Jennifer Higdon is emerging as one of America's greatest living composers. Her music has the distinction of being at once complex, sophisticated but readily accessible emotionally.

Since the late seventies his work has shown clear diatonic melody lines and ostinato technique, with which he conveys both archaic ritualism and a meditative standpoint. Eespere has written ballets, vocal, ­symphonic works, chamber music, simple (and very popular) choir ­songs and great children songs.

This album was nominated for the 2005 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Album," and "Best Orchestral Performance," and "Best Classical Contemporary Composition." It received a 2005 Grammy Award for "Best Engineered Album, Classical."

NOW Ensemble re-defines chamber music for the 21st century, fusing "the formal elegance of chamber music with a pop-honed concision and rhythmic vitality." (Time Out New York) Their critically-acclaimed debut album, called "outstanding" by The Washington Post and the recipient of several five-star reviews, is aptly titled NOW.

“Written in 1985, the Episodi e canto perpetuo… grippingly charts, in Vasks's words, "a painful journey through misery, disappointment and suffering towards love…" Marvellously recorded by MDG, the Trio Parnassus give a highly persuasive account…” Gramophone Magazine, January 2009

With two of his most widely-performed works, Ecstatic Orange and The Yellow Pages, Torke practically defined post-minimalism, a music which utilises the repetitive structures of a previous generation to incorporate musical techniques from both the classical tradition and the contemporary pop world.

His punctuated rhythms are always framed around a tonal, melodic core and are as colorful as the titles of the works. But Torke is a bit more than a minimalist; he knows jazz inside and out and makes use of syncopation and even Modern dance rhythms...