Pianissimo

Pianissimo Artist: Suzanne Ciani
Label: RCA Victor
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 010058207320
EAN: 0010058207320
ASIN: B0000000K2


Release Date: 1990-06-26

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Listmania:

  1. Instrumental Music
  2. in my CD player right now...
  3. Mood music for relaxing and watching an eclipse to...
  4. Albums that my parents and I like.
  5. "new age" (contmpry instrmntl) CDs i've kept

Tracks:

  1. Anthem
  2. Tuscany
  3. Neverland
  4. Adagio
  5. Aegean Wave
  6. Rain
  7. Inverness
  8. Simple Song
  9. She Said Yes
  10. Drifting
  11. Summer's Day
  12. Mozart
  13. When Love Dies
  14. Berceuse

Similar Items:

  1. Pianissimo II
  2. Pianissimo III
  3. The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani
  4. Silver Ship
  5. Dream Suite

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars An absolute favorite.......2007-02-13

This was just a replacement copy for me; I've worn out one and landed up sharing the replacements in the past with friends who are just as taken with this as I was. It's wonderful to use as background music or just to relax with.

5 out of 5 stars Energizing.......2006-03-20

It's rare to find a CD that has energy but is calming at the same time. I think Ms. Ciani does this very well. The music is very flowing and peaceful, but there's a moving energy through the different pieces that keeps you from zoning out. She's an accomplished artist, and I enjoyed this CD very much. I'm looking forward to purchasing another by her.

5 out of 5 stars Magical.......2004-09-02

I can just put this CD on repeat and play it all day.
I never tire of it.
Each hearing reveals deeper layers of detail and musicality.
The beauty of it will give you goosebumps.

5 out of 5 stars Shifting Gears.......2004-04-08

After something like a twenty year career as a composer of electronic music sometime in 1989 or 1990 Suzanne Ciani began to move back to her original roots as an acoustic instrument player. For a musician who had come up through the ranks working on a massive Buchla synthesizer, moving in and out of tonalities, flirting with space music, this was a great sea shift. While the artist rarely focuses on the motivations behind the change in interviews what we know is that physical illness triggered a move to the West Coast and that some internal process refocused her on the melodic.

"Pianissimo," her first fully acoustic piano recording. Other than a few original pieces, this live performance draws primarily from Neverland and History of My Heart. The shift to piano makes the inner workings of these pieces far more transparent, allowing more of Ciani's intentions (she talks of "My Italian roots and a sense of melody") to come clear. This in turn allows new ideas to work within the discipline and bounds of the piano's world. The net product is something that sounds familiar, but which is more than a passive adoption of old conventions.

Ciani lacks something of the New Age technical brilliance of a Michael Jones or a George Winston, but she has the same ability to deliver a performance that is creative and compelling. This is a connection that I did not feel with some of here earlier work. She has gone on from this point to develop an eclectic style that marries elements of all the worlds she has worked in. This album is a great example of a musical turning point and has made a fan out of me.

5 out of 5 stars Made in heaven!.......2002-11-25

This is the first of the series of albumns where Suzanne Ciani play her previous tracks on piano only.

Hearing these tracks play, one may think that they were originally written for piano only but they are not. Anthem has a very national mourning and salute feel to it. Rain is perfect for a rainy day where the rain drops gently tab against the windows. She Said Yes almost represent the joy when one says yes to a marriage proposal. Every track has a meaning, every note - an emotion that fits it beautifully.

Suzanne is one of the only artist that is able to composed a track that rhymes, unlike other more abstract works of others.

Do get it and consider the rest of her wonderful albums like Pianissimo II, III, Hotel Luna, Dream Suite & The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani. Like the review title says "Made in heaven!"

Music CD:

  1. Touching Silk ~ Frank Steiner Jr.
  2. Songs for Clem ~ Sarah Harmer
  3. The Healing Garden Music: Sensuality ~ Various Artists
  4. Quidam
  5. Adagio: Music for Meditation ~ Peter Davison
  6. Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2) ~ Gong
  7. Apsaras ~ Alio Die & Amelia Cuni
  8. The Gift: Acoustic Offerings for the Holiday Season ~ Eric Tingstad, Nancy Rumbel
  9. Inner Harmony ~ Cecilia
  10. Nightfall ~ David Lanz

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Guisando ~ Willie Col%C3%B3n

Pianissimo ~ Suzanne Ciani

Wolf ~ Various Artists

Melancholy Is a Key to Consciousness ~ Aqua

Motown Legends: Being With You ~ Smokey Robinson

Grabaciones Encontradas ~ Andres Calamaro

Sings Milton Nascimento ~ Flora Purim

Quisiera ~ Rebel Hands

Siempre Fiesta ~ Eddy Herrera