Amazing new classical chamber music written in a style reminiscent of Beethoven that transports listeners to distant galaxies. Recorded at the Moscow Radio House by the phenomenally gifted Sheremetyev Ensemble.

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#		Title	Length	Sample
1		Ballad-Sonata for Violin and Piano	12:58
2		Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (1)	5:21
3		Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (2)	3:15
4		Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (3)	6:31
5		Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (1)	7:09
6		Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (2)	5:22
7		Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (3)	4:50
8		Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (4)	6:21
9		Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (1)	4:49
10		Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (2)	3:00
11		Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello (3)	5:50

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#1 ON THE CHARTS OF MP3.COM, PEOPLESOUND.COM, MPULSE.COM, AND IN THE CHARTS AND SPOTLIGHTS OF VITAMINIC.COM IN 10 COUNTRIES! RATED 9.9 BY GODS OF MUSIC.

If you admire the music of John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter and Arnold Schoenberg you will hate the music of John Mitchell. It is the most untrendy, unfashionable new classical music you will ever hear.


BIOGRAPHY:

American classical composer John Mitchell was born in Hollywood, California on April 26,1941, first son of John Stewart Mitchell, pianist and cousin of Canadian novelist W.O. Mitchell, and Hungarian-born singer Teresa Hideg Mitchell. He studied music composition at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a protg of Dr. John Vincent, then head of composition. In 1965, after Dr.Vincent lost his position to proponents of atonality (no melodies or harmonies) there was no place at UCLA for a composer writing in traditional forms, and John Mitchell left, but he and Dr.Vincent remained close friends until Vincent's death in 1977.

Since 1962 Mitchell has been a church music director, organist, and opera coach. His compositions include works for solo piano and organ, choral music, chamber music, art songs and operas. In 2000-2002 he has written two piano sonatas, a song cycle based on T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a setting of Robert Browning's Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came for vocal quartet, a quartet for flute, viola, bassoon and piano, a dance suite for piano, a requiem mass, and song settings of poetry of Anne Sexton. Current projects include song settings of the poetry of Dylan Thomas, Persian poet Kabir (in translation), South American poets Jorge Luis Borges and Delmira Agustini (in the original Spanish), a string quartet, and an opera based on Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights. Mitchell is a member of the American Guild of Organists, the American Music Center, and the Center for Promotion of Contemporary Composers. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Vicky , a dog named Chelsea, and five cats (Elizabeth, Adolf, Shelley, Isolde and Babalou).


FAN MAIL:

As I type this, I'm listening to the piano quartet and enjoying it enormously. What wonderful stuff!

best,
Jeff
(Jeffrey Sweet, playwright, http://hometown.aol.com/DgSWEET/index.html)

Dear John
I took a chance and listened to your music on MP3.com. You are a great composer. I didn't know there were any of them out there any more. I wish you the best of luck with your great music.---David Bagno, composer, MP3.com, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/62/david_bagno.html

To: Vicky
Honestly, I don't like very much classical music.
So, the truth is that I made some effort to listen to John's "Trio for...". Well, efforts were to start. After 30 seconds no more effort and after 2 minutes I stopped.... and started again the whole song to get the pleasure of listening.
Well, just to say it's a good surprise to me. The rank of this song let me think that it probably is a good surprise too for thousands of listeners.---Michel Camboulives (CAMBOU), composer (Europop), MP3.com, http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/156/cambou.html

Estimado Maestro John Mitchell:
Hoy lo conoc por Internet en su pgina oficial, escuch las obras disponibles, y ya no dud que estaba frente a un GRAN COMPOSITOR. Gracias a Dios an quedan creadores con el buen gusto clsico, y que entienden y saben transmitir lo que es realmente el arte!!!.---Fernando Esteban, music student, Argentina, mmoozzaarrtt2003@yahoo.com.ar

...una Msica de alguien llamado John Mitchell, una Msica creada HOY con el Espritu de Siempre, esto es, de la Msica de toda la Vida, la que crearon los que conocemos hoy como Los Grandes. Dentro de 100 aos, de 200 o de 3000, su Msica seguir sonando.---Quirn Alvar,Primera Puerta, http://quiron_alvar.tripod.com