Keys of Life: Piano Music from Celestial Harmonies

1. Spirit of Peace, Pt. 1 - Florian Fricke

2. Spirit of Peace, Pt. 2 - Florian Fricke

3. Book of Sounds, Pt. 7 - Hans Otte

4. Transpersonal - Peter Michael Hamel

5. Hymns from a Great Temple: Hymn 1 - Herbert Henck

6. Hymns from a Great Temple: Hymn 2 - Herbert Henck

7. Hymns from a Great Temple: Hymn 3 - Herbert Henck

8. Prélude Op. 74, No. 1 - Cecil Lytle

9. Prélude Op. 74, No. 2 - Cecil Lytle

10. Prélude Op. 74, No. 4 - Cecil Lytle

11. Prélude Op. 17, No. 6 - Cecil Lytle

12. Poéme Op. 32 No. 1 - Cecil Lytle

13. Etude, Op. 65, No. 2 - Cecil Lytle

14. New Albion Chorale - Terry Riley

Keys of Life: Piano Music from Celestial Harmonies,Various Artists,Celestial Harmonies,Ambient,Contemporary Instrumental,Ethnic Fusion,Minimalism,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop

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Average customer rating: Surprisingly consistent

Keys of Life: Piano Music from Celestial Harmonies Manufacturer: Celestial Harmonies ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Riley, Terry | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Scriabin, Alexander | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Preludes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Scriabin, Alexander | Composers | 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 General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Compilations | New Age | Styles | Music 1980s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music 1980-1989 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000007W5 Release Date: 1992-01-23

Tracks:

1. Spirit Of Peace: Part 1 - Florian Fricke
2. Spirit Of Peace: Part 2 - Florian Fricke
3. The Book Of Sounds: Part 7 - Hans Otte
4. Transpersonal - Peter Michael Hamel
5. Hymns From A Great Temple: Hymn 1 - Herbert Henck
6. Hymns From A Great Temple: Hymn 2 - Herbert Henck
7. Hymns From A Great Temple: Hymn 3 - Herbert Henck
8. Prelude Op.74 No.1 - Cecil Lytle
9. Prelude Op.74 No.2 - Cecil Lytle
10. Prelude Op.74 No.4 - Cecil Lytle
11. Prelude Op.17 No.6 - Cecil Lytle
12. Prelude Op.32 No.1 - Cecil Lytle
13. Prelude Op.65 No.2 - Cecil Lytle
14. The New Albion Chorale - Terry Riley

Album Description

Keys of Life represents the finest of contemporary piano music. This release offers an excellent sampler of the music of Celestial Harmonies' most celebrated artists. According to Stephen Hill and Anna Turner from Music From the Hearts of Space, "Keys of Life is an elegant collection of solo piano music selected with great care and understanding from the last five years of Celestial Harmonies releases". Without any intellectual pretensions toward doing so, Keys of Life documents the twentieth century European post-Romantic attempt at the direct stimulation of consciousness (rather than emotion) through music. From Cecil Lytle's sensitive performance of six miniatures by Russian mystic composer Alexander Skryabin, through the enormously dignified pan-Eurasian temple music of G.I. Gurdjieff and his pupil Thomas de Hartmann, to the latest just intonation piano experiments of Terry Riley, we hear a living artistic tradition unfolding through time. Florian Fricke's spacious and beautiful Spirit of Peace, Hans Otte's hypnotic, delicate music from The Book of Sounds, and the rippling, minimalistic patterns of Peter Michael Hamel's Transpersonal complete the collection. For those who appreciate clarity, intelligence, and the unique aesthetic world of refined subtlety, Keys of Life will completely satisfy.

Listeners will enjoy this beautiful combination of styles and artists that celebrates music as the key to life.

Customer Reviews:

Surprisingly consistent.......2007-06-21

I purchased this CD simply because it was cheap, it had a piece by Hans Otte played by Hans Otte and I was unaware of the other composers. I have since purchased music by Peter Michael Hamel and, no doubt, will investigate the other composers. Each time I play the CD I am amazed. It is moody, dark but strikingly beautiful. Any CD with a piece from the sublime Book of Sounds is aspiring to great heights and the other pieces on this particular compilation do not leave that Hans Otte masterpiece alone in the dark.

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