Phil Ochs - Live Again - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This unique is a compilation of three of Phil Ochs's albums from the mid-'60s. Ochs, the protest singer who was made immortal by his anti-war efforts in the '60s and '70s, was a prolific songwriter, and this essential collection brings us back to that time while only scratching the surface of a songwriter who was witty, sharp and sublime in music. Includes songs from •All the News that's Fit to Sing, I Ain't Marching Anymore• and •Phil Ochs In Concert.•

Phil Ochs is known primarily as a songwriter but his talents extend far beyond that - to short stories, poetry and satire. More than a torrent, less than a flood, the songs poured out of Phil so quickly that not all were able to find their place on his albums with some of those songs only emerging decades later. - The Warner/Chappell demos which make up the main portion of this represent a time period spanning Ochs' last two albums for Elektra when Phil was finding his full strength as a songwriter and moving to include the lyrical in his repertoire, alongside the topical and satirical.

German pianist Elly Ney's posthumous reputation has, perhaps justifiably, been tarnished by her links to the Nazi regime, but 80 years on it's easier to focus on her pianism and acknowledge she was one of the finest pianists of her generation. A previous APR (APR7311) presented her interpreting a wide range of composers, but she came to be regarded as one of the great interpreters of the Austro-German repertoire and here she tackles two of the masterworks, including a monumental performance of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the first version recorded by a woman. Brahms specialist, Max Fiedler, ostensibly conducts, though our booklet note reveals Alois Melichar as the uncredited conductor who completed the project after Fiedler's sudden death. The suite of Schubert dances which completes the appears never to have been reissued before.