Jan van de Laar - Organ Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Recorded during the band's 2024 Tour at The Guild Theater in Menlo Park, California, the band delivers a masterful performance. At the heart of The Final Ride stands George Lynch, whose unmistakable guitar tone, phrasing and musical authority continue to define generations of hard rock and metal guitarists. He is backed by a formidable lineup featuring Gabriel Colon (vocals), Jaron Gulino (bass) and Jimmy D'Anda (drums), delivering a tight, aggressive and emotionally charged performance worthy of the band's legacy. The Final Ride (Live) was recorded, mixed and mastered by Chuck Alkazian at Pearl Sound Studios, ensuring outstanding sonic clarity while preserving the raw intensity and immediacy of a true Lynch Mob performance. The setlist is a powerful career-spanning journey, combining cornerstone Lynch Mob classics with three iconic Dokken-era songs that remain inseparable from George Lynch's legacy. Explosive performances of InchLightning Strikes Again,Inch InchIt's Not Love,Inch and InchParis Is BurningInch ignite the crowd and serve as a direct bridge between past and present, while Lynch Mob anthems such as InchRiver of Love,Inch InchNo Good,Inch InchHell Child,Inch InchLet the Music Be Your Master,Inch InchStreet Fighting Man,Inch and the timeless closer InchWicked SensationInch showcase the band at full force.

Christophe Desjardins writes of this Italian journey InchOn a journey from Palermo to Taormina I am accompanied by the sounds of Domenico Gabrielli's InchRicercari,Inch the oldest composition for cello solo, and I experience the Sicilian landscape, fascinated by the genius of this music. Soon afterwards I begin to transcribe and to interpret them for viola and the wish arises to ask my Italian artist friend Ivan Fedele to compose reflections to these Baroque works. He explores Gabrieli's gestures and figures and imagines a further journey between InchRicercariInch (from ricercare 'to seek') and InchRitrovariInch (from ritrovare 'to find again') by creating the sensations of an inner journey through his creative power.Inch

Oskar Merikanto (1868-1924) made an enormous contribution to music-making in Finland, and to organ music in particular, as teacher, virtuoso performer and authority on performance practice, reforming the approach to the organ in both church and concert-hall. It was thought that all of his organ music was known and recorded, but recent discoveries have added a number of previously unknown works to his catalogue a striking concert fantasia, an early funeral march, some pedal studies, a vast series of chorale preludes - some of them beautifully crafted miniatures, others only aphoristic ideas - and an organ transcription of a piano piece by Mendelssohn.