This is the third full length album from Blue Moon Marquee. This record features a full band. Darcy Phillips on keys. James Hollywood Badger on drums, Jerry Cook on sax, Jack Garton on trumpet, Paul Pigat on guitar Jasmine Colette vocals and on bass, A.W. Cardinal vocals and guitar. Engineered/Co Produced by Erik Nielsen All songs recorded at Afterlife studios, Vancouver B.C.
John Adams’ 2005 opera explores the personal and moral issues surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Captured live in concert, it has colossal power and conviction. At its center is Gerald Finley’s commanding performance as Robert Oppenheimer, a scientist wracked by doubts. Having sung it at the premiere and many times since, he produces a magnificently characterized creation. Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt, Samuel Sakker, and Andrew Staples are all superb in supporting roles and Adams himself draws virtuoso playing from a truly galvanized BBC Symphony Orchestra. A major recording of a modern operatic classic.
Dusty Springfield was the finest female vocalist of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries. This wonderful collection compiles her complete surviving BBC sessions onto one CD for the very first time.