Gyorgy Pauk - Violin Concertos 1 & 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The multiple Grammy Award-winning Pacifica Quartet continues it's highly acclaimed recording series that explores the sounds of America with an album comprising string quartets incorporating elements of American folk music and spirituals by Anton Dvorak, Florence Price, and Louis Gruenberg, plus a new work by James Lee III.Praised by The Telegraph as Inchnothing short of phenomenal,Inch Pacifica is known for it's Inchremarkable expressive range and tonal beautyInch (New York Times). With a career spanning nearly three decades, Pacifica has established itself as the embodiment of the senior American quartet sound.Dvorak's String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, InchAmericanInch draws influence from the colorful sonic world of his American experiences; from the American spiritual, indigenous folk songs, to sounds evocative of American songbirds and rhythms reminiscent of American trains.Florence Price was inspired by Dvorak's focus on American folk music in his InchNew WorldInch Symphony, and while her String Quartet No. 1 in G Major does not explicitly reference specific folk influences, the origins for many of her original melodies and musical colors can be traced directly to the folk songs that she heard in her native Little Rock, Arkansas. Louis Gruenberg, influenced by his time as a student in New York City when Dvorak served as director of the National Conservatory, wrote Four Diversions for String Quartet, Op. 32 infusing the traditional string quartet with the quintessential sounds and style of Prohibition-era America.Praised by The Washington Post for his Inchbright, pure music,Inch James Lee III's Pitch In for quartet and children's choir - receiving it's world premiere recording - features Chicago's Uniting Voices conducted by Josephine Lee. The work incorporates American folk motifs and pentatonic scales echoing the essence of American Spirituals and Dvorak's Inc

David Schrader - Fandango & Sonatas 1 [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/07/1996

After a couple years of disintegrated pursuits in New York, Annie Bandez a.k.a Annie Anxiety relocated to England, finding herself at the doorstep of the famed anarchro-commune Dial House headed by activist Penny Rimbaud. It was here that Annie Anxiety established herself as a singular artist and voice with her debut 1981 single InchBarbed Wire HaloInch on seminal Crass Records and forging a creative alliance with Crass members Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine. As the landscape of punk in the United Kingdom was shifting towards a more diverse, multicultural focal point, artists such as Annie Anxiety found themselves exploring musical signatures in styles such as dub reggae and rocksteady. In the summer of 1983, Annie began work at Southern Studios on what would be her first full length endeavor which encompassed all of her creative assets at that time. Employing the expertise of legendary dub producer Adrian Sherwood to realize this vision, Annie pulled together members of Crass, Flux of Pink Indians, Family Fodder, African Head Charge, London Underground and Art Interface to record her groundbreaking dub industrial masterpiece.