Tracklista:1. Unreal Story I2. Unreal Story Ii3. White Page4. Male5. And I Will6. Morpheus7. Among Flowers And Shadows8. The Following Chapter9. Female10. Two Ways11. We12. Delusion
Tracklista:1. God's On Vacation2. Desolation in Endless Times3. Bleed On Your Knees4. Born of Strife5. Damned in the Ground6. Beyond the Divide7. Black Tide8. Still Not Well9. Walk Among the Sky10. Punkout11. Leveling
Tracklista:1. Diary Of A P**s Drinker2. Father Son And Holy Goat3. Retention4. Hilary's Song5. Rest Among The Silt6. Instant Karma7. Clint Eastwood Is Very Hard, Innit8. Merrick Sympathiser9. Phuelled By Farmiceuticals10. Two Pigs F**king
Tracklista: 1. Among Fogs Of Oblivion (Intro) 2. Tower Of Gargoyles 3. The Lady Rides A Black Horse 4. Call From Unknown Depths 5. As A Stone 6. The Union 7. At The Memory Of The Past 8. Elizabeth 9. Swallowed Thoughts 10. Immortal Horde 11. The Day Required
Godowsky's Studies on Chopin's Etudes have achieved a legendary status among piano enthusiasts. Few areas of the repertoire have such a notorious reputation for technical difficulty and audacious compositional invention. Far from being disrespectful maltreatments of Chopin's masterpieces, Godowsky's elaborations aim to extend the limits of modern piano technique. Some recast Chopin's right-hand passagework for the left hand while introducing new contrapuntal ideas; some treat the originals more freely, inverting, imitating or combining two Etudes; others are character pieces or variations based on Chopin's originals; and twenty-two of the Studies are for the left hand alone. Taken as a whole, these Studies revolutionized piano writing and expanded the polyphonic and polyrhythmic capabilities of the instrument. They remain among the most daunting challenges of the piano literature, their difficulties not always fully apparent to the listener. Pianists brave enough to tackle this music have often been content merely to get through the notes. Marc-André Hamelin, renowned for his superhuman technical control, injects them with the required range of character, colour and musicianship, as well as breathtaking virtuosity. Uniquely available on 2CDs, this will surely be the benchmark recording for all time. This set comes with a handsome booklet, including an essay by the Godowsky expert Jeremy Nicholas and individual commentaries by Marc-André Hamelin.
Tracklista:1. I'd Rather Be Lucky Than Good2. Love Among the Immortals
Tracklista:1. Towards Dawn2. Aftermath3. Rituals4. The Hollow Hour5. Balancing the Dark6. Alma Mater7. A Flood of Light8. Whispers Among Us9. Contretemps10. Risen
Tracklista: 1. Stellar Inferno 2. Alone Among Wolves 3. Age Of Capricorn 4. Deathskull Mystherium 5. Towards The Dark 6. Grand Manifest Of Death
On this disc, the exclusive Chandos artist, Michael Collins, plays the clarinet in three works for clarinet and orchestra by Weber, as well as conducting the City of London Sinfonia. The disc also includes Weber’s horn concertino, featuring the soloist Stephen Stirling. The two concertos and the concertino for clarinet and orchestra are considered among the repertoire cornerstones for today’s clarinettists. Weber wrote the works for his personal friend Heinrich Bärmann, the principal clarinettist of the Munich court orchestra, whose own embellishments of the works (changes of articulation, extra grace notes, and even an added accompanied cadenza in the first concerto) have been incorporated in the performances recorded here. Michael Collins suggests that these changes ‘do not make the music any easier to play, but they do make it more thrilling’. Each of the works displays a well-balanced mix of virtuosity, daring, humour, and sheer beauty, and throughout, the role of the orchestra is much more than a mere accompaniment. The woodwind solos, a trio of horns, blaring trumpets, and dashing violins contribute greatly to making these works so captivating. Written in 1806, when Weber was just nineteen years old, the virtuosic Horn Concertino pushed known horn techniques to new limits, requiring the soloist among other feats to produce a ‘four-note chord’, the technique known as multiphonics. The work is today considered a gem in the horn repertoire, and our soloist, Stephen Stirling, is ‘a player gifted with the utmost sensitivity and imagination, which is shown through the beautiful way he shapes musical phrases and the extraordinary range of colours he employs’ – in the words of the late Richard Hickox.
The sound of Köthen culminates in J.S. Bach: in his music and in the environment, which favoured its creation. The very young Leopold (1694-1728) began his reign with an edict for confessional tolerance and he paid tribute to the Muses. Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Köthen was a musically educated man who probably recognized the meaning of J.S. Bach immediately. In 1717 he appointed J.S. Bach, then 32 years old, to be the Anhalt-Köthen Prince's own musical director". Previously, he had raised the number of the court's orchestra to 17 among them excellent Cammer Musici of the same orchestra that he had admired as a student of the Knights' Academy in Berlin (and which the King of Prussia had thrown out without a word!).