Nika in Horace Silver's masterpiece "Nika's Dream" is a female jazz patron. Regardless of her status, she resolutely came to New York, the holy land of jazz, alone, wholeheartedly supporting jazz musicians and offering them many famous songs.I think her great love spirit and way of life are worth learning from.

The "Sakuyahime - Alma Memorial Concert," to be held on Saturday, June 7, 2025, at the Guitar Culture Museum, will offer a beautiful musical experience that will touch the heart. Soprano Izumi Okuwaki and guitarist Tomomi Kono will perform a diverse program of Spanish folk songs, traditional English tunes, and contemporary sensibilities in an emotionally rich performance, bringing the audience a wide range of music from baroque to contemporary.

A new and complete survey of the attractive body of cello sonatas which, in his day, helped to make Antonio Caldara a Viennese rival to the fame of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice.

A compilation of the master of taiko, Hidetetsu Hayashi. Hidetetsu Hayashi’s first album in 18 years, with all new recordings, is the culmination of the sound world of Hidetetsu Hayashi at the peak of his maturity.” This album is the first in the “Ultimate Sound Series,” which continues the lineage of the audiophile-focused “Super Sound Adventure Series,” and is a DSD 11.2 MHz recording with 2-bit/352.8 KHz post-production. This is truly an album that will shake you and question the limits of fidelity of your playback equipment. The exquisite ensemble Eitetsu Fuun no Kai is accompanied by special guests Fujiwara Dozan (shakuhachi) and Fujisha Takao (Nohkan), top runners in the world of Japanese music, for an unparalleled sound world.

A captivating and sophisticated collection of eleven songs that traverse the outer regions of folk, On The Wing is a record of acceptance and self-discovery, rooted in solitude and personal healing, from one of the UK’s most exciting new singer- songwriters.

The international Progmetal collective "Sad Serenity" returns with their second album "Tiny Miracles". Embarking on another deep, intricate, and melodic journey lasting more than 70 minutes, the musicians once again tread the thin line between musical prowess and emotional depth. With their mostly overlong compositions, they again strive for a well-balanced mix of power, complexity and beauty. The miracles may be tiny, but the impact will be huge!

The wife of a duke resists the advances of a powerful lecher and is “punished” by being cast adrift at sea. A well-meaning overseer of a mining operation rescues the shipwrecked woman and, under a different name, shelters her as his niece for ten years. At last, the duke—widowed for a second time—arrives at the place of her exile. They are reunited, and the villain meets his well-earned fate… Nothing new, one might think. Yet L’inganno felice (“The Fortunate Deception”), this one-act opera first performed in Venice in early 1812, is so brimming with Rossini’s most fiery spirit that we forget the familiar plot entirely over the course of its roughly 90-minute runtime: it ignites and sparkles, glitters and whirls with the most beautiful melodies, the most tingling rhythms, and the most furious orchestral surges the master of The Barber of Seville was capable of. The festival was far from the only one to be enthralled!

Breathtaking piano compositions by Angeline Bell that weave together nostalgic reflections of her Malaysian childhood with the rich tapestry of East Asian folk influences. Performed by her former student Katie Yao Morgan, this collection of evocative pieces transports listeners through bustling markets, tranquil landscapes and cherished personal memories. Featuring the exquisite sounds of the Chinese erhu by Xiao Wang, this album is a heartfelt fusion of East and West, blending tradition with contemporary expression.

When several of the greatest minds in modern music join forces, the result is a genre-defying masterpiece. MEMORIES OF TOMORROW brings together the virtuosic talents of marimbist Mika Stoltzman, bassist Eddie Gomez, pianists Geoffrey Keezer and Anders Wihk, vibraphonist Mike Mainieri, clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, and drummer Steve Gadd, who doubles as the producer of this all-star album.

The Miró Quartet, celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, presents an album featuring the complete string quartets of Alberto Ginastera, one of the most influential Latin American composers of the 20th century. A master of vivid contrasts and emotional depth, Ginastera infused his music with the spirit of Argentine folk traditions, bold modernist language, and a profound sense of expression. These three quartets span the entirety of his creative development, tracing a fascinating journey across three distinct stylistic periods.

Their fifth release on Signum Classics, the “engaging” (New Yorker) men’s vocal en- semble Cantus present a collection of songs cycles by contemporary and living com- posers, exploring different kinds of journeys through song. “These contrasting song cycles share an embrace of change, growth, acceptance and renewal, and through the collective experience of their journeys – great and small, painful and magical – we gain a clearer picture of life and of ourselves” - Cantus

Paul Hindemith’s Der Schwanendreher (literally ‘the swan turner’) is a viola concerto based on medieval German folk songs. While the ‘swan turner’ was literally someone who turned the spit of a roasting swan, metaphorically it referred to an itinerant minstrel whose street organ or hurdy-gurdy was cranked via a swan’s-neck handle. He composed the work between September and October 1935, and it was premiered at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, with the composer (a virtuoso violist who did much to elevate the instrument’s status) serving as soloist.

“The more new discoveries you make, the more you go back to the beginning,” observes pianist Vincent Meissner. The music on his third album, ‘Eigengrau’, is characterized by an inward gaze, by his reflections on experiences and encounters that have been meaningful to him. Together with his working trio, Josef Zeimetz on bass and Henri Reichmann on drums, Vincent Meissner has developed his own language, drawing inspiration from artists such as The Bad Plus, Esbjörn Svensson, Vijay Iyer - and his mentor, Michael Wollny.

For the first time in over 50 years, Alice Cooper and the original band reunite to bring rock ‘n’ roll back from the shadows! The Revenge of Alice Cooper is a high-voltage journey into vintage horror and classic ’70s shock rock.

The Eagles are unquestionably the biggest mainstream American rock band to have emerged in the 1970s. Not only did they sell more records and concert tickets than their peers – Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) and Hotel California are two of the biggest-selling albums of all time – but they captured the shifting zeitgeist of the '70s, riding the country-rock hippie hangover at the end of the '60s until it reached the slick, expensive, and expansive pop/rock of Southern California in the late '70s. Co-leaders Don Henley and Glenn Frey met each other, along with fellow founders Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner, when they were hired to support Linda Ronstadt in 1971. The chemistry was evident on-stage and in the studio, so the quartet decided to form a band, releasing their debut in 1972. Hits came swiftly but their stardom peaked in the latter half of the decade, after 1975's One of These Nights became a smash.