Tracklista: 1. Early Morning Light2. Green Lights3. House of Mercy4. Everything to Hide5. Back of My Mind6. Comin' Undone7. Take Another Turn8. Lost Dog9. Take Me Back10. Still Life11. Jacqueline
Tracklista:1. Early Autumn2. Blue Parade3. Watermelon Man4. Old Devil Moon5. In a Mellow Tone6. Blue Monk7. Who Cares?8. Mangoes9. I'm a Fool to Want You10. If I Had You11. My Old Flame
1. Early in the Morning (featuring Van Morrison)2. Tired of Your Jive (featuring Billy F. Gibbons)3. The Thrill Is Gone (featuring Eric Clapton)4. Need Your Love So Bad (featuring Sheryl Crow)5. Ain't Nobody Home (featuring Daryl Hall)6. Hummingbird (featuring John Mayer)7. All over Again (featuring Mark Knopfler)8. Drivin' Wheel (featuring Glenn Frey)9. There Must Be a Better World Somewhere (featuring Gloria Estefan)10. Never Make Your Move Too Soon (featuring Roger Daltrey)11. Funny How Time Slips Away (featuring Bobby Bland)12. Rock This House (featuring Elton John)
The works included on this CD are among the last, highly virtuosic compositions for these ‘old-fashioned’ instruments, and are the icing on the cake for trombonists, cornetto- and dulcian players. In the 18th century, the leading role of these instruments was taken over by more ‘modern’ instruments such as the baroque oboe, the baroque bassoon, not to mention the violin and cello. Schmelzer & Co The meteoric rise to power of the House of Habsburg was mired in the battles, purges, and religious persecution surrounding the Counter-Reformation. In this devout, Jesuit, Counter- Reformist court, music had an important role. This can be seen in the importance and size of the Hofkapelle. Each individual leader of the House of Habsburg contributed to the musical development of the court in some way. For instance Ferdinand II (1578-1637), a very devout leader who was one of the most resolute backers of the anti-Protestant Counter-Reformation, helped secure Vienna’s position as one of the centers of music in Europe after his accession to the Imperial throne. His son, Ferdinand III (1608-57), a great patron of music as well as an amateur composer, was active in employing Italian kapellmeisters such as Antonio Bertali (1605-1669). Leopold I (1640-1705), the second son of Ferdinand III, became head of the Austrian monarchy in 1657, and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor the following year. During his reign, musical life in the Viennese court was expanded. He also composed and was responsible for employing among many others, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c.1620/23-1680) and Johann Joseph Fux. (1660- 1741). Josef I (1678-1711), the eldest son of Leopold, was an amateur harpsichordist, singer, and composer. The recruitment of musicians for the court hofkapelle was often undertaken by important contacts in Italy. During the period 1660-1740, primarily Italians filled the significant posts of hofkapellmeister and vice-hofkapellmeister, for instance Massimiliano Neri, Marco Antonio Ferro and others. The only two natives to hold the post were Schmelzer and Fux. Interestingly, the positions of court and church organist were more than not occupied by natives, for instance by Georg Muffat (1653-1704) in Salzburg. While court composers were naturally occupied with composing music for the Devine Service and courtly events, not all music produced was occasional or of minor significance. In Vienna, there arose a strong tradition of composing in the stile antico. Fux in particular considered it his duty to preserve this older style. ARTIST BACKGROUND Caecilia-Concert is a versatile, international ensemble, specialising in the performance of 17th century music for instruments and voices. The group was formed in 2001 by a group of young instrumentalists who were already working at the forefront of authentic performance practice in Europe. The aim was to rediscover and bring to today’s audiences, music which had been lost, forgotten about, or had simply lain for hundreds of years in the shadows of other great works. Since then, Caecilia-Concert has not only made a name for itself as a virtuosic, flexible, small-scale recital ensemble of the highest international level, but has on occasion, expanded to incorporate other instruments and singers performing rarely heard masterpieces from Italy, Germany, Austria and The Netherlands. Since a successful debut concert in Kampen, Holland, Caecilia-Concert has enjoyed a succession of well-received concerts in many festivals, including the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Festival of Flanders, Ton Koopman’s Itineraire Baroque Festival in France, and the Brunnenthaler Konzertsommer in Austria. The Caecilia-Concert has performed at such prestigious venues as London’s Purcell Room, and Vredenburg concert hall in Utrecht, and has performed live on BBC Radio 3 as ‘featured artist’ on The Early Music Show, Austrian ORF Konzert Sender, and NPS in Holland. Following the success of their debut CD Treasury of a Saint in 2006 (Challenge Classics CC72161), Caecilia-Concert released Buxtehude & Co in 2007 (Challenge Classics CC72179), also to critical acclaim. The present CD is the second in their series of recordings which pay homage to the influence and inspiration of the great masters of the Early Baroque. Kathryn Cok works with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and other important early music ensembles in Europe, and performs as a soloist in many of the world’s most renowned Early Music Festivals and important keyboard museums. Kathryn teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Wouter Verschuren is principal bassoonist of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra conducted by Ton Koopman. He regularly plays with other renowned period orchestras and plays in numerous international chamber music ensembles. Wouter teaches at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and at the Utrecht Conservatory. Adam Woolf studied baroque trombone in London at the Royal Academy of Music, where, 10 years after graduating, he was awarded an honorary Associate-ship for distinguished contribution to the music profession. Adam is principal trombone with Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s orchestras and freelances with chamber music ensembles across Europe. TRACKLIST Neri: Sonata Sesta à 5, Schmelzer: Sonata à 2 , Ferro: Sonata 11 à 4 , Schmelzer: Sonata à 3 , Fux: Sonata à 4, Bertali: Sonata à 3 , Bertali: Sonata à 3 , Buonamente: Ballo del Gran Duca, de Selma y Salaverde: Vestiva i Colli Passeggiato , Bertali: Sonata à 3, Muffat: Passacaglia , Schmelzer: Sonata à 3 , Schmelzer: Sonata La Carolietta SUMMARY A highly interesting CD of wonderful music of an important period in time, where the House of Habsburg contributed to the flourish of music by having many talented composers working as hofkapellmeisters at this Court that supported the development of music. Composer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and his German and Italian composercolleagues (Schmelzer & Co) leave us a range of beautiful baroque works.
Tracklista:1. The Waking 00:02:44 2. Root Cellar 00:02:00 3. My Papa's Waltz 00:01:21 4. I Strolled Across an Open Field 00:01:12 5. Memory 00:01:06 6. Orchids 00:01:56 7. The Serpent 00:01:56 8. Night Crow 00:01:33 9. Snake 00:00:58 10. Little Elegy 00:01:24 11. The Nightingale 00:01:11 12. Nantucket 00:01:12 13. Lullaby of the Woman of the Mountain 00:02:01 14. Love in a Life 00:03:29 15. What if Some Little Pain... 00:01:47 16. Visits to St. Elizabeth's 00:03:31 17. Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening 00:01:43 18. Spring 00:01:50 19. See How They Love Me 00:01:38 20. Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal 00:02:51 21. I am Rose 00:00:21 22. Ask Me No More 00:02:56 23. Far - Far - Away 00:01:46 24. Early in the Morning 00:01:35 25. Alleluia 00:02:22 26. Such Beauty as Hurts to Behold 00:02:11 27. Sally's Smile 00:00:48 28. Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night 00:02:04 29. O You Whom I Often and Silently Come 00:00:25 30. Full of Life Now 00:01:46 31. As Adam Early in the Morning 00:01:24 32. Are You the New Person 00:02:31
Although generally known as the ‘Vespers’ in English, Rachmaninov’s great contribution to the history of Russian sacred music is, in fact, a setting of the services of Vespers, Matins and the First Hour as they are celebrated in the Russian Orthodox Church and known as the Vsenoshchnoe Bdenie, the ‘All-Night Vigil’. The services of Matins and the First Hour are those of the following day, sung directly after Vespers (which is begun approximately at sunset) ‘by anticipation’. This procedure is characteristic of the Russian rather than the Greek Church, since in the latter the Divine Liturgy is celebrated directly after Matins, served early in the morning. In cathedral and parish churches the Vigil is generally celebrated in an abbreviated form (lasting, nevertheless, for two hours or more) on Saturdays and the eves of major feasts – it is only in monasteries that it is celebrated fully, thus meriting its name.
Tracklista:1. Which Side Are You On2. 19843. See It Through4. Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed5. We Are Fucking Angry6. A-Z (Piano Version)7. Gambler's Lament8. Coming Up9. Doggone, Occupation Is On10. Money Matters11. Hard Times12. No Woman No Cry13. The Early Days of a Better Nation14. The Old School Tie15. The Rufford Park Poachers16. Union Jack17. Well May the World Go18. World Wide Rebel Songs
La Magdalene, The cult of Mary Magdalene in early XVI century
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Basin Street Blues 2. Fine And Mellow 3. Blues In The Night 4. Black Coffee 5. Dont Smoke In Bed 6. Billies Blues 7. Mood Indigo 8. Stormy Weather 9. Dont Explain 10. The Blues I Love To Sing 11. Ramblin Blues 12. Boogie Blues 13. Empty Bed Blues 14. Dont Worry Bout Me 15. Toad Frog Blues 16. Mellow Mama Blues 17. It Aint Necessarily So 18. Aunt Hagars Blues 19. Rockin Chair 20. Walkin And Talkin Blues CD 2 1. Lover Man 2. I Got The Spring Fever Blues 3. All Blues 4. Deed I Do 5. I Got A Right To Sing The Blues 6. Youre My Thrill 7. Nobody Knows You When Youre Down And Out 8. Born To Be Blue 9. Blues For Bojangles 10. Booze And Blues 11. Am I Blue 12. St. Louis Blues 13. Good Morning Heartache 14. Beale Street Blues 15. How Long Has This Been Going On? 16. Im The Lonesomest Gal In Town 17. I Got It Bad And That Aint Good 18. Gin House Blues 19. Blues Early, Early 20. Gone Again
Jim Parsons directs this documentary about British electropop artist Gary Numan. Featuring contributions from the likes of Trent Reznor, Phil Oakley and Noel Fielding, the film charts Numan's career from his meteoric early success through to his renaissance and subsequent musical experimentation following a mid-career crisis.