Sarah Vaughan - Complete Columbia Singles As & Bs 1949-53Sarah Vaughan was one of the illustrious coterie of female vocalists who spanned the genres of jazz, big band music and sophisticated pop during the post war era to provide some of the finest music of their times, not only interpreting the Great American Songbook and putting their own individual stamp on it, but continuing to perform top class new material through the musical upheavals of subsequent decades. Described by renowned music critic Scott

Beginning her recording career in 1955

Franz Lehár's Das Land des Lächelns with Piotr Beczala and Julia Kleiter

became a successful arranger for Jimmy Dorsey

Joshua is one of four so-called 'victory' oratorios Handel composed in the late 1740s

Consisting of four female musicians

after he had been crowned king

rockabilly and gospel in a highly distinctive musical mix

A close friend of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a musical influence on him

Originally founded as a family group in 1931 by Gertrude Ward as a family group

No one NEEDS it

Their hit packed career happened because they were the mold-breakers

Johanna Hanikova studied piano playing at the Janacek Conservatoire in Ostrava with Professor Monika Tugendliebova