Veteran Seattle bassist Chuck Deardorf brings together longtime musical friends and compatriots for this album, filled with spontaneous interaction, gritty grooves and melodic beauty. With the quartet of pianist Dawn Clement, drummer Matt Wilson and saxophonist Hans Teuber, Deardorf explores deep and seldom-heard compositions by Kenny Barron, Keith Jarrett and Monk, while a second trio with Marc Seales & Gary Hobbs performs music by Jack DeJohnette and even the "Blind Faith" rock classic, "Can't Find My Way Home." "Perception" displays an inspired group aesthetic, as it provides a look into the creative vision that has made Deardorf a favorite musical partner to the countless jazz legends he's accompanied over the years.

«The Key» is the debut album from Norwegian progressive rock band Swifan Eolh & The Mudra Choir. This album was executed by the whole band playing live in the studio, keeping the original bass and drum tracks, while later overdubbing vocals, guitars and keyboards. We`re proud of the result, as we feel that the final product has captured the live energy! The songs often come to light in a process of combining ideas made by Tom Inge Andersen and Rune Seip Bjørnflaten and arranging them in companionship with the whole band.

Celebrating 450 years since the birth of Monteverdi, Pinchgut Opera performed one of the greatest operas of all time, Coronation of Poppea. Pinchgut Opera's performance of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea, recorded live at City Recital Hall, Sydney, December 2017.

Hansheinz Schneeberger celebrated his 90th birthday on 16 October 2016. The present albums are being released to mark the occasion: they document a fascinating spectrum of outstanding works, both chamber music and concertos, by Swiss composers between 1911 and 1943 thus covering the shift from the last manifestations of Romanticism to a somewhat modern tonal language that does not altogether deny its Romantic roots.

Composer in constant rediscovery, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco never as in this period has attracted the attention and interest of valiant virtuous and refined musicians. Among these, definitely the guitarist Angelo Marchese, a musician able to give life and soul to this repertoire of the '900 that shows not only an author of the first magnitude of the international composition but who goes to rediscover alongside well-established masterpieces such as the Suite Escamarran , authentic gems like the Passacaglia dedicated to Pope Roncalli or the brilliant game of Variations through the centuries.

Venice, Rome and Naples are the places of origin of the presented pieces - places of an equally flourishing and brilliantly bright musical past. "Palpiti del Cuore" (Palpitations of the Heart) traces these historic locales' musical development across the glorious Italian Baroque era. The young ensemble La Botta Forte plays vocal and instrumental music from the beginnings of the 'stile moderno' in the 17th c. to the High Baroque in the 18th c. Each ensemble musician is proficient on several instruments, that flexibility allowing for a greatly expanded repertoire.

Knudåge Riisager (1897-1974) holds a special place in Danish music, enriching it with an extra dimension of spirituality and pithiness. Aarhus Symphony Orchestra and conductor Andreas Delfs here present two key works in Riisagers catalogue, one of which clearly represented a turning point in his output, namely his orchestral reworking of a selection of Carl Czernys piano etudes for his and Harald Landers ballet Etudes. The other heralded a stylistic change and ranks as a highly personal contribution to the concerto genre Riisagers Violin Concerto is played here by Danish violinist Ian van Rensburg. Van Rensburg has been first concert master of the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra since 1993. He also enjoys a versatile international career as an active soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

After 1933 nobody had the opportunity to hear this opera. Then the Osnabrück Music Theater rediscovered Das Lied der Nacht by Hans Gál and performed it in 2017. This late-romantic opera to a text by Karl Michael von Levetzow premiered in 1926, but since its composer was of Jewish origin, the Nazis prohibited stage productions of it. During his later years Hans Gál was doubly forgotten: as one of the many Jewish artists who were forced into exile by the Fascists and as a conservative "very-latest romanticist" pursuing paths laid out by Brahms and Richard Strauss.

This album is a re-release of Hänssler Classic’s celebrated Bach Ein Choralbuch series, which recorded all of the master composer’s choral works. The present release features Patience and Serenity, and Jesus Hymns. The Bach Collegium Stuttgart was founded in 1965 by Helmuth Rilling as the instrumental partner for the Gächinger Kantorei, and has been administered and funded by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart since 1981.

Some of Bartók’s best-known works are collected on this album. All of them have written music history and decisively influenced classical Modernism. The composition of these works extends from 1927 (String Quartet No.3) to 1945 (Piano Concerto No.3).

Former TNT frontman, Tony Harnell, is teaming up with Primal Fear and Allen/Lande prolific guitarist Magnus Karlsson again for the release of the much anticipated third Starbreaker album. Starbreaker started as Harnell's side project while he was still in TNT. He was initially working on a solo record, but with guitarist Magnus Karlsson, former TNT drummer John Macaluso, and bassist Fabrizio Grossi, they formed Starbreaker. The band recorded its first self-titled studio album in 2005, and it was released on July 13th in the same year. In late 2007, with Starbreaker as his main musical project, he flew to Sweden to write the bulk of the songs for the new album with Karlsson, and started recording the new songs at the end of the year…

Bacharel em Música Popular pela Universidade Estadual do Paraná (Unespar/FAP) e especialista em Docência do Ensino Superior pela Unifacear, estudou violão (erudito e popular), saxofone e piano. Sua monografia na faculdade de música teve como tema “O Funcionamento dos Corais Regidos por Ministros de Música em Igrejas Adventistas”. Em 2016 iniciou as atividades do Derevecki Music Home Studio, espaço criativo destinado à elaboração de arranjos e gravações de playbacks e kits de ensaio. Lançou em junho de 2018 o projeto de música instrumental Ad Libitum - 15 hinos tradicionais com arranjos contemporâneos, no qual apresenta releituras de clássicos da música cristã comuns a diferentes hinários e denominações.

Eu tive essa honra de tocar com a maioria dos meus ídolos… E eu comecei cedo, cara. Na verdade, com 17 anos eu já estava gravando aquele disco do Ivan Lins, "Daquilo que eu sei". E mais do que isso, eu fiz a turnê do "Novo Tempo”. O baixista que gravou foi o Alex Malheiros, mas ele já estava em pleno voo com Azymuth, e aí pintou o teste pro @Ivan Lins. O Luizão falou: olha, Ivan tá trocando de baixista, vai lá fazer um teste. E eu disse: então me empresta seu baixo aí!”

• 55 CD original jacket, original couplings collection celebrating Maestro Riccardo Chailly’s 40 years on Decca
• Includes complete cycles of Beethoven, Brahms (x2), Schumann (x2), Bruckner and Mahler
• Featuring the orchestras with whom Chailly has been most closely associated: the Gewandhausorchester, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

Bushwick Blooze Band was formed in 2018 when Chas Rio (Brother Chas) decided it was time to (temporarily) stop trying to play jazz on upright bass and get serious about getting a rocking blues trio together. After one failed Craigslist attempt in pulling in a guitarist/bluesman he found Brother Dave, hidden away in Long Island, who had been perfecting his blues style over the decades and who was known for his screaming guitar solos. With the addition of David Cornejo (Brother David) - who brought his international musical training (from Peru via Barcelona) to the band - on the drums the band was up and running.