Pettman Ensemble - Pleyel: Str Quintets Ben. 271-273 [CD] Trip Hop

Pettman Ensemble - Pleyel: Str Quintets Ben. 271-273 [CD] Trip HopThe name Pleyel is chiefly remembered today as a piano manufacturer, but the company's founding figure Ignaz Pleyel, a former pupil of Haydn, was one of the most acclaimed composers of the late 18th century. The success of Pleyel's finely wrought twelve String Quintets, the three of which heard on this album inspired Mozart to compose his own quintets in C major and G minor, lies in their well paced balance between crackling energy and lyrical

His masterpiece

and geophones create rhythms and textures that feel both primordial and contemporary

Window Weather

The primary difference from not being there in person

Dinner Plate

a single from Fifty Shades of Grey: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

being proud

snippets and recordings from Sunn O))) collaborator Stephen O'Malley and composer Michael Nyman are featured

it's infused with an optimism and surrealism that conversely deals with the times we find ourselves in

Masterfade

Misery's Crown

Blue Spotted Tail 3:05