If you ever feel the overpowering urge to hear a disc with the best performances of the best music ever written for violin and piano by Czech composers, this is that disc. If you ever feel the overwhelming compulsion to hear a disc with sweetly lyrical, passionately expressive, and deeply soulful music played with unparalleled insight, unmatched understanding, and complete comprehension, this is that disc. The music is truly the best ever written for violin and piano by Czech composers. Smetana's Pieces (2) from The Homeland are charming. Dvorák's Sonatina and Romantic Pieces are heartfelt and instantly memorable. Suk's Ballade and Pieces (4) are works of stunning intensity and staggering expressivity. And Dvorák's transcription of his Slavonic Dance in E minor is a bravura display of nationalist fervor. The performances are the best ever recorded for the repertoire.

This arresting new album presents a major addition to the solo flute repertoire, bringing together the visionary artistry of flautist Noemi Gyori and the intricate, evocative music of composer Sinan Savaşkan. Spanning nearly five decades of Savaşkan’s compositional output, the album explores the full expressive range of the flute—its lyric warmth, its structural clarity, and its capacity for sonic transformation—often in dialogue with subtly woven electronic elements.

Taken from the final night of this European tour, Epitaph makes its stately appearance on the KC setlist after the punchy hoo-haa of Easy Money. Ian McDonald’s Mellotron orchestrations composed in 1969 add to the portentousness of the track and remain a majestic achievement, beautifully rendered here by Bill Rieflin and Robert Fripp together especially on the haunting coda.

#SUEDE are on the cover of the September issue of MOJO, available in stores from Monday. This brilliant photo was taken by Kevin Westenberg This issue includes an exclusive Outsiders CD featuring live, rare, and unreleased tracks, including ‘Criminal Ways’, a brand new song from Antidepressants.

*Light in the Attic* continues to celebrate the influential career of singer, actress, activist, and icon *Nancy Sinatra* with a captivating new collection, *_Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos & Rarities 1965-1978_*. Exploring the lesser-known gems from Sinatra's rich catalog through *25 B-sides, rare singles, covers, demos, and previously-unreleased recordings*, *_Keep Walkin'_* was remastered by the *GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin* and available in a variety of formats, including *vinyl, CD, 8-track, and digital*.

Driven By The 60s delivers 5CDs of 100 drivetime classics from one of the most popular eras of music. From America’s Motown artists like Marvin Gaye and the Supremes to our very own Lulu, Tom Jones, and Dusty Springfield; this collection is jam-packed with 1960 hits that will have you tapping the dash board and singing out loud.Take a trip down memory lane with Donovan, The Mamas & The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Troggs, Petula Clark, plus many more and be Driven By The 60s.

Françoise Hardy's Vogue years have marked the history of French and international music. Even today, the five years between 1962-67 remain an exceptional moment in her career, the one when she exploded in the eyes of a generation that was born during or just after the Second World War, the generation that would be part of the May 1968 Paris protests. Hardy exploded not only in France alongside her fellow 'Yéyés', but also internationally where she became the symbol of French elegance, talent and charm: the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain… no one could resist Françoise, and she recorded most of her hits in English, Italian and German. 'Tous les garçons et les filles', 'Mon amie la rose', 'L'amitié', 'Le temps de l'amour', etc. are songs that have crossed generations and can be heard in recent movies (Wes Anderson loves Francoise Hardy and has included her songs several times in his films), international television series ('The Walking Dead', 'Industry', 'Week-end family') and advertising spots (Dior 2022 campaign).

MOVE ON UP - From socially conscious Street Funk, to heartfelt love songs - superb Soul penned by Soul Music visionary Curtis Mayfield. Many Wonderful artists added his songs to their repertoire. Curtis Mayfield is way up there on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Best Songwriters.

The arrival of any new VAN STEPHESON music is met with huge anticipation. This release is just a little different from the norm, but no less exciting or musically brilliant. This is Van Stephenson, but with a little help from his friends. As most will be aware, over the course of the last couple of years, I have been archiving Van's vast collection of unreleased songs and demos. There are more than 500, covering all styles from 70s singer/songwriter, 80s AOR and pop to 90s country… and then some. The ultimate goal is to pay tribute to Van with some form of all-inclusive box set/s. During the course of sorting the archives into categories, a certain number of tracks were found to feature vocalists other than Van. I decided that the box sets should be dedicated to just Van with his songs, so the idea came to put together a separate release that featured these songs - Van's own or co-written demos and the various vocalists used on those original sessions. Hence the title - 'Same Pen, Different Voices'. And while Van's voice may be absent from this release - his spirit and his style are all over it, with some absolute melodic classics about to be launched.

King Crimson If there is one group that embodies progressive rock, it is King Crimson. Led by guitar/Mellotron virtuoso Robert Fripp, during its first five years of existence the band stretched both the language and structure of rock into realms of jazz and classical music, all the while avoiding pop and psychedelic sensibilities. The absence of mainstream compromises and the lack of an overt sense of humor ultimately doomed the group to nothing more than a large cult following, but it made their albums some of the most enduring and respectable of the prog rock era.King Crimson originally grew out of the remnants of an unsuccessful trio called Giles, Giles & Fripp.

This outstanding recording preserves one of Jonis superb early North American gigs, a performance at the intimate Second Fret Club in Philadelphia, captured by the citys Temple University radio station, WRTI, in November 1966 and broadcast across the local area. She clearly enjoyed playing at the tiny club and returned there several times the following year for further performances. Despite the undeniably excellent quality of her writing, many of the songs performed were destined to remain unreleased on record for several years. Just four made it onto the eponymously entitled debut album (also known as Song to a Seagull) issued by Reprise Records; Marcie, Michael from Mountains, Song to a Seagull and Night in the City.

Cliff Richard In the years after Elvis Presley but before the Beatles, Cliff Richard was the biggest thing in British rock & roll – and in the years after the Beatles, he was never far from the top of the U.K. charts. Arriving in 1958, just a couple of years after skiffle swept Britain, Richard was the first English singer to approximate the hip-shaking rebellion of American rock & roll with his 1958 debut single "Move It." A smash hit right out of the gate, "Move It" kicked off an astonishing five decades' worth of hits (as of 2014, his last time in the U.K. Top Ten was in 2008, when "Thank You for a Lifetime" went to number three).

Summer is officially here! The newest edition of our Chillhop Essentials series, Summer 2025 is our 38th compilation in this ongoing seasonal tradition.

Petula Clark, CBE is an English singer, actress, and songwriter, born 15 November 1932, in Ewell, Surrey, England.Promoted and tutored by an enthusiastic father, she had started singing professionally at the age of seven and made her radio debut aged nine. She became a familiar singing voice on wartime radio and in concerts for the troops. By the end of the 1940s she was an established singing star and she also appeared as an actress in many films of the era working with such stars as Peter Ustinov, Anthony Newley and Alec Guinness.

As Principal Bassoon in the Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Harri Ahmas (b. 1957) is one of Finland’s most highly regarded orchestral musicians. But he is also the composer of a substantial body of music, including four symphonies, eight concertos, much chamber music and a generous number of works for wind band. Some grandiose and powerful music for organ is threaded through his composing career, too, much of it composed for the musician who plays it here, Jan Lehtola.