Pianist Nicolas Namoradze's much-anticipated Ondine debut marks a significant milestone in his rapidly ascending career. Winner of the triennial Honens International Piano Competition in 2018, Namoradze has since been prominently profiled in major international media, including The New York Times, and has earned widespread acclaim for both his performances and recordings. A Musical America New Artist, BBC Music Magazine Rising Star, and Gramophone One to Watch, he was named Pianist of the Year by the UK Critics' Circle in 2022.

Caspar Diethelm (1926-97) was one of the leading Swiss composers of the twentieth century. His free-tonal style - angular yet accessible - drew on the inheritance of several of his predecessors, above all Hindemith, Honegger (both of whom were his teachers), Martin and Schoeck, with Bartok adding rhythmic spice. These influences he combined with an awareness of modernism to form an individual and expressive musical language of his own. The three concertos recorded here are remarkable for the striking clarity of their orchestral textures; they also exhibit Diethelm's fondness for enlivening his narratives with surges of energy and touches of gleeful humour.

For the middle decades of the twentieth century Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913-83) was a mainstay of musical life in Britain - and in Scotland in particular - as an administrator, academic, choral director and, especially, composer. His many film scores brought him a wide audience, but the orchestral works he wrote for the concert hall are as good as unknown. The five works heard here, all in their first recordings, reveal craftsmanship of a high order and a natural melodic gift, in a style anchored in the soundworlds of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams - both of whom he knew personally - combined with a Scottish accent that gives this music a unique personal voice.

Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) occupies an important place in early twentieth-century European music. Born in Liege, he demonstrated exceptional musical talent from a young age and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Liege, where he excelled in composition, organ, and piano. Jongen was deeply influenced by the French musical tradition, particularly the harmonic language of Cesar Franck, Gabriel Faure, and Claude Debussy, while retaining a distinctive personal voice. Jongen's piano works reveal a composer of remarkable craftsmanship and lyrical imagination. Rather than pursuing the dramatic intensity associated with late Romantic virtuosity, he favored elegance, clarity, and expressive subtlety. His music often combines flowing melodic lines with rich yet transparent harmonic textures, creating an atmosphere of warmth and sophistication. Impressionistic harmonic colors frequently appear, though they are balanced by classical formal structures and careful contrapuntal writing. Rhythmically, Jongen's piano compositions display flexibility and natural phrasing, avoiding excessive complexity while maintaining a refined sense of momentum. His writing is idiomatic for the instrument, demonstrating an intimate understanding of the piano's expressive possibilities without relying on technical display for it's own sake. Many of his works evoke poetic imagery through delicate textures, nuanced dynamics, and refined pedaling. Riccardo Mussato, born in Italy in 1998, graduated with highest honours in Piano Performance at the Conservatoire of Turin, where he also obtained a Master cum laude and special mention. After some masterclasses in France, he completed a Master at the Conservatoire Royal of Bruxelles with Distinction and he is ending a Master's degree program in Musicology at the University of Bologna. Particularly interested in French music, para-religious music, Italian music of 20th and 21st century, Mozart's opera, and Wagnerian drama, he maintains an active concert and outreach career, particularly through interdisciplinary lecture-recitals connecting music with the humanities.

Many composers who wrote primarily for the English cathedral tradition have not had the recognition they deserve outside that cloistered world. Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926-89) is one such. Although the choral and organ works heard on this album naturally respond to the requirements of the performers for whom he was writing, they have a freshness, energy and individuality that transcend their origin, their sound-world overlapping with that of some of his close contemporaries, like John Gardner, Kenneth Leighton and William Mathias.

Pianist Peter Jablonski joins the Gavle Symphony Orchestra and their new chief conductor Christian Reif to shine a spotlight on two forgotten treas-ures of Nordic music. This album brings back to life the beautifully crafted piano concertos of Swedish composer Melcher Melchers (1882-1961), works full of elegance, warmth, and Romantic spirit. Long overlooked, Melchers's concertos reveal a composer with a distinctive voice-refined, expressive, and deeply musical. Jablonski's performances, paired with the orchestra's vibrant sound, offer listeners a rare chance to discover these re-markable pieces anew.

A consort of violins makes it's way through the Venetian night beneath the arcades of St Mark's Square. From the basilica to aristocratic salons, from the streets to the taverns, the violinists follow the rhythms of daily life; the violin, a relatively new instrument, gradually found it's place within 16th century musical life. Moving through the places where music permeated the city of the Doges, Sulla Piazza paints a vivid musical fresco that provides an accompaniment to prayer as well as dancing until daybreak.

With their new release, the VocaMe vocal ensemble explores a unique chapter in medieval cultural history: the previously unrecorded works of the 13th-century Beguine mystic Hadewijch of Brabant. In close collaboration with Belgian scholars, they have created a program that impressively combines historical research with artistic imagination. Hadewijch's Old Flemish texts and songs are surprisingly sensual; the ceaseless quest for courtly love is reflected in nature, in spring and in the movement of the stars. The music ranges from calm and melancholic to lively and stirring, and even rhythmically accentuated. The vocal ensemble is accompanied by a selection of medieval instruments. This album is more than a musical realization - it is a poetic reimagining of one of the most compelling voices of medieval Europe. Hadewijch's vision of Minne emerges not as an abstract idea, but as a deeply human experience: sensual, searching, and timeless.

1621 was the year in which one of the most influential composers of Europe passed away - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (15611621). With his knowledge and artistry, he had inspired an entire generation of musicians. Also in this year one of his students - Samuel Scheidt (15871654) - achieved public success as a composer by publishing Ludi musici, a collection of entertaining dance movements and canzonas. The recorder ensemble AS TIME GOES BY - A New Consort of Music from Vienna presents this music in a very exiting and insightful interpretation, which brings the nuances and details of these unknown compositions to light.

Schattenspiele brings together several facets of Gebhard Ullmann's remarkable creative world, blurring the boundaries between composition and improvisation, structure and spontaneity. Developed over many years, these works reflect an artistic journey of constant reinvention, where musical ideas evolve through performance, reflection and collaboration. From the atmospheric Kleine Symphonie with Berlin's adventurous LUX: NM ensemble to the vibrant colours of Hell und Bunt for the Aduma Saxophone Quartet and the deeply personal solo bass clarinet works, the album reveals Ullmann's unmistakable voice: lyrical, adventurous and endlessly imaginative. The recording captures this music with exceptional intimacy and clarity. The ensemble works were recorded at Berlin's renowned Bonello Studio, where performances were preserved almost entirely live, retaining their organic energy and immediacy. The solo works and saxophone quartet were recorded at Guy Sternberg's celebrated Low Swing Studio, centred around it's lovingly restored vintage Neve console, whose warm, transparent sound perfectly complements the expressive depth and rich sonic palette of Ullmann's bass clarinet and chamber music. Together, these extraordinary recording spaces help bring every nuance of Schattenspiele vividly to life!

On Disambiguation, guitarist and composer Christy Doran joins forces with Indian tabla player Imran Khan for a vivid, border-crossing duo album that brings together rock energy, blues feeling, jazz improvisation, Irish melodic traces and the subtle rhythmic flow of Indian classical music. Doran's guitar language is instantly recognizable: shimmering textures, sharp rhythmic accents, eruptive solos, intricate patterns and a fearless sense of movement. After six decades of musical exploration, he returns here with renewed clarity to the roots that have shaped his playing: blues, rock, Hendrix, McLaughlin, improvisation and, more recently, the Irish music of his family heritage. Echoes of Uilleann pipe melodies can be heard in pieces such as 'Ode to Johnny Doran' and 'Dark Slender Boy', where folk material is transformed into Doran's own highly personal sound world. Imran Khan's tabla provides both pulse and atmosphere. A distinguished player of the Delhi Gharana, Khan brings warmth, clarity and expressive depth to the music. His gently shifting rhythmic patterns open a space in which Doran's acoustic and electric guitars can move freely between drive, abstraction, lyricism and intensity. The album title points to a kind of artistic clarification. The ambiguities are not simplified, but illuminated. Across pieces such as 'Disambiguation', 'Haute Savoie', 'Taal Pravaah' and 'Mantra On An Irish Stream', the duo creates music that is fluid, forceful and deeply rooted, yet always open to surprise. Disambiguation is a meeting of two distinctive musical voices: Christy Doran's expansive guitar art and Imran Khan's refined tabla tradition. Together they create a sound that is direct, exploratory and full of depth.

On STRANGER THINGS, pianist and composer Inna Faliks reflects on the musical forces that have shaped her artistic voice. Childhood compositions written just before emigrating from Odesa appear alongside works by Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms, tracing a path from Romantic tradition to the expressive freedoms of early modernism. Two of Faliks' own compositions set the stage for a program where memory, discovery, and creative identity converge - revealing how the unexpected often guides an artist's journey.

A journey through time to castles, chambers and amorous settings around 1800. The irresistible soprano Shira Patchornik is a rising star on opera and concert stages. Many people are still familiar with Mozart's "Figaro". 'Al Desio di chi t'adora'. It is a song full of erotic tension addressed to her lover. And perhaps some are still familiar with Haydn's 'La vera Constanza'. The rest of this stimulating programme consists of discoveries and treasures from Italian opera of the same period, but largely forgotten. But what is it about? No opera can do without them: the maid, the lover, the chambermaid, the jealous wife, the daughter. Operas around 1800 are mostly intricate tales of intrigue and love. Sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, these stories inspired composers to the highest form of their art. Bella Ragazze, they become witnesses to amorous adventures, they are the projection screen for powerful men, or they themselves become energetic and vengeful protagonists. Shira Patchornik is a shooting star on the big stages and brings us key moments from opera treasures with a stupendous stage presence. She embodies characters in her own unique way and does justice to even the most breakneck coloratura. As if made for it, Mozart's rarely heard Divertimento joins the entertaining opera action: written as music for entertaining festive gatherings, it displays Mozart's characteristic humour in almost every moment.

Frederic Rzewski - A Mensch The title of this album refers to the Yiddish word Mensch: literally 'a human being,' but in everyday use someone who acts with integrity, awareness and responsibility. For Frederic Rzewski, the term carried exactly this meaning. A Mensch is not a perfect person, but someone who remains fully human-capable of doubt, contradiction and critical thought, and resistant to becoming passive within larger societal systems. This idea runs quietly but consistently through his work. The pieces brought together here span more than sixty years, from the early 1950s to the last decade of his life, forming a kind of timeline across his career. The musical language changes, sometimes radically, but the underlying concerns remain strikingly constant. Rzewski's music engages with literature, politics and history, often through concrete situations-prison, injustice, personal crisis-but never in an abstract or detached way. The question is always how individuals relate to these forces, and whether they can remain human within them. In that sense, the ethical dimension of the Yiddish Mensch is not just a title, but something that can be heard throughout the programme. Taken as a whole, this recording traces a composer who never gave up on the idea that music can carry meaning beyond itself. Across decades of work, his voice remains clear in it's insistence that art can still ask what it means to live-and to act-as a human being.

With their neww album Tolstoy, Too Noisy Fish, the trio of Peter Vandenberghe (piano, compositions), Kristof Roseeuw, and Teun Verbruggen, opens a new chapter full of freedom and adventure. The moves effortlessly between composition and improvisation, between order and chaos, between what is planned and what emerges in the moment. Too Noisy Fish first made it's mark in the Belgian jazz landscape in 2011, when the rhythm section of the Flat Earth Society Orchestra decided to start pushing boundaries as a trio too. They created four albums, including 'Too Many Fish: 10 Years Too Noisy Fish', a record celebrating the ten year anniversary of the trio by inviting musician and artist friends to join them in the studio and on stage. With their upcoming album, they are once again establishing themselves as a singular trio. The band shows how music can be at once profound and light, sharp and open-hearted, fully in line with the seeming contradictions that are rife in Tolstoy's work. Each piece is a journey, unpredictable, honest, and full of twists, with freedom and adventure as the compass, and no fixed destination. The compositions breathe literature: melodies unfold like sentences, rhythms collide like characters, harmonies pose questions rather than giving answers. Too Noisy Fish remains true to it's distinctive sound world: incisive, playful, unsettling, yet always imbued with deep human warmth. On Tolstoy, the music moves freely through space, silence, humor, and melancholy. An album about the lust for life, choices, and the endless search for meaning; in sound, in silence, in freedom.

Rex regum - An Imperial Christmas recreates one of the most remarkable Christmas celebrations of the Renaissance: the festive Mass celebrated in 's-Hertogenbosch on Christmas Day 1545, attended by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V during an unexpected stay in the city. Centered around Jheronimus Vinders' magnificent Missa Fit porta Christi pervia, the programme weaves together plainsong, Renaissance polyphony, traditional Dutch Christmas songs and organ music to evoke the rich soundscape of a sixteenth-century Christmas liturgy. As the final volume in Cappella Pratensis' acclaimed Den Bosch Choirbooks series, this recording brings centuries-old musical treasures from one of Europe's most important surviving choirbook collections vividly back to life through historically informed performance and meticulous scholarship. Adding to the recording's extraordinary authenticity is the use of the Van Straten organ at Amsterdam's Orgelpark an exact reconstruction of the celebrated 1479 organ from Utrecht's Nicolaikerk, whose sound world closely reflects that of the late Middle Ages. Combined with the ensemble's immersive performance practice, singing directly from original choirbook notation, the result is an inspiring musical journey that transports the listener into the splendour, devotion and ceremonial grandeur of an imperial Christmas more than 480 years ago.  The ensemble regularly has received a Diapason d'Or, the Prix Choc, and for the last three CDs, three consecutive Gramophone Editor's Choice's. In 2022 Capella Pratensis received a Gramophone Award, maybe the most important award one can receive in classical music!

With The Length Between Dusk and Dawn in Minutes, Swedish pianist and composer Matti Bye presents a deeply atmospheric album between ambient piano, modern classical music and cinematic minimalism. Across twelve intimate movements, Bye explores the fragile space between night and morning, where silence, memory and emotion slowly unfold. Delicate piano motifs, subtle harmonies and organic textures create a poetic sound world that feels both timeless and immediate. Melancholic, tender and quietly immersive, the album invites listeners into a suspended moment of reflection - a musical twilight shaped by sensitivity, restraint and emotional depth.

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Crafted with care and built for replay value. The songs balance layered arrangements and rhythmic finesse, moving from head-nod grooves to slow-burn builds. Perfect for listeners drawn to song-first perspectives, audiophile detail, and subtle complexity. 9324690177370 IMT9017737.2 42003366 17.14 26.99 .08 IMPORTS COMPACT DISCS POP JAZZ 09/10/2021 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/64/4007264-3002170.jpg 10 1 N LIGHT SPIRIT: LIGHTHOUSES OF THE MAINE COAST LIGHT SPIRIT: LIGHTHOUSES OF THE MAINE COAST Some lighthouses usher the mariner in. Others warn him away. Yet all of them selflessly serve those who travel by sea. But for those lighthouses that have survived into the present, what will be their fates now that modern navigational technology has rendered many of them obsolete? And how do these ageless towers continue to cast such magical, mystical spells after centuries of use? 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And you'll also go behind-the-scenes with The Queens, as they display the magical chemistry that made them a top-drawing concert act. So take a seat and buckle up because you're in for a roller coaster ride of laughter! 810072545268 PAHE72545268DVD 42004134 13.95 15.99 .20 PARAMOUNT DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE MYSTERY / SUSPENSE / THRILLER 09/14/2021 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/64/4007364-2997571.jpg 2 1 N PASSEPORT POUR LE MONDE: TRAVERSEE DE L'ATLANTIQUE PASSEPORT POUR LE MONDE: TRAVERSEE DE L'ATLANTIQUE Suivez le quotidien et les peripeties inhabituels d'un equipage temeraire lors d'une traversee epique de deux mois de l'ocean Atlantique a bord d'un catamaran, le Lucia 40. Voguez avec cette famille intrepide et leur capitaine, de la prise de possession du bateau a La Rochelle en France, en passant par des escales a A Coruna en Espagne et Lisbonne au Portugal, ainsi que sur l'ile de Madere, jusqu'a leur destination ultime, l'ile de Saint-Martin au cœur des chaleureuses Antilles francaises. Des preparatifs de cette formidable epopee, aux vues splendides des cotes europeennes et africaines, sans oublier les imprevisibles et indomptables caprices meteo, vivez une proximite unique et authentique de cette aventure marine a la decouverte des cultures et de l'ocean. Suivez le quotidien et les peripeties inhabituels d'un equipage temeraire lors d'une traversee epique de deux mois de l'ocean Atlantique a bord d'un catamaran, le Lucia 40. Voguez avec cette famille intrepide et leur capitaine, de la prise de possession du bateau a La Rochelle en France, en passant par des escales a A Coruna en Espagne et Lisbonne au Portugal, ainsi que sur l'ile de Madere, jusqu'a leur destination ultime, l'ile de Saint-Martin au cœur des chaleureuses Antilles francaises. Des preparatifs de cette formidable epopee, aux vues splendides des cotes europeennes et africaines, sans oublier les imprevisibles et indomptables caprices meteo, vivez une proximite unique et authentique de cette aventure marine a la decouverte des cultures et de l'ocean. 810071441691 DMSP44169DVD 41995501 11.51 17.95 .17 DREAMSCAPE DIGITAL VIDEO DISC MOVIE DOCUMENTARY 12/28/2021 https://mediacdn.aent-m.com/prod-img/500/71/4006071-2740278.jpg 0 1 N TYNER,MCCOY LIVE AT WARSAW JAZZ JAMBOREE 1991 Founded in 1977 by Lionel Hampton, the Who's Who in Jazz label existed as a means to present to the world the best musicians that the jazz world had to offer. With Lionel chairing the recording sessions (and also featuring on several of the sessions himself), these recordings have truly earned their title featuring jazz greats such as Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Terumasa Hino, Sonny Stitt, Teddy Wilson, Stephane Grappelli and Dave Brubeck, amidst the many others.

Kotaro Fukuma presents a magnificent collection of piano transcriptions combining virtuosity and lyricism. In addition to popular plays such as Bach-Gounod's Ave Maria, Schumann-Liszt's Widmung and Wagner-Liszt's Liebestod Isolde, the program includes Fukuma's own transcript of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik and a potpourri of French songs, "Chanson Medley". by his admirers.

Founded in 1977 by Lionel Hampton, the Who's Who in Jazz label existed as a means to present to the world the best musicians that the jazz world had to offer. With Lionel chairing the recording sessions (and also featuring on several of the sessions himself), these recordings have truly earned their title featuring jazz greats such as Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Terumasa Hino, Sonny Stitt, Teddy Wilson, Stephane Grappelli and Dave Brubeck, amidst the many others. Recorded in 1977 in New York City during a cross-city power outage, 'Blackout' sees Hampton invite Vinnie Bell (guitar), Roland Hanna (piano), Sam Turner (congas), Frank Wess (flute, saxophone), Janice Robinson (trombone) and Victor Paz (trumpet) to showcase an array of classic compositions including 'Twelfth Street Rag' and 'Birth of the Blues'.