Balladeer

Chet Baker - At Onkel Pö´s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 (Jazzline/NDR)

Edmond Hall with the Ralph Sutton Group - At the Club Hangover, SF 1954 (Storyville) ...and my avatar´s smiling

Omer Simeon Trio - Creole Lullaby

Martin Fröst & Roland Pöntinen: Robert Schumann - Works for clarinet and piano (BIS)

Eisler & Prokofiev - Bridges (Alpha) Guillaume de Chassy (Piano), Laurent Naouri (Bass Baritone), Thomas Savy (Clarinet), Arnault Cuisinier (Double Bass) Fantastic crossover,

Irio de Paula & Phil Woods - Encontro (on Jobim) - The clarinet album (Philology)

Weill has always been present in our country - be it in theaters, recordings or concerts - even with younger generations. Or to put it this way: His music was never lost in the stars above Germany.. But there is another one whose cultural heritage needs to be reevaluated und rediscovered: Eisler!

Sarah Connolly, William Dazely, Iain Burnside: Sonnett für Wien - Songs of Erich Korngold (Signum)

Brahms-Glanert: Four serious songs, Brahms-Berio: Clarinet sonata 1, Glanert: Weites Land (Ondine) Michael Nagy (Baritone), Kari Kriikku (clarinet), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra

Cristina Ortiz (p) & Antonio Meneses (clo) - Villa-Lobos: L´oeuvre pour violoncelle et piano (Intrada)

Talked to Naura once shortly at Jazz Baltica. Aside from his role as a musician he also wrote in a highly original style and very wittily about jazz. There was a time when I was looking forward to his short, brilliant reviews and portraits for German weekly Die Zeit Thanks for your music and words, Mr. Naura!..

Eduardo Fernández - Scriabin: Complete Preludes (Orpheus)

Tatyana Nikolayeva - The 1989 Herodes Atticus Odeon Recital (First Hand)

Gabriel Gorog plays Felix Blumenfeld 24 preludes (Suoni e Colori)

Barrios is fantastic and La Catedral magesterial. As far as I remember there´s a gorgeous prelude that precedes it. Don´t miss it!

Klara Min - Scriabin (Steinway & Sons) What a pianist, her touch is magic, lovely playing. Among those recordings of early Scriabin that have been published over the last six years this latest remains my dearest.

Vladimir Feltsman - A Tribute to Silvestrov (Nimbus)

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin Solo Piano Works (Crystal Classics) Disc 2

Todd Levy (clarinet) & Elena Abend (piano): Brahms & Schumann (Avie)

Pavel Kolesnikov plays Tchaikovsky The Seasons (Hyperion)

Peter Mattei (baritone) & Bengt-Ake Lundin (p) Wilhelm Stenhammar: Songs (BIS)

Christian Schulz (gtr) - Romanza (Oceanbar)

Second that. So long, Leonard

Maria Lettberg plays Erkki Melartin - Solo Piano Works Grateful for Crystal Records´ Piano rarities series that released this gem. Melartin, once student of Sibelius, deserves wider recognition. Those Preludes and Impressions on Disc 2 are ceaselessly fascinating late romantic and expressionistic stuff.

Paul Badura-Skoda - Tänze aus Wien (Gramola)