DYNAMIC 1971 BROADCAST BY ALVIN LEE & TEN YEARS AFTER One of the biggest blues/rock acts on the planet between 1969 and 1974, Ten Years After could attribute their far-reaching success to two things: Promoter Bill Graham and their appearance in the landmark music documentary Woodstock. Graham was among the earliest U.S. promoters to book the band, and he made them a staple act at both Fillmores, East and West.
Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside complete their survey of Schuberts song cycles with this recording of Winterreise. Composed in the late 1820s, towards the end of Schuberts tragically short life, Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a setting of twenty-four poems by Wilhelm Müller and describes a traveller leaving the town which was the home of the object of his unrequited love, to embark on a long journey, through a chill, wintry landscape, which ends in near-suicidal despair. This recording represents the culmination of a project that started back in 2015, when Williams accepted the challenge to prepare and perform all three song cycles in one season at the Wigmore Hall in London. Turning this challenge into a shared learning experience, Williams lead workshops and study days as well as numerous performances in a variety of venues. As in the case of the previous instalments (Schwanengesang and Die schöne Müllerin), also recorded at Potton Hall, Suffolk, Roderick Williams is accompanied by Iain Burnside, who plays a Steinway Model D.
Summer in Berlin is the eleventh studio album of the music project Schiller, created by the German electronic musician Christopher von Deylen. The album was released on February 12, 2021. On this album Schiller has collaborated with the singers Tricia McTeague and Janet Devlin, the musician Quaeschning from Tangerine Dream and the music group Alphaville…