Banchieri/ Hortus Musicus - CantoAndres Mustonen, artistic director of Hortus Musicus, writes of the group's new release: "The present release, titled Canto, is not trying to be an anthological overview of Italian music from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is rather a walk through the streets of Italian cities of the time, sometimes passing by a church, sometimes slipping into taverns or listening to sounds coming from the open windows of the doge's palazzo This album lacks the

Rice moved to Sao Paulo

who won a honorable mention at the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in 2000

and for large parts of that time it was the most important instrument in all of Western music

we get superb tuning

" Presented here is Don Paulin's classic 1963 release

For over 21 years he was resident composer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic

was taken up by his interest in pagan Russia and it's folk rituals

adopted from Gesualdo's intense

later joined by other musicians who improvise on the original theme using a rhyme scheme similar to decima poetry

On "Wanderlust

with it's unusual orchestration and several numbers that have fallen into oblivion

Natalie Haas (cello)