Sprints - Letter To SelfSprints LETTER TO SELF Sprints' debut album 'Letter to Self' embodies their substantial evolution over the past 3 years. Transforming pain into truth, passion into purpose and perseverance into strength, the Dublin four piece have steadily grown in stature, releasing two acclaimed EPs and building a fearsome live reputation. For their debut album the band set about transforming so called "negative energy" into an opportunity for communal catharsis and

Loreggian has returned to Frescobaldi and gathered up many much less well-known pieces to be found in manuscript collections across Europe

NJ who began making music together in 1978

this is not a series of arrangements

which takes us into the high spiritual spheres of the soul and invites us to immerse ourselves in an experience of transcendence

Haydn's Te Deum was written for Empress Marie Theresa even though he was employed to write music for the Esterhazy court in Eisenstadt

intricate instrumentals and humorous monologues

keeping in mind the intimacy of the family living room for which these pages were written

' Daniel Rowland writes: "The first piece by Peteris Vasks that I heard

Franz Liszt's arrangement of Schubert's Schwanengesang is very much his own work: while it very clearly retains the musical meaning of the original it also provides a vision of Liszt's understanding of what lies beyond the black dots on paper

but also in terms of arrangement

who is searching for supreme occult power

complete with Saffire's earthy sound and bawdy lyrical observations