 
Keyboard. Klaviatur des Lebens. „Piano Music from Celestial
Harmonies“. Florian Fricke, Begründer der Gruppe Popol
Vuh, dreht sacht den ersten Schlüssel um. Hans Otte spielt
aus seinem „Buch der Klänge“, Peter Michael Hamel
stimmt mit „Transpersonal“ auf die darauf folgende Musik
des armenischen Mystikers Gurdjieff ein. Virtuoser ist der Russe
Alexander Scryabin, gespielt von Cecil Lytle. Und Terry Rileys
Albionische Klavier-Harfe schließlich die Synthese? In jedem
Fall eine Compilation von Klavierwerken, wo die Tasten zu Schlüssel
werden. Mal probieren?
the project
Keys of Life represents the finest of contemporary
piano music. This release offers an excellent sampler of the music
of Celestial Harmonies' most celebrated artists. According to Stephen
Hill and Anna Turner from Music From the Hearts of Space,
Keys of Life is an elegant collection of solo piano
music selected with great care and understanding from the Celestial Harmonies releases.
Without any intellectual pretensions toward doing
so, Keys of Life documents the twentieth century European
post-Romantic attempt at the direct stimulation of consciousness
(rather than emotion) through music. From Cecil Lytle's sensitive
performance of six miniatures by Russian mystic composer Alexander
Skryabin, through the enormously dignified pan-Eurasian temple music
of G.I. Gurdjieff and his pupil Thomas de Hartmann, to the latest
just intonation piano experiments of Terry Riley, we hear a living
artistic tradition unfolding through time. Florian Fricke's spacious
and beautiful Spirit of Peace, Hans Otte's hypnotic, delicate
music from The Book of Sounds, and the rippling, minimalistic
patterns of Peter Michael Hamel's Transpersonal complete
the collection. For those who appreciate clarity, intelligence,
and the unique aesthetic world of refined subtlety, Keys of Life
will completely satisfy.
Listeners will enjoy this beautiful combination of
styles and artists that celebrates music as the key to life.
tracklist
| |
Florian Fricke |
from In the Gardens of
Pharao/Aguirre (13008) |
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| 1 |
Spirit of Peace, Part 1 |
|
3'34" |
| |
Spirit of Peace, Part
2 |
|
7'26" |
| |
Hans Otte |
|
|
| 2 |
The Book of Sounds,
Part 7 |
from The Book
of Sounds (11069) |
8'38" |
| |
Peter Michael Hamel |
|
|
| 3 |
Transpersonal |
from Transition (12063) |
9'38" |
| |
Herbert Henck |
|
|
| |
Composed by George I. Gurdjieff
and Thomas de Hartmann |
|
|
| 4 |
Hymns from a Great Temple |
from Hymns from a Great
Temple (Wergo Spectrum SM 1035/36) |
9'04" |
| |
Hymn 1 |
|
4'14" |
| |
Hymn 2 |
|
3'21" |
| |
Hymn 3 |
|
1'29" |
| |
Cecil Lytle |
|
|
| |
Composed by Alexander
Scryabin |
|
|
| 5 |
Prélude Op.
74 No. 1 |
from Cecil
Lytle's unreleased complete piano recordings |
1'00" |
| |
Prélude Op. 74 No. 2 |
of Scryabin's Piano works |
1'50" |
| |
Prélude Op. 74 No. 4 |
|
1'42" |
| |
Prélude Op. 17 No. 6 |
|
1'12" |
| |
Prélude Op. 32 No. 1 |
|
3'39" |
| |
Prélude Op. 65 No. 2 |
|
1'48" |
| |
Terry Riley |
|
|
| 6 |
The New Albion Chorale |
from The Harp
of New Albion (14018) |
11'17" |
| |
Total Time: |
|
61'56" |
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