Various Artists - Music for a Great Garden / VariousGarden themes from our musical heritage. An album of fragrant songs and instrumental pieces from centuries of musical tradition. Titles include 'Greensleeves', 'Where the Bee sucks', 'Summer is icumen in' and 'Roses in Bloom', in a delightful evocation of a great English garden.

This version for violin and piano was arranged by Brahms' friend Joseph Joachim

This great-value 72-track 3-CD set comprises most of their recordings for Victor and Okeh during this era

The Vienna Wind School is world famous - it is a breathtaking experience to hear it live

released in February 2019

like Marie Laforet's version of Stones' 'Paint it Black' ('Marie Douceur') and Petula Clark's version of The Kinks' 'A Well Respected Man' ('A Jeune Homme Bien')

and their respective B-sides

tying the song's titular figure to the archetype of 'The Wandering Jew'

& Circa Survive who perform under animal names

and while it may not have precipitated a threatening response from Uncle Sam for Parrot Records owner Al Benson as legend had it

originally released in 1995

You don't have to know the history to enjoy this blast from the past

Shimon Shteynberg