Mestrovic/ Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra - 3 Rhapsodies for Piano & OrchestraIt is tempting to compare Matej Metrovic's compositional style to his great predecessors in the late Romantic tradition. After all, much of the Croatian composer's style and techniques would be right at home in Rachmaninoff's concertos, Tchaikovsky's works, or Prokofiev's neoclassicism; and the name of the album's first work, Danube Rhapsody, naturally evokes associations with Smetana's similarly river themed Vltava. Add to all of this that Metrovic,

which told us about the greatness and resilience of nature and the danger to which we submit it's fragile balance

selling out it's very first concert

Mercan Dédé

'Tierra Verde

So it was fitting that he dedicate his 1989 debut to their groundbreaking late guitarist who had meant so much to him

the album boasts Ariel's fiercest vocals to date

black-and-white comic science-fiction nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch island

skateboarding web-surfers

In the case of Henri Marteau this disappearance was occasioned in part by the circumstance that some of his compositions remained unpublished

culminating in a spectacular fashion

I enjoyed getting another crack at them

sequenced to match the album's running order