Sir Simon Rattle pays homage to a composer he holds close to his heart with An Imaginary Orchestral Journey through the music of Joseph Haydn. Rattle trawls through the great composer's impressive catalogue, piecing together excerpts from symphonies, oratorios and operas spanning a 40-year period in what the director describes as 'a kind of greatest hits' format.

The transcendent glory of Handel's beloved classic Messiah is taken to new heights on Sir Andrew Davis’s majestic, must-hear rendition, recorded live in December 2015. Davis and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra make use of all the colours available from the modern orchestra to underline the mood and meaning of the individual movements, sung here by an acclaimed cast of soloists. Without detracting from the innate power of the original, the conductor’s score calls for moments of drama, pathos and even, sometimes, whimsy.

For its very first album on Chandos, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain devotes its characteristic energy and musical mastery to an explosive programme that transcends daily life and earthly experience. It is helped by the enthusiastic, encouraging, and experienced baton of Edward Gardner as well as by the sumptuous yet detailed acoustic of Symphony Hall, Birmingham, all fully revealed in this surround-sound recording.

This year, have an a cappella Valentine’s Day with Love From King’s, the new album from The King’s Men close-harmony group. Curl up with your special one and enjoy these beautiful new arrangements of romantic pop & jazz favourites, featuring classic tracks by Adele, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Simon & Garfunkel, Michael Bublé and more. The King’s Men is made up of singers from the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and and nine of the fourteen arrangements on this album were written specially for this recording by current and former members of the group.

Established as one of the world’s leading Italian tenors, an integral vehicle in Vittorio’s operatic trajectory has been French opera.

American concert music is often associated in the public imagination with the ragtime and jazz that had such an influence on it. In this recording dedicated to 20th-century American composers, David Lively hope you will find Billie Holiday’s timbre, Marilyn Monroe’s sexy voice, Miles Davis’s plaintive wail, his grandmother’s vernacular, the fun of a good ballgame he remember as a kid. The American dream is alive and kicking.

In 1978, Gladys Knight & the Pips recorded one album as a group in addition to doing some recording separately. That year, Knight provided her first solo album, Miss Gladys Knight, for Buddah/Arista, while the Pips recorded Callin' (their second album without her) for Casablanca. And together, they recorded The One and Only, which didn't go down in history as one of their all-time classics but is a generally pleasant, if unspectacular, soul-pop outing.

First ever fully expanded edition of this classic album Features Vocalists & Musicians: Barbara Ingram, Paula Benson , Rudy Robinson and Ollie E. Brown FunkyTownGrooves 2014 reissue of Do It All contains three bonus track Liners Notes By Alex Henderson Digitally Remastered from the master tapes by Sean Brennan at Battery Studios, This funk swagger of a fourth album by Micheal Henderson includes the smoldering smash "Playing On The Real Thing", the funkiest tune of the album, and from the bassy growls to expressive falsetto s the album get its chance to expand your ears in every direction. "Everybody Wants To Know Why" and "Do It All" are dance tunes that are so energetic and polished disco-funk classics that will make any Henderson fan, boogie on down . Do It All peaked inside the top twenty by charting in the Top 20 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart. Michael Henderson uses his best vocal skills, his bass brings the pain as the bassist delivers another all-time fusion classic.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition featuring nine bonus tracks (one of them previously unreleased). All In A Night's Work was the ninth studio album by the funk and disco group KC And The Sunshine Band, which was produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch. The album was released in 1982 on the Epic label. The album had a more commercial sound than their 1981 album The Painter, with highlights that include "(You Said) You'd Give Me Some More" and "Party With Your Body", two of the most joyous 80's dance confections imaginable.

Years of being the kings of Black pop were taking its toll on Earth, Wind & Fire. A split was inevitable, even if they'd recovered from their early 80's slump. They'd been on top for most of the second half of the 1970's with little real competition. No one stays on top of the pop world forever. They could have concentrated on making quality music and certainly more jazz. Maybe stop touring so much, and occasionally slip in some gimmick to keep the bills paid.

Keyboards take center stage at this sublime stop on the Devils & Dust tour. The set opener, "Tunnel of Love" on electric piano, is positively magical. From there, Grand Rapids pours on passionate performances of "I Wish I Were Blind," "Racing In The Street" and "The River" on piano, plus fascinating re-workings of “Sherry Darling” and "Nothing Man" for electric piano. On guitar, rare inclusions of “Black Cowboys," "Ain’t Got You" and "Part Man, Part Monkey," plus the tour debut of "Saint In The City."