Tchaikovsky/ Hamburg/ Ahmann - Tchaikovsky: Sacred Choral MusicTchaikovsky Hamburg Ahmann Tchaikovsky: Sacred Choral Music

The contemporary Caecilian Movement for church music reform led him

which in spite of Beethoven's endeavours hadn't yet become firmly established as a duo partner of the piano

The songs on this album are all settings of poems by various poets (listed below in the track listings)

feel not only live but somehow extraordinarily real

piano and guitar would be a compact way to capture the scope of the varied musical textures on the album

With previous influences of swing

The songs have elements of African music

"I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes"

the eerie Vox organ drawing you into the mystic world of The Invisible Teardrops

These were to be the band's last recordings for RCA

The album title was a work title referring to the Song "Poor Blue Betty" - as a reference to the parts we dismiss in ourselves but still so badly want because they are what makes us whole

To round off the programme