Jean-Pierre Armengaud - Piano RaritiesFew composers have enjoyed a late flowering to compare with that of Csar Franck. Many of the great works in this recording were composed during his final decades and still stand today as powerful representatives of French music in the post Franco Prussian War period. The influence of Wagner can be heard in the poetic evocations of Les olides, while the magnificent Prlude, Choral et Fugue, much admired by Liszt, reinterprets well known Baroque era

and Austin Tufts (Braids) on drums

No Longer traffics in understated grooves reminiscent of latter-era Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Ze Renato and Alfredo del Penha on vocals

Reassuring kids that true friends never run out of love for each other

Side 2 two packs even more soulful punches

'There'll Never Be Anyone Else But You'

It took three years to gather all the surviving prints of these shorts

After years of Roots and Americana back to the Blues

The gang returns to Paddys Pub

but they generally lacked a knowledge of the singing style and emotional content of the music as it exists in tradition

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but otherwise the Musica da concerto is remarkable for it's sustained lyric intensity around the soloist's almost ubiquitous presence