Raymond Bernard (Criterion Collection - Eclipse Series 4)Two films are included. Wooden Crosses: In France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, a World War I regiment trudges from patriotism to disillusionment.

I'm ready - judge me'"

and all the rest deliver a performance which is a firework display of passion and skill

The remaining pieces demonstrate Skalkottas's involvement with the project of exploring the traditional music of Greece

and works from earlier on in the eighteenth century give a quite different perspective on the instrument

the less I sense it

Why they were written remains a mystery

Retaliation

Broughton/ Childs/ Rhode/ Lyris Quartet - Intimate Letters

Cima and Frescobaldi

among them Romantic-era concertos by Briccialdi and a 'winning' (MusicWeb International) album of chamber music by the Polish-US immigrant Robert Muczynski

frenetic yet lyrical

thus producing a wholly new sound in music usually assigned to unaccompanied voices