Christopher Williams - Love is a Rebellious Bird - French Music for Oboe & Piano - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Black Swan is home to the legendary Paramount tag, one of the pioneers in jazz and blues recordings. This 18 track sampler includes many of the tag's masterpieces, including early stars like Freddie Keppard, Jimmy Blythe, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Jelly Roll Morton, Ma Rainey, Blind Blake and Meade Lux Lewis. Artists 1. Freddie Keppard's Jazz Cardinals 2. Alice Moore 3. Hokum Boys 4. Ida Cox 5. Blythe's Washboard Ragamuffins 6. Geeshie Wiley 7. Kansas City Frank Melrose 8. Ma Rainey 9. Jelly Roll Morton 10. Blind Lemon Jefferson 11. Hometown Skiffle 12. Ed Bell 13. The Dixie Four 14. Ma Rainey 15. Banjo Joe 16. Charlie Spand 17. Blind Blake 18. Meade Lux LewisTracks 1. Stock Yards Strut 2. Black And Evil Blues 3. Hokum Blues 4. I've Got the Blues for Rampart Street 5. Your Folks 6. Eagles on a Half 7. Market Street Jive 8. Black Eye Blues 9. Frog-I-More Rag 10. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean 11. Hometown Skiffle Pt.112. Ham Bone Blues 13. Five O'Clock Stomp 14. Lucky Rock Blues 15. Poor Boy Long Ways from Home 16. Hasting Street 17. Come on Boys Let's Do That Messin' Around 18. Honky Tonk Train Blues.

Two themes unite these works The use of electronics and the degree of the performer's input. All of the works save one employ electronics, but in each work the electronics are used in very different ways. The performer's input into the works also varies. Two of the works are presented twice, yielding significantly different performances and fascinating comparisons. Christopher Redgate specializes in contemporary repertoire and has performed across Europe, the USA, China and Australia.

Lures for Feeling takes it's name from Welsh composer Richard Elfyn Jones' Piano Sonata No. 2, which derives from an assertion by one of his philosophical heroes, Alfred North Whitehead, who wrote that the actual world is essentially the outcome of 'an aesthetic order derived from the immanence of God.' His book Music and The Numinous aims to clarify this in the light of the composer's own experience as one who, when exercising his creative freedom, has always felt that elements outside oneself have a controlling role in one's work. In his case, and certainly in that of many tonal composers, it is the obvious demands of the God-given harmonic series that is the rather obvious pointer towards the numinous character of music in it's various aspects, whether or not the composer or his/her audience is aware of that. This album also includes his Piano Sonata No. 1, Fantasy Evocations and other recent works, including the heartfelt Threnody for Ukraine. Christopher Williams is well-known through is acclaimed recordings for Grand Piano and Willowhayne Records.