Heavenly Secrets

Track Listings

1. Byond Heaven's Door

2. Wonders Never Cease

3. Blesses Source of Life

4. Earthly Moments

5. Seraphic Play

6. True Compassion

7. The Prayer

8. Paths of Hope

Editorial Reviews
Napra Review, July/Aug 2000
"Helping us discover the hidden healing secrets between tones"

Product Description
After listening to the entire CD, the sounds do not stop here, they still remain with you. These harmonious sounds have the power to lead you to other dimensions and can help you explore the secrets of the heavens. This is music that can be the gateway to a meditative and mystical experience.

Music has a magical power, one which can change life in gerneral. We just have to take time to listen. It can stimulate feelings, awaken love, release tensions, encourage people, restore friendships and initiate self-healing processes in the body. Music is a gift of the gods. Between tones lie the many secrets which we need to discover for ourselves. Let us use our precious time to listen to these heavenly secrets.

Heavenly Secrets

Heavenly Secrets,Karuna

Heavenly Secrets

Tracks:

Three Songs Op.2: The Daisies
Three Songs Op.2: With Rue My Heart Is Laden
Three Songs Op.2: Bessie Bobtail
Three Songs Op.10: Rain Has Fallen
Three Songs Op.10: Sleep Now
Three Songs Op.10: I Hear An Army
Four Songs Op.13: Nocturne
Four Songs Op.13: A Nun Takes The Veil
Four Songs Op.13: The Secrets Of The Old
Four Songs Op.13: Sure On This Shining Night
Two Songs Op.18: The Queen's Face On The Summery Coin
Two Songs Op.18: Monks And Raisins
Nuvoletta, Op.25
Hermit Songs, Op.29: At Saint Patrick's Purgatory
Hermit Songs, Op.29: Church Bell At Night
Hermit Songs, Op.29: St. Ita's Vision
Hermit Songs, Op.29: The Heavenly Banquet
Hermit Songs, Op.29: The Crucifixion
Hermit Songs, Op.29: Sea-Snatch
Hermit Songs, Op.29: Promiscuity
Hermit Songs, Op.29: The Monk And His Cat
Hermit Songs, Op.29: The Praises Of God
Hermit Songs, Op.29: The Desire For Hermitage
Despite And Still, Op.41: A Last Song
Despite And Still, Op.41: My Lizard (Wish For A Young Love)
Despite And Still, Op.41: In The Wilderness
Despite And Still, Op.41: Solitary Hotel
Despite And Still, Op.41: Despite And Still

Customer Reviews:

an excellent presentation of Barber's piano songs.......2006-08-02

First of all, I must mention that Chopra fan "Huntley Dent"'s review is not of this CD, Songs by Barber, which is all songs for voice and piano, but rather of Arias and Scenes, a collection also sung by Roberta Alexander and also on Etcetera of Barber's orchestral vocal music.

That said, this is an excellent collection of Barber's piano songs. Roberta Alexander has a lovely, creamy voice, and she puts real passion into these songs, though her diction is sometimes slightly occluded. Her performance of "Sure on This Shining Night" is spine-tingling.

There a couple of moments of slight distortion in the recording or the mastering at louder points in the performance.

Lively and pleasan t renditions.......2006-03-25

The beauty of the artist's voice shows through despite the difficulties of Barber's modern piano stylings. Fans of Barber's vocal music will enjoy this CD.

The best colleciton of Barber's orchestral songs and arias.......2005-10-11

Only three songs on this excellent CD are orchestral arrangements of songs originally written with piano accompaniment, but they include the haunting, masterful "Sure on This Shining Night," with text by James Agee. Agee was a natural lyrical fit for Barber's talents, as witness the famous "Knoxville, Summer of 1915"--it sets a prose poem to music that was the intorduciton to Agee's wonderful posthumous novel, "A Death in the Family."

Roberta Alexander does everything well. Her clear, striaghtforward, well-tuned soprano is without wobble or excessive vibrato, so one hears the words more clearly than usual. The arias come from Barber's operas Vanessa and Antony and Cleopatra. It's a shame that the disastrous premiere of the latter effectively shamed Barber into giving up compsoing for the rest of his life.

For anyone who wants to hear a generous sample of Barber's writing for soprano, thse skillful interpretations are unmissable.

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Heavenly Secrets

ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000058EKY
Release Date: 2000-04-15

Tracks:

Byond Heaven's Door
Wonders Never Cease
Blesses Source of Life
Earthly Moments
Seraphic Play
True Compassion
The Prayer
Paths of Hope

Album Description

After listening to the entire CD, the sounds do not stop here, they still remain with you. These harmonious sounds have the power to lead you to other dimensions and can help you explore the secrets of the heavens. This is music that can be the gateway to a meditative and mystical experience.

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