Bruckner/ Musikkollegium Winterthur - Symphony 3 in D MinorWhen Tora Augestad releases a musical portrait together with the Oslo Philharmonic, there's nothing less than Kurt Weill, Marcus Paus, and Charles Ives on the menu. Augestad's repertoire for "Portraying Passion" takes the musical qualities of modernist, individualistic composers and places them squarely within the context of the 21st century. Paus' contemporary composition enhances Ives' visionary dissonance as well as the contrasting melodic shifts

twelve songs determined to challenge for the title of greatest Guided by Voices album of all-time

lucid solos and achieve a one-instrument sound on the unisons

through 'The Drugs'

After Manic Frustration was released in 1992 the sky seemed the limit for Trouble

The scoring is transparent

encourage and inspire

by Leevi Madetoja and Tauno Pylkkänen

But here is "Been Around" and yes

'Tender Epoch' feels ambiguous to any era

with this marvelous blues album Gaines doesn't just play the music

11/4 by Paul Hindemith is like a river or a journey

It's the music of composer Sam Webster that would make those long