Reicha/ Consortium Classicum/ Gulke - Quintet Winds & String QuartetHe has always stood in Beethoven's shadow, with whom he played in the Bonn Hofkapelle. Yet Anton Reicha is in no way inferior to the Viennese titan in creativity, and Beethoven himself held his colleague of the same age in high esteem. Reason enough to put together a special package for their 250th anniversary: three carefully produced CDs with Reicha's quintets for wind instrument and string quartet each, plus another with orchestral works, make up a

it is full of smart ideas and moments of effective theater

VARSITY BLOOD (2014

High school student Sakura Mamiya and impoverished death god Rinne Rokudou continue to confront the supernatural

Waving Not Drowning and The Wildest Wish to Fly featured some of the most original music of the 1980s

when the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed the work under Bruno Walter

the capital of the independent Uyghur province Xinjiang in northwest China

Martin utilizes the whole bandwidth of orchestral sound and explores all opportunities for interplay among the vocalists

Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

we have a brilliantly talented pianist who has chosen a varied and highly virtuosic program of Russian Romantic classics (though Prokofiev

which preserves us illusory knowledge

or on tape to people on the street

which was recorded live at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo