Master of the House (Criterion Collection)Before he got up close and personal with Joan of Arc, the Danish cinema genius Carl Theodor Dreyer (VAMPYR) fashioned this finely detailed, ahead of it's time examination of domestic life. In this heartfelt story of a housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband, Dreyer finds lightness and humor; it's a deft comedy of revenge that was an enormous box office success and is considered an early example of

mighty crescendos

"The gigantic variety of trumpet instruments has always fascinated me

and after exposure to a fantastic body of work by a range of composers

embracing and kissing using mouth and arms

embraces the music of the 17th and 18th centuries

traditional Persian rhythms

Ashley McBryde

Stephen Hough - Wind Quintet in E Flat K 452 / Adagio & Allegro

Many have hardly ever been performed

Digitally remastered and slip-cased

while remaining true to the traditions of cantabile and display which underpin his Italian heritage

Cecilia Perera