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Domo: Tippet Rise OPUS 2016 = Various works by SCRIABIN; ABRIL; RACHMANINOV; STRAVINSKY; CHOPIN – Pentatone 

by Audiophile Audition | Aug 1, 2017 | SACD & Other Hi-Res Reviews

Domo: Tippet Rise OPUS 2016 = Various works by SCRIABIN; ABRIL; RACHMANINOV; STRAVINSKY; CHOPIN [Tracklist and Performing Artists follow] – Pentatone Oxingale Series Multi-channel SACD PTC 5186 660, 65:45 (8/4/17) ****: The 2016 music festival in Fishtail, Montana celebrates various ecstasies of music and Nature in pantheistic  colors. The inaugural concert (24 June-20 August 2016) of the Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana brought together a number of musicians to celebrate Scriabin’s centennial, given the magnificent backdrop of the Beartooth Mountains and the megalith Domo, a huge table in the shape of a Neolithic dolmen. The intended effect means to combine architecture, natural beauty, and music into an ecstatic experience that defied Scriabin’s prediction that such a venue of extended music, dance, and drinking would invoke the Apocalypse. The musical site embraces 10, 260 acres for outdoor and indoor performances again, 7 July-September 16, 2017. Yevgeny Sudbin opens the proceedings with Alexander Scriabin’s Fifth Sonata (1907), whose strong ties to the Symphony No. 4 (“The Poem of Ecstasy”) have been well documented. After a towering chordal introduction—“I call you to life, mysterious forces!”—the music goes into convulsions, alternately languid and accelerated.  Sudbin’s sonorous range and pedal effects prove equal […]