If Frank Zappa were alive today, I feel that he would be a full time composer.  This album, released shortly before his untimely death, is his best orchestral album.  The Ensemble Modern loved Zappa's music, and treated it with great care and precision, something that deeply impressed the master Zappa himself.  Zappa's music is nearly impossible to play (as he put it at times), but the ensemble does it superlatively.  My favorite compositions here have to be Ruth is Sleeping (a creepy piano duet), The Girl in the Magnesium Dress (a much better rendition than the synclavier version on The Perfect Stranger album), and the best one of all is G-Spot Tornado.  Zappa was extremely surprised that the ensemble wanted to attempt this song, but attempt it they did, and they did it wonderfully.  It's light years better than the Jazz from Hell version, showing that human beings could indeed play Zappa's amazing and demanding music.  It's sad that Frank is no longer with us, but his music will live forever....