Ekaterina Bakanova - Works UnveiledThis release is the fruit of the French pianist Nicolas Stavy's efforts to uncover unknown works by Dmitri Shostakovich. Spanning some fifty years of the composer's career, these rarities include early piano pieces influenced by Chopin and the fragment of an unfinished violin sonata, but is bookended by arrangements of symphonic music, by Shostakovich himself and by Mahler, a constant influence. The album opens with the most substantial work on the

Cathedral or Solitude Aeternus

Double CDs with generously full booklets with complete song-by-song notes

At the request of the artist

cosmic R&B (Sweet and Sour

Jennifer spares no attention to detail across the entire spectrum of this significant recording project

Roman Polanski)

is summoned to the secluded home of his wealthy childhood friend

Bellini - I Capuleti E I Montecchi

Bolt Thrower

he'll have to take these sour lemons and squeeze-play out a winning basketball team somehow

and during her 70+ year career one of her most beloved musical moments was her riveting performance in Martin Scorsese's film' The Last Waltz

descend upon us