Snowboy & Latin Section - Descarga Mambito - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

I could not have written it better myself!, remarked an astonished Brahms on hearing the 18-year-old Erno Dohnányi's Opus One (the First Piano Quintet) in the summer of 1895. Often hypercritical and disparaging of other composers, Brahms was so impressed by Dohnányi that he promoted his music in Vienna. Just two years later the elder composer passed away, but he might have remarked similarly about Dohnaìny's Cello Sonata in B flat of 1899. This magnificent composition sounds undeniably like an affectionate homage to him. In 1902, Dohnányi performed the Cello Sonata in Frankfurt with Hugo Becker, one of the most famous cellists and pedagogues of his time, and a few years later Becker would be the dedicatee of Dohnányi's Konzertstu¨ck in D Op.12 for cello and orchestra, which the composer also arranged for cello and piano. Dohnányi and his friend Béla Bartók, three years his junior, always admired each other, though they could not have differed more in terms of style and character, their diametrically opposed approaches particularly apparent in their use of Hungarian folksongs. By contrast to Bartók's innovative ethnomusicological perspective, Dohnányi continued presenting gypsy melodies in the Romantic fashion of Liszt and Brahms, as evidenced in his Ruralia Hungarica Op.32, a cycle of seven pieces scored for various forces, one of them (Op.32d) being for cello and piano.

Throughout the 1990s percussionist and DJ Mark 'Snowboy' Cotgrove was a constant presence on the club scene. As a DJ he was one of the inventors of deep funk, as a percussionist his he was one of the biggest-selling jazz artists of the time with his Latin Section records, whilst as a producer he made a series of soul and funk records that saw him lauded on the soul, funk and Acid Jazz scenes. This compilation for the first time includes all of his soul singles, as well as the best tracks from his 1996 album InchMFOSInch.

One of the most talented and advanced down-tempo remixers and producers on the scene today, Billy Paul Williams and friends approach the Christmas standards from a whole new level with guest appearances from Idaho Duncan, Shape Shifter, the Kingston 3, Los Ninos, Diago Menendez and vocalists Nicole Henry and Charlotte McKinnon. Featuring chilled out versions of such holiday classics as InchI'll Be Home for Christmas,Inch InchJingle BellsInch and InchThe First Noel.Inch