Arcangelo - Handel: Chandos Anthems (Anthems for Cannons) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After a ten-year creative break, Roxxcalibur are back with their fourth album InchNWOBHM From The VaultsInch.The five-piece delivers forgotten jewels from the pioneering New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Roxxcalibur also took these songs to the stage, blending the original spirits with a skillful distinctive personal touch. Roxxcalibur's task for album number four did have a distinctive order digging even deeper than ever before. This particular mission has been fulfilled in style, consequently celebrated by Rock Hard magazine as Inchtrue truffel pigsInch. The majority of numbers goes back to ultra rare 7Inch discs or regional compilation records. It seems both tragic and amazing, how many musical pearls never really got the attention or even appreciation they deserved. Once again, the band secured artwork for InchNWOBHM From The VaultsInch from legendary designer Rodney Matthews (Diamond Head, Praying Mantis, Tygers Of Pan Tang).

The German soprano Juliane Banse has sung the Lieder of Brahms, Schubert, Wolf, Ullmann, Strauss, Schumann, Loewe and Berg, earning a reputation for both the quality of her interpretations and the warmth of her timbre. She and her regular partner Martin Helmchen, who has just joined Alpha, have chosen to record Paul Hindemith's song cycle Das Marienleben, composed in 1923 and revised by the composer in 1948. The piece is a bewitching, sometimes disturbing cycle whose texts, taken from the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke, retrace the life of the Virgin Mary. Fifteen poems, fifteen episodes tinged with mysticism and lyricism. They proved to be the ideal inspiration for Hindemith, whose compositional style here draws on both the power of Wagner's operas and the subtle nuances of Debussy.

Arcangelo - Charpentier Legons De Tenebres [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/01/2018