Gipps/ Cigleris/ Tippett Quartet - DedicationSOMM Recordings celebrates the centenary of the birth of Ruth Gipps with Dedication, featuring five premiere recordings of chamber works inspired by her clarinetist husband, Robert Baker, most of which were recently broadcast on BBC Radio 3's Composer of the Week. Based on a Scottish legend, the early The Kelpie of Corrievreckan (Op. 5b) is an evocative miniature for clarinet and piano revelling in Gipps' facility for locating a human dimension within

Thomas Torstrup is a jazz pianist and organist from Stavanger

and the result is an attractive window onto music-making in the churches of Baroque Florence

Casal was dead-suicide

These newer songs

where she heads the collaborative piano program

and Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

Carlos Checa put his reputation for wild riding behind him to take his first Superbike World Championship in style

a piece as gentle and contemplative as it is powerful

"We just shot from the gut on this record and tried not to overanalyze things

rolled and rocked like crazy

His Beethoveniana - a thrilling distillation of Beethoven's nine symphonies into a seven- minute piece for 323 BBC orchestra musicians

Accompanied by a film