Markus K.
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Posted: Mar. 14 2008, 17:31 |
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What a pretencious (heh) review! 
I don't mean to be mean to Mr. Jenkins (obviously a very talented person), but the "Adiemus" project would fit the term "pretentious" much better. (Well arranged/produced music, but does not move me much)
Well seriously speaking...isn't a lot of classical music pretentious soulless nonsense. After all there's so much of it. Didn't Mozart already make fun of the cliches so far?
I'm not so familiar with orchestral music cliches. Well the final crescendo of course is already familiar from "Mont St. Michel" and inspired by Sibelius's 5th or-what-was-it. Then there are some obvious elements from Tubular Bells.
"Disconnected" maybe is a fair thing to say. After all it's a work consisting of distinguishable "tracks" so to say, although they flow together in the familiar Oldfield style. It's more disconnected than the "traditional" symphonies, even though they also usually come in 3 or 4 parts the first being the "hook", the second perhaps something more experimental, 3rd maybe variations on the first and then a nice finale as the 4th. (Or something...)
At least it has emotion. That's what counts to me. "Silhouette" and "Harmonia Mundi" especially always have an effect on me.
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