AttilaVVerdis opera Attila takes as it's starting point Attila's plans to storm Rome with his army of Huns and the Romans' attempts to prevent him. As with Nabucco and I Lombardi, Verdi spiced up the action with a number of patriotic choruses, guaranteeing that against the background of the Italian movement for unification the opera was a great success. "Michele Mariotti owes much to the fact that this evening became a celebration of voices"(Opern Kritik).

as were the poets Goethe and Heine

Yan Pascal Tortelier - Ctos/Metaboles/Mystere

Hank Snow began his career in Dickensian poverty in the Canadian Maritimes during the Depression and ended his career starring at the Grand Ole Opry alongside Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson

Ambrosian chant and two episodes from the life of St Agnes

all scored for the same combination of instruments

fully synth-based output

When pop group Manfred Mann broke up while near the top of the UK charts

The two Passion cantatas featured on this new CD

Brahms's Vier ernste Gesange

His works are appreciated by violinists for their great artistry and virtuosity

The hero's haute-contre gives him an elegiac timbre - this was the vocal register in which Charpentier

guitarist and composer Nile Rodgers