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Cappella SF, Ragnar Bohlin, Isabelle Demers & Mason Bates – Mass Transmission (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:22 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delos
Named by Musical America as the 2018 ‘Composer of the Year’, Grammy-winning composer Mason Bates is widely renowned for his pioneering practice of creating music for conventional performing forces enhanced by electronic sounds. Of the two works presented in this remarkable album, Mass Transmission—in its world premiere recording—is a particularly winning example of Bates’ use of ‘electronica’, blended here with music for mixed choir and organ. Sirens, lacking electronica, still achieves mesmerizing vocal effects through its complex scoring for 12-part a cappella choir.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Edwin Outwater, Mason Bates – Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 22:58 minutes | 256 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Inspired by a desire to offer my own kids a fresh guide to the orchestra, Philharmonia Fantastique was created to showcase both the artistic and technical wonders of the medium. Like its predecessors Peter & the Wolf and Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, it colorfully presents the instruments of the orchestra in the medium of a film soundtrack. Philharmonia Fantastique uses both musical genre and electronic sounds for characterization: noir-ish jazz for the woodwinds; bending lyricism in the strings; dark techno for the brass; drum-corps in the percussion; and, for our Sprite protagonist, a simple yet harmonically wandering piano melody.
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