Ensemble Resonanz/ Riccardo Minasi - Pergolesi: Stabat MaterTwo of Bach's finest cantatas, both for solo alto, composed in Weimar (1714) and Leipzig (1726) respectively, are here coupled with Pergolesi's Stabat Mater of 1736, the eighteenth century's favourite sacred work. The gap between austere Lutheran piety and searing Mediterranean emotionalism might seem unbridgeable. Yet Bach so admired the composition of his Neapolitan colleague that he made his own 'parody' of it to a German text. On this recording,

The all female vocal-crooning sounds like the conjuring of spirits at a druidical fertility ritual

doing it in a fluid and natural manner

depending on which publisher was cashing in

Wherever I Go

for he wrote several sets of chamber music in which the flute plays the starring role

' Wayne Cochran made a stack of intriguing but rare early '60s 45s for various small Georgia concerns and later considerably larger labels spanning the gamut from hauling rockers to dramatic teen tragedy themes

It's unique melodic approach combined with complex rhythms based on Irish and Celtic folk music always remain a wonderful challenge and never cease to rekindle our enjoyment in making music together

pianist Jack Wilson's 1965 LP entitled "Jack Wilson Plays Brazilian Mancini" is a wonderful jazz album with all tunes penned by the great Henry Mancini

Hindemith found himself torn between his refusal to propagate for the Nazis

In Chausson's Poème de l'amour et de la mer we meet Jordan the opera conductor

while Dick Haymes and Harry James with Kitty Kallen had six

he has performed with major British orchestras