Thomalla/ Pierson - Dark SpringDark Spring is an opera about four young people under extreme pressure: the pressure to overachieve academically, to score high in the popularity contests at school or at college, and to perform romantically or sexually. The pressure has become entirely internalized as parents or teachers are absent and the protagonists are left alone with late capitalism's demands of permanent self optimization. The conflict between the expectation to succeed on the

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motets and dances from the reign of Francois I- keyboard music that shows France at the forefront of developments in this field

There is also a wealth of cuts from simply the greatest musicians ever to come out of Jamaica (let alone Studio One)

The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that's both frightening and funny

The legendary scholar and conductor Richard Bonynge performs at the piano on two of the tracks

tenor and soprano sax

lyricism was given free rein two years earlier

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album "Online" released in year 2001 stormed over Eastern Europe (Gold in Poland) and Scandinavia with ethereally dreamy and catchy melody "Maybe"

each in her own era

From Mozart's furious Queen of the Night to Debussy's enigmatic Mélisande

Straesser's music has completely disappeared from the repertoire in the succession to Brahms