Vytautas V. Jurgutis - Sound Masks - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Ashton Jones is a brand new UK Soul voice, championed early by BBC Radio 2, BBC6Music and BBC Introducing, plus Cheltenham Jazz Festival (where he supported the legendary Incognito). The Ashton Jones Project - is a hardworking, funky soul 9 piece and this is a debut album filled with energy, humour and honesty.Shelly Get The Funk Outta Here! / Wah Wah / How I Feel / Who's Lovin' You/ Prelude / Sadie Marie / I Need Love / Aaron's Call / Hard Work Dedication / GoodThing Guaranteed / When You're With Me

For her fifth on BIS Clare Hammond has constructed an adventurous programme of twentieth and twenty-first-century variations for piano. From the imposing Chaconne by Sofia Gubaidulina, to the tender grief of Paul Hindemith's variations or Aaron Copland's bold and uncompromising proclamation, the disc presents a fresh perspective on the genre. Hammond opens with Karol Szymanowski's Variations on a Polish Theme from 1904, a virtuosic and intensely Romantic outpouring that contrasts strikingly with the wit and irreverence of Helmut Lachenmann's set on a theme by Schubert. The most recent works in the programme are Harrison Birtwistle's mercurial elegy and it's polar opposite I Still Play, a lyrical waltz composed in 2017 by John Adams. Described as 'a star interpreter of contemporary music' (The Observer), Clare Hammond has developed a reputation for imaginative concert programming. As she herself admits in her liner notes, variation form may on the surface appear to be both limiting and limited, but the works she presents here transcend the form in myriad creative, and at times daring, ways.

Raudonikyte / Rubin / Katkus - Solitarius [COMPACT DISCS] date 07/07/2017