eff Khaner’s first solo CD, American Flute Music (AV 0004), garnered international critical acclaim and earned Jeff a place alongside the world’s most famed flutists. Following this notable debut is British Flute Music, a unique overview of the best-known 20th-century British composers. Principal flute of the Philadelphia Orchestra, this release continues to seal Jeff’s reputation as a superb solo artist.

A compilation from these three albums: The Golden Wire 1989, Charming Snakes 1990, World Gone Strange 1991.
While Andy Summers is best known as the guitarist in the Police, he has since forged a successful and acclaimed solo career with new age-influenced contemporary instrumental music that, like his work with Sting and company, draws on his love for jazz and his fascination with creating instrumental textures.

Delta's 1998 release Rarities contains nine tracks that are the product of a 1965 jam session with Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman, Chris Winters, and Ian Stewart.

Archive release from the rock/pop icon. Dion had an album ready for release at Columbia in 1965, but it never made it out of the gate until now! Recorded fifty-two years ago, it is as atom-smashing now as it was when Dion rolled tape with producer Tom Wilson at Columbia Studios in '65. Why was this album pulled from release and shelved? For that story, you'll have to consult Scott Kempner's illuminating liner notes here. Dion would be back on the Laurie label again a few years later, but this Columbia recording captures the doo-wop icon in a mid-'60s folk-rock state of mind, doing Bob Dylan's "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "Farewell" and "Baby I'm in the Mood for You" plus Tom Paxton's "I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound" and the original songs "Kickin' Child" (co-written with Buddy Lucas and released as a single in '65), "Now" (featuring Al Kooper), "My Love," "Wake Up Baby," "Knowing I Won't Go Back There" and more (several of these songs were released on prior outtakes collections and retrospectives, some with different orchestrations). This is the first time that all these tracks are being issued together as the originally intended Dion album. A lost chapter in the epic story of this legendary rock 'n' roller from the Bronx finally surfaces, some 52 years later.

IIn his setting of Orlando, Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. Orlando s mad scene and slumber aria are among the composer s most striking creations. Everything in the opera arouses admiration the extremely varied scoring, the exuberant vocal writing, the rhythmic invention and the supple melodies. On this new recording from K617, Jean-Claude Malgoire and La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy are joined by a cast of talented soloists in a fantastic production rivaling the best in the catalog.

In 1764 a couple of German musicians lodged together in London. They shared a sort of common background, for one was the youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach, newly arrived in town to write opera, and the other, Carl Friedrich Abel, had been Bach’s student back in Leipzig more than a decade earlier. He was in town to make his living as a composer of instrumental works and as a performer on that now-anachronistic instrument the viola da gamba. The two apparently hit it off quite well, for they soon conspired to develop the famed Bach-Abel concert series that became a fixture in the city for more than a decade and a half. Given that they also contrived to perform as well, it is not surprising that both men created a wide variety of works for their instruments, Bach on the keyboard and Abel on his gamba.

Marc-André Hamelin returns to Liszt with this imperious recording, containing works based on music by two composers who were a great influence on the young composer/pianist: the Paganini Etudes and three Schubert Marches. Paganini was the foremost virtuoso of his day, on any instrument, and having heard him in Paris in 1832 Liszt was determined to replicate his showmanship and mastery on the piano. His Etudes, based on Paganini's infamous Caprices (the nearest the violinist came to notating in full the extraordinary acrobatics he often improvised on stage), are the culmination of this early creative spark. Marc-André Hamelin plays the final 1851 version. Liszt was devoted to Schubert, and transcribed many of his songs for piano, as well as marches and other works; the three marches on this disc are based on various rarely heard Schubert marches for piano duet. Marc-André Hamelin's virtuosity is both nonchalant and dazzling, and he brings wit and sparkle to the Paganini Etudes, and great power and architechtural control to the Schubert Marches. A must for piano lovers everywhere.

The Jalapeno Funk series is our annual look back at the best new music we have released in the year plus some classics from the vaults.The idea is simple – 20 killer tracks available online for the price of a pint of craft ale. Well in London anyway.Volume 13’s bumper crop include highlights from the forthcoming album by The Allergies, brand new material from Izo FitzRoy, outstanding album cuts from Smoove & Turrell and Gizelle Smith plus highlights from the stunning John Turrell album and the Radio Trip album both of which we re-issued on vinyl in 2022 .Throw into the mix some highlights from Flevans latest album, breakbeat love from the vaults plus killer new Kraak & Smaak tunes (including one featuring Durand Jones), add some soul stirring global funk from Sam Redmore and you have the perfect present to give yourself.

Disciple de Neuhaus, enfant prodige certes mais « raisonnable » dans la poursuite de sa jeune carrière qu’il avait commencée à l’âge de douze ans avant de remettre son ouvrage sur le métier, Emil Gilels attendit de remporter le Concours Reine Elisabeth cuvée 1938 – c’était le tout premier concours Reine Elisabeth (alors encore appelé Concours Ysaÿe) consacré au piano, l’année précédente ayant couronné le violon et Oistrakh – pour accueillir grand nombre d’invitations internationales… mains la Guerre vint interrompre cette ascension, et c’est à travers l’URSS que le pianiste fit ses premières armes sur scène puis, à partir de 1946, dans les pays du Bloc de l’est. En 1945, il avait formé un fameux trio avec son beau-frère Leonid Kogan et Rostropovitch, remporté le Prix Staline en 1946, et développé une activité qui ne deviendrait internationale qu’à partir de 1955 : une tournée états-unienne avec l’Orchestre de Philadelphie et Ormandy, suivie de ses débuts londoniens en 1959 et, seulement dix ans plus tard, Salzbourg puis Vienne.

Né le 5 avril 1908 d’un père chirurgien de l’hôpital de Salzbourg — issu d’une famille d’origine macédonienne anoblie en 1792 et excellent musicien d'un niveau quasi professionnel (piano, cor et surtout clarinette) —, Herbert von Karajan (en réalité Heribert, Ritter von Karajan c’est-à-dire Chevalier de Karajan) va pulvériser tous les records de précocité.

Jacob Heringman is one of the foremost lutenists of his generation, “a master of his instrument” according to Classical Guitar magazine. He is the lutenist of choice for leading international musicians, including Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, and The King’singers. His reputation for seeking out rare and unjustly neglected repertoire is well earned: previous solo recordings include the only solo lute CD devoted to Josquin des Prez. A veteran of the recording studio, Jacob appears on over 50 CDs as soloist, collaborator and ensemble member.

Chef d’orchestre le plus médiatisé du monde, mais aussi homme de pouvoir voulant tout régir, homme d’affaires innovateur, travailleur intransigeant, par ailleurs fou de voile, de bolides, d’avion et de technologie tout en étant passionné de yoga et de bouddhisme, Herbert von Karajan est considéré partout dans le monde comme une figure mythique, inséparable de Salzbourg, sa ville natale, tant le chef autrichien a façonné comme il l’entendait la vie culturelle de la ville en en faisant un haut-lieu de la scène musicale ; il est aussi connu comme le champion de l’interprétation beethovenienne et l’interprète qui aura le plus enregistré au monde (près d’un millier de disques DGG, Decca, EMI). Qu’il soit porté aux nues ou controversé, il restera sans conteste comme la personnalité marquante de la direction d’orchestre au XXe siècle, dont le remarquable instinct musical aura lancé bon nombre de jeunes chanteurs ou instrumentistes.

Acclaimed violinist and prolific recording artist Philippe Graffin scored a major coup when he unearthed the Violin Concerto of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, the Afro-English composer whose star has waned since the height of his fame at the turn of the last century, but has rapidly risen again on the strength of this world-premiere recording.

Whitney Houston was inarguably one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Her accomplishments as a hitmaker were extraordinary; just to scratch the surface, she became the first artist ever to have seven consecutive singles hit number one, and her 1993 Dolly Parton cover "I Will Always Love You" became nothing less than the biggest hit single in rock history. Houston was able to handle big adult contemporary ballads, effervescent, stylish dance-pop, and slick urban contemporary soul with equal dexterity; the result was an across-the-board appeal that was matched by scant few artists of her era, and helped her become one of the first black artists to find success on MTV in Michael Jackson's wake.

Founded in 2015 by two friends in the corridors of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris – then under the first name of “Koltès” – the Lontano Quartet has since forged solid ties, united by a very particular attraction for the bubbling and fracas of the 20th century.