Valentina Felix - Cancao Do Mar: Song of the SeaValentina Felix, a young fadista and popular singer, presents a variety of modern and traditional music with themes such as the beauty of the land and the sea, Christmas, and love. Dance music from the north and the south of Portugal is featured as well. Lyrics are in Portuguese, with English explanations.

and Michele Reis

Can Crusader and Rags stop him in time

the German pianist Alexander Lonquich - whose Schubert double album was recently released on Alpha (Alpha 433) - and the British violist Lawrence Power

The songs on this album are all settings of poems by various poets (listed below in the track listings)

' The short filler is a performance of Balakirev's Islamey

including Benny Goodman

Since their fortuitous parochial meeting

presents nine recordings made between October 1983 and June 2000 at Bayerischer Rundfunk concerts

Bavouzet's playing is all the more astonishing

a saxophonist bent on twisting his instrument into the singular voice of a beast

building Layer On Layer from the ground up

If there was to be a band that stands out for it's originality