Bill Frisell's Big Sur, on Sony's resurrected Okeh imprint, collects 19 individual pieces in a suite commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival. He spent ten days in retreat at Big ...

Track Listing of songs: Tannhauser: Overture; Tannhauser: Venusberg-Bacchanale; Der fliegende Hollander: Overture; Lohengrin: Vorspiel-Prelude Act 1; Gotterdammerung: Trauermarsch- Funeral March; Tristan und Isolde: Prelude; Tristan und Isolde: Isoldes Liebstod: Love-Death;

Arthur Rubinstein Chopin recordings of the Nocturnes, from 1936-7, and the long series of Mazurkas, set down in 1938-9, show a balance, almost unique, between spontaneous feeling and the mature consideration which these readings embody. Rubinstein's communicative fire is always apparent, reflected in the rich, always personal tone he produces in the Mazurkas, capable of a vast diversity of nuance.