New Year’s Eve Concert 1997 – A Tribute to Carmen The program of the Berlin Philharmonic bore the title «Dances of Life, Love, and Death», and it was hardly coincidental that it was meant as an homage to Carmen. The recording of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s traditional New Year’s Eve Concert, conducted by Claudio Abbado, offers not only a cross section of worldfamous melodies from George Bizet’s opera, but also famous dance music that was intensely or subtly influenced by it. With: Anne Sofie von Otter, Bryn Terfel, Roberto Alagna, Gil Shaham, Mikhail Pletnev.

Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose's edition of Capitol's Classic Masters series finds the smooth soul group in prime form. Their hits are here – "Treat Her Like a Lady," "Too Late to Turn Back Now," "Don't Ever Be Lonely" – along with some singles that only made an impact on the R&B charts, as well as a few album tracks. The three big singles are undoubtedly the best songs here, with some of the secondary material running toward a supper club feel, but even the weaker moments have a pleasant sound reminiscent of the hits – pleasant enough, it should satisfy most fans who like the sound of the hits as much as the songs. This, along with the fairly shrewd selection, make this collection one of the better Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose compilations yet released.

Jasmine Guy is the studio debut album by American actress-singer Jasmine Guy, released in October 1990 under Warner Bros. Records. The album peaked at No. 143 on the Billboard 200 and 38 on Top R&B Albums chart. The singles, "Another Like My Lover", "Try Me" and "Just Want to Hold You", where top 40 hits on Billboard's Hot R&B Singles chart. Although the album was an overall success, plans for a follow-up release were terminated when Guy and Warner Bros. Records ended their three-year relationship in 1993.

Guitarist and singer-songwriter Adelmo Fornaciari, better known by the moniker Zucchero, built a following in his native Italy with his unique brand of adult contemporary pop–a following that expanded internationally as his career progressed. Zucchero's sound blends radio-ready melodies with equal doses of rock, blues, and a light, often mellow feel on his ballads and love songs. ALL THE BEST is a re-release of the artist's 1996 hits collection. Geared specifically to American audiences, this release of ALL THE BEST includes some of Zucchero's best-loved tunes (such as "Senza Una Donna" and "Wonderful Life"), and wonderful guest performances from the likes of Paul Young, Miles Davis, and Luciano Pavarotti.

O This new, low-price, 2 CD and download compilation is part of EMI's global 'Electrospective' campaign launching this June, which comprehensively chronicles the development of Electronic music in terms of music, technology and culture from it's earliest roots in the late 1950s to the present day. The campaign will feature big name artist participation (David Guetta, Carl Cox, Midge Ure, Martyn Ware, Daniel Miller etc), live events, newly created merchandise, magazine / tech brand partnerships (Mojo, Mixmag, Future) and promotion via bespoke online / social media platforms. O the 24 track 2 CD collection charts the development of the remix from extended version to full re-construction. A journey by DJ that takes US from Heaven 17's extended reworking of their own seminal 'Penthouse And Pavement' single from '81 right through to mysterious London producers SBTRKT's re-make of Tinie Tempah's UK No.1 'Pass Out'. The album is a veritable who's who of remix culture. O 24 rare remix tracks - some seeing a commercial release for the first time - featuring some of electronic music's biggest names such as Heaven 17, Inner City, William Orbit, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Tinie Tempah. O Some of the key innovators in the history of the remix are featured including M&M, François Kevorkian, Larry Levan, Derrick May, Masters at Work, Deep Dish and Ewan Pearson.

Greatest Hits is Bruce Springsteen's first compilation album, released February 27, 1995, on Columbia Records. It is a collection of some of Springsteen's hit singles and popular album tracks through the years along with four new songs at the end, mostly recorded with the E Street Band in 1995. The latter constituted Springsteen's first release with his backing band since the late 1980s. Some of the songs are shorter versions of the original album releases. The compilation was commercially successful, hitting the peaks of the U.S. album chart and UK Album Chart and selling more than four million copies in the U.S.

26 Turkish Beat, Psych and Garage Delights Review by Ned Raggett
A European companion of sorts to the Hava Narghile collection that came out in the States the same year – Gökhan Aya provides the liner notes and assembly here as he did with Jay Dobis on the other collection – the rather windily titled 26 Turkish Beat, Psych and Garage Delights is packed with merry late-'60s madness from Anatolia. There's a bit of overlap with Hava Narghile in the track listing itself – among the repeat numbers are "Agit" by Yabancilar and Haramiler's "Çamlica Yolunda" – but for the most part these tracks are new to the digital realm, and those taken with the first compilation will definitely want this one. If the packaging of 26 Turkish Beats is not quite up to the levels of Hava Narghile – somebody really needed to properly proofread Aya's essays and description – what really matters is the music, and that sounds great.

Also this year there is a Mega Summer Spin off from Club Sounds just in time for the summer. 3 CDs and more than 60 tracks in a stylish digipack - packed with summer, sun and lots of good music. The latest dance hits by Leony, Purple Disco Machine, AVAION, VIZE, LIZOT, Regard and many more are included. The whole thing is rounded off by a massive marketing package as you would expect from Club Sounds: Spots on RTL2, a Sunshine Live campaign, a massive online campaign, and much more. Club Sounds - Summer 2022 - a MUST HAVE!

The numerous sonatas of the violinist-composer Antonio Bertali constitute a fascinating testimony as to the imperial splendour and culture at the Viennese court c. 1650. After being a violinist in the Accademia Filarmonica di Verona from 1620 to 1624, Bertali left for Vienna where one of the heights of his career was is appointment as Kapellmeister on October 1st 1649, and he would hold this position up to his death in 1669. Even though famous as a violinist in his lifetime, Antonio Bertali is not one of the bestknown composers for violin.

Mario Ancillotti (Firenze, 1946) è un flautista italiano. Si è formato al Conservatorio di Firenze dove ha studiato con Salvatore Alfieri, Luigi Dallapiccola, Roberto Lupi, Franco Rossi, Piero Farulli e Piero Bellugi.

The sonatas for viola da gamba and basso continuo by the Magdeburg Cathedral Kapellmeister Johann Friedrich Ruhe are a real discovery! Georg Zeike performs them on the viola da gamba together with Bernadett Mészáros on the harpsichord and - this is the special feature of this recording - with the fortepiano, which was highly modern in Ruhe's time.

Night falls in diverse ways in Magdalena Hoffmann's debut album. Nightscapes sees the German harpist dive deep into the intimate, mysterious, magical world of night music, as well as exploring the theme of dance. Its track list spans everything from the austere beauty of Britten's Suite for Harp Op. 83 to the folk-like colors of Tournier's La danse du moujik. The recording comprises both original pieces for solo harp and compositions for piano, skillfully transcribed by Hoffmann herself.

Langsyne from Barmen played some sophisticated English-language psych-folk with a large variety of partly exotic instruments like the psaltery, koto, glockenspiel, banjo, flute, slide guitar, or the Jew's harp. Their only LP was released in 1976, as an edition of only 200 copies, and is today sold at a price of about € 1000 to € 2000 in mint condition. It is thus probably the most expensive Krautrock LP except the first edition of "Monster movie" by Can. It contains only self-written tracks. Especially remarkable is that the musical interaction of the three musicians is of somnabulistic perfection. There have been several new editions of "Langsyne", both as LP and as CD, some of them with a bonus track. The Garden of Delights CD has been drawn from the master tapes and contains fifteen bonus tracks, each of them of a perfect sound quality.

For the selection of the program for his CD on TYXart, the horn player Herve Joulain was less interested in a representative cross-section of the repertoire, but rather focused on pieces with a lot of expressive power. The arrangements, some of which are his own, preserve the simplicity and purity of the original music. The result is an impressive showcase for the musician.

The Sacri concerti a voce sola. Con la Partitura per l’organo, published in Venice by Bartolomeo Magni in 1642, have been composed during Filago stay in Venice and follow a long silence in the author publications, according to what Filago himself writes in the preface. This is the fourth and last print of this author: the preceding volumes published in 1611 and 1619 contain polyphonic motets, and another volume, presumably published between these two, is lost. The volume of 1611 is extant in an incomplete copy.