Hearing Budd's piano slowly fade in with the start of "Late October" is just one of those perfect moments – it's something very distinctly him, made even more so with Eno's touches and slight echo, and it signals the start of a fine album indeed. Acting in some respects as the understandable counterpart to Ambient 2, with the same sense of hushed, ethereal beauty the partnership brought forth on that album, The Pearl is so ridiculously good it instantly shows up much of the mainstream new age as the gloopy schlock that it often is. Eno himself is sensed as a performer on the album, if not by his absence then by his very understated presence.

Pokrovsky's acclaimed production, a story of early Slavs prior to christian conversion, captures the essence of the Bolshoi's traditions of drama and realism. It is complemented by Andrei Petrov's inspired choreography.

Australian Broadcasting Corp Presents Van Gogh Alive – The Experience: A Musical Memento album original hits and the original artists genre Classical Music.

Fra Bernardo Presents Hubert Hoffmann - Züffer Undt Buechstaben – The Klosterneuburg Lute Book album original hits and the original artists genre Classical Music.

The idea of writing classical concert music based on Native American materials dates back to the so-called "Indianist" school of the early 20th century, but the execution of the idea by Native American composers is much rarer and is devoutly to be wished. Composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate holds dual citizenship in the U.S. and the Chickasaw Nation, and he is an important practitioner of this difficult art. Lowak Shoppala' is a multimedia piece in eight scenes, featuring orchestra, multiple narrators, a Chickasaw children's chorus, traditional Chickasaw and modern dancers and vocal soloists, and Native American storytellers. Each scene "depicts a part of Chickasaw culture and history," from traditional spiritual ideas to the removal of the tribe from its traditional Southeastern U.S. homelands. The narration is in English, but the musical sections in the libretto by Linda Hogan, are in the Chickasaw language. This is remarkable, for the number of fluent speakers of Chickasaw numbers only in the dozens; Tate and Hogan are two of these. Tate's basic mode is to expand the pitch and melodic content of traditional chants into larger orchestral and choral structures.

Above the album worked the 'Now Thats What I Call Music Summer Games Anthems ', and his release took place on 2021. The album has got songs with a total duration of more than an hour. A compilation is a compilation of original music.

Reissue with the latest remastering. Comes with liner notes. Phil Woods really outdoes himself here – offering the world a whole new side of his talents, and stepping forth at the head of a larger ensemble than usual! The album features Woods' core quartet augmented by larger strings and horns – all in shadings and tones that are incredibly expressive, and filled with warm colors and rich tones that never get bogged down in hoke or too-easy inflections!

WIZARDS AND DEMONS: THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF URIAH HEEP BOOK/4DVD set. Only 1,000 copies will be pressed. This is the definitive review of the music of Uriah Heep on stage, on record and on film.

Ram On is a 50th Anniversary re-imagining of Paul and Linda McCartney’s seminal “Ram” album.

"It has always been difficult for me to describe in music those inner states that psychoanalysis explores in words. I hardly dared to do so, until some keys were given to me by the assiduous frequentation of Barbara and Schubert's melodies. Barbara, Schubert: can one dream of better guides to summon, in so few notes, the whole palette of feelings and emotions? To tell the intimate without complacency, with this fragile mixture of abandon and modesty? Better educated now, I waited for my moment to come. It is during the strange period which connects the springs of 2020 and 2021 that unexpected musics appeared from me. They came at the right time to give me news. It was enough to put them in shape, by letting myself be crossed by the images they aroused. Thus were born these Interior Scenes. I confess that I play them above all for myself…but I leave the door open. Thanks to my faithful artistic director, Frédéric Loiseau and my writing companion, Pierre-François Blanchard."

The custom of marking the name-day of Princess Esterházy with a newly composed Mass began in the 1790s and for many years was carried out by Joseph Haydn. In 1807 Beethoven was commissioned and responded with his Mass in C major. Coolly received at court, it is a celebratory work of large-scale brilliance. The cantata Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt is set to Goethe’s poems and contrasts calm with exuberance. In 1803 Beethoven set two numbers from Vestas Feuer, written by Emanuel Schikaneder, the librettist of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

All aboard! The world's favorite Pirate Metal Drinking Crew, Alestorm, are taking you on a wild, wet ride across the seven seas on their new live-album, Live in Tilburg(out May 5, 2021 via Napalm Records)! Starting within the very first seconds of the energetic "Keelhauled", it is crystal clear that Alestormare one of the most creative and unique live bands out there today - and judging by Tilburg's incredible live audience of 3,000 fans, the band's unmatched energy leaves no one standing still.

Lacuna Coil's new live album, Live from the Apocalypse, is the result of an unprecedented time. Unlike previous live albums - Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul) (2008), Shallow Live: Acoustic at Criminal Records (2010) and The 119 Show - Live in London (2018) - the Italians, under the yoke of the pandemic, have found a clever way for their loyal fanbase to hear and see them on stage by organising a special live stream event where they performed their latest album Black Anima in September 2020

Steppenwolf was a Canadian-American rock band, prominent from 1968 to 1972. The group was formed in late 1967 in Los Angeles by lead singer John Kay, keyboardist Goldy McJohn, and drummer Jerry Edmonton, all formerly of the Canadian band the Sparrows. Guitarist Michael Monarch and bass guitarist Rushton Moreve were recruited via notices placed in Los Angeles-area record and musical instrument stores.