Adam/ Queensland Symphony Orch/ Mogrelia - La Jolie Fille de GandAfter increasing successes with ballets, melodramas and theatrical works, Adolphe Adam won widespread acclaim with Giselle (highlights can be heard on 8. 572924). A year later he wrote La Jolie Fille de Gand, which was received just as enthusiastically by audiences and critics alike. This delightful ballet pantomime with trademark thematic brilliance is set in Ghent and Venice, it's plot one of abduction and romance. Adam's score, which features the

This 3CD set boasts 40 previously unreleased tracks including remixes

using interviews with family and intimates and rare performance footage to examine the gregarious yet flawed man behind the legend

"Both audio and visual on this product give a mind blowing experience of an unforgettable evening at Hammersmith

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love of country and the security of one's own identity are the main driving forces of this era

The regard in which he was held by his peers is underlined by the litany of jazz greats with whom he performs on many of these recordings

Recorded at the possibly haunted former home of the legendary Roy Orbison

and released a little known album titled “Directly From The Streets” in 1990

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here is the first-ever collection dedicated to central California's original funk brothers

bass guitar / Steve Howe - electric

and Frederick Delius