This is an amazing and very smart selection of contemporary music from russian composers. The highlights are with no doubt the wonderful Schnittke's 4th violin concerto and the very interesting ballet by Lourié. Kremer's playing is superb and Eschenbach's accompaniment is
ideal. A great sample to introduce into the modern academic russian music.

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Chandos has already issued a recording of one of Bainton's major Australian works, his Second Symphony, but this collection is devoted to much earlier pieces. The Concerto Fantasia, completed in 1920, is the major work here - a 30-minute, five-movement concertante piece for piano and orchestra that's a genuinely fresh attempt to breathe new life into the concerto form.

Surrounding evening atmosphere over the quiet bay. The calm water surface reflects mystical glowing of kunzite sunset.

Evening rays reach the glades and forest soil. Glowing sun colors leaves and branches into deep orange. Quiet marsh reflects like a mirror tracing specks of light. Whole forest is burning in opal fire.

Frozen iceland invites you to it's cold ancient cradle. Sparkling on the sun and glowing with celestine it has a lot to show you. Formed by wind and water it appears to be a magnificent monument of the ages past and contains an unknown mystery deep inside.

This is a prestige issue if ever there was one, not so much for its music (though in fact this very apt coupling is not otherwise available) as for its presentation and aural glamour. Naturally DGG is proud to have its new contract with the Boston Orchestra, and the German engineers have done marvels in a new environment at capturing the characteristic Boston sound.

The Bassoons Modular Series provides you with 62 patches with samples of a solo bassoon. Westgate Studios introduces a new series of richly detailed samples and expertly programmed patches. The Modular Series sets a new bar of excellence in symphonic instruments. While most symphonic libraries try to give you a little bit of everything, this series is different. Because each Modular Series product focuses on a single instrument, you get incredible flexibility and detail that is simply unavailable elsewhere. The Modular Series takes advantage of custom scripts for Kontakt to use specially recorded interval samples giving stunning realism.

1984 compilation for the French composer-conducter. Featuring 16 tracks including those American's unforgettable hits.