Various Artists - Classic Thanksgiving: We Gather Together / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Pretty Little Baby 2. Take a Swing with Me 3. Girl, Girl, Girl 4. No! No! Baby 5. I Need You, I Want You 6. Dance with Mr. Domino 7. Tell It Like It Is 8. She's a My Baby 9. Soft Pillow 10. Ain't Nothin' Happenin' 11. Voodoo, Voodoo 12. Betty Jean 13. That's Me Right Now 14. Everything's Cool 15. Rock! Rock! Rock! 16. Till the Wee Wee Morning 17. Rockin' in the Rocket Room 18. It Feels Good 19. Sure Like to Run 20. Slow Down Baby 21. Sting-A-Ree 22. She's My Baby 23. Sarah Lee 24. Teenage Correl 25. Try Love (Just One More Time) 26. Rock-N-Roll Romance 27. Everybody Get Together 28. Minnie

Described as a 'musical explorer', Florian Ross effortlessly spans the realms of improvised and composed jazz in a dazzling variety of formats, with music that comes from a deep synthesis of heart and mind. Architexture is Ross's response in music to architects and buildings all over the world. From sumptuous Rococo decoration, to the 'Garage Houses' of US suburbia, and from the playful/serious style of Gaudí to the modern utopia of Niemeyer's Brasilia - Architexture weighs light and shade, symmetry and asymmetry in a unique fusion of rhythm, color and lyrical invention. Alongside being a prolific composer, Florian Ross has released 19albums as a pianist and bandleader featuring both small and large ensembles. With his work as a jazz pianist he has also recorded and performed using synthesizers, electric pianos and he plays Hammond organ in his band Elektrio. In his duo Infinite Loop with trumpeter Udo Moll he also explores contemporary free improvisation using electronics, effects, loopers and a grand piano. Album Tracks 1. Álvaro (2019) 2. Richard (2019) 3. Maya (2019) 4. Antoni (2019) 5. Development One (2019) 6. Glebe Cottage (2019) 7. Development Two (2019) 8. Development Three (2019) 9. Daniel (2019) 10. Development Four (2019) 11. Brinkwells Cottage (Variations on An Original Theme, Op. 36 'Enigma' - Variation IX Nimrod) 12. Oscar (2019)

With it's ciaconna bass, Hammerschmidt's sacred concerto Nun danket alle Gott perfectly exemplifies the programme of this recording devoted to the influences of the Italian Baroque on the works of seventeenth-century Lutheran composers. The vast majority of the repertory gathered here comes once again from the exceptionally rich library assembled at the end of the seventeenth century by Gustav Duben, organist of the German Church in Stockholm. His collection contains the only known copy of a Confitebor tibi Domine by Claudio Monteverdi. Other composers such as Bernhard and Rosenmuller had very close links with Italy and were among those who helped to disseminate Italian practices in the German-speaking lands. In all this sacred repertory, the role of instruments, and particularly that of the violin (the emblematic instrument of Italy), is highly developed. The instruments accompany the voice and comment on the texts in most expressive fashion. This programme also offers a chance to discover some gems by lesser-known composers such as Hanff, Pfleger and Pohle. Album Tracks 1. Ach Herr, strafe mich nicht soprano, 2 violins, 2 violas, bassoon, basso continuo (bass violin, organ) 2. O clemens, o mitis, o coelestis pater soprano, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo (bass violin, organ) 3. Ad te clamat cor meum soprano, 2 violins, 2 violas, basso continuo (bass violin, bassoon, organ) 4. Vulnerasti cor meum soprano, organ 5. Christ lag in Todesbanden (versus 1) 2 violins, viola, bass violin~[Excerpt] 6. Confitebor tibi Domine soprano, 2 violins, 2 violas, bassoon, basso continuo (bass violin, organ) 7. Aus der Tieffen soprano, 2 violins, basso continuo (bass violin, organ) 8. Herr, wenn ich nur dich habe soprano, 2 violins, basso continuo (bass violin, organ) 9. Nun danket alle Gott soprano, 2 violins, 2 violas, bassoon, basso continuo (bass violin, organ