The Queen

Caspar Pound and Lawrence Elliott-Potter's collaboration as The New London School of Electronics only produced one album, The Deepest Cut, and if the opening twinkles of "Air Check" doesn't clue you in that you're able to get swept away in a wave of ambient music, nothing will. And, indeed, the gamelan of "The Queen and the Eclipse" hums with quiet intent, while "Georgia" leans much more on the electronics to accompany its initial plaintive piano melody. The meditative "Mandella With The Golden Hair" seems created to induce a zen trance (despite the occasional deep bass hits), while "Mistersorphine" kicks off with a wistful chanson sample, as the track itself comes and goes, as if blinking in and out of existence. "Off," on the other hand, stays presnt the whole time, throbbing in the prayerful darkness…

Purcell’s fourth birthday Ode for the Queen, Love’s goddess sure was blind, was the most intimate of the six, scored for just strings and a pair of recorders. The two-section Symphony is one of Purcell’s finest, especially richly scored. The noble, yet wistful, first part is dominated by a six-note falling scale and a ravishing melody (which comes only once in the violins, but three times in the viola), all wrapped in glorious harmony. The triple-time second section at first glance appears lighter in character, but (as with so much of Purcell’s music, which needs to be played to discover its true riches) in practice still has an underlying current of melancholy, heightened at the end as the opening mood returns.

That's Me - The Greatest Hits was a 1998 compilation album featuring the best of the English-language solo work of Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA. It is named after the ABBA song "That's Me". As well as solo hits the record also includes three key ABBA songs with favorite Agnetha lead vocals the recently discovered 1981 demo of "The Queen of Hearts".