Various Artists - Les Quatre Saisons Du LuthOn his second solo album for Arcana, after L'Ultimo romano, Simone Vallerotonda explores the metaphysical and sensual world of seventeenth century French lute music. The result is Mditation: four suites in four different keys, each associated with a season and with one of the four 'humors' (melancholic autumn, sanguine spring, phlegmatic winter, choleric summer) that were said to characterize human beings in their temperament and physical traits. An

"Ain't Misbehavin'" and "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter"

all making for a varied showcase for his extraordinary talent and versatility as an entertainer

It's crucial to understanding her development as an artist

The triptych offered by this volume is rounded off by the Waltz from the opera Eugene Onegin (1879)

Chantal Santon

Can we take seriously a composer who boasts of being able to 'set a restaurant menu to music

RARE DREAMS: SOLAR LIVE 2

Then starts a Handel-like concerto grosso sound which is in that context very mad

sung as a duet by sisters

and this 57-track 2-CD set comprises selected A & B sides from his releases on the Red Barn

which he personally selected and sequenced to celebrate artists and songs that inspired him

Born in Brooklyn in 1931