Track Listing

1. Northbound - Northern Lights
2. Maja [From Starry Sky Cycle] - Lauri Vainmaa
3. Trivium [Excerpt]
4. Oremus [From Gloria Patri...]
5. Forest [From The Snow Queen] - Northern Lights
6. Song of the Watch [From Sea Pictures]
7. Song Without Words - Raija Kerpo, Kaija Saarikettu
8. Piece from the Year 1981 - Lauri Vainmaa
9. Dominus Vobiscum [From Gloria Patri...] - Eesti Projekt
10. Insula Deserta [Excerpt]
11. Ancient Kannel [Excerpt] - Lauri Vainmaa
12. Adagio Religioso [Excerpt from Music for String Orchestra]
13. Gerda and Kai [From The Snow Queen] - Northern Lights
14. Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra [Excerpt]
15. Cantabile [Excerpt]
16. Pater Noster [From Gloria Patri...] - Eesti Projekt
17. Trivium [Excerpt]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #140460 in Music
• Released on: 1995-11-14
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Northern Lights
Better than most "New Age" offerings, thanks to the overall choices and imagery the music conjures up. Northbound is first cut and gives actual feel of travelling very fast over snow and ice. Sounds like a well-crafted soundtrack. Well worth buying when you need a beautiful, lilting symphonic head-journey-or when you just need/want to hear musicians other than U.S./British-born artists.

Some of the cuts are quite moving, some sturm und drang, and others reminiscent of the best of classical artists. One friend told me he could almost hear the ice crackling underfoot in one track, and another said he thought of the time he saw flights of geese southbound for the winter.

je ne sais quoi
The music on this CD is hauntingly beautiful and much of it fills me with strange and wistful longings--a sort of "happy sadness," perhaps correspondent to the German concept of Sehnsucht.

2 Stars for the Album, 5 stars for Urmus Sisak's Work
I heard Dominus Vobiscum on XM radio this morning and found myself just sitting down and meditating on the spot. Meditation is something I've started reading about but could not see myself doing though I knew I'd try somehow. Music like this makes meditation possible for anyone even those with totally undisciplined minds like mine. I've listened to the samples, and I'll buy this album but only for the 3 pieces by Urmus Sisak. He'll never know what this experience meant to me. One note: I only remembered the name "Sisak" and the word "Contemplation" and began my determined search for this music. Given that he is a composer and part of a compilation from various artists, what do you think the chances should have been that I would find his Dominus Vobiscum with that little information? His name never came up in a search. It must be true that if you are sincere, doors or paths do open. Just listen...