were one of the most popular and successful groups of the 1960s on both sides of the Atlantic
The technical competence required for each track is unique
It seems like yesterday but it's been four years since the release of 'El Porvenir'
The Brit who helped reintroduce Americans to the blues in the early sixties with classics like 'House of the Rising Sun' fills these fourteen tracks with his big
The magnificent pianos on this recording - a Christoph Kern fortepiano after Conrad Graf (Vienna
Ravel/ Orchestre National De Lille/ Bloch - Valse & Rapsodie Espagnole AEC Video were one of the mostAlexandre Bloch juxtaposes two French composers on this release. First of all, Maurice Ravel, with the Rapsodie espagnole, his first major work for orchestra alone, written at the age of thirty two, and La Valse, premiered thirteen years later and which he himself described as a 'fantastical and fatal whirlwind.' And then Benjamin Attahir, born in Toulouse in 1989, one of the most gifted and prominent composers of the new generation. Commissioned by