That afternoon, early in this month, I visited Disc Tara – a music shop which sells CD’s and DVD’s. I planned to look for an audio CD, a exclusive one perhaps for this trimester.
I was entering the shop, and the salesgirl kindly asking me what kind of music or movie that I was looking for. I asked her if she (her shop) has collections for Andrea Bocelli, for a moment she stand still – maybe half of shocked that someone asked straight for that tenor’s collections (since there is no much people in this city even know that Bocelli’s name were exist).
But maybe a reflex as a salesgirl, she quickly lead and showed me where Bocelli’s collection were. Yet there is no other costumer that time than me. She maybe has some interest for my interest, ha ha, I did got nervous just looking for the right CD in front of me.
Than I didn’t found the one I was looking for. I asked her what were the last Bocelli’s on the market, and she said about the album for last Christmas, now she mentioned it – I remembered that was the last Bocelli’s activities for house last year. Again I asked her if she ever see an album with a tract entitled “Bridge Over Troubled Water”? – Well, I’m not sure if a house were released that tract into an album, since I know only available to download via iTunes to support American Red Cross for Haiti earthquake victims.
Than my eyes searched for others that may …, hmm…, I was seeing, an interesting title, “Silk Song Along The Road and Times” by The Vienna Boy’s Choir. I never has Vienna Boy’s Choir’s before. I’ll give a try I thought.
So I bought the audio CD which released on 2008 for IDR 180.000,- Well, it is the price for a original classical type album.
The album is contained 25 tracks, including… (information from cduniverse.com)
1. Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and Time: Wa habibi (My beloved), Good Friday hymn from Lebanon (4:34) | Common Name Silk Road | Composer Gerd Schuller | Genre Film Score | Period Contemporary
2. L’homme arme (1:25) | Composer Anonymous, French | Genre
Renaissance Period | Date Written | 14th Century | Period Renaissance
3. O Domine Jesu Christe, motet for 4 parts (4:04) | Composer Josquin Desprez (circa 1455 – 1521) | Genre Motet / Renaissance Period / Sacred Music | Period Renaissance | Country France
4. Work(s): Ego sum panis vivus (I am the living bread) (2:44) | Composer Antonio Caldara (1670 – 1736) | Genre Baroque Period | Period Baroque
5. Jog.wa (I Ask for Yoga), song (after a traditional bhajan from Kolhapur, India) (3:54) | Composer Gerald Wirth | Genre Song
6. Shoch va gado (The King and the Beggar), song (4:30) | Composer Yulduz Usmanova | Genre Song
7. Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and Time: Shoch va gado (The king and the beggar) (2:40) | Common Name Silk Road | Composer Gerd Schuller | Genre Film Score | Period Contemporary
8. Sus Xatin (Lady of Water), Uzbek rain song (1:59) Composer Uzbek Traditional | Genre Song
9. Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and Time: Sus Xatin (Lady of Water), Uzbek rain song (2:18) | Common Name Silk Road | Composer Gerd Schuller |Genre Film Score | Period Contemporary
10. Haq Ali Maula (True God, Ali Is the Guide) (4:02) | Composer qawwal Traditional
11. Gloria in D, RV 589: No. 4. Gratias agimus. / No. 5. Propter magnam gloriam tuam (1:32) | Common Name Gloria In D | Catalog No. RV 589 | Composer | Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) | Genre Baroque Period / Gloria | Date Written 1715 | Period Baroque | Country Italy
12. Gloria in D, RV 589: No. 8. Domine Deus (3:09) | Common Name Gloria In D | Catalog No. RV 589 | Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) | Genre Baroque Period / Gloria | Date Written 1715 | Period Baroque | Country Italy
13. Gloria in D, RV 589: No. 9. Qui tollis peccata mundi (1:09) | Common Name Gloria In D | Catalog No. RV 589 | Composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) | Genre Baroque Period / Gloria | Date Written 1715 | Period Baroque | Country Italy
14. Veni creator spiritus (1:46) | Composer Gregorian Chant | Genre Gregorian Chant / Medieval Period / Sacred Music | Date Written circa ?/0000 | Period Medieval | Country Europe
15. Tarakihi (2:45) | Composer Maori Traditional
16. Alamuhan (Uigur) (1:57) | Composer Chinese Traditional
17. Field Hollers, after traditional work chants from Darg, Tajikistan (1:09) | Composer Gerald Wirth
18. Guadifeng, song (after a traditional xiaodiao from Gansu) (1:37) | Composer Gerald Wirth | Genre Song
19. Li Ge (Song Bie), farewell song (1:57) | Composer John Pond Ordway (1824 – 1880) | Genre Song
20. Kou-luell tsian, song (after a craftsman’s song from the Ordos region, China) (2:16) | Composer Chinese Traditional | Genre Song | Notes This work was written in collaboration with Gerald Wirth.
21. Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and Time: Fao Dong Pe, China medley (5:03) | Common Name Silk Road | Composer Gerd Schuller | Genre Film Score | Period Contemporary
22. Die Post ("Von der Strasse her"), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/13 (Op. 89/13) (2:32) | Catalog No. D 911 | Composer Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 – 1828) | Genre Art Song / Romantic Period / Song | Date Written 1827 | Period Romantic | Country Austria
23. Der sturmische Morgen ("Wie hat der Sturm zerrissen"), song for voice & piano (Winterreise), D. 911/ (0:59) | Catalog No. D 911 | Composer Franz Schubert (Vienna) (1797 – 1828) | Genre Art Song / Romantic Period | Date Written 1827 | Period Romantic | Country Austria
24. Ievan Polkka (Eve’s Polka), song (after a traditional Finnish dance melody) (2:34) | Composer Andy Icochea Icochea | Genre Song
25. Silk Road: Songs Along the Road and Time: Terracotta Army (after the "Dies irae" from Mozart’s Requi (3:48) | Common Name Dies Irae, Silk Road | Composer Gerd Schuller | Genre Film Score | Period Contemporary
The album include mini book that contain history and importance for each song in short and light language. Well, most of the songs are energise song those make you fell spirited.
If you are interesting with this classic’s, maybe this album would be nice to put inside your collections.
kl yg luar, cukup bon jovi dan MCR sajah 🙂
SukaSuka
hohoho… baru tahu nih 😀
SukaSuka
Suzan,
Baru tahu apanya? 🙂
SukaSuka
wah saya cintanya lagu INDO saja … kalau lagu Luar sukanya dikit aja seperti RHCP, B182, LP, S. Vold .. cuma itu aja heee…
SukaSuka
bayuputra,
Kalau dalam negeri saya banyak suka, tapi tidak semua, karena tidak banyak yang bisa menarik perhatian saya.
SukaSuka
Mungkin lirik lagunya serupa tapi tidak sama dengan “Sepanjang Jalan Kenangan”, yang pernah populer tahun 1980-an, dan sampai saat ini menjadi lagu klasik di jajaran musik pop Indonesia.
SukaSuka
TuSuda,
Kalau “Sepanjang Jalan Kenangan” kan lagu cinta, modul lagu pop nostalgia. Kalau “Silk Road” kumpulan dari lagu religi, lagu rakyat, hymne, mars, yang ada di sepanjang jalur sutera.
L’homme arme misalnya adalah lagu mars kepahlawanan dari Prancis, Jog.wa adalah lagu bhajan (kidung suci) dari India, Sus Xatin adalah lagu rakyat yang digunakan masyarakat Uzbekistan untuk memanggil hujan, Haq Ali Maula adalah lagu religi Muslim yang terinspirasi dari Kalifah ke-4, Veni creator spiritus adalah kidung kudus gereja-gereja Eropa dari era abad pertengahan – bahkan masih digunakan sampai saat ini semisal saat menyambut Paus.
Jadi album ini seolah-olah mengajak seseorang untuk mengikuti jejak menelusuri jalur sutra dan menengok setiap budaya dan inspirasi yang ada di sepanjang perjalan dari berbagai agama, peradaban dan latar belakang dalam sebuah kemanusiaan yang utuh 🙂
SukaSuka
Untuk kumpulan lagu rohani, saya hanya punya kaset bhajan tertentu dari kelompok spiritual SSG dan ISKCON yang dibeli waktu cuti ke Bali. Kalau begitu boleh juga ya, bila berkenan dapat satu salinannya buat dikoleksi dan didengerin keindahan melodinya. He..he..sory ya jadi ngerepotin.
SukaSuka
Lumayan mahal ya CD ori dari luar? Dari judulnya saya tadi mengira itu Silk Road-nya Kitaro. Saya senang dengar musik klasik: Favorit saya Kitaro, Miracle dan Vanessa Mae. Nightingale dari Yanni juga bagus, he he…
SukaSuka
budiastawa,
Bukan kepingan dari luar kok, memang yang edisi khusus dipasarkan di Indonesia, namun mungkin jumlahnya terbatas – karena konsumennya juga tidak banyak. Kalau harga yang dalam deretan musik klasik memang segituan deh, itu termasuk murah 🙂
Saya tidak begitu suka Kitaro dan Vanessa Mae, mungkin karena klasiknya adalah klasik kontemporer kali ya… 😕 Jadi agak berat didengarkan, he he…
SukaSuka
Jadi tersindir neh …
Saya terpaksa beli yang bajakan Mas Cahya, karena yang orisinil tidak beredar di Kota saya ( sintang ).
SukaSuka
Pak Aldy,
Waduh…, maaf Pak, tidak bermaksud menyindir, hanya sedikit menampar ringan, he he 😀
Saya tidak terlalu sering mendengarkan musik, jadinya ga perlu berburu banyak kopi original yang membebankan kantong. Toh saya tidak tertarik dengan musik populer yang mesti update sepanjang waktu 😉
SukaSuka
Kalau begitu, selamat menikmati ^__^
SukaSuka
🙂 saya bs mengira mas suka musik klasik dr profile picturenya. Tp saya nggak ngira mas rela beli cd original,scr 180 gt loh :D.. Tapi bnr stop piracy!
SukaSuka
Wigati,
Memangnya foto profil saya “ngomong” apa? 😀
Ngga rela sih sebenarnya pas harus bayar segitu, tapi lebih ga rela lagi jadi pembajak karya seni 🙂
SukaSuka
Jalan sutra…. 😀
SukaSuka