Different Dimensions: Anthology [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Track Listings

1. Snowflakes Are Dancing

2. Dawn Chorus

3. Bolero

4. Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells

5. Reverie

6. Gardens in the Rain

7. Footprints in the Snow

8. World of Different Dimensions (Valse Triste)

9. Arabesque, No. 1

10. Infernal Dance of King Kastchei

11. Girl With the Flaxen Hair

12. Great Gate of Kiev

13. Passepied

14. Old Castle

15. Whistle Train

16. Promenade

17. Golliwog's Cakewalk

18. Canon of Three Stars (The Pachebel Canon)

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Comprehensive Digitally Remastered Compilation of the Synthesizer Pioneer's Albums for Red Seal.

Different Dimensions: Anthology,Tomita,Bmg Int'l,Electronic,New Age,Pop,Progressive Electronic,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tracks:

Snowflakes Are Dancing
Dawn Chorus
Bolero
Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells
Reverie
Gardens in the Rain
Footprints in the Snow
World of Different Dimensions (Valse Triste)
Arabesque, No. 1
Infernal Dance of King Kastchei
Girl With the Flaxen Hair
Great Gate of Kiev
Passepied
Old Castle
Whistle Train
Promenade
Golliwog's Cakewalk
Canon of Three Stars (The Pachebel Canon)

Album Details

Comprehensive Digitally Remastered Compilation of the Synthesizer Pioneer's Albums for Red Seal.

Customer Reviews:

Great Tomita Collection.......2004-12-20

If you don't know where to begin, try this great TOMITA album first. If you want to know more detailed information about all discography from TOMITA, go to: www.isaotomita.net With this album you have 18 good reasons to enjoy the TOMITA's work. Highly Recommended.

Complete list of Tomita's classical albums..........2002-03-05

5 stars for the music, but why do all the Tomita compilation CDs have almost the same tracks with so much available?

A big box set of every classical Tomita album would be even better. Most of the CDs out of print for years are absolutely fantastic. Four of his albums would fit two on one CD. Here's the complete list...

Snowflakes Are Dancing 1974 (11 Debussy pieces) The newly remastered CD is an audiophile recording, adds Prelude To The Afternoon of a Faun and is available for a good price.

Pictures At An Exhibition 1975 (Mussorgsky)

Firebird 1976 (Stravinsky: Firebird. Debussy: Prelude To The Afternoon of A Faun. Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain)

The Planets 1976 (Holst)

Kosmos 1978 (Star Wars Title. Space Fantasy- R. Strauss: 2001 Title, Wagner: Ride of The Valkyries and Tannhauser Overture. Honnegar: Pacific 231. Ives: Unanswered Question. Rodrigo: Aranjuez. Grieg: Solveig's Song. Dinicu-Heifetz: Hora Staccato. Bach-Tomita: The Sea Named Solaris)

The Bermuda Triangle 1979 (Sibelius: Valse Triste. And excerpts from... Williams: Close Encounters. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Scythian Suite, Symphonies 5 and 6, Violin Concerto 1. My favorite electronic CD.)

Bolero 1980 (Ravel: Daphis and Chloe. Pavane for A Dead Princess. Bolero. Mother Goose Suite)

The Grand Canyon 1982 (Grofe)

Canon of The Three Stars 1984 (Pachelbel: Canon. Rachmaninoff: Vocalise. Albinoni: Adagio. Bach: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring. 4 pieces from Villa Lobos: Bachianis Brasileiras 2, 4, and 7)

Live At Linz, Austria 1985 (With speakers on both sides of the Danube River and live soloists. Includes 7 pieces from previous albums plus Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Japanese Traditional: Cranes In Their Nest. Vaughn Williams: The Lark Ascending. Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde-Liebestod. Beethoven: Ode To Joy with full Choir.)

Live In New York 1988 (Includes 7 pieces from previous albums plus Dukas: Fanfare. Mahler: Symphony 3 in D Minor - 5th Movement. Traditional: Chinese War Lord Going Home. Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue. Fisher-Dvorak: Goin' Home. My favorite live concert CDs.)

Plus 5 Stars, Plus 5 Stars..........2001-11-02

Buy it now! You won't regret it. It has two of my favorite Tomita
renderings: "Bolero" with it's Ouroboros looping (after the thematic denouement, "Bolero" sounds as if a track tape snapped in two, to then speed wildly out of control, and "mistakenly" recorded over the loping, infernal, electric inchworm rhythm(!)) and "Girl With the Flaxen Hair". If you love recorded music and in particular digitally reprocessed renderings, you cannot go wrong with this great product!

Reprises some hard-to-find tracks.......2001-06-21

Tomita produced a CD in the early 80's titled Dawn Patrol or Canon of the Three Stars, depending on which release; out of print and rare. The music was produced by sampling from radio telescopes and then transforming the samples--real star music. Several of the tracks on this CD are from that body of work, and they are among Tomita's best.

A Well-Done Compilation.......2000-05-17

This anthology, which tries to sum up Isao Tomita's recordings for the Red Seal Label, actually managed to give a fairly complete panorama of his work. Tomita can be thought of as the precursor of ambient music - but unlike people who think that ambient is a sustained 23 minute sine wave, here music has DIRECTION. Granted, most of the stuff is synthesized renditions of "impressionistic" classical works, but the imaginative use Isao makes of his array of synths (most of this stuff was recorded in the early 70's, so we're talking about modular synths mainly - long before computer programming was available). The sonic pallete fits perfectly, and he makes good use of repetitive arpeggiator sequences to get a pulse going - and then he works his magic, specially in the arranging department. A truly unique - and sadly underestimated - artist.

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