STUNNING 1986 SHOW FROM NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE • In July 1986, Neil Young released his 15th Studio album, Landing On Water. Recorded without Crazy Horse and to little great acclaim, the record only reached No.46 on the Billboard chart. But young re-united with the mighty Horse for the subsequent tour and his next record Life. • And while Landing On Water was generally considered to be lack-lustre, the tour was anything but. Performing only a couple of numbers from the recent release, set-lists were made up from NY classics and tracks from recent releases, largely resulting in a number of shows considered by fans to be some of the best Neil and Crazy Horse ever performed. • And when the band’s tour bus pulled up outside The Market Square Arena in Indiana, on 23rd October ’86, one such show was about to take place. Among the best gigs of the whole tour, the concert was broadcast across local FM Radio, and remains a live spectacular, even 35 years since it was performed. • Now released for the first time on this 2xCD set, fans are now able to share in a stunning concert by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, previously unavailable.

The first disc from El Concierto Español, the orchestra founded by the violinist Emilio Moreno (who is both a founding member of Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century and a great champion of Spanish music) is dedicated to one of the most important composers of the 18th century in Spain, Francisco Corselli. Of Italian origin, Corselli spent a considerable part of his career working for the Spanish court, to which he brought the opera seria which was enjoying so much success elsewhere in Europe at the time.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Johann Sebastian Bach never intended to compose flute sonatas or partitas in sets of 6 or 12, as was customary at the time (and as he himself did for violin, cello and harpsichord). Bach's flute sonatas evolved over a roughly 30-year period between c.1717–1747 as he encountered the different types of flute in fashion at the time, and met several greatly skilled flautists. The question of which flautist and flute makers Bach may have known played a decisive role in choosing the programme on this recording. In preparation, Frank Theuns compared and assessed the playing qualities of various early eighteenth-century flute types.

The winner of numerous prestigious prizes, including several Gramophone Awards, the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, founded by Lionel Meunier in 2004, is now regarded as a benchmark in the interpretation of the great works of German Baroque music. Its unfailingly faithful and lively approach to such masters as Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidt has made the group’s reputation, but this new recording features a major work by Heinrich Biber, a composer hitherto absent from its discography: his Requiem in F minor for 14 voices, composed around 1692. The programme is completed by two sacred works by Christoph Bernhard (Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Friede fahren and Tribularer si nescirem misericordias tuas), two pieces by Johann Joseph Fux, and the Sonata a 6 in A minor of Johann Michael Nicolai.

Swan Hennessy is a real discovery for lovers of impressionistic piano music from France. Swan Hennessy was born in Rockford, Illinois, of Irish origin and grew up in Chicago. Swan Hennessy's music before 1900 was heavily influenced by his conservative education and his teachers' predilection for the music of Robert Schumann. Around the time of his move to Paris, he also been an admirer of Max Reger. Although his later music shows the influence of several contemporary stylistic directions, he never shook off this profound influence of the German Romantics.