Healing: Music to Sooth the Mind and Body

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Overview

Albums with names like Healing: Music to Soothe the Mind and Body often contain ambient or new age music, recently composed and intended to have the beneficial effect registered in the title. But this Decca collection is an assemblage of calm, quiet classical music composed by the likes of Bach, Debussy, and Mozart, and played by an array of the label's classical artists including pianists Claudio Arrau, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Andras Schiff, violinist Nigel Kennedy, and cellists Julian Lloyd Webber and Heinrich Schiff. In the course of soothing the mind and body, the music may also have the effect of putting the listener to sleep, and that seems to be intentional, given the inclusion of Chopin's Nocturne No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 and, especially, the closer, harpist Marisa Robles' rendition of Brahms' Lullaby (Wiegenlied, Op. 49, No. 4), following the longest track, 16 minutes of Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, conducted by Iona Brown. Certainly, there is nothing here to upset anyone, and classical music fans in particular will find this music soothing, as advertised. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	08/25/2009
Label:	Decca
UPC:	0028948022502
Rank:	176252

Tracks

1. La fille aux cheveux de lin, prelude for piano, L. 117/8  - Claudio Arrau  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Julie Znoy
2. The Swan (from "Carnival of the Animals"), original (for 2 pianos & ensemble) and arrangements  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Samuel Sanders  - Heinrich Schiff  - Julie Znoy
3. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard (Clavier-¿¿bung IV), BWV 988 (BC L9)~Aria  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Andras Schiff  - Julie Znoy
4. Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major ("Eine kleine Nachtmusik"), K. 525~Romance (Andante)  -  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Neville Marriner  - Julie Znoy
5. Nocturne for piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9/2, CT. 109  - Vladimir Ashkenazy  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Julie Znoy
6. Cantata No. 156, "Ich steh mit einem Fuss im Grabe," BWV 156 (BC A38)~Arioso  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - John Lenehan  - Julian Lloyd Webber  - Julie Znoy
7. M¿¿ditation, for violin & orchestra (or other arrangement) (from opera "Tha¿¿s")  - Pat Barry  - Richard Bonynge  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Nigel Kennedy  - Carla Leighton  -  National Philharmonic Orchestra  - Julie Znoy
8. Ave Maria  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - James Judd  - Carla Leighton  - Julian Lloyd Webber  -  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  - Julie Znoy
9. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068~Air on a G string  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Karl Munchinger  -  Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra  - Julie Znoy
10. The Lark Ascending, romance for violin & orchestra  -  Academy of St. Martin in the Fields  - Pat Barry  - Iona Brown  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Julie Znoy
11. Wiegenlied ("Guten Abend, gut Nacht"), song for voice & piano, Op. 49/4  - Pat Barry  - Gilbert Hetherwick  - Carla Leighton  - Marisa Robles  - Julie Znoy

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Marisa Robles   Harp
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra   Orchestra
Karl Muenchinger   Conductor
Andras Schiff   Piano
Vladimir Ashkenazy   Piano
National Philharmonic Orchestra   Orchestra
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra   Orchestra
Richard Bonynge   Conductor
Heinrich Schiff   Cello
Nigel Kennedy   Violin
Neville Marriner   Conductor
Claudio Arrau   Piano
John Lenehan   Piano
Julian Lloyd Webber   Cello
Iona Brown   Conductor,Violin
James Judd   Conductor
Samuel Sanders   Piano
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Giulio Caccini   Composer
Gilbert Hetherwick   Compilation Producer
Camille Saint-Saens   Composer
Claude Debussy   Composer
Johannes Brahms   Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart   Composer
Jules Massenet   Composer
Frederic Chopin   Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams   Composer
Johann Sebastian Bach   Composer
Julie Znoy   Release Coordinator
Pat Barry   Creative Director
Carla Leighton   Design