Faure/ Muller-Schott - Four Visions of FranceIt is not by chance that luminous textures and sensual orchestral colors are considered essential features of French music. It's history features great names renowned for their art of instrumentation and sensitive use of timbres, who include the composers of the cello concertos on this recording: Camille Saint Sans, whose instrumentation technique always combines color with transparency, douard Lalo, who was highly esteemed by Claude Debussy for the

Bridge Into the New Age looks at an era when these concerns were addressed by mixing Jazz with Latin

fizzled relationships and death that are melodic enough to sound like songs of victory" by the New York Times

In The Colonnades was a Swedish quintet with roots in punk and early 70's metal

They play on original instruments

This is a definitive political message to "Nobody Knows de Trouble I see"

Alejandro del Valle-Lattanzio

Never one to rest on his laurels

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos belong to those works that are so well-known that we risk taking them for granted

Quartet No

travels between the chilly Rhenish forest of Waldgespräch

full of emotion and life

soft and freely flowing