Moon Cycles

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Moon Cycles,Ralph Bach,Inner World Records,Contemporary Instrumental,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Popular Music

Moon Cycles

Moon Cycles
Moon Cycles
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Moon Cycles
 Moon Cycles
Ralph Bach
Manufacturer: Inner World Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | New Age | Styles | Music
MeditationMeditation | New Age | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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  1. Desire for Love

ASIN: B000003JU8
Release Date: 1996-04-16

Tracks:

  1. Year Mandala
  2. Dance Of The Moon Goddess
  3. First Messengers Of Spring
  4. Dream Of Love & Fulfillment
  5. Moon Above The Mountains
  6. Friendly Summer's Day
  7. September Moon
  8. Memories
  9. Golden Autumn Moon
  10. New Moon-Wintry & Starry Clear

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Moon Cycles.......2001-05-16

Ralf Bach is in a league of his own. I have four of his albums--Desire for Love, More Desire for Love, Angel Kisses, and Moon Cycles. Although I love all four albums, Moon Cycles is my favorite. It is such beautiful music--there are no words to describe it properly. The melodies are accentuated with piano, bells, harp, flutes, and violins and are so well orchestrated. You become relaxed and your stress melts away just listening to this album. It really heals the soul. We play all of his albums in our office at our local college and visitors always want to know what we are playing. I had someone who heard the music from this album out in the hall and came in and said what is that playing? I have to have it. Where can I get that cd? This a wonderful album and I highly recommend it.
To Be Sung upon the Water: Song Cycles by Dominick Argento
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Finally someone sings Argento!
 To Be Sung upon the Water: Song Cycles by Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Patrice Michaels , Larry Combs , and Elliott Golub
Manufacturer: Cedille
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

All Works by ArgentoAll Works by Argento | Argento, Dominick | ( A ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
Vaughan Williams, RalphVaughan Williams, Ralph | ( V ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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GeneralGeneral | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Vaughan Williams, Ralph | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Chamber MusicChamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General ModernGeneral Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General ContemporaryGeneral Contemporary | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000018ZJ
Release Date: 1996-10-30

Tracks:

  1. Frédéric Chopin (3:55)
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (3:07)
  3. Franz Schubert (4:51)
  4. Johann Sebastian Bach (3:39)
  5. Claude Debussy (3:28)
  6. Giacomo Puccini (2:29)
  7. Robert Schumann (4:36)Songs About Spring (10:45) - DOMINICK ARGENTO
  8. I. who knows if the moon's a balloon (2:11)
  9. II. Spring is like a perhaps hand (2:50)
  10. III. in Just-spring (1:31)
  11. IV. in Spring comes (1:34)
  12. V. when faces called flowers (2:26)To Be Sung Upon the Water (27:22) - DOMINICK ARGENTO
  13. I. Prologue: Shadow and Substance (3:33)
  14. II. The Lake at Evening (3:08)
  15. III. Music on the Water (3:15)
  16. IV. Fair is the Swan (1:38)
  17. V. In Remembrance of Schubert (3:43)
  18. VI. Hymn Near the Rapids (2:43)
  19. VII. The Lake at Night (3:59)
  20. VIII. Epilogue: De profundis (5:00)Three Vocalises for Soprano and Clarinet (4:02) - RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
  21. I. Prelude (1:52)
  22. II. Scherzo (0:40)
  23. III. Quasi menuetto (1:25)selections from Along the Field (10:36) - RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
  24. II. Along the Field (2:49)
  25. VI. Good-Bye (2:24)
  26. VII. Fancy's Knell (3:41)
  27. VIII. With Rue My Heart is Laden (1:33)TOTAL TIME (79:34)

Album Description

The disc includes the world premiere recording of Argento's Songs about Spring for voice and piano, based on poems by e.e. cummings. "This first recording . . . should serve as a model for all future performances," the composer says. Argento composed this song cycle (his first) while still an undergraduate at Baltimore's Peabody Institute of Music. Here, too, is the only available CD recording of Letters from Composers for voice and guitar. Based on letters and fragments of letters written by Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Debussy, Puccini, and Schumann, they illustrate a wide range of personal problems having almost no relevance to their compositional careers. The musical settings show Argento's understanding of each composer's expressive style. To Be Sung Upon the Water (Wordsworth settings scored for high voice, clarinet, and piano) is available in only one other version -- a reissue from the 1970s. The cycle is noteworthy for the subtle and sensitive use of clarinet and bass clarinet (performed here by Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal clarinetist Larry Combs). The clarinet reappears in Vaughan Williams' Three Vocalises for Soprano and Clarinet, one of the composer's last works. Vaughan Williams' love of early English folk music is evident in the song selections from Along the Field, his settings of A.E. Housman poems for the unusual combination of voice and violin. These are the only available CD versions of these songs and vocalises. Miss Michaels studied composition with Argento at the University of Minnesota. They share a fondness for intimate vocal forms and a distinct literary sensibility. "Argento's works impress on the listeners a strong musical personality, a result of his being drawn perpetually to the human voice" (New Grove Dictionary of American Music). For her part, Miss Michaels told Fanfare magazine (September / October 1996) in an interview: "I've always been attracted to the literary impulse behind the music." Besides producing musical sounds, she wants to tell stories.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Finally someone sings Argento!.......2001-05-07

Well, I'm sure you recognize me as the serial Patrice reviewer (I promise-I'll branch out a little bit sooner or later!). Oh, but Argento! How fun his works are! I've seen recitalists perform these pieces. The obvious highlight for me is the Mozart letter, especially when sung this well, and with such humor. It is rare to hear such warmth so consistently in interpretation of such contemporary (yet distinctly historical in style) vocal works. Brava to Patrice for continuing to champion the talented underdogs (herself included, I suppose) of the music world.

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