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American Impressions Ref: CDG1143

18 tracks 61 min
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Piano music by American composers

Contrasting music rooted, like American painting of the late nineteenth century, in the European and American tradition: Charles Griffes was the first American 'Impressionist' composer while Macdowell took the American landscape and its scenes as his inspiration. 


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 American Impressions

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Under an American Sky Ref: CDG1142

17 tracks 66 min
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Music for the wide open spaces

Great things are done when men and mountains meet (William Blake)
From Charles Ives to classic Coolidge, this program of evocative American music captures the essence of the American spirit and its relationship to the landscape. 


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 Under an American Sky

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Americana Ref: CDG1139

10 tracks 60 min
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The American Dream

The biggest and best of America's music from the National Anthem to Copand's stunning 'Fanfare for the Common Man' and some of Sousa's famous marches, including 'The Stars and Stripes Forever'. A program which evokes the wide-open spaces of the American landscape and the optimism of the American people. 


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 Americana

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A Gift to be Simple Ref: CDG1136

34 tracks 62 min
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Music for Early America

The pioneering spirit of the first explorers of the United States of America, from their own music from the earliest times to superb evocations of their lives, times and tunes from famous American composers of the twentieth century. Ainsworth Psalms, the Bay Psalter, Ives, Copland, Coolidge and more. 


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 A Gift to be Simple

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Essential Jazz Classics Ref: CDG1131

23 tracks 74 min
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Iconic performances from the best of the best

The best of New Orleans jazz, brought together in a single album which celebrates those early years; the good tunes, foot-stomping rhythms and rich harmonies which marked out jazz as a unique new art form created to charm and delight the ear. 


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 Essential Jazz Classics

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Music for a Summer Afternoon Ref: CDG1089US

13 tracks 62 min

Favourites for drifting and dreaming

The perfect programme of relaxing music for a lazy summer afternoon, wherever it is spent, indoors or out, in the garden or on the river. What could be more fitting than Coates' 'Summer Days' Suite' and Stanford's 'The Bluebird'. 


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 Music for a Summer Afternoon

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The Soul of the Orient Ref: CDG1137

9 tracks 65 min
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Tranquil Japanese music

An album which features famous Japanese composers and music from the Heian period to modern times, in a program designed to relax as the lovely, elegant music describes simple and beautiful things from nature, such as cherry blossoms, a stream, or the wind in the pine trees. 


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 The Soul of the Orient

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Beautiful Dreamer Ref: CDG1138

13 tracks 61 min
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Music of America's Gilded Age

Music from America's brilliant period, from the end of the Civil War to the second decade of the 1900s, reflected in an album of piano music and songs. Edward Macdowell and others wrote music of great beauty and refinement: and there are songs from Stephen Foster, and early ragtime too, in the works of Joplin and others. 


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 Beautiful Dreamer

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Man Jumping Ref: STI02

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Jump Cut

On its original release, Jumpcut was chosen as one the records of the year by The Times, The Guardian and The Observer. Brian Eno was quoted as saying the Man Jumping was the most important band in the world. 


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 Man Jumping

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Selling Water by the River Ref: STI03

Umbrella People
'fine and strutting music'.
The 20th century ended with the heat and passion of latin and cuban musics. The zeitgiest of the 21st century is urbane coolness. Umbrella People offer shades of Miles in a post-Dan landscape, echoes of Zen and Zawinal. The groove factor is high but the playing is spare, the atmosphere taut. That founders Julian Marshall and Martin Ditcham should have produced such a gorgeous first album is unsurprising. Marshall wrote Dancing in the City, a platinum selling single with Kit Hain, whilst Ditcham co-wrote Sweetest Taboo with Sade, successful in the charts for the second time recently.
Working with trumpeter's trumpeter Dick Pearce ( Dizzy Gillespie was one of his wedding guests ), Umbrella People leave the first footprints in what will be a fascinating journey.
 


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The Dancing Lawn Ref: STI01

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Galileo Brothers

The Dancing Lawn is a piece in 13 parts, written and produced by The Galileo Brothers.
It was recorded in Panama City, Izmir, Culver City & The Chapel Of Our Lady Of All The Saints, Oxford on the Rooster Mobile and in London at Eastcote Studios between Easter 1998 and Michaelmas 2002. 


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 The Dancing Lawn

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