Si Zentner - Blue Eyes Plays Ol' Blue Eyes - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Some of Jean-Nicolas Diatkine's singer friends have ended their careers, but their magic is irreplaceable in his eyes, or rather in his ears. He misses them, just as he misses the Schubert, Schumann and Brahms songs they sang. Well, there is only one person who can compensate for this loss, and his name is Franz Liszt. The main aim of transcriptions was to make orchestral works known to a wider audience, at a time when there were far fewer orchestras, and public access to symphony concerts was very limited. But Liszt gives transcriptions a new meaning he puts the orchestra into the piano, since his style is particularly suited to outsized extravagance. Thus he opens up unprecedented pianistic possibilities, where virtuosity is no longer mere exhibitionism but rather transformed into the art of illusion. His arrangements of Wagner are so convincing that they become his own personal creations. Laurent Bessières, piano tuner at the Paris Philharmonic, suggested for this recording a Schiedmayer piano of 1916 made in Stuttgart, which he had completely rebuilt in collaboration with Antoine Letessier-Salmon, director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and Stephen Paulello, piano maker and inventor of the strings that bear his name. This instrument has almost never been used in concert, however excellent work by Laurent Bessières convinced us to try it out in this very special repertoire.

Si Zentner Orchestra - Country Blues [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/24/1995

You don't want your stuff to vanish, says Joe Pernice about the twenty-fifth anniversary reissue of Overcome By Happiness. InchNot that I'm looking to get famous, but you need to connect with the world. There's something that reaffirms your own life in that echo that comes back to you-even if it's your own voice coming back.Inch The story of Overcome By Happiness is one of great risk and greater payoff. It's the story of a disgruntled country singer struggling to define himself against prevailing musical trends. It's the story of a songwriter just finding his voice, an artist so desperate to express himself that he scrapped one band to form another, risking his record contract and arguably his career to put the sounds he heard in his head onto tape. It's the story of a musician embracing the sounds of his childhood AM easy listening, sophisticated chamber pop, baroque lounge music, Bread, the Carpenters, Bacharach, Manilow. It's the story of a poet driving through Massachusetts in a rusted-out Bonneville with a wooden bumper. This time has come for this story to be told on vinyl. Released 25 years later to the day, New West Records is proud to present the remastered 25th anniversary edition of Overcome By Happiness on vinyl for the first time in it's existence. A1. Crestfallen A2. Overcome by Happiness A3. Sick of You A4. Clear Spot A5. Dimmest Star A6. Monkey Suit B1. Chicken Wire B2. Wait to Stop B3. All I Know B4. Shoes and Clothes B5. Wherein Obscurely B6. Ferris Wheel