 5-note phrases. And let me add that Copland's NIGHT THOUGHTS was written years before Bernstein's MASS.

Another masterpiece..........2000-06-30

The third of the Copland Collection from Sony is much like the other two: Wonderful playing, orchestration, recording, and booklet. This is my favorite of the three of the CD sets though. Music is very 'Copland' like. The Red Pony is from the movie is an excellent suite. Dance Panels is the least known of the 4 ballets by Copland. But just like Appalachian Spring and Billy the Kid, it is very Copland, very exciting, and very good. Unlike the other three you may find on the 2nd CD set of this series, this is the entire ballet not just the suites. Down A Country Lane is now one of my favorite Copland works. So soothing, it can really paint the picture of a beautiful country road on a spring day. Music for a great city is actually from a movie (booklet tells all). Each of the four movements describes the big city just as we all have known it. All the other works are nothing to look down upon either. Most works are conducted by Copland with the London Symphony (he really knocked them into shape). A couple were conducted by Bernstein which are still up to standard. Great CD collection! Buy all three.

Average customer rating: An excellent collection of post-war American music

Works by Copland, Sessions, Perle, Rands Manufacturer: New World Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Copland | Copland, Aaron | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Compilations | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Roger Sessions: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3 Sessions: Divertimento / Idyll of Theocritus Roger Sessions: Symphonies 6, 7 & 9 Persichetti: Night Dances Op114; Diamond: Symphony No5 Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs ASIN: B0009IORY8 Release Date: 2005-05-10

Tracks:

1. Inscape (Aaron Copland 1967)
2. Symphony No. 8, Adagio e mesto (Roger Sessions 1968)
3. Symphony No. 8, Allegro con brio (Roger Sessions 1968)
4. Transcendental Modulations (George Perle 1993)
5. ...where the murmurs die...(Bernard Rands 1995)

Product Description

This anthology of orchestral works was conceived as a tribute to the late Francis Goelet, who was America’s greatest musical philanthropist, especially in the commissioning of new works. His generous support led to the commissioning of these pieces, all of which, except for the Copland, are making their first appearance on CD. Aaron Copland’s last major orchestral work, Inscape (1967), completes a line of development that began essentially with the Piano Variations (1930) and continued intermittently over the composer’s creative lifespan. These are the chromatic works, the lean or even severe antidotes to his more popular style. Over the course of this development one finds Copland taking an increasing interest in the techniques associated with the twelve-tone method. Roger Sessions’s Symphony No. 8 (1968) is in two compact movements that are joined together without a pause between them. The tragic tone of the first movement, solemn and dirge-like, gives way to virile exuberance in the faster tempo of the second movement. Throughout, the idiom is richly chromatic; musical space is articulated at its limits by tuba and contrabassoon below and piccolo and glockenspiel above. The music surges forward despite a complex network of counterpoint. George Perle’s Transcendental Modulations (1993) presents a succession of character images, contrasting in mood and including even a trace of jazz in the bass pizzicatos toward the end. Musical ideas (such as the bubbling-up of clarinets at the opening) reappear at different pitch levels (such as down a sixth in bassoons at bar twenty-four) to effect changes in tonality (as well as timbre). Twelve distinct tempos are carefully linked by common pulses. The unusual title of Bernard Rands’s "...where the murmurs die..." (1993), is a fragment from an early poem of Samuel Beckett, a writer to whom the composer has more than once turned for inspiration. An Italianate lyricism and clarity pervade this delicately scored work showing, perhaps, the influence of Rands’s early studies with Luigi Dallapiccola and Luciano Berio. Contributing to the distinctive coloration is the elaborate use of different types of mutes in the brass instruments. Correspondingly, the strings are often instructed to place their bows close to the bridge, creating the glassy timbral effect known as sul ponticello. Of related interest: 80368 Aaron Copland—Connotations 80359 George Perle—Piano Works 80342 George Perle—Wind Quintets 80392 Bernard Rands—Canti dell’Eclisse 80296 Roger Sessions—When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d 80345 Roger Sessions—Symphonies Nos. 4 and 5 80368 Roger Sessions—Black Maskers Suite 80443 Roger Sessions—Piano Concerto 80546 Roger Sessions—Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 and 3

Customer Reviews:

An excellent collection of post-war American music.......2005-12-23

This disc, subtitled "The Vision of Francis Goelet", pays tribute to a man whose influence on post-war American art music is often underrated. Goelet, though no composer himself, contributed mightily to the music scene by commissioning well over a hundred works, often by emerging composers, and helping to fund many recordings, particularly on the New World Records label, which he was a major financial supporter of.

Paying homage to this figure, the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein perform four Goelet-supported commissions. These fit neatly into two pairs: extrovert, dramatic 1960s works by the Grand Old Men of American music, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions, contrasting with more intimate 1990s works by the lower-profile George Perle and Bernard Rands.

Inscape was Copland's last orchestral work, and it comes from a period in the composer's life where he was growing increasingly interested in Schoenbergian serialism. Though the work is stylistically very different from Copland's more populist work, the composer's personality shines clearly through in every bar. Inscape begins with a twelve-tone cluster that fades into intimate wind writing, which alternates with more vigorous passages for the full orchestra. At the end, the opening cluster chord returns, rounding the work off effectively.

Sessions' Eighth Symphony was, prior to this recording, the only one of his symphonies as yet unrecorded on CD. Brief and concise (the whole work consists of two movements lasting just under a quarter of an hour) it is cut from the same cloth as its two predecessors (once available on a fine Argo disc). The opening movement is a slow lament that grows out of a long, highly chromatic melody in the strings. It is succeeded by a vigorously rhythmic second movement whose coda returns to the melody that opened the work. This is a fine and highly expressive piece, with the composer's gifts for atonal counterpoint and neoclassical rhythmic sharpness constantly evident.

The second half of the disc begins with George Perle's Transcendental Modulations. This twenty-five-minute work can be loosely regarded as a study in continuous variations, as the same material constantly returns in differently transformed states throughout the work. For the most part the work is delicately scored and meditative in nature, though occasionally it becomes more aggressive. I am not particularly familiar with Perle's oeuvre in general, but this work struck me as stylistically influenced by Schoenberg, Berg and particularly late Stravinsky.

The biggest surprise to me on this disc was Bernard Rands' "...when the murmers die...", inspired by an early Beckett poem. This delightful piece develops a brief folk-like melody through waves of slowly increasing and decreasing tension, illuminated by some superb wind writing and delightfully shimmering orchestration (definitely shades of Rands' teacher Luigi Dallapiccola here).

This disc is an almost automatic recommendation, given that only the Copland has ever appeared on CD before. In particular, the Sessions and Rands works strike me as major pieces that would appeal to anyone other than diehard tonalists or extreme modernists. Performances seem more than up to scratch, though I find Dennis Russell Davies' reading of contemporary Sessions symphonies to have a tightness and tension which Botstein does not entirely match in this recording.

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Inscape & Landscape Manufacturer: Trance Port ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000050U1W Release Date: 2005-04-26

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Per Nørgård: String Quartets Nos. 1-6 Manufacturer: Kontrapunkt ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000003V6I Release Date: 1993-09-16

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Tribute to Andrew Imbrie on His 80th Birthday Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009Y26CM Release Date: 2005-07-01

Tracks:

1. RecitAndy
2. Postcards
3. Chaconne
4. Dalha Dalha
5. Inscape
6. Orange Pastel
7. Ottanta
8. Spring Fever

Product Description

Andrew Imbrie turned 80 on April 6, 2001, and twelve performances of nine programs were presented across the country between March 4th and June 3rd of that year. If you are familiar with the music of this independently-minded, rugged composer, this new release will be of a very special interest, where music by friends, students and colleagues are presented along with two fine examples of his art. Veteran collectors will be familiar with such works as the chamber piece Dandelion Wine and the powerful Symphony No.3, formerly available on CRI. And, maybe, someday weÂ’ll have a reissue of his masterpiece, the Violin Concerto, released on a long-gone Columbia LP of the late 1960Â’s. Perhaps the most important of Roger SessionsÂ’ pupils, Imbrie has been making a major contribution to the musical culture of America as both composer and educator. From the time his String Quartet No. 1 won the New York Music CriticÂ’s Award in 1944 until today, he has produced work after work of the highest craftsmanship, integrity, and artistic merit. While his work has won numerous awards, its value to our musical community is beyond measure. As an educator at the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, he has trained generations of musicians, musicologists and composers. The works presented at the birthday concerts were, in a small way, an attempt to say what could not be adequately said in any other way. This important new CD reproduces the second of such concerts, given on April 9, 2001 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Average customer rating: Correction, please

Joseph Fennimore: Eventide: Eventide; Inscape; Six Songs; Berlitz: Introduction to French Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Fennimore, Joseph | ( F ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000049L3 Release Date: 1995-08-10

Customer Reviews:

Correction, please.......2004-06-14

The first 8 (eight) bands should read:
Berlitz Introduction to French (for voice and piano): , not "Crystal Stairs"
*** A must-hear CD.

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Great Inscape Jay O'Malley ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000S6AFTW

Product Description

1 Road Nowhere 2 Movin on 3 Love you 4 Revelation 5 Chi-town girl 6 Our Song 7 My World 8 Silently

Average customer rating: strange One of the few worthwhile electronica CDs I own.

Inscape Tactile Manufacturer: Rawkus Entertainment ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post Grunge | American Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000001Z7J Release Date: 1996-10-01

Tracks:

1. Incubation
2. Caged Light
3. Panoleptic
4. Probe
5. Envoi

Customer Reviews:

strange.......2007-02-07

I have been looking for a particular song from tactile, and it was not on this cd. This cd is different but I didn't enjoy listening to it for very long. There is a lot of progressive type sounds on the tracks.

One of the few worthwhile electronica CDs I own........1999-04-22

Inscape fits my current criteria for excellance in noise (not necessarily in this order):

1) no drums or beats (except those imbedded in the texture of the sound)

2) simple material revealing multiple facets

3) fidelity in conveying the human state experienced (or at least I am allowed to imagine that this is the case)

If these over-intellectualized notions turn you on then:

1) get professional help

2) obtain a copy of Inscape in the meantime.

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Inscape Dryade Manufacturer: Brennus/Musea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009Y8HZ2 Release Date: 2005-06-16

Tracks:

1. Your Enemy
2. My Last Wish
3. Toy Of Your Acts
4. Angel's Dust
5. Une Ombre Dans Le Miroir
6. Ta Vraie Place
7. Le Mal Des Mots
8. Was It Real
9. Alone
10. ...L'Homme CrDieu ?

Product Description

In the Greek Mythology, DRYADE is the nymph of the trees: she was born, lives and dies with the one she's attached to. That's also the name some musicians chose for their French young band playing melodic heavy-metal. Since their formation in 1997, they created an ever-evolving style. An evolution that led them to record a first album, "Existence", in 2001. The specialised press then spoke of a talented and creative band with its own identity and a promising future. Some four years later, the first step is overtaken with "Inscape" thatÂ’s released on the Brennus label. The musicians now consider a more introspective, emotionally more intense music while keeping the obvious aspect of its talkative energy. Between instinctive impulses and artistic feats, English and French languages, "Inscape" asserts itself as a true revelation on a French scene that doesnÂ’t lack for it however. This needs discovering !

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Lichtjahrhundert Inscape Manufacturer: Out Of Line ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Goth & Industrial | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Goth | Industrial ASIN: B0000636I7 Release Date: 2007-07-16

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