Lunar Eclipse

1. Second Chance

2. I Can Love

3. It's a Long Road

4. On a Full Moon

5. April

6. Kissed by an Angel

7. Endless Horizon

8. Lullaby for Two Moons

9. Interlude

10. Room Full of Blues

11. Hear Our Prayer

12. Summer of Dreams

13. Up the River

14. Netherworld Waltz

15. In These Arms (vocal version)

Lunar Eclipse,David Bryan,Rounder / Pgd,Contemporary Instrumental,Pop,Popular Music,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop

Lunar Eclipse

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The Most Relaxing Journey
been lunar eclipsed
Great Instrumental
A Must Have

Lunar Eclipse
David Bryan
Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000050G7K
Release Date: 2000-12-05

Tracks:

Second Chance
I Can Love
It's a Long Road
On a Full Moon
April
Kissed by an Angel
Endless Horizon
Lullaby for Two Moons
Interlude
Room Full of Blues
Hear Our Prayer
Summer of Dreams
Up the River
Netherworld Waltz
In These Arms (vocal version)

Customer Reviews:

The Most Relaxing Journey.......2003-05-04

This is by far one of my favorite albums. I originally got the album because I was a Bon Jovi fan. It is the most relaxing and therapeutic album you could ever listen to. I hope David makes another album just like this. Pop the CD in while you are driving and you will have the most relaxing trip of your life!

been lunar eclipsed.......2001-09-02

having heard david bryan as the keyboardest in bon jovi and now listening to a solo work, has been a great experience. david is one of the most accomplished pianists i have ever enjoyed listening to. his work moved me from one emotion to the next and played to the love of piano music in my soul. this is a great work to have for those who love piano at its best. i would recommend this for those who love a good piece of emotional envolvement.

Great Instrumental.......2001-03-16

I have diverse tastes when it comes to music. I am glad that I added this to my collection. If you like Jim Brickman you will enjoy this. It's sort of like "kicked-up" Brickman. Nice rendition of Bon Jovi song "In These Arms".

A Must Have.......2000-12-11

If you enjoy stripped down music with catchy melodies you'll love this. David Bryan leaves the slickly produced music of Bon Jovi for a beautiful introspective instrumental piano record. Imagine listening to a Bon Jovi song while it was being written, before the distorted guitars, heavy bass, pounding drums, and vocals had been added. That will give you some sense of what to expect here. The melodies are incredibly catchy, and the music is quite soothing. However, perhaps the brightest spot on the album is David's rendition of the Bon Jovi hit that he penned, "In These Arms". Armed with just a piano, and surprisingly emotional vocals (the only vocal track on the CD), David delivers quite the performance. In fact, this track alone justifies the purchase. Piano instrumental fans, and Bon Jovi fans alike, this is a must have addition to your respective collections. It is nothing short of spectacular.

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A gem of a cd !
Finzi's Modest Beauty

Finzi- In Years Defaced/Violin Concerto
Gerald Finzi , Richard Hickox , John Mark Ainsley , and London Sinfonia
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000056KNH
Release Date: 2001-02-27

Tracks:

In Years Defaced: To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence in d
In Years Defaced: When I Set Out For Lyonnesse in g
In Years Defaced: In Years Defaced in d
In Years Defaced: Tall Nettles in F
In Years Defaced: At A Lunar Eclipse in D
In Years Defaced: Proud Songsters in d
Prld, Op.25 - City Of London Sinf/Richard Hickox
Romance, Op.11 - City Of London Sinf/Richard Hickox
Con: I. Allegro - Tasmin Little
Con: II. Molto Sereno - Tasmin Little
Con: III. Hornpipe Rondo: Allegro Risoluto - Tasmin Little

Customer Reviews:

A gem of a cd !.......2006-09-28

Certainly one of the top five best Finzi discs - i've heard quite a lot and can assess as to the considerable value of this album. Here we find the finest in terms of orchestral and vocal music England has to offer (imho, Holst and Vaughan Williams excepted). Both the `Romance' and the `Prelude' are exemplary ; they arguably receive their finest accounts to date. It doesn't get any better than this! The City of London Sinfonia "gets" what i would term "the Finzi sound" and seems not only to understand but also to convey with the last ounce of authenticity the undercurrents and the many intrinsic subtleties of this music. The Concerto is a nice rarity on disc (the wonderful and well-known `Introit' derives from its Molto sereno centrepiece). Tasmin Little's violin parts are very persuasive and apparently a tad better than her otherwise expressive insights in the renowned Vaughan Williams piece `The Lark Ascending' (BBC/Davis, Teldec). The song cycle `In Years Defaced' is a collage of song arrangements which works rather well in spite of disparate orchestrative roots. Richard Hickox and his musicians share a good part of the merits for the fortunate results in such an adventurous program. Tenor John Mark Ainsley is a wise choice for that kind of stuff, for the result is in the best case pretty good. I agree with Mr. Bertonneau's accurate review and with Andrew Achenbach who, effectively, evaluated the album with positive vibes. I personally rank this album highly in Gerald Finzi's discography. For the sum of its best parts, what you have here is a monumental release in clear and crisp Chandos sound.

Finzi's Modest Beauty.......2001-05-06

Much worthy English music issues from the atéliers of minor talents and has a cottage or "small beer" quality. Of course "small beer" (locally brewed) can put the grand variety to shame, and so too in music, where dedication within limitation can produce work of exceptional beauty and character. John Ireland is one such (a miniaturist extraordinaire); Gerald Finzi (1901-1957) is another. Finzi, although of Italian-Jewish extraction, was London-born and in many ways more English than his teacher Ralph Vaughan Williams. Finzi's best-known work, the "Fantasia" for male voice and strings on texts by Thomas Traherne, "Dies Natalis" (1939), has appeared now and then on records and belongs within the knowledge of those who make a place for English composers. It displays its author's strong points - felicitous writing for the voice, a preference for homogeneous accompaniment (string orchestra), employment of fluid polyphony, and a spaciousness in the sound. Finzi occasionally wrote large, as in his setting of Wordsworth's "Ode: On Intimations of Immortality" (1950) for tenor solo, chorus, and orchestra; or in his Cello Concerto (1955). Oftener, he could not quite execute his own ambitions and a projected big work would appear as separate, smaller offerings. The lovely, Bach-like "Eclogue" for Piano and Strings (1956) represents what remains of a forecast piano concerto, never fulfilled. Likewise and for a long time the "Introit" (1925) for Violin and Small Orchestra, also Bach-like in character, betokened fragmentarily an intended "Concerto for Small Orchestra and Violin." A "reconstruction" of this Concerto forms the cynosure of the program on the new Chandos disc, the producers having restored the two outer movements, suppressed by Finzi after an early performance, for the purpose. Once Finzi fashioned his voice, in the mid-1920s, it never really changed. The original stand-alone "Introit" sounds remarkably like the stand-alone "Eclogue" of thirty years later - but this is not a complaint. The duty of the soloist in all three movements of the Concerto is to levitate his vocally-inflected line above the quiet accompaniment of the chamber orchestra; he must hover, not quite as ecstatically as the lark in RVW's 1914 masterpiece, but with equal serenity. The Finale consists of a Howells-like hornpipe, quite jolly. Hints of English folksong make themselves felt. This is not surprising as the Concerto comes from only a year later than Finzi's first preserved effort, the idyllic "Severn Rhapsody," modeled in turn on similar evocations of genius loci by RVW and Gustav Holst. The Concerto's closest kin might in fact be Holst's Double Concerto, also from the mid-1920s, although the Holst work is more robust than the Finzi, the Finzi more sweetly lyrical than the Holst. Tasmin Little brings an appropriately delicate manner to the solo execution. The other major work on the program also happens to be a "reconstruction," made in this case by transferring a half-dozen Finzi songs from their original keyboard settings to the orchestra, each arrangement having been undertaken by a different composer. (One of the arrangements is by Finzi himself.) The resulting vocal cycle is called "In Years Defaced." The arrangers are: Judith Weir, Anthony Payne, Colin Matthews, Christian Alexander and Jeremy Dale Roberts - who have managed individually and convincingly to recreate Finzi's usual ensemble texture (mainly strings with a few winds for color). Mark Ainsley sings tenor. The "Prelude" and the "Romance," both for string orchestra, have circulated previously in a number of recordings, most recently on a Nimbus 2CD set. They contribute worthily to the English genre of music for strings, being very beautiful, almost retiring in their quietness and modesty. Richard Hickox leads the City of London Sinfonia. Recommended, to aficionados of Finzi especially, but also to lovers of English music.

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Lunar Eclipse
Tom Carter , and Robert Horton
Manufacturer: Important Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000B8GTFQ
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Tracks:

Lunar Eclipse
Hunter's Moon
Equinoxium
Through Earth's Shadow
Bassism
During Totality
Set The Clocks Back
Glimmers

Album Description

Lunar Eclipse was culled from over 30 hours of recordings taking place, inadvertently, on the lunar eclipse/winter solstice of 2004. Tom Carter (Charalambides) and Robert Horton sound as if they are channeling the natural power of these significant calendar days into the music. They both noticed something special was happening during the initial recording session, when they looked at a clock and realized that they'd been playing for over five hours. Throughout the album, Carter slowly plays louder and more powerfully than usual over drone-master Horton's organic electronic chimes, drones, jangles, dangles and splendor. The result is a vast, expansive sound cavern full of hidden melody, slow drones, textured tribal gong and hidden mystic rhythm. Track one is a slow drone metal-meets-Neil Young psychedelic freakout, with vocals that sound as if they were recorded inside of a deep cave. On other tracks, Horton's homemade instruments fuse with Carter's twisted lap steel shimmering. And, on the last track, Carter and Horton weld a Harry Partch web of rhythm until it implodes in metal drone fragments of screeching fury. Lunar Eclipse demands to be listened to in its entirety as one whole experience. It has an undeniable power, much like the natural events that subconsciously inspired the recordings.