Tracklista:1. Permission2. I'll Catch You When You Fall3. Deepest Down4. Rather Make Believe Than Make Do5. Second Best6. Lovely Rain7. Full Blown Love8. Over Dark Waters
Tracklista: LP 1 1. First Floor 2. Second Floor, Room 201 3. Second Floor, Room 202 LP 2 1. Seun's Room
Acclaimed conductor Thomas Zehetmair presents the world premiere recording of Hans Gál’s Second Symphony alongside an electrifying live recording of Schubert’s Ninth Symphony, the "Great". Hard on the heels of the world premiere recording of Hans Gál’s First Symphony (AV2224), internationally celebrated conductor Thomas Zehetmair follows with a superb value 2-CD set including the first ever recording of Gál’s Second Symphony, alongside Schubert’s "Great" Ninth. The release showcases two ends of a great melodic tradition, presenting Gál’s music alongside 19th-century symphonic repertoire that represents its roots and core values. Gál’s Second Symphony is perhaps the most personal of his four, with an emotional depth and haunting beauty that inspired Gál’s biographer, Wilhelm Waldstein, to write of the slow movement: “it is, I dare to assert, the most important Adagio since Bruckner.” Written in 1942-43, during the darkest war years, this symphony distils the process of overcoming pain and loss into the language of pure music. Featuring Northern Sinfonia in their spectacular venue Hall One of The Sage Gateshead, these recordings underscore Zehetmair’s hallmark electrifying intensity, precision and vision. This release continues Avie’s ongoing celebration of the music of Hans Gál, following highly acclaimed releases of the complete works for solo piano by Leon McCawley (AV2064), chamber works for Violin and Piano featuring Annette-Barbara Vogel (AV2182), and concertante works for violin and orchestra, also with Vogel, and Kenneth Woods conducting Northern Sinfonia (AV2146).
1. Taxi Music2. Seconds Too Late3. Your Agent Man4. Split Second Feeling5. Sluggin Fer Jesus6. Kneel to the Boss7. Obsession8. A Thousand Ways
Tracklista: CD 1 1. For The Sake Of The Song 2. Tecumseh Valley 3. Many A Fine Lady 4. (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria 5. Waitin' Around To Die 6. I'll Be Here In The Morning 7. Sad Cinderella 8. The Velvet Voices 10. Takin' Karate Blues 9. All Your Young Servants 11. Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls CD 2 1. Be Here To Love Me 2. Kathleen 3. She Came And She Touched Me 4. Like A Summer Thursday 5. Our Mother The Mountain 6. Second Lover's Song 7. St. John The Gambler 8. Tecumseh 9. Snake Mountain Blues 10. My Proud Mountains 11. Why She's Acting This Way
Tracklista: 1. How Now2. Exotic Bird3. Cyclone4. Feel Like a Man5. Returning Current6. Foothills7. Second Sight8. Cobalt Clear9. Torn to Light10. Wild Here
Tracklista: 1. Enigma 2. Hunter 3. Hollowed 4. Burn Me Down 5. Last Shore 6. Kill It with Fire 7. Oblivion 8. Second Sight 9. Fireborn 10. Giants 11. Castaway 12. Old Man And The Sea 13. Fantasy [Orchestral Version] 14. Shine in the Dark [Orchestral Version] 15. Unbreakable [Orchestral Version] 16. Winter Skies [Orchestral Version]
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Blue Serge 2. Blue Serge 3. Curbstone Scuffle 4. Nocturne (Extended) 5. Woodchopper's Holiday 6. Billie's Bounce 7. Body And Soul 8. Blue Serge 9. Red Cross 10. All God's Children Got Rhythm 11. Elevation 12. Fine And Dandy 13. The Goof And I 14. Pumpernickel 15. Pumpernickel (Alternate Take) 16. Gabardine And Serge 17. Gabardine And Serge (Alternate Take) 18. Serge's Urge 19. Serge's Urge (Alternate Take) 20. A Bar A Second 21. A Bar A Second (Alternate Take) 22. We The People Bop 23. Chickasaw 24. Bopscotch 25. The Most 26. Chasin' The Bass 27. Pat 28. King Edward The Flatted Fifth CD 2 1. Move 2. Hot House 3. The Goof And I 4. Everything Happens To Me 5. Pennies From Heaven 6. Four Brothers 7. Gabardine And Serge 8. You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me 9. Zdot 10. Oh, Baby 11. Love Is Just Around The Corner 12. Easy Street 13. All I Do Is Dream Of You 14. The Fable Of Mable 15. The Fable Of Mabel (Take Two) 16. The Fable Of Mabel (Take Three) 17. Sherry CD 3 1. Slam 2. A Salute To Tiny 3. A Salute To Tiny (Take 2) 4. Eenie Meenie Minor Mode 5. Eenie Meenie Minor Mode 6. Let's Jump 7. Let's Jump (Take 2) 8. Mar-Dros 9. Kip 10. Unison 11. Body And Soul 12. Yesterday's Gardenias 13. Bob, The Robin 14. What's New? 15. Diana's Melody 16. Sergical 17. Junior CD 4 1. I've Got The World On A String 2. Thanks For The Memory 3. The Goof And I 4. Susie's Blues 5. A Handful Of Stars 6. All The Things You Are 7. Stairway To The Stars 8. Four And One More 9. So Blue 10. The Swinging Door 11. Four In Hand 12. A Quick One 13. Four Brothers 14. Ten Years Later 15. The Pretty One 16. Aged In Wood 17. Here We Go Again
Tracklista:1. Songbird2. Pantomime3. Far From Now4. Detour5. Taken In6. Demure7. Overrated8. Second Of February9. Closed Call10. Relief Sketch
Of the myriad piano concertos composed in the second half of the nineteenth century all but a handful are forgotten. The survivors are played with a regularity that borders on the monotonous—the ubiquitous Tchaikovsky No 1, the Grieg, Saint-Saëns’s Second (in G minor), the two by Brahms and, really, that is just about all there is on offer. Pianists, promoters and record companies play it safe and opt for the familiar. Even a masterpiece can become an unwelcome guest, especially when subjected to an unremarkable outing by yet another indifferent player, as happens so frequently today.