Il Viaggio Musicale - Affetti Musicali - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Featuring Sinead O'Connor, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Paul Brady, the Duhks, Karine Polwart, Crooked Still, the Alison Brown Quartet, Dougie MacLean, Maura O'Connell, Tim O'Brien, John Doyle, Michael McGoldrick, Eamonn Coyne & Kris Drever and Heidi Talbot. InchWhat Wells for Zoe is doing in Malawi amazes me. It proves that, even on a grassroots level, good work done by caring people can change our world. I'm very proud to be a supporter of the W4Z and hope others will join the cause.Inch Alison Brown. An admired group of Celtic and Folk musicians have donated tracks to assist Wells for Zoe, an Irish based privately funded development organization, founded for the purpose of aiding the local population of Northern Malawi in accessing fresh water and creating a sustainable living environment. Putting their motto, InchA hand up, not a hand outInch into practice, Wells for Zoe founders John and Mary Coyne (parents of tenor banjo player Iamonn Coyne) have assembled a top notch collection of musicians to join them in raising funds to supply pumps, tools, irrigation and training to local villagers in order to enable communities to establish commercial organic vegetable cooperatives which eventually repay the cost of the pump and materials. New tracks from Irish pop icon Sinead O'Connor and Scottish Borders based singer Karine Polwart along with previously unreleased tracks from singer/songwriters Paul Brady and Dougie MacLean grace the album alongside a new version of an Alison Brown Quartet favorite and a genre crossing version of the Eurythmics InchSisters are Doing it for ThemselvesInch by Irish folk singer Maura O'Connell and Canadian folk band, the Duhks along with Tim O'Brien and John Doyle.

Chopin Impromptus, Waltzes & Mazurkas - Pavel Kolesnikov's deep affinity with the music of Chopin is once again on display. His immaculate performances on this intelligently planned recital build towards the epic F minor Fantasy, and can only enhance the listener's appreciation of this much-loved repertoire.

Australian composer Mark John McEncroe and Navona Records present SYMPHONIC SUITE NO. 3 THE FOREST AND THE MOUNTAINS featuring three orchestral movements that draw inspiration from the natural world- InchMeandering in the Forest I,Inch InchRunning Mountain Streams II,Inch and InchWandering in the Mountain Wilderness III.Inch Brought to life by Zagreb Festival Orchestra, McEncroe's unique voice and filmic quality flow throughout, with musical illustrations painted by striking crescendos and gentle string and woodwind melodies. Born in Sydney, Australia, Mark John McEncroe commenced music studies in his adulthood. He had a varied interest in many kinds of music, not just classical, which led him to working in the music/record business for EMI Records in his early 20s and 30s. For much of that time he was a tag Manager, first with EMI Australia and then with EMI Sweden. To date McEncroe has recorded and released 12 albums of piano and orchestral works.