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The famous pianist Polina Osetinskaya will present masterpieces of baroque music from world cinema classics.On November 20, in Riga, at the Great Guild hall, one of the most outstanding pianists of the 21st century, Polina Osetinskaya, comes out with the long-awaited concert "Baroque music in the art house cinema". Masterpieces of Bach, Handel, Purcell and Rameau from the landmark films of cult directors can be heard in Polina's exemplary performance.

A work dedicated to "castratos" and the music that their magic voices inspired to a lot of composers. The title of the album refers to the sacrifice castratos did for the sake of music.

“She makes music because she has to; it is something she can't really choose. It is a divine gift of God, a means of touching the divine that only a relatively few people are given on this planet. It is very rare and precious, she is blessed to be one of the chosen ones.”

Jakub Kuszelki is a polish pianist, Prize winner of the 18th International Piano Competition Frederic Chopin in 2021.

By 1983 MoFi had grown into a company with over 25 employees and grossing over $8 million annually. Then they nearly lost it all. The new darling on the scene was the compact disc. Because MoFi had been putting something on the order of 20% of their earnings back into research, they were prepared for the next wave. In the mid ‘80s, they launched their assault on the CD market with their half-speed
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Their first efforts were released on aluminum discs, very much like all other discs at the time. And, in fact, some of these have become quite rare. Recently copies of them regularily go for >$75 on e-Bay. Partly, in an effort to justify the higher price they needed to charge, MoFi began to release their works on gold-plated compact discs called UltraDiscs. Although gold in and of itself isn’t significantly better than aluminum for the reproduction of ones and zeros, it oxidizes roughly ten times more slowly than aluminum. It is also supposed to coat more evenly than aluminum. This last attribute is said to cut down on the pin-holing so common to aluminum CDs, which allows for less error-correction during playback. This means more of the actual recording and less processor interpolation gets to your ears. So there was some inherent advantage to the gold treatment.

‘The High Cost Of Low Living’ is no recycling of old songs. Moss wrote eight memorable new originals and Gruenling wrote two, all deeply rooted in the blues tradition with a touch of old school rock ‘n’ roll. Produced by guitarist Kid Andersen and Moss and recorded at Rancho de Rhythm in Elgin, Illinois, the album is a joyous sonic blast of pure blues power.

Travel diary of a special kind: with" Travel Diaries " the Munich Goldmund quartet celebrates its tenth concert anniversary – and takes the listeners on a very personal journey through time. In the luggage: works by Wolfgang Rihm, Fazıl Say, Bryce Dessner and others.