Ensemble Resonanz - Cruel Sister - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On Dropkick Murphys' 13th studio album, the stories run deep, the memories push hard, and the joy remains infectious. Across the album's 12 songs, the Boston band imbue the same kind of joy one might celebrate with family and friends. And even when the moods are sad and pensive, it's hard not to feel personally invested in the band's emotional spectrum. For The People shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, doing so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys' earliest punk rock roots. Whether it's politics, family, friends or simply Inchlife,Inch Dropkick Murphys continue to write music that regular people can identify with. The poignant album cover was created by renowned social/political artist Shepard Fairey's design firm Studio Number One, and the album was produced and mixed by longtime Dropkick Murphys collaborator Ted Hutt. For The People includes guest features form Mary Wallopers, The Scratch, Bill Bragg, and original band member Al Barr. Includes four unreleased tracks, along with the band's 2024 single, InchSirensInch.

Two of Bach's finest cantatas, both for solo alto, composed in Weimar (1714) and Leipzig (1726) respectively, are here coupled with Pergolesi's Stabat Mater of 1736, the eighteenth century's favourite sacred work. The gap between austere Lutheran piety and searing Mediterranean emotionalism might seem unbridgeable. Yet Bach so admired the composition of his Neapolitan colleague that he made his own 'parody' of it to a German text. On this recording, La Nuova Musica and it's two eminent soloists display equal mastery of both idioms.

Ensemble Dissonanzen - Chamber Works [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/22/2006