The Second WomanThe Second Woman

The choir provides an ineffable epitaph to Nystedt's legacy with this release

This album is a soundtrack of sorts to the theatre piece

and over a hundred photos

and the intoxicated love of Romeo and Juliet

influencing a generation of filmmakers from Hong Kong to Hollywood

a deeply soulful vocalist

- words from Ransom Note

indebted to the bicultural upbringing in his family

and found there a well-stocked but little-known library of pieces by composers who moved easily and skillfully between popular and classical idioms

as the author's stories

Unlike other oratorios

none carried such precocious talent for transcending the era's pop music tropes with heart-melting melodies