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Number of CDs: 2
Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 14020-2
Barcode: 13711402025
Musical Style: Classical
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seekers of The Truth Part 1 [02:59] | 11 | Seekers of The Truth Part 11 [07:06] |
| 2 | Seekers of The Truth Part 2 [03:54] | 12 | Seekers of The Truth Part 12 [01:09] |
| 3 | Seekers of The Truth Part 3 [01:38] | 13 | Seekers of The Truth Part 13 [01:42] |
| 4 | Seekers of The Truth Part 4 [01:51] | 14 | Seekers of The Truth Part 14 [02:48] |
| 5 | Seekers of The Truth Part 5 [02:57] | 15 | Seekers of The Truth Part 15 [03:03] |
| 6 | Seekers of The Truth Part 6 [04:03] | 16 | Seekers of The Truth Part 16 [02:50] |
| 7 | Seekers of The Truth Part 7 [02:13] | 17 | Seekers of The Truth Part 17 [01:39] |
| 8 | Seekers of The Truth Part 8 [02:24] | 18 | Seekers of The Truth Part 18 [03:34] |
| 9 | Seekers of The Truth Part 9 [02:02] | 19 | Seekers of The Truth Part 19 [02:50] |
| 10 | Seekers of The Truth Part 10 [02:22] | ||
| Disc 2 | |||
| 1 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 1 [04:20] | 10 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 1 [02:17] |
| 2 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 2 [02:45] | 11 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 2 [01:31] |
| 3 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 3 [01:40] | 12 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 3 [00:51] |
| 4 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 4 [02:25] | 13 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 4 [02:04] |
| 5 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 5 [02:43] | 14 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 5 [01:14] |
| 6 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 6 [01:42] | 15 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 6 [01:55] |
| 7 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 7 [02:17] | 16 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 7 [02:32] |
| 8 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 8 [04:02] | 17 | Rituals Of A Sufi Order Part 8 [01:40] |
| 9 | Hymns From A Great Temple Hymn 9 [01:41] | 18 | Enneagram [05:32] |
Description:
This three volume compilation is tribute to the genius of three uniquely talented men - a philosopher, a composer and a pianist-musicologist. These works began with the philosophical searchings of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, an Armenian intellectual at the turn of the 20th century. His homeland was the crossroad for the diverse cultures that ringed the Black, Caspian and Mediterranean Seas. His fascination with the human spirit and his searching for the truth took him on vast journeys through India, Tibet and China. A keen observer, Gurdjieff, began to accumulate bits and pieces of musical traditions. These he combined with his provocatively inspired visions as a universal symbol of his philosophical beliefs. Gurdjieff, however, did not have the musical ability to transform his abstractions into reality. Fortunately, one of his disciples was a gifted and successful composer in St. Petersburg, Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, whom he met in 1917. As a fellow searcher for the truth, de Hartmann was eager to transform the raw musical utterances of Gurdjieff into sophisticated piano compositions. Those scores, sadly, were left in a state of disarray in the estate of de Hartmann. Decades later, musicologist, professor and pianist Cecil Lytle, became the final element of the equation. In the mid 1980s, he and a team of researchers began a three year quest, scrupulously studying the scattered files of de Hartmann's scores, assembling the first truly accurate arrangements of the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann legacy. A man in touch with the philosophical, as well, as the musical nature of the works, Lytle performs them with deep emotion and unsurpassed skill. The three volumes vary in their nature. Seekers of the Truth presents the reflective, ceremonial music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann's majestic suites. Reading of a Sacred Book contains some of their dance and character pieces of a more lively nature. Words for a Hymn to the Sun completes the trilogy with the final works of the great spiritual teacher, Georges Gurdjieff. Truly, these dramatic piano performances serve as the highest praise to three remarkable individuals.
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