Voyage Souvenirs

Mastered from the original tapes this 2 CD set includes the original segued album plus volume 2 of the super rare 'Special Instrumental' album. This has never been released on CD before and spotlights just what brilliant musicians Voyage were. For those used to hearing the tracks with vocals it will be an amazing experience to hear the instrumental versions. Disc 2 features the much sought after Hot Tracks remix of 'Souvenirs' as well as the original 7" and 12" mixes of the hit singles. As a special treat we also include the superb 'Dance And Romance' by Disco & Co - which is the Voyage guys under one of their many pseudonyms.

“When I first became acquainted with the scores of Bernard Herrmann’s Souvenirs de voyage and David Del Tredici’s Magyar Madness, I was struck by how much these seductive quintets had in common, despite being completely different in mood and style. Both of these compelling works were written for string quartet plus clarinet by distinguished American composers who were pioneers in the Neo-Romantic movement, and both wistfully evoke the spirit of diverse European cultures. They seemed to be the ideal, odd couple. And Magyar Madness would be a world première release, to boot, so I felt they just had to be recorded together.” – Ralph Evans, Fine Arts Quartet

Artiste indépendante, c’est en tant qu’auteure, compositrice, interprète, guitariste et réalisatrice que Aude HENNEVILLE dessine son univers authentique et sensible.

Get your groove on with this huge collection of timeless disco anthems, NOW BOOGIE NIGHTS: DISCO CLASSICS.A value-packed 4CD compilation featuring 87 fabulous floor-fillers, including all-time classics from Donna Summer, ABBA, Diana Ross, Sister Sledge, Sylvester and Heatwave.This ultimate party playlist includes favourites such as ‘I Will Survive’, ‘Rasputin’, ‘YMCA’, ‘Yes Sir, I Can Boogie’, alongside the greatest disco/soul crossover hits from Earth, Wind & Fire ‘September’, and with The Emotions on ‘Boogie Wonderland’, Barry White ‘You’re The First, The Last, My Everything’, and ‘Le Freak’ and ‘Good Times’ from Chic.Treat your ears (and feet) to the best in disco, and celebrate the dancefloor with Kool & The Gang, Jackson 5, Chaka Khan, Candi Staton, Amii Stewart and Odyssey. …and we’ve included the full extended remix of ABBA’s ‘Voulez-Vous’!An essential collection of the greatest dancefloor, party & sing-along tunes ever!

NOW Music is proud to present 66 more essential gems from the incredible year in Pop that was 1978 with NOW – Yearbook Extra 1978.CD1 kicks off with Queen’s classic ‘Bicycle Race’ followed by New Wave hits from The Boomtown Rats with ‘Like Clockwork’, and Blondie with the first single from ‘Parallel Lines’, ‘Picture This’. Huge chart hits from Electric Light Orchestra and Smokie lead into Rock’n’roll revival Pop from Darts, Showaddywaddy and John Travolta with ‘Greased Lightnin’’ (from the year’s biggest movie ‘Grease’). Beautiful ballads from Crystal Gayle, Anne Murray and Hot Chocolate are up next before a fantastic run of Soul including hits from Raydio, Third World and The O’Jays, and some fabulous European Disco from Amanda Lear, Voyage, Patrick Juvet and Boney M., plus U.S. Disco gold from Cheryl Lynn and Musique before Donna Summer’s Academy Award winning ‘Last Dance’ closes this first disc.

NOW That’s What I Call Music continue their occasional limited edition vinyl box set series with NOW Presents Disco. This is a 5LP set pressed on purple vinyl and features “the greatest 70s Disco tracks ever”. You can decide if you think that’s true, by perusing the tracklistings below. Certainly, it’s full of timeless classics, by Chic, Sister Sledge, Gloria Gaynor, Tavares, Village People, Grace Jones, Amii Stewart, Chaka Khan, LaBelle, Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Tina Charles, Baccara, Boney M., Lipps Inc., Kool and The Gang and many more!

Bernard Herrmann was famous for his film scores, but he was also a leading figure in music for radio, to which he brought his inimitable palette of mood and sonority. Whitman, whose subject is Walt Whitman’s collection of poems Leaves of Grass, was a 1944 radio drama, a genre now much neglected but revived in this newly restored version. Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra is not a suite or excerpts from the film but a concert work, re-ordered and re-composed, while Souvenirs de voyage is one of the most polished and seductive of all American chamber works.

This programme features concert music by composers who also wrote film scores for Hollywood. While this was just one string to the considerable bows of Gershwin and Copland, Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman are best known for their music for Hitchcock films (Vertigo, North by Northwest, Marnie and Psycho for Herrmann; and Rebecca and The Paradine Case for Waxman). Centre stage is Gershwin’s Song-book, arranged by the composer for solo piano in order to present the songs ‘as George Gershwin plays them himself’.

Soprano Jodie Devos, who has signed with Alpha for several recordings, here pays homage to Offenbach, whose bicentenary of his birth is celebrated in 2019. This programme shows Offenbach’s fascination with the vocal fireworks of coloratura divas. This kind of ‘lyric coloratura’ or ‘soprano leggero’ voice runs like a thread through most of the composer’s oeuvre, from his first pieces for two or three soloists to those grand frescoes of his maturity, La Vie parisienne, Robinson Crusoé, and Orphée aux Enfers.