Tony Schwartz - An Actual Story in Sound of a Dog's Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Over the course of nine years, Tony Schwartz collected the sounds of New York, seeking to record Inchthe audible expression of life.Inch Originally produced as a radio program for WNYC, the finished product is a lucid representation of the city, capturing street sounds, immigrant voices, lively music, raindrops, bird songs, and even the pragmatic advice of the city's cabbies. Part anthropological study, part hometown travelogue, the recordings contextualize the city's shifting rhythms and urban folklore as a meaningful collection of sounds, each one with a specific purpose and significance to the eight million inhabitants (plus an unknown number of cats and dogs). Schwartz's New York is not just an imposing mystical metropolis, but a palpable place where people of all ages live their lives.

Jean-Marc Luisada knows the song of Romanticism, the voice of the soul that permeates all of Schubert's output. In the Sonata No.15, the melodies that spring from the pen of a young composer of twenty-two are deceptive. The tranquillity of the pastoral atmosphere is often answered by the harsh suffering of reality. The Sonata No.21 reveals a still more tragic universe, for Schubert could sense that he had very little time left to live. Jean-Marc Luisada paints, with supreme elegance, the portrait of a composer who is at once rebellious and resigned, sometimes voluble, sometimes almost mute, seeking some consolation in the inspiration of his memories and regrets.

Tony Schwartz - Millions of Musicians [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/30/2012