Tangerine Dream's 1995 studio album "Tyranny Of Beauty" follows the stylistic tradition of its predecessors. The track "Stratosfear 1995" is a new recording of the 1976 composition basing on an idea of Jerome Froese. "Largo (from Xerxes)" is a classical adaption of Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759).

Même si ce n’est pas une nouveauté et qu’il serait bien d’entendre un peu plus les créations de ce fabuleux guitariste, c’est quand même un réel plaisir de (re)découvrir l’enregistrement complet du concert du Festival International de Guitare de Liège en 1985. Celui-ci avait déjà été publié partiellement par Columbia/Sony sous le nom "La nuit des gitans" en 1996 mais dans un ordre différent du concert…

Romane is not only one of the greatest French guitarists, he is also one of the most prolific composers of gypsy-jazz. But at heart he remains very much a musician whose desire is to communicate and share his love of the genre. He has written music manuals and also founded his own music school, the Romane Swing Academy. Here he plays with his two sons, Pierre and Richard Manetti, both of whom are also superb guitarists. Guitar Family Connection contains all the musical virtues one expects from such a tightly-knit group. The way they listen to each other, alternately taking the lead with respect, shows how a family can play with one musical heart.

This is the Trashmen's first album in 25 years and it's full of the great Minnesota surf sound you know and love from the "Surfin' Bird" hitmakers.

Khamma stems from a commission in 1910 for an Egyptian ballet, originally entitled Isis. The project was troubled from the start when Debussy refused to reduce the orchestra from 90 to 40 players. He never heard the work, which was first given its concert performance in 1924. Bavouzet writes, ‘I discovered almost by chance in a Parisian music store, a version for piano of Khamma. This had previously escaped me so what was my surprise when I saw the richness and originality! The virtuosity required is much more subtle than the more obvious. It must give the illusion of more perfect sound levels corresponding to each ……..

Enthusiasts of microtonality have long been frustrated by the limited number of recordings that document this fascinating area of modern music. Fortunately for them, a landmark set has been released on Bayer Records by the Stamitz Quartet, presenting all 16 string quartets and a handful of shorter pieces by Czech composer and microtonal pioneer Alois Hába. His string quartets are firmly rooted in Western chamber music, so his chordal formations, rhythmic patterns, independent voice leading, and melodic shapes are quite similar to features of post-Romantic and early modern quartets. Yet Hába's music has this remarkable difference: his scales ……

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