Holst/ Liszt/ Newman/ Strauss/ Mund - Battles in Music Release:Battles in Music Naxos The rollicking You Can Still

The rollicking You Can Still Rock & Roll reached number one on the Christian music charts

The Man from Midian (1942) a work based on the Old Testament

This 'trick' in combination with the gigantic moveable sets by stage designer Katharina Schlipf

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler's Symphony No

raw and alive tunes - and the garage is shaking

Holst/ Liszt/ Newman/ Strauss/ Mund - Battles in Music Release:Battles in Music Naxos The rollicking You Can StillHow to depict scenes of battle in music is a task that has long fascinated composers. From the dawning of the Renaissance the first successful programmatic works appeared from Susato, Dowland and Biber. But it was the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that witnessed a true flourishing, when composers utilized the full resources of contemporary symphonism to evoke the tumult of battle. Later the medium of film, notably those produced in Hollywood,