[Closed] Now Playing ( NON film / game / tv scores ) - Part III

Well if you're looking for the new Vaughan-Williams in the next James Horner fantasy score... possibly.

Symphony No. 1 'The Bells of Zlonice' in C Minor-Dvorak.

This was never given an opus number from Dvorak. He wrote it early on for a competition and was discovered after his death. My recording is the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Jarvi

At Dawn In Rivendel - The Tolkien Ensemble with Christopher Lee

Lovely interpretation of some of Tolkien's best poems and songs.
Benefitting greatly from a very nice semi-folkmusic interpretation, with some amazingly effective strings arrangements, the highlight is still Lee's powerhouse recitation.
He even sings Treebeard's Song, which easily is the highlight of the CD: moving and deeply melancholic.
One of the best Lord Of The Rings spin-offs I've had the pleasure of listening to.

NP: OXYGENE (Jean Michel Jarre)

The classic album is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, so I needed to pull it out again. I don't think I need the reissue, though, but we'll see. It's textural synth textures at their best! (even though I prefer the follow-up album EQUINOXE over this).

Completely agree here!! Although the catchy tracks from Oxygene are excellent, the more textural moments are even better. Equinoxe, for me also, is the preferred of the two.

BTW, Jarre's 45-minute track on Waiting For Cousteau was the background music for the birth of our daughter, Rachel. Very soothing stuff, indeed!. (I was waiting to add this to a "weirdest place to hear a Jean-Michel Jarre album" thread, but it never materialised.)

It did have a very calming effect - definitely an ambience that's required at a time like that!!

NP : SUPERNATURE - Goldfrapp



I've heard that they're next album is more a return to 'Felt Mountain'? I hope so. This album does have some great moments though, particularly Time Out From The World which is incredibly James Bond'ish and, dare I say it, better than ANY of Arnold's Bond songs.

NP: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Tigran Mansurian; violin: Leonidas Kavakos; perf by Munchener Kammaerorchester under Christoph Poppen)

This is part of an ECM double album that includes Mansurian's Concerto for viola and orchestra (perf by Kim Kashkashian), and pieces with Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble. Mansurian is Armenian, and his music gravely negotiates the musical contours of modern composition and Armenian folk music. ECM are a label whose albums can sometimes be a bit free-form and loose (like 5 interesting instruments improvising without a clear goal), but here they've put out another interesting collection of modern classical works by a composer too obscure, alive and European to command attention from the more stately labels like Decca, Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon.

Next up: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Osvaldo Golijov; perf by Kronos Quartet, with clarinet/bass clarinet)

CRAIG ARMSTRONG - VLADISLAV DELAY - ANTYE GREIE - the dolls

Nicht so gut.

NP: THE ROMANTIC SCHUBERT (Franz Schubert)

Yeah, it's a cheesy Naxos compilation, but the performance is excellent and the music is.....well, romantic and lovely, rich in colour.

Symphony No. 6, Op. 60 in D Major-Dvorak

NP : NEON BIBLE - Arcade Fire



This is a GREAT album! Loving it over and over

NP : SYMPHONY #2 : MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN - Alan Hovhaness



Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

Excellent!

Opinion here at this thread please Alan!?

NP : ALEXANDER NEVSKY - Sergei Prokofiev



As D would say, no comment!