Andreas Helm

Delve into the captivating compositions of Johann Friedrich Fasch with Accentus Music’s latest CD release, “Fasch: Sonatas” interpreted by Austrian baroque ensemble Barucco. Fasch, renowned as a composer even before assuming the prestigious role of court Kapellmeister in Anhalt-Zerbst in 1722, left an indelible mark on the musical landscape of the Baroque era.

Johann Zach - Concerti - Barocksolisten München, Dorothea Seel (2018) {Musikmuseum CD13017 rec 2014}
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© 2014, 2018 Musik Museum / Naxos of America | CD13017
Classical / Baroque / Oboe / Cello / Cembalo

The native of Bohemia Johann Zach (1699-1773) was considered in his lifetime as one of the greatest church composers. After he had given up his position as Kapellmeister in Mainz, he stayed in his last years several times as a guest in the Tyrolean Cistercian monastery Stams. He left the monastery a variety of his compositions, and so the Stamser monastery library today forms the world's largest source fund of his works. There are compositions for the Holy Week and concerts are heard, which prove Zach's musical and historical significance as a mediator between the late Baroque and the early Classical. Concerts by Zach can be heard on this production, which prove his musical-historical importance as a mediator between the late Baroque and early Classical.

Lu Watters Jazz Band - Blues Over Bodega (1963) {Good Time Jazz GTCD 12066-2 rel 2000}
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© 1963, 2000 Good Time Jazz Records / Fantasy | GTCD 12066-2
Jazz / Dixieland / Trumpet

Nearly 14 years after he retired from music, trumpeter Lu Watters came out of retirement to musically protest the proposed building of a nuclear power plant on the San Andreas Fault. In addition to a few concerts with his former trombonist Turk Murphy, Watters recorded this lone Fantasy LP. After the nuclear project was shelved, Watters went back into permanent retirement. Surprisingly he is heard in prime form throughout this excellent set, leading a septet that also includes trombonist Bob Mielke, clarinetist Bob Helm, and pianist Wally Rose through such numbers as "Some of These Days," "Emperor Norton's Hunch," and his new pieces "San Andreas Fault" and "Blues Over Bodega." Blues singer Barbara Dane helps out a couple of songs.

The collection comprises ten discs, including all eight of her solo studio albums from the past three decades; Butterfly, a new studio set featuring four new songs and six reinterpreted selections from her catalog, all arranged for string quartet; and Rarities, a collection of fifteen rare and previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1998 and 2017, which offers a unique view of Merchant's creative experimentation through home studio demos, album outtakes, live tracks, and collaborations with diverse artists like Billy Bragg, David Byrne, The Chieftains, Cowboy Junkies, and Amy Helm.

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