Vinyl LP pressing. The original score for the film A Good Person by Bryce Dessner (the Grammy-winning composer and founding member of The National) compliments the film's emotional complexity, guiding the listener through the story with mournful orchestrations, dream-like piano melodies and ambient soundscapes. Dessner's film composition credits include The Revenant, for which he was Grammy and Golden Globe-nominated, Fernando Mereilles' The Two Popes, and Mike Mill's C'mon C'mon.
Double vinyl LP pressing. Almost Everything. Is a two-part album. The first, features 15 of Ireland's best-loved artists reading Kavanagh's poetry against the backdrop of a truly stunning musical composition. The second, is a remaster of the 1964 album from Claddagh Records, the only recording of Patrick Kavanagh reading his own poetry. The sleeve notes include fellow poet John Montague's description of Kavanagh as "a writer who already has his place among the Irish immortals, both as a personality and a poet."
2022 release. Melody Gardot and acclaimed pianist Philippe Powell have recorded an intimate album of brooding jazz torch songs. Recorded in Paris in Dec 2021, this intimate new album showcases Melody and Philippe's love of traditional jazz, taking the listener back to it's golden age.
The original soundtrack to Minions: The Rise of Gru promises another exciting installment in the Minions franchise. Produced by Jack Antonoff and filled to the brim with a star-studded list of artists, you can expect a very funky listening experience.
Carlos Simon - "Together" / Grammy-nominated composer Carlos Simon demonstrates his versatility as he composes, improvises, conducts, curates and performs on this intimate studio album. "Being a composer can be a very lonely profession, so I set out bring my closest friends and collaborators to enjoy the practice of music making. It is a coming together after being separated for so long. It is a coming together to share new ideas and experiences through music. It is a coming together to heal and to help others. It is a coming together to sharpen one another." - Carlos Simon
Klaus Makela / Oslo Philharmonic - "Shostakovich: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6" - Verve Label Group; Decca; Classical - "Whatever they are giving to those string players in Oslo, they should try and make it more widely available, because orchestras all over the world would kill for a string sound like the Oslo Philharmonic managed in this performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No.5. It was both the foundation stone and the life blood of perhaps the finest performance of this piece I have heard." - Seen and Heard International
Two CD collection in celebration of the much-anticipated coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort, Camilla. 'Crown and Glory' houses over two and a half hours of British orchestral, instrumental, and choral music from across four centuries. Music enjoyed at coronations, jubilees and state occasions sits alongside evergreens of the Great British classical songbook heard throughout the year at annual national events such as the Last Night of the Proms. Melodies reflecting the close tie between the monarchy and the armed services also feature, as do select songs and tunes beloved by each country of the Union.
Los Romeros - "The Mercury Masters" / The Mercury Masters features the complete Mercury recordings of the "Royal Family of the Guitar" - Los Romeros - including their first recordings, superbly remastered by Thomas Fine. The extensive booklet includes original liner notes by such authorities as Igor Kipnis, a "sessionography" detailing the background to each recording by Thomas Fine, and miniature illustrations that adorned the back of the original LP sleeves. 10 CD set.
Riccardo Chailly -"Verdi Choruses" On February 20th 2023 Riccardo Chailly celebrates his 70th birthday shortly after his latest release, Verdi Choruses. Recorded in Dolby Atmos in the auditorium of Teatro all Scala, the album includes the classic 'Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves' ('Va, pensiero' from Nabucco) as well as the Triumphal Chorus, March and Ballet from Aida and highlights from another 7 Verdi operas.
An unrivalled and towering figure on stage and in the studio, Jessye Norman was unquestionably one of the exceptional sopranos of all time. Decca Classics proudly presents a collection of six unreleased Philips recordings of works by Britten, Haydn, Berlioz, R. Strauss & Wagner.
2022 release. On Unreleased, Bartoli performs dramatic concert arias all written in a period of 23 years, by four composers whose influence on one another is clear, and whose compositions were shaped by the great sopranos they were written for. Beethoven's Ah! Perfido' written for the celebrated singer Josepha Duschek during the composer's visit to Prague in 1796, may foreshadow some of the music for Beethoven's only ever operatic heroine: Fidelio's Leonore. Duschek also gave the premier of Mozart's Bella mia fiamma and was the originally intended performer of Ah, lo previdi, later performed by Aloysia Weber. Other tracks on Unreleased feature Mozart arias originally written for other great singers of the 18th century such as the castrato Tommaso Consoli who first sung Mozart's L'amero saro costante (in the opera Il Pastore). Bartoli continues her work to showcase underperformed rarities with Se mai senti. Written by the Czech composer Josef Myslivecek, the aria comes from his 1734 opera La Clemenza di Tito and was composed for Pietro Benedetti (who also premiered early Mozart operas). Myslivecek, starting life as a miller in Prague before travelling to Italy, became Europe's most successful and best paid opera composer by the time he befriended the young Mozart. Bartoli has previously performed Haydn's Scena di Berenice in concert to great acclaim, with her performance at the 2001 Styriarte Festival described by Gramophone as "one of the best recorded concerts on DVD". This is Bartoli's first studio recording of Haydn's demanding aria first performed by Brigida Bant in London in 1791.
Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. CHANT: MUSIC FOR THE SOUL, is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; it's power is timeless and universal.
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason/Chineke! Orchestra - "Florence Price"In the year of Florence Price's 70th anniversary, the Chineke! Orchestra and Jeneba Kanneh-Mason celebrate the composer's legacy with two of her landmark award-winning pieces which led to her major breakthroughs as a composer.
The Philharmonic Brass / Overture! / What happens when the illustrious brass sections of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic come together? The answer is The Philharmonic Brass. This debut album is conducted by Tugan Sokhiev and includes virtuoso arrangements of some of the best-known overtures including Verdi's La Forza del Destino and Gershwin's Cuban Overture.
2023 release. Grammy-winning composer Eric Whitacre releases a new album with world-renowned VOCES8 - his 'dream vocal group' - for the first time. With Eric conducting throughout, it includes a world premiere recording of his new piece, All Seems Beautiful to Me, as well as a new recording of one of his most popular pieces - The Seal Lullaby. The album also features the 12-movement cantata, The Sacred Veil, with text by Eric's long-time friend and collaborator, Charles Anthony (Tony) Silvestri.
Aristo Sham - "Timeline" - Gramophone acclaimed his performance at the Van Cliburn Competition as "inspired a well-deserved ovation." Aristo Sham won also the Audience Award, voted by music lovers globally, demonstrating that his artistry captivated both the jury and the public. Within just two months, he was mentioned in over 800 news articles, and his Cliburn performance videos were streamed over 2 million times across 125 countries.
