Max Raabe is so hip, so cool, and so German, it hurts. Never more so than on his new masterpiece KUSSEN KANN MAN NICHTALLEINE, a title which roughly translates as ONE CANNOT KISS ALONE. Now, the singer and entertainer from Berlin who has enchanted audiences as the leader of his Palast Orchester in New York's Carnegie Hall, at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, or during the wedding of Marilyn Manson and Dita von Teese in Ireland, finally steps into the international arena not quite alone, but definitely on his own.

Vinyl LP pressing. Cande y Paulo are Cande Buasso and Paulo Carrizo. Like many great love affairs, the scenes of this unusual partnership were sewn long before the couple went to work on "Barro Tal Vez." Their debut album, recorded and produced in LA with multi-Grammy award winning Larry Klein, is a beautiful collection of reworked songs including, "I Fall In Love Too Easily," "Summertime," "Treaty," "The Thrill Is Gone," "Sugar Mountain," "Tuyo," and the song that started it all for the duo, "Barro Tal Vez."

Directed by John Bridcut.

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2019 release. Voces8 releases Enchanted Isle, an album of music reminiscent of rolling hills, green valleys, rugged mountainsides, and sleepy villages. Enchanted Isle features reimagined pieces originally written for film or television (such as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones), new arrangements of Scottish and Irish melodies, and compositions set to texts by great English poets.

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Dream Songs: The Essential Joe Hisaishi features the greatest hits from iconic award-winning films, orchestra and solo piano works including recordings never-before released outside Japan. "The John Williams of Japan" only hints at what makes Joe Hisaishi, one Japan's most beloved and prolific composers, a singular musical voice of the past 40 years. Most famous as the go-to composer for Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki (the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro).

2018 marks 250 years since Gioachino Rossini's death in 1868. Messa per Rossini was composed in his memory by Verdi and 12 other notable Italian composers. Verdi himself composed the concluding Libera me, which he later used in his own Messa da Requiem. Conducted by Riccardo Chailly, this rare performance represents the work's triumphant return to the spiritual home of Verdi and Rossini: the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Directed by Diego Fasolis, Olivier Simonnet. Starring Philippe Jaroussky, Cecilia Bartoli.

2019 release. Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show is Riverdance, as you've never seen it before! A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved favorite, celebrated the world over for it's Grammy Award-winning score and the thrilling energy and passion of it's Irish and international dance. Twenty-five years on, composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerizing soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely re-imagined the ground-breaking show.

Deluxe Edition. 2018 release. Andrea Bocelli has teamed up with some of the hottest musical stars on the planet for his album Si reuniting with his friend Ed Sheeran after their chart-topping 'Perfect Symphony' on a new song called 'Amo Soltanto Te' (written by Ed with lyrics by Tiziano Ferro) and joining with pop sensation Dua Lipa on the single 'If Only'. Crossover superstar Josh Groban and classical soprano Aida Garifullina also duet with Bocelli on the record. It is his first album of new material in 14 years - 16 brand new songs which celebrate love, family, faith and hope. At the center of the new record is a spine-tingling duet between father-and-son, as 20 year-old Matteo Bocelli steps into the limelight to duet with Andrea on 'Fall On Me', a beautifully poignant song which reflects the bond between parent and child.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Original soundtrack to the 2018 motion picture. Vice is the story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today. The score is by Academy Award-nominated composer and pianist Nicholas Brittell (Moonlight).

Original soundtrack to the 2015 motion picture. For the 24th movie in the James Bond oeuvre, Spectre, Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes has again enlisted six-time Grammy winner Thomas Newman (Skyfall, American Beauty) to write a breathtaking original score. The soundtrack has the added bonus of an instrumental version of the new Bond theme song, "Writing's On The Wall." The Spectre theme song will be sung by fellow multiple Grammy-winner Sam Smith, the first time a male has sung the theme song since Thunderball.

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