The Life of Oharu (Criterion Collection)A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society throughout it's history, Kenji Mizoguchi had already been directing movies for decades when he made THE LIFE OF OHARU in 1952. But this epic portrait of an inexorable fall from grace, starring the incredibly talented Kinuyo Tanaka (THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA) as an imperial lady in waiting who gradually

The present album features Georg Philipp Telemann's Overture and Concerti pour Darmstadt

returns to Beethoven

eponymous Alice ("the part she was born to play

This album forms an engaging introduction to the impassioned idiom

So it was fitting that he dedicate his 1989 debut to their groundbreaking late guitarist who had meant so much to him

music critic for the Chicago Tribune

binding the whole work together with brief orchestral links and a feverish epilogue

ascetic but deeply felt language that touches the heart

[Symphony 2] "an attractive piece- I am inclined to think the Svetlanov account is finer (than) Rozhdestvensky

Abrahamsen composed the opera between 2014 and 2018

is a native of Paris

Jakob Lindberg - Pavans / Galliards / Almains