Audio CD review:
Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Manring, Paul Baker, Martha Reikow, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg - Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection

Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Manring, Paul Baker, Martha Reikow, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg - Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection

Band: Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Manring, Paul Baker, Martha Reikow, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg Title: Adagio: A Windham Hill Collection Rating: Release Date: 04 March, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Air 'On The String' - Philippe Saisse 2: Ave Maria - Paul McCandless 3: Arioso - Tracy Silverman 4: Nocturne - Steve Erquiaga 5: Sarabande - Paul Schwartz 6: Intermezzo No.6 - David Benoit 7: Adagio - Brian Dunning 8: Adagio - Patrick O'Hearn 9: Prelude In C-Sharp Minor - Edgar Meyer 10: Adagio - Richard Schonherz 11: Adagio For Strings - Philip Aaberg 12: Largo - Tim Story

Editoral Review As with those releases, it was produced by Dawn Atkinson and features many of the same artists. Adagio follows in the rosin-dusted footsteps of The Impressionists, A Different Mozart, and A Different Prelude. The results are as varied as the musicians. Violinist Tracy Silverman cuts one of his patented echo-delayed pizzicato violin arrangements of a Bach arioso, while Patrick O'Hearn drapes a somber keyboard shroud around the Adagio from Rodrigo's Fantasy for a Gentleman. Jeff Johnson and Brian Dunning find the Celtic air in the Adagio from Handel's Sonata in G, while Philip Aaberg discovers infinity between the notes of Barber's ubiquitous Adagio for Strings. He stretches the melody across his piano in finely drawn lines, subtlety filled out with synthesizer undertones. Subtlety is a casualty on Philipe Saisse's bongos, bells, and synth arrangement of Bach's Air on a G String. It's also sacrificed in a corny confection of Handel's Sarabande by Paul Schwartz. His ham-fisted electronic keyboards would've sounded dated even before Switched-On Bach. But Adagio features plenty of musicians who are willing to surrender themselves to their elegiac themes, including guitarist Steve Erquiaga, Mike Marshall, and Edgar Meyers. --John Diliberto .. You can see a complete list of all Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Manring, Paul Baker, Martha Reikow, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg discography, or go back to the Patrick O'Hearn, Michael Manring, Paul Baker, Martha Reikow, Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Johannes Brahms, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg tabs