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Track Listings
| 1. De Stijl |
| 2. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: The Alphabet Song |
| 3. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... Instrumental 1 |
| 4. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... The Vesalius Song |
| 5. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... Instrumental 2 |
| 6. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... The Schultz Song |
| 7. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... Instrumental 3 |
| 8. M Is For Man, Music, Mozart: M is For Man... The Eisenstein Song |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
And you thought De Stijl was just an art magazine? Louis Andriessen treats it as such, and more, in this animated journey around the ideas and Paris years of Piet Mondriaan. No need to undertake a crash course in art aesthetics: the music does it for you implicitly: the proportions are derived from a Mondriaan canvas, while the boogie-woogie bass underlines the artist's love of dance and the influence of jazz on his later paintings. There's a whole lot of structured repetition over the 26 minutes, and a crucial rhythmic twist near the end that caps the listening pleasure. Buy the disc as listed and you get the music from Peter Greenaway's film M is for Man, Music and Mozart--a typically non-conformist tribute for Mozart's fearsomely hyped bicentenary year (1991): enjoyable but rather aimless without the visual component. So maybe take the plunge and investigate the stagework De Materie, of which De Stijl forms Part 3. Its not easy listening, but it powerfully confirms Andriessen as a born theatre composer. --Richard Whitehouse
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4.2 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
boogie-woogie barnburner, 2 Nov 2004
By klangfarbenguy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Andriessen: M is for Man, Music and Mozart (Audio CD)
"De Styjl" is one of the great postminimalist, postmodern pieces. It combines funky horn riffs with boogie-woogie piano, and a bizarre choral overlay that somehow all works together. There is an almost Ivesian feel to the way, for example, the brass chugs away as the chorus seems to be off in a different harmonic world moving at its own rate. A whacky spoken interlude concerning Piet Mondrian (whose painting inspired "De Styjl") brings the work to yet another unexpected place and the whole thing finally gives way static series of isolated chords that wouldn't seem too out of place in the music of Luciano Berio, Andriessen's erstwhile teacher. The performance is committed but perhaps could, at times, swing a bit more.
I wish I could say something more positive about "M is for Man, Music, and Mozart." The music is, I think, trying to be charming but it ends up simply being cloying. I'm not qualified to judge the performance here which seems to be intentionally rough.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
hot & cold, 7 Feb 2008
By Perry Townsend - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Andriessen: M is for Man, Music and Mozart (Audio CD)
I agree w/klangfarben: "De Stijl" is a rollicking good time, yet also somehow haunting and slightly disturbing ... in a good way. =) The placement of the Mondrian monologue at the golden-section point of the piece just plain works -- exactly how defies description. Why is it even there?? Louis is not saying; maybe Piet can tell us... I'll have to remember to stare at some Mondrian and ponder this. Anyway, it's a fabulous, audacious piece, performed with muy cajones!
"M is for Man" on the other hand is schlocky, occasionally funny, but basically shallow & unsatisfying. Maybe it works better with the television graphics, but just on its own music-wise, esp. alongside "De Stijl", it falls flat. Fortunately "De Stijl" takes up the bulk of the disc, thus my 4-stars. What really irritates me about the recording though is: there is *NO* silent space at all between the end of the huge, 25-minute "De Stijl" and the beginning of "M is for Man"! We SOOOOO need time to digest "De Stijl" on its own & let it settle -- and most importantly to hit Stop before that other damn thing starts. :p
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Warning!, 11 Jun 2001
By SK - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Andriessen: M is for Man, Music and Mozart (Audio CD)
Do not attempt to listen to De Stijl if you don't want the most upbeat, contagious boogie-woogie tune in your head to make you dance for the rest of the week. Basso ostinato, canon, fugue, formal structure, Stravinski-influence--formal musical analysis could be put to use here, but anyone who thinks they've heard "classical" music before and listens to this piece will have to rethink some things.
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