{"id":26807,"date":"2024-01-20T05:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T10:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26807"},"modified":"2024-02-07T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T22:11:11","slug":"album-review-frank-clare-admiratio-magna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/20\/album-review-frank-clare-admiratio-magna\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Frank Clare \u2013 Admiratio Magna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26808\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/frank_clare.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/frank_clare.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/frank_clare-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/frank_clare-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>One man\u2019s new age music is another\u2019s neoclassical. On his debut release, pianist and composer Frank Clare aims for the latter. The crystalline and unadorned piano textures that grace this collection are gentle, subtle and often spare, making superb use of what musicians call \u201cthe spaces between the dots,\u201d in other words, silence. Most of the track titles on this wholly instrumental set are in Latin, though the track subtitles (\u201cA Gathering of Possibilities,\u201d \u201cThe Bells of Noumenania,\u201d \u201cGoodbye Hello\u201d) offer at least some clue as to the thinking that has gone into each composition.<\/p>\n<p>The press materials for <i>Admiratio Magna<\/i> explain that the album explores themes like \u201cthe inevitable cycle of creation,\u201d but of course it\u2019s up to each and every listener to take from the music what they will. Contemplative and inward-looking, these seven pieces \u2013 each of which runs six minutes plus; some twice that length \u2013 have a simple beauty that invites \u2013 no, <i>demands<\/i> \u2013 active listening.<\/p>\n<p>For some listeners, the label neoclassical suggest atonality and dissonance; you\u2019ll fin precious little of either on this set. Clean, uncluttered ivory-tinkling is the order of the day (hence my use of the \u201cnew age\u201d label; your mileage may well vary). Only on \u201cIII. Apotheosis: L\u2019Extase\u201d does Clare reveal anything close to a forceful melodic line. The music is such that it doesn\u2019t often suggest a particular mood or emotion: those choices and impressions are also left to the listener.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man\u2019s new age music is another\u2019s neoclassical. On his debut release, pianist and composer Frank Clare aims for the latter. The crystalline and unadorned piano textures that grace this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,40,48,49,65],"tags":[5323],"class_list":["post-26807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classical","category-instrumental","category-new-age","category-new-release","category-review","tag-frank-clare","cat-17-id","cat-40-id","cat-48-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26807"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27049,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26807\/revisions\/27049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}