JESSYE NORMAN COMPLETE STUDIO RECITALS - PHILIPS

Cody Matthew Johnson/Jeff Rona - "Quantaar (Original Game Soundtrack)" - Quantaar is believed to be the very origin of the Multiverse. Once the player has taken on the role of an Observer

Triple red, green, and smoked colored vinyl LP pressing. Relive the soundtrack from The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners VR zombie experience. The gripping complete collection brings to life the horrifying journey through walker-infested New Orleans. This set features 56 Bayou-inspired songs and compositions by Michael David Peter and Joshua Mosley, with muddy re-imaginings of "When The Levee Breaks", "House Of The Rising Sun" and "When The Saints Go Marching In". Immerse and ask yourself: are you a saint or a sinner?

PIOMBO: CRIME-FUNK SOUND OF ITALIAN CINEMA / VAR

Introducing Quando L'amore E Sensualita by Ennio Morricone, the fourth release in the Morricone Segreto series. The soundtrack is one of the undiscovered gems in Morricone's catalog. Newly remastered, this album features eleven previously unreleased tracks and marks the 50th-anniversary of the film's release. With it's tonal experiments and compositional complexity, it shows the most obscure, dark-tinged, and psychedelic side of the Maestro and his unbridled creativity.

Vinyl LP pressing. Cellist, Redi Hasa, reworks the music of the great band who inspired him. When Tirana heard Nirvana, the country was suffering the consequences of the civil war. The mighty magnet of "Nevermind" pulled out all the good iron from the ruins of a regime that had been banning Western music for half a century. Many years have passed since then, and now Redi comes up playing "his" Nirvana, turning their barbed wire melodies, into a majestically human sound.

Limited 10" vinyl single pressing. Allison's Songs features two brand-new singles written and performed for the film A Good Person by Florence Pugh. On writing these songs for the film, Pugh says, "I wrote these songs for my character Allison in the movie to perform, but also as a way to process and digest her mindset and her low headspace. It was unbelievably helpful and hard; I wanted a song to reflect the self-hatred she had for herself in a way that the audience can truly understand."

Klaus M�kel� / 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

2023 release. World-renowned actor Damian Lewis is set to release his first ever (mostly) self-penned record. Mission Creep is a collection of rootsy, rock and jazz-tinged songs that evinces a deep love of music, and a deep need to communicate. With music being Lewis' first love, spending much of his years busking and performing music before his success in acting (and following a string of sold out shows), this record has been years in the making and is a welcome return to the world of music. VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Broadchurch became "a bona fide national obsession" (Entertainment Weekly) on both sides of the pond when it premiered in 2013. This soundtrack combines the best music of seasons 1 & 2 by it's BAFTA-winning composer Olafur Arnalds.

2022 release. Brazilian classical guitarist Pl�nio Fernandes presents his debut album Saudade. Brimming with youthful excitement and enchanting lyricism, the album reveals an artist full of heart and wide-ranging expression. A love letter to his home country, Saudade presents his two passions: the popular songs of Brazil and the classical tradition of Villa-Lobos. The result is an entrancing collection of works for solo guitar featuring duets with Maria Rita, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Braimah Kanneh-Mason.

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 Coronation Of Their Majesties King Charles III And Queen Camilla [The Official Album] [2 CD] - When Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023 the service and pre-service music will be exclusively recorded and released by Decca Records the very same day. The album will include all music and spoken word from the event. This marks the first time ever a recording of a Coronation ceremony - a tradition that goes back more than 1,000 years - will be available globally to stream and download on the day of the service itself. Two CDs. 2023 release.

Double vinyl LP pressing. Max Richter provides the stellar score for Apple TV+ series 'Invasion'. "A big part of any scoring project is the process of discovering the musical language that feels like it emanates from the world of the show, like it belongs only to that world, and feels inevitably bound to it. In the case of Invasion, with it's multiple interlocking storylines and broad emotional canvas, I needed to invent several musical worlds, and this meant multiple toolkits. I used the orchestra in it's traditional setup, but also subverted electronically, I used a variety of different vintage synthesisers and processing tools, as well as solo piano and cello as my main colours. The multidimensionality of Invasion is reflected in the eclecticism of the score, which ranges from a directly emotional approach to thunderous and completely abstract brutalism, echoing the psychological dynamics of the show." - Max Richter

Verve Label Group - Marriner Conducts Beethoven - Sir Neville Marriner - 15 April 2024 marks the centenary of the birth of Sir Neville Marriner, widely considered to have the most extensive discography of any single musician. He recorded for most of Decca's imprints - L'Oiseau-Lyre, Decca, Argo, and by acquisition, Philips Classics. He also recorded extensively for EMI and, in the final chapter of his discographical history, Hanssler Classics. - Known and celebrated for his recordings of Baroque music and of Mozart, Marriner also made highly-desired recordings of Beethoven with 'his' Academy of St. Martin in the Fields - a chapter in his recorded history being gathered together for the first time. - In September 1970 he set down recordings of Beethoven's first two symphonies for Philips. These were first included in a 4-LP set entitled 'The Rise of the Symphony' (6707 013). One more symphony, No. 4, coupled with a string-orchestra transcription of the 'Grosse Fuge' was set down in December 1974. Perhaps a complete Beethoven symphony cycle was never envisaged at the time, for it wasn't until the 1980s that recordings of Beethoven symphonies gathered momentum, starting with the 'Eroica' in 1982 and concluding with the Ninth in April 1989. - Two recordings of the Violin Concerto were also made: with long-standing leader of the Academy, Iona Brown (herself also a conductor) in January 1980 for Argo, and quite surprisingly, again in December that year with Gidon Kremer for Philips, who incorporated two of the Schnittke cadenzas into his performance. These were rounded out with a disc of a selection of charming Minuets, German Dances and Contredanses, also for Philips, in 1978.