David Hallyday revisite ses plus grands titres et ceux de Johnny dans l’album REQUIEM POUR UN FOU réédité en 2 CD (L’album Studio + Le Live à Bruxelles). Une transmission artistique émouvante 100% Hallyday !

Purcell embodies a glorious chapter in the history of his country, the Restoration, which saw the return of the monarchy after the bleak years of Olivier Cromwell’s regime. Stifled under the Puritans, musical life enjoyed a restoration of its own, when choirs and concert societies ushered in an era of harmony and celebration.

In 1735, Porpora challenged Handel in London with Polifemo, a work that still resonates today as a vibrant ode to triumphant love. On the bewitching shores of Sicily, Galatea falls in love with the mortal Acis. This pure passion arouses the fierce jealousy of the Cyclops Polifemo, whose rage threatens to sweep everything away. But the unexpected arrival of Ulysses and the intrigues hatched by Calypso weave a complex web where gods and mortals clash. Carried by a constellation of exceptional soloists and conducted by Stefan Plewniak, this opera masterfully weaves together the legacy of a baroque golden age and the timeless power of myth.

Legendary New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT return with “Echoes In Eternity,” their most ferocious and unflinching album in decades. Signed to Reigning Phoenix Music, the band deliver 15 tracks of blistering riffs, unapologetic truth, and street-born authenticity.

The long-awaited debut album from bassist-composer Thomas Morgan is a lush, layered journey through ambient textures and open improvisation. Featuring an all-star cast—Bill Frisell, Craig Taborn, Ambrose Akinmusire, Immanuel Wilkins, Henry Threadgill, Dan Weiss, and Gerald Cleaver—the record is both spacious and intricate, with Morgan’s own virtual instrument WOODS shaping its organic feel. The inclusion of poet Gary Snyder’s voice adds another dimension to this environmental soundscape. Around You Is A Forest is co-produced by David Breskin and Jakob Bro and represents a bold statement from one of jazz’s most revered collaborators stepping fully into the spotlight.

"Confessions on a Dancefloor" is the tenth studio album by American singer Madonna, released on November 11, 2005.

2 CDs im Digipack mit dem kompletten Album »Weihnacht«, brandneuen und von Andrea Berg selbst verfassten Weihnachtssongs sowie Weihnachtsklassikern und weiteren Überraschungen.

Herb Alpert is back to share some happiness and cheer during that favorite time of year! This holiday season, HERB is releasing the third Christmas album of his long and illustrious career. Entitled CHRISTMAS TIME IS HERE, this new album is chock full of holiday classics. Listen to Herb's take on beloved carols like "Jingle Bells", "Winter Wonderland", "Greensleeves", and "Sleigh Ride". And enjoy original spins on other recognizable hits like Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Rodgers & Hammerstein's "My Favorite Things", and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song". And of course, the title track, made famous by the iconic 1960s A Charlie Brown Christmas holiday special: "Christmas Time Is Here". Break out the eggnog, hang your holly, and get ready to celebrate another beautiful Christmas with Herb Alpert!

Performed by soprano Amy Carson and pianist Nicola Rose, Hugh Benham’s Times and Seasons is a lyrical cycle of four songs inspired by the changing year, setting evocative verse by the 18th and 19th century English poets Christina Rossetti, Emily Brontë, Thomas Hardy and Walter de la Mare. Vivid musical imagery captures the fleeting beauty of spring, the endurance of friendship, the melancholy of autumn rain, and the mystery of twilight dreams.

“Changing perspectives” is something that the composer and clarinetist Rebecca Trescher has always set out to do, but this is no easy task. On one hand, she has to remain immersed in the musical activity as it happens, while on the other she strives to always remain aware of external perspectives and other ways of hearing, asking herself: Is this actually working the way I imagined? What might still be missing, and what could give it a decisive touch or the necessary kick?

Not often can listening to a recording match the excitement and transcendent power of a live performance. We in the recording business try our best to get as close as possible to the real thing of course. Sometimes, however, magic happens listening to a recording with the right people in the right environment. This occurred in the Rockport/Absolare room at the 2024 Munich High End Show listening to J. S. Bach’s “French Overture” performed on piano by Orion Weiss. It takes a great performer, a recording that “doesn’t get in the way,” and fabulous playback equipment such as we had in the Rockport room for these wondrous listening experiences. The audience sat enraptured by Orion’s subtlety and artistry and we indeed felt like we were sitting on stage with Orion in Zipper Hall at The Colburn School where we made this album.

The Hamburg-born Ferdinand Thieriot (1838–1919) not only shared a teacher – Eduard Marxsen – with Brahms; both composers, who remained friends in later years, use a similar musical language, one which is richly melodic and effortlessly contrapuntal. The musicologist Wilhelm Altmann wrote that ‘Thieriot’s chamber music is without exception noble and pure. He writes with perfect command of form and expression’ – as the works on this fourth Toccata Classics volume prove, in their exquisite balance of depth and beauty, of Brahmsian richness and Schubertian spontaneity.

Alongside Alessandro Scarlatti, many composers contributed to the flourishing of Neapolitan opera in the 18th century. Most have since been forgotten, their works lying dormant in the archives of the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella.
Harpsichordist Ignacio Prego conducts Xavier Sabata, Alicia Amo, and his ensemble Tiento Nuovo in bringing back to life some of the finest, never-before-recorded arias by Sarri, Vinci, and Vignola. Composed at the height of Neapolitan opera, these works combine dazzling virtuosity with unbridled expressiveness — a powerful testament to the art of the affetti cultivated by these Neapolitan masters, here rediscovered with renewed wonder.

The new album of saxophonist Asya Fateyeva tells the tales of the winter and Christmas season in a brand-new arrangement of the Tchaikovsky classic The Nutcracker by composer Wolf Kerschek. This piece for saxophone and orchestra, where Fateyeva is joined by the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz is complemented by other Christmas favourites for saxophone and vocal ensemble that were recorded together with Niniwe-Vocal Art. Part of the album are for example: Carol of the Bells, Corpus Christi Charol, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, and Rosu Dejte.

The First Symphony was largely inspired by the composer’s tempestuous love affair with the widowed Baroness Imma von Doernberg, whom Walton met in 1929 and with whom he was living on the Continent in the early 1930s. Although the work was long in gestation, with a particular delay in the composition of the finale, the result was universally acclaimed as an outstanding success, with John Ireland commenting “unlike any other English symphony, this is in the real line of symphonic tradition. It is simply colossal, grand, original, and moving to the emotions to the most extreme degree… It has established you as the most vital and original genius in Europe”.