Izumi-Kai - Classical Japanese Koto MusicJapan owes it's music, as it's culture in general, to the Chinese. Not only, however, have the Japanese actively developed this heritage, but they have also preserved many elements of older Chinese music which have been lost in it's home country. The most important instrument of Japanese art music is the koto, the Japanese variety of the Chinese ch'in. Other instruments directly taken over from China are the sho (Chinese sheng), the biwa (Chinese

Inspired by ideas of synesthesia

Young Love

and Sarah's love for Cuban music is evident in every track

Wim Wenders and Debbie Harry "chime in" to reveal the man and his body of work

2009 compilation

Tatu and soprano Stephanie Smittle

Jay Moynihan (Sax)

the disc will be packaged alongside a 16-page booklet packed with lyrics and photos

Renaissance music from Spain has come to mean the works of composers such as Tomás Luís de Victoria or Francisco Guerrero rather than their predecessors

Astor Piazzolla's melancholic tango mood

Nicholas Hytner's beautiful

and features songs by the Swingin' Sounds