Befliato Quintet - Elements - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Newly remastered, this CD runs for 70 minutes and includes 9 bonus tracks as well as liner notes by Alistair Fitchett. Stand-out tracks include 'Dirty Clothing', 'Bringing You the Love', 'The Sadness of S*x Pt. 1' and the should have been single 'Peaches'. Among the pick of the bonus cuts are the singles 'Something for the Lounging And Bemused', 'Confused' and 'Bedraggled'. LTM. 2005.

Karel Husa and the Belfiato Quintet - music inspired by freedom, recollections, and birds / Following the Prague Symphony Orchestra (CD Music for Prague, 2021) and the clarinettist Anna Paulova (2023), the Belfiato Quintet has also headed down the path of discovering the remarkable works of Karel Husa, a Pulitzer Prize and Grawemeyer Award winner, and one of the most prominent figures of Czech 20th-century music. Husa went to Paris to study underNadia Boulanger and Arthur Honegger. After the communist putsch of February 1948, he decided to remain abroad, working at Cornell University in the USA most of his life. He never forgot his homeland, however. This can be heard, for example, in his colourfulSerenade for Wind Quintet, Strings, Xylophone and Harp, which draws upon material from his earlier Evocations de Slovaquie. In these works, the composer relived his difficult decision not to return to his homeland. About Recollections for wind quintet and piano, the composer said InchRecollections are vivid, but not exactly precise. The way we remember things is a mix of accuracy and fancy... To accomplish all this, I wanted the composition to develop from simple tones and to return to them, all the while researching new combinations and sonorities in the quintet.Inch Husa put his love of birds into his Five Poems for wind quintet, Inchfor these wonderful creatures, who embellish our lives so magicallyInch; he employs a wide range of musical resources including microtones and aleatory. In the Serenade, the superb BelfiatoQuintet is joined by the Prague Philharmonia led by Emmanuel Villaume, and inRecollections by Matous Zukal, a major talent among today's young pianists.

Over 35 years since their formation, Yazoo - Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet - are still acclaimed as one of the UK's greatest pop duos. During their short time together they made two classic albums Upstairs At Eric's and You And Me Both, released seminal hit singles 'Only You', 'Don't Go', 'Situation' and 'Nobody's Diary' and toured before disbanding in 1983. Their legacy was a sentiment and a sonic style which sent shock waves through the early-80s charts and continues to be heard in the latest pop hits and throughout contemporary electronica. This re-issue of their classic debut album, 'Upstairs At Eric's', includes 2018 Remasters of 'Only You', 'Don't Go', 'Goodbye 70's' and 'Winter Kills' 2018 on 180g Black Vinyl.