Authentic Quartet - Master of Music in Jane Austin - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Butterfield Blues Band has been critically acclaimed as one the greatest electric blues bands ever! Lead by singer & harmonica player Paul Butterfield, their albums have stood the test of time as classics of the 60's & early 70's. North South was originally issued in 1981 on the Bearsville tag. Wounded Bird Records. 2005.

Swiss composer Hermann Suter's works reflects that of the German late-Romantics of his era, including Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler, many of whom he conducted when posted in Basel. Suter's three great string quartets document different stations of his musical awareness, thereby revealing much of his artistic personality and of his intellectual world the Beethoven Quartet, founded in 2006 in Beethoven's home town of Bonn, is today based in Basel.

New York quartet Interpol... tap into the sound of Joy Division, Wire, Josef K and early Cure. But it's really the strong melodies and moody background music that set (them) apart - and could make then New York's next most talked about band - Entertainment Weekly.