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Anthony Phillips Soiree Release Date: 2000 03 21 Running Time: 58:50 Label: Blueprint Soiree is a solo piano album from a musician primarily known as a guitarist, and yet it doesn't have the busman's holiday feel one might expect. In fact, it turns out that Anthony Phillips is possibly a better composer for piano than he is for guitar. Phillips' guitar albums are too often merely pretty, and feature occasional flashy busyness in place of actual melodic invention. Soiree, on the other hand, has a stately, measured quality; the 20 pieces, which sound heavily influenced by both Erik Satie and Claude Debussy, are richly melodic but never cloyingly sweet, and they have a refreshing simplicity to them that lacks the fussiness that marks some of Phillips' guitar albums. Just as importantly, the album's sound of a fine grand piano well-placed in an acoustically appropriate room adds a certain intangible, ambient quality to the pieces that's subtle but immensely appealing. Stewart Mason, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Sad Ballerina Phillips 3:30 2 Final Lights Phillips 1:48 3 Sultry Leaves Phillips 2:49 4 Fivers Phillips 1:35 5 Creation Phillips, Deason 4:19 6 Keepsake Phillips 1:49 7 Venetian Mystery Phillips 1:57 8 Scythia Phillips 4:29 9 Cantilena Phillips 2:18 10 Oregon Trail Phillips 2:46 11 Passacaglia Phillips 2:48 12 Gazebo Phillips 1:10 13 Passepied Phillips 2:56 14 Fallen Flower Phillips 2:03 15 Noblesse Oblige Phillips 2:11 16 Hope of Ages Phillips 3:37 17 Obezag Phillips 1:02 18 Rain Suite Phillips 6:00 19 After You Left Phillips 3:10 20 Summer's Journey Phillips 6:33 Releases: Year Type Label 2000 CD Blueprint

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