In the Light is a double album

Double album

A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 of contemporary classical music by Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett

Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...

 which was recorded and released on the ECM label in 1973.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 3 stars noting "In this compendium of eight works for all kinds of ensembles, the then-28-year old Jarrett adamantly refuses to be classified, flitting back and forth through the centuries from the baroque to contemporary dissonance, from exuberant counterpoint for brass quintet to homophonic writing for a string section".

Track listing

All compositions by Keith Jarrett

Disc One

1. "Metamorphosis" - 19:24
2. "Fughata for Harpsichord" - 5:29
3. "Brass Quintet" - 20:53

Disc Two

1. "A Pagan Hymn" - 7:32
2. "String Quartet" - 16:41
3. "Short Piece for Guitar and Strings" - 3:56
4. "Crystal Moment" - 4:58
5. "In the Cave, in the Light" - 12:18
   • Recorded in Ludwigsburg, West Germany in February, 1973

Personnel

• Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett
  Keith Jarrett is an American pianist and composer who performs both jazz and classical music.Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey, moving on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music; as...
  
   – piano
  Piano
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  , gong
  Gong
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  , percussion, conductor
  Conducting
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• Willi Freivogel - flute
  Flute
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• Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
  
   - guitar
  Guitar
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• The Fritz Sonnleitner Quartet
• The American Brass Quintet
  American Brass Quintet
  When the American Brass Quintet gave its first public performance on December 11, 1960, brass chamber music was still relatively unknown to concert audiences...
  
  
• The Sudfunk Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
• Mladen Gutesha - conductor