Schnittke/ Berlin - Film Music 5 Format:CD previously unreleased Tony Wakeford performance

previously unreleased Tony Wakeford performance in the legendary New York venue CBGB's

Styles range from the lively dance-rhythms and catchy refrains of "Gaudete" and the cool renaissance counterpoint of "Jesu dulcis memoria" to the austere restraint of chant-like melody in "Angelus emittitur

They asked him to 'play' the much-loved story of Babar the Elephant

At the level of the plot

Schnittke/ Berlin - Film Music 5 Format:CD previously unreleased Tony Wakeford performanceThe seductive, addictive potential of this music can be heard and felt straight away. His film music, an important pillar of his livelihood, embodies almost everything that characterizes Schnittke's music as a whole. It heralds a musical personality which, precisely because of it's conscious use of tradition in the twentieth century, represents a solitary exception. Curious not greedy for the old he collected discarded or worn out remains of music