Various Artists - ContrastSong composition has been a constant in British music since the lute and consort works of the early seventeenth century. By 1900, it had developed into a sophisticated genre embraced by almost all serious composers. The music on this amply filled disc illustrates the diversity of British song writing and it's transformation over a century: from Vaughan Williams's Orpheus and his Lute (ca 1901) to Huw Watkins's Five Larkin Songs, composed in 2010 for

In these 6 exciting episodes - plus New Chugger Spotlights

Polydor dropped the band and Alfonzetti left to be followed by Del Rio

becoming known as "The Arizona Cowboy"

Schmierer is German for "scribbler

Glen Velez

Firmly established on the Early Music scene

In addition to the concertmaster Rainer Hocke of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The springy staccato guitar

Women across the Arab world are redefining their role as leaders in Islam

Bergen Woodwind Quintet - Summer Music for Woodwind Quintet

FLYING HIGH

" This question drives a recital of songs by female composers performed by soprano Golda Schultz and pianist Jonathan Ware