Leslie August

Leslie Howard's recordings of Liszt s complete piano music, on 99 CDs, is one of the monumental achievements in the history of recorded music. Remarkable as much for its musicological research and scholarly rigour as for Howard's Herculean piano playing, this survey remains invaluable to serious lovers of Liszt. Every known note of Liszt's piano music has been recorded and is included here: Leslie Howard's 57 original volumes plus the further 3 supplements. GUINNESS WORLD RECORD for the world s largest recording series by a solo artist.

Considering Mountain stole the show at Woodstock, Leslie West seems very underrated as a guitarist today, which is quite strange, cos guitarists only get better! Just looking through the guest musician's listing, we have Joe Lynn Turner on some vocals, Leo Lyons (Ten Years After) on bass, Bernard Purdie on drums, and Savoy Brown's Kim Simmonds on some of the guitar. Other than this, the songs are excellent and mostly original compositions, and the versions of Otis Redding's Respect and the standard, Stormy Monday, are in a class of their own. With no pun intended, Leslie West is up there with the big boys, and should be mentioned on the same breath as Clapton, Beck, Page, Hendrix et-all.

Leslie Smith’s solo classic album,”Heartache” from 1982, is finally, 30 years after it’s original vinyl release, going to be re-released on SHM CD on Japanese Vivid Sound and it’s said that it’s coming with “Japanese special outer cover” and “great sound quality”

West, Bruce & Laing were a blues rock power trio super-group formed in 1972 by Leslie West (guitar and vocals; formerly of Mountain), Jack Bruce (bass, harp, keyboards and vocals; ex-Cream) and Corky Laing (drums and vocals; ex-Mountain). The band released two studio albums, Why Dontcha (1972) and Whatever Turns You On (1973), during their active tenure. Their disbanding was officially announced in early 1974 prior to the release of their third and last album, Live 'n' Kickin'. Why Dontcha is the first studio album by power trio West, Bruce and Laing. The album features "The Doctor," which received heavy FM radio airplay upon the album's release and became a signature song in live performance for the band.

Clifford’s Symphony 1940 was started in 1938 and completed in 20 August 1940, the closing bars written during one of the first air raids on London. The BBC recorded the movements of the Symphony separately during the war for the ‘Special Music’ broadcasts. In February 1946 it was performed in Sydney Town Hall in an all-Australian programme. Conducted by the American Maurice Abravanel, Clifford shared the programme with his friend John Gough’s The Wallaby Track. At the time it was reported as a seminal concert, celebrating the achievement of Australian Music. Since a BBC Concert in 1950 it has, however, remained unplayed………

20th century music for piano and flute from formerly Eastern Europe. Martinu and Gubaidulina are relatively well-known in mainstream circles, but the others are relatively unknown. The highlight of the whole CD is the Feld piece, which is quite rousing and agitated. The Taktakishvili is slightly less interesting, but the Amirov pieces make it worth buying the disc alone.

Franz Liszt - Liszt at the Theatre - Leslie Howard (1992) {Hyperion CDA66575}
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Classical / Solo Piano

Whilst Liszt’s piano music derived from music for plays is a much smaller body of work than his catalogue of operatic pieces, the approach in his methods of composition, elaboration and transcription remains broadly the same. As far as present Liszt scholarship permits one ever to be categorical, this recording contains all of Liszt’s works in this genre.

West, Bruce & Laing (WBL) were a blues rock power trio super-group formed in 1972 by Leslie West (guitar and vocals; formerly of Mountain), Jack Bruce (bass, harp, keyboards and vocals; ex-Cream) and Corky Laing (drums and vocals; ex-Mountain). The band released two studio albums, Why Dontcha (1972) and Whatever Turns You On (1973), during their active tenure. Their disbanding was officially announced in early 1974 prior to the release of their third and last album, Live 'n' Kickin'…