2024 release from banjo great Bela Fleck expands and explores George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue by paying homage to the legendary composer while redefining an American classic-just in time for it's centennial. Available February 12, 2024, a hundred years to the day Gershwin premiered the work at Aeolian Hall in New York City, Fleck's Rhapsody in Blue album includes three variations: "Rhapsody in Blue (grass), " "Rhapsody in Blue(s), " and the classic orchestration, but with banjo featured instead of piano, performed by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Eric Jacobson. The set also features Gershwin's "Rialto Ripples" and "Unidentified Piece for Banjo, " an unrecorded and unreleased gem discovered at the Library of Congress.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
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BELA FLECK PRODUCTIO
Feb 16, 2024
BLFK83939.2
BACH TRIOS
NONESUCH
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Apr 21, 2017
Double vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release, an album of Bach works recorded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, mandolinist Chris Thile, and bassist Edgar Meyer. The album comprises works by J.S. Bach originally written for keyboard instruments, plus one sonata for viola da gamba. In 2011, Ma, Thile, and Meyer-along with Stuart Duncan-collaborated on The Goat Rodeo Sessions, which won two Grammy Awards. Yo-Yo Ma and Edgar Meyer's first recording together was the 1996 album Appalachia Waltz, which also featured fiddler Mark O'Connor; that album was followed by Appalachian Journey, also with O'Connor, in 2000. Thile then joined Meyer on Ma's 2008 holiday album, Songs of Joy and Peace, before the trio reunited, along with Stuart Duncan, for The Goat Rodeo Sessions, an album of original tunes drawing from the musicians' backgrounds in bluegrass, classical, and American roots music. As Ma told Billboard at that time: "How often do you work with people who are master virtuosos and also master improvisers and composers, who know at least two musical traditions unbelievably well?" He continued, "It's just extraordinary when you have people who can actually show on their instruments what they're thinking at any moment, without a delay. As soon as you think it, it gets transferred in your neuromusculature immediately into sound."
BACH TRIOS
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NONESUCH
Apr 21, 2017
NNS558933.1
RETREAT TO BLISS
WESTERN VINYL
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Mar 25, 2022
Since the release of his last album - 2017's Finding Shore, a collaboration with Brian Eno - pianist and singer-songwriter Tom Rogerson's life has undergone a number of dramatic transformations. While writing his new album Retreat to Bliss, Rogerson had a child, lost a parent, and received his own diagnosis of a rare form of blood cancer. The new decade brought him from Berlin to the Suffolk of his childhood, composing profound pieces of minimal songwriting in the church next to his parents' home. Rogerson studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music under mentors like Harrison Birtwistle, and he made his live debut as an improvising pianist in 2002, before releasing an improvised record with Reid Anderson (Bad Plus) and Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Bon Iver) in 2004. He formed the band Three Trapped Tigers in 2007, expertly blending elements of electronic, jazz and noise rock into a cohesive whole. The band earned a reputation for innovative live shows and went on to perform and collaborate with artists like Brian Eno, Deftones, and the Dillinger Escape Plan. It was working with Eno, another Suffolk native, that eventually led Rogerson back to his roots and back to a place where he could write Retreat to Bliss, his solo debut album. "All my life, the piano has been my constant companion, my confessor, my best friend, and my worst enemy," Rogerson explains. "I've always written music on and for the piano, but it felt too personal, too private to release." Indeed, listening to Retreat to Bliss feels almost like eavesdropping, as though you're crouched in the belfry of a Suffolk church, bearing witness to a form of musical bloodletting. For the first time in his noteworthy career, Rogerson has combined masterful piano playing and subtle electronics with the texture of his own voice, an attempt to express deeply private emotions that were difficult to articulate using instrumental music alone. "The last few years have brought some struggle, some joy, and a lot of change. My response has been to retreat to what I trust the most: the piano, my voice, and the landscape I grew up in. That's how the album got it's title, and how I came to be ready finally to release a solo record." Secular yet devotional, intensely personal yet profound, the experience of listening to Retreat to Bliss seems to evade characterization. It's physical and emotional, a glimpse into the mind of an artist who has chosen exposure over withdrawal, who uses his command of the piano to chart an unflinching path forward, never looking back.
RETREAT TO BLISS
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WESTERN VINYL
Mar 25, 2022
WVNL208.1
MOZART: SONATAS FOR PIANO & VIOLIN
IMPORTS
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$21.99
Apr 21, 2017
MOZART: SONATAS FOR PIANO & VIOLIN
MOZART: SONATAS FOR PIANO & VIOLIN
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IMPORTS
Apr 21, 2017
IMT5045174.1
TIDES: PIECES FOR ACCORDION AND PIANO
JEALOUS BUTCHER
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Mar 24, 2023
Jenny Conlee, the multi-instrumentalist best known for her 23-year tenure as a member of indie icons The Decemberists, is stepping once more to center stage this year with the release of Tides: Pieces for Accordion and Piano. The humble yet deeply emotional album of instrumentals finds Conlee pulling from her vast well of influences and knowledge to work in a more neo-classical mode. A1. Hawk (Dorian) A2. Dune Grass (Lydian) A3. Ocean (Mixolydian) A4. Sand (Aeolian) A5. Wind (Phrygian) A6. Shell (Locrian) A7. Sunset (Ionian) B8. Low Tide B9. Pinwheel B10. Sandpiper B11. Looking Glass (For Tiffany) B12. Shore Pine
TIDES: PIECES FOR ACCORDION AND PIANO
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JEALOUS BUTCHER
Mar 24, 2023
JBTC227.1
JULIETTE GRECO A LA PHILHARMONIE DE BERLIN
DECCA UK
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Dec 01, 2023
JULIETTE GRECO A LA PHILHARMONIE DE BERLIN
JULIETTE GRECO A LA PHILHARMONIE DE BERLIN
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DECCA UK
Dec 01, 2023
DCCK4582198.1
VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS
CHASING THE DRAGON
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Nov 16, 2018
Vivaldi's best known work, The Four Seasons is given new life in this Audiophile Direct to Disc recording from Chasing the Dragon. In order to make this D2D recording, the Interpreti Veneziani Chamber Orchestra performs each album side live in the studio, recorded via state of the art, all-tube valve microphones, fed to a Neve Desk, and then via a pure analogue path directly to the Neumann VMS80 lathe. 180 gram Audiophile Direct to Disc LP! A dynamic performance, pure analog delight!
VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS
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CHASING THE DRAGON
Nov 16, 2018
CHDG1.1
PLAYS BEETHOVEN CONCERTO 2 & BACH CONCERTO 1
VINYL PASSION
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Dec 07, 2018
PLAYS BEETHOVEN CONCERTO 2 & BACH CONCERTO 1
PLAYS BEETHOVEN CONCERTO 2 & BACH CONCERTO 1
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VINYL PASSION
Dec 07, 2018
VLP9004843.1
GREATEST HARRY POTTER FILM MUSIC COLLECTION
DIGGERS FACTORY
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Sep 29, 2023
The music of the saga has featured the work of the most recognized film composers, including John Williams (who received two Oscar nominations for the series), Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat. The Greatest Harry Potter Film Music Collection includes 11 tracks performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, which brings together for the very first time the most memorable music from the eight movies.
GREATEST HARRY POTTER FILM MUSIC COLLECTION
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DIGGERS FACTORY
Sep 29, 2023
DGGF22.1
MOZART BY CANDLELIGHT
CHASING THE DRAGON
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Nov 16, 2018
Rimma Sushanskaya conducts The Locrian Ensemble of London with Fiona Kelly on flute and Jean Kelly on harp. For many of the Chasing the Dragon albums they have been using 3 microphones used in a "Decca Tree" array to capture the main stereo image. Recently they have been experimenting with a Neumann Binaural Head. Although normal stereo sounds great on headphones, they found that when using the head, the effect can become almost three dimensional. Chasing the Dragon therefore decided to create a series of albums for headphone listeners. This is their 2nd Binaural release and they hope when listening, you will be transported to St. Martin in The Fields in London, enjoying the fun of Mozart by Candlelight! Binaural Recording on 180 Gram 33RPM Audiophile Vinyl!
MOZART BY CANDLELIGHT
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CHASING THE DRAGON
Nov 16, 2018
CHDG222.1
FALLEN TREES
ERASED TAPES
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Jan 18, 2019
Vinyl LP pressing. Fallen Trees is the new album by singular talent and literal force of nature Lubomyr Melnyk - known as 'the prophet of the piano' due to his lifelong devotion to his instrument. Cascades of notes, canyons and rivers of sound: there's something about his music that channels the natural world at it's most awe-inspiring. In Fallen Trees the connection with the environment continues, taking it's cue from a long rail journey Melnyk made through Europe. Glancing out of the window as the train passed through a dark forest, he was struck by the sight of trees that had recently been felled. "They were glorious," he says. "Even though they'd been killed, they weren't dead. There was something sorrowful there, but also hopeful." That sense of sadness touched by optimism infuses the album, too: rarely has Melnyk made music so shot through with melancholy and regret, but which sounds so rapt, even radiant.
