Dalida was one of the most important female singers in the history of French music, yet she is hardly known in Britain or America. Her career spanned 32 years from 1956 to 1987, when she committed suicide. She recorded for the Barclay label until 1970, when she moved to her brother's label, Orlando. This collection contains (as far as I know) every song she recorded for Barclay in it's original form (no remixes here). Another massive boxed set is available covering all her Orlando recordings. The CD's that make up the two boxed sets were all made available separately.
"Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.During his life, and the period shortly following his death, the music of Draeseke was held in high regard, even among his musical opponents. His compositions were performed frequently in Germany by the leading artists of the day, including Hans von Bülow, Arthur Nikisch, Fritz Reiner, and Karl Böhm. However, as von Bülow once remarked to him, he was a "harte Nuß" ("a hard nut to crack") and despite the quality of his works, he would "never be popular among the ordinary"." ~Wikipedia
The following discography is a catalogue of the albums and singles released by the Canadian entertainment company Cirque du Soleil.
The majority of these musical works are studio recordings of compositions from the original scores of Cirque du Soleil's nouveau cirque shows. Since the company's founding in 1984, various composers have been commissioned to write the music for Cirque du Soleil's many productions.
A project started by Christopher Bleckmann and Hannes Wenner, whose minimal recordings for M-nus / Detroit added some new aspects to the minimal techno-world. Keeping the faith to minimal sound-structures, Clubsessel combines rhythm-pattern which may appear simple with deep pad-sounds and noisy ambient soundscapes. The club is always part of the music but more in the background, like a memory. Steady live editing and mixing of sounds while recording add an live-performance-like atmosphere to the tracks. One part of each track coming from the machines, the other coming from the hands of the producers, Clubsessel comes with the human touch of a live-recording-session in this slowly developing soundscapes. Somewhere between noisy ambient and minimal techno Clubsessel finds its own way of sound.
Live album from this 9-piece Celtic-oriented instrumental French folk group. Instrumentation includes bouzouki, flutes, whistles, hurdy-gurdy, violin, accordion, bass. They get quite a groove going.