River Dawn: Piano Meditations--music for relaxation, yoga, massage, healing

Catherine Marie Charlton

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 1, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 1, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: OM
• ASIN: B00005QTY8
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #118,239 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Bill Binkelman, Wind and Wire
"…a near-perfect piano album…magic… full of the gentle ebb and flow of life itself…. Highly recommended…."

Product Description
You will want to play this album again again and again, for calming, soothing background music.

The flow of energy, creativity, spirit, and relaxation begins....

Experience the calm and beauty of peaceful piano music from concert pianist and improviser Catherine Marie Charlton. During this 60 minute uninterrupted solo performance, her refreshing and rejuvenating music continually meanders and evolves, carrying you forward in your thoughts, but is never distracting. With no track changes to disrupt your relaxation, this music is perfect for playing in the background during rest, yoga practice, massage, to aid concentration while working, to inspire creativity, or to soothe guests while entertaining.

With this honest and intimate recording, you will feel as if you are guest to a private peformance by the concert pianist and recording artist, meditating in her living room. Also a dancer and yoga student, Catherine Marie Charlton invites you to join in a journey through a world of calm, a world of change, a world of inspiration, a world of dreams, a world of creativity and energy.

Sit back, relax, breathe deeply, and feel the river dawn....

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sings to my heart, December 5, 2002

By	Steve Ryals, New Age Retailer Magazine - See all my reviews

River Dawn is one of those extraordinary solo-piano albums that sing to my heart. The music is filled with a gentle, tranquil serenity that had me in tears within minutes of putting it on. I had tears of gratitude for the exquisite beauty with which Catherine Marie Charlton imbues her music and tears of joy that I had found such a precious gift for my heart. Indeed, even the hardest of hearts will begin to soften with the first notes.

Charlton composed and plays all the music on River Dawn. Although the album features nine tracks, it was produced without any breaks in the piano playing. The music forms a continuously renewed 60-minute musical landscape of such peace that it will send listeners into lengthy reverie. River Dawn will lend itself beautifully to various healing modalities, including massage, meditation, and yoga. If you are looking for a way to relax and renew, take a sojourn to River Dawn.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars from Solo Piano Publications, January 17, 2002

By	Kathy Parsons (Florence, OR United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Catherine Marie Charlton created "River Dawn" specifically to be background music for meditation, relaxation, massage, and any number of other activities. When Ms Charlton and I spoke about doing a review, she suggested that I not actively listen to the CD, but to keep it in the background while in the process of doing something else. I know many, many people do this, but I can't. As a piano teacher and music journalist, I find it impossible to keep music in the background - I am compelled to listen to it. Be that as it may, I experienced "River Dawn" in the car, doing my best to not listen to it too carefully. It is an hour of solo piano music, one continuous track, that meanders and flows without much in the way of dynamics or musical surprises. When I focused on the music, it was kind of lackluster (as it is supposed to be!), but when I was able to keep it in the background, it was really very pleasant. Apparently, quite a few practitioners of the healing arts are finding this music very helpful in their work. It was an unusual listening experience for me, and is probably what Erik Satie and some of his peers referred to as "furniture music" during their own time. If you do massage or mediation or yoga, or would like a musical backdrop for your other daily activities, "River Dawn" could be a nice enhancement to the experience.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars River Dawn is Amazing!, December 27, 2001

By	Peter (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

River Dawn has become my favorite CD to listen to when I want to sit, relax and explore my mind and feelings. I listen to it every night to unwind when I get home from work. On several occasions I have sat with friends and just listened to River Dawn, each one of us in a different world, yet held together by the music. When I close my eyes I not only hear the beautiful music but I also see it. Like the striations of different colored sandstone that harmonize to make the beautiful picture on the case cover, the notes float and flow together to form a beautiful picture in my mind and heart. The beauty of it is that the picture is different for each one of us. The one thing in common is that it makes us feel peaceful. Catherine Marie Charlton paints beautiful pictures with her piano....her canvas...our hearts.
For anyone who wants to relax and meditate or just simply have beautiful background music for reading I recommend River Dawn.