Breathe Piano Tom Howard
Breathe Piano Tom Howard
表演者: Tom Howard
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 2007
出版者: Vineyard Music
条形码: 601212808929
专辑简介
许多才华洋溢的乐手并非每一位都是无人不知、无人不晓的大明星。得奖无数的钢琴家－Tom Howard即是这样的一位音乐家；但在乐界乃是一位国际知名的作曲、编曲、录音师兼制作人，参于非常多的音乐制作与演出。Tom Howard最为人称道的便是以钢琴演奏纯熟地掌握音乐与听众之间相对的情绪回应；使得他的音乐绝不是了无生气的背景音乐，而似是与你的灵魂一起呼吸的美妙经验。
这张钢琴演奏音乐专辑收录《Draw Me Close》、《More Love,More Power》等许多脍炙人口的曲子，也有《Breathe》、《Dwell》等新作品，包含３首Tom Howard原创的新世纪风格插曲。真挚沉静的琴声，在音符间轻盈转换；旋律舒缓飞扬的流泄而来。感受内心精神与乐手间的对话及情感交流。清新和单纯之中，强大的音乐能量。
This is the accompanying piano book to a Tom Howard CD that Amazon seems not to carry and I was lucky to find, odd as it sounds, in a bookstore in Hawaii run by nuns. It was tucked in next to Switchfoot, and all I can say is that the Sisters have some very good taste in music. It's been decades since the Vineyard fellowship began in Larry Norman's living room, and nearly that long since I heard Tom Howard open for Larry Norman. A classically trained graduate of the Juliard School, Tom Howard blew me away with his unadorned and accomplished piano playing and I have been a fan ever since.
I may prefer his jazz work on Beyond the Barriers and the stylish renditions of Solo Piano, both long out of print and being sold used for ridiculous amounts. But if the music publishers have let those classics slip out of print, I thought for sure this CD, featuring as it does the most popular rock praise songs of the day, would surely be climbing the best-sellers chart. The motto of Vineyard Music is "From the Church, For the Church," so you'd think they'd applaud this true talent following his calling and using his gifts with the tiny favor of reissuing his CDs (I also cordially invite Calvary Chapel, the other everywhere fellowship, to reissue his earlier albums).
So before it's gone, you'd probably like to get this piano book of what might be called the Howard method, enabling pianists, from beginner to virtuoso, to play these songs. On the CD, Howard punctuates these nine numbers with three original interludes that sound like movie music, suggesting that he normally plays them all together as a medly, seguing in and out of the various songs, and they are only divided into twelve songs on the CD in order to separate the tracks. This is something like what Jeff Johnson, my other favorite instrumental musician (although both artists also have vocal albums) does with his Selah contemplative music.
In the '60s a renewal movement known as Vatican II swept through the Catholic Church, leaving in its wake, among other things, what was generally known as the folk mass. That led to some great folk praise songs (and some quite bad ones). But it's the same with any age. Apart from the few, well-known classics, hymn books are chock full of pieces best forgotten or, as C.S. Lewis dubbed them, "hymns I have always hated". Larry Norman once said that today's musicians may be writing tomorrow's hymns. The current contemporary praise movement is certainly churning out its share of forgettable numbers (you can't really make praise a business, can you?), but Tom Howard, with canny sense, has ferreted out the keepers. It's as if a great musician not only came to the door offering lessons, but also gave away his own personal arrangements. If this is the prelude to Vatican III, I can hardly wait.
This book makes a great addition to any church accompanist's library. The piano solos include 'More Love, More Power,' and 'Change My Heart, Oh God.'
曲目
01 - Breathe
02 - Dwell
03 - Cry Of My Heart
04 - Interlude 1
05 - Hungry (Falling On My Knees)
06 - In The Secret (I Want To Know You)
07 - Interlude 2
08 - Take My Life
09 - Draw Me Close
10 - Interlude 3
11 - More Love More Power
12 - Change My Heart Oh God