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Claudio Arrau - Chopin (1991) {6CD Box Set Philips Classics 432 303-2}
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© 1991 Philips Classics | 432 303-2
Classical / Romantic / Piano

"Arrau's Chopin – now available in a six-CD box (Philips 432 303-2) as part of Philips's Arrau Edition – is as far from moonstruck "sentimentality" as any Chopin ever was. But no performance of the Preludes is more sentimental, in Schiller's sense, than the version Arrau recorded for Philips in 1973. Its premise – that the cycle is a grand tragedy, the darkest thing Chopin wrote – is unmistakable. Even the prefatory C-major Prelude heaves with orgasmic rubatos – more weight, it seems, than the music can possibly bear. And yet, as Arrau packs each small berth with a world of feeling, the weight grips and holds. At times, the sheer density of emotion can seem suffocatingly intense. The Prelude No. 22, a Stygian descent, is surely Hades; the plunging scales of No. 24 rip the thread of life."

Bob Dylan - The Best Of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (2015) [2CD] {Columbia}
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© 2015 Columbia / Sony Music | 88875124422
Rock / Folk Rock / Folk / Roots Rock / Songwriter

"I'll do this one more time and if I can't do it, we'll do another song. I'll do any song as good as I can do it the first time." Bob Dylan says these words once his first solo take of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" breaks down after a minute. Dylan's definition of "good" is fluid, of course. Sometimes, a first take satisfied him – "Maggie's Farm" and "Gates of Eden" are two prime examples – but often he'd find he could do a song better or at least do it differently, swapping out words, speeding up the tempo, and changing the feel, occasionally radically transforming his song.

2009 five CD box. This set features the albums Foolish Behaviour (1980), Tonight I'm Yours (1981), Camouflage (1984), Every Beat Of My Heart (1986) and Vagabond Heart (1991).

Boston 1971: A historic early recording of Aerosmith in their rehearsal room - just the band, crew and friends captured on Joe Perry's tape recorder. This never-before-heard performance showcases the early, raw talent of this future Hall Of Fame band, one year before signing to Columbia Records, and two years before their eponymous debut, which featured many of these songs, including their enduring anthem "Dream On."

Alex Harvey - The Last Of The Teenage Idols (2016) {14 CD Box Set Universal 536212-0 rec 1963-1978}
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© 1963-78, 2016 Universal Music | 536 212-0
Rock / Blues / Pop / Glam Rock / Hard Rock / Blues Rock / Rhythm & Blues

Universal Music pay tribute to the short but prolific musical life of enigmatic Glasgow blues-rocker Alex Harvey with the biggest-ever, career-spanning, cross-label collection of his work. A total of 217 fully remastered tracks (with much of the material from the original master tapes) includes 21 that are previously unreleased, and a further 59 that are appearing officially on CD for the first time.

On September 30 2016 MIG Music released „DAVE STEWART & THE SPIRITUAL COWBOYS– Live At Rockpalast”. After Eurythmics, Dave Stewart opened up a new chapter in his career with this band.

Mark Owen - How The Mighty Fall
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Label/Cat#: Edel Records # 0162942ERE | Country/Year: Germany 2005
Genre: Rock, Pop | Style: Acoustic, Brit Pop, Pop Rock

"Perhaps alluding to his own downward career trajectory, Mark Owen's third solo effort, How the Mighty Fall, may have sold less than a hundredth of the following year's re-formed Take That comeback album, but it continued to prove that the former cutesy pinup was always the most interesting songwriter in the band…."