Prince Thompson Lincoln & the Royal Rasses - Harder Na RasLimited 180gm vinyl LP pressing.

Brautigam has recently released the composer's Lieder ohne Worte

" after having endured and witnessed unthinkable horrors

born in Argentine in 1946 from Italian parents

he impresses with a fiery and powerful interpretation of Mahler's Fifth Symphony and excerpts from "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" with Matthias Goerne

but now I'm exploring where I am

"Abravanel is very good in this music - crackling with energy tempered with tender ways with the great melodies

embellishes their dirge-scapes with electronics from the Sonica

Alvino Rey and Blue Barron before launching his own band in the late 1940s

which became a perennial favourite on radio request shows on both sides of the Atlantic - the song had to be rerecorded for the UK to cut out the mention of commercial car brands so that the record could be played by the BBC

such as "Diapason d'Or" in France

The band's most ambitious and masterful work to date

the final year of the composer's tragically short life