| In your hand you hold a beam from the heart of a kindred soul, revealing at once a landscape both human and fey. A noble work of compassion and wonder, this circle of ten instrumental pieces by Gary Stadler emerges now from its three years' crafting.
"O you who listen by candlelight, you who whisper questions into the dark hollows of trees, you who follow the Gypsy Moon, here at last is the solace that you seek."
- R. Merlin
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| 1. Sometimes |
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| 2. DreamSpell |
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| 3. Ring of Magic |
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| 4. Awakening |
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| 5. Fairy of the Woods |
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| 6. Breath of Love |
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| 7. Moonflight |
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| 8. Forest Dark'n |
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| 9. Pool of Light |
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| 10. Wings at Rest |
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What people are saying about Fairy of the Woods:
"The ethereal beauty of Gary's piano and keyboards delicately weave tapestries of magical melodies that will send you soaring into the dreamland where fairies live. Each track has such innocence and grace that the heart almost aches with the sheer beauty.'
- New Age Retailer
'This is one of the best collections available for relaxation, meditation and just magickal listening! Let your imagination soar to the days of Merlin, to the Spirit World, and the Fairy Realm. It's breathtakingly beautiful. Another rare find that is so fantastic it's very difficult to find words to describe... If you buy any new music this year it should be this masterpiece.'
- New Age Voice
'Fairy of the Woods by Gary Stadler is a special treat. It is the music of Celtic legends and, even though it sounds as if Stadler is well grounded in classical training, this album CD definitely has qualities of other worldliness.
There is an age where children are perpetually in a state of wide-eyed wonderment and innocence, which bridges the inner and outer worlds. Through his original compositions, Stadler brings us to this place of magic and wonder where fairy tales are true and ancient trees in primordial forests can share their dreaming stories from long winter naps with those who know how to listen.
With his piano and synth orchestra, Stadler leads the listener through many moods, all of them soothing as lullabies. There are ten original compositions on Fairy of the Woods. The first song on this CD, titled "Sometimes" begins with the sounds of frogs and crickets while a solo harpsichord-piano plays such a sweet, heart-stirring melody it just makes you want to go out and be really nice to everyone. The title cut, "Fairy of the Woods," starts soft as snowfall, settling down around you layer after layer of pure peace. "Breath of Love" has just a touch of melancholy and "Forest Dark'n" up-tempos a bit with echoes of an old Irish ditty.'
- Lee Stone, Innerchange Music Review
'Fairy of the Woods is the most beautiful CD I own. It puts my in a wonderful mood and "takes me away". I never get tired of listening to it!'
- Michele
'Celtic legends and myths of Fairy come to life in these enchanted compositions by Gary Stadler. Fairy of the Woods is a powerfully gentle work straight from the heart that soothes the soul. Gary's delightful Celtic-influenced music has power to move all who are fortunate to hear it.'
- David & Steve Gordon
'Strong and compelling melodies and lovely synth orchestral settings make Gary Stadler's Fairy of the Woods a magical charmer..... the album enchants with variations on three-quarter time: the romantic" Sometimes", which carries the heart like an anniversary waltz, the crystalline music box of "Dreamspell," and "Ring of Magic", which pirouettes over cloud tops. Stadler's arrangements are classically structured, but his orchestrations offer a colorful imagination the opportunity to inhabit the auld Celtic realms of fairies and wizards, glens and caves, fireflies and stardust.'
- Napra Review
"As if conjured up from some dark but fragrant corner of the universal mind comes the music of Gary Stadler. The result is Fairy of the Woods, an album with so much heart and simplicity that you will want to drop your worldly concerns and possessions and just dive into the beauty, perhaps never to return.
The music speaks for itself and works in a gorgeous, unpretentious way. The album opens with the sound of a glade at nightfall, with crickets and then a softly gliding piano line, which gradually expands out like ripples along a still pond, waking the fairies to their dance. The title track is a dreamy sea of overlapping and intertwining keyboard melodies, a wash of glowing synthesizer over alternating, simple piano melodies with soft chime and string touches.
“Pool of Light” brings you into the fairy chamber at last. Cascades of harpsichord add a sense of courtly propriety and decorum, signaling perhaps that the dreaming and waking part of your fairyland slumber has come to a close and that it is time to meet the queen herself. If you let it, the music can give your spirit wings as you embrace the fluffy clouds of Celtic majesty. But all things fade, even the eternal castles of the fairies must vanish with the coming sun. At album’s end, Stadler strikes a melancholy note, the inevitable follow-up to so much tranquil and rewarding joy. Just as mortals must shuffle off to bed at the call of night, so must the fairies in your heart shuffle off at the dawn’s first rays. Fear not, sad-eyed reveler, this album is not going anywhere, except maybe in your special case of favorites."
- DailyOM.com
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