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Hovhaness :Mysterious Mountain & Lousadzak / Lou Harrison:Elegiac Symphony (Music Masters)
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (9) - Disc #1
1. Sym No.2, Op.132 ('Mysterious Mountain'): Andante con moto
2. Sym No.2, Op.132 ('Mysterious Mountain'): Double Fugue (Moderato maestoso, allegro vivo)
3. Sym No.2, Op.132 ('Mysterious Mountain'); Andante espressivo
4. Lousadzak, Op.48 - Keith Jarrett/American Composers Orch/Dennis Russell Davies
5. Sym No.2 ('Elegiac'): Tears of the Angel Israfel
6. Sym No.2 ('Elegiac'): Allegro, poco presto
7. Sym No.2 ('Elegiac'): Tears of the Angel Israfel
8. Sym No.2 ('Elegiac'): Praises for Michael the Archangel
9. Sym No.2 ('Elegiac'): The Sweetness of Epicurus

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CD Details

All Artists: Hovhaness
Title: Hovhaness :Mysterious Mountain & Lousadzak / Lou Harrison:Elegiac Symphony (Music Masters)
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 1
Label: Music Masters
Release Date: 4/16/1995
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 016126702124

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Harrison is a true American original. During his long life, he's worked as a journalist, florist, calligrapher, dancer, and much else besides. He's one of several California based composers who looked to Oriental music for inspiration, and he's studied both Japanese and Korean traditional music. His symphony shows all of these inspirations, as well as his love of beautiful sounds, plangent melodies, exotic percussion sonorities, and structural simplicity. If you don't know his music, then you should acquire this disc, the Piano Concerto (also performed by Keith Jarrett), and the ballet Solstice without delay. You're in for a major treat. --David Hurwitz

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CD Reviews

A Fine Performance of Some Underheard Music

Timothy Dougal | Madison, Wi United States | 01/16/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Although the music of Hovhaness is becoming more available, it is still relatively rare, and the music of Lou Harrison is very rare. On this disc, "The Mysterious Mountain" is the best known work, having been recorded now two other times that I know of. The other two works I had never heard. While buying music "in the dark", so to speak, can often lead to buyer's remorse, this CD has proved to be very satisfying over a period of years, despite a certain lack of warmth and spaciousness in the recording itself. The "Mysterious Mountain" sounds very much like its title suggests, with modal oriental harmonies and melodic lines that may occasionally remind you of Biblical epics. At its heart though, is a monumental double fugue which routinely leaves me breathless and keeps thoughts of Hollywood shlock far away. "Lousadzak", with Keith Jarrett plying the piano keys at his virtuousic, improvisatory best, both seems to flow directly out of the symphony that precedes it, as well as from the unconscious. Harrison's symphony displays Asian influences as well, but a little more broadly than Hovhaness's work, running from the middle east all the way to Bali, at the same time, sounding thoroughly American. The three pieces work together very well, and all the music is very well played."