Turrini/ Barchi - 12 Sonatas for HarpsichordEarly Classical keyboard sonatas by a north Italian contemporary of Beethoven, much esteemed in his day and now almost unknown. Brilliant Classics has long specialised in illuminating the music of composers who are largely lost to posterity especially from Italy, and especially from the 17th and 18th centuries. Here is another name to conjure with and to quicken the blood of collectors eager to add another name to their shelves: Ferdinando Turrini,

along with a true who's who of today's Texas blues scene

and with her "Brother Surveillance Tool

InsidesEven though these bands didn't sound alike

the Estonian Arvo Pärt (born 1935) has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to the attention of a larger audience

This is a superb album

all of them seasoned Rossini singers

Patton cites 20th century American fiction ("from Fitzgerald and Hemingway and Faulkner to Kerouac and Salinger and Raymond Chandler") and the various lives of the friends he grew up with in Maryland ("I knew doctors and lawyers and waitresses and teachers and water rats and gravediggers and the guy who drove the truck that emptied the port-o-pots all over the state") as the main source of his lyrical inspiration

The choice was the five-act Italian-language Don Carlo and the spectacular production was pivotal in establishing this version as a repertoire piece

hellbent on meting out punishment for their "transgressions"

and spent time busking around Los Angeles to make ends meet

Initially enjoying popularity first in Germany-speaking lands and then in France

recently writing songs with Iggy Pop and performing as a member of his band on his worldwide tour