Jac van Steen - Pelleas Et Melisande - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

This live recording of Strauss's Metamorphosen and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony marks the birth on record of the 'Sinfonia Grange au Lac', an orchestra created in July 2018 on the occasion of the Rencontres Musicales d'Évian, the prestigious festival created by Mstislav Rostropovich in 1985 and revived since 2014. A musical ambassador intended to promote the excellence of it's parent festival worldwide, the Sinfonia Grange au Lac consists of musicians from leading European orchestras (in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, London, Lucerne, Munich, Paris, Salzburg, Valencia and Vienna) as well as existing groups such as the Trio Karénine and the Quatuor Ébène. And it was a stroke of genius to manage to secure the services of Esa-Pekka Salonen. The brilliant Finn became a passionate supporter of the project, checking the list of members one by one. He told Diapason magazine 'Our work together made me understand what guided Claudio Abbado when he created the Lucerne Festival Orchestra the pleasure of working with handpicked musicians and making music with great freshness.'

Jac van Steen - Music of the Second Viennese School [SUPER-AUDIO CD] Hybrid SACD date 03/13/2007

Famously one of legendary Rock'n'Roll manager/impresario Larry Parnes' InchStable Of StarsInch, Vince Eager'S career longevity rivals that of fellow ex-Parnes' colleagues Marty Wilde and Joe Brown. With his commanding, 6'4Inch height and charismatic stage presence, Eager was a dynamic and hugely popular live performer on the one-nighters' package tour circuit in the late 50s/early 60s, and a high profile regular on TV shows like 6. 5 Special, Oh Boy!, Boy Meets Girls, Cool For Cats and Drumbeat!He also earned a reputation for cutting powerful UK covers of US hits like Gene Vincent's 'Five Days, Five Days', Floyd Robinson's 'Makin' Love', Jerry Wallace's 'Primrose Lane', Frankie Avalon's 'Why', Marty Robbins El Paso', Conway Twitty's 'Lonely Blue Boy', Gene Pitney's 'Love My Life Away', etc. This compilation anthologises all of Vince's releases for Decca, Parlophone and Top Rank, between 1958-61, an excellent, much underrated and highly collectable body of work