No particular tie ins with anniversaries or radio schedules in this month's offering from BBC Music with the free cover disc.
Byrd and Tallis Sacred Choral Music.
Performers : The Cardinall's Musick directed by Andrew Carwood.
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Friday, 30 March 2012
An Under Appreciated Genre
The English Song Series 15 : Finzi
Performers; Roderick Williams baritone. Accompanied by Iain Burnside piano on Earth and Air and Rain and To a Poet and by the Sacconi Quartet on By Footpath and Stile. Williams has a feel for the often under appreciated genre, Burnside always brings out fine detail in his accompanimemnts and the Sacconi's strings do all that is required of them expertly.
Performers; Roderick Williams baritone. Accompanied by Iain Burnside piano on Earth and Air and Rain and To a Poet and by the Sacconi Quartet on By Footpath and Stile. Williams has a feel for the often under appreciated genre, Burnside always brings out fine detail in his accompanimemnts and the Sacconi's strings do all that is required of them expertly.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
Soul Of A Nation
Lorcan MacMathuna : Rogaire Dubh
Song in the Irish sean nos tradition. The other side of traditional Irish music from the craic or the sentimental. The soul of the nation kept alive in contemporary times.
Song in the Irish sean nos tradition. The other side of traditional Irish music from the craic or the sentimental. The soul of the nation kept alive in contemporary times.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Dues Fully Paid Up
Blues of the Month Club : Joe Louis Walker.
Along with Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker was the great hope for keeping the blues alive and relevant in the 80's and 90's. It's a little melancholy now to think that these two are elder statesmen themselves and there is not much sign of a further generation picking up the baton. But this album from 1995 shows him to be at the very top of his game.
Along with Robert Cray, Joe Louis Walker was the great hope for keeping the blues alive and relevant in the 80's and 90's. It's a little melancholy now to think that these two are elder statesmen themselves and there is not much sign of a further generation picking up the baton. But this album from 1995 shows him to be at the very top of his game.
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
You Can See What Miles Saw In Him
Ahmad Jamal Trio : Complete Live at the Pershing Lounge 1958. Despite initial superficial appearances, this is so much more than cocktail bar jazz played live in a fifties cocktail bar ! Piano jazz trio at the very top of its game with musical intelligence and experimentation placed ahead of flashy virtousity but all the technique you can shake a stick at.
Sunday, 25 March 2012
So Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now
Filling in a conspicuous gap in the collection, Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding. Brother album to Blood On The Tracks maybe ?
Saturday, 24 March 2012
Going Bump In The Night
Completing the mini J Geils Band splurge with the remaining essential album that wasn't in that 5 cd collection. Nightmares...and other tales from the vinyl jungle. Not vinyl any more of course, digitally remastered etc etc.
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