Los Pavos Reales - Early Hits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The composer and pianist Eduard Franck was from an art-loving Breslau banker's family and revealed his musical gifts at an early age. Later Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy became his teacher and even performed together with him. His friendly acquaintance with Mendelssohn and kindred musical spirits like Robert Schumann and William Sterndale Bennett showed Eduard Franck the way. However, he increasingly emerged from the shadow of his models, and today he is honored less as a follower and more as a mediator between the generations who in his time anticipated many a new development by great masters such as Brahms and Bruckner. Franck's Piano Concerto in D minor op. 13, his first broadly dimensioned orchestral work, generates it's appeal above with it's imposing and stormy main themes and brilliantly virtuosic broken chords in the piano part. The second concerto recorded here was previously available only in a manuscript of the score and a piano reduction from 1879. The virtuosic interplay between the orchestra and the piano, as heard on the present recording premiere, in particular makes us sit up and take notice.

Early Days (2016-2019) is a new collection of previously unreleased songs dating to the singer and songwriter's teen years. A prolific songwriter from a young age, Tapia spent his teenage years writing and recording song after song in his parents' living room, using little more than a guitar and an old four-track recorder. In 2019, Stones Throw released what would become Los Retros' breakout single InchSomeone to Spend Time WithInch a viral hit that has since been certified Gold. While the track and subsequent EPs Retrospect and Looking Back introduced millions to Los Retros' dreamy, lo-fi sound, a huge amount of music from that formative era has been unheard - until now.

This product is an authorized manufactured on demand CD-R