Bartok/ Vardai/ Quentin - Dancing CelloAfter their album entitled Singing Cello, this recording released by Istvan Vardai and Julien Quentin offers a compilation of popular cello pieces of the 19th and 20th century, performed on the famous Stradivari cello referred as '1673 Strad', earlier used by Jaqueline du Pre and Lynn Harrell. The cellos manufactured by the renowned Italian instrument maker have, somewhat surprisingly, an even better reputation than his violins. Out of the 65 items

After playing 85 shows in France

We owe Einem not least his rescue of the note material of many works by banned colleagues from destruction

the Four Freshmen

It introduces an orchestral scope that was previously unheard of in Hispanic musical theatre

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On

Orto/ Schroder/ Young - Amours Amours Amours - Lute Duos Around 1500

presented here in a Technicolor print

This magnificent score requires four vocal soloists

an energetic fusion of jazz

the bayadère Laméa - a 'star' role (then a new concept) - shows remarkable presence

and Willie Dixon live at the Village Gate

This is one of the classic records of creative music in the '80s