Bonelli/ Sordo - Complete Keyboard MusicAurelio Bonelli's life is shrouded in mystery and today little remains of his creative output. The set features works from the collection Il primo libro de ricercari et canzoni a quattro voci of which only two copies remain. An artist by day it's thought he learnt painting from Agostino Carracci, a key figure of the Bologna School. They worked together on the frescos of Bologna's Olivetan monastery of San Michele in Bosco and in approximately 1611

Kent Nagano

gestures and theatricality

cello and oboe share the silken textures of his better-known orchestral music

breaks the cycle

The Fairfield Four are perhaps one of the six most significant jubilee quartets to come to prominence in the Southlands during the 1940s

wrote the two Suleika poems for Goethe

" With such a wide-ranging

but no vocal soloists

Philip Glass

The set of 12 Preludes opens with a magnificently imposing evocation of stillness

we embraced the challenge of exploring our sound and furthering our comprehension of French musical literature

he deserves to be lauded