The Brandywine Singers - World-Class Folk - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

One of the earliest folk vocal groups from the first big folk revival of the early 1960's, The Sherwood Singers consisted of Karen Gunderson, Robert Alan Parker and John Merritt. They were quite popular in Southern California for a brief period and even appeared in the 1963 cult film InchThe Young Swingers.Inch the group broke up when Karen Gunderson left to join the widely popular New Christy Minstrels. Presented here is their classic debut album featuring InchWestbound Train, Inch InchOh, Miss MaryInch and Rod McKuen's Inch1, 2, 3.Inch All selections newly remastered.

This album features the first ever recordings of Sam Hayden's complete music for solo piano, performed by contemporary music specialist and indefatigable champion of new music, Ian Pace, a pianist with a formidable reputation for mastering the most challenging of new repertoire. The centrepiece is Hayden's monumental 7-movement cycle, Becomings (Das Werden) I-VII (2016-18), the most recent work on the album and the most ambitious and demanding in terms of scale and sheer virtuosity. Becomings is accompanied by two shorter acoustic works,... still time... (1990) and Fragment (After Losses) (2003).. A different soundworld is provided by Piano Moves (1990) for amplified piano. His solo piano works have in common constant transformation, existing at the extremes of gesture, polyphony, density, register, dynamic range and textual juxtaposition, very much reflecting an aesthetic alignment with modernist traditions and very much at the cutting edge of the avant-garde, while retaining an open and interesting experience for even less adventurous listeners. Hayden has received commissions from many ensembles and the BBC and is Professor of Composition at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Ian Pace is a pianist of long-established reputation, specializing in the farthest reaches of musical modernism and transcendental virtuosity, as well as a writer and musicologist focusing on issues of performance, music and society. He has pursued an active international career, performing in 24 countries and at most major European venues and festivals. His vast repertoire, which extends to all periods, focuses particularly upon music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He has given world premieres of over 300 piano works and has recorded 34 albums. He is Head of Music at City University, London.

Modern practitioners of techno and electronica have been sampling the late-'60s and early-'70s recordings of Perry & Kingsley for years. The pioneering synth and Moog recordings they made for Vanguard are here in their entirety-plus five remixes, solo tracks by Jean Jacques Perrey and two remixes by Fatboy Slim! Three full CDs of seriously spacey-and highly influential-stuff.