This is the first stereo recording and one of the most popular renditions of one of classical music's most-loved pieces, Vivaldi's Four Seasons. Recorded in 1959 by the renowned Italian chamber orchestra I Musici with violin virtuoso Felix Ayo, this performance prompted great interest in the work, resulting in hundreds of performances and recordings of it to follow.

Rusalka, a water spirit, lives with her family in the pure waters of the forest lake. When she falls in love with a Prince, she sacrifices her voice and leaves her home in the hope of finding true love in a new world - a world that does not love her back.�Natalie Abrahami and Ann Yee create a poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvorak's lyric fairy tale, revealing our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity's attempts to own and tame it. Semyon Bychkov conducts an all-star cast featuring Asmik Grigorian in the title role.

Legendary composer for stage and screen John Williams has admired the United States Marine Band, the "President's Own," since childhood - and in recent decades, the maestro and ensemble's mutual admiration has deepened amidst a series of collaborations marking the group's major anniversaries. The culmination of this twenty-year relationship was Williams' return to conduct the band's 225th anniversary gala concert in July 2023, along with the release of this 2026 album, John Williams and 'The President's Own,' Vol. 3. Completing a trilogy of albums issued by Naxos of America, this live recording brings the outstanding virtuosity, good cheer, and moving musicianship of that 2023 Kennedy Center concert to the world.

Track Listing
1. Song After Sundown - Stan Getz/Arthur Fiedler
2. Bridge, The - Sonny Rollins
3. Runnin' Wild - Benny Goodman Quartet
4. Evans - Art Blakey
5. Blood Count - Duke Ellington
6. Ill Wind - Paul Desmond
7. Salt Peanuts - Bud Powell
8. Figurine - Johnny Hodges
9. Swinging 'Till the Girls Come - Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan
10. Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud - Shorty Rogers
11. Stratusphunk - J.J. Johnson
12. As You Make Your Bed - The Sextet of Orchestra U.S.A.
13. Tijuana Gift Shop - Charles Mingus
14. Just a Mood - Red Norvo

A good cross-section of material, but only for those who wouldn't normally purchase any solo releases or boxed sets. ~ Ron Wynn

Wiener Philharmoniker/Carlos Kleiber - "Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92" - Marking their 125th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon is launching a new and very special audiophile series on vinyl. The Original Source Series = no copy used, no extra devices in the signal pass, no digital sound processing a tall; more clarity, more detail and far less noise; pure analog. Produced on virgin 180-gram vinyl by Optimal, these limited and numbered releases will be issued in deluxe gatefold editions featuring the original artwork and liner notes. Version Title: [The Original Source Series] [LP] LPB Special Pkg:180gram Heavy

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French love songs from three centuries, interspersed with reflective lute solos, constitute an Idylle for mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and lutenist Thomas Dunford. As they explain: "The emotions of love are explored in different forms - languor, desire, fascination, happiness." The word 'idyll', evoking a blissful, tranquil experience, derives from Ancient Greece and poetry on a pastoral theme. Desandre and Dunford spin a thematic and musical thread between eras and styles, starting with a sequence of 10 airs de cour from the 17th century. Spanning the era from the 1860s to the 1920s are arias and songs by Offenbach, Debussy, Hahn and Messager, and the album then fast-forwards to the 1960s and two iconic French chanteuses, Barbara and Fran�oise Hardy. Dunford supplies instrumental interludes in the form of two dances by Robert de Vis�e, a court musician for both Louis XIV and Louis XV, and Erik Satie's Gymnop�die No 1 and Gnossienne No 1.

It's tempting to imagine that this is how the music might have sounded four centuries ago in the glorious surroundings of St Mark's. Certainly, any comparisons are unlikely to be to the disadvantage of these exceptional young singers from The London Oratory Schola Cantorum who excel in this repertoire.

GABRIEL FAURE

INNO DELLE NAZIONI / QUATRO PEZZI SACRI

SAINT-SAENS: THE DEFINITE WORKS / VARIOUS

SIBELIUS / PROKOFIEV: VIOLIN CONCERTOS

DANCE

SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN C SHARP MINOR (ORIGINAL SOURCE)

Rachmaninoff For Two [2 CD]

STRAVINSKY: PETROUCHKA / DEBUSSY: JEUX & PRELUDE A

THE ORIGINAL SOURCE is a new series of celebrated albums reissued on vinyl. The renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios are remastering 4-track recordings from the 1970s, using their own cutting-edge and 100% pure analogue techniques (AAA) to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. More clarity, more details and a better frequency response, the highest possible audiophile quality which gives listeners the chance to enjoy this repertoire like never before. LP pressed on 180g virgin vinyl at Optimal Media.

Leif Ove Andsnes is a leading pianist of his time, known for his exceptional musicianship and subtil touch, his considerable technical flair being unfailingly put at the service of his interpretations. He was a pioneer for being the first home-trained superstar pianist to have emerged from Norway. This box is the story of a 20-year partnership that has yielded a rich seam of recorded treasures, first for Virgin and then for EMI. Running through this cornucopia of 34 albums (36 CDs), we find recurring themes: Grieg (Andsnes even recorded some Lyric Pieces on the composer's own piano at Troldhaugen), Nordic music in general, Schumann, Rachmaninov, Schubert.

COCTEAU TRILOGY

BEETHOVEN: TRIPLE CONCERTO OP. 56

SYMPHONIES NOS. 7-9

ZIGMAN: EMIGRE

Limited 17 vinyl LP box set. In August 2024, a few weeks before Bruckner's bicentenary, DG released a limited and numbered vinyl reissue of their recordings of Bruckner's nine Symphonies in a 17-LP set. As befitting the cult status they have won, all-analog recordings (Symphonies 4-9) have the white glove treatment that has been very successfully launched with the Original Source Series, newly mastered and cut by the superb Rainer Maillard and Sidney C. Housed in a slipcase, with O-card, eight gatefolds and one single sleev

WOLFGANG SAWALLISH COLLECTION

THE ORIGINAL SOURCE is a new series of celebrated albums reissued on vinyl. The renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios are remastering 4-track recordings from the 1970s, using their own cutting-edge and 100% pure analogue techniques (AAA) to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. More clarity, more details and a better frequency response, the highest possible audiophile quality which gives listeners the chance to enjoy this repertoire like never before. LP pressed on 180g virgin vinyl at Optimal Media.