On Dallendyshe (The Swallow), her second ECM album, Elina Duni sings songs of love and exile. The troubled history of the Balkan regions has inspired many such songs and the pieces here, primarily from Albanian traditional sources, are interpreted with intensity and insight by Elina and her band. The Tirana-born and Swiss-raised singer has become an exceptional musical storyteller, embodying the songs narratives in a way that transcends genre definitions and language limitations. This time there is a sense of lightness to the feeling and energy of the album, says Duni. Even though we are dealing with tragic themes of exile it is not as dark as Matane Malit [Dunis ECM debut]. In it's sense of drive, Dallendyshe opens up a different groove, a different momentum. It's become more rhythmic. Sometimes it's almost a trance-like propulsion. The program of Dall ndyshe also looks to the Albanian diaspora. The last two songs on the album, Ti ri ti ti klarinat and the title track are, respectively, from the Arvanitas and Arberesh communities of Greece and Italy. Dall ndyshe was recorded in July 2014 at Studios La Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines in the South of France, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano accompanied by various other participants including the Pianisten, Orchestras & famous Conductors cover the classical great composers.

SONNY JAMES: THE SOUTHERN GENT

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RACHMANINOV FOR ROMANCE

BEST OF VIVALDI & ALBINONI

IN A STRANGE LAND

KING OF THE TENORS

RAVEL: PIANO CONCERTOS, ETC.

Alfred Brendel, one of the world's most famous and revered pianists, recently retired from the concert stage. With a career that spanned almost 60 years, Brendel has played a large portion of the piano solo, chamber and concerto repertoire in the world's great musical capitals. Now, Decca is proud to re-release, at an exceptional budget price, the SCHUBERT: PIANO WORKS seven CD set. The SCHUBERT set is a re-issue of Brendel's digital recordings of the composer's major piano works recorded 1987-88.

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