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Track Listings
| 1. "Gates of Gold": Arrival: A View From Sea |
| 2. "Gates of Gold": River of Tears |
| 3. "Gates of Gold": Call of the Mountain |
| 4. "Awakening": Compassion |
| 5. "Awakening": Forgiveness |
| 6. "Awakening": Joy |
| 7. "Adelina de Maya": Movement 1 |
| 8. "Adelina de Maya": Movement 2 |
| 9. "The Multiples of One" |
| 10. "Blue Windows" |
Editorial Reviews
Review
Each airing of "Gates of Gold" has been followed by a flurry of phone callers... --Alan Chapman, KUSC Magazine 1997
Product Description
This is the third and newest release of the "Awakening" CD which includes a preview bonus track, "Blue Windows" featuring Doc Severinsen and Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields. This new addition joins all the compositions of the original releases of the "Awakening" CD featuring The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. "Gates of Gold" which has become the most performed and most requested composition from the CD is a tribute to the Chinese immigrants of the Gold Rush days who helped to build the West. The title track, "Awakening", pays tribute to three beautiful qualities, or "fruits" of the spirit. "Adelina de Maya" is a piece for guitar and orchestra in honor of my sister, and "The Multiples of One" expresses the "oneness" of all creation.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Let me first preface this review by asking Amazon to please post the new cover to this CD..which now includes a new piece called Blue Windows. Gates of Gold was the first piece from Joseph Curiale I ever heard and it touched me in ways a piece of music has never touched my soul. There are various tones throughout the tracks, ranging from the momentum of the first movement of Gates of Gold (Arrival: A View from Sea) onto the extreme sensitivity and reverence portrayed in Awakening (my personal favorite) to the fun Latin overtones in Adelina de Maya (even my 2-year old daughter has danced to this one!). Blue Windows stands apart from the others...it is different, but yet, stands well against the other pieces on the CD. Overall, I HIGHLY suggest this CD to anyone, even those who have never appreciated classical music. I have had friends and co-workers stop and ask me WHAT was that I was listening to when this CD when playing it in my home or office. This has attracted more curiosity in people than any other of the hundereds of CD's I own and play all of the time.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By C.D Owens
Format:Audio CD
Every so often, I discover a work from a modern composer that reminds me of why I listen to music in the first place. "Awakenings" is such an album.
Composer Joseph Curiale has proven to me that he is, and will continue to be, a world class artist for the new Millennium. Each composition, with the aid of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, has been sweetly and thunderously performed with great precision and care under Curiale's baton. I will be listening to this CD for years to come. And I very much look forward to his next release.
I strongly recommend "Awakenings"
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Chris
Format:Audio CD
There are few composers who truly write music. Sure, they go through the motions, but music is not merely "going through the motions." Music is a living, moving thing. It makes you laugh; it makes you cry. It wraps its beautiful body around your soul, and it never lets go. Music, once heard, once felt, once experianced, never leaves your spirit or your mind. When you most need it, true music gives you strength and an insatiable appetite for life.
Joseph Curiale truly writes music. "awakening" is an ablum that never will be forgotten by those who welcome it into their lives. It is beautiful. It is colorful. It makes my heart beat and my eyes water. It is music. I know that the Earth is a wonderful place because music like this exists, and people listen to it. I anxiously await the release of Curiale's next album, and I will continue to treasure the music he writes.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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Joseph Curiale
Joseph Curiale is a comtemporary and talented composer who has written some wonderful music. Try it -- you'll like it.
Published on December 2, 2007 by M. Thomssen
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not impressed
For me music on this CD lacks originality. Very predictable and somewhat subservient to the new-age public for impending sales. Read more
Published on May 14, 2006 by Jack Styne
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRY IT, YOU WILL LIKE IT !
DYNO-MITE STUFF IF YOU LIKE DYNAMIC MUSIC.
NOTHING BORING HERE.
GENE ADDINGTON
NOTHING BORING HERE.
GENE ADDINGTON
Published on September 26, 2005 by GENE ADDINGTON
5.0 out of 5 stars
talented then and now!
I was lucky to see Joseph when he was talented in High School. His talent has grown beyond just good. Buy his music, you won't be dissapointed. Gary
Published on November 6, 2004 by Gary G.
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWAKENING - BY jOSEPH CURIALE
This is a beautiful piece of music by a gifted composer.It is not only exciting, emotional, uplifting and energizing, but also calming, soothing and sad. Read more
Published on September 16, 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars
Joseph Curiale Awakening
Awakening is excellent! It was illuminating to me and introduced me the work of Joseph Curiale. The tonalities and musical shadings are evocative. Read more
Published on August 2, 2002 by Michael D. Hanes
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great job
Joseph Curiale has crossed all the boundaries in his moving piece, "Gates of Gold". Not only does it fill the listener with the warm feeling of what music is supposed to... Read more
Published on December 19, 2001 by Ernesto Rodriguez
5.0 out of 5 stars
Major New Composer
I always wanted to be alive during the early part of the 20th Century when serious music was also popular music. Read more
Published on March 20, 2001 by Glen Roven
5.0 out of 5 stars
lovely music
This is the loveliest music. It's beautiful music that goes straight to your heart, and stays there. It's full and expansive, peaceful and nourishing. Read more
Published on March 11, 2001
3.0 out of 5 stars
Populist & Full of Sentiment
Those who erect barriers between critical approbation and emotionally touching the heart to those outside the circle of the contemporary music connouisseur are not going to like... Read more
Published on January 26, 2001
