Battles Music

When the Czech composer Petr Eben died in 2007, he was renowned and performed the world over as a composer for choirs and organ. Nevertheless, 15 years on, this album inaugurates the first attempt at a complete survey of his output for the organ – an output so rich and individual that it has come to define a late 20th-century sound for the instrument as characterfully as Marcel Dupré achieved some six decades earlier.

Eighteenth-century American harpsichord music isn't something you hear everyday, but the delightful sounds of Enlightenment in the New World can be appreciated by any keyboard lover. Using a French harpsichord built in 1774, Olivier Baumont performs lively (not to mention "enlightened") works by seldom-heard composers William Selby, Alexander Reinagle, Victor Pelissier, someone named simply Mr. Newman, and a few others. There's nothing monumental here–James Hewitt's "Yankee Doodle with 9 Variations" may be too silly to fully appreciate–but the playing is exquisite and there are some great discoveries.

Randy Edelman ‎– Gettysburg (Music From The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 349 MB | Full Artwork: 30 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Milan # 74321 17008-2 | Country/Year: Europe 1993
Genre: Stage & Screen, Modern Classical | Style: Soundtrack, Score

Gettysburg was an ambitious epic detailing one of the most famous battles in the American Civil War. Appropriately, the soundtrack is grand, dramatic, and stirring. In fact, the incidental music works better as an individual entity than most soundtracks and is arguably more compelling than portions of the overly long movie.