José Maceda: Gongs and Bamboos

Jose Maceda (Composer), José Maceda (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: José Maceda
• Composer: Jose Maceda
• Audio CD (July 24, 2001)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tzadik
• ASIN: B00005LN54
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #535,431 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fundamental, December 9, 2001

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latinamericancomposer (Montevideo, Uruguay) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: José Maceda: Gongs and Bamboos (Audio CD)

José Maceda (Manila, 1917) is one of the fundamental personalities of the second half of the 20th century. His research work has established a very serious basis for his innovative music in Philippines, and a model of ethics and aesthetics for all Asian art music composers - and, why not, for all Third World composers. Maceda knows very well the Western game, and can create different rules for his proposals, with different syntactic logics and even a different behaviour in the roles of performers and listeners. His music is really fascinating. A second and a third CD should be available soon.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing!, April 13, 2009

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P. Micocci "embevecido" (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: José Maceda: Gongs and Bamboos (Audio CD)

I believe I might possibly enjoy this CD more if I could actually distinguish the music better. This CD and another by Dr. José Maceda I bought at the same time both suffer from poor recording quality. I realize the recordings were purporsely made during performances at a particular venue, but perhaps a better micing technique could have been used. There's far too much ambience in the recordings, which doesn't work very well with bamboo instruments. It sounds as though the mics were at considerable distance from the performers, as if for a bootleg recording; in fact, I've heard bootlegs that presented a far better representation of the music than these recordings do.