Perhaps Szymanowski’s music is too cool and sophisticated ever to become popular. Even the third of his Op. 4 Studies, which Paderewski made famous, is less full-bodied than Scriabin’s early C sharp minor Étude, and while Scriabin believed in the madness of his later music, Szymanowski’s apparent abandon in his voluptuous period around the First World War is crafted with detachment. Dennis Lee clarifies the cascades of notes – or rather sonorities – in the two major sets, Métopes and Masques, so that these complex pieces are understood more easily than usual. The recorded sound is a bit thin and small, but clean.
At the close of the 1970s, a new, strident style of reggae developed that by the close of the year had supplanted the roots sound, continuing to dominate Jamaica’s musical landscape through to the mid-Eighties: dancehall.
Country music is a genre of American popular music that originated in Southern United States, in Bristol, Tennessee and Nashville. Today we are known Nashville as the 'Music City USA'. As Nashville sounds today, illustrates the presented Three CDs offer a winning blend of Americana, country and folk with a comprehensive overview of the current music scene of the American South. The total of 60 songs divided thematically lead through the highlights of the genre Americana Folk (CD1), Modern Country (CD2) and more traditional Country (CD3). The Boxset presents top talent as Kacey Musgraves, Sam Hunt and The Secret Sisters, presents current flyer as Lady Antebellum, Luke Bryan and Florida Georgia Line, stars legends such as Vince Gill, Martina McBride and Alan Jackson.
Described by The Australian as 'a boon for lovers of the piano and those keeping an ear on exciting musical talent', the Sydney International Piano Competition (The Sydney) has become a fixture on the classical music landscape. This unique retrospective chronicles more than 100 fascinating performances. They were recorded by 77 pianists during seven events over two decades (1992-2016). Over it's 14 hours, the eleven CDs in this Limited Edition encompass music by more than 55 composers from Agnew to Zaderetsky and the anthology is organized in seven categories: Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Twentieth Century, Transcriptions & Encores, Australian Piano Music and Piano Concertos.