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MATCHBOX BLUESMASTER SERIES 1, SET 7, RELEASES ON 6 MAY 2022

26/4/2022

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Saydisc releases its seventh and final series of Matchbox Bluesmaster recordings on 6 May 2022 as a six-album set (MSESET7). The Matchbox Bluemaster series of Country Blues and Ragtime Blues Guitar albums comes from Saydisc''s archive of recordings, many available only on '78s until now.

Alongside the six-album set MSESET7 is a half-hour Blues Nuggets sample complication (MSES707).

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Set 7 differs from Nos. 1-6 because it features Paul Oliver’s selection of sacred and secular tracks to illustrate his book Songsters and Saints - a ground-breaking book at the time. Paul’s wonderfully illuminating notes accompany all six albums.
 
The Set’s first two albums feature renowned guitarist and singer,Lonnie Johnson and the wild hokum music of The Famous Hokum Boys (Big Bill Broonzy, Georgia Tom and Frank Brasswell). The Songsters and Saints volumes 1 and 2 make up the final four albums in the Set under the headings:
 
Songsters: Dances and Travelling Shows, Comment, Parodies & Ballad Heroes
 
Saints: Baptist and Sanctified Preachers, Gospel Soloists and Evangelists,
 
Songsters: Medicine Show Songsters, Songsters East And West
 
Saints: The Straining Preachers, Saints of Church and Street
 
These final albums contain wonderful, iconic and memorable tracks which bring the original Bluesmaster series of 42 albums on seven sets to a rewarding and amazing climax.
 
These early Blues recordings on what was termed ‘race’ records by the white-owned record companies were intended for an exclusively black audience. These same companies issued ‘hillbilly’ music for the white audience. The importance of these early Blues and Gospel recordings cannot be underestimated: they form the backbone of rock ‘n’ roll, R & B, Motown and other popular forms.
 
Now for the first time on CD and digital sites, here is the opportunity for collectors new and old to acquire this ground-breaking series at an affordable price.

'A perfect conclusion to the series and offers the listener a variety of songs and spoken word that they will thoroughly enjoy. I highly recommend this and the entire series.'
Steve Jones, Bluesblast Magazine

'A strong overview of pre-blues black music.'  LA Jazz Scene

London Jazz News

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Blues in Britain - Set 7 review
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Gilbert Guyonnet, ABS Magazine #78
 
'A rare insight into the world of black musicians of the day…  an absolute goldmine of early blues. An absolute must… the blues here is timeless.' Blues In Britain
 
'This collection is a look as far back into blues history as blues history goes, it’s some of the very earliest recordings ever made… Wonderful blues'. Blues Matters


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Saydisc's Matchbox Bluesmaster series is distributed by Nimbus Records.
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LYRITA RELEASES ALVARS, DUSSEK AND BOCHSA FOUR-HAND PIANO ALBUM WITH SIMON CALLAGHAN AND CLÍODNA SHANAHAN - 3 JUNE 2022

25/4/2022

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On 3 June 2022 Lyrita Records will release a new album of four-hand piano music of Elias Parish Alvars (1808-49), hailed by Berlioz as 'the Liszt of the Harp', alongside works by Jan Dussek and Nicholas-Charles Bochsa. Alvars made his reputation as a harpist, but he was also a virtuoso pianist - the legacy celebrated in this recording by Simon Callaghan and Clíodna Shanahan (SRCD.411).

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Accompanying the album, Nimbus Publishing is issuing Elias Parish Alvars Overture to the Opera The Legend of Teignmouth, Op. 47 For Piano Duet (NMP1142) and Grand Duo Concertante, Op.65 on motifs from Donizetti’s ‘Linda di Chamounix’ for Two Pianos or Piano & Harp (NMP1143).
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THOMAS DE HARTMANN NEW ALBUM FROM NIMBUS RECORDS ON 3 JUNE 2022 - LVIV NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, ELAN SICROFF AND TIAN HUI NG

18/4/2022

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On 3 June 2022, Nimbus Records releases a new album of Thomas de Hartmann's orchestral music: Symphonie-Poème No. 3, Piano Concerto and Scherzo fantastique, performed by the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine and pianist Elan Sicroff, conducted by Tian Hui Ng (NI.6429).

Elan Sicroff has been the world's leading performer-advocate of Hartmann's music for almost fourty years. A pupil of Hartmann's widow, Olga, in the late 1970s, Sicroff has recorded many of his works, including the seven-volume Thomas de Hartmann Project, which he initiated in 2006. This now includes a large amout of Hartmann's orchestral, chamber and piano works, and songs.

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The Thomas de Hartmann project - Nimbus Records and Elan Sicroff
Gramophone Magazine, April 2021


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        Remy Franck, Pizzicato Magazine, 31 May 2022                                          Maureen Buja, Interlude HK, 26 June 2022


'An album recorded by inspired musicians for enthusiastic and adventurous listeners who are looking for depth in music...  Beautifully performed, you really have a jewel of a CD in your hands.' Mattie Poels, Music Frames

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Phillip Scott, Limelight: 25 August 2022
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Stuart Millson, The Quarterly Review, August 2022
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