Gloria Coates: Symphonies Nos. 4, 7 & 1

Gloria Coates (Composer), Elgar Howarth (Conductor), Georg Schmohe (Conductor), Wolf-Dieter Hauschild (Conductor), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Bayerischen Rundfunkorchester (Orchestra), Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayersichen Rundfunks (Orchestra), Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bayerischen Rundfunkorchester, Sinfonie-Orchester des Bayersichen Rundfunks, Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra
• Conductor: Elgar Howarth, Georg Schmohe, Wolf-Dieter Hauschild
• Composer: Gloria Coates
• Audio CD (November 19, 1996)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cpo Records
• ASIN: B000001S19
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,211 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Symphony No.4: Illumination

2. Symphony No.4: Mystical Plosives

3. Symphony No.4: Dream Sequence

4. Sympony No.7: Whirligig Of Time

5. Stuttgarter Philharmoniker: Glass Of Time

6. Stuttgarter Philharmoniker: Corridors Of Time

7. Symphony No.1 Music On Open Strings: Theme And Transformation

8. Symphony No.1 Music On Open Strings: Scherzo

9. Symphony No.1 Music On Open Strings: Scordatura

10. Symphony No.1 Music On Open Strings: Refracted Mirror Canon For Fourteen Lines

Customer Reviews

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and breathtaking, September 5, 2002

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This review is from: Gloria Coates: Symphonies Nos. 4, 7 & 1 (Audio CD)

This is Gloria Coates' finest CD release so far. For those not familiar with her work, her music is dark and engaging. Though primarily tonal, her music can venture into regions of nearly apocalyptic gloom. It is distinctly modern and profoundly intriguing. This is the musical equivalent of reading Poe. The macabre aspects of it are by no means off-putting but evocative and thought provoking. These symphonies are spectral, mist enshrouded and dusky. If you like music along the lines of Crumb's Haunted Landscape with dense and richly developed orchestration like Maxwell Davies, this is for you.

Caution: you may find Gloria Coates' music irresistable. Should that be the case her Symphony No. 2 also appears on CPO. There are also a set of Quartets on Naxos. Though the quartets are more along the lines of Tavener or Part, they retain the same appealingly haunted quality.