Esop 90

Collegium Musicum 90 was founded by Simon Standage and the late Richard Hickox in 1990, and is today a well-established ensemble for the performance of baroque and classical music, with a repertoire ranging from chamber music to large-scale works for choir and orchestra.

The Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra stuns with a new recording of Richard Wagner's three-act opera TRISTAN AND ISOLDE. Skillfully conducted by German conductor Robert Reimer, this new, vibrant performance is likely to claim its place as one of the reference recordings of Wagner's innovative work.

First appearing on TV screens in September 1968, Joe 90 was a unique nine year old boy with the ability to absorb the brain patterns of top experts, enabling him to become the most special agent of WIN (World Intelligence Network).
Whilst there are arguably better-known scores amongst Barry Gray's sublime catalogue of work with the Andersons, the composer's work for Joe 90 is in many ways the most consistent and inventive selection he ever wrote. Developing a theme for the new series was always the musician's starting point, and for Joe 90, the pop charts breezed into Gray's studio, with an opening tune featuring a genuine groove. Mixing Gray's inventive electronics with 60s "surf rock" guitars was an inspired decision. It is no wonder that this piece has gone on to enjoy a second life as a Northern Soul disco floor-filler. For episodic incidentals, Gray was freed from the detached unearthly premise of Captain Scarlet and able to bring back a playful sensibility and a more mature musical palette which are amply illustrated in this 24 track collection.

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is the opera in which "Richard once wanted to be completely symphonic," as his wife Cosima wrote. The Soloist Ensemble D'Accord, which features top international young musicians and whose special focus is on great music in a small format, presents this groundbreaking work in an extremely successful and gripping one-hour chamber music paraphrase for string septet by Martina Trumpp. It has (rightly) conquered a place on stages all over the world shortly after its premiere by the Soloist Ensemble D'Accord.

Ludwig van Beethoven was commissioned by the dancer and choreographer Salvatore Viganò to write the ballet The Creatures of Prometheus an allegorical story based on the myth of Prometheus and the composers piano version of the orchestral score was published not long after its premiere in 1801. Beethoven turned his symphonic style and skill in pictorial representation to conjure scenes of stormy excitement alongside elegant dances and the sublime aura of beauty surrounding the legendary musicians Orpheus, Amphion and Arion. The Finale is crowned by a theme that would later be used in the Eroica Symphony.

Following the 189-issue run of Wolverine Volume 2, Marvel published a new ongoing solo series, with the now official library designation . In Wolverine Vol. 3 issues #73 and #74 the character of Daken, Wolverine's son, and who first appeared in the other co-ongoing Wolverine solo series, (March 2007), was eased into the storyline. After issue #74, was released (September 23, 2009), and it served as the finale of sorts to the title as a Wolverine solo series because by issue #75 the title was changed to , where the focus shifted to Daken--aka "Dark Wolverine"--as a cross-over series to Marvel's storyline. Dark Wolverine would run for 16 monthly issues, until issue #90 released last August 25, 2010. It should be noted that Dark Wolverine issues #75-90 is Wolverine Volume 3 issues #75-90 in library terms. marks the end of both and as series. In the free one-shot direct edition comic book (posted by yours truly, link in details) a backgrounder as regards Logan's relationship to his son Daken is given and it sets the stage for the next Wolverine ongoing series (now Volume 4), and the next Dark Wolverine ongoing series, . With this compilation, Wolverine Volume 3 with its 90 issues (#1-74 previously posted) is complete.