GERSHWIN - SET: BERNSTEIN/OZAW

THE BALLAD SINGER

Stojowski: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2

HANDEL: WATER MUSIC/MUSIC FOR

Echoing of Nightingales

Archive release. A never-before-released studio album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, New Jersey studio on March 8, 1959, and featuring the legendary drummer - whose centennial is being celebrated this year - along with trumpeter Lee Morgan, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Bobby Timmons, and bassist Jymie Merritt. The six-song set includes two previously unissued compositions: 'Quick Trick' and 'Jimerick'.

Rejecting academic coolness, Armonia Atenea, under the baton of conductor George Petrou, injects dramatic energy and bright colour to Beethoven's bold ballet score. Beethoven's ballet music was written in 1801 (between the First and Second symphonies) and the theme from the overture provided the subject for the finale of the Eroica Symphony and Eroica Variations. Based on the Greek fire-stealing myth, the story of the Creatures of Prometheus is conveyed with music full of drama and verve, but was the only ballet score that Beethoven wrote. Armonia Atenea & George Petrou's Decca recording of Handel's Alessandro has received numerous accolades.

V5: ROMANTIC PIANO CONCERTO

RIVAGES

WILHELM KEMPFF EDITION

RAMEAU: DARDANUS

Gregory Porter, the best-selling contemporary Jazz/Soul artist with over 3 million album sales, returns with All Rise, his sixth studio album. It marks a return to his beloved songwriting - heart-on-sleeve lyrics imbued with everyday philosophy, set to a stirring mix of jazz, soul, blues and gospel. All Rise represents his artistic revolution to something even more emphatic and intimate. It brims with songs about irrepressible love, plus a little protest, because the road to healing is bumpy.

More Mozart for Your Mind, with it's fast-moving music full of surprising twists and turns, is meant to sharpen listening skills and, as proven in University studies, raise audiences' I.Q.s! The original Mozart for Your Mind (part of the best selling Set Your Life to Music series) has been on Billboard's Classical Midline chart for more than 122 weeks and is consistently in the Top 5 - this follow-up (targeted to casual classical consumers and new age and mainstream audiences) is destined to be a huge success.

TUTTO BUFFO

2020 release. Daniil Trifinov's, Silver Age, recorded with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, recalls a time when Russia's composers, poets, and artists were among the most original anywhere in the world. It illustrates the artistic audacity and brilliance of a turbulent era in the country's history with works by 3 of it's most pioneering composers: Scriabin's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F sharp minor Op.20, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor Op.16, and Stravinsky's Three Movements from Petrushka.