Singapore Symphony Orchestra Shui - MacBeth / Rosenkavalier SuiteHaving spent much of his childhood in Latvia, where he also began his violin studies, Vadim Gluzman makes a return to his roots with this disc of music by Peteris Vasks. The ample programme (+ 84 minutes!) opens with the violin concerto 'Distant Light', which in the two decades since it was composed has become a modern classic. The composer has described it as 'a song, coming from silence and floating away into silence, full of idealism and love, at

including the celebrated 'Alla marcia' in G minor (Op

Extremely rare recordings like Dead by The Poets

Fetish Bones

The euphoria of gypsy music blends with the melancholy and nostalgia of Argentinean tango

radio author and presenter

Already a horn player with the Berlin Philharmoniker

But when Kidou finds himself suddenly tasked with returning a young survivor to her mother

The album - faithfully remastered - offers a vision of urban Scotland with a bluesy feel and it has to be ranked alongside the work of such luminaries as Donovan or Nick Drake

As an exciting discourse on life philosophies

Like having your back scratched as you fall asleep

I was surrounded by a salty lake

Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius