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mark12_30 · 01-09-2004, 02:49 PM

MIDDLE-EARTH MUSIC REVIEWS

TITLE: Voices of Middle-Earth (Italian)
MUSICIANS: Giuseppe Festa
GENRE: Wonderful folk music. Very very middle-earthy. Haunting flute, quiet & gentle elvish-tenor voice, various folk instruments. Lovely.
CANONICAL TOLKIEN or ORIGINAL? Canonical Tolkien verse-- in Italian...
REVIEW: The music of Giuseppe Festa is magnificent. There's a twenty-minute instrumental at the end of the album that stops me in my tracks repeatedly. His Tolkien tunes are by and large singable. And he has a very elvish restlessness and longing in his work.

***** out of five.
DO YOU RECOMMEND IT? Absolutely. Gorgeous music. And you can sing the English lyrics to the tunes. Wooohoo!
PRICE YOU PAID : Roughly $30 once I paid for shipping.
WHERE YOU BOUGHT IT: At the website www.lingalad.com

01-09-2004, 02:49 PM	#4
mark12_30 Stormdancer of Doom Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars Posts: 4,349	MIDDLE-EARTH MUSIC REVIEWS TITLE: Voices of Middle-Earth (Italian) MUSICIANS: Giuseppe Festa GENRE: Wonderful folk music. Very very middle-earthy. Haunting flute, quiet & gentle elvish-tenor voice, various folk instruments. Lovely. CANONICAL TOLKIEN or ORIGINAL? Canonical Tolkien verse-- in Italian... REVIEW: The music of Giuseppe Festa is magnificent. There's a twenty-minute instrumental at the end of the album that stops me in my tracks repeatedly. His Tolkien tunes are by and large singable. And he has a very elvish restlessness and longing in his work. ***** out of five. DO YOU RECOMMEND IT? Absolutely. Gorgeous music. And you can sing the English lyrics to the tunes. Wooohoo! PRICE YOU PAID : Roughly $30 once I paid for shipping. WHERE YOU BOUGHT IT: At the website www.lingalad.com __________________ ...down to the water to see the elves dance and sing upon the midsummer's eve.