Unplugged Special Ad Van Der Veen en Iain Matthews

Le Capital de Van Gogh est la démonstration d’une vérité qui dérange : les frères Van Gogh, connus pour leur position sacrificielle dans l’histoire de l’art, étaient en vérité des entrepreneurs brillants dotés d’un sens aigu des opportunités. De par l’acquisition d’œuvres de Gauguin, de Degas, de Monet et de bien d’autres, ainsi que par la création des tableaux de Vincent van Gogh, les deux frères ont patiemment constitué une collection d’une valeur inestimable. …

Naples was in the mid-18th century the third largest European city and one of the greatest centres of political, commercial and cultural influence. The conservatoires there were founded by religious orders and were originally intended as charitable institutions for the accommodation and education of orphans, but soon became real centres of musical education and performance; many leading composers were pupils and teachers there and so contributed to the founding of the Neapolitan School. Porpora and Hasse are the greatest representatives of the Neapolitan style and both settled in Venice before rising to international fame. Their writing was strongly influenced by opera and reflects the Italian taste of the time; it is also present in their religious compositions. Les Muffatti and the South-African countertenor Clint van der Linde present works of exceptional expressive power, with Hasse’s Hostes Averni and Porpora’s Nisi Dominus being recorded here for the first time.

The foreboding crawl of the Hammond organ is what made Van Der Graaf Generator one of the darkest and most engrossing of all the early progressive bands. On H to He Who Am the Only One, the brooding tones of synthesizer and oscillator along with Peter Hammil's distinct and overly ominous voice make it one of this British band's best efforts…