Cliff Richard - Essential Early Recordings2010 two CD collection from the British Rock icon, Cliff Richard's first two albums, both from 1959, are presented in their entirety here along with several of his most popular hit singles from the same time period. Altogether, they reveal the raw talent which first made him a star. Primo.

It's Stephen stretching himself as a singer and songwriter

takes up the instrument

and the Three Heroes Church sacrifices everything to destroy the Devil of the Shield

"Frei aber einsam" featuring recordings of works by Brahms

Domenico Zipoli's Pastorale for Organ performed by the talented Ferdinand Klinda

revolves around the farcical attempts of Tobia Mill

His dramatic sonata "Le Retour à Londres" is thrillingly played here

his debut piano trio album

a natural finesse in phrasing and articulation

where their parents had labored as sharecroppers

he let's the associations work that the title

Pieces performed at the riotous 1923 soirée include two fox-trots by Georges Auric and Darius Milhaud (both members of the celebrated group Les Six)