Meridian Arts Ensemble - BrinkMeridian's 8th album for Channel Classics features incredible music by David Sanford, Nick Didkovsky and Elliott Sharp. This CD is packed with the things that Meridian does best: complicated, virtuosic, high energy, bizarre versions of music that is more informed by the vernacular than the conservatory. 'On this disc, we present three commissioned pieces, each of which we hope will become a major contribution to the literature. For a long time, we

Lisa Fischer

releasing March 24 via River House Artists/Columbia Nashville

and finding release in a neoclassical gigue which perhaps symbolises the composer coming to terms with a homeland whose soil he would never again touch

the line-up and number of members of the ensemble has changed several times

Foster's support is always vivid and colourful" (MWeb) "Steinbacher's expressive cantabile alternates with enthusiastic verve in the virtuoso passages

That same joyful feeling is expressed in My Own Freilach

"Voices for Peace"

a year in the life of us all

a leading man who's in the Resistance

Buddy DeFranco was one of the few jazz clarinettists to come to prominence in the post-war era when the instrument generally saw a decline

The complexity of the writing shows the outstanding musicianship and virtuosity of the Welsh harpists

he is one of the 19th century's more interesting individuals in Swedish music life