Hidden Reflections

Track Listings
1. Hidden Reflections - for Alto Saxophone and Piano    
2. Hidden Reflections - for Alto Saxophone and Piano    
3. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp    
4. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp    
5. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp    
6. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp    
7. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1    
8. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1    
9. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1    

Editorial Reviews
The Boston Globe, March 10, 2000
Lior Navok is clearly a major talent who we will hear more from in coming years.

(Paul Geffen, Classical Net)
The music of our time is often self-consciously up-to-date. Some composers seem to follow an iconoclastic modernism, seeking primarily to overthrow the traditional at any cost.

Hidden Reflections

Hidden Reflections, Music, Lior Navok, Styliani Tartsinis , Ruty Itzcovitch , El'ad Avakrat , Eyal Streett , Gittit Alpert , Christina Day , Anna Bard , Eric Paetkay , Erica Wise . Jenny Tang
Battle of the Atlantic Suite
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Okay follow-up to a great work.
 Battle of the Atlantic Suite

Manufacturer: Conifer
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0000024BZ
Release Date: 1993-11-23

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Okay follow-up to a great work........2006-05-11

Written after Roylance and Galvin recorded their Tall Ships Suite, this suite also tells a story of ships in the Atlantic Ocean; this time of a Royal Navy Warship traveling the North Atlantic in WWII during 1943. Composed of several pieces, each piece has a distinct tone, melody and emotional impact. Each piece represents a different stage of the ship's travel across the sea, which makes it similar to its counterpart; the Tall Ships Suite. The emotional and melodic range from one piece to the next is quite great; and one could listen to all the pieces in a row and think that each was composed by a different person. In this respect, it is quite different from the Tall Ships Suite, in which one could tell that they were all composed by the same person, and should be played together. Overall, this music is okay; not great and not as majestic as the Tall Ships Suite. There is singing though in the last piece, which might broaden the appeal of this work over the prior Suite.
Serene Reflections
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Serene Reflections
    Dave Smith
    Manufacturer: TimberLine-Music
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    GeneralGeneral | New Age | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    ASIN: B000171UDI
    Release Date: 2002-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. Starlite Nights
    2. Gems of Time
    3. The Lights Above
    4. Images on the Lake
    5. Forgotten Rainbows
    6. Musical Crystals
    7. Glassworks
    8. Cascade Springs
    9. Serene Reflections

    Album Description

    A wonderful collection of orginal easy listening New Age style compositions. Soft flutes, guitars, and string ensembles melt away your worries and transform you to a time and place while listening to Serene Reflections.
    Hidden Reflections
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Something for everyone
    		 Hidden Reflections

    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    ClassicalClassical | Indie Music | Stores | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    ASIN: B000050H73
    Release Date: 1998-10-01

    Tracks:

    1. Hidden Reflections - for Alto Saxophone and Piano
    2. Hidden Reflections - for Alto Saxophone and Piano
    3. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp
    4. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp
    5. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp
    6. Quartet for Flute Clarinet Bassoon and Harp
    7. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1
    8. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1
    9. Voices from India - String Quartet no. 1

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Something for everyone.......2001-03-01

    The music of our time is often self-consciously up-to-date. Some composers seem to follow an iconoclastic modernism, seeking primarily to overthrow the traditional at any cost. Then there is another, more respectful attitude, as exemplified here, which works to combine and integrate a wide variety of styles and influences in order to preserve continuity with as much of the fabric of the past as possible.

    This set covers a lot of ground and successfully pulls together its many influences. Navok claims Ravel, Bartok, Messiaen, and Bill Evans; and I hear Satie and possbily even Victor Herbert as well. The composer has obviously done a lot of listening across a broad range of styles and learned many things from that endeavor.

    For example, the second movement of the title piece recalls the style of Messiaen, and the Quartet for winds and harp owes a lot to the spare, genial style of the Velvet Gentleman, Satie. This Quartet is charming and well-constructed, tonal and with a consistent mood. Like the music of Satie, behind an apparently simple, pleasant, and accessible surface is a complex structure and organisation. Clearly, much thought has gone into this composition.

    The other sources for this music stretch much further than France, but not always where the liner notes suggest. For example, I heard only a little of the Indian Classical forms of Alap and Raga in the string quartet. Although I'm sure they are there in the structure of the piece, they do not surface.

    In the end I am left wondering how to characterize Navok's own style. I don't want to leave the impression that his music is a mere kaleidescope of effects and quotations when in fact it holds together very well. It is just that these pieces are all so very different from each other and employ such a wide variety of techniques that I find it impossible to give a single description that applies to the set as a whole. Perhaps in time the outlines that contain these works will become clearer.

    "Something for everyone" would seem to be the motto of this composer.

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    7. Keltik Kharma
    8. Kenneth Leighton: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 31; Symphony No. 3 "Laudes Musicae"
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    10. Magdalena Kozená - Le belle immagini (Mozart, Gluck, Myslivecek)

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