Siobhan Lamb - Nightingale and The Rose AEC Music or the Berlioz-Liszt Symphonie fantastique

or the Berlioz-Liszt Symphonie fantastique with jazz-inspired pieces on the same concert program

Over-familiarity may well have blunted our appreciation of this symphony

Sadly for the wider world

The album was a packaging of new songs with ones issued on the 1985 Clear Night for Love EP

Siobhan Lamb - Nightingale and The Rose AEC Music or the Berlioz-Liszt Symphonie fantastiqueIt is rare to hear a composition for big band paired with a classical chorus, but composer Siobhan Lamb is known for bringing these seemingly disparate elements together with a deft hand. Pairing this musical palette with texts from the Oscar Wilde story of the same name yields a unique result. The Nightingale and the Rose was originally commissioned by the WDR Big Band and Symphonic Choir in Germany, but is here performed in a new incarnation by the