Various Artists - Pennies from HeavenSmall treasures, as promised by the song Pennies from Heaven in the eponymous 1936 film with Bing Crosby, are assembled on the latest release from the Mandelring Quartet: favorites, individual movements and encores which the Mandelring Quartet regularly play in concert, but also works which don't fit into or at the end of standard concert programmes and are therefore presented on this album. Whether classical or non classical, original works or

That wasn't to be the case

festival events and pipe band competitions

To name a piano trio after the popular nineteenth century German poet Christian Morgenstern was the inspiration of Catherine Klipfel

the great violinists of the 17th century Ignazio Albertini

Singing together

The present release "The Sleep of Reason" uses Tedesco's setting of Goya's artwork "El Sueño de la Razón Produce Monstruos" ("The Sleep of Reason gives birth to monsters") as the centerpiece of the album

This work is therefore a tribute to choirs and tango as well as to it's creators

and multi-instrumentalist Aaron Livingston) still plays nearly every instrument on the album himself

It makes sense

even if it was never written down

Capitol and Bethlehem labels

CHAMELEON STREET recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man William Douglas Street Jr