Olivier Cav - Didone Abbandonata - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Known in his lifetime as 'the north German Schubert', Carl Loewe (1796-1869) is remembered today chiefly as a composer of ballads. Yet there is a considerable body of piano music that is strikingly innovative in content, expression and harmony, containing the germs of ideas later taken up by composers such as Wagner and Liszt. Loewe was unquestionably a brilliantly original talent, a major figure in ushering in the Romantic era. This is the second of three recordings of Loewe's piano music, in the first ever systematic survey of Loewe's piano music; the pianist is Linda Nicholson, one of the world's leading performers on period pianos. Carl Loewe died on April 20, 1869; this recording is being released to mark the 150th anniversary of that occasion.

After two previously successful discs, devoted to Scarlatti and Clementi, pianist Olivier Cave pursues a Bach project. Bach never tired of copying by hand the music of others. He reproduced and adapted works, namely Italian music, as a way of achieving personal synthesis and creation. These beautiful transcriptions are precisely at the origin of one of his master pieces, the Italian Concerto.

A Ghost Across Hell From Me is the debut album from Solarized, a chaotic, noisy punk band from Philadelphia. It's the sound of unearthed ink-smudged art-punk 7Inchs, cut'n pasted from the want ads of '90's hardcore zines, and shot into space. Weird, grimey and magical hardcore punk songs on LP and cassette.