Imagined Oceans
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Edition: Music CDPublished: 1998-01-01
CD Release Date: 1998-06-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Mare Crisium Introitus
- Lacus Serenitatis
- Mare Vaporum
- Mare Australis
- Lacus Somniorum
- Lacus Pereverantiae
- Lacus Doloris
- Mare Undarum
- Palus Nebularum
- Sinus Iridium
- Mare Imbrium
- Lacus Temporis
- Lacus Lenitatis
- Mare Crisium
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Music Review: A lunar suite of watery landscapes
Rating: 5 Stars
Creating an imaginary world is something reserved for the most brilliant minds, and musically-wise, Karl Jenkins is a master of invention. The piece portrays itself as a post-modern baroque suite in thirteen movements for three voices, recorder, strings and percussion, every separate piece a musical depiction of one of the poetically named "Seas of the Moon". From the tempestuous "Sea of Crises" which opens and closes the entire work with its violent strings, we experience a complete voyage through Jenkins' imagination. We float in a haunted "Lake of Serenity", stroll through a "Sea of Vapours", feel the crashing of the waves in the "Southern Sea", drift in a "Lake of Dreams" and depart into the adventure of a "Lake of Perseverance". At this point, Jenkins calls for a moment of mournful meditation, in a purely instrumental interlude called "Lake of Grief" which divides the work into two almost symmetrical parts. Then, the adventure continues: "Sea of Waves" is a boisterous hornpipe, a hardly dissimulated tribute to british sea songs. "Marsh of Clouds" is a greatly dignified sarabande, reflecting the solemn passing of the clouds. "Bay of Rainbows" uses a slight bitonality to reflect changing colours. "Sea of Showers" uses percussion to show splashes of water bathing the listener, "Lake of Time" is a deep reflection on the passing of time and its universal implications and "Lake of Tenderness" delights us with its suave melodic line. The performance is brilliant, especially the beautiful voices, covering three and a half octaves, creating all sort of polyphonic combinations, accompanied by recorder virtuoso Pamela Thorby and the Karl Jenkins Ensemble (Strings and percussion). Although science has proven false all the lofty ruminations of the ancient poets about our cosmic partner, music created by geniuses like Jenkins shows, once more, that anything is possible.
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