Threshold - Legends Of The Shires - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album #10 by prog metal band Threshold is hard-hitting, unstoppable and full of nuclear energy. The final album to feature vocalist Damian Wilson, it is the end of an era; but what a way to go out!

A truly rare original Long Playing is here out for the first time on album. The highly musical family of the violinist Emil Telmányi are performing music by two composers close to them and which they have championed all their life. The Nielsen Quintet, a rarely heard early work by the young composer, is here receiving it's first modern together with a selection of the romantic J.P.E. Hartmann works for strings. One critic called the LP Inchone of the most important additions to Danish music.Inch Emil Telmányi (22 June 1892 - 13 June 1988) was a Hungarian violinist. Telmányi, who was born in Arad, Partium, Transylvania, then in the Kingdom of Hungary, was also an exponent of the composer Carl Nielsen, having recorded some of his violin sonatas and his violin concerto. Telmányi settled in Copenhagen and was married to Nielsen's daughter, Anne Marie, from 1918 to 1933. One of his most famous recordings is a 1954 recording of Bach's Sonatas and partitas for solo violin played using a violin with what was referred to as the Bach (or Vega) bow, which could be adjusted so the player could play three or even all four strings of the violin at once. He died, aged 95, in Holte, Denmark.

Continuing it's evolution, this album looks at the Dark Ages of the European Continent. It uses a myriad of midi and real instruments throughout a network of musicians across several areas and cities. The ideas are many and are intertwined influences of orchestrated jazz, classical, new age and rock. As a combined group not one composer is greater than another, hence this was a group collaboration and credited as such under the name InchLongshoreInch.