Harriet CraigOscar winner Joan Crawford (Best Actress, 1945, Mildred Pierce) plays Harriet Craig, a sophisticated yet dictatorial woman who runs her household with an iron fist, driving her staff to distraction and treating her husband, Walter (Wendell Corey, Rear Window), like an object, and her cousin, Clare (K. T. Stevens, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), like a slave. When Walter is offered an opportunity to work in Japan, Harriet schemes to keep him home, weaving

the cool and chiseled counselor of the Righteous Regiment

The first suite is based on a classical Rondo

but in 1977

' 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

on par with Time Machines - a sustained divination of shuddering

with the aim of reintroducing contemporary music to the cultural life of the city

The seasoned team of violinist Ulf Wallin and pianist Roland Pöntinen have now decided to record all the Brahms sonatas

intelligently planned recitals

The highly romantic Piano Concerto in B minor displays a very different compositional design

the International Violin Competition Valsesia-Musica in Italy and the International Violin Competition in Avignon in France

as in their first year on tour they completed a short European tour with original Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice

This opera waited almost three centuries before it's rediscovery by Antonio Florio and the Turchini orchestra