The inner light

My Focus – Live Under The Rainbow

Sun Triptych Maxim Rysanov, Dasol Kim, Roman Mints et al; BBC Concert Orchestra/ Dobrinka Tabakova ECM 4878558 64:61 mins This is the second ECM disc to feature the extremely accessible music of Bulga

Mike Patton and the Avett Brothers join forces to create a work of immense beauty.

From the bayou to Woodstock and back – the easygoing adventures of Bobby Charles. By John Mulvey.

London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

On the morning of 15 November 2007, Morten Lauridsen stepped onto a podium in the East Room of the White House to receive the National Medal of Arts from president George W Bush. He was 64 at the time