Dussek/ Duo Pleyel - Piano Four-HandsDuo Pleyel releases it's second album on Linn, following it's 'winning performances' (BBC Music Magazine) of Schubert. Richard Egarr and Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya perform the complete original works for piano four hands by the unjustly neglected composer Jan Ladislav Dussek. Born into a Bohemian musical family, Jan Ladislav led a colorful life, both personally and as a virtuoso. He was a much sought after teacher and helped push forward the

searching out in the melodrama a dual art that merges words with music in the hope of revealing just how moving the genre can be

66 performed by the USSR State Chamber Orchestra with Liyana Isakadze conducting

followed by the George Jones-ish lovelorn "These Walls"

The image of the wandering singer or the singing wanderer

even a shepherd accidentally wounding his loved one

Bad Company/Free drummer Simon Kirke

and sometimes clashing

games in the arcade

'Perfect Existence' deals about being a cult leader with devoted followers spiritually sensing that their time on earth has been completed and by ending their lives they will rise up to the new world

and he'll tell you 'cinematic quasi bluegrass jazz compositions'

Supercharged and ready to roll with Super Fine Sugar

and no matter how terrible it is to dwell in the great pit