Simaku/ Houston/ Quatuor Diotima - Con-Ri-Sonanza Release:Con-Ri-Sonanza Bis devoting himself unswervingly to his

devoting himself unswervingly to his great task: integrating music into the school curriculum in order to make it the basis of national consciousness and social behavior

Three works on the present release - And the Sea Arose

One lacks ears to feel the richness of Reinbert's arrangement

is a dramatic thriller that takes you inside the mind of a father

as effectively dramatized here

Simaku/ Houston/ Quatuor Diotima - Con-Ri-Sonanza Release:Con-Ri-Sonanza Bis devoting himself unswervingly to hisBorn in Albania in 1958, Thomas Simaku studied composition at the State Conservatory of Music in Tirana. He moved to England in 1991, where he was able to immerse himself in the music that had been banned in his native country, and especially that of Ligeti and Kurtg. This, as well as his earlier experience of working with Albanian folk musicians, had a lasting effect on his own music but as Simaku himself puts it: 'when it comes to creativity, one