Eddie Higgins - Amor - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Japanese SACD pressing. Venus. 2014.

The life of Mieczyslaw Wajnberg, full of plenty of difficulties and adversities, reflects the history of an entire generation of Polish Jews, who had to face a cruel history fueled by the forces of totalitarianism. This fate left it's mark on the composer's work, who spent most of his life in the Soviet Union. As an artist of a Inchwrong origin,Inch associated with Shostakovich, Rostropovich and Salomon Michoels, and not creating politically correct music, he was never a favourite of the authorities. The cello sonatas presented here carry a considerable aesthetic and emotional load, corresponding to the composer's socio-artistic relations and his cultural roots. Young Polish musicians - cellist Wojciech Fudala and pianist Michal Rot - successfully face the difficult work of the composer, who in fact belongs to three cultural circles. The closing the album piano miniature Berceuse, Op. 1, based on a poetic Slavic melody, entwined with a quasi-impressionist accompaniment, is a preview of Mieczyslaw Wajnberg's great compositional talent being born in the pre-war Warsaw.

(SACD-HYBRID)(This CD is an SACD, a which utilizes a new digital technology called Direct Stream Digital (DSD), which greatly simplifies the audio encoding/decoding process, resulting in a high resolution playback) a brilliant live recording from the Concord vaults, this is another of Gene Harris's superb efforts for the tag, and this particular session features the additional talents of the awesome Stanley Turrentine who is also in magnificent form here, joined by bassist extraordinaire Ray Brown. With outstanding performances of InchMisty,Inch InchBattle Hymn of the RepbulicInch and the swinging bluesy InchGene's LamentInch amongst others, this is one for the ages.