Saint-Saens/ Capriccio Baroque Orchestra - Floating IslandsThe Swiss composer Guy Bovet has created a chamber version of Camille Saint Sans' popular 'Organ Symphony', which increases the significance of the organ part to a true 'Symphony concertante' for organ and orchestra. The result is convincing and the Capriccio Baroque Orchestra presents the work for the first time on historical instruments from the time it was composed. Of writing this piece, Saint Sans wrote: "I gave everything to it I was able to

The reference to the so-called "Stylus Fantasticus" (a musical style of the Baroque period originating in Italy and reaching it's culmination in the North German organ school of the late 17th century) provides natural coherence within this very contrasting album

And if swallowing his pride and dressing as a girl again wasn't bad enough

landscapes

Onute Grazinyte and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra under Modestas Pitrenas play Pärt's music - especially the main work Lamentate - very expressively and communicatively

the group became national celebrities

It's a window onto a dynamic and exciting musical environment

it's all a mystery that one can only solve by taking the journey

have long enthralled those who collect early '50's R&B

But as harrowing and gut-wrenching as those adventures may be

and while the healing abilities of the monstrous half of his lineage let him recover from any wound

set somewhere in England in the year 878

brought traditional Irish folk music to a wide popular audience during the late '50s and early '60s