Beethoven/ Osostowicz/ Tong - Beethoven Plus 2Volume II of SOMM Recordings' Beethoven Plus series sees violinist Krysia Osostowicz and pianist Daniel Tong reuniting to conclude their ambitious project to commission 10 leading contemporary composers to write 'companion' pieces for and inspired by Beethoven's seminal set of 10 Violin Sonatas. The result is a fascinating conversation between past and present in which Beethoven's mastery of the form prompts illuminating and often surprising

right after the suppression of la Commune

The time has now come and the acorns start hatching

A multi-instrumentalist (played keyboards on Blackmore's Rainbow Rising album) and a great song writer

Spectacular virtuoso playing

early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and featuring the greatest close-up footage we have of this American icon

taking sonic inspiration from everyone from Sugar Ray to R

By far the largest collection of concert études in the known repertoire

But on the whole I am glad we have a more stable line-up with this new album

the ninja brothers befriend a Native American girl and find themselves embroiled in a battle between the girl's people and weaselly businessmen

Begun in earnest as an acoustic jazz trio in 2005

and Dakota Johnson [bass]-face it head-on with their fifth full-length offering

Also acknowledged for creating Godzilla's iconic roar