S:cage - We End In A Beautiful Mess - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Behzod Abduraimov's performances combine great musical depth with phenomenal technique 'He has a magical touch,' wrote The Times. This recital is yet another illustration of his many talents it begins with variations by Carl Czerny, a pupil of Beethoven and a teacher of Liszt. Next, the famous Après une lecture de Dante (whose title is borrowed from a poem by Victor Hugo) represents Liszt's Année de pèlerinage en Italie (1846-1849). The title is borrowed from a poem by Victor Hugo... Another era, another poetic inspiration (Verlaine), with the Suite Bergamasque, an allusion to the festivals of the Lombard commedia dell'arte, which Debussy composed between 1890 and 1905... Still celebrating, this time in Saint Petersburg, with 'it's crowds, it's shacks and it's small traditional theatre, the character of the magician and conjurer... and the animation of the dolls, Petrushka, his rival, and the ballerina', notes Stravinsky, who in 1921 wrote a piano transcription of his ballet Petrushka, composed ten years earlier. Brahms and a peaceful Intermezzo from his Klavierstücke Op. 119 conclude this infernal programme.

Messa play obscure and evoking doom with deliciously haunting female vocals, influenced by Pentagram, Bellwitch, Windhand, Jex Thoth, Sabbath Assembly, Bathory. An Obscure mix of Dark Jazz Atmospheres with vintage heavy occult doom and mesmerizing female vocals that will drive you through a scarlet velvet trip.

Michael Jerome Browne - This Beautiful Mess [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/24/2009