Brahms / Bumbry / Glass - Brahms Lieder - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

A feast of previously unpublished broadcast recordings, focused on music for the stage and including much repertoire otherwise unrecorded. The main work is a three-act comedy by Frederick Rung, telling the story of The Three-Cornered Hat with a light touch and delightful duets and arias. Rare overtures, suites and scenes fill out a rich portrait of the Danish operatic scene in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, completed by a pair of powerful mid-century orchestral pieces.

The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920. Ever since then artists and music lovers from around the world have been meeting annually at this crossroads of European culture. Much loved and often chided, the Salzburg Festival was exposed to many varied changes during the last 100 years. Yet the original idea as envisioned by it's founders- a place where art could flourish under extraordinarily favorable conditions, where it could become a truly great event- has been confirmed time and again in wonderful ways. The present documents part of the 1974 festival as four great soloist performing at the top of their craft present rarely performed vocal chamber music by Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. This performance was the eighth and final Lieder recital of the 1974 Salzburg Festival, and unfortunately much of the press had already left, so reviews are scarce. The Austrian paper The Wiener Zeitung, however, rated it highly Inch... The singers here attained an even closer unity, harmonizing their voices in sparkling purity. One sensed the love of musicmaking, a musicianship in which everything is right... Inch

Black Vinyl, Instrumental InchPenalty Of LeadershipInch - Vinyl Exclusive. Penalty Of Leadership is the follow up to Nicholas Craven produced InchFair Exchange No RobberyInch. Released digitally January 2024, this time around they've both sharpened their unique approach to Detroit-meets-Montreal soul sample inspired drug raps and further solidified their lightning in a bottle chemistry. The pair's chemistry is still potent enough to chill the blood running through your veins, and Boldy's brush with death [2023 car accident] makes Penalty of Leadership a heavier and more reflective listen than their previous joint album.