George Antheil: Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2 (2006)

Posted By : peachfuzz | Date : 01 Jun 2009 05:49:51 | Comments : 8 |

George Antheil - Dreams; Piano Concerto No. 2; Serenade No. 2 (2006)
Classical | EAC (APE, CUE & LOG) | 324 MB

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Classical CD Review
Bad boy, bad boy. Whatcha gonna do? During the Twenties, George Antheil flared across the musical sky of Paris with a series of brilliant, highly experimental works like the Ballet mécanique and the "Airplane" Sonata. Music critics and philosophers published important articles about him. Ezra Pound tapped him as his "musical advisor," and took part (on the drum) in a performance of Antheil's Violin Sonata No. 2. Aaron Copland wrote, memorably, that Antheil "had Paris by the ear." Not too shabby for a boy from New Jersey. By the end of the decade, however, Antheil's star had dimmed. He had a restless mind and had begun what would be a lifelong journey to find another style. He felt the influences of Stravinsky and, later, Shostakovich. But Paris wanted more shock, and in the United States, to which he had returned, his radical works were held against him. He became known as the "airplane-propeller man," as if Ballet mécanique were the only thing he had written. The Piano Concerto No. 2 of 1926 is Antheil's first big work after the radical period. Here, one feels the powerful and obvious influence of Stravinsky's 1923 Concerto for Piano and Winds. It has the gravitas of the Stravinsky, without the thickness, and it's chock-full of great ideas, provocative takes on Bach's keyboard music that, Stravinsky aside, are at least ten years ahead of their time. In the Serenade No. 2, the thematic economy we saw in the piano concerto comes across as even tighter.

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Dreams:

Piano Concerto No. 2

Serenade No. 2

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Posted By: annexia Date: 01 Jun 2009 15:12:09

Peach, chérie ... what can I say? 'Gabba-gabba-hey'?

(And fuck that '15-minute-comment-quotum'. How do they expect us to credit everybody to their eternal 60 seconds of fame? Well, at least it explains the low frequency of comments around here recently to some extent. So, thanks to all for your ups below, but I have to log off now ... ;)

Posted By: carrak Date: 01 Jun 2009 17:39:47

Thank you!

Posted By: peachfuzz Date: 02 Jun 2009 01:26:54

Where I come from, it's simply called "the economy of scale". You pack the most powerful punch with the least amount of effort or, in our case, the least amount of words. Now ain't that sexy!

:)

Posted By: d'Avignon Date: 02 Jun 2009 12:38:46

communicating in slow motion...yes..I take it some people managing this board, or whatever they call it, prefer to forget about Die Wende and would gladly put the scaly remains of a heavily moustached red pharaoh on top of the avax throne. Where's my shampoo?

Posted By: WMS.Nemo Date: 02 Jun 2009 14:35:38

Besides all these discussions -
thank you very much for the MUSIC :-))

Posted By: Miltiades Date: 17 Jun 2009 07:55:32

Thank You very much for this and all Your fantastic uploads!

Posted By: afghan Date: 16 Sep 2009 12:28:20

Thank You!!!

Posted By: woolfnotes Date: 03 Dec 2011 19:38:08

First I must thank you for sharing this. But something odd has happened. After splitting the original file into tracks using the CUE file the last few seconds of the first six tracks are clipped off. I've listened to the beginning of the original complete file & it sounds fine.

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