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This is the first recording of Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls (which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in music), by the orchestra and conductor that commissioned and premiered it. Adams grips from the start, with a slow buildup of taped mundane city sounds, the obsessively repeated word "missing" superimposed on them. The taped texts are drawn from fragments found on missing person posters, newspaper memorials, and the names of victims of the 9/11 attack. Sometimes the taped voices dominate; at others, the chorus intones the texts; the orchestra an ever-present commentator, its impressionistic harmonies fulfilling Adams' description of creating a "memory space" where each listener can find a personal response to the events. The orchestra erupts in an overwhelming climax after the words "I wanted to dig him out," managing, in a brief passage, to encompass anger, deep grief, and the enormity of the tragedy. Then it subsides into a long, slow decrescendo overlaid by the quiet recitation of names, as if the souls of the title hover over us. Adams has created music for his time and place that fulfills music's ability to move us. --Dan Davis

Digitally remastered edition of the classic 1970 sophomore album from the British Hard Rock legends. If their debut album threw down the iron-studded gauntlet for all would-be early '70s Hard Rock acts daring to follow-suit, then album #2would raise the barr yet higher still by becoming one, if not the, greatest Heavy Metal album of all-time. Released on the same day that Jimi Hendrix passed away, Paranoid would become an unstoppable tour-de-force of Rock classics lead from the front by the Top 5 pre-release single that is the iconic title track. Bolstered by further Sabbath classics in the making (`War Pigs', `Iron Man' and `Fairies Wear Boots'), Paranoid cemented the Birmingham four-piece as a genuine U.K. musical phenomenon and is seen by many as THE Black Sabbath album. Eight tracks. Sanctuary.

Digitally remastered edition of the classic 1970 sophomore album from the British Hard Rock legends. If their debut album threw down the iron-studded gauntlet for all would-be early '70s Hard Rock acts daring to follow-suit, then album #2would raise the barr yet higher still by becoming one, if not the, greatest Heavy Metal album of all-time. Released on the same day that Jimi Hendrix passed away, Paranoid would become an unstoppable tour-de-force of Rock classics lead from the front by the Top 5 pre-release single that is the iconic title track. Bolstered by further Sabbath classics in the making (`War Pigs', `Iron Man' and `Fairies Wear Boots'), Paranoid cemented the Birmingham four-piece as a genuine U.K. musical phenomenon and is seen by many as THE Black Sabbath album. Eight tracks. Sanctuary.

CD, featuring Various Artists - Miscellaneous - Holiday, A Soulful Christmas (Series).

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