The Golden Morning Breaks [Enhanced]

1. Summer Water

2. Floating in the Clearest Night

3. Heart Harmonicon

4. Sweet Rolling

5. Happy Sea

6. I'll Read You a Story

7. Bubbles Which on the Water Swim

8. Mining in the Rain

9. Golden Morning Breaks

10. Everything Lay Still

11. Happy Sea [Multimedia Track]

The Golden Morning Breaks,Colleen,Leaf,Ambient,Indie Electronic,Pop,Post-Rock/Experimental,Rock,Rock/Pop

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The Golden Morning Breaks [Enhanced]

Average customer rating: I'm going to start by saying... I love it I'm Speechless Beyond Words..... two thumbs down.

The Golden Morning Breaks Colleen Manufacturer: Leaf ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Electronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Everyone Alive Wants Answers Colleen et Les Boites a Musique Tripper Martes Utopía ASIN: B0007WBDP2 Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. Summer Water
2. Floating in the Clearest Night
3. Heart Harmonicon
4. Sweet Rolling
5. Happy Sea
6. I'll Read You a Story
7. Bubbles Which on the Water Swim
8. Mining in the Rain
9. Golden Morning Breaks
10. Everything Lay Still
11. Happy Sea [Multimedia Track]

Customer Reviews:

I'm going to start by saying..........2006-08-06

I'm going to start by saying that some people spend their whole lives looking for albums like this one.
(Search here).
This album pocesses a surreal sense of one's existance.
It is as if one were just born into their existance, and started searching empty space in the cosmological plane for miraculous force, and discovered music. Discovered music, so basic (or primitively honest to the human soul) -but beyond genius in its lucid complexity that they felt all this profound and inexplainably complex emotions, and the feeling was more real than anything else they had ever expirenced. The expirence, the profound emotions, then became a part of them, creating a depth of thought that had just been realized. Then one realizes that the feeling was one's very existance. The empty space becomes full and vibrant.
This album is for thinkers; I have yet to buy her first album, but i think understand her title: Everyone Alive Wants Answers. This is an album to think to (though not as backround noise).

Thus said, I feel obligated to say that before one can embark on this journey of self-discovery, one must understand the music(at least to some degree). And as previous reveiwers have stated, the music is "simple"(lucid would be much more suited to describing it), however it is so original that one can't understand the music until they have listened to it to the point of understanding.
(So forget all your premises for good music as they are prejudices!)
I think that if people had never heard any music before they would understand this far better than the musiophilles who will stumble about this brilliant work.
It took me more than a week of listening to this ablum to understand it.
I remember the moment vividly: It was on track 6 and i was staring at the stars, thinking about the stars' light how it was just reaching my eyes from hundreds of light years away -from hundreds of years ago and how everything i was seeing was no longer how the universe truely existed, i was seeing the remnant of possibly deceased stars and the wake of the passing universe. Then the beauty of the music hit me and moved me nearly to tears.
love and gratitude,
Gregory

I love it.......2006-05-06

This album is great for relaxing to, although its not for everyone, people who don't like minimal music will be put of immediatly. I am not one of those people. I love ambient and minimal instumental music such as this. Each listen is like a journey, with the sound carrying you away, its beautiful - just bear in mind that if your expecting pop - you'll hate it.

I'm Speechless.......2005-11-26

This is truly a beautiful album. Obviously very different from mainstream music. It forces you to block everything out and to just focus on sound. it takes you away to another place. i recommend closing your eyes while listening to it. "Colleen" is a very artistic and intuitive person. I hope everyone enjoys it as i did.

Beyond Words............2005-08-03

Have you ever started listening to an album and before you know it your eyes are shut and suddenly you seem to float away with the music in complete bliss? This is how I felt listening to The Golden Morning Breaks by Colleen. Truly sublime, passionate, and bueatiful. Like all Great albums, the more you hear it the more you love and enjoy it, hearing new things each time within the songs. Not since Sigur Ros'-() and Efterklang's- Tripper have I felt such bueaty and Tranquillity from an artist. The first Must-have album of the year. Just put on your headphones, press play, and let the music suck you away.

two thumbs down........2005-08-02

Being in the pop/rock section in the music store, I thought it might be.. well, pop/rock. This cd is all instrumental, and although I am a fan of instrumental music... I would hardly call this cd that. All the songs sound exactly the same, and almost reminds me of baby toys that go above cribs spinning around and around. or even a jack-in-the-box when you crank the handle. All I can think of when I hear the songs is somebody sitting there with a triangle and wind chimes. I don't recommend this cd for anyone or anything. Actually, I don't think it is at all relaxing either.. it is way to repetative and just gets annoying to sit and listen to. It's pretty much the worst cd ever. The names of the songs make me laugh though.. they are funny.. but ALSO repetative... they are mostly all about water. I only bought the cd because my name is Colleen. I regret buying it. I want my money back. If I HAD to chose, my favorite song would have to be "floating in the clearest sea" but only because it's the shortest.

Average customer rating:

The Golden Morning Breaks Colleen Manufacturer: Leaf ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Electronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0007WBDPC Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. Summer Water
2. Floating in the Clearest Night
3. Heart Harmonicon
4. Sweet Rolling
5. Happy Sea
6. I'll Read You a Story
7. Bubbles Which on the Water Swim
8. Mining in the Rain
9. Golden Morning Breaks
10. Everything Lay Still
11. Happy Sea [Multimedia Track]

Average customer rating: passion and beauty The best! Deeply satisfying One of the best CDs I've ever heard AND WHAT A RUSSIAN SOUL!

Dmitri Hvorostovsky - My Restless Soul Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky , Alexander Borodin , Sergei Rachmaninov , Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Dmitri Hvorostovsky , and Mikhail Arkadiev Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Borodin | Borodin, Alexander | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Vocal & Song | Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Moscow Nights Where Are You, My Brothers? Dmitri Hvorostovsky - Tchaikovsky & Verdi Arias I Met You, My Love Kalinka: Russian Folk Songs ASIN: B0000041A1 Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

1. Ah, If Only You Could For One Moment, Op. 38, No. 4
2. Amid The Din Of The Ball, Op. 38, No. 3
3. I Should Like In A Single Word
4. My Protector, My Angel, My Friend
5. It Happened In The Early Spring, Op. 38, No. 2
6. For The Shores Of Your Distant Homeland - Borodin
7. The Cloud Begin To Scatter, Op. 42, No. 3: The Clouds Begin To Scatter, Op. 42, No. 3 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
8. The Octave, Op. 45, No. 3 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
9. The Wave Breaks Into Spray, Op. 46, No. 1 - Dmitri Hvorostovsky
10. I Bless You, Forests, Op. 47, No. 5
11. Not A Word, Beloved, Op. 6, No. 2
12. The Love Of A Dead Man, Op. 38, No. 5
13. On The Golden Cornfields, Op. 57, No. 2
14. Whether The Day Reigns, Op. 47, No. 6
15. We Sat Together, Op. 73, No. 1
16. Morning, Op. 4, No. 2 - Rachmaninoff
17. Child, You Are Beautiful Like A Flower, Op. 8, No. 2 - Rachmaninoff
18. How I Languish, Op. 21, No. 12 - Rachmaninoff
19. Spring Waters, Op. 14, No. 11 - Rachmaninoff

Customer Reviews:

passion and beauty.......2004-07-28

Similar to Hvorostovsky's 1991 release, Russian Romances, this collection of Russian songs by some of its most renown composers is brimming over with passion and soul. They are songs of love and loss, with solo piano accompaniment, and sung to perfection by one of the great voices of our time; Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky has it all, emotional expression, technical skill, breath control and marvelous phrasing, and a dark honey sound that is recognizable after a note or two.

With eleven selections from Tchaikovsky, four from Rachmaninoff, three from Rimsky-Korsakov, and a tragic, solemn piece from Borodin set to words by Pushkin, the melodies abound, and some of my favorites are Rimsky Korsakov's The Clouds Begin to Scatter, Tchaikovsky's It Happened in the Early Spring and Not a Word Beloved, and Rachmaninoff's How I Languish.
Hvorostovsky is one of the finest interpreters this genre of music, and these superb renditions are a worthy addition to any Russian music collection.
Mikhail Arkadiev plays the piano accompaniment beautifully, and the sound balance between instrument and voice is excellent. The booklet insert has the lyrics in English and German, and total playing time is 57'26.

The best!.......2001-12-26

After seeing Mr. Hvorostovsky in the Met playing Germont, I knew that this is something new, I have never heared before. This beautiful c.d of russian songs could not have been sung better. Buy it!!!

Deeply satisfying.......2001-11-23

This is another five-star recording from the most exciting baritone in opera today. This CD finds him in familiar territory, singing Russian songs as only he can. His phrasing is superb, and his dark baritone adds a haunting dimension to the many reflective numbers presented here.

It is difficult to pick out highlights from this outstanding collection of Tschaikovsky, Borodin et al, but I was particularly taken with the four Rachmaninov songs that conclude the CD. Child, You Are Beautiful Like a Flower is as lovely as its title suggests, and Hvorostovsky sings it in his tenderest fashion. For complete contrast, Spring Waters is given a bravura treatment as the baritone unleashes all the power at his disposal - a thrilling conclusion to the CD.

Hvorostovsky is ably supported throughout by pianist Mikhail Arkadiev, and the sound quality is good, though a tad distorted in Spring Waters. (Perhaps the recording engineers couldn't cope with the voice in full throttle?!) Highly recommended.

One of the best CDs I've ever heard.......2000-12-19

This is an outstanding CD in every way - a wonderful program, featuring singing that is tremendously beautiful and exciting. Hvorostovsky doesn't just sing the Tchaikowsky songs, he lives them! (And he champions them in the way that Schwarzkopf and Fischer-Dieskau championed Hugo Wolf.) Throughout this recital, he is partnered by Mikhail Arkadiev, a stupendous pianist and a deeply sensitive accompanist. Their performance of Rachmaninoff's "Spring Waters" is one of the most thrilling things I've ever heard. This is a real treasure!

AND WHAT A RUSSIAN SOUL!.......1999-06-06

One of the first recordings by this absolutely dynamic young baritone. 'For the Shores of Your Distant Homeland' and 'The Love of a Dead Man' are enough to send shivers up one's spine, and the more delicate songs come across with appropriate tone and control. The Hvorostovsky disc I would recommend for someone listening for the first time.

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