Chopin/ Rowicki - In Love with ChopinHalina Czerny Stefnska, who was born in Krakw in 1922 and died there in 2001, achieved international fame as an interpreter of Chopin. On the 150th anniversary of the Polish composer's birth, the state owned record company Polskie Nagrania produced a comprehensive collection of his works, featuring a number of her exemplary recordings, which form a major part of this set. One incident makes particularly clear what high esteem Chopin interpreter Czerny

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this is my Gaelic love-song for the city in all it's guises- the voices of arrivals in search of a new life and of those

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rich material for personal contemplation

James Brown and Aretha Franklin - the Godfather of Soul and the Queen of Soul - together on stage for one unique and extraordinary performance recorded in front of a live and lively audience along with special guests Wilson Pickett

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