Ravel/ Papagena/ Flowers - Darkest MidnightThe all female vocal ensemble Papagena makes it's debut on SOMM Recordings with The Darkest Midnight, a sublime collection of songs for winter from the Middle Ages to the modern era embracing the secular and the sacred. Described as "a stunning addition to the vocal music scene" and "la crme de la crme in the crowded a cappella space", Papagena's three sopranos (Elizabeth Drury, Abbi Temple, Suzie Vango) and two altos (Suzzie Purkis, Sarah Tenant

The selections range from Ginastera's unique masterpiece Concerto per corde to Golijov's showpiece Last Round to Piazzolla's Four Seasons in an arrangement by Leonid Desyatnikov

finally winding up in a long cinematic corridor of urban industrial textures

Gatefold album jacket with one pocket

Piano 1991/ Var - Piano 1991

The outcome

Whether he is wailing away on harmonica

but recast in a refreshing manner

virtuoso jazz drummer

In 2017 she was awarded the Music Prize of the Canton of Bern and in 2020 the Culture Prize of the Bürgi-Willert Foundation for her many years of outstanding musical activities

Book-ending Haydn's celebrated string quartets and symphonies were masses-the first and last pieces penned by the deeply devout composer

Ashtum (Come On) 6

Individual rhythms mark the Excursions