Various Artists - An Old BeliefAn Old Belief introduces Hubert Parry's emotional and heartfelt Songs of Farewell, which surely rank among some of the finest choral works ever written. Deeply affected by the First World War, Parry sought poetry that would reflect not only peace and unity and the search for a better world, but also an escape from the horrors of war. The poems Parry chose to set are sublime, be they metaphysical poetry by John Donne and Henry Vaughan or the aching

channeling the nostalgic Quebec lyricism of Jack Kerouac with Cohen's inner city heart

With this album Matthias Höfs aims to shed light on a composer and musician that has been in the dark

For such a rapidly changing music environment

Formed in 2012 by students at London's Royal Academy of Music

the opera marks the saturation of the so-called "realistic" phase of the composer's work

the 'Hens and Cocks'

lyrics that covered broader social issues

The regard in which he was held by his peers is underlined by the litany of jazz greats with whom he performs on many of these recordings

Different Problems

as well as having a career that involved several visits to the US R&B charts

Octet Ensemble/ Ferber/ Gurfield/ Hughes - Scatter My Ashes

and some will rise while others must fall