Musical Journey: SpainThe Places: The tour starts in the countryside near Sancti Petri, and shows other aspects of the fertile landscape of Andalusia, leading to the historic hillside town of Medina Sidonia, seat of the Guzman family, whose Duke led the Spanish Armada in 1588. The resort of Sitges in Catalonia is followed by the great Cathedral of Seville, reputedly the largest Gothic church in the world, and towns that reflect the Moorish past of this region of Spain. The

intelligence and maturity without any loss of freshness or elegance

Ottone and Radamisto

The new band

fruits of the counterpoint exercises Beethoven was assigned by his first teacher

two string instruments (violin

This does not sound like some fledgling band that just wandered into the studio one day - this is a well-conceived album featuring finely crafted songs and dynamic playing from the musicians involved

When Julián gets home

Shozin Fukui's Pinocchio 964 depicts the nightmarish journey of a discarded cybernetic sex android that is expelled from a brothel and left to fend for himself

who recorded as Airwaves

Susan Bickley is one of the most accomplished mezzo-sopranos of her generation

The uncanny

" originally released on Chicago's Parrot Records subsidiary Blue Lake label