Keith Emerson Band - Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Handel did it, as did Mozart, Berlioz, even Busoni, as well as most composers in music history and even Johann Sebastian Bach they all parodied the works of their ancestors and contemporaries. Moreover, Bach was a great master in using his own works for new purposes. For this , the Capricornus Consort Basel has adapted organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach for string ensemble, which has a special appeal On the one hand, the organ sound is transformed into an (extremely homogeneous) string sound. In addition, the Capricornus Consort creates completely new listening impressions of the well-known organ works through it's differentiated, historically informed way of playing. This is not only a pleasure for organ lovers, but for all! Album Tracks 1. Fantasia & Fuga G-Moll BWV 542 2. O Mensch, Bewein Dein Sünde Groß BWV 622 3. Fantasia InchPièce D'orgueInch G-Dur BWV 572 4. Präludium Es-Dur BWV 552 5. Vivace Aus Triosonate NR. 6 G-Dur BWV 530 6. Liebster Jesu, Wir Sind Hier BWV 731 7. Fantasia C-Moll BWV 562 8. Triosonate NR.3 D-Moll BWV 527 9. Nun Komm, Der Heiden Heiland BWV 659 10. Präludium Und Fuga D-Moll BWV 539

For his fourth CD recording on SWR, pianist Michael Korstick turns his focus and attention toward Claude Debussy and his journey toward artistic maturity, from the French composer's earliest piano pieces, the Deux Arabesques, the Mazurka, ca. 1890/91, and perhaps most conspicuously the Suite Bergamasque (1890, rev. 1905), it's third movement being the famous InchClair de LuneInch, to the birth of what become known as musical InchimpressionismInch, most notably foreshadowed with the Estampes of 1903. Numerous award winning CDs have won Michael Korstick a reputation as one of Germany's leading pianists. Album Tracks 1. Pagodes 2. La Soirée Dans Grenade 3. Jardins Sous la Pluie 4. Prelude 5. Menuet 6. Clair de Lune 7. Passepied 8. Prelude 9. Sarabande 10. Toccata 11. Première Arabesque 12. Deuxième Arabesque 13. Reverie 14. Danse Bohémienne 15. Mazurka 16. Valse Romantique 17. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum 18. Jimbo's Lullaby 19. Serenade for the Doll 20. The Snow Is Dancing 21. The Little Shepherd 22. Golliwogg's Cakewalk

SOMM Recordings' historic, enthusiastically reviewed survey of Sir Hubert Parry's 12 Sets of English Lyrics reaches it's end with a third revelatory volume. Volume III features pianist Andrew West and baritone Roderick Williams (both heard on Volumes I and II) and the return of soprano Sarah Fox (who appeared on Volume II). Composed between 1874 and shortly before Parry's death in 1918, the English Lyrics come from a time of immense change as old certainties gave way to new complexity and a global war that would utterly change Britain's standing in the world. Parry's riposte was the English Lyrics a defiant assertion that English poetry was the equal of Germany's Lied and French mélodies and arguably created the template for the development of the emerging English art-song. The texts of many of the 25 songs - including some of his finest - on this recording carry deeply personal meanings for Parry, his response to them as varied as mood dictates and all realized with consummate insight and craftsmanship. Settings of AP Graves, Julia Chatterton and Julian Sturgis are to the fore, although lyrics by Herbert Warner and the American poets Ralph Waldo Emerson and Langdon Elwyn Mitchell are also to be heard in a spell- binding conclusion to an acclaimed series. Parry's only setting of Christina Rossetti, 'My heart is like a singing bird,' is delightfully effusive, 'When the Sun's Great Orb,' Wagner-like in it's imagining of the end of days, 'The child and the twilight' vividly full of night-time fears. Reviewing Volume I, BBC Music Magazine praised the Inchmany pleasurable moments in this richly enjoyable albumInch with Classical Ear summing it up as being InchIn a word blissfulInch. Of Volume II, Robert Hugill applauded Inchthis enterprising and illuminating surveyInch, while MusicWeb International said InchLovers of English songs, and Parry in particular, should be in