Libero 2011.09.04

3 CD con 45 brani della straordinaria carriera di Adriano e 3 inediti, scritti da Riccardo Cocciante e Pasquale Panella (Mai nella vita), Giuliano Sangiorgi (Io non ricordo (da quel giorno tu)) e da Adriano Celentano stesso (Ti fai del male). Troviamo anche un quarto CD tratto dai due clamorosi concerti all'Arena di Verona dello scorso ottobre, a 18 anni di distanza dall'ultima sua esibizione live, che hanno scatenato l'entusiasmo dei fan con ascolti record per la messa in onda televisiva, ottenendo 20 milioni di spettatori per le due serate. 3 CDs with 45 songs in the extraordinary career of Adriano and 3 unpublished, written by Riccardo Cocciante and Pasquale Panella (Mai nella vita), Giuliano Sangiorgi (Io non ricordo (da quel giorno tu)) and Adriano Celentano itself (Ti fai del male). We find also fourth CD taken from two high profile concerts at the Arena in Verona last October, 18 years after his last live performance, which triggered the enthusiasm of the fans with record audiences for broadcast television, getting 20 million viewers for the two evenings.

This four-disc Ondine set collects the complete concertos of Einojuhani Rautavaara. While these 12 works may not make the best argument for the Finnish post-modernist's status as a great composer – his eight symphonies surely make good that claim – they certainly make the best argument for his status as an amazingly effective, astoundingly diverse, and wonderfully individualistic composer. The works themselves are all from Rautavaara's wide-ranging maturity.

This four-disc Ondine set collects the complete concertos of Einojuhani Rautavaara. While these 12 works may not make the best argument for the Finnish post-modernist's status as a great composer – his eight symphonies surely make good that claim – they certainly make the best argument for his status as an amazingly effective, astoundingly diverse, and wonderfully individualistic composer. The works themselves are all from Rautavaara's wide-ranging maturity.

Though Andy Sheppard has a long relationship with ECM via his work in Carla Bley's various bands, Surrounded by Sea marks only his third date as a leader for the label. On this album, Sheppard once again employs double bassist Michel Benita and drummer Sebastian Rochford from 2012's Trio Libero, and adds guitarist/electronicist Eivind Aarset, who played on the saxophonist's ECM debut, Movements in Colour, in 2009. The guitarist, who almost never plays conventionally, provides the additional atmospheric element Sheppard sought to express in these tunes. The album's centerpiece is a reading of the Gaelic "Aoid, Na Dean Cadal Idir." It was initially intended to be part of a collaborative album with Hebridean folk singer Julie Fowlis, but the project never came to fruition…