A superb unreleased live concert performance from 1981 by hard rock legends, Rainbow featuring guitar god Ritchie Blackmore! Incredible audio quality captures the vibrant energy and emotion pouring through the band as they offer up scorching versions of Man On The Silver Mountain, Long Live Rock N Roll and the epic Smoke On The Water! Recorded Live At The Orpheum Theatre - Boston, MA On May 7, 1981.
This is playing in the grand manner… Ozawa and the orchestra are behind the soloist in all this and the deciso element is fully realized. But don't let me imply a lack of finesse; not only do lyrical sections sing with subtlety, the big passages also are shapely… In the gorgeously grisly Totentanz, both music and playing should make your hair stand on end. - C.H.; Gramophone
A superb unreleased live concert performance from 1981 by hard rock legends, Rainbow featuring guitar god Ritchie Blackmore! Incredible audio quality captures the vibrant energy and emotion pouring through the band as they offer up scorching versions of Man On The Silver Mountain, Long Live Rock N Roll and the epic Smoke On The Water! Recorded Live At The Orpheum Theatre - Boston, MA On May 7, 1981.
Like much of Shostakovich's music following his heart attack in 1966, the Second Concerto is a work of shadows and dark introspection. The musical substance bears hallmarks of his later style: obsessive, cryptic motifs, repeated rhythmic cells, and concentration on particular intervals, notably the semitones and perfect fourths proclaimed at the outset. Also, as in the two cello concerti, the solo horn emerges in this work as an important protagonist in the drama.
For almost 40-years pianist/composer Anthony Geraci has played behind some of the most influential blues musicians of the 20th century. He is an original member of both Sugar Ray & the Bluetones and Ronnie Earl & the Broadcasters, and has been recognized for his contributions on numerous albums by nominations from both the Blues Music Awards and the Grammys. 'Fifty Shades of Blue' showcases 13 of his original songs, backed by an all-star cast featuring the top blues musicians in the Boston area including Sugar Ray Norcia, Darrell Nulisch, Toni Lynn Washington, Michelle 'Evil Gal' Willson, Monster Mike Welch, Michael 'Mudcat' Ward, Marty Richards and Neil Gouvin.