Cass McCombs - HeartmindVinyl LP pressing. 2022 release. On Heartmind, Cass McCombs enters the double digit album phase of his career, a quantitatively rarified place for any songwriter; rarer still, though, is the fact that he does not yet seem to have settled into a qualitative sound or pattern, of singing the same thought twice (or perhaps even once). Songs like "Karaoke" are a god level burst of power pop perfection, as fetching as anything Cass has ever cut. The springy

Ariodante by Haendel and Polifemo by Porpora

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as well as the first chart incursions from the Motown stable by Barrett Strong and Marv Johnson

showcasing him in a variety of different musical environments

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Baroque virtuosi Il Giardino Armonico" prove how exciting original instruments can be by clearing out the intellectual and sensuous ballast that a work accumulates over the centuries to allow it to sparkle in it's genuine colours

has been out of print since it's initial release in 1973

Mauro DeFedericis - It's Impossible

The overtures and preludes by Richard Wagner not only are masterly composed openings to his dramatic works - as independent pieces they are also among the most popular compositions of the 19th century

and also charted at AAA

Beethoven let's the music speak for itself