★BRILLIANT

George Antheil's songs on two CDs, from the Crapsey and Blake cycles to German lieder, Keats odes, Lewis Carroll settings and American ballads such as Frankie and Johnny, sung by mezzo-soprano Alice Lackner with Philip Mayers, piano.

JUST ARRIVED, awesome and low priced essential triple CD set with the piano compositions by John Cage (1912–92) regarded as one of the most influential and controversial composers of the 20th century. It is not only his music that this reputation is based on – his ideas were revolutionary, and he cast doubt on the supremacy of European art and music, when it was unchallenged and such views were considered heretic. Cage rejected the status held by harmony, instrumentation and even the devel…