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Classical CD Album

Artist:Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan Hovhaness
Title:Music Of Alan Hovhaness
Format:CD Album
Label:Crystal
Country:International
Date:1987
Catalogue:CD804
Barcode:009414780423
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ComposerAlan Hovhaness
Orchestra / EnsembleRoyal Philharmonic Orchestra
ConductorAlan Hovhaness


TrackArtistTitleComposerRating
Symphony Etchmiadzin (Symphony No.22)
01Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan Hovhaness Andante MaestosoAlan HovhanessRate
02Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan HovhanessPavanaAlan HovhanessRate
03Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan HovhanessIntroduzione, Largo, MaestosoAlan HovhanessRate
04Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan Hovhaness Armenian Rhapsody No.3Alan HovhanessRate
05Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan HovhanessMountains And Rivers Without EndAlan HovhanessRate
06Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Alan HovhanessFra AngelicoAlan HovhanessRate


Notes

Recorded in London, 1973. Released on the Unicorn label, re-released on Poseidon POS1002 and POS1004
Disc shows ℗1987, leaflet shows ℗1988, case shows ℗1994

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Gill Sans SUBS
17th Oct 2017
 Review
In a blind hearing I would have guessed "Egyptian light orchestral". Throughout,
this has an undefined oriental feel, all the tracks being based strongly on a
5-tone scale but not the familiar Western pentatonic scale.

Hovhaness is of Armenian descent and has travelled in India and the Far East,
studying the classical music of the countries he visited: the tracks here were from that later period. Of the track Fra Angelico he writes in the notes:

The music begins in a free non-rhythm canon for 3 solo violins playing sliding melodies suggesting celestial music. A religious adoration to the universe is sung by cellos. Music of controlled chaos, each player performing an independent melodic line at his own speed, grows into a wild climax of strings, woodwinds, trombone glissandi, horns and trumpets. Colliding, clangorous bell-sounds combine with a canon in brass. The adoration returns, majestically intoned, the last chord held above free-rushing basses. The music rises into mysterious non-rhythm canons of sliding celestial sounds.



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