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Ricardo Odriozola: Cannonball! The Music, Words and Images of Judge Smith
NEW BOOK: “Cannonball! The Music, Words and Images of Judge Smith” is the first book written about the work of Christopher Judge Smith, founder of the influential British band Van der Graaf Generator in 1967.
This is an essential book for those with a genuine interest in the many ramifications of the VdGG story.
Although somewhat in the shadow of his more outwardly successful peers, Judge Smith has forged a singular path as a composer, songwriter, film maker, author and poet for five and a half decades. He has virtually reinvented himself from project to project and his strong musical stamp can be felt in all of his music.
The book takes a close look at every single song or composition Judge Smith has recorded until 2022. It also explores his many artistic endeavours in the decades before and after his first official recording in 1993, as well as his lifelong spiritual search. The book aims to present Judge Smith as one of the truly great and unique creative entities from the turn of the Twentieth Century.
The author, violinist Ricardo Odriozola, has impeccable qualifications, with nearly five decades of experience as a performer and composer, 37 years as a teacher and an earlier scholarly book about five Norwegian composers. His close cooperation with Judge Smith since 2008 lends this volume a special authority. > READ MORE …
Tomaschek, Johann Wenzel:
Volume I: Songs on poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and early song compositions
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE SONGS OF JOHANN WENZEL TOMASCHEK / ANNIVERSARY EDITION FOR THE 250th BIRTHDAY OF THE COMPOSER IN THREE VOLUMES COMPILED FROM OLD PRINTS AND MANUSCRIPTS (New print/First print)
Johann Wenzel Tomaschek zählt zu den wichtigsten künstlerischen Persönlichkeiten Prags in der ersten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dies erschließt sich u. a. aus der großen Anzahl seiner Schüler, darunter der Pianist Alexander Dreyschock und der bedeutende Musikkritiker Eduard Hanslick, der Tomaschek als „Dalai Lama von Prag“ adelte (Hanslick, Eduard: Aus meinem Leben, Bd. I. Berlin 1894. S. 26). Auch Presseberichte und dokumentierte Begegnungen mit Persönlichkeiten des Kulturlebens, darunter Richard Wagner, Clara Wieck, Franz Liszt, Hector Berlioz oder die Violinisten Niccolò Paganini und Ole Bull zeugen von Tomascheks internationaler Wertschätzung.
Während Tomaschek in Tschechien nach wie vor als die Schlüsselfigur der beginnenden musikalischen Romantik und damit als Wegbereiter für Smetana und Dvorak betrachtet wird, verbindet … > READ MORE
NEW SEPTEMBER 2024
Chamber Music
Opera / Cello & Orchestra
Beyond the Waves
Beyond the Waves
Back to the Origins and Toward the Unknown …
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