Christopher Purves, Jonathan Cohen, Arcangelo Handel's Finest Arias For Base Voice, Vol. 2 (2018)

Saigon Supersound Continues to present more interesting tunes of a musical era that has long been obscured. With the well received Volume 1, we are very delighted to dig deeper and share with you the beautiful music of a short but significant period in Vietnam‘s history.

‘Shortly after Luigi Boccherini’s death on 28 May 1805, two journalists in Leipzig and Paris agreed that he had been (for the former) “an excellent cellist capable of bewitching audiences with the incomparable sound and expressive melody of his instrument” and (for the latter) “a wonderful cellist. He especially charmed us with his incomparable sonority and the very expressive song of his instrument”. However, posterity in the nineteenth century was most unkind to him, allowing him to “survive” thanks to a Minuet chosen at random, transposed for and endlessly churned out by every possible instrument (and even the voice), a somewhat “doctored” concerto, and finally editions of a small batch of “sonatas for cello and piano” adorned with an improbable arsenal of technical and performance markings far removed from the Boccherinian spirit . . .’ Yves Gérard.

Throughout the 70s and into the 80s, Fable and Image were the premier Australian independent record labels. These new collection of 40 chart hits celebrates the labels' heyday and features some of their biggest artists on CD for the first time in over a decade. The big hits by artists such as John Williamson, Brian Cadd and The Mixtures along with 'one hit wonders' like Drummond, Fourth House and Cash Backman. The perfect nostalgia 'trip' for a generation craving to hear the sounds of its youth.