Tracklista: 1.a) Drums Dreamb) Bridge-Passage2.a) FAOb) Conversation With A Bell3. The Second Free Etude4. Conversation With Pipeless Plum5.a) Good Times, Bad Timesb) Seven For Five (Karolak)6. Lullaby For Tiny Chinamen
ts overall length (upwards of 160 cm) and great number of strings (up to 16 courses) makes the chitarrone one of the more spectacular instruments of the early baroque. The name probably means ‘large kithara’, after the instrument played by the Classical Greek poets, and it was first developed as a bass lute in order to accompany singing and recitative – indeed it appears to have become the favourite instrument in Italy for accompanying the voice by 1600. It also enjoyed a short-lived but rich flowering as a solo instrument, however, to which the three virtuosi of the album title all contributed greatly, as performers as well as composers. Between 1604 and 1640, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (also known as Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger), Alessandro Piccinini and Bellerofonte Castaldi published a number of collections of chitarrone music, from which Jakob Lindberg has chosen some favourite dances, arias, toccatas and passacaglias. Combined into seven suites, they provide rich opportunity to enjoy the particular timbre and the special playing techniques of this splendid instrument, the chitarrone. Highly regarded both for his live performances and his many recordings, Jakob Lindberg has a long-standing interest in the many varieties of lutes, including lute mandorée, orpharion and archlute, and has now dedicated himself to researching their relative – research which informs both the performances and Lindberg’s own liner notes.
Tracklista:1. Reward2. Colours Fly Away3. Bent Out of Shape4. Brave Boys Keep Their Promises5. Treason (It's Just A Story)6. Bouncing Babies7. Serious Danger8. Rachel Built A Steamboat9. Poppies (In The Field)10. Like Leila Khaled Said11. Window Shopping for a New Crown of Thorns12. Books13. Seven Views of Jerusalem14. Strange House in the Snow15. Kilimanjaro16. Count To Ten And Run For Cover17. Passionate Friend18. The Great Dominions
Tracklista:1. The Island of Terrible Death2. Under the Cover of the Polar Night3. To the Lord of the Polar Desert With Seven Faces4. Permafrost5. Transparency6. In the Northern Lights7. White Silence8. Tundra Fogs9. Silence of the Rocks
Tracklista:1. Seven Letters2. First Taste of Love3. How Can I Forget4. Stand By Me5. Don't Play That Song6. Too Bad7. One Morning in May8. Come What May9. Send Me Some Loving10. Make It Tan Deay11. Give Me Back12. River to the Bank
Tracklista:1. We've Hardly Started Yet2. Misty, Golden Road3. Cruel Mother4. The Still Want You Blues5. Young Parson Richard6. Ballad of a Self Made Man7. Seven Days of Nothing8. Ramshackle House9. I Hate You10. Little Stranger11. Without Joy12. Better Than the Best
Valery Gergiev is joined by two outstanding singers for his latest LSO Live release featuring Bartók's one-act opera. Despite being one of the greatest ever interpreters of the role of Bluebeard on stage, this is Sir Willard White's first complete recording of Bluebeard's Castle. His Judith is the outstanding young Russian-born, Berlin-based mezzo Elena Zhidkova. Sir Willard performs extensively around the world during 2009 including appearances at The Metropolitan Opera in New York and La Scala in Milan. Elena Zhidkova will appear with the LSO and Gergiev at the BBC Proms and make her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre. Bartók's only opera is a dark and intense work, involving only two characters. Bluebeard's young bride persuades him to open seven doors in his castle in order to let light into the grim interior. Behind each she finds increasingly disturbing sights, until behind the final door she discovers Bluebeard's former wives and learns her fate.
Tracklista:1. Intro 2. A Breath Beneath3. Necropolis4. From Your Grave5. Heaven Ablaze6. Summoning the Darkness7. Shattered8. I, Deceiver9. My Ruin10. Seven Demons
Tracklista:1. Have You Ever Seen Milk2. Ballerina3. The Museum of Walking4. Nobody Had the Heart to Tell Hime He Was On Fire5. Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?6. Powerful and Professional7. Carpet Diem8. Some Soldiers9. I Still Live at Home10. No More
Tracklista: 1. These Boots Are Made For Walkin' 2. The Cover Of The Rolling Stone (Feat. Hayes Carll) 3. They're Hanging Me Tonight 4. Outlaw Man 5. Ride On (Feat. Ian Tyson) 6. Seven Spanish Angels 7. It's Still Rock And Roll To Me 8. I Shall Be Released