Hank Jones - SaralaReleased in 1995, Sarala marked it's time by generating a genuine enthusiasm for Mandingo music, encouraging many Western musicians to go to Mali and explore this music at it's very source. Fruit of the reunion of Hank Jones (an African American musician and one of the most gifted pianists of his generation) and Cheick Tidiane Seck (a reputed arranger, band leader, songwriter and multi instrumentalist from Mali) the album is a symbiosis one of the

Telemann/ Taubert/ Chor Und Kammerchor Der Biede - Mitteldeutsche Barockkantaten 2

The concertos were clearly written by men who looked with hope to the future

The Violin Concerto was a huge success at it's premiere

the LP's scarcity

Martin Fr st - French Beauties & Swedish Beasts

1 and the D minor Symphony were Sergei Rachmaninov's first large-scale orchestral compositions

to it's disastrous handling of the migrant influx from neighbouring failed states

already a star of many Arcana recordings

Chinglish) with screenplay and direction by theater

tragicomic documentary (midway between The Decline of Western Civilization and Crumb) which has been hailed as "Essential Viewing" by CineVue and called "Dark and Irresistible" by director John Carpenter

Played by two Italians with the right romantic feel for this music: violinist Carmelo Andriani and young Vincenzo Maltempo (who received great critical acclaim for his stunning recordings of piano music by Alkan and Schumann on Piano Classics)

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