Autumn (Windham Hill 20th Anniversary Edition) (CD)

Pianist/composer George Winston was one of the flagship artists on the pioneering new age label Windham Hill, and his pastoral sound helped define the genre. He received much notice in the 1980s for a series of works that evoke the spirit of (and are named after) the seasons. In the mid '90s, in a lighter mood, Winston recorded a tribute to the jubilant PEANUTS cartoon themes of Vince Guaraldi.

• Category:  Music  »  Instrumental Music  »  Piano
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: August 21, 2001
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• UPC: 019341161028
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106638920
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #1769 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #5 in Instrumental Music (See Top 100 Instrumental Music Bestsellers)
• #3 in Piano (See Top 100 Piano Bestsellers)

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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Solo performer: George Winston (piano).

Producers: William Ackerman, George Winston, Howard Johnston, Cathy Econom.

Engineers: Hans Soper, Russell Bond, Howard Johnston.

Principally recorded on June 19-20, 1980. Includes liner notes by George Winston.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Recording information: 1980.

AUTUMN was superstar new age pianist George Winston's first album to sell more than 1,000,000 copies. Listening to these spare, emotionally rich pieces, it's easy to understand why. But it's also clear what sets Winston apart from the hordes of other new age piano soloists: an insistent--occasionally even jarring--gothic sensibility that informs his music.

Like many of his albums, AUTUMN found its inspiration in the seasonal changes wrought upon the Montana landscape that Winston calls home. Though it might be easy to pigeonhole a composition like "Woods" as easy listening, a more careful examination reveals a darker--daresay even sinister--underside, one more informed by Birnam Wood than by Hundred Acre Wood. "Stars" may bring forth images of cloud-free starlit skies, but its stirring emotionalism yearns for something more, making it difficult for a listener not to contemplate the infinitesimally small stature of human existence within an infinitely vast universe.

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