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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Mt. St. Helen's is a good place to start... posted by SE on December 4, 2002 at 08:35:30:
...is the Reiner/CSO recording you're thinking of (I'd love to find this one on vinyl, but the Living Stereo cd reissue isn't bad).SE's Delos recommendation is good. Gerard Schwarz of the Seattle Symphony has become quite a champion of Hovhaness, and the sound quality is wonderful. "And God Created the Great Whales" is another Delos to look for.
An odd, solo piano (Hovaness playing) recording on what is mostly a "New Age" label is worth looking for. "Shalimar" - Fortuna records 17062 is wonderful.
I didn't mean to dis Mr. Hovaness, by the way. His music is indeed unlike anyone else's, and he seems to be the last of the great large-orchestra fuge composers (everything has a fuge in it somewhere...) All I meant was that after a while, you realize that you are hearing the same melodic themes, sometimes only slightly varied, over and over again.
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