Tracklista:1. Wriggle Like a F**king Eel2. Cruise (Force the Truth)3. Killing Hurts Give You the Secrets4. A C**t Like You5. Princess Disease6. Guru7. Why You Never Became a Dancer8. Dyad9. Philosophy10. Cut Hands Has the Solution11. Dumping the F**king Rubbish12. Daddo
Tracklista:1. Ballad of Job Cain Part I2. Ballad of Job Cain Part II3. Lorca (Adan)4. Snake Hymn5. Hornsnakehorns6. It Came to Pass the Snakes Became Mighty Antlers7. Epilogue, Crow's Theology
Tracklista:1. A Taste of Honey2. Let's Misbehave3. Don't Cry4. Life's a Holiday5. I Like It Here6. Warm Tonight7. Nothin' for Nothin'8. I Wonder What Became of Me9. House of Flowers10. Red Sun Blues
Official review of Chelsea FC's 2016/2017 football season. After the acrimonious departure of José Mourinho and the interim management of Guus Hiddink, the rejuvenated Chelsea team quickly took control of the new Premier League season under the management of Antonio Conte. After reaching the top of the league table Chelsea very rarely loosened their grip on the title as the other contenders gradually fell out of the race. After a highly successful campaign, Chelsea became Premier League champions, a reversal of their fortunes after a terrible title defence in the previous season, and celebrated the many years of service given to the club by departing captain John Terry.
Throughout his 82-year life, Max Bruch remained true to the musical ideals of his youth, formed by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann and German folk songs. As a result, the same composer who in the 1880’s was regarded as Brahms’ equal, by the time of his death in 1920 was considered an anachronistic irrelevance. Nowadays, however, few would deny that his production includes numerous works of exquisite sonority, beautiful melodiousness and admirable formal cohesion: a glorious irrelevance indeed. His Violin Concerto No. 1 was a spectacular success from its first performance in 1868, and soon won over audiences both in Germany and abroad. In fact, it became so popular that Bruch in later years became increasingly worried about being considered a ‘one-hit wonder’. It is thus a staple of all violin soloists that Vadim Gluzman here takes on, after his recordings of the concertos by Tchaikovsky (‘without doubt one of the work's finest recordings in recent years’, BBC Music Magazine), Barber (‘one of the most beautiful and characterful recordings of this work’, klassik-heute.de) and Korngold (‘Gluzman’s playing lends the work a new vitality and cohesion’, Classica). Supported by the eminent Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and its music director Andrew Litton, Gluzman couples the work with a rarity, a violin version of the Romance in F major, Op.85, composed by Bruch for viola and orchestra almost 35 years after the violin concerto. The composer also made an arrangement for violin and piano, and it is this violin part which Gluzman performs to the original orchestral score. Closing the programme is the String Quintet in A minor in which Gluzman is joined by four eminent string players: Sandis Šteinbergs, Maxim Rysanov, Ilze Klava and Reinis Birznieks. Composed in 1918, the Quintet certainly offers no indication of being the exact contemporary of modernist works such as Stravinsky’s Histoire d’un soldat; on the other hand its almost youthful energy, dramatic instinct and playful exuberance equally belies the fact that it was composed by a man in his eightieth year
5 CDs for the price of 2 During the mid-19th century, the Danish composer Niels. W. Gade was one of Europe’s most well-known composers, conducting his own works all over the continent. Starting out as a protégé of Mendelssohn’s, he later became his successor as music director of the famous Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and made the acquaintance of Robert and Clara Schumann, and of Liszt and Wagner. Initially known as a composer of symphonies, Gade mastered the German musical idiom to perfection, while adding a Nordic accent to it, particularly noticeable in his best works. His eight symphonies were composed between 1841 and 1871, and although Gade remained active as a composer until his death in 1890, he wrote no more symphonies. When questioned, he is said to have stated that ‘there is but one Ninth Symphony!’ Among Gade’s works in other genres is the violin concerto (also included here), composed for the famous virtuoso Joseph Joachim. But it was the choral cantata genre which became his specialty. Such works generally utilized Danish texts, but were in many cases published in German translations and received numerous performances abroad. Within a year of its première, The Crusaders, for instance, was performed in Braunschweig, Vienna, Königsberg, Elberfeld, Breslau, Leipzig and Aachen. It would later reach even further afield – including New York and Buenos Aires – and Gade himself conducted performances in Amsterdam, Cologne and Birmingham. The recordings included in this box set were warmly received upon their original releases between 1986 and 1994, the reviewer in American Record Guide calling Neeme Järvi’s symphony cycle ‘a set which is not likely to be surpassed in the foreseeable future’ and Neue Zeitschrift für Musik giving it ‘an unqualified recommendation’.
Documentary about opera singer Maria Callas's acclaimed 1964 performance of Puccini's 'Tosca'. When Callas took to the stage in 1964, several years after her career and reputation had dwindled, she amazed and delighted audiences and critics alike as she once again became a sensation. Although initially reluctant to return to the stage after her private life had dominated the headlines, Callas agreed on the condition that Franco Zeffirelli directed the production. With her fans waiting in line for five days and nights to guarantee themselves a ticket, the performance became one of the most famous in history. Also included is a recording of the second act of the famed performance.
Tracklista:1. All Became Nothing2. Blasphemous Supremacy3. Retaliation4. Solitudinem5. Into Nihil6. Necromantic Ways7. Resurrection of the Light Bearer8. The Hunt, the Instinct9. Enter the Temple10. Under Death's Shadow