Benediction Moon

Editorial Reviews
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"...a rich heavenly voice...extensive range and superb delivery of this extremely talented vocal artist."

Product Description
Once in a while, a voice of such quality and beauty rises up that it transcends all musical styles and cultures. Pia has such a voice. Her gentle, echoing vocals create irresistible warmth that caresses the listener with heavenly sound. If you like Enya and Clannad, you will adore Benediction Moon!

The spiritual aspect of Pia's music is very important to her. Following a period performing the rock opera Bhagavad-Gita, she studied with the renowned Bengali musician and vocalist Haridas Ganguli and has toured extensively performing bhajans (traditional Indian spiritual songs).

Benediction Moon,Pia,New World Music,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Popular Music

Benediction Moon

Benediction Moon

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Meditation

Prayer...

PIA'S BEST

Open your heart...Feel Free

benediction is more a beginning than an ending...

Benediction Moon
Pia
Manufacturer: New World Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music
Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music
General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B000009E7G
Release Date: 1998-07-28

Tracks:

Radhe
Benediction Moon
Angelus Cantus
Siren Song
Prayer
Feel Free

Album Description

Once in a while, a voice of such quality and beauty rises up that it transcends all musical styles and cultures. Pia has such a voice. Her gentle, echoing vocals create irresistible warmth that caresses the listener with heavenly sound. If you like Enya and Clannad, you will adore Benediction Moon!

Customer Reviews:

Meditation.......2006-03-03

I heard this CD (Benediction Moon by Pia) for the first time several years ago during a meditation-session.
Her angel-like voice is beautiful.

Prayer..........2005-02-11

Prayer is absolutely beautiful. I seek lyrics for it everywhere, only to come up with nothing. I adore the song, its haunting yet melodic piece is breathtaking. Everything is just so harmonious.

PIA'S BEST.......2004-02-29

PIA HAS AN AMAZING, HYPNOTIC, NEARLY ANGELIC VOICE. I SAW HER IN CONCERT IN ENGLAND 3 TIMES, AND I WEPT WITH THE SHEER PURITY & BEAUTY IN HER VOICE. LIVE, SHE TOUCHES THE HEART AND THE SOUL SO DEEPLY, WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS . SHE IS PHENOMNINAL! BENEDICTION MOON IS HER BEST EFFORT SO FAR. ON THE ALBUM, SHE IS GREAT BUT THE VOCALS DO NOT HAVE THE SAME EFFECT FOR ME.PERHAPS IT IS HER SONG CHOICES. tHE BEST ARE RHADE AND ANGELUS CANTUS. (STILL, IT'S GLORIOUS!) I RECOMMEND ALL 3 OF HER CDs.

Open your heart...Feel Free.......2003-07-18

After falling in love with the gorgeous cover art, which is key to alluring a potential buyer like myself (I'm drawn to all things pretty), I found 'Benediction Moon' used. At the time I was ecstatic because it was originally out of stock and while I initially had a good feeling about it, I had no idea the impact it would have on me. The album opens up with the emotion filled "Radhe" which literally sent me in tears. Few songs have the power to do that and because someone precious to me passed away the night I first got this in the mail, I feel like this song is a message from the one I lost, letting me know they're okay and that they're at peace now. As a whole this record is rather somber but never have I heard a voice sing with such intense passion before. I feel the pain and joy in her words so strongly that the listener ends up experiencing them with her, and it won't come and go. It will run deep and stay with you long after the last note plays out.

Pia may not have a huge range and she may never become a well-known new age artist like Enya is but her angelic, crystal clear voice and the beautiful, serene soundscapes of calm yet uplifting relaxation will engulf and reach far into your soul, making you feel things you've never felt before by letting a simple piece of music wash over you. As it says in the CD booklet, 'Pia sings to express her feelings, to even release negative emotions in a positive way through singing', which is sometimes needed when your badly wounded, so 'free your mind and heart and be happy'.

benediction is more a beginning than an ending..........2001-08-18

I have recently begun to use this music in my yoga clasess and meditation groups. My clients and students are enthralled with its haunting yet liquid beauty. I'm always asked for the name of the CD because my clients want to buy it--in fact, I wish I had the distribution channel for this album, I'd be singing all the way to the bank. I recommend this album to anyone who loves to be surrounded by beautiful music or to use as background for a peaceful yoga session. Can't wait for more PIA music to follow. I certainly hope this is not the end!

The Revenge of Hamish & Other Choral Works

Average customer rating:

An Absolute Must.
Simply Superb

The Revenge of Hamish & Other Choral Works

Manufacturer: Albany Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000UJL6Y
Release Date: 2003-11-25

Tracks:

Song for the Rainy Season (Elizabeth Bishop)
The Ballad of Don and Dan (Ian Frazier)
Oh, Think Not I Am Faithful to a Vow! (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
I Expect You from the North (John Berryman)
Green, Green, and Green Again (Conrad Aiken)
i have found what you are like (e.e. cummings)
June Light (Richard Wilbur)
A Wood (Richard Wilbur)
Collect Pond (Thomas McClelland)
Wolf Moon (Mary Oliver)
Dark Clouds Bring Waters (John Bunyan)
The Revenge of the Hamish (Sidney Lanier)
In That Part of the Young Year (Dante Alighieri)
Good Speaking - A Benediction Song

Album Description

"The Revenge of Hamish," new choral works by William McClelland, has received high praise from critic Donald Rosenberg in July, 2004's "Gramophone" Magazine: "Vivid music, vividly sung . . . The music ranges far and wide, embracing everything from Scottish folklorism and pop to many-layered, traditional a cappella writing. Whatever the style, the composer finds lucid and evocative solutions to the poems, all in English, which are set with such skill that it is almost possible to forgo the texts in the booklet . . . The William Appling Singers & Orchestra perform each piece with keen attention to words, blend and phrasing, and the instrumentalists are exceptional advocates for McClelland's appealingly direct manner of expression." Equally enthusiastic is William Zagorski, who writes in the January-February, 2005, issue of "Fanfare" Magazine: "McClelland is fully at home in a multiplicity of styles , and we are treated to a wide range of them on this release--from the tonally ambivalent parallel harmonies of 'Song for the Rainy Season,' the pop-inflections of 'The Ballad of Don and Dan,' the rarefied hymnody (sometimes jazz inflected) of the 'Five Sonnets for Men's Voices' and the ecologically inspired 'Collect Pond,' the symphonic grandeur of 'A Wood,' the offhand counterpoint of 'Wolf Moon,' to the ethnically Scottish flavors of 'The Revenge of Hamish.' Withal, a distinctively American composer's voice emerges, and it is both an imaginative and compelling one . . . Some of this program is a capella. Other numbers offer diverse instrumentations that deftly underscore the subtexts of the poems. In all cases, that point where language ends and music begins is magically blurred. The choral work is excellent and the instrumentalists play with both exactitude and enthusiasm, revealing a composer who is more than worthy of our attentions."

Customer Reviews:

An Absolute Must........2005-03-03

I could not agree more with the other comments about this recording. I also heard several pieces played recently on NPR and was amazed at their beauty and passion. This is a composer that deserves to be heard by a very wide audience. McClelland's skill in setting texts is truly remarkable, and his selection of poetry is flawless. The performances and the recording are both on a very, very high level. Anyone lover of serious and intelligent yet accessible music should definitely get this.

Simply Superb.......2005-02-12

There was a very good review for this recording in "Fanfare" magazine and it sounded quite interesting. The review didn't do it justice. Some of the pieces here are among the finest choral works I have heard. The texts McClelland uses are mostly American, and the music, while in varying styles, has a pure American voice running through it. This composer understands a beautiful, strong melody without ever resorting to triteness or cliches. In the piece set to a poem by Elizabeth Bishop, "Song for the Rainy Season," he seems to completely capture the description and atmosphere of the text's tropical setting, and the writing for the piano as well as the chorus demonstrates the work of a composer of consummate skill. The love sonnets written for male voices are, in a word, heartrending. The texts are perfection and the musical settings enhance each one, giving you a profound insight into the words. Isn't this, in large part, what choral music is supposed to do? Here is one composer who understands this, a composer who isn't writing just to show off his skills, but is really looking for something much deeper. It's just such intelligent and moving music, music that I keep coming back to. I'm so glad I took a chance on this one.

I couldn't find any other recordings by McClelland, but on the basis of this single CD, he takes his place among the ranks of our most interesting contemporary composers.

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