MireilleCharles Gounod was enchanted by the young Provenal born Frdric Mistral's epic love poem Mirio, and enlisted the distinguished Michel Carr to fashion a libretto. Against the grain of prevailing operatic practice in the 1860s, and it's promotion of glamour and spectacle, Gounod relished instead the lives of modest country people and their idyllic world. He utilizes folk dances and a shepherd's lament to chart the story of his tragic heroine whose desire

" the growling "Black Tiger

trumpeter Greg Gisbert

A marvellous collection of four bluesmen all of whom had little in common other than that they recorded briefly and then retreated back into the obscurity from which they came

a desire for discovering the unknown has generally outweighed the fear of things "other"

This new recording brings together Gilardino's works inspired by Spain: the important and substantial Sonata Guadalquivir

" "inadequate" and "erroneous" to the instability of equilibrium

1 in this Op

here he provides the most wonderfully absorbing display of his vocation

John Coltrane went into Rudy Van Gelder's living room studio in Hackensack

Schumann avoids technical display for it's own sake

the Brühl Castle Concerts

The recording was made in June 2021 at the Menuhin Hall