Peltonen : 8 results priced between £5.00 and £100.00

Finnish accordionist Aki Peltonen's often lyrically beautiful series of accordion improvisations are accompanied by brass, drums, and medium-wave radio signals. RADIO BANANA is an intriguing experiment with an often misunderstood instrument that at times recalls a more combative edition of Argentinian bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla's groundbreaking compositions. Aided and sometimes beset by horns, percussion, and electronics, Peltonen's fluid, inventive, often gravity defying accordion shines like...

Ondine ODE11432 : Samuli Peltonen / Helsinki Philharmonic / John Storgards / Uuno Klami / Northern Lights. Fantasy for orchestra. Cheremissian Fantasy for cello and orchestra. Kalevala Suite. Five tone pictures for large orchestra. /

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides a completely new account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanist rhetoric in the pre-revolutionary educational system and its vital contribution to the political culture of the period. Humanism, Markku Peltonen argues, was crucial to the development of the participatory character of English politics as schoolboys were taught how to speak about taxation...

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) is one of the most important figures of the early modern era. His plan for scientific reform played a central role in the birth of the new science. The essays in this volume offer a comprehensive survey of his writings on science, including his classifications of sciences, his theory of knowledge and of forms, his speculative philosophy, his idea of cooperative scientific research and the providential aspects of Baconian science. There are also essays on Bacon's theory of...

Delegate Onni Peltonen Standing in Large Hallway - Mark Kauffman - Premium Photographic Print from Art.co.uk

Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility...

Early modern England was a monarchy and the Englishman was a subject rather than a citizen. Scholars have assumed that those traditions of political thought that emphasize the citizen's active role exercised no influence in England between the mid-sixteenth century and the Civil War in the 1640s. Markku Peltonen challenges that view and argues that early modern Englishmen could characterize their life as one of participation rather than subjection and portrays their community as having several distinctively...

Background: This new recording pays tribute to Uuno Klami one of the most successful and cosmopolitan Finnish composers; his popularity in Finland equals that of Jean Sibelius and Einojuhani Rautavaara and still awaits major discovery beyond the national borders.