Loon Lake

Track Listings

1. Down at the brooke

2. Water Birds

3. Nightfall

4. Sparkling Waters

5. Dark Waters

6. Loon Lagoon

7. Bird Dance

8. Twilight

9. Rain Forest

10. Return to the Brooke

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Soothing melodies played by woodwinds and piano accompanied by dynamic synthesizer orchestrations and light percussion. Very relaxing and serene. Some nature sound effects.

Loon Lake,John St.John,Suite 102,Soothing melodies played by woodwinds and piano accompanied by dynamic synthesizer orchestrations and light percussion - very relaxing.

Loon Lake

Tracks:

Vivaldis Summerfrom the Four Seasons
Debussys Claire De Lune
Awakening Voice
Summers Eve on a Mountain Lake
Loon Echo Lake
Lake Voices
First Light
Eyes of the night
Pool at Baie Fine

Album Description

Drift along the shores of Loon Echo Lake and relax to the melodic call of the loon. In celebration of this magical bird, Dan Gibson has personally compiled the very best of his loon recordings mixed with music. This compilation captures the true spirit of the loon and offers an escape to the sanctuary of a remote northern lake.

Customer Reviews:

Important note before purchasing.......2006-07-04

This CD is soothing. However, the music in this CD are actually taken from the CDs previously realeased. Such as The classics, The classics II, Rocky mountain suite, Algonquin suite and Great lakes suite. The same note is also useful for another album in this solitudes series - The nature of Canada. If you have already got the above CDs mentioned, think twice before you purchase this item.

Don't get this CD!!.......2004-11-07

I have nine solitude CDs, and this is a similar quality as Guardians of Atlantis. Don't buy this CD if you are expecting it to be a really peaceful songs as I thought when I read good reviews written below in Amazon. This CD is probably good for movie/documentary soundtrack but not for true relaxation. I recommend Solitude's
Forest Piano (for sleeping)
Piano Cascades (for sleeping)
Songbirds Piano (for sleeping)
Songbirds at sunrise (slightly more instrumental- perfect for morning)
or Emerald Forest (slightly more instrumental)
if you are looking for really peaceful CDs with few instruments and soothing nature sounds.

The BEST.......2000-12-05

I have been listening to tracks from this on Spinner for over a year now. Finally purchased it. It is absolutely incredible. Very peaceful. Extremely well executed. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a bit of the northwoods at your desk.

Great music-never forgot it.......1999-09-04

I was sitting in a lunch resturant in Greenland in the year 1997. It was so beautiful to hear. I have looking for the CD since, and latest in Canada vere I was in 1999 jul/aug.But whit out result.I hope someone can help me to find this beautiful music and be helpful to mail the CD to my address in Denmark or here in Greenland. Thanking you in anticipation.

Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman

Average customer rating:

waxman is the man!
Nostalgia and then some
Franz Waxman Tribute
Wonderful compilation of vintage Waxman
Franz Waxman's Music is Magic

Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman

Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music

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Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music
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Hollywood Screen Classics

ASIN: B000003EMA
Release Date: 1991-06-11

Tracks:

Prince Valiant
A Place In The Sun
The Bride Of Frankenstein
Sunset Boulevard
Old Acquaintance
Rebecca
The Philadelphia Story
Taras Bulba

Customer Reviews:

waxman is the man!.......2007-05-10

i love waxman's music. i think of his work in the same way i think of kurt weill's music. the melodies are so rich, so complex and the harmonies stir the soul. the diversity of musical genres both covered was also wide and rich.

but as much as love the gerhardt/rca recordings, i am not fond of the selection of works chosen to respresent waxman. it is good to know that there are many other cds of waxman's work out on the market to be found and appreciated.

but i do like the 'elegy for strings' from old acquaintance, the ' a place in the sun' suite and 'sunset boulevard'.

Nostalgia and then some.......2006-02-20

Many times the score makes the movie. In this case Franz Waxman Film Scores contributed well. However as a stand alone collection this really does not have a place other than a once in a while listen to remember the particular movies.

Each piece is preformed well by the National Philharmonic Orchestra. However I do not see situation for listening to this album. It does not make good driving musing or reading music, or just sitting and listening to music. This does have a place if you are collecting various composers' works.

The list includes:
Prince Valiant (1954)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Old Acquaintance (1943)
Rebecca (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Taras Bulba (1962)

Many of the scores are used again in later movies. You can hear scores of Franz Waxman in about three hundred movies.

Franz Waxman Tribute.......2005-10-12

This CD sounds splendid. It is very rich and moving. A PLACE IN THE SUN is beautiful. REBECCA is very pensive and very much what you may expect in a Hitchcock film. However, the best cut on this CD is from TARAS BULBA. What a piece of music. It is both rousing and inspirational. Outstanding!

Wonderful compilation of vintage Waxman.......2003-04-12

Charles Gerhardt was just the right conductor to revive these classic scores from the prolific film composer, Franz Waxman: His lush, melodramatic interpretations of the music do not fit every genre, but he feels right at home here with the sweeping melodies of the silver screen.

A good selection of Waxman's film music can be found here, including his most acclaimed, Sunset Boulevard. (It certainly has a sparkle that Joel McNeeley's recent rerecording seemed to lack, even if the score is not present here in its entirety.) Other highlights are the stirring themes of Prince Valiant and the eerie and sinister tones of his score for The Bride of Frankenstein. A particular favourite of mine is Rear Window, sadly absent here, though to my knowledge only one recording exists (Lalo Schifrin and the San Diego Pops, Hitchcock: Master of Mayhem): Fans can take solace in the fact that one of the Rear Window tunes appears here in its earlier form as we heard it in A Place in the Sun.

If you are a film music buff, this is definitely worth a place in your collection. Gerhardt captures the essence of Waxman perfectly.

Franz Waxman's Music is Magic.......2001-10-02

This CD is a wonderful place to start your collection of Franz Waxman film music.

Tracks:

By Canoe To Loon Lake (Proc)
Dawn By A Gentle Stream (The Ultimate Water Treatment Experience) (Proc)

Customer Reviews:

Memories of Loon Lake.......2005-08-18

I was a canoe guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe area and have spent many days on Little Indian Sioux and Loon Lake. The sounds in this collection bring me back there instantly. The sound of the paddle gliding through the water is wonderful. You can even hear the water trickle off the end of the paddle. The only thing missing is the feeling of riding the canoe through the water. I listened to this collection for many years on cassette. I am thrilled to find it in the CD format.

The CD that started it all..........2002-07-15

Back in 1981, Canadian nature recordist and film director Dan Gibson was stepping into unknown country when he released this album of nature sounds. The key is the whole thing is assembled as just two pieces (taking up one side each of those old vinyl albums) and then released with that STUNNING cover photo. It took off, tying in with the burgeoning environmental movement. And now the imitators are EVERYWHERE. But you can't beat the original...especially quality-wise. So many imitators can't get the recordings so crisp, clear and balanced.

This package is simply 30 minutes of a stream and birds in a northern climate, then 30 minutes of canoeing (complete with the sounds of the oar in the water) on a northern lake, again with appropriate bird life sounds. The inspiration, I think, is Ontario's famed Algonquin Provincial Park.

Tracks:

Loon Lake

Average customer rating:

Loon Lake
John St. John
Manufacturer: Suite 102
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000053IEW
Release Date: 2000-10-01

Tracks:

Down at the brooke
Water Birds
Nightfall
Sparkling Waters
Dark Waters
Loon Lagoon
Bird Dance
Twilight
Rain Forest
Return to the Brooke

Album Description

Soothing melodies played by woodwinds and piano accompanied by dynamic synthesizer orchestrations and light percussion. Very relaxing and serene. Some nature sound effects.

Average customer rating:

A bunch of bull...
Realistic
Do you have dogs?
Recording got realness
very relaxing

Relax with...Loon Lake
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Ent. Media Partners
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | New Age | Styles | Music

Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music

General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Meditation Music | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
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ASIN: B00000JHEK
Release Date: 1999-04-20

Tracks:

Relax With Loon Lake

Customer Reviews:

A bunch of bull..........2004-06-04

The first third of the album is fine. As another reviewer pointed out the balance between the loons in the foreground and the other bird calls in the background isn't perfect but that's probably nitpicking. What ultimately ruins this CD is the bullfrog that pipes up 20 minutes into it. After that it's the bullfrog show (it's either a bullfrog or a cow giving birth to a hippo, I'm not sure) and this bullfrog sounds like it's croaking into a bull horn that's bungeed to your head and cranked up to 11. Alright, maybe it's not that bad but it's certainly not relaxing. The good news is I only wasted $5 on it.

Realistic.......2001-07-03

Its well worth the money. Very realistic and sets a nice atmosphere, but when I turn it loud enough to hear the background crickets and birds, some of the loon calls in the foreground are overpowering (much louder than the ones in the sample). It sounds like a couple of them were right by the microphone. There is also almost no water sounds, just birds, crickets and frogs. I am glad I bought it, but would find it difficult to fall asleep to. I will play it in the morning to help wake me up and to help me relax.

Do you have dogs?.......2000-08-31

Dogs love it, so that must be saying something for how realistic it is. Our dogs intently listen looking inquisitively at the speakers as each new sound is introduced. Then a few minutes in, they lie down, relax and eventually snooze. Maybe it takes them to a different place too!

Recording got realness.......2000-07-03

Great recording which changes naturally through its 60 minutes. Like really being in a log cabin on a northern lake. Bull frogs are great. "Relax with" soundtracks seem to be recorded with excellence, unlike certain other labels. Do check out "relax with thundering rainstorm"-superb.

very relaxing.......2000-05-19

I found this CD very good.I felt that I was actually resting near a lake.The sounds were great.The frog was so realistic.The bird sounds were phenomenal.I played it while lying in the sun and the birds in my back yard were answering the CD.

Average customer rating:

Excellent CD
What is up with this title?

Arvo the Magnificat
Soli Deo Gloria Cantorum , Conductor Almeda Berkey , Jackson Berkey , Teresa Hernandez , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina , Arvo Part , Imant Raminsh , August Soderman , Shaker Traditional , Daniel Schultz , Cat's Meow , Greg Clinton , Sharon Key , Robert [ , Judy Divis , Sarah Richardson , Chris Hake , Mary Amador , Ricardo Amador , Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johan August Soderman, Arvo Part, Imant Raminsh Bob Chilcott Jackson Berkey , and Almeda Berkey
Manufacturer: Soli Dei Gloria Rec.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

Magnificats | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B000008O35
Release Date: 1994-10-01

Tracks:

The Gift to Be Simple - arr. Bob Chilcott
God Be In My Head - Jackson Berkey
Tu es Petrus - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Kyrie Eleison (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Agnus Dei (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Jesu Christe (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Domine (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Benedictus (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Virgo Gloriosa (Sharon Key-Soprano) (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Hosanna! (Sacred Songs) - Johan August Soderman
Magnificat - Arvo Part
Ave Verum Corpus - Imant Raminsh
Loon Lake By Morning (Native American Ambiances) - Jackson Berkey
The Sacred Earth (Native American Ambiances) - Jackson Berkey
Prairie Fire (Native American Ambiances) - Jackson Berkey
This We Know (Native American Ambiances) - Jackson Berkey
The Web of Life (Native American Ambiances) - Jackson Berkey

Album Description

Synthesizing the "Scandinavian sound" of Eric Ericson's Swedish Radio Choir with the long-standing influence of Normal Luboff, this Cantorum collection offers premiere recordings of new works and choral master works.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent CD.......2006-09-13

I do agree that the name of the CD is really silly, and detracts from the overall quality of the work. The CD would better have been named for Jackson Berkey's composition, Native American Ambiances. It is a beautiful and usual work that is well worth hearing.

What is up with this title?.......2001-09-08

It seems a shame to use such a stupid title for a CD of great music recorded by a great ensemble. 'Tis a pitty to be silly.

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Musical Soundscapes Sunset on Loon Lake

Manufacturer: Sound Advice Marketing
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000BKHIRM

Product Description

You'll love these favorite piano melodies! The fresh orchestrations are accompanied by a delightful chorus of loons and other feathered friends!

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