Thorette Ensemble Contraste Farjot Standley - Schubert in LoveA few years after the success of her album crossing Baroque music with folk, Love I Obey, the Franco American singer Rosemary Standley visits Schubert, this time with the complicity of the Ensemble Contraste: "We all have a few notes of Schubert buried deep inside us," say the artists, who have got together around his music and brought it to an original sound texture, the result of their varied influences classical, pop, jazz, folk. They have picked

In the year 234

5 "Wishful Thinking"

here are 25 hand-picked girl-pop artefacts from thereabouts

1 with the Staatskapelle Dresden and Myung-Whun Chung

at a time when the USA was emerging from post-war austerity into a more optimistic decade but was about to become embroiled in the Korean War

and gospel singers sought solace in spirituals

" (musica-dei-donum)

and it shares several traits with the music of today's Ono

Zoltán Kodály's Duo for violin and cello (1914)

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trumpet from Theresa May (Mourning A [BLK]star)

ranging across both well-known standards and original compositions