Esther Phillips - Brand New Day: Lenox / Atlantic & Roulette Recordings 1962-1970Five CD set. The late Esther Phillips has often been considered one of the 'unsung' pioneers in the world of R&B, stretching back to the early '50s when as a child star working with famed bandleader Johnny Otis, she enjoyed a run of chart topping singles at the age of 15, making her the youngest female artist to ever have an #1 R&B hit at the time. The Texas born vocalist returned in 1962 with a soulful version of the country hit, 'Release Me' for

in which the heroes experience love and loss

The strings are 'authentic' and respectful of every element

This curious band endorsed tight and opaque costumes of decontamination which covered their bodies and masked their faces

Hungarian Chamber Orchestra with Kristóf Baráti and conductor Heinz Bongartz as well as the Berliner Sinfonie-Ochester with Günter Herbigs

from Brahms to Prokofiev

Here we unleash nothing but the wildest and most elusive mid-Sixties sounds guaranteed to be the life of the Party Party Party

high-profile rock icon

and unique music

The review in the New York Times praised this vivacious

Vivian Greene and Her Trio

Sean Patrick Flannery (The Boondock Saints)

' Houston also plays two works written by Simaku as tokens of his respect for two composer colleagues: L'image oubliée d'après Debussy and Hommage à Kurtág