Giordano - SiberiaGabriel Faur considered Umberto Giordano's Siberia to be one of the most interesting and singular works of the early 20th century. The opera's tragic narrative follows Prince Alexis's courtesan Stephana. She falls in love with an innocent soldier, Vassili, who is sent to Siberia for killing the Prince. Stephana gives up her life of luxury to follow him but cannot escape her past. With it's intensely Russian atmosphere and passionately soaring

And Sciarrino's figures of rhetoric hark back explicitly to Baroque music

Kirchner/ Zurich Ensemble - Beyond Time

The Sonata's Classical four-movement structure is infused with Romantic melody

everything looks perfectly normal here

Hans-Peter Frank - Symphonies in C / E Flat / B Flat / D

That is not to say however that this is a sombre misery-fest

Recorded in the beautiful Besedni Dum

Julius Reubke's magnificently gothic Organ Sonata on the 94th Psalm

there are three tracks included on the Collectors Edition that did not appear on the 2005 release - an Intro track

Perhaps Colleene sums it up best when she sings

"Much of The Haunt is very keys-driven-the title track

Ronnie Brent