Various Artists - Serge Gainsbourg:Portraits - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

SOMM RECORDINGS announces the first of never before available performances by one of the defining partnerships of modern American music in the specially priced two-album set George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra The Forgotten Recordings. Long considered one of America's InchBig FiveInch orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra entered it's second century in 2018 and earlier this year was hailed by The New York Times as InchAmerica's finest [orchestra] stillInch. The Forgotten Recordings features eight historic performances made for the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1954 and 1955 - seven of which are first releases - that have been restored and remastered by the multi-award-winning audio restoration engineer Lani Spahr, who also provides extensive and informative booklet notes. Three works - Bach's Third Orchestral Suite (BWV 1068), a revealing engagement by Szell with a composer he is not usually associated with, Smetana's The Moldau and Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel (with an early spotlight on legendary horn player Myron Bloom) were recorded in mono in a remarkably productive session on Christmas Eve, 1954. From October 1955 in stereo recordings are two works by Brahms - his Haydn Variations and the Academic Festival Overture, two symphonies - Mozart's No. 39 and Schumann's Fourth - and a Stravinsky Firebird Suite that Inchcrackles with energyInch. InchHereInch, says Spahr, Inchwe can appreciate that the orchestra was well on it's way to becoming, in Szell's words, 'this glorious instrument... that perfectly reflects my musical ideals'. Inch

This introduction to European and American avant garde traditions allows to better understand and put into perspective the evolution of the most innovative genres of music of the twentieth century. As it links together it's trailblazers, the global stream of thought of those great creators is outlined, revealing an extraordinary diversity of experiments, sounds, strange, original and influential directions along the way. Bruno Blum got together some essential recordings here and gives meaning to this synthesis. Bruno Blum is a French singer songwriter, guitar player, music producer, and musicologist. He is most well-known for his work in the reggae, rock, and African music fields.

This anthology of erotic poetry is an ideal anthology of texts written throughout the ages, presenting the diversity and ingenuity of the great authors of poetry and literature, an art that is always repeated and wonderfully renewed, interpreted magnificently by Sterenn Guirriec and Daniel Mesguich, in a complicit, raw, funny or sensual way. (Claude Colombini Fremaux) InchErotic poetry has nowhere in the world blossomed as triumphantly as in France. a perpetual explosion of daring, virtuosity, crudeness, humor, violence and charm, often emanating from our greatest writers.Inch (Jean-Jacques Pauvert)