Venus

After recording Band on the Run as a three-piece with wife Linda and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney added Jimmy McCulloch on lead guitar and Geoff Britton on drums to the Wings line-up in 1974. Having written several new songs for the next album, McCartney decided upon New Orleans, Louisiana as the recording venue, and Wings headed there in January 1975. As soon as the sessions began, the personality clash that had been evident between McCulloch and Britton during Wings' 1974 sessions in Nashville became more pronounced, and Britton - after a mere six month stay - quit Wings, having only played on three of the new songs. A replacement, American Joe English, was quickly auditioned and hired to finish the album…

Venus Records 20th Anniversary Special Cocktail.
Beautiful ballads by Nicki Parrott, Eddie Higgins, Bill Charlap, Joe Beck Trio, Aaron Heick & Romantic Jazz Trio, Marilyn Scott and many others.

Venus Records 20th Anniversary Special Jazz Bossa Blend.
Beautiful ballads in Bossa Nova style by Joe Beck, Eddie Higgins Trio, Kenny Barron Trio, Lee Konitz, Stefano Bollani Trio, Simone and many others.

Venus Records 20th Anniversary Special Flavor.
Steve Kuhn Trio, Romantic Jazz Trio, Eddie Higgins Triio, Kenny Barron Trio, Scott Hamilton & Ken Peplowski, Monty Alexander Trio and many others.

Venus Records 20th Anniversary Grand Cru Classé en 1992.
Eddie Higgins Trio, Steve Kuhn Trio, Stefano Bollani Trio, Ken Peplowski & Bill Charlap, Eric Alexander Quartet and many others.

Venus Records 20th Anniversary Special Blend.
David Hazeltine Trio, Pharoah Sanders, Steve Kuhn Trio, Eddie Higgins Quartet feat. Scott Hamilton, Phill Woods with Strings, Marilyn Scott and many others.

In 1990 Neil Hannon started recording and releasing under the name The Divine Comedy. Thirty years and twelve great albums later, Hannon is rightly adjudged one of the finest singer songwriters of his generation. To celebrate, Divine Comedy Records are remastering and reissuing nine of the band's classic albums.

This disc presents three vocal pieces for soprano with oboe and basso continuo, interspersed between four trio sonatas for 2 oboes & basso continuo.The first cantata "Mi palpita il cor" was written in England - there are four existing variants, but this presented here is probably the earliest, the date given here as 1717. The theme is typically pastoral, with the singer's amorous affliction, the sorrow and hope of being in love with Chloris. The second vocal piece "Meine Seele hort im Sehen" is one of Handel's nine German da capo arias written around 1724/25 which were never published; they were songs of spiritual devotion rejoicing in God's creation as manifested in the beauty of nature, and not intended for concert performance.