Nash Ensemble - Chamber WorksBorn in 1934, Sir Harrison Birtwistle is one of the leading European figures in contemporary music. He first made his mark in 1965 with the decet Tragoedia, a work whose ambience of something at once ancient and modern, with stark juxtapositions of strident violence and fragile lyricism, presented a sound and sensibility quite new in British music. The Nash Ensemble was formed around the same time and over the decades that have followed, a close

Deadly Manor - released on VHS in the US under the title Savage Lust - is a fitting capper to the director's prolific career in fear

The Velveteers

Alain Lef vre - Romantic Rhapsodies

indisputably perfect as regards harmony

What they all share is embodied by epic-a musician frankly communicating the power of music

It's a substantial and fairly comprehensive overview of what was the primary era of his pop career

Sidelined agent George Smiley is covertly tapped to root out the traitor-a task that requires an intensive dig through the labyrinths of Cold War espionage and his own past

Since A Jit Feat

including early recordings as Bonnie Tutmarc

lamenting phrases and groans express the pain

Driven to explore the darkest corners of her own origin

The album is the second of his to be released German label Agogo records