Fritz Wunderlich - Songs & Melodies: Earliest Recordings - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Written as a series of companion pieces to each of Bach's celebrated Brandenburg concerti, Axelrod's Six Fantasias were first and foremost an engaging compositional challenge. The very specific combinations of instruments stretched Axelrod's imagination for sound possibilities. They also ended up providing an interesting and surprising addition to his compositional output for chamber orchestra and ensembles.

In the years since the acclaimed recordings made by the Hungarian pianist Zoltán Kocsis back in the 1980s and 90s, no single pianist has attempted to record a complete edition of Bartók's works for solo piano! For a quarter of a century, no new comprehensive perspective on this multifaceted oeuvre has been cast, an important and varied, yet internally cohesive body of work that displays so many different aspects of Bartók's creativity. This is exactly what the German pianist Andreas Bach has set out to achieve - Inch... to find the young Bartók in the late works as well as the late Bartók in the early works. And (...) create a recording that presents a Bartók different from those usually encountered and which are by contrast, 'middle-of-the-road'. Emphasizing Inchnot only the rhythmic and folkloric content, but also providing an opportunity to discover Bartók's harmonic thinkingInch, an aspect of the composer's language that few fans had the opportunity to appreciate before. Volume1 of this new complete edition presents individual works that Bartók composed in his mature, personal style, including the Sonata, the Sonatina, the Suite op. 14, and the 14 Bagatelles; folk music influences are present but only as distant references. The next 4 CDs will focus on the InchRomantic BartókInch and will include his early works, compositions written early in his career and still showing influences of 19th century Romantic idiom. CD 5 InchBartók and Folk MusicInch is dedicated to his works, and arrangements most directly influenced by folk music. The remaining CDs (Vols. 6-8) are devoted to the major cycles InchFor ChildrenInch and InchMikrokosmos Inch.

Ominous was originally released in 2021 and was the return of Swedish Lake of Tears to the scene after few years of silence. The album combines the melancholy well known from the band's early releases with memorable melodies, appealing to both loyal fans and new listeners. InchOminousInch includes beautiful guitar parts, a mesmerizing atmosphere, and emotional, dark melodies. This album is a definite must-have for fans of gothic rock and and also for doom metal maniacs.