The Gathering: Eleanor (5mins 32secs) Album: Acoustica: Sleepy Buildings-A Semi-Acoustic Evening Century Media (CM 77468-2) Web Link 1: www.gathering.nl Web Link 2: www.centurymedia.com
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Frederic Mompou: Placide (track 3) (1mins 34secs) Album: Piano Music [Duh] Naxos 8.554727 Web Link 1: www.naxos.com
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Sally Beamish: The Day Dawn (13mins 06secs) Album: The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone BIS-CD-1161 Web Link 1: www.smic.org.uk Web Link 2: www.bis.se
BACKGROUND
No enlightening synopsis, I'm afraid. I just have a pile of good CDs in front of me and I want to mourn the (apparent) imminent death of the format.
The Sally Beamish piece is the single most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. I had it played at my father's funeral, and I am listening to it now, as I type, and I am weeping.
So, The Gathering rule, Verity is a modern goddess, Mark Russell was excellent, Fiona is (jazz obsession aside) fab. Great prog, still.
Please don't lose Shaheera
COMMENTS
What I love about the Sally Beamish piece is that if you know the Shetland tune 'Da Day Dawns' it's based on, and hear her work blind, you understand a lot of what is going on, yet the fiddle tune is only literally quoted at the very end. Before that, it is only hinted at. A very mysterious piece, based on a haunting and beautiful tune. Please play it again. The original tune was to be played at dawn on the winter solstice - a significant event that far north. John Gibbons, London
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