Following on their exploration of 17th-century English song (Perpetual Night), Sébastien Daucé, the Ensemble Correspondances and Lucile Richardot find themselves on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the same century, unearthing a treasury of music both beautiful and rare: the sacred music of the Court of Stockholm. A fascinating musical voyage in the form of a meditation on the meaning of life, and its ending…

Positioned between Southern Europe and North Africa, Malta has long been an artistic crucible that forms one of the Mediterranean’s most significant cultural crossroads. With its intense pianistic colours, Charles Camilleri’s African Dreams explores that continent’s native rhythms and melodic lines, while Carmelo Pace and Carlo Diacono look towards the worlds of Liszt and Chopin. Josie Mallia Pulvirenti’s rarely heard Impressione Sinfonica is a concert masterpiece of virtuosic majesty, steeped in the piano’s Golden Age. Award-winning Maltese pianist, Charlene Farrugia, has done extensive research into the life and work of composers from her homeland.

Crimson Gold presents Boney M. 'Gold', the only compilation you'll ever need. Boney M. Was one of the most successful pop groups of the 1970s, selling over 100 million Records worldwide and charting 3 consecutive no. 1 albums. With their catchy tunes and flamboyant performances, their worldwide hits are a constant feature at weddings and parties. This 3CD collection is a definitive career spanning set from 1976 through to updated mixes in 2010. Boney M. 'Gold' Contains 49 tracks, with a remarkable 15 top 40 UK singles - ten top 10 hits - including their double-million-selling no. 1 hits 'Rivers of Babylon'/'Brown girl in the ring' And 'Mary's Boy child'/'oh my Lord', 'Daddy cool', 'sunny', 'Ma Baker', 'rasputin', 'hooray! Hooray! It's a holi-holiday' And 'gotta go home'.

The English cellist, Michael Kevin Jones, studied Music Performance Piano/Cello at Royal College of Music in London. While a student there he was chosen to play for the Royal family and awarded a German government scholarship for further study in Köln. He continued his studies at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, Germany (from 1987). He studied with Pauline Ballard, Dulce Haigh Marshall, Michael Evans, Joan Dickson, Johannes Goritzki.Michael Kevin Jones has found a unique place for himself among today's performers. After his studies he quickly became solo cellist and toured the world with top musical groups. He has developed a non conventional career incorporating multi-musical activities and he is also an avid teacher and coach.

A tribute to the one and only Miles Davis, perfectly divided in two groups: Shadows and Lights, acoustic and electric, ballads and bangers all together in this emotional music. Stunning, and moving.

Exclusively for Record Store Day 2025, Demon Records are thrilled to present ‘Sci-Fi Lullabies: Volume 2’, a sequel to the classic 1997 B-Sides compilation by Suede.

On his latest album “Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works”, releasing on Aprill 11 2025 for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred music that offers a more intimate picture of the man and his deeply held faith.With acclaimed vocal ensemble the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Andsnes has recorded Liszt’s remarkable late work Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross’) for choir and piano. The pianist completes his all-Liszt album with the solo piano work Consolations and two movements from the composer’s Harmonies poétiques et religieuses.

Savina Yannatou’s fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing and a curse. A life-sustaining source and a mortal threat in the elemental power of the storm. Shakespeare’s The Tempest with the spirit Ariel’s song, “Full Fathom Five”, provided an inspirational starting point for Greek vocalist Yannatou and the Primavera en Salonico band in a project in which they are also joined by Tunisian singer Lamia Bedioui. There’s a special magic that occurs when Savina and Lamia sing together – as was already evident on Yannatou’s Terra Nostra more than 20 years ago. In the present recording Bedioui embodies the desert realm, as the Arabic language and the Bedouin dialect intersect with the languages of Mediterranean Europe and elsewhere. Songs come from many compass points and historical epochs. A traditional piece from Egypt segues into one from North Macedonia. A setting of a 10th century poem by Arab prince Abu Firas al-Hamdani is situated between a South Italian lament and a Greek carol. An Irish Gaelic song precedes a Corsican tune and Primavera En Salonico’s unique take on the African-American spiritual “Wade In The Water.” Multi-cultural in their musical passions, and daring in their stylistic juxtapositions, Savina and friends also illuminate the connections between the traditions.

Mostly removing the layers that have swathed his voice and sometimes cocooned his songs over the past decade or so, Justin Vernon seems to be in a revelatory mood. That's not to say the singer-songwriter—who, as Bon Iver, has long straddled the seemingly incongruous worlds of his Wisconsin base and the A-list heights of collaborators such as Taylor Swift—has gone back to the stark folk of his debut, 2008's For Emma, Forever Ago. But this stripping away lends itself well, symbolically, to the self-examination that pervades his fifth album. "I get caught looking in the mirror on the regular," he sings on "Things Behind Things Behind Things," suggesting vanity before exposing the Wilde-ian truth: "And what I see there resembles some competitor … I am afraid of changing.

Yasunori Imamura presents the second instalment of Bach’s Cello Suites arranged for theorbo (Volume 1 is available on 8.574617). The theorbo is the most important plucked instrument in the lute family, with a range very similar to the cello. Certain technical elements, such as the playing of arpeggios are, in fact, easier on the theorbo whose unique timbres bring a new sonic quality to the performances heard here. These elements are most evident in Suite No. 6, composed for a cello with five strings, but which sounds totally idiomatic when played on the theorbo.

Nicola Benedetti presents a major work of the violin repertoire, Beethoven's 'Violin Concerto'. Recorded with Nicholas Collon and the award-winning Aurora Orchestra. The entire concerto was filmed to create a dynamic, full-length video. As well as a GRAMMY winner, 2 x Classical BRIT Award winner, BBC Music Magazine's 2021 personality of the year and a CBE, Nicky runs the incredible Benedetti Foundation for young musicians, and in 2022 became the first ever female director of the world-famous Edinburgh International Festival.

A Bestiary Of is a compilation album by The Creatures (aka singer Siouxsie and musician Budgie), issued on CD in 1997. It compiled remastered recordings made by the band between 1981 and 1983, including the Wild Things EP, the Feast album, the B-side of "Miss the Girl" and the "Right Now" single (backed by "Weathercade").

Alexey Shor was born in Ukraine but now lives in New York pursuing a distinguished career filled with prestigious performances and recordings in collaboration with leading international musicians. Childhood Memories traces a path from early childhood to adolescence in a nostalgic reflection on youth, while Verdiana is a musical tribute to Giuseppe Verdi that reworks his famous melodies into Latin dance styles including samba, bossa nova and tango. Both of these works feature Shor’s trademark of melodic clarity and emotional depth.

There's a cult of Meet Danny Wilson lovers and if you ever ask them about the album, a Steely Dan comparison is bound to come up. It's not without merit, and considering that the other bands the album might remind you of – Deacon Blue and Fairground Attraction – aren't on the tip of much of anyone's tongue, Steely Dan is at close as it comes. But the Dan never sounded this lively, this exuberant, this finger-snapping. If that makes them sound light as feather, keep in mind that Lloyd Cole loves this record. Head songwriter Gary Clark shares some of Cole's love of literate and clever lyrics that fit just right with the notes they land on, but he prefers a horn-section blast to Cole's guitar jangle (plus Clark has more Jimmy Van Heusen records than Cole does, no doubt). The sweet "Mary's Prayer" is the almost-hit, barely making enough impact to call the band a one-hit wonder. It's only part of the story for an album that effortlessly hurls clever arrangements and lyrical stingers out of the speakers. Opening with the syncopated and humble "Davy" and then switching to the Vegas hipster, Bobby Darin-for-the-'80s "Aberdeen" makes for a killer opening, and the album keeps minding the pace.

Between 1961 and 1986, Herbert von Karajan made three recordings of the Mozart Requiem for Deutsche Grammophon, with little change in his conception of the piece over the years. This recording, from 1975, is, on balance, the best of them. The approach is Romantic, broad, and sustained, marked by a thoroughly homogenized blend of chorus and orchestra, a remarkable richness of tone, striking power, and an almost marmoreal polish. Karajan viewed the Requiem as idealized church music rather than a confessional statement awash in operatic expressiveness. In this account, the orchestra is paramount, followed in importance by the chorus, then the soloists. Not surprisingly, the singing of the solo quartet sounds somewhat reined-in, especially considering these singers' pedigrees. By contrast, the Vienna Singverein, always Karajan's favorite chorus, sings with a huge dynamic range and great intensity, though with an emotional detachment nonetheless. Perfection, if not passion or poignancy, is the watchword. The Berlin orchestra plays majestically, and the sound is pleasingly vivid.