Matteo Mancuso - Route 96 - VINYL LP

Jascha Horenstein (1898-1973) was born in Kiev but studied in Vienna. After a move to Berlin, he became Wilhelm Furtwangler's assistant and during the 1920s he conducted both the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. At this time, he came into contact with Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Nielsen. In 1929, Horenstein became the music director of the Dusseldorf Opera but, with the outset of war, he settled in the US. He conducted some of the major orchestras there but returned to Europe in 1947, where he was much in demand including a close association with the LSO. He is best remembered for his outstanding Mahler and Bruckner performances but, being Russian, he conducted Shostakovich who he knew, and because of his early links with Nielsen, both composers were featured throughout his life.

Bill Haley (1925-1981) was a pioneering figure in the birth of rock 'n' roll, blending rhythm and blues with country to create a groundbreaking new sound. Leading his band The Comets, he scored massive hits like InchRock Around the Clock,Inch InchShake, Rattle and Roll,Inch InchRazzle-Dazzle,Inch and InchSee You Later, Alligator.Inch Haley's music helped bring rock 'n' roll into the mainstream and laid the foundation for the revolution that followed. Album Tracks 1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock 2. Shake, Rattle and Roll 3. Crazy Man, Crazy 4. Live It Up 5. Birth of the Boogie 6. Razzle-Dazzle 7. Burn That Candle 8. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie 9. R-O-C-K 10. See You Later, Alligator 11. Rip It Up 12. Rudy's Rock 13. The Saints Rock 'N Roll 14. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy 15. Rockin' Through the Rye 16. Forty Cups of Coffee 17. Skinny Minnie

Nocturnal Blues, an ode to the night, is music for those who listen best when the world is silent. A collection of 15 contemplative, impressionistic nocturnes - music for moments of reflection, memory, and tenderness - illuminated by the soft luminosity of the night. 'For centuries, artists have turned to the night as their muse. My greatest hero Vincent van Gogh once wrote InchIt often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly colored than the day - as if the night were not black but blue, violet and green.Inch That idea - that the night contains a deeper palette, a richer language - lies at the heart of this album.' Matteo Myderwyk Album Tracks 1. Nuages 2. Nocturnal 3. Avenue 4. Céleste 5. Pietà 6. Self Portrait 7. Into the Blue 8. Moonrise 9. Viola 10. Mode Noir 11. Our Ballad 12. Starry Night 13. Sotto Voce 14. Serenade 15. Past Lives