Rebecca Pidgeon - The RavenScottish songstress Rebecca Pidgeon has an instinctive knack for storytelling. Taking elements from folk, pop, jazz, and Celtic traditions, Pidgeon crafts lilting, intimate poetry. Known for her captivating and crystalline voice, Rebecca is prolific in the audiophile scene. The Raven was her first release on Chesky and featured an ensemble of spell binding originals like "Grandmother" and the rhythmic "Kalerka," to the reimagined and mesmerizing

and Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson plus three tracks from Ella Swings Gently with Nelson and five tracks from Ella Fitzgerald at the Opera House

and flirts with danger by getting involved with Jean

and in the final apotheosis

Having arrived in Paris in 1724

a Russian soldier on leave to visit his mother helps locals on his way home and falls in love with a country girl who's on her way to see her wounded boyfriend

At a provincial Catholic boarding school

and a frequent performer at National Flute Association conventions

Lodoletta was once part of the usual repertoire

In the sonatas from Op

and that the young composers who made up the "Groupe des Six" were already embarking on completely new musical paths

it also includes an arrangement of Charlie Haden's "Silence" and one Czech folk song

are united in their source of inspiration