L. Berio - Great Works for Voice 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Circles is one of Berio's most captivating, intriguing and fascinating works, a piece based on the poetry of e. e. cummings, wonderfully interpreted by the InchCallasInch of New Music, Cathy Berberian. The InchSequenzasInch are all virtuoso solo numbers, exploring the range and agility of each performer, all the way from flutter-tonguing for the flute to slides and glissandi for the trombone. Cathy Berberian voice / Francis Pierre harp / Jean Pierre Drouet percussion / Jean Claude Casadesus percussion / Aurèle Nicolet flute / Vinko Globokar trombone.

50 years following the of his self-titled first solo album McCartney, featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song, Paul McCartney will McCartney III on December 11th. Paul hadn't planned to an album in 2020, but in the isolation of InchRockdown,Inch he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones. Before long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970's McCartney and 1980's McCartney II. Recorded earlier this year in Sussex, McCartney III is mostly built from live takes of Paul on vocals and guitar or piano, overdubbing his bass playing, drumming, etc. Atop that foundation. McCartney III spans a vast and intimate range of modes and moods, from soul searching to wistful, from playful to raucous and all points between - captured with some of the same gear from Paul's Rude Studio used as far back as 1971 Wings sessions. And Paul's array of vintage instruments he played on the new album have an even more storied history, including Bill Black of Elvis Presley's original trio's double bass alongside Paul's own iconic Hofner violin bass, and a mellotron from Abbey Road Studios used on Beatles recordings, to name but a few. Just as McCartney's 1970 marked Paul's return to basics in the wake of the biggest band break-up in musical history, and the 1980 avant-garde masterpiece McCartney II rose from the ashes of Wings, McCartney III finds Paul back on his own, turning unexpected circumstances into a personal snapshot of a timeless artist at a unique point in history.

Maestro Alexander Dmitriev, who is an outstanding conductor, is unique among his Russian contemporaries in that he has also studied in Vienna, thus incorporating the classic Central European essence into his purely Russian ethos. This is one of the few recordings to contain the music of the late Russian conductor and composer Yevgeny Svetlanov. This features the 1982 Tchaikovsky Competition winner, Vladimir Ovchinnikov on piano, performs Yevgeny Svetlanov's Piano Concerto in C minor and Alexander Skryabin's Symphony No. 3 InchThe Divine PoemInch.