Blanket - Nice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

This album presents two major orchestral works by Claude DeBussy - Images and La Mer - alongside the delightful Danses for harp and orchestra. The French conductor Sylvain Cambreling highlights all the charm of these colorful scores. French-born conductor Sylvain Cambreling is a musician with big ideas. A thought-provoking, colorful and dramatic artist, he has a flair for grabbing the attention of audiences, yet his originality is rooted in thorough knowledge of musicology. As the Chief Conductor of the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, and Principal Guest Conductor of Klangforum Wien, he has offered ample proof of his gifts for imaginative programme-planning and persuasive championship of contemporary music.

For their fourth proper album, Portland quartet Blanket Music gathered in the former South Portland Library to self-record a collection of love songs rooted wholly in earnestness. They came away with not only their fourth, but their fifth album as well collected here in a two-disc set entitled the Love/Love Translation.

Nice Nice - Chrome [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/07/2003