The Big City (Criterion Collection)THE BIG CITY (Mahanagar), set in mid 1950s Calcutta and directed by the great Satyajit Ray (THE MUSIC ROOM), follows the personal triumphs and frustrations of Arati (Madhabi Mukherjee), who decides, despite the initial protests of her bank clerk husband, to take a job to help support their family. With remarkable sensitivity and attention to the details of everyday working class life, Ray gradually builds a powerful human drama that is at once a

composed in 2008

as this recording with works by Beethoven

Matthew White - Elegeia

but also by a host of lesser-known rockabillies

the surprising cohesiveness of the composers' work is astonishingly beautiful and impassioned

Jesse Bradford

filtered through his experience of leading the Italian premieres of quartets and symphonies by Beethoven as well as operas by Mozart: he was a complete musician of his time

and the Royal Ballet's legendary production of La Bayadere directed by Natalia Makarova

Anna Vinnitskaya was born in the Russian city of Novorossijsk

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their career being cut short by Jack Anglin's death in an auto accident in 1963

and intended as a piano duo for the composer with Clara Schumann