Laura Carbone - The Cycle - VINYL LP

At the beginning of autumn 2019, back in Berlin after a 6,000 mile North American tour and barely over the jetlag, Laura Carbone and her boys-in-black were invited to play a primetime simulcast live concert for Germany's prestigious InchRockpalastInch TV series in October. This iconic institution started in 1974 and continues to this day having seen hundreds of rock, heavy metal and jazz bands grace it's stage, including Siouxsie & The Banshees, Radiohead, John Cale, Sonic Youth, Talking Heads, Echo & The Bunnymen, Patti Smith, Van Morrison, Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie - it was the kind of show Laura stayed up late for on Saturday nights as a teenager living in small-town southwestern Germany. On October 12th, 2019, Laura and the band took the Rockpalast stage at the Harmonie venue in Bonn for a live nationwide broadcast.In January the band was to start recording Carbone's third studio album, and, come early March, all is going according to plan. The new songs are coming together, the studio is booked for May, and Laura and the band are looking forward to returning to the US in the autumn. Then on Friday night, March 13th, Berlin went into lockdown. So what now? After the initial shock, they began thinking about what they could do.Fast-forward to April 2020. Understanding now that the new studio album won't be recorded this year, an idea emerged with Laura and the band InchWhat if Rockpalast would let us that show as a live album? They won't of course, but what if they did? And what if we could it this year, right around the one-year anniversary, when one thing we're all dearly missing is the live experience?InchYeah, what if?10 songs, taken from Laura's first two albums InchSirensInch and InchEmpty Sea.Inch Mixed in Los Angeles by Scott Von Ryper from The Jesus & Mary Chain / The Black Ryder and mastered by Philipp Welsing at Original Mastering in Hamburg, wi

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According to Marek Toporowski, the French composer Hyacinthe Jadin (1776-1800) authored 'the greatest masterpieces of the French literature for the fortepiano from the time of the Revolution.' Despite dying in poverty from tuberculosis at the age of 25, Jadin accomplished much in his brief life, composing both orchestral and chamber music with a bias towards his own instrument, the piano. This includes concertos and the sonatas featured in this collection, which also offer an optional violin accompaniment. Although several published collections have not survived or been recovered, including a further 12 sonatas for the keyboard. In a previous album on Brilliant Classics, Toporowski produced a definitive modern recording of Jadin's Sonatas Opp. 4-6 (96958). In the present collection, he presents Opp. 1 and 3, along with Jadin's trio of Op.1 string quartets in the composer's own arrangement for piano and violin. Toporowski finds a pre-Romantic sensibility in this music, with tantalizing anticipations of Schubert, Weber, and even Mendelssohn in Jadin's heightened language of expression, which ventures far beyond the conventional forms of his contemporaries. An important point of reference for Jadin was nonetheless the music of Haydn. The Op.1 String Quartets, as played here in the composer's transcription, are dedicated to Haydn and contain very obvious references to this composer's style, particularly to his refined modulations. Jadin was also active in Paris while Jan Ladislav Dussek was living in the French capital. As a later co-creator of the London school of piano playing, Dussek seems also to have had a great influence on the young virtuoso. There are salient points of comparison between these sonatas, whether played solo on piano or with their optional violin part, and with the sonatas for the same forces written by Dussek and recently recorded for Brilliant Clas