Various Artists - Songs Without Words - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After completing her training as a concert pianist and gaining her diploma, Vesselina Kasarova went on to study singing at the Music Academy of Sofia. She has since then given concerts and recitals throughout Europe, the USA and Japan. Ivor Bolton is chief conductor of the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, with whom he has appeared annually at the Salzburg Festival since 2000, and on tour (including at the 2006 BBC Proms in London), and with whom he has already built up an extensive discography including a critically successful series of Bruckner Symphony recordings. The Sinfonieorchester Basel, rooted in the nation's northwest, is one of the oldest and most important orchestras in Switzerland. Of Madness and Love features vocal and instrumental works of Hector Berlioz inspired by the words of William Shakespeare.

Tosca and Tannhauser, lieder by Schumann and Schubert - interpreted by a tubist and a harpist? Without any singing at all? Exactly! On the new GENUIN album by Andreas Martin Hofmeir and Andreas Mildner, the name says it all InchBesser ohne WorteInch (Better without words) humorously offers arrangements of lieder and arias. It's a bit like Christmas and Easter at the same time! The ECHO Classic Winner and the exceptional harpist play with passion and with unheard-of perfection - as the only tuba-harp duo in the world. Until now, angelic singing was only accompanied by the harp, but now

In the month of the ninetieth birthday of one of the most singular and emblematic composers on the international contemporary scene, this record production comes as a tribute to the figure of Sylvano Bussotti, thanks to Jonathan Faralli on percussion and Roberto Fabbriciani on flute, an equally emblematic performer and constant point of reference in the musical production of our century, as well as a great friend and close collaborator of Bussotti himself. A must for lovers of the genre, in which the masterful work of the two performers stages Bussotti's famous and theatrical scores, full of dramaturgy, poetry and scenographic both for the eyes and for the ears.