Taking as its starting point the music that came from the 1993 Division Bell sessions, The Endless River is Pink Floyd’s final studio album and a fitting tribute to Rick Wright whose playing was at the heart of Pink Floyd’s sound. With new parts, re-recorded others and generally harnessed studio technology The Endless River is a 21st century Pink Floyd album that went to number 1 around the world on release. The Endless River is mainly an instrumental album across four sides with one song, Louder Than Words.

The 12th studio album from Pink Floyd was originally released in 1983 and was the last album to include founding member Roger Waters. ‘The Final Cut’ was another global chart-topper for Pink Floyd. During the Falklands War and the era of Thatcherism, this anti-war concept album explored the themes of fallen servicemen, the loss of loved ones and political betrayal.

Rob Keeley considers chamber music to be the most direct and expressive medium for him as a composer.

The Iranian conductor and composer Alexander Rahbari grew up with and trained in traditional Persian music with its most influential maestros. His eight symphonic poems, My Mother Persia, of which this is Volume 1 of 2, are full of melodies, rhythms and improvisations in these traditional styles, brought to life with the colours of modern orchestration. The first of these is an emotional violin concerto in which the soloist plays the role of the Nohe Khan, usually a tenor who sings in traditional Persian style at various religious ceremonies. Mother’s Tears refers to a gathering of orphans and to Rahbari’s own experiences of tragedy, contrasting with a subtext of mischief in Children’s Prayer.

Soli for Tuba, Zheng, Horn with Percussion is percussionist Robert McCormicks tenth album with PARMA Recordings. On their latest album, the Robert McCormick Percussion Group performs five compositions from four distinct composers, each of whom contributes striking works that range from personal to global inspiration. The album opens with Loam, a concerto for tuba and percussion ensemble composed by Tyler Kline. Much of the concerto is texture-based in order to convey the idea of loam, or soil, with some parts of the music reflecting the sound of the earth being tilled.

Italy’s reputation as the nursery of violinists came under stress in the nineteenth century, owing to the country’s concentration on opera. Even Paganini, for many the greatest exponent of the violin, played and composed in a very operatic manner; and after his death in 1840 only a few fine soloists upheld the tradition. Chamber music, where it existed, was usually heard in aristocratic homes, but in the mid-1860s several influential quartet societies sprang up in major cities and the middle classes began to take a real interest. Even so, it took decades of toil by devoted teachers to bring about the deluge of superb instrumentalists who poured out of Italy after the Second World War.

With 27 symphonies to his name, Nikolay Myaskovsky is known as the ‘father of the Soviet symphony’, his legacy placing him in the same line as other great Russian symphonists such as Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Myaskovsky’s richly Romantic Symphony No. 1 won him the Glazunov scholarship, and as a graduation work reveals the influence of Tchaikovsky and Scriabin in its expressive, dramatic impact. The more experimental but also deeply inward-looking and disconsolate Symphony No. 13 is regarded as one of Myaskovsky’s most individual statements.

The young German baritone Konstantin Krimmel won the prestigious "Preis des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs" in 2019, in addition to the Helmut Deutsch Prize. He joins Alpha Classics for a number of recordings, starting with this programme of Lieder conceived with his longstanding partner, the pianist Doriana Tchakarova. This lover of words, a particularly expressive performer in concert, wanted to ‘tell a story’ for his first album: he chose to record a selection of ballads, because ‘they are genuine operas in just a few minutes… mini-sagas that permit great interpretative freedom’.

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Ponto de Equilíbrio é uma banda de reggae brasileira. Atualmente formado por Hélio Bentes (vocal), Márcio Sampaio (guitarra), Pedro ‘Pedrada’ Caetano (baixo), Lucas Kastrup (bateria), Marcelo Campos (percussão) e Tiago Caetano (teclado), o grupo surgiu na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, no bairro de Vila Isabel em 1999.