Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements

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This fascinating two-disc collection highlights the piano music written by the Greek-Armenian mystic George Gurdjieff in the 1920s. The compositions, intended to accompany spiritual dances known as "Movements," were written in collaboration with Gurdjieff's pupil Thomas de Hartmann. Largely unavailable to the general public until now, this music, like Gurdjieff's teachings, is said to express cosmic laws.In the able hands of Dutch pianist Wim van Dullemen, the music for the Movements has an ethereal feel. Alternately tender, woeful and lithe, these works will be of interest to Gurdjieff's many followers, but they should also appeal to anyone who just wants to chill out with some low-key, relaxing piano music.

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Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements
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 Gurdjieff's Music for the Movements

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ASIN: B00003CK7L
Release Date: 1999-12-14

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars happiness takes place in small piano tunes.......2001-07-24

these short piano pieces are simple, but absolutely not boring. gurdjieff and de hartmann wrote some of the most thoughtful and sincere music you'll ever hear. I found this CD over a year ago and it's one I return to over and over again.

5 out of 5 stars Cacaphonic Harmonious.......2001-07-15

Truly an exposition of beautiful "objective" listening. This music will not put you to sleep. Transitions are abrupt and engaging throughout the score's entirity. I play the music whenever I find myself searching for something to do or am bored. This music will consume all negativity and poke the listner to begin a stirring sensation in their own mentation. The music is not sophisticated or eligant by no means, but has a way about it which will intrige one to listen again and again.
Words for a Hymn to the Sun: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Three
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    		Words for a Hymn to the Sun: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Three

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    Binding: Audio CD

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    1. Reading of a Sacred Book: The Complete Piano Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, Volume Two
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    ASIN: B0000007ZO
    Release Date: 1992-01-23

    Tracks:

    1. Movements: 1
    2. Movements: 2
    3. Movements: 3
    4. Movements: 4
    5. Movements: 5
    6. Movements: 6
    7. Movements: 7
    8. Movements: 8
    9. Movements: 9
    10. Movements:10
    11. Movements: 11
    12. Movements: 12
    13. Movements: 13
    14. Movements: 14
    15. Movements: 15
    16. Movements: 16
    17. Movements: 17
    18. Movements: 18
    19. Movements: 19
    20. Movements: 20
    21. Movements: 21
    22. Movements: 22
    23. Movements: 23
    24. Movements: 24
    25. Movements: 25
    26. Movements: 26
    27. Movements: 27
    28. Movements: 28
    29. Movements: 29
    30. Movements: 30
    31. Movements: 31
    32. Movements: 32
    33. Movements: 33
    34. Movements: 34
    35. Movements: 35
    36. Movements: 36
    37. Movements: 37

    Tracks:

    1. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Song Of The Aisors
    2. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Kurdish Shepherd's Dance
    3. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Song Of The Fisher Women
    4. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Oriental Song
    5. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Armenian Song
    6. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Greek Melody
    7. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Armenian Melody
    8. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Hindu Melody
    9. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Song Of The Molokans
    10. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Kurdish Song For Two Flutes
    11. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Allegretto
    12. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Tibetan Melody
    13. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Bagpipe Music
    14. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Persian Song
    15. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Oriental Melody
    16. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Kurdish Melody
    17. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Afghan Melody
    18. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Assyrian Women Mourners
    19. Songs & Rhythms From Asia: Tibetan Masked Dance

    Album Description

    This three volume compilation is tribute to the genius of three uniquely talented men--a philosopher, a composer, and a pianist-musicologist. These works began with the philosophical searchings of Georges Ivanovich Gurdjieff, an Armenian intellectual at the turn of the 20th century. His homeland was the crossroad for the diverse cultures that ringed the Black, Caspian and Mediterranean Seas. His fascination with the human spirit and his searching for the truth took him on vast journeys through India, Tibet and China. A keen observer, Gurdjieff, began to accumulate bits and pieces of musical traditions. These he combined with his provocatively inspired visions as a universal symbol of his philosophical beliefs. Gurdjieff, however, did not have the musical ability to transform his abstractions into reality. Fortunately, one of his disciples was a gifted and successful composer in St. Petersburg, Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, whom he met in 1917. As a fellow searcher for the truth, de Hartmann was eager to transform the raw musical utterances of Gurdjieff into sophisticated piano compositions. Those scores, sadly, were left in a state of disarray in the estate of de Hartmann. Decades later, musicologist, professor, and pianist Cecil Lytle, became the final element of the equation. In the mid 1980s, he and a team of researchers began a three year quest, scrupulously studying the scattered files of de Hartmann's scores, assembling the first truly accurate arrangements of the Gurdjieff/de Hartmann legacy. A man in touch with the philosophical, as well, as the musical nature of the works, Lytle performs them with deep emotion and unsurpassed skill. The three volumes vary in their nature. Seekers of the Truth presents the reflective, ceremonial music of Gurdjieff/de Hartmann's majestic suites. Reading of a Sacred Book contains some of their dance and character pieces of a more lively nature. Words for a Hymn to the Sun completes the trilogy with the final works of the great spiritual teacher, Georges Gurdjieff. Truly, these dramatic piano performances serve as the highest praise to three remarkable individuals.
    Gurdieff - Music for the Movements composed in collaboration with Thomas De Hartmann - Wim van Dullemen (2 CD Set)
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      		Gurdieff - Music for the Movements composed in collaboration with Thomas De Hartmann - Wim van Dullemen (2 CD Set)

      Manufacturer: Channel Crossings
      ProductGroup: Classical
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B000HJ5ZZO

      Product Description

      GEORG IVANOVITCH GURDJIEFF (1866-1949). CD 1 1. The Essentuki Prayer 2. The Initiation of a Priestess From the Struggle of the Magicians 3. Before decision to go to Sorceress 4. Fragment I 5. Fragment II 6. Dance in G-minor 7. Fragment III From De Hartmann"s White Movements book 8. Exercises 1924-N1 9. Exercises 1924-N3 10. Exercises 1924-N4 11. Exercises 1924-N6 12. The Fall of the Priestess 13. N33 14. The Sacred Goose 15. Woman"s Prayer 16. Enneagram 17. The Shoemaker 18. Woman"s Dance 19. The Great Prayer 20. Forming Twos 21. Ho-Ya. CD 2 From De Hartmann"s White Movements book 1. Dur-Rud 2. Slow Second Obligatory 3. The Three Canons 4. Canon of 15 November 5. The Circles 6. Derviche 7. Adam & Eva 8. Multiplication of 9 October 9. Women"s Dance 10. Rug Weaving 11. Trembling Dervish 12. The First Dervish Prayer 13. The Big Seven 14. Andantino Historical variations to complement De Hartmann"s white Movements book 15. The Carpet 16. The Spinners 17. Woman"s Prayer 18. Thirty Gestures 19. The First Dervish Prayer 20. The Shoemaker 21. Carpet Weaving 22. The Spinners 23. Women"s Round Dance 24. Turning 25. Enneagram. Wim van Dullemen, piano.

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