Carlotta Malquori - Bacri, Guglielmi, Lekeu & Messiaen: En Variant - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Before Felix Mendelssohn produced his Octet for strings in 1825, only Louis Spohr had composed for a similar combination of instruments. Rather than an octet, however, Spohr's work was a 'double quartet' written for two equal but independent string quartets. Mendelssohn, on the other hand, treated the eight instruments as a single unit, collaborating 'in symphonic orchestral style', as he himself put it. He was only sixteen when he composed the Octet, full of a youthful ardour that has made it one of his most popular works. It is a farewell to the Mozartian style that had characterized Mendelssohn's early production and at the same time a first step on the way to Romanticism. The second octet on this disc is also a youthful work written at a time of transition, now from Romanticism to Modernism George Enescu was 19 years old when he completed his Octet in C major in December 1900. The work is concentrated, complex and highly contrapuntal, a sounding illustration of what Enescu elsewhere described in words 'I am by nature a polyphonist, not at all an advocate of sequences of pretty chords. I have a horror of anything that stagnates. For me, music is not a state but rather an action...' Among the small number of works for this instrumental combination, these belong to the very finest, and are here performed by two of today's leading quartets the Gringolts Quartet and Meta4 have both made numerous acclaimed recordings in the most diverse repertoire.

Through the ages, several people from moustachioed party boat troubadours to jazz elite like Jimmy Smith/McGriff and Shirley Scott have wielded the power of the electric organ to hypnotize listeners. Now, taking all the possible cues from these musical heavyweights, and breaking through the musical sound barrier to organ-ize your mind comes Mr. Sophisticated Fingers.Together with the ever-faithful Cold Diamond & Mink this mystical key stroker rephrases ten of the greatest hits from Emilia Sisco's debut album InchIntroducingInch in a unique lyrical style. In Organ-ized's Slow Dance & Soul album these songs continue for further greatness. Album Tracks 1. Walk with Me 2. I Wish I Was Yours 3. Dreaming of Love So Divine 4. I Can't Go on 5. When I Fall in Love 6. It's Too Late 7. Light It Up with Your Smile 8. Let My Soul Catch Fire 9. Is It True Baby 10. I Dream That You Stay

Flanders Recorder Duo The name of the ensemble rightly suggests that it emerged from the Flanders Recorder Quartet, which ended it's incredibly successful international stage career in 2018. Already the FRQ amazed with the expressiveness of it's InchonlyInch 4 recorders. The Flanders Recorder Duo now takes this to the extreme. Really only two musicians are to be heard here, but often one hardly believes this when listening to the debut album, which is simply called InchFR2Inch. A highlight is certainly the world premiere of a suite by Vaughan Williams. But the other performances from various eras also give listeners plenty of opportunity to enjoy and be amazed.