Chopin/ Kosuge - Four Elements 1Celebrated Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge embarks on an exciting project: four releases inspired by the Greek concept of the four elements, Water, Fire, Air, Earth. Many composers have been drawn to the properties of these elements when seeking inspiration for their music, but Kosuge's theme goes deeper, dating back to her successful Beethoven cycle: "When you understand that Shakespeare's plays, read ardently by Beethoven, refer to Greek mythology, or

and these are more intimate in tone

The story centers on the unscrupulous Nicolas Saccard

That meeting would soon prove to be a turning point in my musical life

the world gave itself over to mystery and magic: lovers met for forbidden trysts

the first two movements of which he had just completed before discontinuing work on it (for reasons unknown)

Saltpeter pens the pop classic Trailer Trash

Ravel and Ives was unconcerned with musical fashions and had no wish to be a pioneer

and a through-composed praxis that drawscoterminously upon free jazz

Prior to Cocoa Sugar

in his Danbury childhood and the New England Transcendentalists with whom he profoundly identified

Isaac Stern passed away at the age of 81

he pampers his pill-popping wife