Various Artists - Early Recordings: Anthology - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Following up it's widely acclaimed reissues of the Juilliard Quartet's complete Epic and RCA Victor albums - originally issued between 1956 and 1960 - Sony Classical is excited to present a new box set collecting the earliest albums of this august American ensemble. Made between 1949 and 1956 in Columbia's studio on Manhattan's 30th St., these landmark recordings are mostly new to album. When William Schuman founded a string quartet at New York's Juilliard School in 1946, he envisaged an ensemble not only to teach the elite New York conservatory's students but also, in it's own public performances, to Inchplay the standard repertoire with the sense of excitement and discovery of a new work and play new works with a reverence usually reserved for the classics.Inch From it's first appearances in New York, the Juilliard Quartet was identified as a champion of modern music. It's first recordings for American Columbia, all included here, were dedicated to the works of Alban Berg and Béla Bartók (only recently deceased), as well as to Arnold Schoenberg (still very much alive), and to active American composers including Schuman himself.

The Interpannon Concert Society presents this box of live recordings from what are now 50 years of concert activity of the concert and choral association, which was founded in the fall of 1971 by Alois J. Hochstrasser as the InchGraz Concert ChoirInch. Alois J. Hochstrasser is the music director of Interpannon Concert and the artistic director of the Pannonian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Graz Concert Choir. After graduating from the Seitenstetten Abbey's gymnasium, his studies at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna included composition and organ performance, as well as choral conducting with Hans Gillesberger and orchestral conducting with Hans Swarovsky. Later he studied conducting and interpretation with Sergiu Celibidache. Apart from his work with the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, Alois J. Hochstrasser's extensive guest conducting engagements have brought him to many European countries, the USA, and South Africa. Starting with his founding of the Styrian Society of Friends of Music and the Graz Symphony Orchestra, he led the orchestra from 1975 until 1990, after which it continued to operate as the InchGrand Orchestra - recreationInch.

The eclectic and catchy alt-rock outfit Dobbeltgjenger is releasing their fourth studio album, 'The Twins'. The new record is about the battles that are waged against oneself. This is conceptualized through two internal and rivalling twins. The album reflects a chaotic time in songwriter Vegard Wikne's life in the aftermaths of a mental breakdown. The album reflects this process, both musically and lyrically. The music is energetic, manic and colourful, but also dark, smothering and hard. It changes and varies, just as life does when in a chaotic time. Lyrically the album is self reflective, sometimes from the InchbadInch twin's point of view and sometimes from a more cohesive one. InchBeing really mentally unwell can feel like observing yourself and your life from the outside, without anyway of interjectingInch Wikne says. - For fans of Talking Heads, Tame Impala & Major Parkinson - Featuring. Members from Major Parkinson, Ossicles & Honeyvein- Limited Edition LP on green vinyl (250 copies)1. Rocket Shoes2. Harakiri Witchcraft3. Blood Money4. Purplegreenish5. Pink6. Genghis Khan7. Like a Crocodile8. Shoot9. Toughen Up10. Frankenstein11. When You Said That You Were Fine12. Tumbleweed13. Done