Brahms/ Nowak/ Hudziy - Contrastes Condition:New The great American-British violist and

The great American-British violist and composer Rebecca Clarke's arresting William Blake settings offer a woman's perspective on texts also set by Benjamin Britten

live tracks and 4 bonus songs

Jazz trumpeter/vocalist Bob Merrill presents an album of original songs by Joe Bushkin

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Brahms/ Nowak/ Hudziy - Contrastes Condition:New The great American-British violist andThis recording traces the heritage of Romanticism in postmodern times. It's vintage opener is the first Cello Sonata by Brahms, a pinnacle of unspeakable but mind controlled beauty. Martinu's second Cello Sonata, written in American exile in 1941, revisits Brahms's old world, but with wider tonality, more expressive shifts, and the extra rhythmic pulse of Czech folk music. In Schnittke's Cello Sonata of 1978, which builds on Shostakovich's emaciated