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RSK Entertainment welcomes E1 Music to their expanding roster of labels.
''its like coming back home'' Michael Koch, Ceo E1 Entertainment.

E1 have a rich musical heritage, and have already scheduled a number of key releases for the forthcoming months.
2010 will see RSK release some of E1 Music''s most well respected artists, with key album releases from the likes of Jimmy Webb, Bela Fleck, Faith Evans, Styles P and Juvenile already being planned for the summer schedule.



About E1 Entertainment

E1 Entertainment (AIM: ETO) is a leading independent entertainment content enterprise that acquires and exploits world-class film, television and music properties around the globe. Its four primary business units (E1 Television, E1 Films, E1 Music and E1 Distribution) operate in Canada, the U.S., the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Holland and Belgium, providing extensive expertise in film distribution, television and music production and distribution, kids programming, and merchandising and licensing. E1''s growing content library, which currently includes more than 4,000 feature films, 2,700 hours of original television programming and 45,000 music tracks, are distributed across all media formats in more than 190 countries.


Sandy Denny & The Strawbs
LEGEND surrounds this alliance between the first lady of British folk and the much-loved Strawbs, which many now think of as the original British rock-folk album.

It’s an endearing yet strange mix of Denny’s ethereal, fluting voice and melancholy material and The Strawbs’ more knockabout folk.


Songs such as Who Knows Where The Time Goes and Tell Me What You See In Me are flawless while the original album with out-takes and unreleased demos make it perfect for all music fans.


The Express - VERDICT 4/5
Joan Jett - At the 100 Club

Joan Jett is mesmerizing, a consummate performer and musician who can still rock out with the best of them Distorted magazine review of the 100 club show - published 16/06/2010

As she led the charge into a singalong of ''I love Rock''n''Roll'', which has been her calling card for almost 30 years, Jett denied her fans not a milligram of the simple, unthreatening pleasure the song can bring, emitting a series of fabulous yowls. She was a sound performer, a hearty singer, and she had a vital quality, which we rarely associate with rock - decorum. -
The Daily Telegraph review of the 100 club show - published16/06/2010

Why did we ever care about Courtney Love when we had Joan Jett? She''s been missing from this country for too long
- Holy moly.com



  

Unknown Britten
Artist:
Sandrine Piau; Northern Sinfonia; Thomas Zehetmair; Michael Collins; Rolf Hind

Unknown Britten
Catalogue No: NMCD140
Format: CD
Bar Code: 5023363014021
Label: NMC Records
Street Date: 05/10/2009
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Sandrine Piau; Northern Sinfonia; Thomas Zehetmair; Michael Collins; Rolf Hind
Price: £11.99


This CD features eight premiere recordings:
•Three additional songs of Les Illuminations
•In memoriam Dennis Brain
•Rondo Concertante
•Elegy for Strings
•Variations for Solo Piano
•and the completion of Movements for a Clarinet Concerto.

The stunning performance of Les Illuminations by world-renowned soprano Sandrine Piau has been made possible thanks to the French label Naive kindly releasing Sandrine from her exclusive recording contract for this CD.

The ‘Clarinet Concerto’ was written for jazz star Benny Goodman, but Britten never completed it as the sketches were impounded by US Customs in 1941. It was Britten’s intention to resume work on the piece in 1943 but he never got round to it and so it remained a fragment, not performed until edited by Colin Matthews in 1990.

Britten intended the additional three songs recorded here—also setting Rimbaud—to be part of Les Illuminations. Sandrine Piau’s love affair with the music of Benjamin Britten blossomed when she was chosen to sing the role of Flora in Britten’s Turn of the Screw at Radio France.

In memoriam Dennis Brain for 4 horns, strings and tubular bells commemorates the great horn player for whom Britten wrote his Serenade for tenor, horn and strings. He died in a car crash in 1957.

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TRACKLISTING

Les Illuminations
Op.18 (1939) for high voice and string orchestra 23’02
1. I Fanfare 2’12
2. II Villes 2’31
3. IIIa Phrase 1’09
4. IIIb Antique 2’03
5. IV Royauté 1’37
6. V Marine 1’01
7. VI Interlude 2’34
8. VII Being Beauteous 4’07
9. VIII Parade 2’42
10. IX Départ 8’27

11. Phrase 0’52
12. Aube 4’59
13. À une raison 2’36
Orchestrated by Colin Matthews • Sandrine Piau, soprano
Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Sandrine Piau appears by kind permission of Naïve.

Rondo Concertante (1930) for piano and strings 14’58
14. I Allegro molto 5’36
15. II Lento 9’22
Rolf Hind, piano
Variations (1965) for piano solo 6’26
19. I Like an improvisation 1’13
20. II 1’18
21. III Quick and light 0’48
22. IV 0’59
23. V Quietly 1’17
24. VI Quick 0’51
Rolf Hind, piano

Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (c1942) for clarinet and strings 17’50
Realized by Colin Matthews:
25. I 5’32
26. II 7’15
27. III 5’03
Michael Collins, clarinet • Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Total timing 78’12
Sandrine Piau appears by kind permission of Naïve.

In memoriam Dennis Brain (c1958) for 4 horns and strings 3’53
16. Introduction 1’40
17. Allegro 2’13
Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, Peter Francomb & Chris Griffiths, horns
Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

18. Untitled Fragment (1930) for strings 2’44
Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor

Variations (1965) for piano solo 6’26
19. I Like an improvisation 1’13
20. II 1’18
21. III Quick and light 0’48
22. IV 0’59
23. V Quietly 1’17
24. VI Quick 0’51
Rolf Hind, piano

Movements for a Clarinet Concerto (c1942) for clarinet and strings 17’50
Realized by Colin Matthews:
25. I 5’32
26. II 7’15
27. III 5’03
Michael Collins, clarinet • Northern Sinfonia • Thomas Zehetmair, conductor
Total timing 78’12