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J.S. BACH THE SONATAS

& PARTITAS FOR SOLO VIOLINTRANSCRIBED FOR GUITAR BY ELIOT FISK

ELIOT FISK, guitar

Catalogue Number NI 2581/2

Total Playing Time 2hrs 3 mins

Guitarist Eliot Fisk is known worldwide as acharismatic performer famed for his adventurous andvirtuosic repertoire. He is also celebrated for hiswillingness to take art music into unusual venues(including schools, senior centres,logging camps andprisons). After 45 years before the public he remains ashis mentor Andres Segovia once wrote, “at the top lineof our artistic world.”

I am delighted that Nimbus Records is re-releasing myrecording of the Bach 6 Sonatas and Partitas for soloviolin. Indeed there is no end to these works. They arelike the Himalayan Mountain chain: they were herebefore us; they will be here long after we are gone andforgotten. Clearly ideas about such monumental worksmust change over a lifetime. Undoubtedly I wouldtoday do many things differently than they are hererecorded. Yet I still embrace what is presented hereand hope my listeners will do likewise.

Eliot FiskMarch 2015

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THE SONATAS & PARTITAS

FOR SOLO VIOLIN

TRANSCRIBED FOR GUITAR BY ELIOT FISK

ELIOT FISK, GUITAR

CD11-4 Sonata in G minor BWV 1001 14.265-12 Partita in B minor BWV 1002 25.2013-16 Sonata in A minor BWV 1003 18.57

Total playing time 58.43

CD21-5 Partita in D minor BWV 1004 27.216-9 Sonata in C major BWV 1005 20.2210-15 Partita in E major BWV 1006 17.21

Total playing time 65.04

“I consider Eliot Fisk as one of the most brilliant,intelligent and gifted young musical artists of ourtimes, not only amongst guitarists but in all the generalfield of instrumentalists. His clear and flexibletechnique, his noble style of interpreting the beauty ofthe classic compositions as well as the colourful musicof today, put him at the top line of our artistic world.”Andrés Segovia

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STEFAN WARZYCKI

PIANO MUSIC FOR THE LEFT HAND

Catalogue Number NI 6305

Total Playing Time 78.52

STEFAN WARZYCKI

PIANO MUSIC FOR THE LEFT HAND

BACH ARR. WARZYCKI

1. Chromatic Fantasia in D minor BWV 903 8.54 SAINT SAENS

Six Etudes pour la main gauche Op.135 17.122. I Prelude 2.103. II Fugue 2.104. III Moto perpetuo 1.515. IV Bourree 3.416. V Elegie 5.187. VI Gigue 2.02

BRIDGE

Three Improvisations 7.568. I At Dawn 3.549. II A Vigil 1.5910. III A Revel 2.03

LIPATTI

Sonatine pour piano (main gauche seule) 9.0411. I Allegro 2.2112. II Andante espressivo 3.4113. III Allegro 3.02 FRANZ SCHMIDT

14. Toccata in D minor for the left hand 6.42SCRIABIN

Prelude and Nocturne for the left hand Op.915. I Prelude 2.2016. II Nocturne 5.00

T.K. MURRAY

17. Postlude (after Scriabin) 7.35 BACH ARR. BRAHMS

18. Chaconne in D minor BWV 1004 14.09

Stefan Warzycki began learning the piano at a veryearly age and entered the San Francisco Conservatoryof Music when he was just 16 years old. Aftergraduating he moved to London to complete hisstudies and has pursued his career from there eversince as a pianist and piano teacher. He has performed,mainly as solo recitalist, in numerous locations in theUK and continental Europe. He has also done concerttours in Japan and (as a representative of the ArtisticAmbassadors Program run by the US InformationAgency) in the major cities of six South Americancountries.

Some years ago Stefan’s right hand fell victim tofocal dystonia, an enduring neurological disorderwhich impairs flexibility and co-ordination of thefingers. After recovering from the initial shock of thisdisheartening experience. He reinvented himself as aleft-handed pianist, rising to the challenge of makingone hand do the work of two and discovering, in theprocess, a new and unexpectedly extensive repertoireof interesting, exciting and challenging music, to whichhe is adding by commissioning new works fromcontemporary composers and making his own lefthand arrangements of suitable classics.

The selection of music on this his first solo discprovides an introduction to the work of left-handpiano music and shows what it is possible to achieve,not just technically but - above all - musically, usingjust five fingers. Some items will perhaps be familiar intheir own right or in other guises; others are rarelyperformed - undeservedly so - and even more rarelyrecorded, while one is entirely new.


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AUGUSTA READ THOMAS

ASTRAL CANTICLE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

DONALD SCHLEICHER

AUGUSTA READ THOMAS

ASTRAL CANTICLE

1 RADIANT CIRCLES for orchestra * 9.15 University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Donald Schleicher, director

2 RESOUNDING EARTH for percussion quartet 8.43II PRAYER – STAR DUST ORBITS

Third Coast Percussion

3 JUGGLER OF DAY for female chorus * 6.37 University of Illinois Women’s Glee Club Andrea Solya, director

4 CAPRICCI for flute and clarinet * 5.02 Jonathan Keeble, flute • J. David Harris, clarinet

5 TWILIGHT BUTTERFLY for Mezzo Soprano 6.27 and Piano (2013) * Yvonne Redman, soprano • Julie Gunn, piano

6 BELLS RING SUMMER (2000) 4.17 Julian Hersh, cello

7 EUTERPE’S CAPRICE, two-minute fanfare 1.57 for solo flute (2008) * Jonathan Keeble, flute

8 PULSAR (2003) 5.00 Robert Waters, violin

9 ASTRAL CANTICLE 16.55 Double Concerto for Flute, Violin, and Orchestra (2005) * Jonathan Keeble, flute • Nathan Giem, violin University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Donald Schleicher, director

* World Premiere Recordings

Part of a major series of recordings of works byAugusta Read Thomas being released by NimbusRecords, this CD originates from a concert bymusicians of the University of Illinois, which tookplace on December 9th 2014 in celebration of Thomas'50th birthday. The works of Thomas gathered here cover arelatively short span in this composer's chronology –just 13 years from the earliest work (Bells Ring Summer,from 2000) to the most recent (the song TwilightButterfly, from 2013). Thomas the large-scale thinker isvery much on display here, with two substantialorchestral works dominating the proceedings. ButThomas the deft miniaturist is also present, with abrace of vocal and instrumental jeux d'esprit writteneither for specific occasions or as personal messages tofriends and colleagues. If there is a larger theme to begleaned from this grouping of apparent extremes fromThomas' output, it would surely be that for this of allliving composers, music acts as the ultimate means ofcommunication, be it in the shape of a ceremonialorchestral work such as Radiant Circles, or a surprisewedding gift such as Capricci. The largest work presented here is the gentlymeditative and brazenly celebratory, Astral Canticle,for flute, violin and orchestra. It was premiered onJune 1st 2006 by flutist Mathieu Dufour and violinistRobert Chen under Daniel Barenboim as part of hisfinal concerts as the Chicago Symphony’s MusicDirector. The work's two soloists are heard only verylightly supported, and their alternation with thefanfaresque sections which showcased the ChicagoSymphony's legendary brass section imparts the worka "call-and-response" quality. The music's harmonicenvironment moves seamlessly from the opendiatonicism of the chant-like solo lines at the openingthrough dissonances which are bracing without everbeing abrasive. Such harmonic flexibility seems toembody Thomas' own words: “Old music deserves newmusic and new music needs old music”


Catalogue Number NI 6306


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Catalogue Number SRCD349


MALCOLM LIPKIN

SYMPHONIES NOS. 1-3

SINFONIA DI ROMA (SYMPHONY NO.1) 19.171 Intrada 5.362 Scherzo 5.543 Notturno 7.47 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Lionel Friend, conductor

Recorded in Broadcasting House, Glasgow 15 June 1988. BBC Broadcast 3 March 1989

4 THE PURSUIT (SYMPHONY NO.2) 21.38 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Downes, conductor

Recorded at BBC Studio 7, Manchester 10 February 1983 BBC Broadcast 4 July 1983 The premiere was given by the same performers on 9 February 1983

5 SUN (SYMPHONY NO.3) 26.31 BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Adrian Leaper, conductor

Premiere. Concert from the RNCM, Manchester on 6 January 1993 BBC Broadcast 17 May 1993

MALCOLM LIPKIN

SYMPHONIES NOS. 1-3

Malcolm Lipkin belongs to a generation ofcomposers who came to prominence in Britainbetween the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s. Several ofthese figures began their careers as a ‘progressive’,exploring the newly-discovered range of technical andformal innovations before later forging their ownrelationship with tonality. In Lipkin’s case, earlyinfluences such as Bartók and Stravinsky weregradually assimilated into an original voice as hisscores moved from long, lyrical lines and motor-rhythms to tiny motifs and rhythmic cells in a moredissonant style. His skill at building convincingstructures out of flexible, protean material has guidedhim towards traditional instrumental forms, in all ofwhich he has something unique and worthwhile to sayand his impressive technique has ensured those ideasare conveyed with the utmost clarity and conviction.

Malcolm Lipkin’s three symphonies stand atdecisive points in his creative life. Each represents asumming up of his previous musical development andinitiates stylistic changes worked out in subsequentcompositions. They have the integration and scope ofa natural symphonist whose fastidious approach to hiscraft makes him well qualified to meet the exactingdemands of the medium. It is to be hoped this releasewill generate interest in a composer who has steadilyforged his own path regardless of passing trends tocreate a body of work of impeccable integrity whichstill largely awaits rediscovery.


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Catalogue Number REAM.1115


SIR ARTHUR BLISS

THE BEATITUDES

SIR ARTHUR BLISS

1 MADAM NOY - A Witchery Song for soprano and instrumental ensemble 3.44

2 ROUT, for soprano and chamber ensemble 6.52

Jennifer Vyvyan, soprano Wigmore Ensemble

BBC Broadcast 31 March 1958

3 THE ENCHANTRESS, scena for contralto and orchestra (1951) 16.59

Pamela Bowden, contralto BBC Symphony Orchestra Rudolf Schwarz, conductor BBC Broadcast 21 April 1957

4-18 THE BEATITUDES 48.18

Heather Harper, soprano • Gerald English, tenor Goldsmiths Choral Union • Royal Choral Society Wembley Philharmonic Society BBC Chorus • BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Arthur Bliss, conductor

Promenade Premiere, Albert Hall, London. BBC Broadcast 31 August 1964

SIR ARTHUR BLISS

THE BEATITUDES

Following demobilisation from the army in 1919,Bliss wrote four exploratory essays in sonority andtextures, including Madam Noy and Rout. Theyaccorded him a short-lived reputation as an enfantterrible but they can also be said to have paved the wayfor his first large-scale orchestral work, the ColourSymphony. The ‘witchery song’ Madam Noy (1918) is writtenfor soprano, flute, clarinet, bassoon, harp, viola anddouble bass, a bizarre variation on the old nurseryrhyme ‘Old Mother Hubbard’. Rout is used in the oldsense of popular revelry, and is a vibrant score evokingthe snatches of song which might be caught bysomeone watching a carnival from an open window.Bliss made up a series of nonsense syllables for thesoprano soloist chosen for their phonetic effect. For the rarely encountered scena for contralto andorchestra, The Enchantress , the text was supplied byBliss’s poet friend Henry Reed, who had suggested asetting of the ‘Second Idyll’ of Theocritus, in whichSimætha, rejected by her lover Delphis, uses witchcraftto entice him back into her arms. Bliss was ‘Master of the Queen’s Musick’ when hewas commissioned to write The Beatitudes for theFestival of 1962 to mark the opening of the newCoventry Cathedral. The first performance was besetby problems. Scheduling difficulties chiefly connectedwith the premiere of Britten’s War Requiem, meant thatthere was no possibility of staging The Beatitudes in thecathedral. A substitute venue was hastily arranged andBliss’s major choral piece made a hugely unsatisfactorydebut in Coventry Theatre on the evening of 25 May1962. In this hugely successful Proms broadcast from 31August 1964 the lyrical passages are particularlyaffecting. Especial highlights are Bliss’s ecstatictreatment of Herbert’s ‘Easter’ and the sensitivitywhich he brings to the directly communicativehandling of ‘I got me flowers to strew thy way’. Alsoquietly impressive is the rapt realisation of Taylor’s ‘OBlessed Jesu’ which culminates in an imposing, calmlyspacious closing ‘Amen’.


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DOUGLAS LILBURNCOMPLETE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC WORKS

3 CDS • 1 DVD

Catalogue Number ACD404

Total Playing Time CDs 3 hrs 34 mins

DVD - 54 mins

DOUGLAS LILBURN

COMPLETE ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC WORKS

CD11-3 Three Landscapes 12.044 Sounds and Distances 9.555 Carousel 10.426 Winterset 9.497 Triptych 10.398 Of Time and Nostalgia 10.489 Cicadas, Oscillators and Treefrogs 2.33 Total playing time 67.07

CD21 Soundscape with Lake and River 11.012 Poem in Time and Wat 15.013 Dance Sequence-Ecpo 70 10.524 Summer Voices 6.325-9 Five Toronto Pieces (1969) 18.1710 Toronto Tailfeather 1.0811 Fragments of a Powm 6.4812 Study from One Note 4.03 Total playing time 74.13

CD31 God Save 1.092 The Return 17.033-5 Three Studies for Gustav Clamaga 9.056 Welcome Stranger 26.257-11 Five Toronto Places (1963)` 18.12 Total playing time 73.24

DVD1-3 Three Film Excerpts 6.204 Glass Music Audio with Still Photos 6.25 5 Lines and Distances (1975) Audio Only 16.086 Sounds and Distances (1975) Audio Only 10.107 Radio Interview by Jack Body (c. 1972) Audio Only 15.48 Total playing time 54.48

Douglas Lilburn (1915-2001) is considered 'thefather of New Zealand music'. After considerablesuccess, he rejected composing for acoustic musicalinstruments and turned wholly to the creation ofelectronic works because he felt they would moreaccurately portray New Zealand in its own right,without reference to European musical forms. Someworks are purely electronic; others were inspired bythe natural sounds of the sea or bush, or the writings ofleading New Zealand writers such as Allen Curnow,Denis Glover and Alistair Campbell.

The works, dating from 1963-1975, have beenrestored to a high sonic standard for digital release atAtoll's Auckland facility. The set includes a DVDcontaining two 4-channel works by Lilburn, with allextant film material of the composer, plus aninformative sound interview and photographs.

"From the perspective of the shiny, happy, plastic digitalpresent, it appears that the historical moment of analogue

audio has passed. Now a collection of the complete,remastered electroacoustic music of New Zealand

composition doyen Douglas Lilburn gives us pause toconsider the passing of analogue - as well as celebrate an

authentic musical voice. Produced by Aucklandindependent label Atoll, Douglas Lilburn, Complete

Electroacoustic Music contains three CDs and one DVD,boasting Lilburn's entire output of music created during

the 1960s and 70s using predominantly synthesizers"Tom Rodwell


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S3D LIVE AT GALATOS AK07

Catalogue Number ACD609

Total Playing Time CD - 80 mins

DVD - 2 hrs

S3D LIVE AT GALATOS AK07

CD1 Solo to Trio: Empirical (solo), Hopkin, McCarthy 10.092 Solo: Walter Kitundu: phonoharp 4.243 Solo: Phil Dadson: sprongs, voice 8.144 Solo to Trio: Willetts (solo), Althoff, McCarthy 9.135 Solo: Tom Nunn: Mothics 4.086 Solo: Crustacean 11.377 Trio: Suzuki, Morrison, Kitundu 4.088 Solo to Group: Morrison (solo), Kitundu, Dadson, Suzuki, Althoff, Hopkin, Nunn 9.429 Solo: Yek koo: Cardboard record players 8.0010 Trio: Leak, Yek koo, Empirical 10.17

DVD1 Trio: Empirical, Willets, Leak2 Solo: Yek koo3 Solo: Sam Morrison4 Solo: Tom Nunn5 Solo to Trio: Kitundu (solo), Morrison, Hopkin6 Solo: Akio Suzuki7 Solo: Empirical8 Solo: Graeme Leak9 Trio: Yek koo, Nunn, McCarthy10 Solo: Ernie Althoff11 Solo: Bart Hopkin12 Solo: James McCarthy13 Solo to Trio: Dadson (solo), Suzuki, Althoff14 Solo: Adam Willetts

ARTISTSErnie Althoff • Phil Dadson

Empirical • Bart HopkinWalter Kitundu • Graeme Leak

James McCarthy • Sam MorrisonTom Nunn • Akio SuzukiYek koo • Adam Willetts

Based on a live event at the Auckland Festival AK07,this release captures in sound and vision impressivemoments from a unque international collaborationbetween 12 sound artists. S3D (ear & eye) celebratesthe magic of the new.

An international collaboration – twelveexperimental instrument builders & improvisers in aninspirational world-first.

Two hour DVD & 80 minute CD distilled fromthree days of performance.

"Don't fret if you missed the three days of s3dat Auckland's Galatos two years back - Phil Dadson

and Wayne Laird have captured the highlights of theimprov and sonic art festival on a handsome new Atoll

CD/DVD set.”William Dart, New Zealand Herald


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Catalogue Number ALU0003


AUTUMN MOON

THE CHINESE VIRTUOSI

1 A Spray of Flowers 7.18 Shandong Folk Music

2 Chao Yuan Song 5.18 Extract from Kunqu Oopera “Qiu Tiao”

3 Snowing Blossoms in a Jade Green Forest 5.55 Yang Jing, pipa

4 Liu Quing Niang 6.10 Lin Ling, zheng

5 Parting at Yang Guan 4.38 Ancient Melody

6 Quang Ling San 6.10 Zhao Jiazhen, guqin

7 Hujia Eighteen Beats 6.20 Li Baolin, quanzi • Lin Ling, zheng

8 Fishing at Sunset 4.01 Liu Yeuning, yangqin with Zheng: Lin Lang

9 Plum Blossom Variations 5.25 Guqin: Zhao Jiazhen • Zhan Yongming, xiao

10 Ducklings at Play 5.45 Lin Ling, zheng

11 Flying Partridge 7.13 Dizi Solo: Zhan Yongming

12 Ancient Melody from Zhongnam Mountain 6.34 Miao Xiaoyun, dan ruan

13 Grand Upbeat 3.09 Shen Cheng, banhu • Zhan Yonming, dizi Liu Yuening, yangquin • Lin Ling, zheng


CHINESE CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTAL SOLOS

The Chinese Virtuosi are a Chamber Ensemblecomprising some of the best Chinese ClassicalMusicians of the present generation. Founded in 1994by Josef Fung, the Beijing-based ensemble made itsconcert debut at the festival of Asian Arts in HongKong.

The Virtuosi are devoted to preserving the best ofChinese Classical and Folk Music as well as bringingChinese Music into the 21st Century. The players are allwinners of major national and international musiccompetitions and have performed in many countries inAsia, Europe and North and South America. Coreinstruments for the ensemble are zheng, guqin, pipa,ruan, dizi/xiao, guanzi, erhu and percussion.

A full description of the instruments and pieces areincluded in the CD booklet.


AUTUMN MOON


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Catalogue Number CC9030CD


FRANZ LISZT

THE THREE GREAT PIANIST COMPOSERS VOL.3ANGELA BROWNRIDGE, PIANO

ANNÉES DE PÈLERINAGE DEUXIÈME ANNÉE

(ITALIE)1 Sposalizio 7.172 Il Penseroso 4.293 Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa 2.244 Sonetto 47 del Petrarca 5.275 Sonetto 104 del Petrarca 5.416 Sonetto 123 del Petrarca 6.09 Fantasia quasi Sonata7 Après une lecture de Dante – Fantasia quasi Sonata 14.158 Sonata in B minor 25.36

Liszt’s complete musical style is evident in these workswhich range from virtuosic fireworks to sincerelymoving, emotional statements. Liszt’s recollection ofhis travels through Italy refers to the sights and soundsthat inspired and gave rise to some of his mostevocative music… “Having recently traveled throughdifferent settings and places consecrated by historyand poetry, having felt that the phenomena of naturedid not pass before my eyes as pointless images, andthat, between us a vague but immediate relationshiphad established itself, I have tried to portray in musica few of my strongest sensations and most livelyimpressions.”

THE THREE GREAT

PIANIST COMPOSERS VOL.3

FRANZ LISZT

ANGELA BROWNRIDGE

Hailed as ‘a major star in Classical Music’, Angela firstperformed in public at the age of seven. By the age of10 she had performed her first concerto and when shewas 12 Angela made her debut at London’s WigmoreHall. She was awarded a piano scholarship toEdinburgh University and after graduation studied fortwo years in Rome with Guido Agosti and returned tocomplete her studies with Maria Curcio in London. Sheappears as soloist with many leading orchestras andAngela’s international festival engagements haveincluded Bath, Edinburgh, Warwick, Newport, RhodeIsland, Bratislava, Brno, Hong Kong and Maastricht. Inan age that has become obsessed with mere techniqueand seeks the degree of perfection offered by over-edited CDs. Angela’s playing restores spontaneity,character and beauty of sound to the platform. In 2005Angela became Musical Director of the PianoAcademy at Dean Clough in Halifax, hostingweekends of masterclasses for students, adults at alllevels of performance and observers.


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Catalogue Number RTR 4265


1 Shame On You2 Honeymoon Hotel3 Nasty Man4 Here’s The Key To My Heart5 Yes To You6 According To The Moonlight7 Oh, I Didn’t Know8 Speaking Confidentially9 I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed10 I Love To Ride The Horses11 I’m Shooting High12 Spreadin’ Rhythm Around13 This Year’s Kisses14 Slumming On Park Avenue15 I’ve Got My Love To Keep Me Warm16 Never In A Million Years17 It’s Swell Of You18 There’s A Lull In My Life19 Wake Up And Live Film Soundtracks20 Sing, Baby, Sing: You Turned The Tables On Me21 You Can’t Have Everything: You Can’t Have Everything22 Alexander’s Ragtime Band: Now It Can Be Told23 Rose Of Washington Square: My Man24 Rose Of Washington Square: I’ll See You In My Dreams25 The Great American Broadcast: Where You Are26 Hello, ’Frisco, Hello: You’ll Never Know27 The Gang’s All Here: No Love, No Nothin’28 Stowaway: Goodnight, My Love

ALICE FAYE

THIS YEAR’S KISSES

CENTENARY TRIBUTE

HER 28 FINEST 1933-1943

Celebrating her centenary, here is the finest singleCD tribute to the vocal artistry of glamorous AliceFaye (1915-1998), legendary movie star of the 1935-45era. Born Alice Jeanne Leppert, she was among themost beautiful and popular of all film musical stars.The quintessentially American snub-nosed blondewith the hourglass figure and open smile was themajor star of many Fox films. She had a huskyspeaking voice and a vibrant contralto that alsobrought her success as a recording artist after beingdiscovered by Rudy Vallée. Her first marriage was toa fellow Retrospective artist: singer Tony Martin (RTS4118).

This Year’s Kisses (one of 23 songs she introducedon screen that subsequently became hits!) traces hercareer from her early recordings with Rudy Vallée in1933 (Shame On You) through her many screensuccesses in films such as George White's Scandals1934 & 1935 (Nasty Man), King Of Burlesque 1936 (I'mShooting High), Wake Up And Live 1937 (There's ALull In My Life), Rose Of Washington Square 1939(My Man) and Hello, ’Frisco, Hello 1943 in which she“created” the great standard You'll Never Know.Eight tracks are taken from actual soundtracks.

Alice Faye still commands a loyal following thatwill welcome this truly representative, generouslyfilled CD selection from the star who reigned asQueen of Hollywood.


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Catalogue Number RTR 4266


1 Sixteen Tons2 No Vacancy3 Nine Pound Hammer4 Cincinnati Lou5 Dark As A Dungeon6 What A Shame7 Over By Number Nine8 Missouri9 That’s All10 Divorce Me C.O.D.11 John Henry12 So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed!13 I Am A Pilgrim14 Three Times Seven15 Muskrat16 Steel Guitar Rag17 Merle’s Boogie Woogie18 Sioux City Sue19 Crazy Boogie20 Fat Gal21 Cannonball Stomp *22 Blues, Stay Away From Me23 Wildwood Flower *24 Start Even25 Walkin’ The Strings *26 Lost John Boogie27 Saturday Night Shuffle *28 Deep South29 Blue Bell *30 Done Rovin’

* Instrumentals

MERLE TRAVIS

SIXTEEN TONS

HIS 30 FINEST 1946-1954

Top Forties country star Merle Travis, singer,songwriter and guitarist extraordinary, has his finestwork summed up on one great Retrospective album.Travis (1917-1983) was quite simply one of mostaccomplished and versatile figures in the history ofcountry music, rated among the most talented menever to enter the business. He was a singer andsongwriter of major proportions, as well as actor,author, and cartoonist. Above all, his distinctive styleof guitar playing was a monumental influence.Numbered among the top ten most successful countryartists of the 40s, he was elected to the Country MusicHall of Fame in 1977. Sixteen Tons (the title of Merle’s most famouscomposition) is a strong addition to Retrospective’scountry roster, offering no fewer than 30 examples ofMerle Travis’ best work, 20 of them his own songs.Included, naturally, are the two gigantic hits DivorceMe C.O.D. (No.1 for 14 weeks in 1946) and So Round,So Firm, So Fully Packed (No.1 for 14 weeks in 1947),as are all his other Country hits. There’s plenty of “Travis-style pickin’” to besavoured on such as Merle’s Boogie Woogie, SteelGuitar Rag, and five classic instrumentals (CannonballStomp, Walkin’ The Strings). While the majority oftracks are accompanied by his seven- or eight-piecewestern swing band with trumpet etc., the selection isalso notable for including his complete 1947 album of“Folk Songs From The Hills”, introduced and sungwith just to his own terrific guitar for backing (SixteenTons, Dark As A Dungeon, Nine Pound Hammer,John Henry).


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