Wdr Sinfonieorchester Chamber Players - String Quintets & OctetMax Bruch was eighty years old when, in 1918, he decided to return to the chamber music genre he had frequented in his early years. Stimulated by the violin virtuoso Willy Hess, he composed two string quintets and an octet, monuments to beauty and harmony, at the end of a tumultuous personal life and in the midst of a western world on the brink of collapse. After an album devoted to Beethoven's chamber music, the Chamber Players of the WDR

where many important works by Beethoven received their first performance

but the first sessions - without a producer - delivered nothing

and these recordings underline his skill and versatility in performing fine swinging jazz while giving it a highly individual comedic twist

set out to lend a new and fresh perspective to Bach's timeless masterpiece of raging choirs

Symphonic in style

full of ardour and vitality'

which evoke the spirits of the dead and can last for several days and attract hundreds of people

the ensemble Les Surprises offers us the world premiere recording of Isse

Tara has formed bands like the Sonora Pine and Retsin (with the writer Cynthia Nelson)

Curtis reworks some tapes from his vaults with the assistance of choice friends with great effect

I have always seen the world beyond the binary

Sato is the term for the traditional rhythms that soundtrack Vodun (Voodoo) rituals and ceremonies in Benin