The Prayer Cycle

It is with primitive urgency and lustrous clarity rising like flickering embers from a fire that Jonathan Elias's ambitious Prayer Cycle is given voice. Woven together like knotty wool, silk, and fine strands of silvery water, the disparate yet complementary voices of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alanis Morissette, Yungchen Lhamo, Ofra Haza, the American Boychoir, Salif Keita, and others intertwine in multiple languages with the superb English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Prayers of supplication, gratitude, and longing build in layers, one on top of and 'twixt and 'tween the other, as movements titled "Mercy," "Grace," "Innocence," "Compassion," and the like. Remarkably, Elias's Prayer Cycle eloquently captures the ecstasy, pain, grief, and sublime beauty of humanity--as he simply and poignantly writes in his liner notes, "The world we live in is both joyous and cruel." --Paige La Grone more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-04-2008; Excellent CD; This is a great collection of songs with a consistent tone that allow you to get into a deep, relaxed state. Highly recommend it.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-05-2008; Very different and meditative; If you like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and I do you, might like this too!; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-12-2007; Spiritual Journey; This CD is one I put on when I want to hear beauty and relax. It is great at work when you are working intensely on something or have a deadline! My co-workers laugh because I slide my headphones on and say "I am going to my happy place."; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-03-2007; Near Glorious; The only "weak" track on Jonathan Elias' The Prayer Cycle is "Grace," featuring John Williams and James Taylor. And I put the word "weak" in quotation marks because where the other eight tracks are transcending, atmospheric and, of...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-04-2008; Excellent CD; This is a great collection of songs with a consistent tone that allow you to get into a deep, relaxed state. Highly recommend it.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-21-2005; One Idea Wonder; I listened to the first track this morning and my initial thought was that I was discovering something that may change my whole world view of music. It was inspiring and awestriking in it's beauty and majestic in scope. Listening to the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-29-2002; Unfortunate . . .; The aspects of this music that makes it so wonderful and calls forth so many raving reviews, are the up-lifting choral voices and stirring classical arrangements that have their artistic foundation in cultural catholicism. These piece...; read full review | report as inappropriate