Copland/ Delan/ Foster - Certain Slant of LightThe exceptional nature and musicality of Emily Dickinson's poetry has attracted many composers. A Certain Slant of Light features musical settings of Dickinson poems by four outstanding American composers: Aaron Copland, Gordon Getty, Jake Heggie and Michael Tilson Thomas. The collection of songs featured on this album reveals the diversity of Dickinson's oeuvre, as well as the rich 20th and 21st century tradition of American art song composition.

An emotionally wounded accountant decides to break away from routine and find his missing co-worker friend

previously only on a rare LP

the celebrated virtuoso Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner was at the height of his pianistic powers

For his latest recording

studying as an apprentice with opera legends Renata Scotto

It's Boogie Woogie All Stirred Up

Haydn would no doubt have smiled at Donizetti's ingenuity in developing the material for the Minuet from little more than the open strings of the ensemble

Whether you are wrapping presents

and escape an increasingly humdrum domestic life

with considerable understatement

leading many researchers to speculate upon the composer's own preferences

Kansas and many other melodic rock bands can be heard throughout