Mendelssohn / Elias String Quartet - MENDELSSOHN: String Quartets Op. 13, Op.80 & 4 Pieces Op.81 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Digitally remastered edition of this album by the Japanese electronic pop band. 1981 was a groundbreaking year for the music industry. By releasing BGM and Technodelic in one year, YMO made a shift happen in pop music. YMO introduced a new way of using samples and loops by cutting soundbites into fragments and reprogramming them with newly available computer technology. Technodelic is far more experimental then previous albums, and at the same time this fifth album is more minimalistic and full of funk and soul. Having released this much loved album, YMO remain remarkable and insanely great at inventing new ways of looking at compositions and creating a whole new music scene at the same time. Food for thought if Technodelic wasn't this great, what would the dance music scene sound like today? Album Tracks 1. Pure Jam 2. Neue Tanz 3. Stairs 4. Seoul Music 5. Light in Darkness 6. Taiso 7. Gradated Grey 8. Key 9. Prologue 10. Epilogue

Album Tracks 1. For Schlaghammer 2. Künstliche Intelligenz 3. Sunny Night 4. Kriminelle Kur 5. Die 5. Revolution 6. Kratie

While producing a string of hit scores for MGM such as the Oscar-winning Ben Hur, Miklós Rózsa (1907-1995) continued to add to his distinguished catalogue of works in classical forms, often writing in a more abstract and severe style than his late-Romantic music for the movies. Rózsa himself remarked that 'in 1948, a new style began to appear in my Piano Sonata-more percussive, contrapuntal, aggressive. The String Quartet [No.1, 1950] continued in this vein. Maybe it was an inner protest against the excessive amount of conventional music I had had to write for conventional pictures.' In terms of influence, the tone of the Quartet (dedicated to Peter Ustinov) is closer to his teacher Kodály than that of Bartók even in the driven second movement, though even the intense lyricism of the third movement scarcely contains an angry mood which is finally resolved by the exhilarating finale. The more conventionally Romantic strains of the String Trio date from Rózsa's student days at the Leipzig Conservatoire in 1927, assimilating Brahms as well as the edgier work of his Hungarian elders. Breitkopf & Härtel published the work in 1929 as Op.1, but in 1974, the composer made major revisions to the original score, including numerous cuts, for it's first recording. The String Trio, as presented here, is the world premiere recording of the work as it was originally composed by. Breitkopf & Härtel published the work in 1929 as Op.1. In 1974, Rózsa made major cuts to the original score for it's first recording. The ensemble merian presents the full, original version of the trio. Album Tracks 1. String Quartet No.1 Op.22 2. String Trio Op.1 (Complete Version) 3. Echoes for String Quartet