Blech/ Collett/ Hwang - Alpine King & Misanthrope In Stock That's always been the case

That's always been the case with my albums

now finally alone in a version that is gifted with unreleased material which was recorded in a tape found in an old Ribot archive

and Three Musical Meditations for String Trio

ferrying the listener through impressionistic portraits of friends and strangers

Blech/ Collett/ Hwang - Alpine King & Misanthrope In Stock That's always been the caseAround 1902 Leo Blech nabbed the subject of the "original romantic comic magic" play by Viennese theater manager actor playwright Ferdinand Raimund, had it streamlined, and turned it into his fifth opera. A cantankerous misanthrope terrorizes family and servants with his paranoid mistrust. He's only cured when faced with his own behavior courtesy of supernatural role reversal. Highbrow opera meets folksy farce with unexpectedly gorgeous, splendidly