Product description
VARIOS INTERPRETES THE PRAYER CYCLE
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It is with primitive urgency and lustrous clarity rising like flickering embers from a fire that Jonathan Elias's ambitious Prayer Cycle is given voice. Woven together like knotty wool, silk, and fine strands of silvery water, the disparate yet complementary voices of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alanis Morissette, Yungchen Lhamo, Ofra Haza, the American Boychoir, Salif Keita, and others intertwine in multiple languages with the superb English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Prayers of supplication, gratitude, and longing build in layers, one on top of and 'twixt and 'tween the other, as movements titled "Mercy," "Grace," "Innocence," "Compassion," and the like. Remarkably, Elias's Prayer Cycle eloquently captures the ecstasy, pain, grief, and sublime beauty of humanity--as he simply and poignantly writes in his liner notes, "The world we live in is both joyous and cruel." --Paige La Grone
Review
Cycle's exquisite, soaring world-music voices dissipate all defenses. -- Entertainment Weekly
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.64 x 4.9 x 0.41 inches; 5.44 ounces
- Manufacturer : Sony Classical
- Original Release Date : 1999
- Run time : 51 minutes
- Date First Available : March 23, 1999
- Label : Sony Classical
- Number of discs : 1
