Various Artists - Pulchra EsThe Italian composers of the seventeenth century, living at the time of Galileo, were at the forefront of a musical revolution that offers some surprising analogies with the birth of the modern scientific method. Just as Galileo with his telescope was able to observe the sky and discover new celestial objects, so the musicians of the time strove to fathom the depths of the human soul with their wind and bowed or plucked string instruments. Each

breathy instrumental moments

The Ensemble's enormously successful first recording of music by Schubert

The album is produced by Petr Ostrouchov who also performs in the accompanying band

The color evokes yearning

Gaughan recorded his first of many solo albums in 1971

natural and whole

especially Middle Eastern and Brazilian music

the Mahler Chamber Orchestra

and psychedelic rock

The Vapor Caves

"First Flight" documents the first and (thus far) only meeting of Chris Forsyth

the impressive high notes