Eli Kristin Hanssveen - Sempre Libera: Opera Arias - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Runes, the new album by composer Robert Dusek and pianist Bryan Pezzone, is a compilation of specially selected solo piano works, and provides the listener with a cohesive listening experience. Often sparse, sometimes impetuous, 'The music is at once very stark, and then seems to propel itself to the next scene or chapter with some unseen, and unheard, energy', says PARMA Recordings lead producer, Andy Happel. Bryan Pezzone deftly navigates the mind of the composer and shows that he clearly understands and admires the work.

Elisabeth Gr mmer - Arias Scenes [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/30/2010

ORFEO presents Georg Gagnidze's long-awaited debut album. Georgian baritone George Gagnidze - characterized by the American opera magazine Opera Now as a Inchgentle bear of a manInch - on his long-awaited debut album presents celebrated and diverse opera characters such as Verdi's murderous Count di Luna (Il trovatore), the vengeful Renato (Un ballo in maschera), the loyal friend Posa (Don Carlos) the great kink Nebuchadnezzar (Nabuko) and - outside the Verdi canon - Andrea Chénier's revolutionary colleague Gérard, Mozart's notorious seducer Don Giovanni and Wolfram (Tannhäuser), who pines for the love of Elisabeth.