Introspection

About Introspection

Introspection is the debut solo album by classical and progressive rock musician Thijs van Leer, released in 1972.

Introspection is the debut solo album by classical and progressive rock musician Thijs van Leer, released in 1972.

Contents

Side one

"Pavane" (Op. 50) (Gabriel Fauré) 5:46

"Rondo" (Rogier van Otterloo) 3:02

"Agnus Dei" (from Mass in B minor) (Johann Sebastian Bach) 4:57

"Focus I" (Thijs van Leer) 4:05

Side two

"Erbarme Dich" (from St. Matthew Passion) (Bach) 7:22

"Focus II" (Van Leer) 4:18

"Introspection" (Van Otterloo) 5:25

Letty DeJong – vocals

Thijs Van Leer – flute

Rogier Van Otterloo – arrangements, conductor

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“Those who do not observe the movements of their own minds must of necessity be unhappy.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (c. 170–180), 2.8.
“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
— Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011, p. 187.
“I can find Greece and Palestine and Italy and England and the Islands, the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras, in my own mind.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, April 1, 1839, Volume 5, p. 184.
“The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.”
— William Godwin in: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries (1831), ReadHowYouWant.com, 28 November 2007, p. 385.