The Harp of New Albion

Disc: 1

1. New Albion Chorale/The Discovery

2. Orchestra of Tao

3. Riding the Westerleys

Disc: 2

1. Cadence on the Wind

2. Premonition Rag

3. Return of the Ancestors

4. Ascending Whale Dreams

5. Magic Knot Waltz

6. Circle of Wolves

7. Land's End

The Harp of New Albion,Terry Riley,Celestial Harmonies,Ambient,Minimalism,New Age / Meditation,Pop

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Average customer rating: Gratitude.... Enjoyable and modern Finest Harrison CD that I Own Deeply spiritual music Don't listen

La Koro Sutro Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Harrison: Piano Concerto/Suite For Violin, Piano And Small Orchestra Harrison: Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Javanese Gamelan Music of Lou Harrison Drums Along The Pacific Chamber and Gamelan Works ASIN: B000000R2D Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

1. La Koro Sutro: Kunsonoro kaj Gloro - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
2. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 1 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
3. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 2 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
4. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 3 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
5. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 4 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
6. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 5 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
7. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 6 - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
8. La Koro Sutro: Strofo 7/Mantro Kaj Kunsonoro - The Chorus and Chamber Chorus of The University Of California at Berkeley
9. Varied Trio: I. Gending - The Abel/Steinberg/Winant Trio
10. Varied Trio: II. Bowl Bells - The Abel/Steinberg/Winant Trio
11. Varied Trio: III. Elegy - The Abel/Steinberg/Winant Trio
12. Varied Trio: IV. Rondeau in Honor of Fragonard - The Abel/Steinberg/Winant Trio
13. Varied Trio: V. Dance - The Abel/Steinberg/Winant Trio
14. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: First Movement - David Abel
15. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Estampie - David Abel
16. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Air - David Abel
17. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Jhala I - David Abel
18. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Jhala II - David Abel
19. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Jhala III - David Abel
20. Suite for Violin and American Gamelan: Chaconne - David Abel

Customer Reviews:

Gratitude...........2004-06-15

I didn't know Lou Harrison from chopped liver until this lovely late spring evening of 2004, when it was given to me to hear Lo Koro Sutro whilst watching a Hudson Valley sunset.

I have been "working" with the Heart Sutra for about 30 years...and I write to you all, not as a music person (though I have those credens) but as a very thankful Dharma person who finally heard a version of this sutra proper for the West.

Btw, it happens to be beautiful too.

Enjoyable and modern.......2003-04-03

This is an album of modern pieces that are quite creative and enjoyable. There is a good variation found here and this allows for a rewarding hour of listining. It is one to listen to, not to play in the background.

Finest Harrison CD that I Own.......2002-07-20

I am a great fan of the varied career of Lou Harrison, perhaps the most eclectic of all American composers. His music shows the influence of Gamelan and other eastern elements, but it is music that is clearly of the west. He still even occasionally composes in twelve-note fashion, though of course within his own unique style.

La Koro Sutro is a masterwork, perhaps the most impressive Harrision work I have yet heard. The text is an Esperanto translation of the Buddhist Heart Sutra, accompanied by the "American Gamelan" (instruments created by Harrison and his life partner, William Colvig), harp and organ. Throughout the piece, Harrison displays his genius for sound. The choral writing too is excellent and the piece rises to a luminous conclusion. Deeply spiritual and moving music!

The other works on the recording are equally fine. The Varied Trio is a beautiful work for violin, piano and percussion. It is written in Harrison's "oriental chamber music" style. The titles of the movements show the varied influences from Indonesian and the French Baroque (Rondeau in Honor of Fragonard). The Suite for Violin and American Gamelan is also stunning. The slow first movement is haunting. The piece then morphs into a series of Baroque inspired dance pieces with some Indian influences in the Jhala movements. As always, Harrison fuses his overtly asian influence with a distinctively Western attitude toward composition.

Harrison should be more widely appreciated I think. His music is mostly tonal and immediately communicative. As such, it should command the same wide audience that has embraced Part, Gorecki and Tavener. But Harrison is not simple-minded as some of the minimalists can be, particularly Tavener at his worst. The music is always fresh and rewarding, and the harmonic pallete is adventurous without becoming too dissonant.

If you are a fan of minimalism, world music, or simply contemporary music that can be immediately enjoyed and yet stand up to close scrutiny, this is a great place to start. I can not give this CD enough praise!

Deeply spiritual music.......2000-05-17

"La Koro Sutro" is Esperanto for "the Heart Sutra," a traditional Buddhist hymn. I found this music deeply moving and spiritual. Lou Harrison studied with Arnold Schoenberg, but this music is not at all like Schoenberg's. This music draws you in, sometimes with unusual percussive effects (Harrison uses strange instruments like metal rice bowls), sometimes with warm, ethereal vocals. I highly recommend this album.

Don't listen.......2000-03-17

This CD is not for the faint at heart. Apparently, La Koro Sutra is Lou Harrison's finest choral work. If that is the case, I would hate to hear any other. It is very boring and often very meditative. I was severely disappointed with his music.

If you are a Harrison fan, the performance on this CD is mediocre.

Average customer rating: Incredible renditions of Cage piano pieces

Daughters of the Lonesome Isle Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ballets | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Cage, John | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Ballets & Dances | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Litania - Margaret Leng Tan plays Somei Satoh John Cage - The Seasons / Leng Tan, Russell Davies, et al ASIN: B000000R3U Release Date: 1994-10-18

Tracks:

1. Bacchanale
2. In A Landscape
3. Daughter Of The Lonesome Isle
4. The Seasons: Prelude I
5. The Seasons: Winter
6. The Seasons: Prelude II
7. The Seasons: Spring
8. The Seasons: Prelude III
9. The Seasons: Summer
10. The Seasons: Prelude IV
11. The Seasons: Fall
12. The Seasons: Finale (Prelude I)
13. Suite For Toy Piano: 1
14. Suite For Toy Piano: 2
15. Suite For Toy Piano: 3
16. Suite For Toy Piano: 4
17. Suite For Toy Piano: 5
18. Ophelia
19. In The Name Of The Holocaust: A
20. In The Name Of The Holocaust: B
21. Music For Piano #2

Customer Reviews:

Incredible renditions of Cage piano pieces.......1999-12-22

Margaret Leng Tan, the pianist on this album, knew and played for John Cage himself for more than a decade. The insight that comes with such a relationship with the composer shines through on this album. I can scarcely imagine better versions of these wonderful piano pieces. The pieces span a variety of types of pianos (prepared piano, toy piano, regular piano, bowed piano) and moods. From the incredibly beautiful ("In a Landscape" is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard) to the aggressive ("Ophelia") to the minimalist ("Music for Piano #2), this album spans quite a bit of the possibilities for piano music. I highly recommend it, but should caution you that you must have an open mind to enjoy this--this could be unlike you might have heard a piano played before (or imagined it could be played). If you like this, I recommend "The Perilous Night/Four Walls," which also has Margaret Leng Tan playing piano.

Average customer rating: In a word, Wow! Harping Up The Wrong Tree a gorgeous solo piano tour de force Very Good What can I say!...

The Harp of New Albion Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Riley, Terry | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Descending Moonshine Dervishes / Songs for the Ten Voices of the Two Prophets Shri Camel Terry Riley: Salome Dances for Peace Lisbon Concert Rainbow in Curved Air ASIN: B0000007ZH Release Date: 1992-01-23

Tracks:

1. The Harp Of New Albion: The New Albion Chorale-The Discovery
2. The Harp Of New Albion: The Orchestra Of Tao
3. The Harp Of New Albion: Riding The Westerleys

Tracks:

1. The Harp Of New Albion: Cadence On The Wind
2. The Harp Of New Albion: Premonition Rag
3. The Harp Of New Albion: Return Of The Ancestors
4. The Harp Of New Albion: Ascending Whale Dreams
5. The Harp Of New Albion: The Magic Knot Waltz
6. The Harp Of New Albion: Circle Of Wolves
7. The Harp Of New Albion: Land's End

Album Description

The Harp of New Albion is a transfixing solo piano recording, conceived and performed by world-renowned minimalist composer, the ever-innovative Terry Riley. His inspiration for this work came from a legendary harp, left behind in the New World in 1579, on the shores of Nova Albion, which is now called San Francisco Bay. A Native American medicine man is said to have found the harp and placed it on a cliff where the westerly winds played upon it and temperature and humidity changes created an ever-shifting set of tonalities. Riley bases the ten movements of The Harp of New Albion on the concept of tonalities. The liner notes explain the complicated ratios Riley devised for tuning his octaves. He says, "The idea of piano as harp influences my method of playing, as does the tuning from which the particular consonances and dissonances determine the emerging energies that flow through both instrument and performer." Although Riley improvises throughout The Harp of New Albion, each movement is defined by structural or composed elements. Astonishingly, the halo of harmonics drifting above his solo piano creates an orchestral sound, complete with horns, reeds, strings and voices. At times, the melodic interplay is ethereal, the micro-tonal relationships within the standing waves of sounds creating a haunting spectrum. Special note should be taken of the majestic Bosendorfer Imperial grand piano, especially tuned for Riley to play in the acoustically-fabulous Academy of Music in Munich, Germany. The entire recording was accomplished during one incredible night of inspired piano performance.

Customer Reviews:

In a word, Wow!.......2006-10-25

This was the most amazing recording I may have ever heard. I've loved everything I've heard by Terry Riley and "The Harp of New Albion" is no exception. The tuning system he uses called just intonation really creates a different kind of music unlike anything I've ever heard before. The mircotonal relationships create unique sonorities and the piece has a profound effect on the listener. I didn't know what to expect when I listenened to this, and I was thinking that I might be convulsing in terror from dissonance. It was actually quite the opposite. Rarely was the piece ever uncomfortablly dissonant. In spite of the microtonal tuning system, the music was actually quite consonant and fairly pleasing and relaxing, and yet it was obvious that I was hearing relationships between notes that I've never heard before. I know the sound of a tuning system outside of the traditional "equal temprament" system that has been used throughout the history of western music may sound horrific by mere explanation. But hearing this piece was an incredibly enjoyable experience. The only criticism that I have of the piece is that it is fairly long due to Riley's extensive improvisiation. Running at about 110 minutes, it can start to sound a little overwhelming for that long. The modal sounds can start to sound a little repetitive but it is nevertheless a very incredible listening experience. The future of classical music lies here. Though it took many years for classical music to expand from tonality to atonality, I think it's only a matter of time before microtonality takes a prominent stand and possibly will take over.

Harping Up The Wrong Tree.......2006-06-11

Anyone who buys this CD thinking it has something to do with harp music is going to be very disappointed. There's nothing of the tranquility and serenity of the harmonious harp here. What you get is rather percussive and at times repetitive pianoplaying, seemingly based on random chords. The sort of stuff you don't want to play for more than ten minutes. Buyer Beware!

a gorgeous solo piano tour de force.......2004-10-03

This double CD is based on a legend of a harp left behind by Sir Francis Drake in what is now California; the harp was supposedly placed atop an altar on a cliff at the ocean's edge, where the wind playing over its strings created an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of sounds as the changing weather affected its tuning.

Using a tuning other than the equal temperament that Western music has used for several centuries now guarantees unusual results, but it takes a composer and performer such as Riley to create beauty such as on this CD. You'll hear some traditional musical forms here (waltz and even ragtime!), but from a new point of view. It's easy to get lost in this music, but pay attention. It's worth it.

Very Good.......2004-02-10

I just got this cd from the libary but I'll have to purchace it now. It's probably the best modern experamental classical music I've heard. It's all solo piano and the piano is tuned like a harp so it sounds very unique. I'd highly recomend it to anyone.

What can I say!..........2002-09-11

Wow. unbelievable. Check it out. hard to credit. superlative. sell whatever you own (you husband, wife, offspring, everything!). get this NOW!...

Average customer rating:

Early and as Remembered Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Thomson | Thomson, Virgil | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Brass | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000R2U Release Date: 1994-04-05

Tracks:

1. In Paris: Prelude
2. In Paris: Valse Gregoienne
3. In Paris: Preciosillo
4. In Paris: Three Portaits: Madame Dubost chez elle
5. In Paris: Three Portraits: Clair Leonard's Profile
6. In Paris: Three Portraits: Russell Hitchcock, Reading
7. In Paris: Three Portraits: Five Phrases From The Sing Of Solomon
8. At Home And Abroad: Four New England Portraits: A Day-Dream: A Portrait Of Herbert Whiting
9. At Home And Abroad: Four New England Portraits: Meditation: A Portait Of Jere Abbott
10. At Home And Abroad: Four New England Portraits: Hymn: A Portrait Of Josiah Marvel
11. At Home And Abroad: Four New England Portraits: The Hunt Hymn: A Portrait Of A.E. Austin
12. At Home And Abroad: Three French Boys: Portrait Of Claude Biais
13. At Home And Abroad: Three French Boys: A French Boy Of Ten: Louis Lange
14. At Home And Abroad: Three French Boys: Maurice Bavoux: Young And Alone
15. At Home And Abroad: Three Parisian Portraits: Poltergeist: A Portrait Of Hans Arp
16. At Home And Abroad: Three Parisian Portraits: Aria: A Portrait Of Germaine Hugnet
17. At Home And Abroad: Three Parisian Portraits: Swiss Waltz: A Portrait Of Sophie Tauber-Arp
18. At The Chelsea Hotel: At The Beach
19. At The Chelsea Hotel: Peter Monro Jack: Scottish Memories
20. At The Chelsea Hotel: Homage To Marya Freund And To The Harp
21. At The Chelsea Hotel: Five Shakespeare Songs: 1. 'Was This Fair Fave The Casue?'; 2. 'Take, O, Take THose Lips Away'; 3. 'Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred'; 4. 'Paradon, Goddess Of The Night'; 5. 'Sigh No More, Ladies'
22. At The Chelsea Hotel: Man Of Iron: A Portrait Of Will Eisenhart
23. At The Chelsea Hotel: The Courtship Of The Yongly Bongly Bo
24. At The Chelsea Hotel: Dr. Marvel Rock: Making A Decision
25. At The Chelsea Hotel: Mally Davies: Terminations
26. At The Chelsea Hotel: Jone Bowles: Early And As Remebered

Average customer rating: The only record of its kind, and well-done inconsistent, directionless, some great material

Just Guitars: Microtonal Music for Guitar Manufacturer: Bridge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Tangos | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Riley, Terry | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music | Computer General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Modern & 20th Century | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music English | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Just West Coast The Harry Partch Collection, Volume 1 Pan's Labyrinth (New Line Two-Disc Platinum Series) ASIN: B000096JH4 Release Date: 2003-05-05

Tracks:

1. Carter Scholz: Rhythmicon
2. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
3. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
4. Lou Harrison: Scenes from Nek Chand
5. Lou Harrison: Tandy's Tango
6. Lou Harrison: Cinna
7. Lou Harrison: Palace Music
8. Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
9. Lou Harrison: Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine'
10. Lou Harrsion: Serenado por Gitaro
11. Harry Partch: Letter from Hobo Pablo
12. Harry Partch: December 1942
13. Harry Partch: December 1942
14. Harry Partch: December 1942
15. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
16. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
17. Harry Partch: Three Intrusions
18. Terry Riley: Harp of New Albion
19. Terry Riley: Harp of New Albion
20. John Schneider: Lament

Album Description

This recording features the premiere recordings of works by the late Lou Harrison and the legendary Harry Partch. John Schneider, guitarist and Los Angeles radio personality performs on a wide variety of guitars using such instruments as Partch's microtonal Adapated Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Fender guitars, a National Resophonic Guitar, and other instruments that feature tuneable fretboards for various types of Just Intonation. Lou Harrison (1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for National Steel guitar, custom fretted in Just Intonation. The Scenes from Nek Chand uses a six-note mode and is based on the sculpure and architecture of Nek Chand in northern India. Harry Partch worked on the adapatation of guitars in the 1930s, using one for his Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions (1941) (available on BRIDGE 9041). The opening of Partch's long lost song cycle, December 1942, begins with a setting of the jester's song "Come Away Death" from Shakespearre's Twelfth Night. Three Intrusions (1949) are the first compositions to use Partch's newly invented Diamond Marimba and the Adapted Guitar 2. Both of these works feature Schneider singing and intoning the vocal parts, as well as performing on copies of Partch's Adapted Guitars.

Also available: Just West Coast, John Schneider guitars, BRIDGE 9041

Customer Reviews:

The only record of its kind, and well-done.......2006-01-10

While I too have some criticisms, I can't imagine anyone having the time to do all the unique things that had to be done to realize this album and still have time to get every little thing perfect. This stands beyond many albums in terms of performance and artistry. It is unique and varied. It is definitely a bit jolting in terms of consistency, from the electric-sounding track 1, to the Partch, whereas the rest is more normal guitar playing. But it is all worthwhile. Schneider's singing may not sound like Partch, but his inflection and interpretation are suberb in terms of following the composer's intent. His playing is technically brilliant. It is not fair but to view this as an early recording in a basically yet-to-be-explored field. I hope this album inspires many to build on the ground that Schneider and a few others are working to lay down.

inconsistent, directionless, some great material.......2005-10-15

The reason this recording is important is because it has several important pieces which are on record for the first time, a few by Lou Harrison, a few by Harry Partch. The performances are technically excellent but some truly lack soul. The album is for the most part consistent until we reach the Harry Partch material which seems out of place (this is when it takes a turn and makes the listener cringe), John Schneider sings on the Harry Partch tracks, the singing is very sub-par. He sings about being a hobo and riding a train but the voice sounds far too crisp and clean. But it's hard to complain because these are their first time on record and our only way to hear them. You need to close your eyes and Imagine a gruff, hairy, hobo singing them. Also, the piece written by John Scheider feels a little too melodic and peaceful for this record. This disk has some great material on it, but purchase with an informed mind.

Average customer rating: Good but not Exciting

Lou Harrison: Solo Keyboards - Complete Harpsichord Works, Music for Tack Piano & Fortepiano Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Gigue | Baroque Dance Suites | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Harrison: Piano Concerto/Suite For Violin, Piano And Small Orchestra ASIN: B000062TBP Release Date: 2002-03-26

Tracks:

1. Allegro Moderato
2. Adagio, Arioso
3. Estampie
4. Pastorale
5. Quadrille
6. Chorale
7. Homage to Milhaud
8. Jahla
9. Gigue & Musette
10. Sonata I (Moderato)
11. Sonata II (Allegro)
12. Sonata III (Moderato)
13. Sonata IV (Allegro)
14. Sonata V (Moderato)
15. Sonata VI (Allegro)
16. I. Medium Fast
17. II. Slow
18. III. Fast
19. IV. Medium Slow
20. V. Grand
21. I. Sonata - Air - Sonata Da Capo
22. II. Ground
23. III. Round for the Triumph of Alexander
24. Triphony
25. A Twelve-Tone Morning After to Amuse Henry
26. Largo Ostinato

Album Description

Complete harpsichord works with music for tack piano & fortepiano in historic and experimental tunings

Customer Reviews:

Good but not Exciting.......2002-08-02

This CD is not a bad CD. The music is extremely well played and the repertoire is interesting, but it just seems to be lacking in the spark that I associate with Lou Harrison.

This recording is dominated by harpsichord music in just intonation with a few pieces for fortepiano and a couple of tack piano pieces thrown in for variety. Most of the works are in Harrison's Baroque/Eastern style. The first piece on the CD is a longish suite based on Baroque dance forms. The effect is rather like Rameau or Couperin, all elegance and grace. The six sonatas are obviously modeled on the Scarlatti sonatas. These are also charming works. The final few works on the CD are from aHarrision's earlier period. There is even a spoof on 12 tone music just for fun.

So what's the problem? I think that, because of the similarity of timbre in this recital, the disc begins to sound rather grey after a while. The harpsichord as an instrument, tends toward a deadening consistency of tone color. Most players reslove this by creating programs by diverse composers, or programs of Bach, who seems to defy boredom. Harrision is a good composer, but without the tonal contrasts of his ensemble pieces, this CD begins to fall flat after a while.

This is a CD for the completist only I think. People new to Harrision would do better to buy the Piano Concerto or La Koro Sutro. Both of these pieces provide a better introduction to the work of this marvelous composer.

Average customer rating: A must have

The Padova Concert Manufacturer: Amiata Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Quartets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Riley, Terry | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Minimal Techno | Techno | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Lisbon Concert ASIN: B00000DMJZ Release Date: 1997-06-24

Tracks:

1. The New Albion Chorale -The Discovery
2. Cadenza On The Wind
3. Premonition Rag
4. The New Albion Chorale (Reprise)
5. Peace Dance
6. Turning
7. Mongolian Winds
8. The Magic Knot Waltz
9. The New Albion Chorale (Final Reprise)
10. Land's End

Customer Reviews:

A must have.......2003-02-12

This could be a nice way to discover the art of Terry Riley for people who don't know him, or just know his famous 'In C'. Like most of its live recordings, it's a peaceful and rich trip from which you can't escape before the end... if it really finishes, because it will continue in your mind for a long time after the music had stop.

And for Terry Riley enthusiasts, you'll get the very best of Terry Riley's unique art of long live performance, something that you're already aware with other lives like 'Poppy NoGood and the Phantom Band' for example.

Piano lovers should also buy this masterpiece !

Average customer rating: Up-beat modernist guitar disc

Serenado Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Tangos | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Duets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Trios | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Harp | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Tanenbaum, David | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Drums Along The Pacific La Koro Sutro Music of Lou Harrison Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs ASIN: B00008Z47H Release Date: 2003-06-24

Tracks:

1. Avalokiteshvara
2. Threnody to the Memory of Oliver Daniel
3. Sonata in Ishartum
4. Beverlys Troubadour Piece
5. Music for Bill and Me
6. Jahla - in the form of a Ductia to pleasure Leopold Stokowski on his ninetieth birthday
7. Serenado por Gitaro
8. Plaint
9. Variations on Walter Von der Vogelweides Song of Palestine
10. Serenade for Guitar - Round
11. Serenade for Guitar - Air
12. Serenade for Guitar - Infinite Canon
13. Serenade for Guitar - Usul - little homage to Sinan
14. Serenade for Guitar - Sonata
15. Scenes from Nek Chand - The Leaning Lady
16. Scenes from Nek Chand - The Rock Garden
17. Scenes from Nek Chand - The sinuous arcade with swings in the arches
18. Tandys Tango
19. A Waltz for Evelyn Hinrichsen

Customer Reviews:

Up-beat modernist guitar disc.......2004-06-27

If you don't know Lou Harrison's music that is lively and effusive in its essence try this disc! I have played it many times and find it continually rewarding.

Average customer rating: soundscape, texture, melody, and bliss. Evocative sparse textures and motifs, satisfying.

The Far Country Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: John Luther Adams: Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing John Luther Adams - In the White Silence The Light That Fills the World John Luther Adams: Earth and the Great Weather Winter Music: Composing the North ASIN: B000000R3L Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

1. The Fair Country: Dream In White On White
2. The Fair Country: Night Peace
3. The Fair Country: The Far Country Of Sleep

Customer Reviews:

soundscape, texture, melody, and bliss........2002-06-27

john luther adams, a resident of alaska, consistently blows me away with his ability to transplant even the most urban of us to another land, another place, another time. the first piece featured on "the far country", "dream in white on white", is referential to landscape both in title and sound texture. long, drawn string tones with slow arpeggiations in the the harp make the listener believe that s/he has been beamed down into the most perfect of all tranquil landscapes... without feeling like s/he is stuck in a new age album. no, there is nothing new age-y about the music of john luther adams, just transcendent otherworldliness.

Evocative sparse textures and motifs, satisfying........1999-11-01

The words "Far Country" were carefully chosen for this music. As I listen to these works I feel effortlessly transported to a realm where everything makes sense in the way that ancient stories strike something archetypal and evocative in us. The "stories" are very sparsely arranged tone poems that are like watching a winter dawn slowly progress.

There is a very limited palette of thematic and textural variation, but, unlike some minimalist "trance music", there always seems to be a logic and intelligence behind the flow that invites continued awake listening.

I rate this a welcome addition to my music library, a vision that is unique and does not pale on repeated listening.

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New Music - Piano Compositions By Henry Cowell / Brown, Hays, Kubera, Cahill Manufacturer: New Albion Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Dances | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Schoenberg: Piano Works ASIN: B000003TM6 Release Date: 1999-06-22

Tracks:

1. Dynamic Motion (1914)
2. What's This? (1914)
3. Amiable Conversation (1917)
4. Advertisement (1914)
5. Antimony (1914)
6. Timetable
7. The Banshee (c. 1925)
8. Exultation (1919)
9. Tides Of Manaunaun (c. 1912)
10. Aeolian Harp (1923)
11. Hero Sun
12. Fabric (1917)
13. Lilt of the Reel (1925)
14. Nine Ings (1922) - Floating
15. Nine Ings - Frisking
16. Nine Ings - Fleeting
17. Nine Ings - Scooting
18. Nine Ings - Wafting
19. Nine Ings - Seething
20. Nine Ings - Whisking
21. Nine Ings - Sneaking
22. Nine Ings - Swaying
23. Slow Jig (1925)
24. The Fairy Answer (1929)
25. Set of Two Movements - Deep Color
26. Set of Two Movements - High Color

Amazon.com

When you hear the methodical full-body slams (or so they seem) delivered by pianist Chris Brown on Henry Cowell's Dynamic Motion, it amazes that the composer scripted the piece in 1914. Exactly when the world was hitting its modern stride, when speed was vital, Cowell was plunging listeners into the most dense piano music ever composed, even using the term cluster to describe how the piano ought to be played in his works. This collection of 26 Cowell pieces focuses on the easily contained modern era, all of it composed before 1930 and most before 1925. Don't let that mislead you, though; these are some of American music's most maverick moments, times when Cowell made himself perfectly clear in declaring a new language for the keyboard. The pieces, while resolutely American in their declarative, independent character, are also painfully lovely, each suggesting (and many making abundantly clear) the profusion of tonal and atonal possibilities in different clusters. The performers are an adventurous lot, with Brown and Joseph Kubera the best known. But Sorrel Hays and Sarah Cahill do equally tremendous things with these works, exploding them for their full interpretive potential (as Cowell would want). This is one of the great piano-music releases of the 1990s, intrepid and sonically outstanding. --Andrew Bartlett

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10. Urgh! A Music War [Live]

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