Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra - VerismoAn album of dramatic and passionate Preludes and Intermezzos from some of the most popular Italian operas, from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Translations of works by early French and Russian realists, Stendahl, Pushkin and Balzac among them, crossed international borders to inspire new homegrown styles of literary realism. The trend took hold in Italy in the 1870s where it was promoted by the authors Luigi Capuana

Will Sharpe

Gallo remembers the album as being "pierced together by cruel winds of war cries and peasants' laments

this album was nevertheless only made possible thanks to the strong musical appetite and curiosity of an exciting multi-generational band

Taco flies into the drone zone

and it was really great fun

whose vocal style recalls that of her late mother Jenny on 'From the Hip' and 'Love & Hate'

Chalice - Live at Reggae Sunsplash

quintessentially romantic

gorgeous tone and expressive musicianship of the clarinetist Anthony McGill meshes with the talents of the excellent Pacifica Quartet for thoroughly enjoyable readings" (The New York Times)

We still need to learn to cooperate in order to conserve these common goods

Beach parties

composed a decade later