Hesketh,K. / Hammond,Clare - Kenneth Hesketh: Horae (pro Clara) - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

2020 . When you take two beasts on the mic repping Brooklyn neighborhoods Canarsie and Coney Island, you end up with a pair of gorillas. Gorilla Twins to be exact. Comprised of Ill Bill and Nems, the two have long been paving their way within the hip hop landscape. Bill with his solo career and group affiliations (La Coka Nostra, Non Phixion & Heavy Metal Kings) and Nems with his FYL brand as well as dominating the battle circuit. Just this past year alone has shown growth and success with the of Ill Bill & Stu Bangas Cannibal Hulk and Nems & Jazzsoon's Gorilla Monsoon albums which are both some of their best work to date. The new Gorilla Twins album is no different. Banging beats from the likes of Scram Jones, Stu Bangas, Ill Bill and more as well as features from Immortal Technique, Vinnie Paz, D.V. Alias Khryst and Lord Goat.

Peter Lichtenthal, born Wolfgang Mayer in 1779 in Bratislava, was not only a physician, but also a composer and author, including of two Mozart biographies, to which high authenticity can be attributed due to his acquaintance with Constanze Mozart and his two sons Carl and Franz. As a great admirer of the genius Mozart, he created numerous transcriptions of Mozart's works. On it's first CD of a two-part series by the title InchDoktor Lichtenthals MOZARTInch, which is now released, the Pandolfis Consort presents piano works by W. A. Mozart in arrangements by Lichtenthal. On period instruments, the Consort takes over the function of the entire orchestra as a string quartet in the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 20 in D minor, K. 466, featuring the Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan on the likewise historic fortepiano. The Fantasy for Piano No. 4 in C minor, K. 475, and the Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor, K. 457, also included on the CD, were extended by Peter Lichtenthal with a cello part, which is interpreted by Günter Schagerl.

Three major works for piano and orchestra by English composers, all eschewing the traditional nineteenth-century model of a bravura virtuoso soloist pitted against an orchestra, in distinctive ways. Together with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under George Vass, Clare Hammond presents an original programme that provides a unique perspective on how the piano concerto reflected musical currents in mid-twentieth-century Britain.William Walton's Sinfonia Concertante for Orchestra with Piano Obbligato began as a ballet score. After it was rejected by Sergei Diaghilev, Walton arranged his scoreinto a leaner, more direct and more effective work thatreveals the influences of Stravinsky, Poulenc, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and, at times, Elgar. Benjamin Britten's Diversions was commissioned by the left-hand pianist Paul Wittgenstein. Enthusiastic about the challenge of writing for the left hand, Britten devised a work in variation form; he did not seek to conceal the soloist's one-handedness, but revelled in it while still retaining emotion and grandeur. Michael Tippett's Piano Concerto completes the programme. Inspired by a performance of Beethoven's Fourth Concerto, Tippett was convinced that a contemporary concerto could be written, 'in which the piano is used once again for it's poetic capabilities'. In his work, the orchestra does not merely accompany; the principal players shine when they get their opportunity for solos or close dialogue with the soloist.