1. IN YOUR SHADOW 2. HEXED 3. EVIL'S RISING 4. DEVILS ON BOTH SIDES 5. LAST BATTALION 6. BACK TO THE BEGINNING 7. VOICE OF PREJUDICE 8. SPELLBOUND 9. DEAD-EYE STARE 10. VIGILANTE
Irlandzki wokalista jazzowy Cormac Kenevey na pierwszy rzut oka wydaje się iść przetartym przez Harry'ego Connicka, Jamie Culluma, Petera Cincottiego czy Michaela Bubble śladem. Na szczęście pomimo młodego wieku i przyjemnej aparycji nie w głowie temu Panu gładkie jazzowanie. Bliżej mu do chicagowskiego wokalisty Kurta Ellinga niż do wymienionych powyżej wokalistów. Na swojej drugiej płycie "The Art of Dreaming" z jednej strony prezentuje się jako kapitalny interpretator piosenek nowobrzmieniowego zespołu Moloko, z drugiej strony pokazuje, że potrafi też czytać po swojemu klasykę jazzu, standardy Cole'a Portera, Jerome'a Kerna czy Harry 'Sweets' Edisona brzmią nad zwyczaj interesująco! "Druga płyta, która pokazuje, że Cormac Kenevey ma szansę zostać jednym z najciekawszych, najbardziej twórczych wokalistów ostatnich 10 lat" (Krzysztof Szamot). Muzycy:Cormac Kenevey: Voice, ClarinetPhil Ware: Piano, WurlitzerDave Redmond: Double BassKevin Brady: DrumsHugh Buckley: Guitar Tracklista: 1. Relax2. The Night We Called It A Day3. Moloko Soup4. Tir Na Nog / The Nearness Of You5. In The Extraoutosphere6. I Fall In Love Too Easily7. The Dreamer8. This Is It9. Centrepiece10. All Of You11. The Way You Look Tonight12. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face13. Snuezy Bloos
Album został wydany przez wytwórnię Coviello Classics (COV 92007). Tracklista: 1. Johannes-Passion 2nd version from 1725 with a choral & instrumental scoring of one voice & instrument per part
A rare complete collection of Chopin's art songs, sung in the original key by one singer, along with a little-known song cycle by Szymanovski. Sung in Polish, the musical expression of these pieces is fully conserved and defended. The Polish soprano Urszula Cuvellier illuminates this recording with her stunning voice, masterfully accompanied by Anne Le Bozec, producing a rare and refined musical narration.
Recent discs from Marc-André Hamelin have concentrated on music which is obscure, under-recorded or virtually unplayable. However in this latest recording he turns his attention to two mainstays of the Romantic repertoire: Chopin’s Piano Sonatas Nos 2 and 3. The results are simply staggering: playing of matchless brilliance and consummate artistry, stunningly recorded. As a recent critic of Hamelin’s live performance of the B minor sonata remarked, ‘Hamelin starts where most other pianists leave off … such was his control that frequently it seemed as though an extra dimension were being added, the music’s teeming internal life clarified by his ability to voice the inner parts’.The disc is completed by some of Chopin’s greatest single-movement works; the contrasting two Nocturnes of Op 27, the extraordinarily colouristic Berceuse Op 57 and the monumental Barcarolle in F sharp major. We think this is one of the most authoritative and important Chopin discs to have appeared in recent years—an unmissable release.
Tracklista: 1. Leader Countdown 2. Neon Circus 3. No One Gets Out Alive 4. What Could Be As Lonely As Love 5. Carousel 6. Affection 7. Medicine 8. I Dare You 9. The Darkness Has A Voice 10. Entertainment 11. Worship
The 2008 Salzburg Festival production of Dvorák's opera Rusalka was outstanding even by the Festival's high artistic standards. Its exceptional nature was due in part to the fact that in the pit the Cleveland Orchestra was appearing for the first time as an opera orchestra in Salzburg. The high expectations raised by the orchestra and its Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst, were fully met, and even in the live recording of the opening night made by Austrian Radio, the conductor's genuinely dramatic approach to the work is never less than gripping. The fairytale narrative gains in psychological focus and depth, aided and abetted by the team of soloists headed by Camilla Nylund as Rusalka and Piotr Beczala as the Prince. To the role of the water nymph, Nylund brings a beautiful lyric soprano voice that retains its focus and penetrating power even in the score's most dramatic outbursts, while the bright tenor voice of Piotr Beczala produces a convincing vocal portrait of the hapless heroine's inconstant lover, following her decision to enter the world of mortals. The remaining roles were cast from strength, notably the admonitory figure of the Water Goblin, taken here by Alan Held, whose powerful Wagnerian bass-baritone lends the role an impressive profile; Birgit Remmert, with her dark-hued, impressively full-toned voice and Emily Magee's burnished soprano, with its brilliant upper register. Particularly gratifying in a Salzburg Festival production is the casting of minor roles with promising young singers including Eva Liebau as the Turnspit, Adam Plachetka as the Gamekeeper and the three well-modulated wood nymphs of Anna Prohaska, Stephanie Atasanov and Hannah Esther Minutillo. Appearing alongside this team of singers is the Vienna State Opera Chorus on outstanding form. All in all, then, it comes as no surprise to know that the response to the musical side of this production was extremely positive, a response which it is hoped will be repeated in the case of the present live recording
Tracklista: CD 1 1. It Ain't Me (Tiësto's AFTR. HRS Remix) 2. Scared To Be Lonely (Julien Earle Remix) 3. Places (Feat. Ina Wroldsen) [Icarus Remix] 4. Dreams (Feat. Dakota & T-Pain) 5. Almost Mine 6. Tied Up (Balearic Vocal Dub) 7. Can I Be Him (SJUR Remix) 8. Finders Keepers (Feat. Kojo Funds) [Melé Remix] 9. Be Mine 10. Tuesday (Feat. Danelle Sandoval) 11. In And Out Of Love 12. Day And Night 13. Bad Ideas 14. Feel (Feat. Sena Sener) 15. Till You're Loved 16. You Get What You Give 17. Wasted (Feat. Kate Elsworth) 18. Waterfalls (Feat. Nico Santos) 19. Marisa 20. Like It Is CD 2 1. He Is The Voice I Hear 2. 7th Sevens 3. Phases 4. Beacon (Joris Voorn Remix) 5. Cherry Bomb 6. Come Back 7. 1975 8. Final Credits 9. Feel So Good 10. Broken Barriers (Tribute) 11. Sienna 12. Aba 13. Oscillations 14. Late 15. Heights 16. Drifting 17. Hold Me 18. Lay Down 19. Nightcrawler 20. Make Me Love You
Winylowa wersja albumu Australijski kompozytor i pianista Luke Howard wydaje swój pierwszy album dla Mercury KX – krążkiem tym jest zachwycający "Open Heart Story". "Tworzony w czasie głębokiej introspekcji i zadumy nad własną egzystencją, album eksploruje trudne relacje międzyludzkie, wspomnienia z dzieciństwa i niełatwą do zaakceptowania świadomość przemijania" – informuje sam kompozytor. Album to kontemplacyjna, acz podtrzymująca na duchu podróż, w której słuchaczowi towarzyszy muzyka Howarda – czasem intymna, zaaranżowana na fortepian solo, innym razem wykonana przez 23-osobową orkiestrę smyczkową, w której brzmienie wpleciona jest subtelna elektronika. Album rozpoczyna piękny utwór fortepianowy, zatytułowany "Prelude for a Single Voice" – jest to hołd dla J.S Bacha, którego twórczość od lat niezmiennie inspiruje Luke’a. Utwór "Remembering My Childhood" został z kolei zainspirowany Ryuichim Sakamoto i Yellow Magic Orchestra, których działalność odcisnęła piętno na dorastającym kompozytorze. Jednym z ulubionych utworów samego Howarda jest niewątpliwie "Hymn", nagrany zarówno w swojej oryginalnej, improwizatorskiej wersji na fortepian solo, jak i razem z akompaniamentem smyczków. Obfite harmonie zbudowane są wokół prostego, medytacyjnego motywu, co sprawia, że muzyka swobodnie wznosi się i opada, niczym morze podczas przypływów i odpływów. Tracklista: 1. Prelude for a Single Voice 2. Bear Story I 3. Bear Story II4. In Metaphor, Solace 5. A Long Life 6. Elysian Fields 7. In Praise of Shadows 8. Hymn 9. Blossom 10. Solstice 11. Trembling 12. Circles 13. I Still Dream About You, Sometimes But Not Always 14. Remembering My Childhood
Side: 11. Geiger Counter (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 1:072. Radioactivity (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 6:423. Radioland (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 5:514. Airwaves (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 4:405. Intermission (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 0:396. News (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 1:17Side: 21. The Voice Of Energy (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 0:552. Antenna (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 3:423. Radio Stars (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 3:344. Uranium (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 1:275. Transistor (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 2:146. Ohm Sweet Ohm (2009 Digital Remaster) - Kraftwerk 5:40