TUMA DUMA

BLEAK HOUSE

MUSIC IS THE HEALING FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE

RACHMANINOFF: CONCERTO 3

SCIENCE FICTION

ARMED MAN: A MASS FOR PEACE

COLTRANE PLAYS THE BLUES

ARMED MAN: A MASS FOR PEACE

JO-ANN KELLY

UN PRETE TRA NOI - O.S.T.

QUARTETO NOVO

BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY 5

CODE RED

DA QUESTA PARTE DEL MARE

Transversales Disques proudly presents the first official LP reissue of "Deserted Palace", studio album written & performed by Jean Michel Jarre in 1972, during his work experience at G.R.M. (Groupe de Recherches Musicales). In 1971, an order was placed with producer Francis Dreyfus to provide sound for public places such as airports and libraries. He decided to pass the project on to Jean-Michel, who had recently been signed by his record company. These fifteen tracks are made with only two synthesizers (EMS VCS3 & Farfisa organ) in an experimental and very minimal style. "It was a crazy album, totally homemade, with rhythms that I made in my student room, with a minimum of equipment and at the same time electronic sounds that I stole from the GRM where I went at night after stealing the keys to the studios. It is a pirate record, in every sense of the word, in which we find what I did afterwards." JMJ Audio restored & remastered

ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA

3 STAGES

NOMI COSE CITTA

DA QUESTA PARTE DEL MARE

REDWOOD / O.B.C.R.

CONSTELLATIONS

CREDO

Inspired by the view over the lake from his new house 'Ainola', the atmospheric opening of Sibelius's violin concerto transports the listener directly to the wide open, forested landscape of Finland. It also signaled farewell to Sibelius' dream of becoming a virtuoso violinist. The concerto remains a supreme challenge to performers, with it's two huge cadenzas. It was, after much revision, given it's premiere in the version we know today in 1905 in Berlin, conducted by Richard Strauss with Karel Halir as soloist. Jarnefelt's berceuse is altogether simpler fare, but touching and sentimental. He was the brother of Aino, Sibelius's wife. It was inspired by the sight of his two year old daughter sleeping. Szymanowski has become the most famous Polish composer after Chopin before the First World War, and his style embraced the lush romanticism of Richard Strauss, Stravinsky's early ballets and of course, Polish traditional music. The composer called this concerto 'horribly sentimental'.

BU BU SAD

NEW AFRICAN ORLEANS