Suppe/ Muenchner Rundfunkorchester - OuvertuerenDirectly after Johann Strauss the Younger, Franz von Supp is one of the most famous Austrian composers of the 19th century to have paid special tribute to the so called "light muse". His oeuvre includes nearly three dozen operettas and light operas as well as countless farces and comedies, which he loosened up by framing them with musical numbers. This was the typical repertoire of Old Viennese folk theatre, which he imaginatively enriched in his

As a result of their success

Having asked close friend Bertrand Belin to provide lyrics for three further tracks ("Grande"

creating an atmospheric anthology of vignettes that could just as easily soundtrack a long train ride through the Italian countryside as they are at home in Sydney's quiet bays and bywaters

Inspired by his homeland's tribulations

via the music of Ireland and the British Isles

The pair credit it's 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process

PRISMA unites four young musicians in a joint search for particularly expressive

and of these 143 were Italian"

political cabaret

Moss shines with a Willie Dixon-like ability to write and sing the blues' honest truth

released in France by New Rose Records

and like Bach able to combine the most rigorous intellectual structure with a beguiling sensuality