The repertoire of the new album revels in the Romantic tradition of the instrument with Schuman's popular Three Romances and works by contemporaries of Brahms and Liszt composed for Mayer's instrument: Heinrich Herzogenberg's Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano and August Klughardt's five fantasy pieces Schilflieder (Song of the Reeds) for oboe, viola, and piano

With this anthology of 'airs sérieux' and 'airs à boire' of the Grand Siècle, Les Arts Florissants launches a new series on harmonia mundi. We can listen to the tracks on this disc as contemporaries turned the pages of successful collections of songs, alternating between invocations to Bacchus and invitations to love. Around William Christie at the harpsichord and his musicians, five singers offer multiple combinations of close-knit voices. From the intimacy of the salons to the liveliness of court banquets, these airs, models of refined skill, make light of the paradoxes of our hearts – for as an air by Lambert tells us: ‘Though Love creates all my grief / I wish to love and to die loving.’

With its use of folk melodies to generate tremendous momentum and dramatic impact, the Concerto for Orchestra (1954) established Witold Lutos?awski (1913-1994) as Poland’s leading composer and an international force in concert music.

Deutsche Grammophon are very pleased to present Albrecht Mayer’s new album ‘Lost and Found’ in which he delivers a rare and sublime oboe concerti from the 18th century which he discovered in ancient music archives in Thuringia and Saxony.

Very greedy Paul Lay who begins the year 2017 with not one but two albums that he publishes simultaneously, Alcazar Memories and The Party that he presents as follows: "I developed this repertoire as a sound illustration of cinematographic scenes that take place at a party. Joy, lightness, the unexpected. The excitement of meeting again. Each piece characterizes a character, a situation, or an exchange of looks, a dance, and many other movements.

In the decades following his emergence on the national scene in 1975, Bruce Springsteen has proved to be that rarity among popular musicians, an artist who maintained his status as a frontline recording and performing star, consistently selling millions of albums and selling out arenas and stadiums around the world year after year, as well as retaining widespread critical approbation, with ecstatic reviews greeting those albums and shows.

SZA's debut album was originally slated for release back in February, but saw its release date pushed back all the way to June. Now it's finally here, just in time for a slow, sweaty summer. The singer has already teased the project, having released "Love Galore" featuring Travis Scott and "Broken Clocks" as singles. Earlier in the night, TDE dropped "Doves In The Wind" featuring Kendrick Lamar. In addition to Travis and Kendrick, the 14-track album has has features from James Fauntleroy and Isaiah Rashad.

Leonard Cohen - Live In Dublin is an extraordinary full-length concert recording and film. Recorded at Dublin's 02 Arena on September 12th 2013, it documents a peak performance from the musician's monumental sold-out 2012-2013 world tour, introducing Cohen's then-latest release (2012's Old Ideas) within a major canonical on-stage retrospective.

One of the most iconic singers of his generation, Marvin Gaye aka The Prince of Motown, was cited for his 'huge contribution to soul music in general and the Motown Sound in particular…[his] classic R&B voice was edged with grit yet tempered with sweetness…[projecting] an air of soulful authority driven by fervid conviction and heartbroken vulnerability.' In correlation with the Marvin Gaye Volume Two 1966-1970 box set which picked right up where the 1961-1965 box set left off, the albums - Moods of Marvin Gaye (1966), Take Two with Kim Weston (1966), United with Tammi Terrell, (1967) In The Groove aka I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1968), You're All I Need with Tammi Terrell (1968), M.P.G. (1969), Easy with Tammi Terrell (1969) and That's The Way Love Is (1970) - are all being offered individually on 180g vinyl.

In Time: The Best of R.E.M. 1988–2003 is the second official compilation album released by R.E.M. Issued in 2003, it includes tracks from their Warner Bros. Records era, from 1988's Green to 2001's Reveal. The album was a huge success in the UK, the tenth-best selling album of 2003, despite not being released until the last week of October.

Gaumont elevision will release a new soundtrack album for the Netflix original series Narcos. The album features selections from the original music of the show’s third season composed by Pedro Bromfman (RoboCop, Elite Squad). Also included is Rodrigo Amarante’s main titles theme, as well as tracks by Rodolfo Aicardi, Omara Portuondo and Angel Canales. The soundtrack will be released digitally this Friday, September 1, and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Lakeshore Records has previously released several a score album and two song albums for Season 1, as well as a soundtrack for Season 2. Season 3 of Narcos created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard & Doug Miro continues after the death of Pablo Escobar and shows the fight of DEA against the Cali Cartel. The new season will premiere this Friday on Netflix.

A generally well-reviewed but short-lived tv series from 2012, Last Resort is about a US submarine crew who refuse an order to launch a nuclear strike on Pakistan and end up entrenched on a remote Indian Ocean island, declared enemies of their own country for refusing orders. The score was by Canadian composer Robert Duncan a few months after the final episode aired. It’s hugely entertaining stuff, at times reminiscent of Hans Zimmer’s older action style before he went more serious. The opening “Fall of the Colorado” is wonderful, highlighted by a beautiful cello solo full of passion; the action-packed “Pilot Suite” (with HORN OF DOOM) is energetic; then “Officer on Deck” introduces a wonderful Crimson Tide-style heroic anthem theme.

The name of Astor Piazzolla is synonymous with the word tango. A musical ambassador who carried the signature sounds of Argentina’s cafes and nightclubs to concert halls around the world, his instantly recognizable compositions (attractively arranged here for harp, violin and bandoneón) are infused with elements of jazz, fusion and even classical baroque.

“The Emoji Movie” is a 2017 American 3D computer-animated comedy film directed by Tony Leondis and written by Leondis, Eric Siegel and Mike White, based on the emoji symbols. It stars the voices of T. J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Sean Hayes and Patrick Stewart. The film centers on Gene, a multi-expressional emoji who lives in a teenager’s phone, and who sets out on a journey to become a normal meh emoji like his parents. The movie was just destroyed by critics but the score was written by Patrick Doyle and I am always happy to listen to his music. This is the only reason that I am interested in this score since I always have a hard time with silly comedy music and also I think 60 minutes is much too long for a score like this.

This year we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the death of the Flemish composer Adriaen Willaert, who had been maestro di cappella of St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice long before Monteverdi occupied the post; Willaert was also the inventor of the Venetian polychoral technique, with choral groups placed in the various galleries of the church.