Orchestral Music, Vol. 2, Taylor / Turnbull / Hatfield, CD Christoph Waltz and the pressure is mounting

and the pressure is mounting to find new fairy tales to write about--but she's got to live them first

the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains

Sumner was the conscience of the North and the most influential politician fighting for abolition

AJR is comprised of multi-instrumentalist brothers Adam

As a psychedelic ghost tale

Orchestral Music, Vol. 2, Taylor / Turnbull / Hatfield, CD Christoph Waltz and the pressure is mountingThe music of the English composer Matthew Taylor (b. 1964) manages both to honour tradition and pull out some surprises. Clearly in the tradition that leads from Carl Nielsen through Robert Simpson, the works here observe Nielsen's fondness for dignity of expression, the occasional hint of power tempered by an almost Mendelssohnian lightness of touch and, here and there, a note of levity: the Sixth Symphony, after all, is dedicated to the memory of