Nelson Goerner - Ravel: Piano Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After Debussy and Schumann, Nelson Goerner comes back to the composer who revealed him to the great audience of recorded music Chopin. His first Chopin recordings won him high praise and countless distinctions (3 Diapasons d'Or!) 'Everything he touches seems 'right' wrote Gramophone in a recent issue. Nicknamed 'the great poet of the piano', he now attacks Chopin's 24 Préludes, which he chose to record live, in a single go, in Poland where he is particularly appreciated and considered an essential pillar of the Chopin Institute. As a complement, Nelson Goerner opts for the Barcarolle Op. 60, the Polonaise Op. 44 and the Berceuseop. 57. Album Tracks 1. Polonaise in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 44 2. Berceuse in D-Flat Major, Op. 57 3. Barcarolle in F-Sharp Major, Op. 60 4. No. 1 in C Major (Agitato) 5. No. 2 in a Minor (Lento) 6. No. 3 in G Major (Vivace) 7. No. 4 in E Minor (Largo) 8. No. 5 in D Major (Allegro Molto) 9. No. 6 in B Minor (Lento Assai) 10. No. 7 in a Major (Andantino) 11. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor (Molto Agitato) 12. No. 9 in E Major (Largo) 13. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor (Allegro Molto) 14. No. 11 in B Major (Vivace) 15. No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor (Presto) 16. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major (Lento) 17. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor (Allegro) 18. No. 15 in D-Flat Major (Sostenuto) 19. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor (Presto Con Fuoco) 20. No. 17 in A-Flat Major (Allegretto) 21. No. 18 in F Minor (Allegro Molto) 22. No. 19 in E-Flat Major (Vivace) 23. No. 20 in C Minor (Largo) 24. No. 21 in B-Flat Major (Cantabile) 25. No. 22 in G Minor (Molto Agitato) 26. No. 23 in F Major (Moderato) 27. No. 24 in D Minor (Allegro Appassionato) 20.99 0.00 6 IN STOCK //media.aent-m/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/7/7/5/3045773.jpg //media.aent-m/graphics/items/sdimages/a/500/3/7/7/5/3045773.jpg

Alain Lefèvre - Blissfully Sleepless [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/21/2006

The first three are innocent in a way, because we didn't have an audience when we were making them, Oberst says. InchBut from Lifted on, I was definitely aware of an audience. Lifted was well-received right away, and then everything happened with Wide Awake and Digital Ash.Inch Those two albums came out simultaneously. And their lead singles - InchTake It Easy (Love Nothing),Inch from the austere, remote Digital Ash, and InchLua,Inch from the warm, folky Wide Awake - debuted in the top two slots on the Billboard Hot 100. InchFirst Day of My Life,Inch also from Wide Awake, would later be voted the Number One love song of all time by NPR Music's reader's poll. Bright Eyes had officially broken through. It was a heady, exciting time, but also fraughtand tense, both because of the band's careening new fame, and because of the state of the world. When Bright Eyes made their Tonight Show debut in 2006, they chose to perform none of their shiny new hits, instead delivering a searing, harrowing rendition of their caustic anti-Bush anthem, InchWhen The President Talks To God.Inch These days, Oberst is still amusing himself by messing with the extremes Bright Eyes baked into this era's releases, extremes that reflected the polar, with-us-or-against-us, fractious feel of the times. The reworked Digital Ash tracks, originally so clean and elegant, are, on the companion EP, full of Inchharmonica and mandolins - folky vibes,Inch Oberst says. While the analogue sweetness of the Wide Awake songs have been put through a detached nihilism filter.