Saint-Saëns’s mature creative genius shines throughout these last two piano concertos, looking back over a glorious musical ancestry while at the same time opening the door to new worlds. The Fourth Piano Concerto is prescient of both his great Organ Symphony and the concertos of Rachmaninov, revealing Saint-Saëns at his most inspired and innovative. The Fifth was composed in the Egyptian temple town of Luxor, and displays a rich tapestry of exotic cultural influences from Javanese, Spanish and Middle Eastern music, as well as portrayals of chirping Nile crickets and croaking frogs, and the composer’s representation of ‘the joy of a sea crossing’.

Anastasiya is a young, talented violinist. Born in Ukraine in 1994, she has been performing since the age of 8. Having just recently graduated at the ZHdk Academy in Zurich, this is her first album. In this recording, she plays the "Toscano", which is one of the best Stradivari violins. Luigi Piovano conducts the strings of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Her interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Season is a unique combination of the Italian cantabile, the Slavic ardor and the Nordic limpidity.

Nearly every music lover is acquainted with Der Freischutz, but the fewest are aware of Euryanthe. In the light of the musical quality of the opera, the disdain for it does not seem fitting. Euryanthe was Carl Maria von Webers most ambitious project, one that anything but backfired. The composition may certainly be termed ground-breaking and truly deserves more attention. A chain of glittering jewels from the beginning to the end. All witty and ingenious, (Robert Schumann in his critic about Euryanthe.) The presnt release features a live recording of the work, which was taken in December of 2018 and features the Arnold Schoenberg Chor and the Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, as well as a group of brilliant soloists.

An excellent programme in its own right, hard to better, even though, surprisingly, Jarvi in his long career has conducted little or no theatrical Wagner. He tends to favour measured tempos, but these are illuminated by the fine playing of the RNSO, gleaming richly in the spacious grandeur of SACD sound.

Concerti (8) per violino? With a different title, this disc could do well. Why shouldn't it? In Salvatore Accardo, it has the best Italian violinist of the past 50 years. In I Musici, it has the best Italian chamber orchestra of the past 50 years. And, of course, in Antonio Vivaldi it has the most popular Italian composer of instrumental music of all time.

Essential: a masterpiece of rock music
"Los Vidrios Quebrados" was a precursor of the Chilean rock band, formed in 1964. They had influence of British bands like The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds and The Beatles.

Kaleidoscope Men is the third studio album of the psychedelic band Los Mac’s, released in December 1967 by RCA-Victor.

A rare masterpiece of psychedelic-rock music.
"Aguaturbia - Volumen 2
Prime reissue of one of the most important psychedelic albums to emerge from South America (Chile). Aguaturbia formed in late 1969/ early 1970 around the newly married couple Denise aka New wave singer Clymene Puleghini Solis and talented guitarist Carlos Corales."

Essential: a masterpiece of rock music
It is impossible to indicate just how revolutionary they were-but the fact that the band were naked on the cover of their debut.

Essential: a masterpiece of rock music
One of the best and most important psychedelic bands to emerge from South America in the late 60s/early 70s..

Global electronic soul funk sensation and international tastemakers, Jamiroquai, announce their 8th studio album following from the band’s last album ‘Rock Dust Star Light’ in 2010. Founded in 1992 by front man Jay Kay, the pioneers of “future funk” have taken the world by storm, establishing themselves as one of the most successful popular acts on the planet. Since the release of their debut album ‘Emergency on Planet Earth’ in 1993, Jamiroquai have completed reinvigorated modern pop music while also paving the way as chief influencers of some of today’s most exciting artists.