Boy George & Culture Club - Life - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Claudia Grimaz - 24 Preludes for Voice & Piano [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/28/2011

Joni Mitchell is generally considered to be the single most important female singer/songwriter of the 20th Century. Her new CD features 10 great new songs that resonate on the level of some of her all-time classic work, with much of the material inspired by Joni's passion to save the environment. Her lyrics on the subject are truly inspiring. This is her first album or new songs in nearly 10 years. Features the first single InchIF.Inch

The young mezzo-soprano Adele Charvet has joined Alpha for several upcoming projects. In 2017 she received the Prize of the Verbier Festival Academy. While she has already attracted attention in the opera house, Adele Charvet is also passionately interested in the song repertory. For her first album, she has devised a very personal programme, deriving in part from her musical partnership and friendship with the pianist Susan Manoff. Both of them have drawn on their New York childhoods 'Long Time Ago weaves together the threads of our lives', says Susan. Adele continues 'The musical journey is immense, from the central repertory of American music - Barber, Copland, Ives - to cabaret songs (Heggie, Bolcom), with a detour by way of England Britten, Vaughan Williams... For example, Jake Heggie's Amor describes the journey across the city of a faux-naïf S*x maniac. The police, the ice cream vendor, the gospel choir all shout InchAMOR!Inch when they see him. Samuel Barber's Solitary Hotel is like an Edward Hopper painting in music; Aaron Copland's At the River invites pilgrims to the church meeting InchYes, we'll gather at the riverInch... The programme unfolds like a wheel, a cycle that traverses the cardinal points of a life.'