June Christy - This Time Of YearThe weather is usually cold at Christmastime, but here's a way to make it cool very cool! June Christy's 1961 release This Time of Year was a different kind of Christmas album, a complex, adult look at the mixed emotions the holiday season can provoke, with master arranger Pete Rugolo composing intricate, tasteful charts to support June's always immaculate phrasing. Never before on CD, this album offers a bracing antidote to the treacly sentimentality

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Throwing Muses and The Breeders - has pursued meaningful collaborations with favorite artists and friends

Especially in Symphony No

Wigmore Hall

With good reason: the huge work and it's highly systematic structure demonstrate with utmost clarity Bach's immense skill as a composer

The Amityville Curse deviates from series formula

the horn is glorious and I absolutely love being a horn player

emerging on the American scene after winning over audiences in Europe with his ferocious technical skills yet quietly refined ability to coax every detail

the unusual Concerto Grosso exploring a unique sound world with concertante discussion among the four wind soloists and the wind band

for which words may not suffice

Christina's never less than captivating

with the fresh Slavonic rhythms of Dvorák's F minor Romance