Mercadante/ Czech Chamber Soloists/ Brno - Don ChisciotteA contemporary of Rossini and Donizetti, Saverio Mercadante was one of Italy's most productive 19th century operatic composers. Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio was written during the composer's stay in Spain, and is based on a chapter of Cervante's Don Quixote in which the hero prevents the forced marriage of a poor farm girl to the wealthy Camacho. Magnificently entertaining and dramatically innovative, Don Chisciotte combines fashionable

This tour of Italy starts in Verona

the brooding Romanticism of Adolf Wiklund's Symphonic Prologue

] little by little the opera was composed"

a sound anthology explores a century of political

Jaraneh Nova

making for self-contained scenes which

Yuli Turovsky - Cello Sonatas

and mastered by Tom Dring at Southport's Vagrant Recordings

Another brilliant white songwriter-producer who loved black music was George Motola and his recordings of the Vows

plus a live archival release featuring Grover Washington

This documentary film traces the almost surreal development of Depeche Mode from their flirtations with New Romanticism at the dawn of their career

It all started with the desire to revive a mythical vintage instrument