Artist : Lubomyr Melnyk
Album : Windmills
Year : 2013
Genre : Instrumental
Quality : 171kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 1h 02m
Size : 110.8mb
Label : Hinterzimmer Records
Catalognr : CD HINT19
Tracklist:
01. Windmills (For 2 Pianos) 19:40
02. Windmills (For 2 Pianos) 23:06
03. (Silence) 0:06
04. The Song Of Windmill's Ghost (For 2 Pianos) 19:45
05. (Silence) 0:08
Releasenotes:
Windmills is Lubomyr Melnyk's latest major work in the last 15 years. It is a
tour de force of pianistic excellence, and shows the many sides of Continuous
Music, both as pattern music and as melody.
It was begun in 2009 and took 3 years to complete, with the addition of the
final song of farewell from windmill's ghost. The music contains a story based
on a very early Walt Disney animation, The Old Windmill. In Lubomyr Melnyk's
version, the windmill is of the old European type, made of heavy stone and wood,
standing alone on the top of a hill, facing the onslaught of nature, with wind
and rain and storms and everything that it has to face in its 300 year old life.
For Lubomyr, the windmill represents a human being, facing so many hardships and
trials, standing alone at the top of a hill, we hear the massive but worn gears
begin to toil as the wind wakes the windmill from sleep, far away, a terrible
storm is brewing, and eventually descends upon windmill with horrendous force,
destroying poor windmill... In the music, windmill rises up to heaven, with its
wings carrying it up higher and higher... and as it rises, windmill sings its
song of farewell, a plaintive melodic theme, its song to mankind, reminding us
of the beauties of life and to be grateful to god for all that we have...
The Song Of Windmill's Ghost was worked on in many versions, until it was
finalised in 2013. It is the synthesis of all the melodic elements which Lubomyr
had envisioned for this Song...
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