David Witten - Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Witten - Songs [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/25/2014

SOMM Recordings is excited to explore the fascinating and largely unknown repertoire of Ibero-American art songs. A shared passion for showcasing hidden jewels of Latin American song inspired the collaboration of Colombian soprano Julieth Lozano Rolong and Portuguese pianist Joao Araujo, who began their partnership while studying at the Royal College of Music. Julieth received the 2018 RCM President's Award presented by RCM President, HM King Charles III. She won the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Audience Prize in the 2023 Cardiff Singer of the World competition and was recently named one of Opera Wire's Top Ten Rising Stars. Joao was awarded best collaborative pianist prizes at the Concours Musical International de Montreal in Canada and the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards at Wigmore Hall, and he has been nominated for the Gerald Moore Award. Their recital includes songs in Spanish and Portuguese from seven countries. Reflecting Argentina is InchDance of Two BrothersInch by the Impressionistic composer Carlos Guastavino, and InchCancion de cuna India,Inch a haunting lullaby by Gilardo Gilardi, inspired by Argentina's indigenous music.Maria Grever was the first Mexican female composer to gain international success. Her innate melodic gifts are evident in InchMy SoulInch and InchYou Said 'I Love You'.InchInchUirapuru,Inch by Brazilian composer Waldemar Henrique, describes the song of the so-named musician wren, while the evocative InchBluebirdInch by compatriot, Jayme Ovalle, was embraced by sopranos like Victoria de Los Angeles and Montserrat Caballe, and baritone Gerard Souzay. Ernani Braga's gift for transforming Afro-Brazilian musical elements is underscored in a song reflecting Brazilian folk religion and a sugar-mill workers' song.The simple originality of Spanish composer, Maria de Pablos Cerezo, who tragically spent her final decades in a mental institution, is heard here in

When William J. Tsamis, founder of legendary Epic Metal masters Warlord, sadly passed away on the 13th of May 2021 at the age of only 60, it looked as if the premature death of one of the most creative forces in American metal had come. However, Warlord bounced back, with a new line-up and a brand new studio album entitled InchFree Spirit SoarInch (on High Roller Records) to huge critical acclaim. With guitar and bass parts of Bill Tsamis saved from original recordings, the current team of Mark Zonder (drums), Jimmy Waldo (keyboards) and Giles Lavery (vocals) (plus Eric Juris on guitars and bass on two of the songs) is now following InchFree Spirit SoarInch with an additional album called InchFrom The Ashes To The Archives - The Hot Pursuit ContinuesInch A limited edition to mark the occasion of the bands summer dates in 2024. Singer Giles Lavery explains InchWhat we wanted to do with some of these songs was to revisit some of the songs from the InchRising Out Of The AshesInch record with this line-up (and using Bill's guitar and bass tracks) - to give fans an idea of how they are going to sound live this year. Please don't get me wrong, i think Joacim Cans did a brilliant job on the InchRising Out Of The AshesInch originals, so these new versions are to be seen very much as a companion to the 2002 versions, rather than any kind of 'replacement' for them. However, the mixes this time around are a little heavier and rawer, and to me it sounds more sonically like it's the 1980s era Warlord, (a sound which really suits the band) ironically the 1980s is when most of these songs on this new collection were written, long before they were recorded for Lordian Guard... InchWinds Of ThorInch for example was part of the very first Warlord Demo back in 1982It may require a little bit of imagination, but it's almost like, in an alternate reality, IF there had been a follow-up