Ries / Beethoven / Zander / Berger - Von Beethoven Bis Boogie - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Lures for Feeling takes it's name from Welsh composer Richard Elfyn Jones' Piano Sonata No. 2, which derives from an assertion by one of his philosophical heroes, Alfred North Whitehead, who wrote that the actual world is essentially the outcome of 'an aesthetic order derived from the immanence of God.' His book Music and The Numinous aims to clarify this in the light of the composer's own experience as one who, when exercising his creative freedom, has always felt that elements outside oneself have a controlling role in one's work. In his case, and certainly in that of many tonal composers, it is the obvious demands of the God-given harmonic series that is the rather obvious pointer towards the numinous character of music in it's various aspects, whether or not the composer or his/her audience is aware of that. This album also includes his Piano Sonata No. 1, Fantasy Evocations and other recent works, including the heartfelt Threnody for Ukraine. Christopher Williams is well-known through is acclaimed recordings for Grand Piano and Willowhayne Records.

Johann Georg Fincke (1680-1749), about whose life circumstances we can hardly more than speculate today can be considered as one of the most important Thuringian organ builder of his time for his artistic legacy with good reason. With the Fincke-organs of the town church of St. John in Neustadt / Orla, in the Protestant branch church in Altenbeuthen and that of the Lutheran parish church Vierzehnheiligen Rainer Goede is on this CD to three central Orgelbauten from the workshop Fincke. For the recording, which is published as part of the successful querstand CD series Inchorgans in Thuringia,Inch the organist chose works that are both temporal and technical-aesthetic closely related to the respective organs, thereby opening up the repertoire of music the now largely forgotten, Thuringia, acting a generation before Bach composer Andreas Armstroff, Johann Heinrich Buttstedt and Nicolaus Vetter.

Inspired by Ella Fitzgerald, Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, and Prince, Les Nubians released InchPrincesses NubiennesInch in 1998. The album entered theBillboard 200, a first for an album sung mostly in French. Led by the hit InchMakeda,Inch the album helped shape the emerging Neo Soul movement. The2LP set is available now on Blue vinyl