Wax Chattels - ClotThe inception of Wax Chattels occurred rather rapidly. Several years after completing jazz school together, Peter Ruddell and Amanda Cheng reconnected at a Preoccupations show in 2016 at Auckland's legendary Kings Arms Tavern. The pair quickly decided that they wanted to create some noise together, and wrote a few demos before enlisting drummer Tom Leggett. It wasn't long before Wax Chattels were up and positively running, becoming a fixture at local

while L'Apothéose de Corelli pays homage to the Italian virtuoso

took the photographs featured in this volume

and following it with a Scherzo and a Finale that have been described as 'the dance of the demon fiddler' and 'a dance with death'

Albums have been made with lots more people and lots more sound

Mike Howlett (bass)

which helped to shape the musical direction of the genre

Pöntinen is joined by the Stenhammar Quartet in the second movement of Schumann's piano quintet

With the "Asrael" symphony he consciously took up the tradition of a "fate symphony" - associated since Beethoven's Fifth with the key of C minor moving at the end into radiant C major

Michels was having so much fun creating these instrumental / orchestral nuggets that he decided to expand on some of the ideas and create what would become the soundtrack for a movie that has yet to be made

Hafez and Forough Farakhzad

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's survey of Haydn's piano sonatas reaches it's conclusion with this 11th and final volume

Artfully directed puppets and puppeteers with the great ability to breathe life into the figures created this wonderful interpretation of Tchaikovsky's masterwork