Four Minutes/ Various - Four MinutesThe album FOUR MINUTES for woodwind quartet contains 18 four minute works, written by 18 composers from 9 countries. A woodwind quartet, sometimes casually called wind quartet, is an ensemble of four woodwind instruments, or music written for four instruments. The usual scoring is flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon. The instruments in a woodwind quartet usually have different ranges that allow for rich harmonies with high and low tones. Since these

while blurring the line between improvised and written moments

1 and in January 1944 Bernstein himself conducted the première of the work

5 developed as part of Vauxhall Pleasure

but also the mastery which Vashegyi - with his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir - has acquired in the music of the Late French Baroque

Just memories

Sebastian Fagerlund's orchestral music

and lithograph

a more mature and well rounded collection

The composer's literary leanings and gifted word setting soon produced equally idiomatic settings of French poetry in a set of Cinq mélodies and an elliptical cycle of three poems (titled in English) by Georges Jean-Aubry

as he conducts the ensemble as well as performs the solo part in Vasks' recent Concerto for Viola

can still be audible and influential for the present

Whether he's singing a passionate ballad or a foot-stomping gospel tune