Word: vol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES: VOL III (Fontana/Polygram). Voices, the name used by several women's choirs that sing traditional Bulgarian folk songs, has built a growing cult of listeners since its first U.S. release four years ago, and deservedly so. The a cappella harmonies use impossibly high pitches with exquisite precision. The effect is weird, beautiful and sometimes unearthly...
BEETHOVEN: THE LATE PIANO SONATAS, VOL. 1 (Dorian Recordings). Sonatas Nos. 28 and especially 29 (the "Hammerklavier") are immense in their emotional range and technical challenges. The contrapuntal writing is Olympian, the fugues exalted. Andrew Rangell possesses the intelligence and dexterity to reckon nobly with these humbling conceptions...
...LIFE OF PICASSO, VOL. I by John Richardson...
GEORGE MICHAEL: LISTEN WITHOUT PREJUDICE, VOL. 1 (Columbia). Michael's previous album, Faith, was a monster hit, and the biz expects this new record to push him into rock's commercial pantheon. Maybe. It's a schizy piece of work: part bombast, part hypercharged pop. Pop prevails, but it's a struggle...