Pictures in the Sky

Track Listings

1. When You Love

2. It Don't Do

3. Verge of a Miracle

4. Pictures in the Sky

5. Be With You

6. Screen Door

7. What Trouble Are Giants?

8. Steal at Any Price

9. Could Be a Celebration

10. Love That Knows No Bounds

Pictures in the Sky, Music, Rich Mullins, CCM, Pop, Religious / Contemp. Christian

Average customer rating:

Awesome Mullins Tunes

Fun Album!

Great CD

Wonderful!Some might confuse this with his greastest hits CD

Pictures in the Sky
Rich Mullins
Manufacturer: Reunion
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000004RO
Release Date: 1993-02-01

Tracks:

When You Love
It Don't Do
Verge Of A miracle
Pictures In The Sky
Be With You
Screen Door
What Trouble Are Giants?
Steal At Any Price
Could Be A Celebration
Love That Knows No Bounds

Customer Reviews:

Awesome Mullins Tunes.......2005-04-12

This recording is very good heart touching but yet upbeat. Some songs are fun (such as Screendoor on a Submarine) and others are very heart felt and beautiful (Verge of a Miracle, Thief in the Night and Be With You).

This is a must buy for any Rich Mullins fan. I still have the tape.

Fun Album!.......2000-11-03

I'll tell you right up front that there are some cheesy synthesizers in this music! That being said, it is a wonderful album. This would be a great album for a kid to grow up with. "Pictures in the Sky" is a totally childlike song, fun and uplifting even for adults. I think "What Trouble are Giants" is the best on the album with the chorus of:

"What trouble are giants? What's wrong with being small? The bigger they come, you know the harder they fall. When you're fightin' for Zion and you're on the Lord's side, I think you're gonna find they ain't no trouble at all."

Other excellent songs on the album are "Verge of a Mircale" and "Could be a Celebration." This music is fun and not shallow. If you're looking into Rich Mullins for the first time, you might want to start with the albums "Winds of Heaven...", "Never Picture Perfect", or "Liturgy". But if you have several of his albums, you will enjoy this one (especially if you have kids). These songs make me remember childlike wonder about salvation, about Bible stories, and even about clouds.

Great CD.......1999-12-16

This CD delivers gospel messages in a lively way. My 4 yo son has memorized many songs from it.

Wonderful!Some might confuse this with his greastest hits CD.......1999-07-23

I remember as a kid hearing "What Trouble are giants" on the Radio and loving it. My mom bought me the CD for Christmas, and since then I have found new favorites on the CD. His songs are always so focused on God, plus they have great lyrics. But what seperates his music from many other great Christian artists, whose music is also God focused, is that a lot of his music is centered on Heaven-and his expectation of reaching there someday. "Be with you" (on this CD) is a great example of this. It is his life prayer. He talks about how everyone will die and so will the world, however he expresses his hope in reaching Heaven by saying to God...can I be with you. "When my body lies in the ruins of the lies that nearly ruined me, will you pick up the pieces that were pure and true and breath your life into them...and when you blast this cosmos to kingdom come...can I be with you." It is a mellow, serious song that touches the heart from a master artists hand.This song alone is worth the price of the CD, since you won't find it on any of his compliation CD's. The other songs are also wonderfully written from a rich poor man's heart to ours--this CD is a masterpiece.

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A must see
I was VERY disappointed...
no it is not true, this band is great
Go Back To MACHINEHEAD!
a reviewer from canton massachusetts

Deep Purple in Concert with LSO

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Deep Purple: Concerto for Group and Orchestra (2-CD Set)
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ASIN: B00004I9U6
Release Date: 2000-02-08

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Amazon.com

Deep Purple was the first band to note that heavy metal and classical music share a certain deluded grandeur and attempted to combine the two. While what resulted--specifically, their Concerto for Group and Orchestra--was pretty fearful stuff, it did, for better or for worse, pave the way for a generation of classically influenced heavy-rock bands: King Crimson, Yes, and Queen, among others. The concerto on this live CD appears alongside a bunch of the Purple's more genteel songs they played at the Royal Albert Hall, a show that celebrated their 30th anniversary of their first appearance there. Ian Gillan, who can still do a creditable impression of a bomber revving for takeoff, shares vocals with Ronnie James Dio and Sam Brown. --Andrew Mueller

Album Description

Recorded live at two sold out shows at the Royal Albert Hall on September 25 and 26, 1999, which were benefits for the Nordoff-Robbins Trust. Two disc set contains almost the entire concert which featured the 80 piece London Symphony Orchestra and special guests Ronnie James Dio, Sam Brown and Eddie Hardin. 1999 release. Double slimline jewecase.

Album Details

Strictly limited numbered tour edition. Contains a Steve Morse track, tour poster & screensaver (live pictures).

Customer Reviews:

A must see.......2007-03-11

Even if you are not a Deep Purple fan this one is worth the investment. Whilst a little of the visual could be improved it's all there and the audio is of good quality. Butterfly Ball is a real hoot and if you don't enjoy that then you don't like music!
I reall contrast to the 1969 version of the Concertos where the conductor atually enjoys the whole experience.
Go for it!

I was VERY disappointed..........2003-08-12

The Amazon reviewer was right: the first several songs on CD 1 was very laid back, reminding me of Division-Bell-Era Pink Floyd. (Boring!) Didn't hear drums until the third or fourth track, then it was ANYTHING but rock beats. What made S & M so great is that Metallica didn't write BALLADS or NOVELTY SONGS for their production: they rocked on with what they had on hand. Deep Purple wrote some of the hardest rocking songs in the R&R/Heavy Metal library (Mandrake Root, Space Truckin, Child in Time), and so it's MHO that they should have employed them as orchestra pieces: overall, they should have rocked the whole time.

Of course, Steve Morse was an odd substitute for Richie Blackmore, but stalwarts Ian Gillian and Jon Lord was in good form that night. The record doesn't start consistently rocking until WRING THAT NECK at the end of CD 1. (Kind of thinking about it, I would have liked to wring the necks of those who made the decisions to program and preserve this somewhat idiotic concert...ha, just kidding.)

On CD 2, I thought the concerto was pretty well executed (esp. the first movement) and the last couple songs on the album (esp Ted the Mechanic and Smoke on the Water) were well orchestrated and played. I guess I would give this album 4 stars if they only released CD2 and lowered the price.

no it is not true, this band is great.......2002-09-26

the reviewers below dont know what would they say,......this cd is a remake of concerto for group orchestra what the band did in 1969. the place took in the royal albert hall london 1999. I saw the performance in germany 2000 with the george enescu orchestra.
The result is amazing,...buy the cd!

Go Back To MACHINEHEAD!.......2002-09-22

This is NOT Deep Purple nor was the experience I had listening to them in concert (Summer 2002) -Nashville. This is a watered- down version of one of the best bands to ever grace the planet.Dio is a great vocalist and "smoked" them live in Nashville. Steve Morse is a great guitarist but his bluesy rendition of the poweful rhythm guitar parts in Smoke On the Water were a joke! ... your instrumental that was a question mark for the new album was the best thing I heard that night!! ... Dio and the Scorpions were great!

a reviewer from canton massachusetts.......2001-10-29

not worth the money! just because your a fan of steve morse,dosn't mean that your also a fan of d p. here they jumped on the trendy band wagon like yngwie,kansas scorpion,etc.i paid twice the amount as the regular cd for stress fest xtra tracks only to here i xtra song,thatwasn't even written by steve.here,it's almost the same situation.the only true s m .song,is t i o a t p.how many times does he have to re-record this and play it exactly like in 1978.i wish that s m would go back to doing solo work.his music was as interessting as george lynch,satch,vai,etc.i gave this 2 stars because i like steve,but that dosn't necessarilly mean that i like orchestra music,or deep purple.

Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

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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

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ASIN: B000000B0N
Release Date: 1997-04-22

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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:

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.

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.

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.

Pictures in the Sky
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Pictures in the Sky
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Demon
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Psychedelic Rock | Classic Rock | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0000075IC
Release Date: 1996-06-17

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Pictures in the Sky
Rich Mullins
Manufacturer: Geffen Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008F54V
Release Date: 1991-05-14

Tracks:

When You Love
It Don't Do
Verge of a Miracle
Pictures in the Sky
Be With You
Screen Door
What Trouble Are Giants?
Steal at Any Price
Could Be a Celebration
Love That Knows No Bounds

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Hurum: Piano Works

Manufacturer: Norway Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004TYAS
Release Date: 2000-06-28

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Pictures in the Sky
Rich Mullins
Manufacturer: RCA
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BWE8AK

Product Description

Song titles and timings: When You Love - 3:29 It Don't Do - 3:42 Verge Of A Miracle - 4:13 Pictures In The Sky - 3:59 Be With You - 2:58 Screen Door - 1:26 What Trouble Are Giants? - 3:58 Steal At Any Price - 4:21 Could Be A Celebration - 3:31 Love That Knows No Bounds - 3:45

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Music Review

Music Review

1. When You Love
2. It Don't Do
3. Verge of a Miracle
4. Pictures in the Sky
5. Be With You
6. Screen Door
7. What Trouble Are Giants?
8. Steal at Any Price
9. Could Be a Celebration
10. Love That Knows No Bounds