Tracklista:1. Gimme the Sign2. Bigger Cages (Longer Chains)3. Saturday5. Like a Dancer4. 1-2-3-46. Come Into My World7. This Is Real8. 2 Kids9. Turn It On10. It's a Race11. Get Up and Dance12. Make a Man
Tracklista: 1. Name Tag (Premier And The Guru)2. Step In The Arena3. Form Of Intellect4. Execution Of A Chump No More Mr Nice Guy (part 2)5. Who's Gonna Take The Weight6. Beyond Comprehension7. Check The Technique8. Lovesick9. Here Today Gone Tomorrow10. Game Plan11. Take A Rest12. What You Want This Time13. Street Ministry14. Just To Get A Rep15. Say Your Prayers16. As I Read My S A17. Precisely The Right Rhymes18. Meaning Of The Name
Tracklista: 1. Human Error2. Never Enough3. Euthanise Me4. Figure It Out5. Infected6. Bad Blood7. These Veins8. Swallow Your Dreams9. It Stops With You10. Is This a Test?11. Derailed12. Dead in the Surburbs13. Play Dead14. Human Terror
The exclusive Chandos artist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet is a master of this repertoire. This is his second concerto recording for the label, after his survey of the complete piano concertos by Bartók (CHAN 10610) which was released in September to high acclaim and voted ‘Orchestral Choice of the Month’ by the magazine BBC Music. Bavouzet’s complete recording of the piano music by Debussy also scooped awards from BBC Music and Gramophone, which wrote: ‘This could well be the finest and most challenging of all Debussy piano cycles.’ On this new release, Bavouzet is accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yan Pascal Tortelier, a conductor steeped in the French tradition and utterly at home in this repertoire. The result is a totally idiomatic performance of these French masterpieces for piano and orchestra. Ravel’s light and brilliant Piano Concerto in G major is the intriguing result of a merging of classical models with the idioms and harmonies found in the popular jazz music of his day. At the time of composing this concerto, Ravel had just returned from his travels in the USA and the work is heavily influenced by the jazz music that he encountered there. However, in the second movement Mozart takes precedence, the piano’s theme closely modelled on the slow movement of his Clarinet Quintet; and Saint-Saëns’s sparkling semi-quavers fill the finale. The first performance of this work, given by Marguerite Long in Paris, was a great success, as was the European tour that followed. Another central piece is Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. The work was commissioned by Paul Wittgenstein, a concert pianist who had lost his right arm during the First World War. Although at firstWittgenstein did not take to its jazz-influenced rhythms and harmonies, he grew to like the piece. Speaking of the Concerto, Ravel said that he had been determined to make it sound ‘no thinner’ than one for both hands and noted that in the middle of the piece ‘innumerable rhythmic patterns are introduced which become increasingly compact’ and that ‘this pulsation increases in intensity and frequency’ before the various elements ‘contend with one another until they are brusquely interrupted by a brutal conclusion’. Also featured on this disc is Debussy’s Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra. Debussy was a highly self-critical composer and disowned or withdrew several of his early works; this piece was one of them. It was composed in 1889 – 90, and its premiere was scheduled, under Vincent d’Indy, almost as soon as the score was completed, but withdrawn by Debussy just as it was being put into rehearsal. The first performance did not take place until after Debussy’s death in 1918. Although the Fantaisie is the lone piano concerto by a composer regarded as one of the greatest among those who wrote for the piano, it remains one of Debussy's least frequently performed works even now. The work shows the influences of Fauré and Franck, and the piano does not figure as a solo instrument in the conventional concerto sense but rather as an equal partner with the orchestra, although the conventional three movements are still present. Completing the disc in a unique manner are six pieces for solo piano by Massenet. Most famous for his operas and suites for orchestra, Massenet wrote a quantity of very charming piano pieces, of which Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has selected some of the best. The music is typical of its composer – highly tuneful, richly textured, and utterly compelling – and conjures an atmosphere which only a Frenchman could achieve.
English Lute Songs covers a variety of styles by composers such as Blow, Dowland, Campion, Lawes and Purcell; some for voice and lute and some for lute alone. It is a disc which aims to look beyond the standard repertoire for countertenor and lute and hopefully introduce listeners to some lesser known pieces which will delight and enthrall. Robin Blaze and Liz Kenny have performed these works together on the concert platform to great acclaim. CRITICS' CHOICE, BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE; CRITICS' CHOICE 2000, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Robin Blaze has the special ingredients to transcend any latent prejudice [of countertenors], especially in a recital as wide-ranging and intelligently programmed as this. Blaze has the means to colour his texts, not just with superior diction, but timbral variation to keep the listener hearing each song afresh ...There are too many highlights to list ... superb. Another fine achievement from two of Britain's brightest and best.' (Gramophone) 'Can be recommended without reservation … the wonderful 'By beauteous softness’, from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode of 1689, given this performance, I could quite easily listen to for ever … There’s a remarkable technical ease and innate literary intelligence about Blaze’s singing which together with the astounding beauty of his voice makes this one of the most outstanding recitals of its kind on disc' (BBC Music Magazine) 'Wonderfully performed … Among the new generation of countertenors, Robin Blaze is the genuine article. Blaze [has] poised intensity, unswerving intelligence and sensitivity to the sheer, melting beauty of his instrument' (BBC Music Magazine)
W oczekiwaniu na nowy materiał zespół Nothing But Thieves prezentuje (dostępną tylko w formie cyfrowej lub na winylu) EP-kę z 4 nowymi utworami, w tym "Forever and Ever More". EP-kę ‘What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way?’ wyprodukował Jim Abbiss (Artic Monkeys, Kasabian, Adele) a zmiksował David Sardy (Oasis, Noel Gallagher, Royal Blood). Poprzednia płyta Nothing But Thieves "Broken Machine" odsłuchiwana była w serwisie Spotify ponad 100 milionów razy w ciągu roku od swojej premiery a kwintet z Southend ma na koncie ponad 150 tysięcy sprzedanych płyt. Jako jedyni z nielicznych brytyjskich zespołów zostali zauważeni także za Atlantykiem, grając wyprzedane koncerty po Stanach Zjednoczonych i występując w prestiżowych programach telewizyjnych (m.in. Conan O’Brien, James Corden, Jimmy Kimmel). Tracklista: Side A 1. Forever & Ever More 2. Gods Side B 1. You Know Me Too Well 2. Take This Lonely Heart
"Entities that are seemingly direct opposites can reach out to each other and get along just fine: such is the daring assumption of this record. When baroque music and jazz intermingle their themes and approaches, contemporary mojo links up with the sacred of yesteryear and the shadows reveal their gold... Would a harpsichord have anything to say to a marimba? Absolutely! Might a woman's voice intertwine with the sounds of a serpent? Why not? Thanks to the rigors and constraints of their respective musical training, the musicians manage to be free together, and to bestow this freedom on their listeners." Nancy Huston
Tracklista:1. Young2. Original Vestal3. Algiers By Day 4. And By Night 5. Second Sun 6. Beach 7. Lemon Lady 8. This Is Living 9. Pacific 10. Forms Of The 11. Thousands Citrus 12. Virgin Guest
Tracklista:1. Ankhtkheperura in Thee (A Mystical Enlightenment)2. The Pillars of Creation3. Stargazer Monolith4. This Starway Will Carry Me Towards the Grandest Light
Tracklista: CD 1 1. John Henry 2. Old Cotton Fields At Home 3. The Frozen Logger 4. Run, Come See Jerusalem 5. Old Blue 6. Water Boy 7. Santy Anno 8. I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago / The Biggest Thing 9. Riding In My Car 10. No More Cane On The Brazos 11. Payday At Coal Creek 12. Buked And Scorned 13. Rock Island Line 14. Santy Anno 15. If I Had A Ribbon Bow 16. Muleskinner Blues 17. Another Man Done Gone 18. Shame And Scandal 19. Jack O' Diamonds 20. Buked And Scorned 21. Easy Rider 22. Joshua 23. Hound Dog 24. Glory, Glory 25. Alabama Bound 26. Been In The Pen 27. Deep Blue Sea CD 2 1. God's Gonna Cut You Down 2. Spiritual Trilogy: Oh, Freedom, Come And Go With Me, I'm On 3. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands 4. Sail Away Ladies, Sail Away 5. The Gallows Pole 6. Lowlands 7. The Fox 8. Maybe She Go 9. The Lass From The Low Countree 10. Timber 11. Deep River 12. Chilly Winds 13. Greensleeves 14. Devilish Mary 15. All The Pretty Little Horses 16. The Midnight Special 17. Take This Hammer 18. Poor Little Jesus 19. Bald Headed Woman 20. Motherless Children 21. I Know Where I'm Going 22. The Foggy Dew 23. I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain / Water Boy 24. Ox-Driver Song 25. Down On Me CD 3 1. Saro Jane 2. Three Pigs 3. No More Cane On The Brazos 4. Jumpin' Judy 5. Battle Hymn Of The Republic 6. Ballad For Americans 7. This Land 8. On Top Of Old Smokey 9. Hush Little Baby 10. Dark As A Dungeon 11. Great Historical Bum 12. Payday At Coal Creek 13. Going Home 14. Pastures Of Plenty 15. Hard, Oh Lord 16. Believe I'll Go 17. Oh, Papa 18. How Long Blues 19. Hogan's Alley 20. Leavin' This Morning 21. Oh, My Babe 22. Yonder Comes The Blues CD 4 1. Make Me A Pallet On The Floor 2. Weeping Willow Blues 3. Go Down, Sunshine 4. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out 5. If I Had A Hammer 6. Red Clay Country 7. When I Was A Young Girl 8. Gallows Pole 9. God's A-Gonna Cut You Down 10. John Riley 11. John Henry 12. Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho 13. All The Pretty Little Horses 14. Prettiest Train 15. Meeting At The Building 16. No More Auction Block 17. Hold On 18. Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child 19. Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down 20. A Hole In The Bucket 21. House Of The Rising Sun 22. Gonna Take My Time 23. Stranger Here 24. Misery Blues 25. I've Been Living With The Blues CD 5 1. Empty Pocket Blues 2. Be My Woman 3. Poor Man 4. I Just Can't Keep From Cryin' 5. If I Had Wings 6. Special Delivery 7. Darlin' Baby 8. Let Me Ride 9. The Fox 10. Santy Anno 11. Devilish Mary 12. Another Man Done Gone 13. Children's Trilogy 14. He Had A Long Chain On 15. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands 16. Take This Hammer 17. Ox Driver 18. Hound Dog 19. Carry It Back To Rosie 20. What Month Was Jesus Born In? 21. The Frozen Logger 22. Timber 23. Freedom Trilogy: Oh Freedom/ Come And Go With Me/ I'm On My 24. The Frozen Logger 25. Timber 26. Freedom Trilogy (Medley) 27. Oh Freedom 28. Come & Go With Me 29. I'm On My Way