Southern Pacific - Greatest Hits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This group has come a long way from their days as the house band at Miss Kitty's (the famed club in Atlanta that also spawned future stars Travis Tritt, Billy Ray Cyrus, Diamond Rio and Little Texas). Over the past 4 years, Confederate Railroad has garnered five Top 10 country singles, one platinum and one double platinum album, and the Academy of Country Music's Best New Vocal Group award in '93. Featured cuts here include InchJesus Mama,Inch InchTrashy Women,Inch InchDaddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind,Inch InchSee YaInch (first single) and 2 newly recorded tracks.

It ain't no lie; these 50 songs really are the best of the golden years of country.

A cross-section of the Italian production for cello and piano, conceived during the hazy beginning of the twentieth century, shows us how the most varied influences - coming from all sorts of styles Gregorian, Monteverdi, operatic, German and French late-romantic, avant-gardist, Franco-Russian impressionist, French symbolist, veristic - are absorbed and remoulded, accepted and rejected, by various personalities of the world of composition. In this cultural ambience, a crucial role was played by the so-called Generation of Eighteen-Eighty, whose components, Casella, Malipiero, Pizzetti, Respighi, friends and collaborators, stood out for their pursuit of innovation and their aim to create a character peculiar to Italian music; this quest was accompanied, at least in their artistic choices, by a certain lack of political commitment. Within this recording, cellist Roberto Trainini and pianist Stella Ala Luce Pontoriero are delivering an anthology of precious musical gems as necessary testimony to the great value of some obscured and forgotten Italian early twentieth century repertoire.