Leon Russell - Signature SongsDark Horse Records is proud to release LEON RUSSELL's Signature Songs, a collection of intimate, stripped down piano and vocal recordings, including takes on his timeless songs "A Song for You," "Tight Rope," "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Hummingbird." Originally released in 2001 and long out of print, it is being reissued on CD and pressed for the very first time on vinyl. Leon's friendship with George Harrison is well documented, including his

Lil Green was one of leading female American blues and R&B singers and songwriters of the 1940s

Emil Gilels - Piano Concertos 1 & 4

arrived an eccentric thirty year old man from Florence

Mendelssohn's Lieder were intended for performance in the salons of the prosperous bourgeoisie: a convivial circle of highly qualified connoisseurs who shared the same outlook

it is still actively cultivated with the help of The Hopi Long Flute Preservation Project

the ensemble here interprets two of the best-loved works of the entire string repertoire: the Serenata in C major op

and passepieds appear between the sarabande and the gigue

allowing each individual player more space to be heard and modernising the recordings without ever losing sight of the original spirit

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Davis says: "I was always hoping I could find a way to blend everything together and get away with doing a bunch of different genres all at once

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In Real Life was originally conceived by composer Robert Paterson and lyricist and librettist David Cote as a set of dating app songs for a soprano and piano called In Real Life (retitled In Real Life I)