It's been eight years since Medusa, Annie Lennox's last studio album, was released. It's been 11 since her debut solo effort and five since the short-lived Eurythmics reunion. And while she may not be prolific, Lennox is always enigmatic. Bare is a collection of self-penned tracks, as the artist explains in the liners: "This album contains songs that are deeply personal and emotional. In a sense I have 'exposed' myself through the work to reveal aspects of an inner world that are fragile…broken through experience but not entirely smashed. I am not a young artist in their (sic) twenties. I am a mature woman facing up to the failed expectations of life and facing up to 'core' issues." Sound pretentious? One listen proves that Lennox lives up to her claims in spades. Here are 11 wholly – even infectiously – accessible, lyrically savvy, and gorgeously wrought pop songs full of spiritual and emotional depth that make for a deeply moving whole.

Young piano sensation Yundi Li collaborates with Seiji Ozawa and the Berlin Philharmoniker to present two highly innovative and provocative keyboard works from the 20th-century– Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel Piano Concerto in G major.

Born in Chongqing 19 years before he made this Chopin recording, Yundi Li is too old to qualify as a prodigy, and he's absurdly young to be labelled a "great master", but that's indubitably what he is. He has all the poetry and authority of Evgeny Kissin, but no whiff of that Russian's aggressive self-projection. When he won the Warsaw Competition at 18, he announced that he wanted to become "the next Zimerman", but the real Zimerman turned down his request to study with him, saying there was nothing more he could teach him. This CD demonstrates the point to perfection: the only flaw one might detect–over-pedalling in a Nocturne–proves to be a carefully calculated effect in one of a series of gorgeously fresh renderings of hackneyed favourites. Li opens with the third sonata, establishing a big golden tone from the outset; he points up the architecture of this episodic work with leisurely assurance, and if his tempi seem leisurely even in the fast movements, that is because he brings out every detail with pellucid clarity. How did such quintessentially romantic playing emerge from the heart of China? Don't even ask: just marvel, and enjoy.

A collection of piano pieces by Yundi Li, a Chinese pianist who won the Chopin Competition. Even in romantic pieces such as Chopin's Pieces and Schumann's ``Traumerei,'' her youthful and graceful pianism is visible, inviting her fans into a dream world. Recorded in 2002. CD-Extra version containing footage of the ``Polonaise'' part of ``Andante Spianato and Magnificent Polonaise'' from the Chopin International Piano Competition held in October 2000

"Sound On Stone is an act of love comparable to Alice Coltrane’s completion of tracks she and John had worked on together before his death. The results are profoundly moving, full of beauty and surprise."

Monumental musical world created by HAVASI the Fastest Pianist Of The World. A new, multicultural genre that includes a complete symphony orchestra, a choir, japanese drums and 15 soloist from India to Armenia.

The third HAVASI Symphonic album brings you old favourites in re-imagined versions for the 2014 Arena concert, as well as brand new works. Amongst the novelties are four solo piano etudes which give a sneak preview of the forthcoming HAVASI Etudes album. Also included for the first time, HAVASI playing a work from one of the great classical masters and a bonus track in which HAVASI performs with the Hungarian hard rock band Hooligans.

THE BEST IS YET TO COME is what one has come to expect from the saxophonist. This music is polished, streamlined, passionate, and soulful. Washington is in prime form on this 1982 outing, and his solos float effortlessly over the funky rhythm section. Wonderful vocal performances are also delivered courtesy Patti LaBelle on the title track and Bobby McFerrin on "Things Are Getting Better," and McFerrin even scat sings on the latter. THE BEST IS YET TO COME is one of the best of its kind.