"Original Masters" box that covers every aspect of Richter's musical activities: as harpsichordist, organist, accompanist and conductor - reflecting the title of the set. Mainly Baroque, but also exploring the Classical and Romantic repertoire. Many first-time international releases on CD , including Handel and Bach solo harpsichord music, C.Ph.E. Bach Symphonies, Schtz Musikalische Exequien, Haydn Symphonies, Mozart, Brahms and Liszt organ works. CD booklet has many rare photos from the Richter family archive.

It starts, appropriately enough, with Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question, which seems to hold its breath, and occasionally exhale in brief bursts of panic, as the new century unfolds. It ends with Dmitri Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op. 110a (based on his String Quartet No. 8), whose alternating sequences of anguish, alarm, and derision come as close as possible for absolute music to indicting its bloody history - eight CDs and over 30 works later.

The budget-minded three-disc box set Ska Box Anthology is something of a hodgepodge, freely mixing Jamaican ska, British Two-Tone ska revival, and modernized '80s dancehall reggae without much rhyme or reason…

Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High (1945-46) {Savoy Jazz Japan SV-0152 rel 1992}
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© 1945-46, 1992 Savoy Jazz / Nippon Columbia | SV-0152
Jazz / Be Bop / Swing / Big Band / Trumpet

It's 1940s and Dizzy Gillespie's big band are at their absolute peak! Listening to this record makes me wonder why there ever became such a thing as jazz snobbery. This music doesn't sound like the domain for snobs. In fact it showcases jazz in a crucial and innovative place. Here we are in this place where swing and be-bop have long ago cross polinated eachother (one needed to have the other anyway:we all know in what way",you've got Dizzy whose at once both a great intellectual musician as well as being able to make it move. And here you have him playing with these…well nowadays you'd have to call them all stars such as Dexter Gordon, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Cozy Cole, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Clarke…the list goes on like that and BIM BAM BOOM you've got big band be-bop!