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1. So We Learn - Hawkins Family, Walter Hawkins    
2. Wait on the Road - La Mora Park Young Adult Choir    
3. Amazing Grace    
4. Wait on Him    
5. Reasons - Perfect Peace    
6. I Won't Turn Back    
7. On My Own - Dottie Jones    
8. Jesus Can - Edwin Hawkins    
9. Who Can Change the World? - Thad Bosley    
10. Touch Me - Dottie Jones    
11. Have You Any Time    

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Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion
  • One of the most extraordinary works ever written
  • Music to Amaze Your Ears
 Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000B0N
Release Date: 1997-04-22

Tracks:

  1. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Sunbeams On A Coffin Decorated With Sweet Smelling Flowers -
  2. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinklying Of Stars In The Blue Sky At Sunset -
  3. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Light And The Depths
  4. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Refraction Of Sunbeams In The Waves
  5. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinkling Of A Pearl Of Dew In The Sun On A Beautiful Summer's Morning
  6. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Longing - Despair - Ecstasy
  7. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Soul Of The World - Abyss - All Soul's Day
  8. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): I Wish...!
  9. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Chaos - Ruin - Far And Near -
  10. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Flowers Wither
  11. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Glimpse Of The Sun Through Tears -
  12. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Bells Pealing: Look Here He Comes!
  13. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The Gospel Of Flowers - From The Far Distance -
  14. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The New Day -
  15. Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The End: Antichrist - Christ
  16. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): I. Like Words For A Summer's Day Saga
  17. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): II. A Scent Of Mull And Mud
  18. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): III. A Golden Flake Hovers Above
  19. Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): IV. The Flowering Summer Was Linked To The Harvest

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Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was the odd duck of Danish music. He remained doggedly Romantic at a time when Romanticism was out, and he had his own funny little experiments with music that noboby particularly liked. We owe a debt to Chandos and Danacord for keeping Langgaard's music current. Music of the Spheres (1916-18) predates Gyorgy Ligeti by 50 years with its bright, pointillistic assertions and groups of ideas that evolve to their own inner logic. As demonstrated in Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures), Langgaard's music has an openness that allows his tone clusters to expand, contract, or simply repeat (as Ligeti would do much later). Discover Langgaard. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion.......2006-12-11

This Chandos disc containing two pieces by Danish composer Rued Langgaard is one of the most pleasant surprises this fan of modern-classical music has come across. Langgaard (1893-1952) was an outsider and eccentric in Danish music life, a virtuoso organist who succeeded only in his late forties at getting a position, and a composer of wild tales of the Antichrist coming into the world who found it almost impossible to get his music played. In the late 1960s, his music was rediscovered by scholars and his importance in Danish musical history is now certain, but he is still little-known in the modern-classical scene. We should be grateful to the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir and Gennady Rozhdestvensky for their performance and to Chandos for releasing the recording.

"Music of the Spheres" for soprano, chorus, orchestra, and distant orchestra (1916-1918) is stunning. The innovations here are considerable: exploiting the performance space in the use of two orchestras, writing for an "open" piano where glissandi are produced directly on the strings, and of course the clusters and polyphonic webs, massive and seemingly motionless blocks of sound reminiscent of Gyorgy Ligeti. Indeed, the Hungarian composer exclaimed that he was a Langaard imitator when Per Norgard showed him a copy of the score in 1968. But the purity of the string writing reminds me of Alexander Knaifel, and the massive proportions of the orchestral writing at its loudest is somewhat like Sandstroem's "The High Mass".

But, as is often said, it wouldn't matter how much Langgaard were ahead of his time in "Music of the Spheres" if the music wasn't great. And it is, one of the most moving half-hours of orchestral music I'm acquainted with. Langgaard was a Romantic in a time when Romanticism was out of fashion, and the proportions of what the listener may recognize as struggle, momentary defeat, and victory are just as powerful as in Mahler.

"Music of the Spheres" is an exceptional piece in Langgaard's total output. The "Four Tone Pictures" for soprano and orchestra are somewhat more typical of his art. Written on poems by J. Blicher-Clausen, Ivan Turgeniev, and Holger Drachmann, they are fairly tame lieder. These suggest that the modern-classical fan can pass on most of Langgaard's music, but "Music of the Spheres" is so good that at least this disc should be in your collection.

5 out of 5 stars One of the most extraordinary works ever written.......2003-11-21

Music of the Spheres, by the eccentric Danish composer Rued Langgaard, really is the work that has everything. Written between 1916 and 1918, it uses a multitude of techniques that would not be rediscovered until after the wars. Multifarious tone clusters, floating micropolyphony, a piano played directly on the strings, an entire offstage orchestra, blurred choral singing, prefigurations of minimalism: you name it, this work has it. Yet it also has Scriabinesque ecstasy, Straussian opulence and a wacked-out religious subtext in which Christ and Antichrist clash in the violent climax to the whole work.

None of this would matter, though, if the music weren't any good. But it is good--probably the best thing Langgaard ever wrote (so far I've heard about 30 of his works, and none of them matches this one). The various short episodes flow one into another with perfect clarity and logic, the orchestration is superlative, and the dramatic writing at the climax is sonically overwhelming. Fortunately, Chandos match this work with a tremendous performance by the Danish National Radio Symphony and Choir, conducted by that indefatigable servant of underperformed music, Gennady Rozhdestvensky. This recording should be considered the best currently available, and it outstrips the rivals with ease.

Any other work isn't likely to fare so well in comparison to this, but the Four Tone Pictures are by no means eclipsed. Opulent songs in a Straussian harmonic language--though lacking the German composer's gift for melody--they are the perfect way to come down from the musical high of Music of the Spheres.

5 out of 5 stars Music to Amaze Your Ears.......2003-07-23

Rued Langgaard was the man that time forgot. Completely neglected in his native Denmark because he did not fall within the prevailing neo-classic aesthetic set by Nielsen, Langgaard was rediscovered in the 60s when Per Norgard gave a score of Music of the Spheres to Gyorg Ligeti at a competition and after a minute Ligeti announced, "it seems as though I am a Langgaard imitator." Though Langgaard was essentially a conservative late romantic composer, he was capable of some real moments of innovation. He not only presaged Ligeti's color style, but also elements of minimalism, most especially in his string quartets.

Music of the Spheres is Langgaard at his most original. This work is a stunning series of small tone pictures. From the very beginning of the work, with the shimmering cluster of string harmonies over ominous timpani, through out the work, experiment reigns. Langgaard is always tonal, but in this work shows a fascination with orchestral sound and tonal clusters that was probably about 50 years ahead of the times. And yet, in the middle of the work there are sections that could come directly from Schonberg's early Gurrelieder or even the symphonies of Gade. It is a truly astonishing aural sound feast and should be a staple of the repertoire.

The accompanying Tone Pictures, four tone poems on nature themes, are also quite beautiful, though much more conventional as music. Here is Langgaard the Romantic and he is quite a good Romantic actually. The orchestrations are lush, the harmony sensuous and there is just enough oddness to mark the work as Langgaard's and no one else's.

This Chandos disc is exemplary in sound and the performance by Rozhdestvensky is definitive I think. Even if you are afraid of unusual or experimental work, this is a disc that you can take to your heart. It is stunning and beautiful and has my highest recommendation.
Memory Lane
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    		Memory Lane
    Brooklyn All-Stars
    Manufacturer: Paula Records
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B000001X6E
    Release Date: 1996-04-16

    Tracks:

    1. Good News
    2. Confidential God
    3. Did You Stop To Pray
    4. No Cross, No Crown
    5. Family Prayer
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    7. Move Across The River
    8. I Stood On The Banks Of Jordan
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    10. Heaven's Grocery Store
    Steal Away
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      		Steal Away
      Brooklyn All-Stars
      Manufacturer: Nu-Sound Ent.
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B0000D9PNU
      Release Date: 2003-10-07

      Tracks:

      1. Steal Away
      2. Down Memory Lane
      3. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
      4. Window of Heaven
      5. I'm a Pilgrim
      6. Brightly Beams
      7. You'll Never Walk Alone
      8. Let Me Lean on You
      9. You Were There Mother
      10. I'll Make Heaven My Home
      11. I Got My Ticket
      12. I Finally Got My Life on Track
      Don't Give Up
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        		Don't Give Up
        Island Ispirational All Stars
        Manufacturer: Polygram Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B000001G2M
        Release Date: 1996-08-27
        I'm Saved to the Bone
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          		I'm Saved to the Bone
          Herbie Brown & The Gospel All Stars
          Manufacturer: The Orchard
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
          GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
          Christian Contemporary MusicChristian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B000051XQX
          Release Date: 2000-11-14

          Tracks:

          1. I'm Saved To The Bone!
          2. Do You Believe?
          3. Jesus Will Fix It For You
          4. Two Wrongs Don't Make It Right
          5. He's Coming Back
          6. I'm Waiting On A Word From God
          7. You're Gonna Reap Just What You Sow
          8. Right Ain't Never Done Nobody Wrong At All
          9. I'm Going On With Jesus
          10. Fix Me Jesus
          Gospel All-Stars
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            		Gospel All-Stars
            Various Artists
            Manufacturer: Bellmark Records
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B000058TGP
            Release Date: 2001-02-20

            Tracks:

            1. So We Learn - Walter Hawkins And The Hawkins Family
            2. Wait On The Lord - La Mora Park Young Adult Choir
            3. Amazing Grace - Howard University Choir
            4. Wait On Him - The Rance Allen Group
            5. Reasons - Perfect Peace
            6. I Won't Turn Back - Church Of God In Christ Choir
            7. On My Own - Dottie Jones
            8. Jesus Can - Edwin Hawkins
            9. Who Can Change The World? - Thad Bosley
            10. Touch Me - Dottie Jones
            11. Have You Any Time - Svart Pa Vitt
            Live! In Atlanta
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              		Live! In Atlanta
              Brooklyn All-Stars
              Manufacturer: Nu-Sound Ent.
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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              ASIN: B000J3EF9A
              Release Date: 2006-10-17

              Tracks:

              1. I'll Rise Again
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              3. Same God
              4. Steal Away
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              6. Swing Low Sweet Chariot
              7. Let Me Lean on You
              8. Don't Forget the Family Prayer
              9. I'll Make Heaven My Home
              10. You Were There Mother
              11. Did You Stop to Pray
              12. Look Down
              Gospel All Stars
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                Gospel All Stars
                Manufacturer: Galaxy
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

                GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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                ASIN: B0002TTV5E
                Release Date: 2004-09-13

                Tracks:

                1. Blessed Be His Name
                2. Give Him Glory
                3. Power
                4. Move Spirit Move
                5. Stay with Me
                6. Light a Candle in the Dark
                7. Let Your Light Shine
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                9. Help Me Stand
                10. Heavenly Love
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                Gospel Celebration
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                  Gospel All Stars
                  Manufacturer: Zyx Records
                  ProductGroup: Music
                  Binding: Audio CD

                  GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
                  GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
                  GospelGospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
                  Christian & GospelChristian & Gospel | Imports | Stores | Music
                  ASIN: B00004Y7X3
                  Release Date: 2000-09-06
                  Somewhere Down the Road
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                    		Somewhere Down the Road
                    Young Acoustic All-stars
                    Manufacturer: Sonotec
                    ProductGroup: Music
                    Binding: Audio CD

                    GeneralGeneral | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music
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                    ASIN: B00008FHP5
                    Release Date: 1995-08-22

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                    4. I Want to Be a Clone
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