Cristofori's Dream

Personnel includes: David Lanz (piano, synthesizer); Paul Speer (guitar); Richard Warner (flute, soprano saxophone); Nancy Rumbel (English horn, oboe); Matthew Fisher (organ); James Reynolds (synthesizer, electronic percussion, programming); John Serrie (synthesizer); Steve Allen (acoustic & electric basses); Neal Speer (drums); Luis Peralta (percussion).

Recorded at Miramar Studios, Seattle, Washington between November 1987 and April 1988.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using 20-bit technology.
Personnel: David Lanz (piano, synthesizer, bells); Paul Speer (guitar); Steven Ray Allen (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, acoustic bass, electric bass, fretless bass); John Pilskog, Marjorie Talvi, Bryan Boughten, Ingrid Fredrickson, Linda Anderson, Stephen Daniels, Deede Cook, Christine Olason, Ingric Fredricikson (violin); Ruth Sereque, Eileen Swanson, Betty Agent, Karie Prescott (viola); Deborah Yamak, Alex Segal, Mary Tapiro, Richard Aaron (cello); Richard Warner (flute, soprano saxophone); Nancy Rumbel (oboe, English horn); Matthew Fisher (organ); James Reynolds (synthesizer, percussion, electronic percussion); Jonn Serrie (synthesizer); Neal Speer (drums); Luis Peralta (percussion).
Audio Mixer: Paul Speer.
Recording information: 11/1987-04/1988.
Illustrator: Bill Cannon.
Photographer: Freeman Patterson.
Arranger: Steven Ray Allen.
David Lanz's Cristofori's Dream is among the most popular new age recordings ever made. This is an album of instrumental piano music (with other instruments, especially strings and string-like synthesizers, added). Its selections have a calm elegance, as Lanz spends most of his time in the upper register of the piano delivering precise, articulated melodies, culminating in a re-creation of Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale" that features original organist Matthew Fisher. ~ William Ruhlmann