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The guitar duo of Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan presents a new album of their original arrangements of 19th and 20th century piano repertoire. Lyrique features the works of Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel, Erik Satie, Germaine Tailleferre, John Cage, and Federico Mompou. Though varied...

Album of the Week (April 13, 2015) on Classic FM (UK)Download of the Week on KDFC (San Francisco)Portrait is a string of recordings presenting contemporary composers with a unique musical signature. Ludovico Einaudi is one of them. This grand and prolific Italian composer creates...

Around the same time that Michael Korstick caused a sensation with the first and, to date, only recording of all Beethoven piano concertos (555 447-2), these recordings were also made. They shed light on the life of the "Titan" from the opposing perspectives of...

SOMM Recordings highlights the pianistic mastery of Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963) with a release of extraordinary historic recordings including two of his four major concertante works and selected solo piano pieces. To mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Erik Satie (1866 - 1925),...

The guitar has established itself as a national instrument in Latin American countries. It's sonorities can be considered a miniature orchestra, but two guitars can generate an even greater range of possibilities. Each composer in this widely contrasting programme explores these qualities to the...

Memorable melodies and a descriptive sense of place mark out Alexey Shor's two concertos. The Cello Concerto juxtaposes styles across the epochs in pursuit of a unique 'musical pilgrimage', while in the Violin Concerto No. 3 his focus is on 'seasonal' Manhattan, as he...

Friedrich Kiel enjoyed great prestige as a professor of composition in Berlin where his many students included Stanford and Paderewski. As a teacher he remained broad-minded and undogmatic. These elegantly poised works show a rather conservative craftsman but one who absorbed the influences of...

Close harmony singing is the vocal equivalent of a jazz big band, and this programme is the Vasari Singers' personal tour of a style in which they have excelled for years. Their connection with Ward Swingle and the pioneering Swingle Singers is explored in...

Berlin is the focus of this eighth volume of the History of the Russian Piano Trio, which features two Russian composers who lived in the city. Nikolai Lopatnikoff's symphonies were premiered by Bruno Walter and Serge Koussevitzky, and he was once ranked alongside Stravinsky....

The extreme delicacy and finesse of Chopin's pianistic style was unusual in an era when star pianists such as Liszt and Anton Rubinstein were developing more virtuosic and experimental effects. It led some performers of the day to adapt Chopin's works to suit the...

Mendelssohn conceived the Violin Concerto in E minor for his childhood friend, Ferdinand David, concertmaster of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, though it took the composer years to perfect it. The concerto remains one of the most significant works in the genre - serene, lyrical and...

Anna Clyne, described as a 'composer of uncommon gifts and unusual methods' by The New York Times, is one of the most in-demand composers today, working with orchestras, choreographers, filmmakers and visual artists around the world. Clyne's unique voice combines tradition with postmodern techniques,...

Fazil Say's gifts as a ground-breaking pianist are allied to the breadth of his compositions. The Violin Concerto No. 2 was composed in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown during which Say was enchanted by the colours and textures of sunrises while walking on...

La Ville morte, opéra en 3 actes AMAZON.COM The New York City Opera scored an astonishing success when they revived this lovely score a couple of decades ago. Since then, it has become the one Korngold opera to remain in the repertory of major...

The distinctive colors of wind instruments can be heard in almost every line in teh masterpieces of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From 1781 until his death in 1791, Mozart wrote the equivalent of five concertos for horn - four practically complete concertos and some fragments;...

CD Chopin Recital Vol.2

BACH METAMORPHOSES

ATMA presents the world premier recording of Sémélé, a recently rediscovered masterpiece by Marin Marais. Gérard Geay of the Centre for Baroque Music at Versailles has reconstructed a performing edition from the original manuscripts, which allowed the world premier performance of the instrumental music...

Canadian organist Vincent Boucher continues his cycle of the organ music of Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) with volume 3 devoted to Triple choral op. 4. This work is crucial to understanding and appreciating not only Tournemire's work, but French symphonic organ music of the early...

TOURNEMIRE RESURRECTIO

Sibelius 2 & 5

PIAZZOLLA ASTOR / BRAGATO JOS

GEMINIANI CONCERTI GROSSI

From March to May 2015, John Zorn composed 300 new tunes that were eventually collected into a book of music he called The Bagatelles. After five years of performances around the world in venues large and small, the choicest ensembles have gone into the...

Soundtrack to the 1976 film remake starring Streisand & Kris Kristofferson. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Evergreen" with the award shared by it's songwriters, Streisand & Paul Williams. The soundtrack went number one on the charts for six...

The next album in their mixtape series, Light and Shadow is the new album from Orchestra of the Swan and artistic director David le Page. Featuring new arrangements of works by Peter Gabriel, Thomas Newman and Radiohead this latest instalment promises to take you...

The youngest musician ever to win the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, exciting American cellist Zlatomir Fung has collated an album of opera fantasies including Fantasy on Jenufa which he arranged himself and a Fantasy written especially for him - Fantasia Carmen - by...

Digitally remastered edition version of the 1994 album. Scott Weiland, Dean DeLeo, Robert DeLeo and Eric Kretz recorded most of Purple in Atlanta with producer Brendan O'Brien. The album features some of the group's most iconic tracks, including "Interstate Love Song" and "Vasoline" -...

Anniversary of Grateful Dead’s first album to be certified Gold. Original album tracks, newly remastered by GRAMMY ® Award winning engineer, David Glasser with Plangent Process Speed Correction PLUS 10 previously unreleased live tracks from the Dead’s final performance at the Fillmore West, San...

Widely considered one of The Grateful Dead's seminal performances, and certainly one of the very best of the universally acclaimed 1973 performing year, 6/10/73 is as synonymous with great Grateful Dead concerts as are 2/13/70, 8/27/72, and 5/8/77. There are few shows that deliver...

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead's ambitious 1975 album Blues For Allah, we have produced what we feel is the most eclectic 50th anniversary reissue since this series began in 2017. The 3-disc special release features the original album on Disc...

Celebrate Grateful Dead's 60th Anniversary with a collection of the band's "Gratest" hits, available for the first time as a 1 CD

The legendary debut studio album from Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham. Buckingham Nicks is the only studio album by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks as a duo, prior to them joining Fleetwood Mac. Originally released in 1973 and unavailable for decades, the album has...

For 50 years, `The White Album' has invited its listeners to venture forth and explore the breadth and ambition of its music, delighting and inspiring each new generation in turn. The Beatles have now released a suite of lavishly presented `White Album' packages, including...

Rieu, Andre

This special 2CD edition of the critically acclaimed “Heal My Soul” features the album packaged with its companion album, “Holding On”, for the first time. "Heal My Soul” is composed of 12 songs recorded during a 3 year period (1996-98) of intense creativity. “Holding...

Joe Hisaishi / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - A Symphonic Celebration - Music From The Studio Ghibli Films Of Hayao - Hitchock and Herrmann, Spielberg and Williams, Zemeckis and Silvestri, Burton and Elfman, Fellini and Rota. There's a certain kind of magic that happens when...

Fisherman’s Friends The Musical

Il Divo - "For Once In My Life: A Celebration Of Motown" - 2021 release. After being discovered by Simon Cowell in 2003, Il Divo went on to sell over 30 million albums and sellout arena tours worldwide. For their 10th studio album, Il...

For most artists, a 'Best Of' compilation is a chance to sit back and take a well-deserved break without having to go through all the work of putting together a new album. But Joyce DiDonato has made a career out of doing things differently,...

Maria Ioudenitch presents her debut album with Warner Classics, a collection of short pieces of Russian and German repertoire. The Daily Journal calls it "phenomenally musical". In 2021, Maria Ioudenitch won the prestigious International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition and the Warner Classics prize associated...

3 CD SET FROM THE FICKLE PICKLE, FEATURING MEMBERS OF RED DIRT, THE SMOKE AND ORANGE BICYCLEBoasting four writers, singers and multi-instrumentalists who, between them, also handled production, engineering and arrangement duties, Fickle Pickle had the wit, cynicism, hooks, harmonies and technical dexterity to...

New HD 192kHz/24-bit remastering from original tapes by Studio Circé. Herbert Blomstedt is an iconic American-born Swedish conductor known for his extensive career and "old-world ideals" approach to music. His career has included tenures as chief conductor of prominent orchestras, such as the Staatskapelle...

In May 2002, in a series of live concerts in the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein, a journey unique in the Wiener Philharmoniker's long and distinguished history reached it's conclusion. This thrilling set of symphonies is the fruit of that journey. The recordings were...

The album's title Heimat is the German word for 'homeland'. Kenji Miura was born in Japan and studied in London and Berlin, where he has now lived for 12 years. With Heimat he explores the concept of a musical 'chosen home'. Heimat comprises Beethoven's...

For Quatuor Arod, the six string quartets in Haydn's opus 76 "represent the apogee of the Classical style, but they are also ageless, "presenting almost infinite possibilities". This Haydn project has been close to Arod's heart for a long time. "Haydn, the founding father...