Various Artists - BlumineThe production with Reinhold Friedrich, Eriko Takezawa and Alisa Kratzer unites original works for trumpet and piano as well as arrangements for this instrumentation. One can only share Friedrich's regret that despite numerous, sometimes even exposed orchestral solos, there are no virtuoso solo concertos for trumpet by these composers. Reinhold Friedrich, a prolific performer on major stages around the world, is a professor of trumpet at Karlsruhe, a

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" Otis Clay

Cab Calloway was a jazz singer

pianist of the group Het Collectief

her music starting out from the base of the classical music she aspired to perform and compose throughout her career

Fabio Luisi and Andreas Homoki also know that the genre of operetta requires particular care- which is why they have assumed personal responsibility for this production

" Kidd titled the album Soothsayer on the basis of this ancestral background

Armenia and Greece

or perhaps the occasional buyer

this time with an anonymous abandoned lover as the subject

Richard Lewis gives a suitably romantic Onaway

an innovative slide guitarist and the first black musician to play a National steel-bodied guitar