- Composer: Banks Tony
- Audio CD (April 20 2004)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Ncl
- ASIN: B0001M0A4I
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #10,471 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Spring Tide |
| 2. Black Down |
| 3. The Gateway |
| 4. The Ram |
| 5. Earthlight |
| 6. Neap Tide |
| 7. The Spirit Of Gravity |
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Sweet Seven,
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This review is from: Seven: a Suite for Orchestra (Audio CD)
It grows on you after every listen and this is required if it is to be appreciated. A nice blend of classic rock into classical music if you will.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Banks Shows His Stuff,
By Mark D Burgh "Music, Writing, Art, Film, Hist... (Fort Smith, AR United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Seven: a Suite for Orchestra (Audio CD)
I've followed Tony Banks' music for a long time now - except for the dismal 80's Genesis - and I wasn't prepared to give Seven more than a cursory listen and say "very nice." And to be honest, that's how I approached this music. The last Tony Banks music I honestly liked was on his first solo album back in 1979. But, as I listened to Seven, I heard more than I anticipated, and eventually, this music grew on me. I have to say now, that despite the long and rather spotty - to be charitable - record of English rock musicians writing for orchestras (Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Yes, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, etc) that Banks transcends his past and with his suite creates mature music in the vein of Ralph Vaughn Williams and Edward Elgar. In his notes, Banks says that he didn't want to create a typical piece with a rock plays soloing over an orchestral backing. Rather, he wants to write integrated orchestral works with their own structure and internal logic. This Banks does with more elan than I thought possible. The energy, melodies, and orchestration of this music is impressive and irrespressible. The first piece, Spring Tide, gushes forward, a torrent of music that sets the tone for the rest of the suite, a series of pastoral mediations which have always been at the heart of his music. The more I listened to this music, the more I liked it, until now, when I play this album, I find myself hearing all the things I loved about Banks's work with Genesis, but now, thoughtfully recast into the tradition of English orchestral composers and not King Crimson. I can heartily recommend this music to any long-time Genesis fan, or even to classical music lovers. I hope that Tony Banks will continue writing more orchestral work.
3.0 out of 5 stars
no es para tanto,
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This review is from: Seven: a Suite for Orchestra (Audio CD)
Como siempre que un músico de rock se decide a "hacer sus pinitos" en el mundo de la música clásica, hay opiniones encendidas. Los "rockeros", con su sempiterno sentimiento de inferioridad ante la clásica, lo alaban y lo reciben como si se tratara de la octava maravilla. Los "clásicos" lo critican sin piedad o, sencillamente, pasan de él. Yo creo que ni una cosa ni otra. Hay que alabar el buen hacer de Tony Banks y el esfuerzo que ha supuesto la composición de este Seven. Las piezas están bien construidas, aunque lastradas por una orquestación de Simon Hale que es tópica entre las tópicas, tiene momentos emotivos y otros un tanto insustanciales. De cualquier forma, es curioso que la mayor parte de los músicos de rock (salvo quizás Zappa) que se han adentrado por el mundo clásico, lo hacen como si no hubieran existido los últimos 100 años. Ahora resulta que el no va más es Vaughan Williams. Bien por el esfuerzo, pero, hombre, no estaría de más un poquito más de riesgo. Al final todos estos intentos suenan un poco a lo mismo. Una mezcla entre el tardo-romanticismo inglés y la música de películas.
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