Erik Bosgraaf - Concertos for Recorder 2With a catalogue of acclaimed albums for Brilliant Classics stretching well into double figures, the Dutch recorder virtuoso Erik Bosgraaf goes back to Bach for his latest release, with an album of arrangements as imaginatively conceived and as stylishly executed as Volume 1 (94296), released in 2011, which won glowing reviews from the international music press. Bach wrote as inventively and idiomatically for the recorder throughout his career as he

our aim was to explore the elements of dream and travel through time and space

Shostakovich once described it as a "symphony for trumpet and orchestra" - no wonder

Rounding out the recital are 4 Walt Whitman Songs by German-born composer Kurt Weill

Sometimes life is sugary and other times it's bittersweet in TAMAKO LOVE STORY

' The three works featured on this release belong to Scriabin's final compositional period where the music seems to veer between voluptuous languor and striving energy

In the fourth

-With his bands and orchestras he accompanied a lot of colleagues like Tennessee Ernie Ford or Bob Roubian - also a discovery of Cliffie Stone - whose best Rock 'n' Roll numbers we present as well

before working with Ike and Tina Turner in the 'Ikettes'

the third CD created with Chris Burns

Featuring the standout tracks 'Terminal Velocity'

These works are played at the tekke at ceremonies of the whirling dervishes

unsentimental expressivity