Samuel Marino Handelfestspielorchester Halle Hofstetter - Care Pupille - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With the help of Kenny Denton and Vic Keary, two of our favourite sound engineers, Dave and I produced The BridgeInch, featuring ten new tracks. We invited guest artists to join us and we were both thrilled that Beatles' protégée Mary Hopkin agreed to sing with Dave on four of the songs. Our core band included Blue Weaver on keyboards, Tony Fernandez on drums and Chas Cronk on bass guitar, while Dave and I handled the guitar duties. Richard Hudson and Rod Demick joined us on drums and bass for a couple of tracks and Rod also played harmonica, on InchStrange Day Over The HillInch. We both liked to think of it as a Inchlong-lost Strawbs albumInch, given our choice of musicians. The American songwriter Jana Heller, Poormouth lead singer Tommy Lundy and one-time Strawbs frontman Roy Hill, sang backing vocals. The recording sessions were really enjoyable and Dave and I were very happy with the finished product, edited and compiled by Blue at Blue Weaver Studios. We found a great 'live' recording from one of our many tours, so we added four 'bonus tracks', including Dave's spoken introductions on InchDesert SongInch and InchRinging Down The YearsInch. InchBeat The RetreatInch was always one of our favourites to perform. During the solo on InchWays & MeansInch, I dropped a stitch and Dave's laugh at this, is priceless!Inch-Brian Willoughby

As if he had become one with Wilhelm Müller's hero, Schubert explores solitude, emotional turmoil, the lure of new horizons, disappointed or impossible love - and death too. In this first instalment of the Schubert series that Samuel Hasselhorn and Ammiel Bushakevitz will be offering us every year at 200-year intervals from the composition of the songs in their program, they give a poetic and poignant reading of this founding masterpiece of the lied

Handel / Hofstetter / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - Concerti Grossi [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/10/2015