Classics 1946-1948 - Albert Ammons

Advantages: You get to hear the original Supergroup reformed
Disadvantages: The album shows what good music some of us missed played live.

...Eric Clapton is my favourite guitarist not only for his longevity but for the skill in his guitar playing. He with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker reform in 2005 for a series of Concerts initially at the Royal Albert Hall but then going world wide for a tour. I saw Eric Clapton with Blind Faith at one of the early free concerts in Hyde Park in the late sixties, I think june 1969, as a teenager so was quite upset that I missed the Albert Hall Concerts especially as one fell on my birthday 5th May 2007. However I first recorded the concert from TV and then was bought the album and DVD the Christmas following it's release. The concert is magical. There are three 60 year old rockers who hadn't played all together in a band for forty years. Playing the songs as the did all those years ago. They play, in my own personal opinion, better than... Read review

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Advantages: The Original and Best
Disadvantages: None

...“Albert’s Mum took a stick, whacked him on the thingummyjig. Albert hopped round the shop, squeaking like a tilly pig!” Emmie, Cis, Harry, Act I Scene II “Are Loxford girls all whores?” Lady Billows UPDATE 8.15pm - I am reliably informed that Collins Classics have gone off the market, and the release mentioned in the competitor versions below has been released at £9.99 by Naxos. Even so, the Britten/Pears version STILL represents better value in every way! I’m making a passionate case here for this 1947 Benjamin Britten masterpiece as the greatest comedy opera written in the English language. If your experience of Britten extends little beyond “Young Person’s Guide” in your schooldays, and you want to try something new, you won’t be disappointed. Don’t be put off by the idiom of Britten’s music – although it was written... Read review

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Advantages: Gorgeous music, played with much passion
Disadvantages: None really

...Introduction: One of the things I love the most about classical music is that it is impossible to get to know everything that is written in the genre - no matter how much you listen to, study, play or find on the dustiest shelf in some archive in the middle of nowhere - there will always be something new just around the corner... Unfortunately it is often the case that concert promoters, orchestral administrators, record companies and even many musicians prefer to stick with what they know than take the risk in putting on something which the average listener or audience member is unlikely to have ever come across. Everyone talks about the old arguments of not wanting to take a financial risk - which is understandable, but I do feel strongly that sometimes we do need to insert new musical blood into our concert and listening lives... Read review

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