Nata Belkin - Vivaldi & Bach / Kodaly Violoncello - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

SUZANNE VEGA / FLYING WITH ANGELS - Flying With Angels is Suzanne Vega's first studio album of new songs in eleven years. Bearing the stamp of a masterful storyteller who Inchobserves the world with a clinically poetic eyeInch (The New York Times), Vega's new songs find her returning to observations on city life, ordinary people, and real-world subjects.

With InchTauInch, Romanian Folk Black Metal pioneers Negura Bunget not only present the long-awaited successor to InchVirstele PamintuluiInch (2010), but also their first album for Lupus Lounge / Prophecy Productions with genuinely new song material. InchTauInch also marks the beginning of Negura Bunget's ambitious InchTransilvanian TrilogyInch, a sonic and visual tribute to the band's home country. While this first part highlights Romanian nature, parts two and three will deal with man, his traditions and practices as well as spiritual elements.

A busy schedule as music director of the Bach Collegium Japan and sought-after guest conductor doesn't stop Masaaki Suzuki from returning to his first loves, the organ and the harpsichord. With the present he adds yet another chapter to his series of Bach's works for solo harpsichord. After acclaimed recordings of the Well-tempered Clavier, the Goldberg variations, the French Suites and other works the turn has come to the English Suites. Composed while Bach was in his thirties it precedes other sets such as the French Suites and the Toccatas, and in his liner notes, Bach scholar Yo Tomita draws attention to 'the stylistic traits of a youthful and ambitious composer wanting to make his mark through the use of counterpoint and virtuosity'. Despite it's title, the collection has very little to do with England, at least musically the six suites are instead rooted in the French tradition, and show certain striking similarities to the composer Charles Dieupart's Six Suittes pour le Clavessin from 1701. (Bach made a copy of Dieupart's set sometime between 1709 and 1716.) It was only in the 19th century that the suites became known as the 'English', based on a never substantiated claim that the set was commissioned by an English nobleman.