Hymns/Spheres

This is the only organ album by Keith Jarrett. At times strangely impressive, sometimes brilliant, at other times lost in those vast acoustic spaces… Overall an intriguing work worth listening to time sand again. This recording contains the best quality organ recording I ever heard. A must for Keith Jarrett completists.

An incredible record! How Keith Jarrett gets those sounds out of a pipe organ I'll never know. Very beautiful music. Needs to be listened to when one is completely alone. It's hard to believe it is now over forty years old.

Great CD. Great buy.

I originally bought this for the 4th Movement that was used in the movie Samsara. But the whole album plays like a beautiful, hypnotic dirge. Just fantastic improvisation on a full scale organ. Highly recommended for fans of Philip Glass etc...

Great to finally have this complete work on DVD!

This is difficult to rate. I've had only the chance to play in my car, and it took many, many (way to many) attempts to get the player to recognize the discs. After at least six tries, I finally got the first disc to load and and think it took even more on the second disc. The music is rather ethereal, and pleasant. I need to spend more time listening to it, and at home rather than while driving. But I do worry a bit about the CD player being able to read the discs.I found the liner notes intriguing that Jarrett was able to achieve effects previously unheard on the organ by pulling some stops part-way out, and enjoyed the line that pipe organs have always had this capability. Truly, the pipe organ is the king of instruments, and I purchased the album just to hear what Mr. Jarrett would do with it.

I want to be reborn as Keith Jarrett. :) I especially love these pieces and it's so nice to get the full session. Great stuff.

This is an amazing album that spans genres and time seamlessly. Enjoy the organ like you have never heard it before.

Finally we have the release that we Jarrett fans have been clamouring for since Noah built the Ark - the full double album of Hymns/Spheres available for the first time on CD. It's been a long wait, but it's worth it in the long run.These improvisations may not be to everyone's taste (I would suggest, for someone new to Jarrett's music, that they start with the Koln Concert before diving in the deep end here), but I personally found the work challenging and moving by turns. There is some noticeable hiss in quieter sections when listening on headphones, but the sound of the organ itself is fantastic. Folks who are interested in Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and the organ works of Olivier Messiaen should investigate this. Highly recommended.Well done ECM - now, how about releasing the full three-record set of the 1981 Bregenz/Munich concerts on CD?

It is very good that ECM has finally re-released in full Keith Jarrett's pipe-organ improvisations. The music is some of the most remarkable I have ever heard, and for me it is certainly one of Jarrett's most inspired works.However, something has gone very wrong with the production. For a start, the recording level is incredibly low, and, worse, even when the volume of my amplifier is turned way up, much higher than with any other CD I have ever played, the music sounds peculiarly boxed-in, deadened, for want of a better description. The music is brilliant, worthy of five stars; but the production has made me reduce it to three stars.Perhaps my memory is at fault, but I'm sure that the LPs of this release that I used to own gave a much deeper and wider sound than this. ECM is noted for its clear sounding productions. What on earth has happened here?

Second disk excellent - felt that disk 1 was Keith feeling his way on the strange instrument. Would like to hear more of Keith on Organ.

I've waited nigh on 20 years for this full CD version; I've got the vinyl but no record deck... Sad, isn't it?

This is the only organ album by Keith Jarrett. At times strangely impressive, sometimes brilliant, at other times lost in those vast acoustic spaces… Overall an intriguing work worth listening to time sand again. This recording contains the best quality organ recording I ever heard. A must for Keith Jarrett completists.