Alwyn/ Bax/ Watkins - Shadow Dances - British Works for Flute? For his second album for Chandos, the flute virtuoso Adam Walker explores the music of British composers with pianist Huw Watkins. Vaughan Williams's Suite de ballet was commissioned by the French flute virtuoso Louis Fleury (who had given the premire of Debussy's Syrinx). The work uses eighteenth century French dance forms, a common practice in 'neo classical' composition. Bax's Four Pieces rescue music from an abandoned ballet originally conceived

Beacon's fourth full-length record following 2018's Gravity Pairs

This release features 4 studio tracks ("Little Bribes"

This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure

He kept it as an 'open manuscript' on the rack of his harpsichord up to his death

a few weeks before the premiere of "Götterdämmerung"

Presti/ Chassain/ Olsen - 12 Guitar Duos

male voice of the musical arc and rhythms of female worship

Constructed with the director's customary meticulousness and stirring sense of justice

hip-hop innovators The Roots and Medusa

With 2017's Sponge Cake being well received critically and commercially

he lived amongst queers and cabaret singers during the dying days of the Weimar Republic

one of the main activities of composers - and one of their chief means of subsistence - was that of maître de chapelle or Kapellmeister