Pashchenko Besson - Variations on Folk SongsAnna Besson is a flautist with a passion for traditional music, who has already made an album of Irish folk music, The Dubhlinn Gardens (ALPHA447). For this new recording, she teams up with the Russian fortepianist Olga Pashchenko, an eminent specialist of Beethoven's music, to which she has already devoted three albums on Alpha. Together they explore his interest in the popular melodies and the various folklores that make up the mosaic of European

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Starting life as The Sentimental Four in Newport News

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the son of a vaudevillian couple

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is allow her to spy on her brother's interactions with the three very odd Yagami sisters

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appearing not only on their hits during the 1940s

and subsequently a hit-making solo artist on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1950s

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