This programme by the Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim under Johannes Moesus, featuring soloists Stephan Schottstädt and Christoph Ess, shines a light on Hoffmeister’s lively and elegant Classical-era compositions.

This programme, performed by Ensemble 1684 under the direction of Gregor Meyer, brings to life the rich and vibrant sacred music of 17th-century composer Johann Rosenmüller.

Radioactive is a project rock band founded in 1991 by the Swedish guitarist, songwriter and producer Tommy Denander.

One Pedersen played in the trio Detail, together with Frode Gjerstad (saxophone) and John Stevens (drums) from 1981, and released several albums on the free jazz company Circulasione Totale.

Oda Steinkopf is a project that originates from the Jazz line in Trondheim, where all the musicians have taken their bachelor's degree performing jazz.

The album title Minimalism obviously refers to minimalistic music, which ironically isn’t the case for this album.

According to the thoroughly credible words of his contemporaries, Johannes Bernardus van Bree, the long-time musical director of the Felix Meritis Society of Amsterdam, was not only an extremely talented violinist and composer.

Only a few connoisseurs will be able to say without hesitation who preceded Heinrich Schütz in the post of Dresden Court Kapellmeister.

Miles Davis had publicly called him a madman. Leonard Bernstein found him, for his part, completely awesome. Few were those that didn’t have a definitive opinion on Ornette Coleman. Some kind of outlaw who preferred playing his own compositions rather than jazz classics, the American saxophonist also developed harmolodics, a theory uniting harmonics and melody. This box of ten discs compiles one of the most important era in the career of his author. Between 1959 and 1961, he released six studio albums for the Atlantic label. Six albums that are present here and spiced up with alternative takes and various bonuses, all of this of course impeccably remastered by John Webber. Albums included: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (1959), Change Of The Century (1959), This Is Our Music (1960), Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (1960), Ornette! (1961) and Ornette On Tenor (1961), and the compilations The Art Of Improvisers (1970), Twins (1971), To Whom Who Keeps A Record (1975) and The Ornette Coleman Legacy (1993).

This programme features historically informed performances by Carin van Heerden, Martin Jopp, and Katie Stephens.

This album of Gurney's songs, Volume 24 in the English Song series, presents a wide selection of his works.

Beatrice Egli (born 21 June 1988) is a Swiss pop and Schlager singer.

Los Lobos might have touted themselves as “just another band from East L.A.”, but it’s quite likely that even the group’s humble members recognized that few - if any - other artists in the late 1980s rivaled their soulful music, rousing performances, and eclectically blended arrangements. While lacking the commercial status of the quintet’s subsequent La Bamba release, By the Light of the Moon stands as the band’s most enjoyable excursion into American-hued soul, penetratingly reflective lyrics, and earnest roots rock. The music making is simply extraordinary.

This superb album solidified pianist Gene Harris' return to the jazz major leagues. Teamed up with bassist Ray Brown, drummer Mickey Roker, and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, Harris stretches out on such songs as Ray Brown's blues "Gene's Lament", "Things Ain't What They Used to Be", "Yours Is My Heart Alone", and "Battle Hymn of the Republic". Harris and Turrentine work together so well on this soulful blues/bop date that one wishes they had teamed up much more often.

Bill Evans and Stan Getz are about as close as musicians can get in terms of artistry, musical philosophy and technique. These sessions, recorded in 1963 with drummer Elvin Jones and bassists Ron Carter (Side A) and Richard Davis (Side B), perfectly blend their strong individual styles and collaborative sensibilities—with both artists at the peak of their creative powers. Verve’s Acoustic Sounds Series features transfers from analog tapes and remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.