Ettore Gracis achieves a milestone here in the disparate work that is probably Malipiero's finest dramatic effort. What's astonishing is that this is a live recording. The performance standard of the Fenice company is extraordinary which means you turn your attention to the emotion-wrenching drama of the opera where you're not conscious of the technique. Malipiero was highly-original, quirky, eccentric, and inspired all at once. There's been no one ….

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Dr Psychedelic is one of the aliases of the prolific UK psytrance and psy-chill producer Jake Stephenson. He released one album under this alias in 1998, the entirety of which was re-released as the second disc of the Vir2ual Trance compilation (under different aliases) a year later.

Collection includes: Calla (1999); Scavengers (2000); Televise (2002); Collisions (2005); Strength In Numbers (2007).

Given Christine Schäfer’s wide-ranging repertoire, this mixing of 17th-century English and 20th-century American songs is no surprise. Everything about this recital hangs together without strain – even the gear changes between Purcell and Crumb and the Shakespearean quotes spoken by a boy’s voice, sometimes given a rather sinister quality through electronic treatments.

Elena Kats-Chernin is not only one of the most prolific, but also one of most distinctive voices in Australian music. Cadences, Deviations and Scarlatti was inspired by Domenico Scarlatti’s D minor sonata, K.141, an extremely challenging piece which Kats-Chernin had come to know through performances in Germany by the virtuoso accordion player Elsbeth Moser. ‘It had a sense of infinity, and alongside its tension it gave me a sense of optimism, despite …..

Dark Lunacy is an Italian death metal band that crates their sound by mixing together both symphonic and melodic death metal, finding a solid footing between the two sub-genres. The Day of Victory makes for the band’s fifth full-length album release, and while it is a solid listen, it feels as if it could have been better. The band does have a decent bit of talent behind them as all the instrumentation throughout the album was good, I just found myself losing interest at points as the album progressed towards its conclusion. In my opinion it’s the song structure that holds The Day of Victory back from being a great listen.