The Big Picture finds Elton John in strong form, turning in a by-now-predictable collection of ballads and pop songs designed to appeal to the adult contemporary audience. The difference is inspiration. With Made in England, John and his collaborator Bernie Taupin showed signs of life, and they continue that winning streak here…

Three and a half decades later and New Jersey thrash masters OVERKILL remain steadfast in their ability to scorch your soul and thoroughly ravage your ears. "Live In Overhausen" is set to become the definitive live release of a band showing literally zero signs of slowing down, one whose tenacity and contributions to metal are genre-defining…

Annette was discovered at a very young age and quickly became one of the first and most popular Mousketeer. Her squeaky clean image and fame made it clear that she quickly needed to make records in order to cash in on her teen star status. This marvellous 2CD set includes all her recordings from 1957-1960 and features her hits "First Name Initial", "O Dio Mio", "Lonely Guitar", "Dream Boy" and her breakthrough hit "Tall Paul". Most of these songs have not been available for many years and some are appearing on CD for the first time, and if that wasn't enough some like "Pineapple Princess" are in glorious true stereo!

An extensive box set featuring Stacy Lattisaw’s complete Cotillion album collection from 1979 to 1985. Including all seven albums ‘Young And In Love’, ‘Let Me Be Your Angel’, ‘With You’, ‘Sneakin’ Out’, ‘Sixteen’, ‘Perfect Combination’ and ‘I’m Not The Same Girl’ plus selected bonus tracks. Starting with her debut album produced by the legendary Van McCoy that includes her take on the standard ‘When You’re Young And In Love’, the set spans Stacy’s career which took off when she was offered a recording contract at just 12 years old. Big success came when she teamed up with famed singer/songwriter Narada Michael Walden who produced her breakthrough album ‘Let Me Be Your Angel’, which included the hits ‘Jump To The Beat’, ‘Dynamite’ and ‘Let Me Be Your Angel’. ‘Jump To The Beat’ was a Top three single in the UK and ‘Dynamite’ and ‘Let Me Be Your Angel’ both went Top 10 R&B and Top 30 Pop in America.

The 2011 Barenaked Ladies compilation Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before compiles most of the hits and best-known cuts from the band's catalog. Beginning with the band's 1992 full-length debut, Gordon, and continuing all the way through to the group's 2011 post-Steven Page release, All in Good Time, Hits features such popular cuts as "If I Had $1,000,000," "Brian Wilson," "Too Little Too Late," "Falling for the First Time," "One Week," "Easy," and more. Certainly, die-hard fans will miss such lesser-known tracks as "Be My Yoko Ono" and "Jane." In that sense, 2001's fan-voted anthology Disc One: All Their Greatest Hits (1991-2001) did a better job of including everything from a longtime fan perspective. Nonetheless, Hits from Yesterday & the Day Before still works as a nice single-disc summation of the Canadian rock band's career.

Jonas Kaufmann returns to the Italian verismo tradition to sing arias that define opera's most passionate and vulnerable leading men. Kaufmann's international reputation is soaring as, going from strength to strength, he delivers consistently thrilling performances. The onyx-dark beauty of his tone and the refinement and unexpected insights of his delivery mark Jonas Kaufmann a poet of tenors. Timed to coincide with his role debut as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur at Covent Garden opposite Angela Gheorghiu, this disc includes excerpts from the Cilea work that helped put Caruso on the map. This album also entices with rarities from Zandonai's dramatic Giulietta e Romeo and Puccini's Le Villi. Supporting Jonas Kaufmann is Italy's leading symphonic orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, under its dynamic music director Antonio Pappano. Both maestro and orchestra are utterly at home in this repertoire.

Jamie Lidell is a genuinely restless soul. He broke out of small-town England and has been a nomad ever since. His constant desire to progress leaping and stumbling towards new discoveries has defined his musical journey so far; and there's no sign of it fading away. Recorded in Los Angeles, New York and Canada Compass is his most eclectic album yet. Songs shift, chop, change and mutate genres and forms before our very ears. It's got funk in spades; the jaw-dropping power of the vocals is stronger than ever; it rocks, it pops, it's sweet, angry, hard, soulful and soft, often within the span of a single track. It's the restless album that finally matches the soul of its creator.Jamie's fellow travelers on Compassinclude Beck, Feist, Gonzales, Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear and Pat Sansone of Wilco. Musically and lyrically this is very much A Jamie Lidell Production reflecting not only his exhilarating, diverse tastes, but also a year of change, love, longing and arrival at a new place. When he takes to the road in 2010, he'll be bringing a band again, but stripping it back; keeping it lean. For both newcomers and initiates, this will be an experience. And no, he won't stop.

Nelson Freire was among the most admired pianists of his generation, having played with the leading orchestras and conductors in the most prestigious recital halls and in collaboration with the finest violinists, cellists, and fellow pianists. He also recorded extensively in a wide range of repertoire for numerous major labels, including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and Decca. On the latter, Freire issued an album of encores in 2019.

Celebrating 10 years since they first recorded together, Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga return for another collaboration featuring the best of the Cole Porter Songbook. This album captures the creative and personal relationship of these two world-famous artists. Tony, who turns 95 on August 3, has spent over 7 decades dedicated to performing the Great American Songbook. Both artists are accompanied by the Brian Newman Quintet with arrangements by Marion Evans & Jorge Callandrelli.

Two late ‘90s albums from the legendary Welsh singer and Meat Loaf sparring partner who recently celebrated her 70th birthday. Plus a CD of their international-selling single cuts in various formats including the mighty ‘Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad’, her cover of The Alan Parsons’s Project’s ‘Limelight’ and the theme tune to German TV series The King of St. Pauli in which she appeared.

Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf's Up Sessions 1969–1971 is a compilation album and box set recorded by the American rock band the Beach Boys and released by Capitol/UME on August 27, 2021. It is largely dedicated to material that the group recorded during the making of the albums Sunflower (1970) and Surf's Up (1971). Produced by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd, it is the band's first major archival release since Wake the World and I Can Hear Music in 2018, and the first issued on physical media since Sunshine Tomorrow in 2017. The title is taken from the Surf's Up track "Feel Flows". The compilation was released in four different formats: a five-CD box set, a two-CD set, a double vinyl set, and a quadruple vinyl set.

After a widely acclaimed St John Passion in 2020 (Gramophone Editor's Choice, BBC Music Magazine Choice, Trophée Radio Classique), Philippe Herreweghe and his Collegium Vocale Gent continue their in-depth exploration of the works of the composer who has earned them worldwide fame. Of the two cantatas recorded here, Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist BWV 45, written in 1726, is built around a very virtuosic, almost operatic bass solo setting scriptural words of Christ. Laß, Fürstin, laß noch einen Strahl, BWV 198, which dates from the following year, was composed for the funeral of Christiane Eberhardine, Electress of Saxony and titular Queen of Poland, the daughter of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and an ardent Lutheran, whose death had deeply affected the people of Leipzig.

he full details of the soundtrack album for Marvel Studios’ Eternals have been revealed. The album features the film’s original music composed by Ramin Djawadi (Games of Thrones, Westworld, Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, A Wrinkle in Time). Also included is the song Nach Mera Hero performed by Celina Sharma.

Finch is an upcoming American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film directed by Miguel Sapochnik from a screenplay written by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. The film stars Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, Samira Wiley, Laura Harrier, and Skeet Ulrich.

This is really two albums in one, with a clear line of demarcation between two concepts. Roney says that he wanted to "incorporate African rhythms with a Nefertiti approach" on the whole CD, but Nefertiti easily overwhelms, even obliterates, the African element up until track six ("Village"), where Steve Berrios' percussion and Robert Irving III's synthesizers kick in. Now the music becomes more interesting, sometimes following the direction of Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi Sextet - and the last four tracks are appropriately linked to one another by Berrios' interludes. The best track, "EBO," has a great theme, an amalgam of Kind of Blue, Filles de Kilimanjaro and Gil Evans, with Chick Corea's Fender Rhodes electric piano complementing Geri Allen's acoustic piano…