Music of Melinda Wagner <BR> BRIDGE 9345Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner has composed a highly regarded catalog of chamber and orchestral music. Critic Tim Page writes: "Melinda Wagner's work suggests what the painter Henri Rousseau might have created had he written music ? the bright, deep colors; the sense of fantasy that is both explicit and somewhat mysterious. It is music that is just as smart as it is sensual, as brainy as it is beautiful. Wagner is one of my favorite

BRIDGE 9361a/b (two discs)

Chicago Lyric Opera

Three Early Songs

excellent collection

Her fabulous Gasparo da Salo viola

Hans Sachs (1494-1576) is best known today

whose heart was not changed

electric violin/laptop

consequently

Equally thrilling are the sonics

Léo Delibes

Keyboard virtuoso Lambert Orkis is heard in the premiere recordings of two major works