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
Jordi Llompart writes and directs this documentary about the history of FC Barcelona. The film charts the rise of the Catalan club, founded by Joan Gamper in 1899, to their current position of worldwide envy and adoration. Featuring interviews with current and former players including Johan Cruyff, Josep Guardiola and Xavi Hernández, the programme examines how the club has changed the sport with their style of play and famed La Masia academy. The documentary showcases the club's rich success throughout the years including that of their current crop of stars including Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi.
Three years have passed since the release of the previous volume in this series, but now Miklós Spányi continues his traversal of the keyboard concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, a series which in Gramophone has been called a ‘unique monument to one of the 18th century's most underrated composers’. Once again Spányi has joined forces with the Hungarian period band Concerto Armonico, and together they offer us the first four works in a set of six, the Sei Concerti per il cembalo concertato. Composed during the early 1770s, the Sei Concerti were among the few concertos that C.P.E. Bach didn’t write specifically for himself to play. In order to secure a large number of subscribers for the scores, he advertised their publication repeatedly, marketing the works as ‘easy’. He also included parts for wind instruments (‘for reinforcement’, thus optional): two horns in all the fast movements, replaced by flutes in the slow movements. Bach’s aim was to make the works appealing to both players and listeners, and the result is a set of highly attractive pieces, with approachable melodies and dance rhythms but also displaying a new freedom with regard to conventional concerto form. Particularly striking is the fourth concerto, the four movements of which are run together seamlessly, while continuity is further reinforced by the reappearance of thematic material throughout the entire concerto. For these works, Miklós Spányi has chosen to perform the solo part on a harpsichord, a copy of an instrument from 1745 by the Antwerp builder Joannes Daniel Dulcken. Inspired by the English harpsichords that were imported in great number to Northern Germany during Bach’s time, Spányi has had his instrument fitted with a so-called ‘swell device’, enabling the performer to achieve dynamic shadings and crescendo-diminuendo effects consistent with the various instructions in Bach’s scores.
Tracklista: 1. Inside the Garden of Peace and Love2. The King Is Here3. Words of Wisdom4. Spirit Power5. The Highest Act of Love6. Don;t Make Me Wait7. Free8. My Window to Heaven9. Peace of Mind10. Fountains of Spiritual Water11. Born With Both Eyes Open
Tracklista:1. Stand Amid the Roar2. On Brave Mountains We Conquer3. Massachusetts4. This Is How5. A Better Place6. Hide Your Secrets7. Arrivals8. In a Place of Solace9. In Silent Seas We Drown10. California11. The Wind Shifts12. To Live and to Lose13. With Second Chances14. Departures
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Norrie Paramor Salute To Judy Garland. The Trolley Song/For Me And My Gal/Over The Rainbow/We're Off To See The Wizard/It's A Great Day For The Irish 2. Waltz With A Swing/Americana 3. Hold That Bulldog 4. Pennies From Heaven 5. Johnny One Note 6. Always 7. (Dear Mr Gable) You Made Me Love You 8. A Shine On Your Shoes 9. Dinah 10. Where Are You? 11. Swing Mr. Mendelssohn 12. Sun Showers 13. Got A Pair Of New Shoes 14. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 15. In Between 16. Meet The Beat Of My Heart 17. Blue Skies 18. I'm Nobody's Baby 19. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows 20. Minnie From Trinidad (Feat. Tony Martin) 21. America (My Country 'Tis Of Thee) 22. Abide With Me 23. The Rosary 24. Easy To Love 25. The Joint Is Really Jumpin' Down At Carnegie Hall CD 2 1. For Me And My Gal 2. The Boy Next Door 3. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 4. The Way You Look Tonight (Feat. Bing Crosby) 5. Mine (Feat. Bing Crosby) 6. The Trolley Song 7. Yah-Ta-Ta, Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk, Talk, Talk) [Feat. Bing Crosby] 8. How Deep Is The Ocean? 9. Johnny One Note 10. Wishing (Will Make It So) 11. A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow 12. Judy's Olio. Opening Introduction/You Made Me Love You/For Me And My Gal/The Boy Next Door/The Trolley Song 13. Someone At Last 14. My Melancholy Baby 15. Over The Rainbow 16. Come Rain Or Come Shine 17. Down With Love 18. Just In Time 19. Paris Is A Lonely Town 20. I Happen To Like New York 21. Memories Of You 22. What Now My Love 23. What Now My Love 24. What The World Needs Now 25. I'll Plant My Own Tree
2 CD WITH 58 TRACKS DIGIT. REMASTERED 1.1. WENN DIE BESTE FREUNDIN 1.2. BLONDE WOMAN 1.3. ICH BIN DIE FESCHE LOLA 1.4. THIS EVENING CHILDREN 1.5. JOHNNY 1.6. GIVE ME THE MAN 1.7. HOT VOODOO 1.8. YOU LITTLE SO & SO 1.9. ASSEZ 1.10. MEIN BLONDES
During the 1990s, Collegium Musicum 90 and Simon Standage released several volumes of Albinoni concertos, which proved popular with critics and public alike. The concertos were released as discs of single oboe concertos, double oboe concertos, and string concertos. In this re-issue on the Chaconne label, the concertos are presented in opus number order, showing the contrasting colours and tonalities of the concertos as they originally appeared.Dating back to the second decade of the eighteenth century, Albinoni’s twenty-four Concerti a cinque, Opp. 7 and 9 – eight for a single oboe, eight for two oboes, and eight for strings alone – were the earliest such works by an Italian composer to be published. Here the oboe functions, in its relationship with the strings, almost like a singer. The fact that the composer entitled these works ‘Concerti con oboe’ (with oboe), not ‘per oboe’ (for oboe), signifies that the strings (and in particular the first violin) play a role nearly as important as the wind instrument. An interesting contrast between the opus numbers can be found within the double oboe concerto form, with those belonging to Op. 7 boasting an almost Vivaldian vigour and much variety in texture, while the later works are consistently larger in scale, and more regular in form. Among string concertos, Op. 9 No. 7 is the most elaborate concerto for solo violin by Albinoni, and Op. 9 No. 10 the last example of its type in the composer’s oeuvre.Founded by Simon Standage and the late Richard Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90 has a well-established reputation for its performances of baroque and classical music using period instruments, its repertoire ranging from chamber pieces to large-scale works for choir and orchestra. Under its exclusive contract with Chandos Records, Collegium Musicum 90 has made more than sixty critically acclaimed CDs. The ensemble is joined here by the two oboe soloists Catherine Latham and Anthony Robson. Internationally recognised as a leader in the field of performance on historical oboes, Robson is Principal with both Collegium Musicum 90 and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
Tracklista: CD 1 1. Shiny Stockings 2. How Deep Is The Ocean? 3. Slats 4. Blues Like 5. Cotton Tail 6. Too Close For Comfort 7. Kingsize Blues 8. M-Squad Theme 9. Deep Purple 10. Walkin' 11. Get Off The Stand 12. Undecided 13. Satin Doll 14. Eyes 15. End Of Town Blues 16. King Porter Stomp 17. Ensemble 18. Jersey Bounce 19. Rockin' In Rhythm 20. Take The 'A' Train 21. Lester Leaps In CD 2 1. Tweet Tweet 2. Chiarina 3. Harry, Not Jesse 4. The Creeper 5. Mister Johnson 6. Hot Pink 7. Sunday Morning 8. Koo Koo 9. Rainbow Kiss 10. Fontainebleau 11. Man With The Blues 12. What A Woman Feels 13. Swingin' Together 14. New Life 15. There's A Crowd 16. The Jazz Connoisseur 17. Harry's Delight 18. Sweets' Tooth 19. Lover Man 20. Connectin' The Bones 21. Ciribiribin 22. Sleepy Lagoon 23. Strictly Instrumental 24. If I'm Lucky 25. Moanin' Low 26. Ultra
The German organist, Gunther Rost, studied with Günther Kaunzinger (Würzburg), and Marie-Claire Alain (Paris) and complemented his studies by taking master-classes with Daniel Roth, James David Christie and Jean Guillou. He has been awarded prizes for his performances in more than ten important organ competitions, including the Leipzig Bach Competition, the Dallas International Organ Competition, the ION Nuremberg, and Györ/Hungary. In 2002 he was awarded the "Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis" (Bavarian state award for the advancement of arts). Bernard AUBERTIN, born in 1952, is one of the world’s leading organ builders. His status has been recognized in his native country of France by the title Maître d’art Facture d’Orgues – a literal translation of which means "A Living Treasure"! This was conferred on him by the French Ministry of Culture and is the hightest accolade ever given by France to an organ builder. Bernard Aubertin’s family were restorers and makers of religious furniture for a number of centuries - a tradition that he now maintains in his own specialist way.The young Bernard acquired his taste for woodcarving in his father’s workshop at Elvange in the Moselle and he subsequently became a student at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts after leaving the Collége Saint-Augustin in Bitche. He then trained with several organ builders before starting his own firm at the age of 25. In 1994 he was awarded the Crédit du Nord “Old French Houses” Prize for the restoration of the ancient 12th century Priory of Courtefontaine which is his secluded base situated midway between Besançon and Dôle.Although Bernard Aubertin’s work is to be found in many countries as far a field as Japan, his first commission in the United Kingdom was awarded to him in 2001 by the ancient Scottish University of Aberdeen. The University Chapel of King’s College became the home in 2004 of a fine organ of classical design and traditional craftsmanship – in keeping with the original concept of the 500 year old chapel. In 2006 the University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor honoris causa.To date, the magnum opus of the Aubertin House is to be found in the central Paris church of Saint-Louis-en-l’Isle which was inaugurated in 2005. For this great instrument the City of Paris awarded him by presenting him with the Grande Médaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris. In the 2007 New Year Honours, M. Chirac invested Bernard as Chevalier, Legion d’Honneur (red ribbon) – the highest accolade given in France by the President of the Republic. From 1998 to 2002 Gunther Rost taught organ performance and improvisation at the Hermann Zilcher Conservatory and at the University of Music in Würzburg; subsequently he received an appointment as professor of organ at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz in Austria. Besides teaching at Graz University, he acts as jury member and teaches master classes, e.g. at the Moscow Tchaikowski Conservatory.