William Trigg - Song of the Shulamite - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Various Artists - Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) / Various [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/21/2002

Cocoon, the first of Inna Zhelannaya's in the USA, is based on Russian folk songs. Inna is known for combining Electronica, Trance and Progressive Rock with traditional songs from the different regions of her native Russia. Executed with the utmost care for these ancient melodies, meditative InchCocoonInch has been acknowledged as a boundary smashing work for Zhelannaya. The CD is co-produced with Trey Gunn and features his playing on several tracks. Inna Zhelannaya was the first world music star in Russia. She was the founder of the group InchThe FarlandersInch which performed in hundreds of prestigious festivals throughout Europe, Asia and the USA. She has been making solo CDs since 2000.

No one did more for Danish music in his lifetime than Launy Grondahl. In these radio recordings from the 1950s, he conducted unfamiliar works by the father of the classical tradition in Denmark, J.P.E. Hartmann. This music for the stage presents both the light and the serious sides of the 'Nordic tone' which inflected music in Denmark up to the time of Nielsen and beyond. The Nielsen influence emerges in two movements from the First Symphony by his pupil Poul Schierbeck, and then in a ceremonial cantata which was performed annually to mark Denmark's national day. Composed during the Nazi occupation of Denmark, the cantata by Jens Laurson Emborg belongs to it's dark time, and yet it also captures enduring characteristics of the Danish spirit.