Gypsy rhythm with great piano and guitar soloists. In the tradition of Django Reinhard, "modern" musicians (a.o. Christian Havel, Erwin Schmidt) present here their vision and interpretation of precious standards. A encyclopedia of several periods of improvised music - with educational worth, with taste, with feeling, full of ideas, brilliant, rich in contrast, dynamic with a swinging pulse.

The reason behind Corey Christiansen's clinically precise guitar style is his experience with Mel Bay Guitar Instruction. He is fluent in all guitar styles, which fully informs his recording and performing persona. His previous recording, Roll With It (Origin, 2008), employing the same band as on the present Outlaw Tractor, was a sleek funk machine updating the soul jazz of the 1960s. Previous to that, Awakening (Mel Bay, 2004) demonstrated, with a piano quartet, the great (if a bit wordy) promise that Christiansen has brought into sharper focus with his more recent organ quartet releases…

British pinup turned pop star Samantha Fox collected a healthy number of dance-pop hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and they are all collected on her 1992 Greatest Hits set. Her early hits, including the steamy Top Ten "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)," which kick-started her career, and its follow-up, the almost-rocker "Do Ya Do Ya (Wanna Please Me)," are prime examples of classic 1980s pop, with just a hint of hair-band rock (especially evident on "Spirit of America"). From there the album moves into…

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HK Gruber (b.1943) is one of the more refreshing of contemporary composers. His music is widely performed today, but since it takes time to become a household name many people have yet to make his acquaintance. Some background material is thus in order. This is how he presents himself on the Internet: 'Composer, conductor, chansionnier and double bass player HK Gruber (Vienna, 1943), is one of the most well-known and well-loved figures on the contemporary music scene, and yet he remains something of an enigma.

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Hubert Culot @ Musicweb-International.com

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concertos for Violin and Orchestra Nos. 3 & 5
Anne-Sophie Mutter / Herbert von Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 298 MB | Full Artwork: 49 MB | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Deutsche Grammophon "The Originals" # 457 746-2 GOR | Country/Year: Germany 1999, 1978
Genre: Classical | Style: Viennese School

…After winning several prizes, she was exempted from school to dedicate herself to her art. When she was 13, conductor Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic: she made her public debut on stage in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major. In 1977, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival and with the English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. At 15, Mutter made her first recording of the Mozart Third and Fifth violin concerti with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic…