Ye - Orchestral WorksXiaogang Ye is regarded as one of today's leading Chinese composers, having won prestigious awards for his concert music and for numerous highly successful film scores. The works on this recording share a deep affection for the beauty and power of nature and landscape in China. Mount E'mei eulogises the great spectacle and cultural significance of the mountain, creating a multi dimensional picture through the use of traditional instruments. Lamura Cuo

by Parkwood Entertainment and Columbia Records

How different

Jean-Marc Padovani pays tribute to the great jazz drummer Paul Motian (Bill Evans

The song was the infectious "Quit Jivin'

Johnny Otis and his usual associates

plows under his crops to build a baseball diamond that will become the "home field" to an all-star team of long-gone players

"pretty RAD"

The players have diverse backgrounds in early music

"These cats are adept at conquering grooves of virtually any shape or size in the hot and heavy material here

"one musically quickly associates Puccini or other Romantics" (Neue Zurcher Zeitung)

Il Ricercar Continuo tackles this extraordinary repertory with an exemplary selection of pieces that demonstrate the remarkable creativity typical of Italian instrumental music during the seventeenth century

" Korsakova is in high demand with national and international orchestras and music festivals