Cacau Brasil - Cacau Brasil - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Forro Do Brasil [COMPACT DISCS] England - Import date 06/22/2004

2020 . Apka!, the fifth album from Sao Paulo's singer/composer Ceu, consolidates her career journey up to this point. The record brings together sonic, thematic and conceptual extremes. It reveals an artist passing through her past musical trips, eventually leaving her chrysalis, transformed and ready for a new phase. The title is based on a made-up word shouted by Ceu's youngest child, Antonino, that expresses complete satisfaction. A mixture of excitement and gratitude, Apka! Exudes just that.

These recordings of Balakirev's complete solo piano works by the much-lauded pianist Nicholas Walker have been hailed as 'the reference set' by the American Record Guide. Originally released between 2013 and 2020, these critically acclaimed performances are now collected together for the first time in a 6 album box set. Includes world premiere recordings. Hailed by the London Evening Standard as a 'prodigy, of awesome technical fluency backed by exceptional artistry', Nicholas Walker possesses a rare combination of talents combining sensitivity with 'the flair of a full scale virtuoso and a sparkling intelligence' (BBC Music Magazine). Nicholas Walker teaches at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he devised the celebrated keyboard skills course, the advanced level of which not only helps students to be proficient in all aspects of practical musicianship, but offers them the chance to learn how to improvise in various forms, such as minuets, variations, sonatinas and Mozart-type cadenzas, in addition to devising and performing a virtuoso transcription of their own.