Szymanowski - Very Best of Szymanowski - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Electric Circus cost and won Common some fans. It was very exploratory, especially so for a rap album released in 2002, containing developments - some of which soared, some of which sank - that few longtime followers could have foreseen. Listeners either felt Common was picking up fresh, new inspirations, or that he was just being distracted by a whole lot of ill-fitting nonsense. With Be, it seems the MC has realized that not every album that's sprawling and eclectic is as good as Electric Ladyland or Songs in the Key of Life. More notably, he might've been struck with the fact that a high percentage of excellent albums are around 40 minutes in length and are built on a unified sound. Be is highly concentrated, containing 11 songs and involving two producers and a small number of guests. It's a 180 degree turn from Electric Circus, and in a bizarre way it's both a progression and a back-to-basics move. Kanye West and Dilla are key to the album's steadiness, rooting the sound in '70s soul and soul-jazz. That's no shakeup, but the two producers deserve some form of award for stringing together a consistent sequence of productions that is never monotonous, dull, or all that flashy. Even lead single InchThe Corner,Inch heard well before Be's , falls into the fabric of the album on first listen, as if that were where it belonged all along. Lyrically, Common comes back down to Earth - the narratives are sharp as ever, the gripes are more like observations than screeds, and the eccentricities need to be teased out rather than swatted away. Be isn't likely to be referred to by anyone as groundbreaking, but it's one of Common's best, and it's also one of the most tightly constructed albums of any form within recent memory Reissue of Common's 2005 LP

K. Szymanowski - Piano Sonatas [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/01/2000

We present a selection of the most beautiful compositions by Pawel Lukaszewski - an outstanding contemporary Polish composer, whose music we have had the honor to record and propagate on sixteen releases published by DUX in recent years. Lukaszewski is a composition professor, conductor, known and appreciated in the world, a laureate of numerous awards and honorable mentions at composers' competitions, a laureate of ten FRYDERYK awards and numerous nominations is an artist whose works have been performed at over 100 festivals in Poland and abroad. The selection of composition on two albums, Lukaszewski - The Most Beautiful will allow music lovers to find pearls among his works, learn about their diversity and taste the beauty of music. These recordings will also allow you to listen to the mastery of 6 choirs and 3 orchestras under the baton of 6 conductors, 11 soloists and a string quartet.