Rooting around for more from Albert Alan Owen I found this one song on a 2-LP set of classical songs stemming from a London concert of almost-all-Latvian (!) music. His contribution is painfully, breathtakingly beautiful, lasting a full 7 minutes:
It stands out from the rest thanks to the finesse of the chamber arrangement and the searing melancholy it communicates. Making me earnestly wish we had more from him from his earliest days when his young tender feet were still in the seventies, and his heart was seemingly bursting with emotion.
There is a great deal more tender and beautiful music in here, but it does get repetitive after the first few songs, being classical operatic singing on top of acoustic piano, for the most part. A good example is this song:
The song is called Lapas Lido (A quick jog around the pool deck).
Illustration detail from "Vecs un jauns" by Nikolajs Soikans
Recorded at the Latvian Song Festival 1977 in London.
It stands out from the rest thanks to the finesse of the chamber arrangement and the searing melancholy it communicates. Making me earnestly wish we had more from him from his earliest days when his young tender feet were still in the seventies, and his heart was seemingly bursting with emotion.
There is a great deal more tender and beautiful music in here, but it does get repetitive after the first few songs, being classical operatic singing on top of acoustic piano, for the most part. A good example is this song:
The song is called Lapas Lido (A quick jog around the pool deck).
Illustration detail from "Vecs un jauns" by Nikolajs Soikans
Recorded at the Latvian Song Festival 1977 in London.
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