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Michael Gandolfi, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation [Hybrid SACD]
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 1. The Zeroroom
2. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 1. Soliton Waves
3. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 1. The Snail and the Poetics of Going Slow
4. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 1. Symmetry Break Terrace / Black Hole Terrace
5. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 1. The Willowtwist
6. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Universe Cascade
7. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Allemande (audition)
8. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Courante (olfaction)
9. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Sarabande (gustation)
10. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Passepied (palpation)
11. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Gigue (vision)
12. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 2. The Garden of the Senses Suite. Chorale (the sixth sense: intuition)
13. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 3. Fractal Terrace
14. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 3. The Jumping Bridge
15. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 3. The Quark Walk
16. The Garden of Cosmic Speculation, for orchestra: Part 3. The Nonsense

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CD Details

All Artists: Michael Gandolfi, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Title: Michael Gandolfi: The Garden of Cosmic Speculation [Hybrid SACD]
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Telarc
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 2/26/2008
Album Type: Hybrid SACD - DSD
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 089408069666

CD Reviews

Brilliant as a Super Nova

Dr. Debra Jan Bibel | Oakland, CA USA | 12/12/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"You should know first that The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is an actual place in Scotland, a creation of American architect Charles Jencks who transformed a large plot of land into a metaphoric landscape, with sculptural details, of scientific universal principles, both in physics and biology. American composer Michael Ganolfi has created his own musical metaphors and impressions of each key portion of this garden, and he succeeded brilliantly. Astonishingly clever, fun, magical, and cheerful, Ganolfi's rich and complex symphonic tour uses the colors of orchestral timbres and stylistic dance forms (sarabande, gigue, allemande, courante, etc.) of classic music as his palette. The section called The Universe Cascade, a true Big Bang, is perhaps the most obvious but the most fun, as the history of Western music rapidly unfolds in but 6.5 minutes with 28 brief linked excerpts, from Gregorian chant to de Machuat, from Dufay and Palestrina to Bach's Bandenbrugs, from Beethoven Pastoral to Stravinsky's Petrushka, from Sibelius's Symphony 7 to Steve Reich's Octet, including a zig into...laugh out loud in joy...Miles Davis' Boplicity from Birth of the Cool! Well-recorded by Telarc and nicely peformed by Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, this CD is a perfect match to the Garden's combination of science and design. (And is not music itself just that?) I listened in surround sound, but whether CD or SACD, you will love this recording. I will now purchase the book to reverse the process, of matching the site to the music."

Amazing recording & music

DECKARD | USA | 01/09/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I am a casual listener of classical music and I love orchestral pieces in hi-res surround. If you are a fan of Stravinsky and like dense, melodic, complex recordings this sacd will knock your sox off. It has become my favorite orchestral recording and I never tire of it. There is so much to hear musically. It's like the entire sacd is made of great moments. Don't miss it. Unfortunate that the Telarc that produced this is no more."