Search - Marcus Hagemann, Christian Schmidt, Arvo Part :: Spiegel Im Spiegel: Part, Beethoven; Debussy; Schnittke

Huh?

G. Katsoulis | Boston, MA | 01/10/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I don't know who put together the listing for this album but they did a poor and, frankly, thoughtless job.



Most likely it was not posted by anyone at all, but by a computer and, as a result, no human eye at Amazon took the time to realize no useful information was listed.



The middle word in the title, "I'm" is not meant to be the contraction for "I am" but rather it is the German word for "in" which is "im."



Pianist Schmidt and Cellist Hagemann are being ill-treated here, as there work will no doubt suffer less exposure and certainly fewer downloads from those people who seek out the pieces meant to be listed here. It is a shame and I would contact them if I had their information.



The CD bears the correct title and, luckily, some blurry cover art-here on Amazon as a CD:

http://www.amazon.com/Spiegel-Im-Beethoven-Debussy-Schnittke/dp/B00004W56O

But still suffers the the same fate of hasty un-proofs listings.





On a final note,I have rated the item a three, because the computer (probably the one noted above) demands some rating and, neither wanting to praise nor damn the work, I have selected the middle ground."