Half Waif - The CaretakerHalf Waif Nandi Rose is on her own again, and three songs into her forthcoming album The Caretaker, the singer, songwriter and producer declares her fearlessness: "Baby don't worry about me, I don't worry about you." Here, on "Ordinary Talk," Rose meditates on the heaviness of ordinary moments, the constellation of tears and chores and self doubt and small talk that comprise being a person, accompanied by her most cinematic, pulsing arrangements to

Ayako Hotta-Lister presents exquisite and enchanting Japanese Koto music by Yatsuhashi Kengyo (1614-1685)

The result is a wonderfully cultivated circle attended by Dave Matthews & Pat Metheny

- The perpetually contemporary Williams was always ahead of the field and in a different class

The classical contours and absolute clarity of Debussy's musical forms and the unity and self-contained character of his work

marked the sole occasion upon which Dvorak wrote music to a German libretto (by German poet Karl Theodor Korner (1791-1813)

his pupil Avison orchestrated concertos by Scarlatti

inspired by the paradox of the story of the Black Buddha

"Some of the tracks were remixed by people we've known since we were kids and other tracks were done by people we've connected with over the past couple years of touring

Now you can bring the festivities home anytime as you dance your troubles - and extra pounds - away

Four years on from his last studio album

Rameau gave it a thoroughgoing revision in 1756

Ignored for many years