Yearning

Robert Rich has always been a favorite artist of mine, I found this CD in a used music bin about 13 years ago... Every song is a powerful and emotional gem, and Lisa Moskow is divine in her partnership with Robert Rich. He's also teamed up with Steve Roach, creating some wonderful works. Anyway, it's advised to listen to this straight through, to avoid the "sudden stops" that you get when listening to the work at random. Each track has its own feel, its own emotion, and its own beauty. If I could give this work 6 stars, I would do so without hesitation. If you love powerful music, this should be on your list.

I love using Robert Rich's music for my meditations - but I was surprised as I listened to this album how almost all the tracks either begin abruptly or end abruptly, or both. So I'd be gliding along, and then suddenly be thrown off the cliff as a track would suddenly end. A simple fade in or fade out on each track would have put this album into a 5 star rating for me. So... it depends how you plan to use the music, and whether something like that will bug the bejeezers out of you or not. It did me.

Yearning could easily considered to be among one of the best releases from the entire Robert Rich library. It's seductive, pensive, relaxing, lush, beautiful, suggestive, inspiring and definitely without equal. All the tracks merge together though, so you'll have to purchase the entire list for gapless playback. But there simply isn't a bad track on the entire lineup. It stands alone as a full body of work worthy of the time spent for a continuous listen. A definitely MUST HAVE for any good music collection.