Various Artists - Doo-Wop Classics 11 / Various - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This UK import packs in 32 tracks, from rock 'n' roll to folk-pop to pop-soul to country-pop. A few CD debuts join If I Had a Hammer Peter, Paul & Mary; Johnny Angel Shelley Fabares; Limbo Rock Chubby Checker; The End of the World Skeeter Davis; Our Day Will Come Ruby & the Romantics; Come Back Silly Girl The Lettermen; Moon River Jerry Butler, and more! Sepia.

This series documents the various classic independent record labels that operated at the dawn of Doo-Wop. This volume focuses on the New York based Music note tag and their stable of artists including the Tokens, the Paragons, the Crests, Five Satins and many more. 25 tracks

The once highly esteemed composer, conductor and teacher Friedrich Gernsheim can certainly be described as a 'missing link', because he managed the feat of forming friendly ties with both Johannes Brahms and his antipode Max Bruch without falling between two stools as a two-bit plagiarist. Whenever his music seems to lean towards the classicist from Hamburg or towards the more rhapsodic composer from the Rhineland, it is actually expressing it's own distinctive character. The eloquent piano concerto's mode of expression with it's wonderfully voluptuous dialogues is similar to that of the internationally celebrated concerto that Bruch completed in exactly the same year, 1868; the austere, concise cello concerto of 1903 and the tone poem Zu einem Drama from around the same period evoke moods that one only reaches after a very personal journey. Impressive!