His17th album with Signum Classics, the Welsh pianist Llŷr Williams, brings a profound musical intelligence to his work as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. His second album of Robert Schumann works explores a selection of works that span a substantial part of Schumann’s life. Llŷr Williams’ long and successful collaboration with Signum Records includes the 8-disc box-set ‘A Schubert Journey’ (2020), the 12-volume ‘Beethoven Unbound’ (2018), a ‘Wagner Without Words’ double album (2014) and highlights from Liszt’s ‘Années de pèlerinage‘ (2012).

One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (in Ravel’s orchestration) with Feininger Fractals by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.

The new program "Opium" by the Duo Runge & Ammon reflects the creative, decadent and frivolous time of the 1920s - a time of awakening, turmoil, sensuality, ecstasy, seduction but also with a premonition of approaching catastrophe. With music by Korngold, Mahler, Bloch, Hindemith, Gade, Ravel, Gershwin, and new arrangement with excerpts from "Dreigroschenoper" and "Maria Galante" by Kurt Weill. The two artists also arranged film music for Tom Tykwer's internationally acclaimed tv-series "Babylon Berlin" including an exclusive permission to perform these pieces on stage

"Hotspot" was mostly recorded in Hansa Studios, Berlin, and mixed in The Record Plant, Los Angeles. It was produced and mixed by Stuart Price and features ten brand new Tennant/Lowe tracks including the single "Dreamland" featuring Years & Years, which was released in September. Another of the songs, "Burning the heather", features Bernard Butler on guitar and was recorded at RAK Studios in London.Pet Shop Boys say: "We've written much of our music over the last ten years in Berlin and it was an exciting experience to work on this album in the legendary Hansa studios there and add a new dimension to our sound."The album is the last instalment of the trilogy of PSB albums produced by Stuart Price, following "Electric" in 2013 and "Super" in 2016

Set for production as a live DVD from the Vapour Trails tour, the audio from Rush in Rio clearly stands as a startling historical and musical document. The live mix is simply superb and reveals the show as it happened, without overdubs or DAT splices. The band played in front of their second-largest crowd ever, 40,000 people on the final night of the tour. (The largest was 60,000-plus the night before in São Paulo in the rain.) Covering three CDs, this is one of those documents that can make a punter wonder why he ever doubted the glory, majesty, and heavy, overblown, pretentious rock power of Rush.

Four-LP Set Includes The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Trio’s Entire 2002 Performance In Rio de Janeiro, Plus Two Bonus Tracks From The Same Tour Available From Rhino On January 18 LOS ANGELES – Following a nearly five-year break from touring, Rush returned to the stage in 2002 to support the trio’s seventeenth studio album, Vapor Trails. During the tour, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart played to some of the biggest crowds of the band’s career, including 40,000 people at the tour’s final stop in Rio de Janeiro. That concert was released in 2003 as RUSH IN RIO, which was certified gold in the U.S. and Canada.

Although it's difficult for those who weren't there to believe, for a short time during late 1965 and early 1966 the popularity of the singing quartet from Australia was sufficient to rival the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. The Seekers were at the head of the British Invasion's acoustic folk-rock division, right there with Peter & Gordon and Chad & Jeremy, but without the personal Beatles connection of the former, and more successful than either – they scored a string of number one hits in England and Top Ten successes in the U.S. that lasted into 1967, two years later than most of the rest of the British exports to America. They played acoustic instruments (even the upright bass), and they were closer in image and inspiration to the likes of the Rooftop Singers ("Walk Right In"), the New Christy Minstrels ("Green Green," etc.), or Peter, Paul and Mary than to the Beatles or even the Searchers, yet they managed to hang onto young listeners, as well as older teenagers and their parents, with songs like "I'll Never Find Another You," "A World of Our Own," "Come the Day," and "Georgy Girl."

The Highwaymen, live from Kellogg Center, Battle Creek, MI April 15th 1993.
Featuring some of Country music's most influential artists, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, the Highwaymen, were the genre's ultimate supergroup. This live performance from the Kellogg Center, Battle Creek, on April 15th 1993 - broadcast on local radio station WBCK-FM - showcases two hours of the finest hits from their solo careers, including masterpieces such as Ring of Fire, Highwayman, (Ghost) Riders In The Sky, and Always on My Mind.

When Sun Ra released his debut Saturn release in 1957, he signaled the Arkestra’s mission for the future. The cover declared the album a "21st Century Limited Edition." The compositions on Supersonic Jazz conveyed optimism and hope, bringing a message auguring the World of Tomorrow. Ra declared this the first dimension of a fresh art form, as he set about evolving a new American music — a composite of the past and future, the known coalescing with the unknown. The album, not very well received upon release, reveals a vibrant universe of sound, with highly developed arrangements and sophisticated musicianship, especially Ra’s innovative keyboard work and John Gilmore’s astonishing tenor sax solos.

Widespread Panic One of the many neo-hippie jam bands inheriting the road-warrior mantle left behind by the Grateful Dead, Widespread Panic established a devout grassroots following on the strength of constant touring and a loose, rootsy brand of Southern rock informed by jazz and blues textures. The group's origins date to 1982, when vocalist John Bell and guitarist Mike Houser first began playing together while attending college in Athens, Georgia. When bassist Dave Schools left academia to join the duo the next year, Widespread Panic were officially born. The band recorded its debut single, "Coconut Image," in 1986; drummer Todd Nance joined soon after, followed by the addition of percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz and finally keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann.

Before rock & roll gave listeners the Traveling Wilburys, country music spawned the Highwaymen, a supergroup of mythic proportions that featured living legends Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.

The CD offers a chronological succession of canons, composed by 27 different Authors.
Of particular interest, the contemporary compositions of Luis Miguel Aguilar, David Manzanares Viles, Jacques Paroissien, Hans Schoutens, Melquíades Vasconcelos and Rieks Veenker, here proposed in the version for flute choir with accompaniment, in first ever recording for DaVinci Classic as the result of a close cooperation between Authors and Flöten am Bass in the search for a performance as close as possible to the Composer’s idea.As for the remaining tracks, with the exception of 16 -26 – 27, which are presented in the original version, these are transcriptions of the original with adaptation for Flöten am Bass by Maria Teresa Carlevato and Gian Paolo Guercio.

Concert organisé par Bowie lui-même pour fêter ses 50 ans, Parmi ses invités : Frank Black, Robert Smith (The Cure), Lou Reed, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Billy Corgan…Recorded Live At Madison Square Garden, New York January, 9 1997.

Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 6 July 1977 Track 2-6 was played only on the day of this tour, but Dave Gilmour was cut off by the bad attitude of the audience (the guitar was played by Snowy White).

The Best Seventies Album contains the defining tracks of the decade and features some of the biggest hits from artists including T. Rex, Mott The Hoople, Sweet, The Jacksons, David Essex, Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions, Nilsson, Eric Carmen, Baccara and many more.