R.E.M. delivered two knockout performances on MTV’s Grammy and Emmy award-winning “Unplugged” series - in 1991 and 2001 - giving them the unique distinction of being the only band to headline this twice.

Grant Green embraced R&B and jazz-funk on his 1971 album Visions featuring Billy Wooten, Emmanuel Riggins, Chuck Rainey, Idris Muhammad, Ray Armando, and Harold Caldwell. The guitarist’s distinctive tone, and melodicism elevate songs by The Jackson 5, Chicago, The Carpenters, Mozart, and Quincy Jones’ ‘Maybe Tomorrow’ which was later sampled by Kendrick Lamar. This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

On May 14, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band opened their Land of Hope & Dreams Tour in Manchester, England. Highlights from that first night are now available digitally as the “Land of Hope & Dreams” EP – including the title track, “Long Walk Home,” “My City of Ruins” and the band’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.”

High spirit meets keyboard art: "The Japanese Shoko Kawasaki impressed with nobility and precision," according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Johann Sebastian Bach's activity as a music teacher inspired him to write or arrange a variety of pieces for the benefit of his students inside and outside his family.

Maria Malibran nicknamed ‘La Malibran’, and Pauline Viardot, two exceptional sisters, left an indelible mark on the history of classical music.

With ‘Second Nature’, electronic artist Klangwelt (German for “world of sound”) presents an electronic album full of impressive surprises – a delightful combination of traditional elements in the style of Jean Michel Jarre with extraordinary modern sounds that make you sit up and take notice, released via Spheric Music on 23 May 2025

Alex Cobos and Alein Steinbert are two very active guitarists and composers on the national jazz scene.

Ukrainian double bass player, singer and composer Olga Pyekur together with guitarist and composer Alex Comín present their brand-new project Ewesé.

This album includes world premieres of new works by women for solo viola and viola and piano.

Award-winning multi-idiom Athens-based Greek guitarist George Stavroulakis has built a varied career as a performer, composer and producer.

George Draper is a singer who primarily works within the pop and folk genres.

At just ten years old, Helene Liebmann, nee Riese, made her public debut as a pianist in Berlin, marking the beginning of a remarkable career. Soon thereafter, her first compositions followed - understandably, works primarily dedicated to her own instrument. Shortly after her marriage in 1814, the young artist relocated to London with her husband, where she studied under Ferdinand Ries, a friend and student of Beethoven. During this time, her earliest chamber music works came into being, followed by additional compositions while in Britain, including the two duo sonatas and the first of two piano trios recorded here. These are all elegant and distinctive works, shifting from the spirit of late Classicism toward the Biedermeier era with a delicate Romantic touch, making them both accessible and enduringly appealing to listeners.

"If I had as much melody as you, and you had as much knowledge as I, we would both be great men." These words capture the essence of Georg Joseph Vogler. While his pupil Carl Maria von Weber famously composed countless Romantic classics, Vogler secured lasting recognition primarily through his theories of composition. However, during his lifetime, he was also highly esteemed as a musician, not only in German-speaking regions but also in Paris, London, Rotterdam, Stockholm, and Vienna. His prolific output spanned a wide range of genres, from opera and singspiel to keyboard music, sacred works, and symphonies. His third and final symphony, La Scala, appears to be a direct response to Mozart's "learned" Jupiter Symphony. Though Mozart himself dismissed Vogler as a charlatan, even he was not infallible. Listen and judge for yourself!

A supreme smoothness and a light groove, Estelle Perrault is the jazz singer who rises! "Promises" is a collection of songs that explores, with simplicity and sincerity, the nuances of the human soul: its aspirations and its flaws, its impulses of truth, but also its contradictions.