Glass Harmonica | 
 enlarge | Artists: David August Von Apell, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz
Creators: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Thomas Bloch, Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Karl Leopold Rollig, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Johann Julius Sontag Von Holt Sombach, Marc Marder, Philippe Bernold, Christine Icart, Maurice Bourgue, Ettore Borri, Montserrat Sanroma, Damien Top, Jean Sulem
Label: Naxos
Category: Music
Buy New: $8.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 23755
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 747313529520
EAN: 0747313529520
ASIN: B00005QISL
Release Date: November 20, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Schulz: Largo | | • | Holt Sombach: Adagio | | • | Reichardt: Rondeau | | • | Naumann: Sonata No. 3: Recit | | • | Naumann: Sonata No. 3: Andantino amoroso | | • | Mozart: Adagio K.B. 356 | | • | Mozart: Adagio | | • | Mozart: Rondo | | • | Beethoven: Melodram | | • | Rollig: Kleine Tonstucke: Grave | | • | Rollig: Kleine Tonstucke: Commodetto | | • | Apell: Trionfo della musica, cantata | | • | Holt Sombach: 1ere Suite: Fantaisie | | • | Holt Sombach: 1ere Suite: Allemande | | • | Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene | | • | Holt Sombach: 1ere suite: 2eme Menuet | | • | Bloch: Sancta Maria |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Great music with a great performance. August 15, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found the glass harmonica music most relaxing with an etherial quality. The performance is outstanding.
Thomas Bloch's Interpretation is Second-to-None January 2, 2003
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a great introduction to the exquisite Glass Harmonica. Naxos once again enlarges our listening pleasure by allowing such gifted musician/composers as Thomas Bloch a wider audience than other, more recondite labels have afforded him. This instrument, invented by Franklin, and taken seriously by such greats as Mozart and Beethoven, is only now coming into its own again. Bloch is an integral part of that rebirth. Delicate, eerie, rumored to drive the listener mad, or to attract ghosts, the sound of the Glass Harmonica hovers at the very edges of hearing: a clean, celestial tone. You will never forget it once you hear its distictive sound. Liner notes give the instrument's fascinating history. Bloch himself attempts (along with such great post-moderns such as John Cage) to create a future for the Glass Harmonica with his "Sancta Maria" and does an extraordinary job. The price, too, for this CD is extraordinary. What a bargain!
unbelievable December 11, 2002
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
the music of the glass harmonica is so unusal that it is a joy to listen to. it is a shame that it is not more main stream the tones are so unearthly that is is like a song from a fantasy you really start to believe that elves are playing the music it is something out of Tolkin
Thomas Bloch is a great 20th century composer October 8, 2002
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
All right. This is a great album. It explores the history of the glass harmonica since the classical period. But to add to the other reviewers, there is one cut - the last cut - done by Thomas Bloch in the last century - Sancta Maria - that makes the whole album worthwhile. It is an extraordinary track and I don't care if the soprano is female or male. It is great music and a great listening pleasure. You will want to play it over and over again. Make it you most favorite MP3.
 interesting, generally excellent April 5, 2002
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I would disagree with the reviewer below that this is anything more than a curiosity. Even the works on this disc by great composers such as Mozart and Beethoven are generally trivial. At the same time, this is fine playing of a highly unusual instrument by a polished virtuoso. Some of the pieces, however, I could do without. For instance, while Thomas Bloch's playing is excellent, his compositional skills are somewhat lacking. His own original work, complete with overdubbed whiny male soprano, is the disc's finale and sounds more like a corny film soundtrack than anything else. In addition, it must be noted that the performance here of Donizetti's "Mad Scene" from Lucia utilizes possibly the worst soprano ever recorded (short of Florence Foster Jenkins). I wouldn't wish her off-pitch shrieking on my worst enemies.
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