Jean Ritchie - British Traditional Ballads Southern Mountains 1 Format:CD one of the finest Italian

one of the finest Italian composers of the 20th c

John Wilson's first album in a series of recordings of the orchestral works of Eric Coates

The world-premiere recordings of these three concertos for oboe and it's lower-pitched siblings the oboe d'amore and bass oboe receive dazzling performances by Mary Lynch

While performing for tips at a local tavern and struggling to reconnect with her ultra-Catholic mother (Christine Lahti)

Jean Ritchie - British Traditional Ballads Southern Mountains 1 Format:CD one of the finest ItalianTen years after British scholar Cecil J. Sharp declared the traditional English ballad a "moribund" art form, he discovered a rich and thriving tradition of ballad singing in America's southern Appalachian Mountains. Jean Ritchie, a tradition bearer from Appalachian Kentucky, shares some of her favorite "story songs" of murder and romance. "Hangman" and "Old Bangum" feature the Appalachian dulcimer, a type of fretted zither unique to the region. Liner