Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers is the second studio album by indie rock band the National. It was released in 2003 on Brassland Records.

Joan Chandos Baez (/baɪz/; born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist.

Pianist David Ake heartily extends his conceptually humanist approach to music with “Slingshot," his 2022 album of solo and duo performances.

Simon Chivallon does not hesitate to quote Jacques Prévert, to revisit Nino Ferrer or to interpret Georges Gershwin, Georges Brassens and Frédéric Chopin. His palette of colors, all in finesse, explores eras, crosses time with magic, and this is indeed his identity: plural, timeless, and not devoid of a certain 'joyful nostalgia', from a feeling of Saudade to his way. A young pianist who has not finished surprising us, to follow closely…

The Boxmasters, Billy Bob Thornton and J.D. Andrew, add the thirteenth studio album '69 to their discography which dates back to 2008. Thornton sings lead on the thirteen tracks which were written and produced by the duo. Sonically the songs are an homage to 60s influenced rock and roll. Formed in 2007, The Boxmasters have recorded an impressive and diverse catalogue of music that touches on their love of a wide array of influences, but most importantly, the rock and roll of the 1960’s. Listening to The Boxmasters, one can hear obvious odes to the Beatles, Byrds and Beach Boys, but also important to The Boxmasters are The Mothers of Invention, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine and Big Star.

Singer, songwriter, pianist and string arranger Daisy Chapman is a well-travelled musician who draws her influences from both anti-folk and classical music. It is difficult to describe Daisy Chapman's own style. A fictional meeting of Neil Hannon with Regina Spektor might be the first attempt at a description. Live, each song holds a dark story of love, lust and loss, told in a multi-faceted way through Daisy Chapman's voice and Sue Lord on violin.

The Brazilian pianist Magda Tagliaferro was one of the few musicians who made it to the top of the classical music scene in the first half of the 20th century.

The role of Nedda in Leoncavallo's verismo classic never entered Callas's stage repertoire, and so her recording made with the forces of La Scala, Milan, between 12 and 17 June 1954 represents one of her explorations of an opera made purely within the confines of the studio, rather than developing over a period on the stage. But as in all such cases - this was the first time she recorded a role she had not previously sung - Callas's desire to explore it to the fullest remains paramount. There is a complete identification between singer and character, down to the smallest detail, that make her Nedda an unusually complex creation that grows throughout the opera as she responds to its desperate emotional thrills and spills.

Callas's two comic roles were both in operas by Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia. She first played the capricious and flirtatious Fiorilla - a married Neapolitan woman who takes up with a visiting Turk - in Rome in 1950. Five years later, at La Scala, she appeared in a production by Franco Zeffirelli, also, famously, the director of her Covent Garden Tosca and Paris Norma. Gramophone wrote: 'Callas acts vividly, chiding, boasting, melting, and when in typical Rossinian style she is given a 'key' figure, each repetition of it carries, so one thinks, a slightly different meaning. I found myself teased by memories of these little phrases for hours afterwards'.

Megan Moroney has revealed that her debut album, Lucky, will be released on May 5. Fans won't have to wait that long before they can hear new music from the Georgia native, though, as the title-track will be made available on March 10.

Demos, early versions and outtakes of tracks from 'Space' (2018).

This is the first of Callas's two complete recordings of her signature role, the druid priestess Norma, in which she has remained unrivaled for 50 years. It captures her voice inits imposing early prime, while in the two famous duets for Norma and Adalgisa she is partnered by Ebe Stignani, generally considered the greatest Italian mezzo-soprano of her era. The conductor is Callas's mentor Tullio Serafin.

Relentlessly pursued by Fate, Leonora in La forza del destino is a haunted heroine whose passions and fears are expressed on a grand scale. Callas’s stage experience of Forza was limited to her early career in Italy – in fact, Leonora was her first Verdi role – but, as Lord Harewood, founder of Opera magazine, observed, her recorded assumption exhibited ‘an unparalleled musical sensibility and imagination and a grasp of the musico-dramatic picture which is unique’. She took her place in a powerful cast conducted by her mentor Tullio Serafin.

"Sinatra at the Sands" is a live album by Frank Sinatra accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra, and conducted and arranged by Quincy Jones, recorded live in the Copa Room of the former Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in 1966. It was Sinatra's first live album to be commercially released, and contains many definitive readings of the songs that are most readily associated with Sinatra.

András Schiffs reputation as one of the great interpreters of the work of Franz Schubert is long-established. He has always maintained that Schuberts music is amongst the most moving ever written. Schiff underlined the point on his ECM New Series album with the C Major fantasies at the end of the 1990s, and he does so again on this remarkable recording, on which two Schubert sonatas, the Musical Moments, four Impromptus (D 935), the Hungarian Melody and an Allegretto are addressed on a period instrument, the fortepiano.