26-01-2019, 21:40
VANGELIS ~ Nocturne: The Piano Album
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What can I say? This is Vangelis’ ode to the night sky and by association, outer space, and by further association whatever else takes his fancy, which is fair enough! It is a simply beautiful listen and I mean that in the exact sense of the word. I wasn’t expecting to be enchanted by the theme from “Chariots of Fire”, for example, but what a sensitive touch and interpretation – fascinating - I love it. This is an album of gourmet musical deliciousness without being too slick and overly sentimental; he doesn’t get all frilly and gymnastic on the keys (with the exception of one or two tastefully placed trills) – just plays with heart and grace.
It’s not actually solo piano as has been bandied about – there is synth orchestration backing up the gorgeous grand, one wholly synthesized track, and Irina Valentinova-Karpouchina plays the piano on Movement 9 from Mythodea – stunning piece of work. Altogether quite magical, IMHO.
Track listing (six of the seventeen are new arrangements of tracks from previous works – the rest are brand new):-
What can I say? This is Vangelis’ ode to the night sky and by association, outer space, and by further association whatever else takes his fancy, which is fair enough! It is a simply beautiful listen and I mean that in the exact sense of the word. I wasn’t expecting to be enchanted by the theme from “Chariots of Fire”, for example, but what a sensitive touch and interpretation – fascinating - I love it. This is an album of gourmet musical deliciousness without being too slick and overly sentimental; he doesn’t get all frilly and gymnastic on the keys (with the exception of one or two tastefully placed trills) – just plays with heart and grace.
It’s not actually solo piano as has been bandied about – there is synth orchestration backing up the gorgeous grand, one wholly synthesized track, and Irina Valentinova-Karpouchina plays the piano on Movement 9 from Mythodea – stunning piece of work. Altogether quite magical, IMHO.
Track listing (six of the seventeen are new arrangements of tracks from previous works – the rest are brand new):-
- Nocturnal Promenade
- To The Unknown Man (new arrangement - from Spiral)
- Movement 9 (new arrangement - from Mythodea) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGdlMuxVwjo
- Moonlight Reflections
- Through The Night Mist
- Early Years
- Love Theme (new arrangement - from Blade Runner)
- Sweet Nostalgia
- Intermezzo
- To A Friend
- La Petite Fille De La Mer (new arrangement - from L’Apocalypse Des Animaux)
- Longing - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7xl_vvW3aE (not from Blade Runner as per mistaken uploader)
- Chariots of Fire (new arrangement) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKQjd9lK2ao
- Unfulfilled Desire
- Lonesome
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise (new arrangement)
- Pour Melia
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