Gjeilo/ Pike/ Phipps - Like to the LarkThe Swedish Chamber Choir makes it's debut on Chandos with this fascinating programme of works for choir, choir and solo voice, and for choir and violin. The founder and conductor, Simon Phipps, leads the choir in unaccompanied works by Swedish and British composers. Maria Forsstrom joins them in one of Mahler's Ruckert Lieder, "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen," in a sixteen part arrangement by Clytus Gottwald, and in Judith Bingham's 'The Drowned

Much less familiar is the Scottish Ballad composed in 1941 by Benjamin Britten as a free fantasy for two pianos and orchestra based on a number of Scottish tunes

overt and hidden connections between music

See the films that are taking the critical world by storm as a new era in anime begins with Katsuhiro Otomo's SHORT PEACE

we have a problem" relives the drama and tension of bringing Apollo 13 back safely to earth

to it's changes and it's history

desperate but also hopeful

grenade glockenspiel

which gathers together the three albums of Brahms Lieder he made in the spring of 2007

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries bore witness to significant advances in the design and manufacture of wind instruments

extremely varied

The group's ever-changing personnel brings bass instruments into the spotlight by emphasizing the various textures and functions of Baroque continuo instruments

Elgar - Selected Choral Works