Normally it's the new age-friendly buyers of North America who provide an audience for CDs with words like "serenity" in the title, but this is a German release. Sileo: Musik der Stille (here translated as Sileo: Music of Serenity) is one of several "Sileo" discs with similar meditative content. The browser in search of music for relaxation is encouraged to sample the performances here; you may or may not like them, but the disc is distinct from other albums with a similar purpose. It's not just the opening orchestral ...
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Normally it's the new age-friendly buyers of North America who provide an audience for CDs with words like "serenity" in the title, but this is a German release. Sileo: Musik der Stille (here translated as Sileo: Music of Serenity) is one of several "Sileo" discs with similar meditative content. The browser in search of music for relaxation is encouraged to sample the performances here; you may or may not like them, but the disc is distinct from other albums with a similar purpose. It's not just the opening orchestral arrangement of the variations from Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" string quartet, which most people would call anything but serene. Even the Matthias Claudius text of the song on which Schubert based the movement is provided (in German): "Give me your hand, you picture of beauty and tenderness! I am your friend, and I do not come to punish you. Cheer up! I am not crazy. Soon you will sleep gently in my arms." Only in the land of Schopenhauer would this qualify as serenity. But the...
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