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Arsis Handbell Ensemble
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Track Listing
- Handbell Symphony
- Handbell Symphony
- Handbell Symphony
- Concerto for harpsichord, strings & continuo No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056: Pastorale
- Ellens Gesang III ('Ave Maria'), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
- German Music Box
- Radetzky-Marsch, for orchestra, Op. 228
- Soliloquy for Bells
- Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.1, No.7 in G minor, HWV 432: Passacablia
- Suite for keyboard (Suite de piece), Vol.1, No.7 in G minor, HWV 432: Passacablia
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #407271 in Music
- Released on: 2000-08-29
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
A Fine Recording and a First for Handbells
Packaged amongst the un-preposessing cover and j-card of this Estonian CD is a world record: the first recording ever of a work for handbells and orchestra. Peter Vahi's "Handbell Symphony" is a masterful blending of the brilliant yet relativly soft qualities of handbells with the rich colors available in the modern orchestra. This extremely successful collaboration yields a very interesting and listenable piece.
The three movements of "Handbell Symphony" manage to use the bells very idiomatically and yet also create a *new* idiom by combining them with orchestra. It definitely is an amazing first.
Unfortunately, the rest of the works on the CD are only so-so, often played at breakneck speed to little artistic success. Standouts, however, are Buckwalter's "Soliloquy for Bells" and the Schubert "Ave Maria;" both show off the ethereal and haunting bell timbre well.
