In my opinion, film music is one of the rare territories where a composer can write freely, providing that he chooses the films and subjects that suit his personality. This is the ideology that Howard Shore, one of the most innovative film composers, has embraced for more than 40 years. This album provides the perfect synthesis of three Paris concerts, which aimed to define the mysterious contours of the composer's multifaceted output. Picture Disc 3 LP set in special 3-flap-butterfly gatefold with lyrics in Sindarin and English translation from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring. Limited Edition.

In my opinion, film music is one of the rare territories where a composer can write freely, providing that he chooses the films and subjects that suit his personality. This is the ideology that Howard Shore, one of the most innovative film composers, has embraced for more than 40 years. This album provides the perfect synthesis of three Paris concerts, which aimed to define the mysterious contours of the composer's multifaceted output. 2 CD Softpak with booklet included. NUMBER OF DISCS: 2

In my opinion, film music is one of the rare territories where a composer can write freely, providing that he chooses the films and subjects that suit his personality. This is the ideology that Howard Shore, one of the most innovative film composers, has embraced for more than 40 years. This album provides the perfect synthesis of three Paris concerts, which aimed to define the mysterious contours of the composer's multifaceted output. 2 LP set.

PATTERNS

LOUIE BLUIE FILM SOUNDTRACK

Pianist Bob Greene, clarinetist Bobby Gordon and guitarist Howard Alden recorded this trio date in Febuary, 2010 in California. 20 tracks including: Stardust, Singin' the Blues, Diane, in My Solitude, Mamie's Blues, Tiger Rag.

Recorded at the historic San Jacinto Hall in New Orleans, this album of pure New Orleans Jazz contains one of the finest versions of "Bogalusa Strut" & some of the greatest tailgate trombone ever waxed by Jim Robinson. Also features George Lewis, George Guesnon, Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau & Cie Frazier. Some alternate takes have been added to this reissue.

This is the first time the old "Music of New Orleans" sessions have been issued in their entirety; the sessions were created to showcase the talents of Capt. John Handy's sax playing, backed up by George Guesnon, Louis James & Joe Watkins.

This CD contains a combination of 2 Icon LPs released by Ken Mills of Kid's Olympia Band, also feat. Albert Burbank, John Handy, Kid Sheik, George Guesnon, Jim Robinson & others.

12 tracks.

RAIN ON THE WINDOW

Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee - "Together Again!!!! (Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series)" / Bringing together trumpeter Howard McGhee and saxophonist Teddy Edwards, "Together Again!!!!" was originally released on Contemporary Records in 1961. In addition to Edwards and McGhee, the album features Phineas Newborn Jr. (piano), Ray Brown (bass), and Ed Thigpen (drums). This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a tip-on jacket.

Recorded in 1961 and released by Contemporary Records the same year, Maggie's Back in Town!! is the second album released on the label by jazz trumpeter Howard McGhee. Also featured are the players Phineas Newborn Jr., Leroy Vinnegar and Shelly Manne. - This new edition, released as part of the Acoustic Sounds Series, features (AAA) lacquers cut from the original master tapes by Bernie Grundman and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP, and presented in a tip-on jacket. - FEATURES: Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series / (AAA) Lacquers Cut from the Original Tapes by Bernie Grundman / 180gram Vinyl

Cramer's piano concertos were written to showcase his formidable proficiency in the new pianistic techniques and evolving piano technologies of the day. Howard Shelley and the London Mozart Players revisit the composer, delivering persuasive accounts of his Piano Concertos Nos.1, 3 and 6.

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Respighi: Concerto in Modo Misolidio - Concerto a Cinque

. . . [A]t this price how could anyone with the slightest weakness for Respighi hesitate? Scherbakov and Griffiths do a good deal more than dutifully go through the motions, the soloist in particular playing with delicacy and affection . . . . [T]he Concerto and the Fantasia, both very early Respighi, are not patronized in the slightest. The central slow section of the Concerto, indeed, achieves something like nobility . . . . The Toccata is not so much an exercise in the neo-baroque, often though its dotted and florid figures promise it, more of an essay on how far one can be neo-baroque without giving up a post-Lisztian keyboard style and comfortable orchestral upholstery. But in a slow and florid central section, a rather melancholy aria that passes from the soloist to the oboe, to the strings and back again, there is a real quality of Bachian utterance translated not unrecognizably into a late romantic language . . . . Scherbakov sounds touched by it, and obviously wants us to like it. Indeed these are likeable performances of music that needs that sort of help, but repays it. . . . -- Michael Oliver, Gramophone

The Clarinet Concerto by Gerald Finzi is one of the glories of English music and it is given a splendid performance by Robert Plane under the auspices of the Northern Sinfonia. Part sunny while at other times melancholy, this is a deeply-felt work that is all the more rewarding for Plane's appropriately warm tone and reserve. The Five Bagatelles, which are alternately sprightly and serene, are as equally evocative of the English pastoral tradition. The plaintive quality of the languid Andante tranquillo is especially moving.
The 'Three Soliloquies' originated as part of Finzi's incidental music for a 1946 BBC radio broadcast of Shakespeare's LOVE'S LABOURS LOST and were only later re-scored for concert performance. Finzi is a master at creating an atmosphere of romantic reverie and longing for the characters set at the court of the King of Navarre. As for the remaining works, 'A Severn Rhapsody' is gorgeous miniature that evokes the idyllic English countryside while the Romance in E flat appears to owe its influence to Elgar. Finally, the Introit in F is a gentle and tender work that was originally intended as the slow movement for a violin concerto that was later abandoned.