Collection D'Arnell Andrea - Bower of DespairCollection D'Arnell Andrea Bower of Despair

a kaleidoscopic series of variations as deeply felt and cathartic as anything Bach wrote and an incontestable milestone in classical music

recorded between 1969 and 1973

very quickly becomes very complex

When word of Lenau's actual death reached Schumann on the day of the cycles first performance

Hardanger is mysterious

before would have been at one of their extremely rare live shows in the Puget Sound area or from their locally produced cassette from a few years back

a stylistically polymorphous sound that the Washington Post aptly describes as "embodying all the complexity and grace of human cooperation

14 in C major

on February 7th via Old Omens/Thirty Tigers

with each song resembling a free-standing aria

bandleaders

With it's pockets of halcyon