The Path to You

Track Listings

1. A Glimmer of Hope

2. If Only

3. The Path to You

4. La Costeña

5. The Warm Welcome

6. A Greener Blue

7. On Fertile Ground

8. The Boy With the Driftwood Stick

9. The Final Flight

10. In the Hearts of the Smallest Creatures

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Richard Dworsky is known to audiences around the world for his work as the pianist and music director for Garrison Keillor's " A Prairie Home Companion " radio show . His solo piano piece " A Morning With the Roses " appears on the " Windham Hill Piano Sampler " and on many other BMG compilations.His original music appears on many Prairie Home Companion recordings .In addition to his own recordings,he has recorded with the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Peter Ostroushko,John Gorka, Pat Donohue, and many others.

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A label created to bring the music of Richard Dworsky to a worldwide audience

The Path to You,Richard Dworsky

The Path to You

The Path to You

Journey into Deep Relaxation
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Excellent

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didn't like so don't listen to it

It just plain works!!

Sweet sleep!

Journey into Deep Relaxation
CHT Doreen Blumenfeld
Manufacturer: HeartHill
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Ease of Being: Guided Meditations for Centering and Healing

ASIN: B00006JLR9
Release Date: 2002-07-01

Tracks:

Introducton
The Journey

Album Description

A restful guided imagery CD creating a path towards deep relaxation. Helps to reduce stress and anxiety, achieve restorative sleep, enhance the body's natural healing process and increase balance and focus in your life. Background music especially composed to deepen your state of relaxation.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent.......2007-07-09

Excellent CD. Doreen has a very soothing voice spoken in a relaxed manner. The soft music in the background enhances the relaxed mood without becoming a focus in itself. The script she uses is concise enough to provide adequate guidance yet open-ended enough to make listining to it a very personal experience which can be listened to again and again as if it were the first time.

Try high quality speakers.......2007-07-08

I bought this cd along with several others. After awhile this has become my favorite. It's not the words or imagery, and this might sound wierd.
I tried it out recently on a higher quality system with expensive speakers. It may just be me, but it has the effect of percodan or loritab (pain medication).
Something about her voice, on the high end speakers multiplies the effect of relaxing me, even as I'm sitting up with eyes open. On my $100 stereo it's nothing special although still my favorite.

didn't like so don't listen to it.......2006-11-09

should have been as good as the others i got.

It just plain works!!.......2006-10-07

This CD is a strange mix of things -- from a guided imagery trip to a tale about a boy building a wall. Whatever. The bottom line is that it puts me to sleep almost every time. I can't remember the last time I heard the CD to the end. Maybe only twice out of 60 playings.

I can still have problems staying asleep (insomnia and mild sleep apnea) but that's another issue.

My wife has a bunch of Wendi Freisen CDs which absolutely do not work for me. Where Wendi's voice grates and annoys, Doreen's voice is, "like buttah".

Highly recommended.

Sweet sleep!.......2006-08-25

I bought this for my husband to help with his relaxation and sleep. Not only does he love it, but I do to! I put it in my DVD player at night, set the tv for auto shut off and Doreen knocks me out! I've been sleeping so well myself since listening to her. She has a great voice for relaxation, and I've yet to hear the whole cd! I also gave this to my mom who has problems with sleeping and she dittos what I've said.

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ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES
Enjoiyable, but lacking, too.

Handel: Belshazzar

Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0001ZWGHY
Release Date: 2004-06-15

Tracks:

Overture
Vain, Fluctuating State Of Human Empire!
Thou, God Most High, And Thou Alone
The Fate Of Babylon, I Fear, Is Nigh
Lament Not Thus, Oh Queen, In Vain!
Behold, By Persia's Hero Made
Well May They Laugh/Oh Memory! Still Bitter To My Soul
Opprest With Never-Ceasing Grief
Dry Thoes Unavailing Tears
Be Comforted: Safe Though The Tyrant Seem/Methought, As On The Bank Of Deep Euphrates
Now, Tell Me, Gobrias
Behold The Monstrous Human Beast
Can You Then Think It Strange
Great God! Who, Yet But Darkly Known
My Friends, Be Confident
All Empires Upon God Depend
Oh Sacred Oracles Of Truth!
Rejoyce, My Countrymen
Sing, Oh Ye Heav'ns!

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Let Festal Joy Triumphant Reign!
For You, My Friends
The Leafy Honours Of The Field
It Is The Custom, I May Say, The Law
Recall, Oh King! Thy Rash Command
They Tell You True
Oh Dearer Than My Life, Forebear!
By Slow Degrees The Wrath Of God
See, From His Post Euphrates Flies!
You See, My Friends, A Path
Amaz'd To Find The Foe So Near
To Arms, To Arms! No More Delay!
Ye Tutelar Gods Of Our Empire
Let The Deep Bowl Thy Praise Confess
Where Is The God Of Judah's Boasted Pow'r?
Call All My Wise Men

Tracks:

A Singony (Allegro Postillions)
Ye Sages! Welcome Always To Your King/Alas! Too Hard A Task The King Imposes
Oh Misery! - Oh Terror! - Hopeless Grief!
Oh King, Live For Ever!
No! To Thyself Thy Trifles Be
Yet, To Obey His Dread Command
Oh Sentence To Severe!
Oh God Of Truth! Oh Faithful Guide!
You, Gobrias, Lead Directly To The Palace
Oh Glorious Prince!
Alternate Hopes And Fears
Fain Would I Hope
Can The Black Aethiop Change His Skin?
My Hopes Revive
Bel Boweth Down!
I Thank, Thee, Sesach
A Martial Symphony
To Pow'e Immortal My First Thanks
Be It Thy Care, Good Gobrias
Great Victor, At Your Feet I Bow
Say, Venerable Prophet
Tell It Out Among The Heathen
Yes, I Will Build Thy City
I Will Magnify Thee

Customer Reviews:

ISSUE RESOLVED ON THE EUPHRATES.......2005-06-19

One question I might find among the more difficult in my life would be - which is my favourite Handel oratorio? I suspect that my answer would generally be 'the one I heard most recently', and that, as I write this, is Belshazzar. It is a magnificent thing, a heavenly thing. It has taken me longer than it should have to come to an appreciation of what makes Handel the phenomenon - as a genius, as an artist, as a craftsman - that he is, but I am comforted to reflect that no less a genius than Haydn, at the age of nearly 70 gaining a more thorough knowledge of Handel in performance, was driven to say that he felt a mere apprentice. In his sense of how to pace a dramatic narrative, in his instinct for how to use the human voice in song and above all in chorus, in the matchless flexibility and adroitness he displays at word-setting and in the audacity of his melodic and harmonic effects I can think of nobody who can approach Handel on his own terms.

Belshazzar was not a great success at the box-office, although this may have had more to do with difficulties in the casting than because it was deemed insufficiently biblical for oratorio, which seems to have been the fate of Hercules. It seems to me to be perfectly well described as oratorio in other ways too, with (for one thing) the extensive use of the chorus that we find in, say, Samson but not in Hercules. The one passage that cries out for visual effects is of course the apparition of the moving finger itself. Even here the composer can go a long way with sheer power of suggestion, by the strange unaccompanied violin figure creeping upwards and the frightened brevity of the vocal numbers. Otherwise for me Belshazzar is as much an oratorio as Samson is. It has the same librettist too, the crusty and formidable Jennens, who had also collaborated with Handel on Saul and on Messiah itself. Jennens' full text is not provided, but I think if you read the synopsis first and then follow the work from the headlines to each number you will have no difficulty in catching the words, so clear is the enunciation by soloists and chorus alike. As usual, Handel was driven to make alterations to the score for practical reasons. He had been a little concerned about its length, roughly 2 hours and 50 minutes in this performance, but where he wishes to be expansive he gives us full measure - two arias in Act I scene 4 take well over 7 minutes each. The liner-essay (a good one, by Anthony Hicks) goes into the issue of the version of the score used here, and I personally have no problem with it.

I have no faults to find with the performance in any way. Pinnock is an established specialist, the instruments are period instruments and vocal cadenzas at the end of the arias are kept minimal. Anthony Rolfe Johnson, James Bowman and David Wilson-Johnson are tried and trusted Handel singers and at their best here, and Nicolas Robertson and Richard Wistreich in the smaller parts are every bit as good. The part of Cyrus is a soprano part, taken by Catherine Robbin, and when I thought I heard just one touch of strain in `Destructive War' in the final scene she makes up for it instantly in her superb duet with Arleen Auger in the following number. Auger as Nitocris the mother of Belshazzar has the biggest part, and she covers herself with glory all the way through.

The recording is perfect, and when I saw an aria entitled `Destructive War, thy limits know' near the end I felt a sharp sense of irony in the year 2005. Cyrus, Handel, Jennens, you should all have been living at this hour.

Enjoiyable, but lacking, too........2004-08-16

This 3CD set of George Frederic Handel's (1685-1759) "Belshazzar", from Archiv Production, a division of Universal Music, is proof again that transfer from vinyl to tape to disc brings with it improvements in listening that make the purchase a worthwhile addition to anyone's listening library. Written in 1744, "Belshazzar" is an oratorio in the operatic style that is wonderful oratorio, but lacking the true depth one expects to hear in an opera. London opera audiences of Handel's day agreed, as both "Belshazzar" and Handel's other offering of the period in the same style, "Hercules", were not terribly successful. Instead of the scheduled 24 performances only 16 were given and Handel never offered a full season of oratorio again. The Libretto by Charles Jennens (1700-1773) is, as the production notes say, meant "not only to show the fall of Babylon but to show it as a fulfillment of divine prediction and to confirm the biblical testimony by reference to classical history." There's only one problem, as good a quality as the CDs are, it is not possible to follow the full libretto and the accompanying booklet includes no text, which is a shame. I think the listening experience would have been increased immeasurably if one was able to follow the text of what is being sung. Nonetheless the dramatic narrative is fluid and even, and the English Concert and Choir provide nice balance to the less full vocal passages, as in Disc 3s "Oh Glorious prince", cut 10. There is enough of this throughout to keep one's interest, but disappointing if what one expects is another ""Messiah".

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Moravian songs, via Janacek, Godar, Bittova and Skampa
Skampa Quartet is great - the singer... yikes

Janácek: Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs
Leos Janacek , Iva Bittová , ¿kampa Quartet , Vladimír Godár , and Skampa Quartet
Manufacturer: Supraphon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

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Lavecka (Bench)
Stesk (Woe) - Skampa Quartet
Obrk Mileho (Lover's Likeness)
Svatba Kom (Gnats Wedding)
Kouzlo (Charm)
Slib (Promise)
Orisek Lovy (Hazel Nut) - Skampa Quartet
La (Love)
Jablunka (Apple Tree)
Jabucko (Sweet Apple)
Co Je to Za Nebe (What Sky)
Safva C (Alderman's Daughter)
Cervenab(Little Red Apples)
Dobr(Good Hunt)
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Kony Mil [My Lover's Horses]
Kv MilodejnLove Herbs)
Pcko (Posy)
LoucenMilou
Jindy a NynThen and Now)
T (Uneasy)
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Belegrade (Belgrade) - Skampa Quartet
Milenec Vrah (Lover Killer)
Pomluva (Calumny)
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Kol(KolTown)
Psano (Love Letter)
Karafi(Carnation)
Rozmarsemary)
Pamy (Mementos)
Zpevulenka (Tender Little Tune)
Nejistota (Uncertainty)
Kukacka (Cuckoo)
Zahrcka (Fence)
Muzikanti (Musicians)
Vernost' (Faithfulness)
Bolavlava (Headache)
Osud (Fate)
Daleko ProvdanWedded Far Away)
Budk (Wakening)
Dobrada (Sound Advice)
Slzy echou (Tears of Comfort)
Koukol (Corncockle)
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Customer Reviews:

Moravian songs, via Janacek, Godar, Bittova and Skampa.......2006-05-09

This is a unique recording of Janacek's transcriptions of Moravian folk songs. Originally for piano and voice, they have been transcribed by Slovak composer Vladimir Godar for string quartet and (occasionally) three-voice male chorus. Here they are performed by renowned Czech singer and violinist Iva Bittova, accompanied by the Skampa Quartet and chorus. The effect is not so much of classical liede, but of authentic eastern European "popular" songs - the sonority of the string quartet adds to this in no small part. Janacek would be proud.

Skampa Quartet is great - the singer... yikes.......2005-07-28

I honestly did not know what I was getting myself into when I bought this CD. I love Janacek, I love folk songs... how could I go wrong? Iva Bittova! I was concerned that she would have a 50yr old woobly voice, but instead what exists is a thin VERY nasal tone... perhaps she should be singing traditional Bulgarian music! The voice is expressive, just ugly.
The recording quality is not very good, either. On many of the tracks, Iva seems to be muffled and in the background of the recording.
Really - dont waste your time and money, unless you really would just like to have a recording of over 50 Janacek songs.

Peter Arnold Heise, Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller: Songs

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Peter Arnold Heise, Peter Erasmus Lange-Müller: Songs

Manufacturer: Da Capo [Naxos]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Druben Geht Die Sonne Scheiden
Trube Wird's, Die Wolken Jagen
Auf Geheimem Waldespfade
Sonnenundergang
Auf Dem Teich, Dem Regungslosen
Til En Veninde
Ved Huset
Henrykkelse
Skovensomhed
Advarsel
Bergmanden
Dengang Jeg Var Ung Og Elskovsfuld
Min Skat
Arnes Sang
En Sommernat
Glenten
Ingeborg, Min Sjael, Mit Hjerte
Verzogen, Verflogen
Die Du Bist So Schon Und Rein
Nimm Mich Auf, Uralte Nacht
Der Zimmermann
Die Heil'gen Drei Konige
Kaempens Sang
Himlen Ulmer Svagt I Flammerodt
Se Blygra Sky'r Mod Blygra Sky'r Sig Vaelte
Ved Solnedgang
Bjornen
Der Sta To Roser
Alt Daekker Nattens Vide Slaengkappe Land Og Byer
I Braendingen Ligger En Klippeblok
En Rand Af Diset Hede
I Skoven II
Yderst I Slaeber, Det Lette

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Rich Dworsky w/out Garrison

The Path to You

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ASIN: B00005LL1Z
Release Date: 2000-04-15

Tracks:

A Glimmer of Hope
If Only
The Path to You
La Coste
The Warm Welcome
A Greener Blue
On Fertile Ground
The Boy With the Driftwood Stick
The Final Flight
In the Hearts of the Smallest Creatures

Album Description

A label created to bring the music of Richard Dworsky to a worldwide audience

Customer Reviews:

Rich Dworsky w/out Garrison.......2005-09-29

Most people who listen to A Prarrie Home Companion regularly are familiar with Rich's role as leader of the Guys All-Star Shoe Band. But this CD will show a much different side of Rich. All songs were composed, arranged, and produced by him and they are lovely, moody pieces. What Impessionism is to painting, these songs are to piano music. Rich proves himself a wonderful talent on his own, but I hope he continues on with Garrison's weekly radio show too!

Dmitri Hvorostovsky ~ Svridov - Russia Cast Adrift

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Indescribably beautiful music, superlative performances.
One of Hvorostovsky's best
Come for the Rachmaninov and stay for the Sviridov!

Dmitri Hvorostovsky ~ Svridov - Russia Cast Adrift
Sergey Rachmaninov , Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov , Dmitri Hvorostovsky , and Mikhail Arkadiev
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Credo
Georgi Sviridov: Petersburg a Vocal Poem

ASIN: B0000041DD
Release Date: 1996-06-11

Tracks:

'Tis Pleasant Here, Op. 21 No. 7
Everything Passes, Op. 26 No. 15
The Answer Was Given, Op. 21 No. 4
A Song For My Cornfield, Op. 4 No. 5
Heed Me Not, Dear, Op. 14 No. 7
I Wait For You, Op. 14 No. 1
Night
The Night Is Sad, Op. 26 No. 12
I Am Alone Again, Op. 26 No. 9
Autumn
I Left My Home Behind
Open Before Me, O My Guardian Angel
Silver Path
Russia Cast Adrift
Simon, Peter... Where Are You? Come To Me
Where Are You, O My Father's House
Beyond The Hills Of The Milky Way
It Sounds, It Sounds, The Fateful Trumpet!
An Owl Cries In Autumn
Oh, I Believe, I Believe In Happiness!
O My Homeland, O Happy And Eternal Hour!

Customer Reviews:

Indescribably beautiful music, superlative performances........2005-09-06

This CD was hard to find. After a few months of searching, I decided to buy `gently used.' But I am not sorry at all. I very much wanted to hear more of Sviridov's music, having absorbed the thrilling Petersburg song cycle, also performed by these two extraordinary musicians.

Let me say first that Sviridov's music truly drives both performances. Long a fan of pianist Mikhail Arkadiev, I was surprised by what I heard. His playing is always superb, but on this CD, he is beyond inspired.

This sentiment goes double for Dmitri Hvorostovsky, whose interpretation of Russia Cast Adrift has been criticized in the past. I was very moved by his work here. His artistry is always amazing, but the depth of his interpretation is such that I can barely explain how or what I feel when I listen to it. His voice is superb, his performance flawless, his talent seemingly without boundary. An original, unique, and singular vocalist.

If you can find this CD, buy it at any cost. Otherwise, you will be missing out on something very special indeed.

One of Hvorostovsky's best.......2004-12-15

Hvorostovsky is in terrific form here, bringing a compelling intensity to these often-anguished Sviridov songs. While many music lovers may initially be drawn to the more accessible Rachmaninov songs, it's the Sviridov cycle that ultimately stands out here. Enhanced by Hvorostovsky's dark timbre and sensitive phrasing, songs such as The Owl and the riveting Milky Way emerge as profoundly haunting miniature masterpieces. Shortly after this recording was made, the octogenarian Sviridov (1915-1998) would write another song cycle - this time expressly for the great Hvorostovsky: the equally memorable Petersburg - a Vocal Poem, released on the Delos label in 2004.

Come for the Rachmaninov and stay for the Sviridov!.......1999-06-06

The world of music should be grateful that the late Georgi Sviridov found such an invincible champion for his stunning and yet accessible song cycles. Even with uncharted repertoire Hvorostovsky does a painstaking job and never disappoints the listener. Mikhail Arkadiev works magic with the often episodic piano accompaniments, which sound by no means easy. Of course the Rachmaninov is very nice, like a refreshing salad before a scrumptious main course. But the Sviridov deserves a wide audience. It is to be hoped as of this posting that his cycle 'Petersburg' (a foundation stone of Hvorostovsky's latest recital tour program) will also be recorded in its entirety.

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Visionary Path

Manufacturer: Prophesy Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2004-01-20

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The Path
The Path
Manufacturer: Honu Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000028U2L
Release Date: 1999-06-01

Tracks:

Gather Us In
Here, O Lord, Your Servants Gather
There's an Old, Old Path
Yesu, Yesu, Fill Us with Your Love
Jesus' Hands Were Kind Hands
Lord Jesus, of You I Will Sing
The Spirit of God Like a Fire Is Burning
God of the Sparrow
We Are One in the Spirit
Hymn
Freely, Freely
Amazing Grace

Album Description

Artists Chad Godfrey and Matt Clinefelter-McFarlane unveil twelve creative new settings of religious hymns like you've never heard. With a variety of styles ranging from simple, meditative instrumentals to driving African, Indian, Latin, and Blues and Jazz genre, this recording is one that can be enjoyed by all ages and in a number of worship settings. Blazingly original arrangements and audiophile quality sound make this CD a must for any individual's collection. BAND_MEMBERS: Chad Godfrey drums, percussion, and sound design; Matt Clinefelter-McFarlane piano, troubador harp, drones, synthesizer, and marimba; Molly Clinefelter-McFarlane violin; Christine Fisher violin; Kory Johnson upright bass; Andrea Ware cello; Derek Clark cello; Keith Lindgren acoustic and electric guitar; Andy Kroesen soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones; Travis McFarlane organ; and Andrew Brown oboe.