Not as awe-inspiring as Volume 1, this is nonetheless another great compilation in the Artificial Intelligence series.
It starts off a little inconsistently, the first track is somewhat techno by numbers, but as the compilation goes on, the quality improves. It's usually the other way around!
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Not as awe-inspiring as Volume 1, this is nonetheless another great compilation in the Artificial Intelligence series.
It starts off a little inconsistently, the first track is somewhat techno by numbers, but as the compilation goes on, the quality improves. It's usually the other way around!
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Not as awe-inspiring as Volume 1, this is nonetheless another great compilation in the Artificial Intelligence series.
It starts off a little inconsistently, the first track is somewhat techno by numbers, but as the compilation goes on, the quality improves. It's usually the other way around!
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Not as awe-inspiring as Volume 1, this is nonetheless another great compilation in the Artificial Intelligence series.
It starts off a little inconsistently, the first track is somewhat techno by numbers, but as the compilation goes on, the quality improves. It's usually the other way around!
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Thomas Augustine Arne is undoubtedly one of the most underrated composers. This is for a number of reasons - as a person, he was very unpopular amongst his contemporaries, and he had also had the disadvantage of being an Englishman, overshadowed by foreign masters such as Handel and J.C. Bach. Artaxerxes (1762) was composed when he was 52, and therefore is a later work. This is clearly reflected by the change of style - whereas his earlier works are highly influenced Handel and the baroque idiom, from the 1750s Arne became more adventerous and embraced the new early classical style, eptimosed by J.C. Bach, who was also composing operas in London in the 1760s. Artaxerxes, like Arne's symphonies, shows the clear influence of classicism, but not ... Read More:
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Thomas Augustine Arne is undoubtedly one of the most underrated composers. This is for a number of reasons - as a person, he was very unpopular amongst his contemporaries, and he had also had the disadvantage of being an Englishman, overshadowed by foreign masters such as Handel and J.C. Bach. Artaxerxes (1762) was composed when he was 52, and therefore is a later work. This is clearly reflected by the change of style - whereas his earlier works are highly influenced Handel and the baroque idiom, from the 1750s Arne became more adventerous and embraced the new early classical style, eptimosed by J.C. Bach, who was also composing operas in London in the 1760s. Artaxerxes, like Arne's symphonies, shows the clear influence of classicism, but not ... Read More:
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Thomas Augustine Arne is undoubtedly one of the most underrated composers. This is for a number of reasons - as a person, he was very unpopular amongst his contemporaries, and he had also had the disadvantage of being an Englishman, overshadowed by foreign masters such as Handel and J.C. Bach. Artaxerxes (1762) was composed when he was 52, and therefore is a later work. This is clearly reflected by the change of style - whereas his earlier works are highly influenced Handel and the baroque idiom, from the 1750s Arne became more adventerous and embraced the new early classical style, eptimosed by J.C. Bach, who was also composing operas in London in the 1760s. Artaxerxes, like Arne's symphonies, shows the clear influence of classicism, but not ... Read More:
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