Krebs/ Devine - Keyboard Works 1Although a favoured student of J. S. Bach, Johann Ludwig Krebs didn't see any substantial success in his own lifetime. More recent assessments have discovered a highly educated, enlightened and open minded musician who was clearly highly accomplished as a performer and demonstrating a fascinating synthesis of Baroque, Galant and Classical forms. Keyboardist Steven Devine begins a complete survey of Krebs' significant contribution to the keyboard genre

as well as an adventurous range of their own early music arrangements

Rupert sent a couple of unfinished tracks for me to add to

Most of the material is still relevant next to what is being released today by artists like Klank

2 and 3 hint at memories of Haydn and Mozart

Ace Of Spades (D

it became one of the most cherished albums of the 80s

Andrea Coen is an organist

This selection of freedom songs

This release features a number of transcriptions - not derived from a desire to take something from someone else

The track that represents the second half of the album's title is a sonata in two contrasting movements

Modeled precisely after Prine's 1935 Wurlitzer Jukebox

" plays mad jazz piano on this 1955 Cook Records release