Alexandre Tharaud - Versailles (French baroque music)Who but Alexandre Tharaud would follow an album devoted to Beethovens formidable final three piano sonatas with a recital of compact pieces by Lully, Rameau, Franois Couperin and other composers associated with the French court in the 17th and 18th centuries I've always been attracted by French music of this period, explains Tharaud, whose wide ranging Erato catalogue embraces Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Rachmaninov, Satie, the

Count Basie - The Legendary New Testament Band 1952-55 - Count Basie was one of the most celebrated and influential personalities in jazz

From the latter piece - "Monologue for solo cello" - the whole album took the title

" and the Rosetta Stone of be-bop

surprising and confusing in his numerous works

which morphed over the years from Best Sellers in Stores Top 10 into the Top 100 and the Hot 100

an operatic scene for soprano and baritone

Gold finds himself pushed by circumstance into a profound identity crisis-and winds up torn between his honor as a policeman and his heritage as a Jew

With it's universal themes and fascinating narrative knots

programming them for his debut in 2016

in trio with William Parker and Warren Smith

Includes the single "Hello

Marriner knows where he is going and the final pages are superb