In a career spanning less than twenty years, Georges Bizet produced works in every genre: orchestral music, piano pieces, cantatas, operas, songs and more, characterized by a mastery of orchestration and a taste for orientalism and folklore. This comprehensive 4-CD portrait album and accompanying 159 page book from the musicological record label for Palazzetto Bru Zane – Center for Romantic …

Berlin Philharmonic French hornist Sarah Willis’s three-album Mozart y Mambo project fused Mozart with Cuban rhythms. Besides recording all of Mozart’s horn concertos, the project also experimented with the French horn joining the traditional Cuban band mix of saxophone and rhythm section. Willis loved this grouping so much that she subsequently formed the Sarahbanda with some of Cuba’s most talented …