Often known as 'the blind organist from Edinburgh' Alfred Hollins was actually born in Hull. His style of organ playing was said to be both entertaining and colourful. His own compositions are often simple in structure and radiate uninhibited joy.
Includes Plaisir d'amour This Old Man Greensleeves Grandfather's Clock The Volga Boatmen Soldier Soldier Bobby Shaftoe Dashing Away with a Smoothing-Iron Charlie is my Darling Spring Song Dance to your Daddy and Tyrolean Song.
Comédie (Laxenburg 1765) Gluck Complete Works IV/4. Par GLUCK CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD. The critical edition presents the music to the verse comedy “Soliman second, ou Les Trois Sultanes” by Charles-Simon Favart (1710–1792), which was performed before the Viennese courtly audience in the Schlosstheater Laxenburg by the French troupe of the Burgtheater on 18 May 1765. This is the first time that Gluck’s…
