Brahms / Owen - Late Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

SOMM Recordings is thrilled to announce Pierre Monteux Live, a two-CD set comprised entirely of first releases including never-before-issued performances led by the renowned conductor. Among these is a legendary 50th Anniversary performance of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with the composer in attendance, given a half-century to the day after Monteux himself conducted the storied Paris world premiere! This recording captures an extraordinary moment of historical continuity between 1913 and 1963 five decades elapsed in the evolution of 20th-century music, in the taste and understanding of the public and in the lives of both creator and pioneering interpreter. The concert was broadcast live on the BBC from the Royal Albert Hall and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra who referred to Monteux affectionately as their InchMaîtreInch. Both the devoted playing and the emotional audience acclaim are preserved in vividly present sound. This set also commemorates the revered conductor - on the 60th anniversary of his death and ahead of the 150th anniversary of his birth - with moving testimony from LSO musicians involved in the landmark Stravinsky concert. These interviews were recorded between 1992 and 1995 by this set's producer, Jon Tolansky, co-founder of Music Preserved and the author of documentary features on composers and performers. Monteux is also heard speaking on tape here, in a 1955 interview and a 1959 rehearsal of the LSO in Dvorak's Seventh Symphony, providing a window onto the man's intellect, work ethic and rapport with fellow musicians. Rounding out this set are still more never-before-issued recordings of Monteux conducting the BBC Northern Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Haydn, Weber and Beethoven, as well as works by Ravel, who, like Stravinsky, was a composer Monteux knew personally. To the highly discriminating players of the

Brahms / Kamasa - Late Pno Works 116-119 [COMPACT DISCS] date 02/10/2015

Who's Gonna Buy?, credited to The Lemon Dips, is a shadowy 1969 artifact from the UK's golden age of psychedelic library music. Released on the Music de Wolfe imprint and likely performed by anonymous session players, the record drifts between fuzz-toned garage rock, freakbeat melodies, and mood-setting instrumentals designed as much for film and television as for home listening. Written by Johnny Hawksworth and Peter Reno, it has a split personality-hook-driven vocal cuts paired with alternate instrumental versions-that gives the album a strangely cinematic feel, reinforced by several tracks' appearances in the cult horror film The Haunted House of Horror. Long overlooked and rarely reissued, Who's Gonna Buy? has since become a coveted curiosity among collectors of obscure British psych, prized for it's blend of pop immediacy, studio craft, and enigmatic provenance.