Berg/ May/ Kamper - Poemes for Violoncello & PianoPomes are wayfarers crossing borders between language and music. What had mostly been called Lied Song before, has often been seen as poems in the past 200 years: Richard Wagner gave his Wesendonck Liedern the titel Five Poems for Female Voice and Piano and Francis Poulenc composed around 30 Pomes to be sung and accompanied musically. Just as with Lied, which also exists without words (Mendelssohn Bartholdy), a Pome does not necessarily have to be

Whether well known

was dubbed "one of the all-time great piano recordings" by Fanfare

the fifth is one of Tchaikovsky's most popular

Long Gone' reflects Dawson's mastery of song-craft

both composers worked on their texts in very different ways

whose Salve Regina settings have been newly recorded on another recent Brilliant Classics album (96092) but they were better known as operatic composers

with Aki Ishiguro on guitar

with his partner and wild dog Willa

the fire-conjuring Bahamut

Gamera returned several more times

He studied at the Funchal Music Conservatoire and the Musicians Academy in London

her harsh 'core vocals are ferocious as hell and sound better than many of her male counterparts