Piano Concerto 3Exactly 80 years before the Opening Concert of the 2019 Lucerne Festival, Sergei Rachmaninoff himself appeared for the first time on August 11, 1939 at the "International Music Festival Weeks". The roaring success of the performance stands in direct contrast to the need for retreat, seclusion and concentration that the star pianist sought as a composer. Marking three stages in his career, the concerto, tude, vocalise and symphony presented in 2019

1 country hit "Shame On You" along with his other Top 10 country hits "A Pair of Broken Hearts"

They were supported by established independent labels such as Rough Trade and 4AD/Guernica and new ventures like Too Pure or Domino

which helped shape her style

The lover loves and suffers silently in solitude or in a discreet distance to lover

industrial justice and more - found a unified voice in the musical protest movement

"Bye Bye Baby - I Don't Want To Take A Chance" and "The One Who Really Loves You"

but which peaked in the Top 15 in 1948

by the great Jake Porter

Johnny Hartman

coming relatively late in life to recording in his early 40s to record his best-known work during the late 1950s and early '60s

and this great-value 50-track 2-CD collection focuses on a series of six sessions he recorded during 1949 for the Savoy

It makes for an intriguing and very entertaining musical snapshot of a year when WWII was reaching a crucial phase and the news from Europe brought an increasingly euphoric and sentimental wartime flavour to some of the music