Tracklista:1. Blue Moon2. Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)3. That Old Black Magic4. Stompin' at the Savoy5. Perdidio6. My Baby Just Cares for Me7. Romona8. Dream9. Red Wind10. You're Driving My Crazy (What Did I Do?)11. Darn That Dream12. Deep Purple
Tracklista:1. Awakening2. The Blood That Runs the Border3. Formaciones Rojas4. Biznagas5. Call for Unity6. Note from the Underground
Tracklista:1. Platinum and Gold2. Sunlight, Good Roads3. The Lucky Ones4. The Morning Bell5. Things That I've Done Wrong6. Dragonfly7. Before the Flood8. Open Heart9. Banba's Crown10. Fireworks Night (Promises We Make)
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Jonah 2. All That Jazz 3. Monday Morning Blues 4. Hands To Heaven 5. All This I Should Have Known 6. Don't Tell Me Lies 7. Any Trick 8. Liberties Of Love 9. Won't You Come Back? 10. For Love Or Money 11. How Can I Fall? 12. Don't Tell Me Lies (UK 7" Version) 13. In All Honesty (7" Version) 14. Jonah (7" Version) 15. All That Jazz (Radio Mix) 16. Any Trick (Like A Monkey Radio Mix) 17. Jonah (7" Version) 18. How Can I Fall? (Single Version) 19. Don't Tell Me Lies (US 7" Version) CD 2 1. Moments 2. Take A Little Time 3. Stay 4. Life And Times 5. Make It Funky 6. Don't Tell Me Lies (Dance Mix) 7. In All Honesty (Chilled Out Mix) 8. Jonah (A Whale Of A Mix) 9. All That Jazz (Remix) 10. Hands To Heaven (Extended Heaven) 11. Any Trick (Like A Monkey Club Mix) 12. How Can I Fall? (Extended Remix) 13. Don't Tell Me Lies (Extended Version) 14. In All Honesty (US Remix)
Tracklista: 1. The Science Of Prophecy 2. The Macabre God 3. The Sculpture Of Insanity 4. The End Of All That Conquers 5. The Masquerade Of An Angel 6. The Dome Of Pleasure 7. The Post-Apocalyptic Servant 8. The Art Of Skin Decoration 9. The Saviour 10. The Burden Of
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Sport 2. Chicken Strut 3. Marvellous 4. Cakes 5. Mag-Poo 6. Koochie Koochie Koochie 7. Get Off 8. Moon Walk 9. Jazzoetry 10. You Said A Bad Word 11. Chameleon 12. Give Me Back My Freedom 13. B****In' CD 2 1. That Thang 2. Short Eyes 3. Ripplin' 4. It's A New Day 5. Dudley Do Right 6. Hang On In There* 7. I Made A Promise 8. Can't Nickname The Truth 9. Stump Juice 10. Stoop Down 11. Jessie Joe 12. Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself Again 13. Delights Of The Garden CD 3 1. I Want You To Know 2. Walking With Mr. Lee 3. Tic Toc 4. Young School Girl 5. I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday 6. Whirlaway 7. Happy Times 8. Java 9. Wham Tousan 10. Naomi 11. Moo Moo 13. Heavenly Baby 12. Beverly Baby 14. Tiddle Winks 15. Whipped Cream 17. Banana Split 16. Pie Crust 18. Fat Cat 19. Young Man, Old Man 20. Poor Boy Got To Move 21. Go Back Home 22. Omar Khayyam 23. Tomorrow 24. Baby Do Liddle 25. I Don't Need One CD 4 1. Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Parts 1&2) 2. Over You 3. Mother In Law 4. A Certain Girl 5. Fortune Teller 6. Lipstick Traces 7. It's Raining 8. Wrong Number 9. Ruler Of My Heart 10. I Like It Like That (Part One) 11. I Like It Like That Part 2 12. All These Things 13. Oogsey Moo 14. It Will Stand 15. Hot Tamales (Part 1) 16. Hot Tamales Part 2 17. Nearer To You 18. I'm Evil Tonight 19. Working In A Coal Mine 20. Holy Cow 21. Everything I Do Gohn Be Funky (From Now On) 22. Sophisticated Cissy 23. Look A Py Py 24. Yes We Can 25. Night People
Czternasty studyjny materiał Alice Coopera, który swoją premierę miał w 1982 roku, czyli w okresie artystycznie dla Amerykanina najsłabszym. Z "Zipper Catches Skin" pochodzi znakomita piosenka "I Am The Future", którą wykorzystano w głośnym wówczas filmie "Klasa 1984". Alice w pierwszej połowie lat 80. zmagał się z narkotykowym i alkoholowym nałogiem, co znalazło odbicie w jakości jego muzyki. Żadna z płyt nagranych w tym okresie nie odniosła sukcesu komercyjnego, żadna z piosenek nie dołączyła do pokaźnego zbioru rockowych hitów Coopera. "Zipper Catches Skin" był drugim z rzędu tego przykładem. W USA nawet nie załapał się na listę "Billboardu", co wcześniej przydarzyło się muzykowi przy okazji debiutu z 1969 roku. Produkcją zajął się Alice wraz z ówczesnym basistą Erikiem Scottem. Ale jak przyznał po latach, nie pamięta wiele z sesji nagraniowej. Tracklista: Side A 1. Zorro's Ascent 2. Make That Money (Scrooge's Song) 3. I Am The Future 4. No Baloney Homosapiens Side B 1. Adaptable (Anything For You) 2. I Like Girls 3. Remarkable Insincere 4. Tag, You're It 5. I Better Be Good 6. I'm Alive (That Was The Day My Dead Pet Returned To Save My Life)
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Reach Out (I'll Be There) 2. Looking At You, Looking At Me 3. Burning Up 4. Never Wanna Be Without Your Love 5. Shake It Off 6. Dream Maker 7. Tina 8. Ain't Nobody Ever Loved You 9. Black Boy 10. That's The Way It Is 11. High Above The Clouds 12. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme 13. Live It Up CD 2 1. The Nature Of Things 2. Suspicion 3. Dancin' On Main St. 4. Wear Your Love 5. Divine Emotions 6. Can't Get You Outta My Head 7. That's The Way That I Feel About Cha 8. Wild Thing 9. How Can I Make You Stay 10. Explosion 11. I Belong 12. But What Up Doh? 13. Certain Kind Of Lover 14. Jam The Night 15. We Still Have A Dream
‘A catalogue of revelations on how the Russian composer’s piano music should sound … one of the finest performances I’ve ever heard from the Scottish pianist—Osborne presented a textbook demonstration of clarity of thought and purpose … a philosophy which banished notions of Rachmaninov’s music as turgid, densely textured emotional upheaval in sonic form. This was so clear it had a rare purity, wholly refreshing the music in all its parts’ (The Glasgow Herald) ‘Textures that on the page look impossibly convoluted emerged wonderously clear, fluent and beauteous’ (Financial Times)Steven Osborne’s live performances of Rachmaninov’s preludes were greeted ecstatically by critics and audience alike: a new benchmark for performances of these works, and a new departure for this most subtle and sensitive of pianists. Now Steven has committed the complete cycle to disc—a surprisingly rare recording venture in itself. His matchless musicianship has rarely been so blazingly evident as it is here. Also apparent is his deeply individual relationship with the repertoire. This is a disc to treasure.Steven Osborne writes … ; Recently as I was exploring a book shop I saw the banner ‘Tragic Life Stories’ over an entire wall of books. I laughed, but I could have cried, and not in the way the authors presumably hoped. What a bizarre phenomenon this is, the sudden emergence of a genre of writing which apparently delights in describing personal misery at its most heart-breaking. Why do I mention this? Well, I adore Rachmaninov’s music—there are few composers who speak to me more directly. Yet I know a number of musicians, including some whose opinion I greatly respect, who think his music shallow, even cheap. I have a suspicion that for some of them, this music is a bit like one of these stories—not so much emotionally explicit as manipulative, calculated to draw the maximum sympathy from a credulous audience. (At least, this is what appears to underlie the famous entry in the 1954 Grove Dictionary which laments Rachmaninov’s ‘artifical and gushing tunes’.) It may be a tempting response to a composer whose music fits seamlessly into the classic film Brief Encounter, but the charge doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny: listening to Rachmaninov’s piano-playing, one hears a clarity and emotional discretion which is the antithesis of such sensationalism.I cannot dismiss all ‘Rachmaninophobes’ so easily, and there is an issue here which interests me: what does it mean for music to have depth? Compare Rachmaninov’s music to Schubert’s, and it seems to me clear that the latter contains much greater complexity of emotion. Schubert’s later works in particular blend innocence, violence, sublime playfulness, humility, dread, and innumerable other emotions in the most potent fashion; as a result, there are very many ways of understanding his music, depending on how one balances these conflicting elements. With Rachmaninov there is one element which dominates: a sense of melancholy to which his music returns again and again. Correspondingly, there is less ambiguity to the music. Does this make it less deep, less meaningful? I think the better response is to say it is less complex, because Rachmaninov expresses more profoundly than almost anyone else what it means to feel hopeless, to long for what is unattainable; the depth of feeling is, to me at least, unquestionable. This helps me make sense of the antipathy some have towards Rachmaninov’s music. The more ambiguous a piece of music is, the more likely we will find personal meaning in it. If, however, we are directly confronted with a rather depressive musical world, it is understandable that some will find that threatening, self-indulgent, or else simply uninteresting.I am of course overstating the case to make my point. Rachmaninov’s music can contain a wonderful variety of mood, as these preludes clearly show. Still, it is worth asking how many pieces here reflect a truly positive, outgoing frame of mind. Even the most sunny and ebullient—those in the major keys of B flat, C, E and A flat—have their moments of inwardness, the last three of these ending with a kind of retreat into privacy. I think this is a telling instinct in music which is otherwise so open, suggesting that the pull of introversion was difficult for Rachmaninov to overcome.‘Tragic Life Stories’ notwithstanding, it is possible to write an account of a difficult life which transcends details of abuse or neglect (as Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes triumphantly shows). I think there is a real sense in which Rachmaninov’s music tells us such a story. It may be dominated by the pain and sadness of his life but it expresses much else besides, and when we reach the astonishing climax of the final prelude, I find it impossible not to be deeply moved that a man like Rachmaninov was capable of creating such a rich and life-affirming gesture.INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 'OUTSTANDING' AWARD; BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INSTRUMENTAL CHOICE; GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE; THE TIMES CLASSICAL CD OF THE WEEK; THE SUNDAY TIMES CD OF THE WEEK ; DAILY TELEGRAPH CD OF THE WEEK ; MUSICAL OPINION RECORD O F THE MONTH'Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure' (BBC Music Magazine)'There are few pianists who offer such range and depth of palette: not even Ashkenazy's seminal reading … This has award-winner written all over it' (Gramophone)'Extremely impressive all round … Osborne lavishes a remarkable level of authority on every one of these masterworks, playing with a rare combination of technical ease, tonal lustre and idiomatic identification. He also has the undeniable advantage of a magnificent Steinway instrument with a rich, opulent sonority and great solidity in its bass register … In summary, Osborne goes from strength to strength as he moves through the cycle, wrapping up the final page of the concluding D flat prelude in a blaze of glory … For a truly spellbinding modern account, Osborne now holds the winning ticket' (International Record Review)'Osborne is perhaps the most convincing since Vladimir Ashkenazy … His dazzling technique illuminates the virtuosic allegro and allegretto sections, and his playing has a Rachmaninovian pliancy and beautifully achieved rubato in lyrical passages. One of the piano discs of the year' (The Sunday Times) 'This sensational pianist … brings his technical wizardry and, above all, his penetrating musical intelligence to these much-recorded works of Rachmaninov… In his combination of modesty, inner fire and natural virtuosity he brings to mind that other Rachmaninov master, Ashkenazy' (The Observer)'The brilliant Scottish pianist Steven Osborne is unafraid of challenges … He scales the 24 preludes of the great Sergei, and does so with passion and authority … Osborne flies free without ever rampaging. Sorrow and sunlight, death and life, all Rachmaninov is here, in three dimensions, luscious colour and widescreen. A most exciting release' (The Times)'This is an absolutely superb disc, one of the very finest integral sets of these works I have ever heard. Osborne's playing is magnificent throughout … This issue simply has to go to the top of the recommended list' (Musical Opinion)'This astonishingly good full set recording … Osborne's musicality is exquisite, addictive and sensational. This is a disc you'll want to listen to over and over again' (The Scotsman)
Tracklista:1. Goddesses2. A Welcome to the Tale of Ale3. Bring Us in Good Ale/Jolly Good Ale and Old4. God Is Good5. Nottingham Ale/The Malt's Come Down6. Andrew Boorde On Ale and Beer7. John Barleycorn8. He That Buys Land9. Oh, Good Ale!10. The Porter Scene, Macbeth11. I Likes a Drop of Good Beer12. Stubbes. The Anatomy of Abuses13. We Be Soldiers Three14. Stubbes On Drunkenness15. Don't Go Out Tonight, Dear Father!16. Bickerdyke On Temperance17. Doing the Manch/All Through the Ale18. Brewing in London I19. Charley Mopps20. Brewing in London II21. There's Comfort in a Drop of Gin22. Brewing in London III23. Sellinger's Round24. Some Toasts I25. The Harvest Supper Song26. Some Toasts II27. Stones Morris28. The Public House I29. John Appleby30. The Public House II31. The Man That Waters the Workers' Beer32. The Public House III33. (They're Knockin' 'Em Down) the Old Pubs34. The Fight Goes On35. From the Old Half Moon to the Rising Sun/Barman's Waistcoat