Khoury / Douguet / Coleman - Bechara El-Khoury: Orages - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Considered to be the only significant composer of Australia and New Zealand representing the Late Romantic era, his prototypical late Romantic style evolved to include elements of the Maori culture to the extent that he was given the name of Arapeta Hira by the Maori. Featuring the New Zealand based Dominion String Quartet whose discography is dedicated to the works of this unjustly neglected composer.

Gottlieb Muffat, youngest son of composer and Kapellmeister Georg Muffat, was a keyboard virtuoso whose career was based around the Viennese Imperial Court. Muffat, with his own elegantly ornamented style, absorbing influences from Germany, France and Italy, is remembered as a composer from whom Handel borrowed extensively- a common practice of the period. These premiere recordings represent the remarkable rediscovery of manuscripts sequestered and dispersed after the Second World War. Naoko Akutagawa's previous recordings from Muffat's Componimenti musicali were described by MusicWeb International as 'galvanically virtuosic.' Naoko Akutagawa was born in Hiroshima in 1974, and began playing piano at the age of three. At 16 she switched to the harpsichord, studying first at the Toho Gakuen School of Music, and then at the Hochschule fur Musik Wurzburg, Germany, as a student of Glen Wilson. Her recordings have been broadcast by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Do you want to live in perfect health - forever? This album will not only attempt to cure all imaginable ailments - it will even promise you immortality! For, like our historical counterparts, we are all familiar with the ups and downs of sickness, recovery and health, no matter what our age, provenance or status. Perhaps you're asking, InchAn album that makes me healthy and immortal? How does that work? And wherever did La Ninfea get that idea?Inch Well, I would like to say that we found the magical musical instructions for creating the philosophers' stone in a 17th-century alchemical codex hidden in a dusty coffer in the attic of a charming little castle, but the truth is that we found dozens of prescriptions for musical cures hidden away in archives and manuscript collections. Six musicians united by one idea, playing 20 instruments in 27 formations, present a baroque kaleidoscope of pieces from the musical medicine chest.