Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Catalog: Music, Priced: 12, Sale:12 Used:6, 3rd Party Price:6, Hobbie Price:
Sales Rank:75775
UPC:019341164821; MPN:11648
Sales Rank:75775
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Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection Tracks: 
Adagio - Brian Dunning Adagio - Patrick O'Hearn Adagio - Richard Schonherz Adagio For Strings - Philip Aaberg Air 'On The String' - Philippe Saisse Arioso - Tracy Silverman Ave Maria - Paul McCandless Intermezzo No.6 - David Benoit Largo - Tim Story Nocturne - Steve Erquiaga Prelude In C-Sharp Minor - Edgar Meyer Sarabande - Paul Schwartz
Album Details:
Adagio follows in the rosin-dusted footsteps of The Impressionists, A Different Mozart, and A Different Prelude. As with those releases, it was produced by Dawn Atkinson and features many of the same artists. The results are as varied as the musicians. Violinist Tracy Silverman cuts one of his patented echo-delayed pizzicato violin arrangements of a Bach arioso, while Patrick O'Hearn drapes a somber keyboard shroud around the Adagio from Rodrigo's Fantasy for a Gentleman. Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning find the Celtic air in the Adagio from Handel's Sonata in G, while Philip Aaberg discovers infinity between the notes of Barber's ubiquitous Adagio for Strings. He stretches the melody across his piano in finely drawn lines, subtlety filled out with synthesizer undertones. Subtlety is a casualty on Philipe Saisse's bongos, bells, and synth arrangement of Bach's Air on a G String. It's also sacrificed in a corny confection of Handel's Sarabande by Paul Schwartz. His ham-fisted electronic keyboards would've sounded dated even before Switched-On Bach. But Adagio features plenty of musicians who are willing to surrender themselves to their elegiac themes, including guitarist Steve Erquiaga, Mike Marshall, and Edgar Meyers. --John Diliberto
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Tomaso Albinoni Samuel Barber Paul Baker Patrick O'Hearn Michael Manring Martha Reikow Johannes Brahms Johann Sebastian Bach Edvard Grieg Charles Gounod
Sarabande - Paul Schwartz Prelude In C-Sharp Minor - Edgar Meyer Nocturne - Steve Erquiaga Largo - Tim Story Intermezzo No.6 - David Benoit Ave Maria - Paul McCandless Arioso - Tracy Silverman Air 'On The String' - Philippe Saisse Adagio For Strings - Philip Aaberg Adagio - Richard Schonherz Adagio - Patrick O'Hearn Adagio - Brian Dunning Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection Music Lyrics, Music, Reviews and Ratings RCA
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