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Title: Shallow, mindless fluff
Review: It's elevator music.There is emotion, certainly, but it's shallow emotion. It's grandiose, but not uplifting, and actually a bit maudlin in places. His musical ideas are not really /saying/ anything. It's not even interesting after the first few moments. The overall effect is flat and it leaves one with nothing.By contrast, the keyboard music of Arvo Pärt has a depth that continually unfolds as one becomes familiar with it --- to say nothing of Bach or Schumann.Not every composer who takes himself seriously is actually writing serious music.
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