Julia Smirnova - Songs of Our NeighboursViolinist Julia Smirnova and cellist Konstantin Manaev are a duo not only on the concert stage, but also in their private lives. "We play two instruments and have two temperaments," they say, "we embody yin and yang, as it were. All the works on this release are directly related to our artistic lives and open the doors to our musical world." The duo prefers contemporary music "that touches the audience's feelings." It is music that has a lot of

goes some way in showcasing her colourful personality as well as highlighting her as a performer who brought much more to popular music than one landmark hit

Revenge: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON on DVD is addictive entertainment that will have you begging for more

Deriving his style from influences as diverse as Merle Travis and Django Reinhardt

This effervescence owes much to the figure of Vivaldi who

oriented towards Empfindsamkeit

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written for jazz singer Maria João

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he now presents his vision of L'Orfeo: Monteverdi's opera is as much the apotheosis of the Renaissance as a testimony to the nascent Baroque style

Richard Harvey - Shroud for a Nightingale

Anonymous Noise contains episodes 1-12 of the anime which was directed by Hideya Takahashi