The Blue Horizon: Suite
#2 - The Experience
By
Richard Goldsworthy
Written by
Steve Sheppard
I have enjoyed these moments of solitude within the realms of
a Richard Goldsworthy piano, for me
his music is a timeless reverie of peace, tranquillity and reflective calm, and
on this new album we will explore a 6 track release that is as beautiful as a
coastal sunset in autumn, and called The
Blue Horizon: Suite #2 - The Experience.
Goldsworthy has a sensitivity that few can find on the piano;
he manifests ambient structures and breathes life into each pictorial
composition, on the opening offering The Experience, this is achieved wondrously with a
truly emotive resonance, I could literally feel this piece float towards my reflective
senses; I could picture myself down on our coast, and being eternally grateful
for the view experienced.
I have been critical of short form piano narratives lately,
but those who have come under my musical judicious analysis produce nothing
more than compositions that are simply soulless and void of any beauty, here on
this album, most of the tracks are in the shorter style, but thankfully many
are over three minutes, and I must state that every one of them is a picture of
the most perfectly stunning piano you are ever likely to listen to, this is the
apex of ambient piano, and a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Tracks like The
Endlessness of Starlight and Finding
Home bring a warmth and a compassionate touch into the proceedings; they
bring a scene of impressive eye catching vistas, a plethora of heart-warming
melodies in such a dazzling and spectacular way, for me personally this is what
solo piano compositions should be all about.
On offerings like The
Spaces Within we have a delicious narrative that is exploratory and
intriguing, this piece had me replaying it over three times, if nothing else to
catch all the nuances and tonal structures that I found so very appealing,
whilst Your Tenderness, released as
single earlier on this year, is still as beautiful now as it was on its initial
birth.
The concluding track is the breath taking opus of Spoken Without Words, the gentle
soothing performance by the artist gives us the perfect round up offering, a
composition that exudes sincerity and kind-heartedness with each passing phrase
and measure, its fading coda the sublime finale of crafted mastery.
The Blue Horizon: Suite
#2 - The Experience
by Richard Goldsworthy is an album
to be treasured; it is a compilation of classy compositions to be loved for
eternity, a go to album when you need reassurance that all will be well and
that all is as it should be.
Goldsworthy’s performances as a pianist on this album are
some of the best I have heard for years; simply put, in my view this album is
the breath of fresh air and utter beauty that the genre of solo piano music desperately
needed and a must buy at all costs release.
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