Dance of the Essence on the Glassy Light Mountains
The Moon and the Cloud Rider
The Fisherman and his Wife on the Yangtse River
Elegie
Phoenix
The Metaphors
The Sermon of the Birds
A Love Song
A Walk with my Father / Summer Rain
Play of Colors
Hommage
May Green Be the Grass...
The Secret and the Candle
Vespers Bell
Farewell at the Great Gate
U.S. Premiere Recording! Grammy®-winning performer and composer Andreas Vollenweider and his father, renowned organist Hans — Vollenweider, collaborate on an album never before released outside of Switzerland. — Recorde... more »d between 1979 and 1989, Traumgarten represents the work of several years and is a unique document of a very special relationship the one between father and son: an encounter on the bridge that is music. As Andreas Vollenweider explains so touchingly in his liner notes, it was by playing music together, sometimes improvising for hours, that the two musicians became much closer. So, in addition to being a collaborative album in the more traditional sense, Traumgarten is also intrinsically a very personal and transcendent musical dialogue, culminating in a powerful work of music.
Traumgarten has been digitally remastered for this release, and contains detailed liner notes and family photos provided by the composer.« less
U.S. Premiere Recording! Grammy®-winning performer and composer Andreas Vollenweider and his father, renowned organist Hans
Vollenweider, collaborate on an album never before released outside of Switzerland.
Recorded between 1979 and 1989, Traumgarten represents the work of several years and is a unique document of a very special relationship the one between father and son: an encounter on the bridge that is music. As Andreas Vollenweider explains so touchingly in his liner notes, it was by playing music together, sometimes improvising for hours, that the two musicians became much closer. So, in addition to being a collaborative album in the more traditional sense, Traumgarten is also intrinsically a very personal and transcendent musical dialogue, culminating in a powerful work of music.
Traumgarten has been digitally remastered for this release, and contains detailed liner notes and family photos provided by the composer.
CD Reviews
STOP!!!!
Eva N. O'mara | on the shores of a Great Lake | 06/25/2008
(1 out of 5 stars)
"As a rabid Andreas Vollenweider fan, I was thrilled to see a CD that I had not yet experienced. So, I ordered it without previewing and without hesitation. Don't bother. I cannot for the life of me describe it as anything more than seriously sel-indulgent. I kept listening for melody, for the beautiful riffs and was very disappointed because they never came.
So, just keep playing the earlier CD's you have and pass this one up in hopes that he gets this "phase" out of his system."
An interesting Compilation
Kathryn E. Woodford | US | 07/03/2008
(4 out of 5 stars)
"This album is an interesting intersection between Andreas and his father. The free flowing musical style of Andreas is contrasted against his fathers classical, more rigid background. I wouldn't rate this as my favorite but it is good."
Wonderful merger of the past and the present
David Hofmann | 07/05/2010
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Andreas Vollenweider's very first album was called "Eine Art Suite in 13 Teilen". It was released under a different label and for some legal reasons he was never able to sell this outside Switzerland or re-release it. I got a CD of it long time ago from a store in Europe. It was a very different style, kind of raw and in a way a little more experimental.
This new album is an attempt to mix his musical beginning with his current style and create a unique new piece. Some of the songs on this album are directly taken from his debut album, some influence by it and some of the songs are completely new but seem to have the same mood, the same feeling to it as his early work. Yes it is different, but since I loved his very first CD I'm very much in love with this new one.
I think he has tried different things with his music over the years and of course not everything will hit every fan's taste 100% all the time, but if you keep an open mind you will discover raw beauty in this music. "Hommage", a piano solo, is one of my all time favorite pieces he has made. It's so emotional and so captivating. The organ piece of his father is just brilliant."
WONDERFUL
Louise Marquis | 07/18/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Here we get a sampling of the unique musical relationship between Hans and Andreas Vollenweider, and the way Hans nurtured Andreas' talent. The music is all improvised, not formally organized compositions, and there is great beauty in it. As always, Andreas plays a variety of instruments. Although he grew up with a piano, it apparently is not his favorite instrument, since he doesn't play it often on recordings... but his lucidity at the keyboard heard in one improvisation here is phenomenal. He never ceases to amaze me, and it's fascinating to hear how his music developed through these musical conversations with his father."
Track Listings (16) - Disc #1