Sergei Rudnov - Music for GuitarRussian guitarist and composer Sergei Ivanovich Rudnev was born in 1955 in Tula. In 1975 he graduated in the accordion and balalaika class of Tula's "Dargomyzhsky" Conservatory, and while attending this school he studied guitar with A. Slavsky and P. Panin in Moscow. On completion of these studies he was transferred to the Garrison Military Orchestra, where he served as an assistant conductor and learned to play the flute, percussion instruments and

shining in the aria Laudamus te

can the real world also influence the fictional characters

covering his collectable recordings for the Music City

more conventional section of the programme is a selection of cello works composed around the time of the war

Influences include Dan Zanes

Bridge's Complete Crumb Edition reaches Volume 20 with the first complete recording of the great American composer's recently completed Metamorphoses cycle

the originator

M-G-M jumped into rockabilly when that genre of music literally exploded in the mid-50s

such as Raindrops Beating on Banana Leaves and Wild Geese Descending on the Sandy Beach

" with the latter appearing here as a duet

and bag of ancient Chinese secrets to the task of making Eiko a star

she creates a different character and tells a new story