Eugenia Choe - Verdant Dreams - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Eugenia Choe - Magic Light - [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/10/2016

The string quartets of Danish music's eccentric outsider Rued Laggard are passionate works of the composer's youth, representing both his nostalgically romantic side and his profoundly visionary modernity. For the first time on CD, this recording series presents all 8 quartets in the award-winning young Nightingale String Quartet's distinctly dramatic interpretation based on the revised Rued Laggard Edition.

Trans Europe Experience tracks an imaginary journey around European cities in 20th-century organ music spanning some 50 years. From the operatic Adorazione by Oreste Ravenello to Markus Kühnis' Variations on the Swiss Song 'Stets i Truure, mues i läbe - with Carl Nielsen's Commotio, Op. 58 as the central InchstopInch of the recording - this CD showcases Keith John and the organ of Gloucester Cathedral at their very best. Keith John studied with Jean Guillou, whose Toccata, Op. 9 is also recorded here. He has previously recorded several discs for Priory and Hyperion, and this is his first with Willowhayne Records.