Isabel Leonard - GatheringThis unabashedly eclectic album features stirring and varied songs by Ben Moore, who has chosen poems spanning 2,600 years for his texts. The music extends from art song to cabaret, yet all share Moore's lyrical and eloquent style. The songs are united by the unwavering honesty and passion of the composer and performers, including Isabel Leonard, Liz Callaway, Matthew Polenzani, Michael Kelly, Janai Brugger and other stars of opera and Broadway. Brian

we have wanted to design concert programs with just a few large scale works

These two jewels in the cello repertoire are here performed by the acclaimed Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra who also directs the Münchener Kammerorchester

This is the first time that this album is available on vinyl

Along with his fourth sonata

The second movement prominently features interaction among the piano

Hands of a Thousand Dances' represents another example of Michael Beach's (Brothers of the Baladi) love affair with Middle Eastern music

Then I picked up on what he was doing

circa 1980

and swordplay continue in REVUE STARLIGHT: THE MOVIE

the instruments

lust and family relationships

traveling at dizzying speed