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February 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Chosen and Beloved – MAU Wahine and NZSO (February 21, Wellington)

Chosen and Beloved: Curated by Lemi Ponifasio – MAU Wahine, NZSO and Racha Rizk (Conducted by Kristan Jarvi) MFC, Wellington Friday, February 21 For the opening night of the NZ Festival expectations were very high for Chosen and Beloved. The first week guest curator Lemi Ponifasio took words from Henryk Gorecki’s Third Symphony (aka The […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Chosen and Beloved, Chosen and Beloved: Curated by Lemi Ponifasio – MAU Wahine, Gig, Gig Review, Gig Review: Chosen and Beloved - MAU Wahine and NZSO (February 21, Gorecki, Lemi Ponifasio, Live Gig, MAU, MAU Wahine, MFC, NZ Fest, NZ Festival, NZSO and Racha Rizk (Conducted by Kristan Jarvi), Racha Rizk, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Third Symphony, Wellington, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov: Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Besant Hall Records (part of Air-Edel Records) Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op 36, known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, was composed in late 1976. It was premiered the following year in performance and since then there have been […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Classical, Dead Can dance, Genesis Orchestra, Gorecki, Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Henryk Górecki, Lisa Gerrard, Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Yordan Kamdzhalov, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 4, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 197: Marnie Karmelita Previews the 2020 NZ Festival

Welcome to episode 197 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved […]
Posted in Blog, Podcasts · Tagged 20/20, Acast, Anchor/FM, Apple, Chat, Conversation, Creative Director, Gorecki, Guest Curators, Interview, Jazz Festival, La Petite Chocolat, Laurie Anderson, Lexus Song Quest, Marnie Karmelita, Marnie Karmelita previews The Wellington Jazz Festival, NZ Fest, NZ Festival, Off The Tracks, Podcaster, Preview, Program, Second Unit, Soundcloud, Spotify, Sweetman Podcast, Sweetman Podcast # 167: Marnie Karmelita, Sweetman Podcast # 197, Sweetman Podcast # 197: Marnie Karmelita Previews the 2020 NZ Festival, T Leaf T, Tawhiri, Wellington, Weyes Blood, Yeastie Boys, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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April 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

We Need To Talk About Classical Music…Because We Never Have: Our Introduction To Classical Music

I’m going to tell you a bit about my background with classical music; some of my early touchstones, how I educated myself and explored options, and some of the favourite pieces I’ve collected and my go-to composers. That sort of thing. And then you can do the same. Seem reasonable? Otherwise we’ll be here all […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Brandenburg Concertos, Classical, Classical Music, Film Score, Glenn Gould, Gorecki, Instrumental, Introduction To Classical Music, Mozart, Nigel Kennedy, Our Introduction To Classical Music, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Tchaikovsky, We Need To Talk About Classical Music…Because We Never Have, We Need To Talk About Classical Music…Because We Never Have: Our Introduction To Classical Music ·

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March 23, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Max Richter: Sleep

Max Richter Sleep Deutsche Grammaophon Easily my most played album of 2015 – easily, and yet it’s not, strictly an album. Here, Max Richter has created a soundtrack for sleep, but it’s more than just a settling score, it’s a musical evocation, a melodic translation of sleep. It’s a stretch – too (pardon the pun) […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 8 Hour, Album, Album Review, Ambient, Arvo Part, Brian Eno, Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, Download, Gorecki, Max Richter, Sleep ·

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March 17, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 733

London Sinfonietta with Dawn Upshaw, Gorecki: Symphony No. 3 (1992) I fell in love with this when I first heard it – this particular recording, Gorecki composed the piece in the mid-70s but this early-90s recording was the one that found me, it was being used to soundtrack images from the Bosnian war, well from […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1976, 1992, 2016), Dawn Upshaw, Gorecki, Gorecki: Symphony No. 3, Henryk Górecki, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Upshaw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nsLccXkDPc, I. Lento - Sostenuto tranquillo ma cantabile, London Sinfonietta, London Sinfonietta with Dawn Upshaw, Reissue, Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs ·

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November 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

John Luther Adams: Become Ocean

John Luther Adams Become Ocean Cantaloupe In a single-track, album-length work, the composer John Luther Adams has made a stunning soundtrack for contemporary life – it shimmers with a restraint, it play with – and in and around – silences. Under the baton of Ludovic Morlot the Seattle Symphony gives life to the Alaskan composer’s […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Become Ocean, Blue Planet, Classical, George Fenton, Gorecki, John Luther Adams, Ludovic Morlot, Seattle Symphony, Soundtrack, Symphony No. 3 ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Williams, Burial, Dark Ambient, Dead Can dance, Gorecki, Lustmord, Philip Glass, Scott Walker, Swans, The Word As Power, Tool ·

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