Various Artists - 2009 Spannungen Festival: Octets / VariousVarious Artists 2009 Spannungen Festival: Octets Various

This release features 4 studio tracks ("Little Bribes"

2016) plus covers of two Neil Young songs - the autobiographical plaint "Don't Be Denied

whose works are now in the safe hands of Debussy

She was a student of Sergei Ossipienko in Rostov and Evgenyi Koroliov at the Hamburg conservatoire

he plans to marry the princess

the performer was the only entity even capable of understanding contemporary music

Finally a band that delivers the rock cliche

Swedish bassist/cellist Lars Danielsson is a master improviser

with tethers reaching back to Screamers territory as well

Robin Pecknold brings light to the bleakest of winters with Fleet Foxes' 'A Very Lonely Solstice

this should be an automatic selection

This valuable set brings together for the first time on record all his surviving compositions in the form of the sacred motet which was so popular as an extra-liturgical contribution (perhaps performed as offertory or communion music) towards worship