Vox Inferi - Heic Noenum Pax - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The name Hitchcock not only stands for the most famous of all British film directors, but for an important family of English instrument makers from England as well. Only a few of these sonorous and extravagant keyboard instruments have survived. The multi-stringed spinet No. 1379 from the Telemann Museum in Hamburg, with it's black keys elaborately set in white ivory, can now be heard for the first time in a recording. The Hitchcock Trio invites you to a typical middle-class salon concert as was customary throughout Europe at the end of the 18th century. Selected London compositions by Burney, Geminiani, Abel, and Loeillet (a celebrated harpsichordist of his time), as well as works by the famous Hamburg composers Telemann and Mattheson, are featured. The trio, whose members include Anke Dennert (London spinet from 1730), Gabriele Steinfeld (South German baroque violin), and Simone Eckert (Hamburg Tielke gamba from 1685), allow the expressive sounding Hitchcock spinet to shine, both as a solo instrument and in a chamber music setting.

2022 . The harshness and extreme sounds of WoduridaR, is a return to the roots for the viking metal legends Helheim. The album is a result of a fusion between their former releases LandawarijaR and Rignir, and they've returned to the aggression one could hear on LandawarijaR. However, as Rignir presented something new and exciting that the band enjoyed, a lot of the atmospheres, focus of melodies and the use of clean vocals is also a big part of the new album. WoduridaR, the eleventh full length album from Helheim, more or less sums up their almost 30 years long career, with elements from all their album combining the harshness from the first ones to the vocal arrangements on Rignir. WoduridaR is an Old Norse word, that can be translated to Inchthe wild riderInch. You can draw lines from that to Odins many names and meanings. For Helheim and their new album, all the songs are conceptual free from each other, and tells their own story. It has never looked darker in the realm of Helheim, and songs like InchTankesmedInch and InchLitil vis madrInch are good examples for that.

Vox Silentii - Memento Mei [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/21/2011