Nightingale String Quartet - String Quartets 1After award winning Langgaard recordings, the Nightingale String Quartet turns to one of the great unsung quartet cycles of the last century, that of Vagn Holmboe (1909 1996). Volume 1 in this new cycle takes in the composer's first published quartet, his momentum fuelled Quartet No. 3 and his taut Quartet No. 15 with it's pathos imbued funeral march. These are fresh new performances that support the idea that the deeper you dig into Holmboe's music,

The Punishment Due" PLUS several tracks from the then brand new album The System Has Failed

Count Gerry Beckley as one of those precious few

In the Texas and Latin Music pantheon

and Aya are glad to pitch in

from his book "Cocteau: A Biography"

and cosmological inquiry

"swelling desire" is colorfully illustrated by images of nature such as the silvery gurgling brook - an evocation of splendid vitality

Vocal parts in the arias with oboe are sung by the young coloratura soprano Marie Friederike Schöder

Performing at prestigious hotels and on radio

with supremely sensitive and evocative playing

Recorded live at New York's venerable Smalls Jazz Club this record is part of the Smalls LIVING MASTERS SERIES

The album's title track ("Ve'Eem Tavo'ee Elay" in Hebrew) has already become one of Idan's biggest hits ever in Israel