Various Artists - Art of the Chinese LutesThis album features three types of the most popular Chines lutes: The tenor ruan, the bass ruan, and the pipa with Xu Pingxin providing accompaniment on the yangqin and drum. The Ruan are a family of long necked, round bodied, plucked lutes with four strings. The ruan is an indigenous instrument of China with a history of more than 2000 years. It is recorded in many ancient Chinese literary works. In recent decades it has developed into a family of

This great-value 60-track 2-CD set comprises the A and B sides of his US and UK singles from his 1959 debut through to the end of 1962

conducted by Fabio Luisi

This recording provides an opportunity to discover a forgotten Baroque operatic treasure

who also wrote the libretto

attracted great attention and soon became a benchmark in the work's discography

Artists inevitably became involved

with his high-profile TV series "The Lawrence Welk Show" running for three decades from 1951 into the early '80s

including a role in the 1952 classic "High Noon" - his biggest screen success came after the success of "Purple People Eater" when he was cast as Pete Nolan in the western series "Rawhide"

including her No

luminous underpinning

Also in 1959

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