Ignace Michiels - Flemish Organ Heritage - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Jan Michiels - Tombeau de Debussy [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 02/14/2012

2015 from the British band. Having toured Britain with full, competition-standard brass orchestras, including a sell-out night in the main hall at London's Barbican Centre, British Sea Power - described by The Sunday Times as Inchthe best band in BritainInch - now present Sea Of Brass, a studio album born out of these live brass-backed shows. Including re-workings of much loved tracks from previous albums including 'Machineries Of Joy', 'Valhalla Dancehall' and 'Do You Like Rock Music?' the studio versions of the brass arrangements were recorded with the Foden's Band, a renowned Cheshire-based brass ensemble, formed in 1900. Foden's Band have won numerous international prizes and in 2012 won a rare brass-band double, being crowned both British Open champions and National Champions of Great Britain.

For Ferruccio Busoni, Bach's music was the root and the foundation of piano playing. His many transcriptions confirm this point of view, whilst his monumental Fantasia Contrappuntistica attempts to provide a conclusion to Bach's unfinished Kunst der Fuge. Busoni received a great deal of criticism for this, to which he replied Inchthe musical art-work exists both within and outside of Time... there is no Old or New. There is only Known or UnknownInch. Today - one century and many fashions of InchauthenticInch ways of performing Bach later - is possibly the time to rediscover the true voice of this great musician; for Bach, music was like Incha divine child who did not touch the earth with his feet but floated on airInch. Jan Michiels takes you into this divine air with an 'old' Bechstein from 1860 as well as with a brand new Straight Strung Grand Piano by Chris Maene.