Dunstaple/ Tiburtina Ensemble/ Becu - Paradisi PorteAround 1490, the painter Hans Memling created his "Concert of Angels". It consists of three paintings for the outside of an altar and shows God the Father surrounded by angels singing and playing instruments. What might the music have sounded like that inspired Memling to this painting? Very precisely, the painter depicted the instruments of his time, grouped into the "alta" and "bassa capella" typical of the period the loud and the quiet instruments.

Beside original works for four guitars

avant-garde guitarist Henry Kaiser

Stephen Fry's modern re-telling of the story

working with one of the pioneers and architects of bebop

Jimmy Rushing

who played with a string of well-known bands during the 1920s and '30s

Stack Waddy and Leaf Hound (whose "Growers of Mushroom" album is worth well over £1

songwriter and guitarist famous for the distinctive sound of his unique nine-string guitar

composer and bandleader

Not only does it include tried and bona fide 50s classics such as Good Golly Miss Molly

"Blue And Sentimental"

and Czech composers