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Various Artists
Paul Paccione: Our Beauties Are Not Ours
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Rhapsody
2. Stations: To Morton Feldman
3. Inscape: I. Heaven Haven
4. Inscape: II. Spring and Fall
5. Inscape: III. At the Wedding March
6. A Page for Will
7. Three Motets - Arabesques: Motet I
8. Three Motets - Arabesques: Motet II
9. Three Motets - Arabesques: Motet III
10. Five Songs from Christina Rossetti: I. Listening
11. Five Songs from Christina Rossetti: II. Dirge
12. Five Songs from Christina Rossetti: III. Bird Rapture
13. Five Songs from Christina Rossetti: IV. The Key Note
14. Five Songs from Christina Rossetti: V. Spring Quiet
15. Postlude from Planxty Cage

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Paul Paccione: Our Beauties Are Not Ours
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: New World Records
Release Date: 2/1/2010
Genre: Classical
Styles: Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093228070627

Synopsis

Product Description

Paul Paccione's music is noted for its lyricism, intimacy, distinctive orchestration, contrapuntal refinement, and metaphoric complexity. His work reflects an interest in tonal color, exact pitch placement, and a reverence for the mystery of unhurried long durations. His music balances a love of "abstract" sound combinations with a vivid sense of lyricism. This c.d. includes music for voices and instruments in a wide variety of styles. In all of the pieces, the composer tries to define what is beauty. These are world-premiere recordings.

CD Reviews

The ear is the only true writer..."

NiperKee | Northport New York | 03/02/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Robert Frost wrote that and this music is a testament to it. This is true music. Here are sounds--notes, melodies, harmonies--that make my ears connect with everything. Wherever I am at the moment and whatever I'm looking at: it all becomes music to me when I'm listening to Paccione's pieces. A leaf falling, the rising sun casting long shadows westward, the road opening up before me when the traffic light turns green: all images I saw--I heard--this morning when I listened to his music in my car while driving to work. A clarinetist said to me the other day that you won't find better text settings than the ones here, and I have to agree. Paccione fleshes out the sound in Rosetti's and Hopkins's verses, revealing music that was always there, waiting to be released--and heard."