Tasmin Little- Lloyd: The Works for Violin & Piano (CD) Acantha Lang

Tasmin Little- Lloyd: The Works for Violin & Piano (CD) Acantha LangDespite his facility in playing the violin and the importance he attached to his lessons with Albert Sammons, Lloyd was relatively slow to compose works for his own instrument. It was not until 1970 that Lloyd wrote Violin Concerto No. 1, his first piece with a leading role for his own instrument, but this achievement seemed to stir his enthusiasm and during the next seven years he completed a number of pieces for violin and piano, a fully fledged

cinematic bombast still has the power to thrill and tickle and upset

Michigan (First-Ever Live Performance)

After HOME (2020) RØ¥AL is Rudy Leonet second album

displaying his amazing versatility and boundless emotional range with numbers that range from somber chamber music ("Victor's Piano Music") to darkly macabre yet somehow jaunty pieces ("Remains of the Day")

he signed with Blue Note in 1961 and began a run of essential albums that marked a

The most fundamental thing that defines African music is that it was created for dancing

" and is sung by the pianist

This recording is a full-band rearrangement of the original- a solo piano & vocals ballad posted to Patreon in April of 2019

Day of Wonder

Another World

isn't afraid to speak out

but not all