Alwyn/ Villiers Quartet - Early String QuartetsWilliam Alwyn's musical style is in the main of a romantic nature firmly grounded in tonality, notwithstanding some forays into modernity, calling on dissonance and freedom of form when he felt the need. This approach can be keenly felt in the works included on this album, all of which were completed when he was aged between eighteen and twenty five. The medium of the string quartet held a long and lasting fascination for Alwyn, which began during the

1998 in Eaubonne

being issued simultaneously across the US

whether through a furious guitarra solo

Keep Telling Myself It's Alright (2008)

At the Manhattan School of Music he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees

for every jangly rocker like 'Anne-Marie' and 'Rain Song' there's a soaring

Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759) wrote a total of 27 operas for the Berlin court and not least for Frederick II

North African

the earliest trace having lyrical origins from 1991

and as School of Music Director at the University of Maryland

Jean-Efflam writes: 'To play a concerto under a conductor who shares and enriches one's vision of the work concerned is one of the greatest joys in the life of a soloist

Tenor saxophonist Jay Orlando has played big band swing