Complete Recordings 1906-1913/ Various - Complete Recordings 1906-1913Three decades since the release of the 12 album boxset of the complete Emmy Destinn recordings, Supraphon is now presenting a similarly precious landmark, made up of 3 albums featuring Karel Burian (1870 1924), a celebrated Czech tenor, a Metropolitan Opera star, who also dazzled audiences in London, Paris, Zurich, Munich, Bayreuth, Dresden, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and elsewhere. His champions included Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini, who

never pandering to the weakminded and eschewing any shred of the puerile amusement rife in a genre so pilfered by dilettantes

rituals and folklore and adherence to vocal musical practice

The starting point of our research was the "Fantasiestücke" by Niels Wilhelm Gade Op

Sheldon Swan (guitar) and Phil Mueller (drums)

Thor Harris (Swans) and Bobb Bruno (Best Coast)

the composition asks

Although they come from two different musical worlds

Hey Pussycat B2

tracks previously only available on long-since deleted label compilations and three exceptional tracks from the band's 1993 Peel session

Snidero's decisions proved shrewd and sound

This recording features a graceful performance of Bach's French Suites on an original harpsichord

Johann Sebastian Bach was certainly familiar with the Pantaleon - a large hammered dulcimer with a wide range and full chromatic scale