Elements: Fire

1. Flame

2. Invocation of Fire

3. Aurora, Fire in the Sky

4. Fireflies

5. Fire Within

6. Quest for Fire

7. Forest Fire

8. Internal Combustion

9. Ode to Fire

10. Into the Light

Elements: Fire,Bhaskar Chandavarkar,Music Today

Average customer rating: Great listening music absolutely beautiful Phenomenal Element Series from Solo Piano Publications

Elements Series: Fire Peter Kater Manufacturer: Real Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Elements Series: Water Elements Series: Air Elements Series: Earth Piano Essence ASIN: B000B6TR2U Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

1. Eternal Sunshine 10:03
2. The Way Home 9:06
3. Twilight 11:12
4. Hearth Fire 5:50
5. Northern Lights 8:57
6. Solaris 7:27
7. Afterglow 7:45

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The title Fire might suggest roiling textures or a conflagration of sound, but this volume of Peter Kater's four-disc Elements series is golden sunsets and hearthside caresses. Purely acoustic, Fire has a nostalgic aura. Paul McCandless's pennywhistles and Ludvig Girdland's violin lend it a Celtic flavor on tracks like "Eternal Sunshine," while on "The Way Home" that same fiddle takes on a tinge of Americana, framing McCandless's forlorn oboe and Kater's pensive piano. In fact, Kater sounds like he's writing words on a page, contemplating each note before he lets it drop. The entire disc has the intuitive feel of guided improvisations, like you might expect from highly-attuned jazz players, but with a greater concern for the ensemble sound than the individual solo. It's difficult to play music this introspective, and sometimes it feels painfully slow, but guided by a sense of melancholy and contemplation, Peter Kater and company pull it off. --John Diliberto

Album Description

Like fire blazing across a dry mountain meadow, our creative and passionate instincts can carry us to places we've never been. Cultivating our inner flame can lead to great intuition, purity and power. Being human, and heat seeking by nature, it is our destiny to rise from the ashes of what we've known and be reborn again into our deeper potential and destiny. This all-acoustic recording features Grammy-nominated pianist-composer, Peter Kater; Grammy-nominated reed master, Paul McCandless, playing penny whistles, oboe, English horn and soprano saxophone; and virtuoso violinist, Ludvig Girdland. Let this music be your guide to that place where everything is possible, that place of Eternal Sunshine.

Customer Reviews:

Great listening music.......2007-01-03

Each song on this CD is beautiful. It's a quiet, contemplative compilation that provides superb ambiance for a romantic setting or simply a time to soothe yourself. I like to listen to Peter Kater's music when I engage in writing, which is often. The blend of piano and oboe is pleasing to the ear, and Kater's music enhances my own creative endeavors.

absolutely beautiful.......2006-04-22

This CD is wonderful. I recently got all 4 in the series and they just take you away - amazing! I am ordering these again for my mom and dad...they love to listen to beautiful relaxing music. Nobody could be disappointed with these new CDs. Peter Kater....I love ya!

Phenomenal Element Series.......2006-02-20

Peter Kater continues in his extraordinary yet simple style of providing music in the Element Series. I purchased the "Fire" CD of the series initially, and was so taken with it, that I immediately purchased the remaining 3 "element" CD's. Ranging from haunting to self-conscious, there is a presence to the the "Fire" CD that resonates with the soul. For any music lover who searches for music that provides the soundtrack to life in all of its facets, the "Fire" CD, as well as the entire Element series, is a must!

from Solo Piano Publications.......2005-11-11

"Fire" is one of the four-part Elements Series by Peter Kater. Like "Water," "Fire" is completely acoustic. It features Kater on piano, Paul McCandless on various wind instruments, and Ludvig Girland on violin. Kater was wise to not embellish the music, as these are three consummate artists who work together seamlessly, creating a warm, inviting, and soothing hour of musical beauty. Like water, in "real life," fire can be dangerous, frightening, and destructive, but Kater and company have focused on the soothing and healing qualities of the elements. On this album, it is more about candlelight and cozy fires in the fireplace than a raging inferno. Some of the seven tracks are quiet and ambient while others are a bit more passionate, but there are no hard edges or turbulence. This music is about being gently transported to a place of peaceful serenity, and succeeds extraordinarily well. All four CDs in this series are gorgeous, and my favorites are "Water" and "Fire." Pour yourself a nice glass of wine and find a comfy spot to relax and enjoy "Fire."

Average customer rating: Elements of Love was the best Earth, wind and who? EWF - A ggod collection if... Great Recording, but not to my taste Excellence.

Elements of Love: Ballads Earth Wind & Fire Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Sony | Computers Brands | Computers Features | Electronics | Desktops | Monitors | Networking | Notebooks Similar Items: Love Songs Beautiful Ballads Greatest Slow Jams, Vol. 2 Greatest Slow Jams Ballads Collection ASIN: B000002ADG Release Date: 1996-06-04

Tracks:

1. Open Our Eyes
2. Keep Your Head To The Sky
3. Devotion
4. Love's Holiday
5. Ponta De Areia- 'Brazilian Rhyme' (Interlude)
6. Be Ever Wonderful
7. All About Love
8. Can't Hide Love
9. I'll Write A Song For You
10. After The Love Is Gone
11. Imagination
12. Side By Side
13. Spirit
14. Reasons (Live)

Customer Reviews:

Elements of Love was the best.......2007-06-08

Every song on the cd is a must have!!!!

Earth, wind and who?.......2007-01-05

I am not familiar with most of these songs. The quality of the recordings are very nice and professional, but I don't recognize but only two of the songs. Anyway, if you are looking for Earth, Wind & Fire's greatest hits, do yourself a favor: DO NOT CHOSE THIS ONE !!!

EWF - A ggod collection if..........2006-11-03

Overall, you know what to expect from an EWF compilation. Overall, this is good and contains all the songs you would expect and a few that I had totally forgotten. If you already own the Greatest Hits CD you have most of the songs you are probably wanting to hear, but if you want to amass the definitive collection of EWF this is a good purchase.

Great Recording, but not to my taste.......2005-06-09

I'd heard of Earth Wind & Fire but knew very little about them. But being struck with the "being in love" bug, I naturally have a proclivity for music that seems to address this illness. The title hooked me and I ordered it.

The quality of the vocals and of the musicians is superb across the board. That being said, it is mostly not to my taste so I am not qualified to provide a great review. There are a few tracks I really like. "I'll Write a Song for You" comes immediately to mind as does "Be Ever Wonderful". Those, in particularly, reached out to me. The others were well done but did not suit.

I am not at all unhappy about buying this one. Earth Wind & Fire fans should enjoy it especially.

Excellence........2005-04-12

This is a product you'll enjoy from track 1 to the finish. The remastering has really put the icing on the cake. You will feel as if the Boys are doing Devotion or Be Ever Wonderful right in your living room. Phillip Bailey falsettoes are all over the tracks, Maurice White does his best neo-spiritualist, non denomination deacon, and McKay/Dunn/Verdine on rhythm instuments set this whole enterprise just right. Even Nasciemento's afro-Brasilian Rhyme Interlude is given a fresh hearing here. You won't find That's the Way (yow!) of the World, but you are gonna hear All About Love and an equally impressive Imagination here.(I really don't understand why folks prefer Reasons to Imagination, but they both are heard here.) With the summer season coming up, you know you're gonna need some great ol' school grooves to listen to on those lazy evenings reserved for deprogramming and chillin'. This is a perfect CD for doing just that.

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New York in the 1960's Manufacturer: Table of Elements ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Proto Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music General | Rock | Box Sets | Stores | Music Similar Items: Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. I: Day of Niagara The Frozen Borderline: 1968-1970 Circus Live Orphans [Fold-out Digipak with 24-page booklet] Live at Massey Hall (CD/DVD) ASIN: B000F3AJBM Release Date: 2006-05-09

Tracks:

1. Sun Blindness Music
2. Summer Heat
3. Second Fortress

Tracks:

1. Dream Interpretation
2. Ex-Cathedra
3. Carousel
4. Midnight Rain of Green Wrens at the World's Tallest Building
5. Hot Scoria

Tracks:

1. Stainless Steel Gamelan
2. At About This Time Mozart Was Dead and Joseph Conrad Was Sailing ...
3. Terry's Cha-Cha
4. After the Locust
5. Big Apple Express
6. Cold Starry Nights
7. Silent Shadows on Cinemaroc Island, A Moment of Affected Rapture

Album Description

John Cale's great credit, both inside and outside The Velvet Underground, was to have found the inoculation dosage that would addict the music industry to sound without alienating one world from the other. But outside the "official" VU there was also an uncut version of the virus, incubated behind the slum walls of the 1960s Lower East Side, and maintained live in the liquid nitrogen of these insolently recorded reel-to-reel audiotapes, recorded and produced by Tony Conrad and now available in this massive Table Of The Elements 3xCD boxed set.

Average customer rating: Good Tribute!

Smooth Elements: Smooth Jazz Plays The Songs Of Earth, Wind, & Fire Various Artists Manufacturer: Shanachie ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Fusion & World Fusion | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Smooth Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Orchestral Pop | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Quiet Storm | R&B | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cool Covers: Smooth Jazz Plays the Hits Smooth Jazz Plays Your Favorite Hits! Honey Love: Smooth Jazz Plays R. Kelly The Slow Jamz Album Marvin, Teddy and Luther: A Smooth Urban Jazz Love ASIN: B000000DRT Release Date: 1997-08-19

Tracks:

1. Evil - Larry Coryell
2. After The Love Has Gone - Russ Freeman
3. Sun Goddess - Ramsey Lewis
4. Devotion - Mark Johnson
5. Fantasy - Tom Grant
6. Shining Star - Henry Johnson
7. Reasons - Stanley Turrentine
8. Getaway - Tuck & Patti
9. Can't Hide Love - Carl Evans Jr.
10. That's The Way Of The World - Kim Pensyl
11. September - John Tesh

Customer Reviews:

Good Tribute!.......2002-06-28

I think it's Great that EWF got this Tribute to them.the only track that didn't move me was the John Tesh take on "September".that never got off the Ground for me.but everything else works really well for me.

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Strange Day Jay Parmar Manufacturer: www.jayparmar.com ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA8AJ6 Release Date: 2005-07-05

Tracks:

1. I'm Having a Strange Day
2. Kick It to the Kerb
3. Diablo
4. LSD
5. Perpetual Motion
6. Cool Times
7. Never Forget
8. Sacred Serpent
9. My World
10. Final Chapter

Average customer rating: All technically brilliant, but ultimately leaves me cold For those as yet unfamiliar with the young giant... "Kinder, gentler modernism" Great Late 20th Century Classical Music

Lieberson: Raising The Gaze Oliver Knissen , Cleveland Orchestra , and ASKO Ensemble Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Cleveland Orchestra | ( C ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Music of Peter Lieberson: Rilke Songs, The Six Realms, Horn Concerto Peter Lieberson: Piano Concerto Stravinsky: Serenade In A, Sonata / Lieberson: Bagatelles / Wolpe: Pastorale, Form IV ("Broken Sequences"), Four Studies on Basic Rows, IV: Passacaglia Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs The Ocean that has no West and no East ASIN: B00005QBDJ Release Date: 2002-02-12

Customer Reviews:

All technically brilliant, but ultimately leaves me cold.......2006-09-02

This entry in Deutsche Grammophon's "20/21" line of contemporary music recordings collects eight pieces by Peter Lieberson, with Oliver Knussen leading three ensembles. Lieberson is a a relatively often performed but rarely recorded composer, and his two biggest inspirations seem to be Stravinsky, who knew his family when Lieberson was a youth, and Tibetan Buddhism. Perhaps due to the older Stravinsky, his music embraces modern concepts like a vague atonalism while at the same time having a smoothness that makes them very accessible.

The disc opens with a really invigorating miniature symphony, "Drala" (1986), in four movements. I lack the formal training in music theory to explain this piece adequately. However, its structure is quite easy to grasp, with an opening "Invocation" that displays timbre and melody, an uproarious "Gathering" concerned with rhythm, a slow and elegiac "Offerings and Praises", and a final "Raising Windhorse". I especially admire how throughout Lieberson expertly employs all forces of the orchestra without making any seem unnecessary. The use of percussion in the second and fourth movements has a powerful and aggressive edge one rarely hears in contemporary music (though Messiaen and Lutoslawski's first symphony comes to mind). My only complaint about the piece is that much of the third movement doesn't really mesh at all with the other movements, occasionally seeming an abberation.

It's a pity that the rest of the material on the disc doesn't quite compare with the first work. The "Three Songs" for soprano and ensemble, sung here by Rosemary Hardy, are frankly mediocre. The serial work "Ziji" for clarinet, horn and piano quartet typifies the dullest product of such a style, and Lieberson doesn't succeed in turing the technique to anything elegant as does Boulez. Similarly "Accordance" seems pointless note-spinning. "Fire" (1995), the first of a projected series called "The Five Great Elements", is one of the most derivative pieces I've ever heard. Still, the six-minute "Raising The Gaze" is charming enough, with shimmering percussion and playful hints at birdsong. I similarly enjoyed the closing "Free And Easy Wanderer", with its virtuoso demands on a sinfonietta and individual coverage of each player over its six-minute span.

There are many bits here of exciting music, but my overall impression with the disc is that it's somehow vacuous. It's often technically perfect, but lacks any distinctive personality or real inventiveness. In fact, Lieberson is the only composer that makes me feel as uneasy as does Thomas Ades. Maybe others, especially neophytes to contemporary repertoire, will enjoy RAISING THE GAZE, but I'd recommend sampling the material before committing to buying the disc.

For those as yet unfamiliar with the young giant..........2005-05-24

Peter Lieberson is slowly gaining a reputation as one of the more important composers of the day. His music has developed slowly and steadily over the past thirty-odd years, and this CD of his works samples much of what has the concert public talking. These works are of the chamber mode and as such are closely aligned with Lieberson's long affiliation with the Buddhist faith - beauty is in and of itself sufficient, with all the technical finesse surrounding it in homage.

Lieberson is currently in Los Angeles as the artist in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and together with chamber works performed under the highly respected Green Umbrella Series, his newest commission 'Neruda Songs' has now had its world premiere. It is a larger scale work for orchestra and mezzo-soprano based on love poems by Pablo Neruda. It was commissioned by the LA Phil and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is dedicated to his wife Lorraine Hunt Lieberson who sang the premiere. It is a work of extraordinary beauty - lithe, sensual, soulful, passionate songs of love that have some of the sense of the Strauss 'Four Last Songs' while also suggesting the ethereal vocal resonance usually associated with the French songs of Ravel, Berlioz, Hahn, etc. They are mentioned here as a heads up to collectors as they most assuredly will be recorded soon.

Lieberson's language is now more subtle and more luminous than the works on this CD. But that is just applause for the steady progress in this composer's output. Keep you eye and ear on him. Grady Harp, May 05

"Kinder, gentler modernism".......2003-12-12

Peter Lieberson is one of a number of composers around these days (other examples might include Oliver Knussen and Magnus Lindberg) who have taken modernist techniques and the modernist experience to create a more conventionally "accessible" soundworld. This disc explores approximately 25 years of Lieberson's career, from his first chamber work, the serial Concerto of 1973 to the freely tonal/atonal mixture of 1998's Free and Easy Wanderer.

The Concerto for Four Groups of Instruments was Lieberson's first acknowledged chamber work. Like most of the works on this disc, it is brief (weighing in at a mere eight minutes); unlike most it is a fairly strict piece of Wuorinen-esque serialism. Even if it is not representative of Lieberson's mature writing, it is interesting to see that some of the characteristics of the later works (particularly the writing for woodwind and piano) are here in embryo.

A much more sharply defined work is Accordance for Eight Instruments, completed in 1976. This features more melodic writing in comparison to the pointillism of the Concerto, more explicit concentration on tonal centres, and a much more explicit harmonic underpinning of the work.

The three songs of 1981 are almost Webernian in their brevity. They continue the tendency towards greater clarity shown in Accordance, and are delicately orchestrated.

Drala, a 1985 pseudo-symphony written for the Cleveland Orchestra, is at 17 minutes the longest work on this disc, and possibly the best. This begins with an Invocation which sets out the musical material of the work, follows it with a dramatic Gathering and a longer slow movement entitled Offerings and Praises. The finale, Raising Windhorse, is a tumultuous orchestral tour-de-force. This would be a good place for newcomers to Lieberson to start--the language is largely tonal and the orchestration (focusing particularly on woodwind and pitched percussion) delightful.

The remaining works are shorter: Ziji, for clarinet, horn and piano quartet dates from a year later, and was one of Lieberson's last serial works. It's a vigorous, exuberant piece. In comparison, the following year's Raising the Gaze is a little more restrained, though the musical language is similar enough that the casual listener would probably not have spotted that it was no longer serial.

Fire, a fanfare for the Cleveland Orchestra--and first movement of a proposed five-movement work--is an energetic four minutes of orchestra that at times almost reminds me of Copland or Stravinsky, while the final work, Free and Easy Wanderer is a wide-ranging six minutes, ending with a slow chorale.

The performances here are exccellent, with Oliver Knussen conducting the Cleveland Orchestra, the ASKO Ensemble and the London Sinfonietta. If I can't get overly enthusiastic about this disc, it may be more personal preference than anything. However, I simply don't find Lieberson's style and musical material as captivating as I do with some similar composers (particularly Knussen). Others may disagree, though--and I wouldn't wish to discourage anyone from buying this disc if it appeals.

Great Late 20th Century Classical Music.......2003-08-19

A wonderful CD spanning 25 years of Lieberson's music. I came to this CD unfamiliar with Lieberson's music (other than his Piano Concerto) and carrying a more conservative tonal and harmonic bias. However, I found Lieberson's music engaging, challenging and beautiful. Drala's first movement is especially beautiful. I also loved the the three songs, performed flawlessly by Rosemary Hardy.

Conducting is the Oliver Knussen, a brilliant composer in his own right.

Average customer rating: Top Choice for 2 Fine Martin Pieces Returns

Frank Martin: The Cello Concerto, The Four Elements Manufacturer: Doron ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Martin | Martin, Frank | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Cello | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00030EEX6 Release Date: 2005-01-25

Customer Reviews:

Top Choice for 2 Fine Martin Pieces Returns.......2005-05-08

This is a very welcome reissue of 2 neglected masterpieces by the great Swiss composer Frank Martin (1890-1974), in 1st rate performances by a world-class orchestra & conductor. Both works were written in the early 1960s, & the live versions here date from 1970 (Cello Concerto) & 1965 (The 4 Elements). The 2nd movement of the Concerto, composed for cellist Pierre Fournier, is one of the greatest stretches of music Martin ever wrote, a minor-key saraband that builds to an impressive, passionate climax. Flanking it are 2 movements of equal quality, the 1st spinning off from a beautiful folk-like modal theme (heard unaccompanied on the cello at the start) & the 3rd governed by nervous, taut syncopations. A fine piece that deserves to be recorded as frequently as Martin's earlier Violin Concerto. Jean De Croos is the flawless soloist here.
The 4 Elements is unusual in Martin's mature orchestral oeuvre in being a work for large symphony orchestra & not a concertante piece (that is, one featuring a soloist or soloists). It is a conscious homage to the French tradition of nature painting & orchestral color in music, & to the great conductor Ernest Ansermet & his way with the music of Debussy & Ravel. Martin was very responsive to the sights & sounds around him, yet it was rare for him to attempt to translate the emotions roused in him by natural sights into music. So the 4 movements of The 4 Elements - Earth, Water, Air & Fire - really show another aspect of Martin's rich & profound artistic personality. It also gives the Concertgebouw Orchestra a chance to show off its many colors, which it does splendidly under Bernard Haitink's excellent direction.
Indeed, for me both performances remain top choice for these 2 works, despite a very good studio version of the Cello Concerto by Stephen Kates (Louisville), & a sonically lush rendition of The 4 Elements by Matthias Bamert & the Royal Philharmonic (Chandos). The sound in both pieces is excellent. Highly recommended; grab this CD while it's available.

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The Four Elements / Fire Passion Manufacturer: Oreade ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0007YSG2S

Product Description

German import CD with 15 new age movements .Total time 61:40 .

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The Elements Fire Bhaskar Chandavarkar Manufacturer: Music Today ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MX81FQ Release Date: 1999-03-04

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Fire Inside a Kiss Liziah Manufacturer: ZWHACK RECORDS ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKGMA Release Date: 2005-05-03

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1. Fire Inside a Kiss
2. Suspended on a String
3. Bring on the Rain
4. I See You
5. Passion
6. I Want a Love
7. Adrienne
8. Space
9. Global Change

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