Frank Sinatra - "Platinum (70th Capitol Collection)" / Over 44 songs, Platinum celebrates in a beautiful 2 CD set the 70th anniversary of Frank Sinatra signing to Capitol Records, a moment that established his standing as one of the greatest interpretive singers of all time. It features a cross-section of Sinatra's best Capitol tracks as well as sought-after vault rarities.

Charles Burney described Johann Adolf Hasse, his contemporary, as ‘the most natural, elegant and judicious composer of vocal music, as well as the most voluminous now alive…’ His output includes 63 operas, but only two are currently recorded, yet inexplicably this is the second Piramo, albeit markedly livelier and with the bonus of its two ballet suites. Schneider’s perceptive booklet note comments that too readily we find such composers immature – ‘almost like Mozart’, rather than excitingly expressive and individual. Here even the subtitle Intermezzo tragico is novel, implying a fusion of two traditions, comic and serious. The music is equally unconventional. Recitatives slip seamlessly into and out of arias, creating a strong sense of dramatic continuity.

A best-of for classic Irish rock outfit the Undertones, West Bank Songs 1978-1983 compiles 30 of the group's most iconic tracks. Alongside seven of the band's Top 40 hits (including the iconic "Teenage Kicks"), the album pulls from the group's original four studio LPs and includes a 12-page insert with liner notes from Michael Bradley and Mick Houghton.

The winners of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest, British quartet Bucks Fizz were, throughout the early '80s, regarded among the most successful bands of their era, chalking up no less than nine Top 20 hits between 1981-1983, including three chart-toppers, "Making Your Mind Up" (their Eurovision winner), "The Land of Make Believe," and "My Camera Never Lies." The band's total chart record includes 20 Top 40 entries, and it was 1988 before Bucks Fizz finally stopped scoring hits – not a bad record for a group that did not even exist before the Eurovision Song Contest.

Real (partially lost unreleased Kirsty MacColl album; 1982). Singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl released her first album Desperate Character in the UK in 1981 on Polydor Records. She returned to Polydor to make her second album, titled Real and featuring a synthpop sound opposed to the guitar-based arrangements of her debut. Dave Jordan, then best known for his work with The Specials, was the producer for at least some of the sessions.

Zoltán Kodály’s life was largely occupied with collecting his country’s folk music and devising the internationally renowned method of music education that bears his name. His orchestral output is therefore a relatively small but astonishingly colourful and rhythmic legacy, brimming with Hungarian spirit. Háry János is the charming story of a veteran soldier and the ‘tall tales’ he spins about his life, while Summer Evening is a timeless evocation of that gentle moment in the day. The Symphony in C major occupied Kodály for over 20 years, the composer’s disarming explanation being, ‘I was busy with more important work.’

Orpheus was the child of Apollo, the god of music, and Calliope, the eldest of the muses. With his playing, he was able to enchant people and to tame wild animals. The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most beautiful mythological stories about the power of love. No wonder Claudio Monteverdi, the father of early opera, chose this story as the theme of his legendary work. During this musical journey, we are led by the muses, and following in Orpheus’s footsteps, we reach the goal of the music marked out by Monteverdi: to touch the soul of listeners, to awaken their feelings, and to speak to the heart.

Following the widespread critical success of their Odradek album Bartok: The Quiet Revolutionary, violist Franziska Pietsch - winner of an ICMA (International Classical Musical Award) in the Chamber Music category - and pianist Maki Hayashida, return with Hungarian Heights: music by Dohnanyi, Kodaly and Liszt, for which they are joined by cellist Hila Karni.

Frontiers managed to give Journey four Top 40 hits, with "After the Fall" and "Send Her My Love" both reaching number 23, "Faithfully" at number 12, and "Separate Ways" peaking at number eight – the same amount that 1981's Escape brandished. While they tried to use the same musical recipe as Escape, Frontiers comes up a little short, mainly because the keyboards seem to overtake both Schon's guitar playing and Steve Perry's strong singing. An overabundance of Jonathan Cain's synth work cloaks the quicker tunes and seeps into the ballads, slightly widening the strong partnership of Perry and Schon. "Faithfully" tried to match the powerful beauty of "Open Arms," and while it's a gorgeous ballad, it just comes inches away from conjuring up the same soft magic. "Separate Ways" grabs attention right off the bat with stinging synthesizer and a catchy guitar riff, and "Send Her My Love" emphasizes Perry's keen ability to pour his heart out. The rest of the songs on the album lack the warmth that Journey is famous for, especially in their mix of fervor and intimacy shown on this album's predecessor.

Within a very short time of about 10 years, Beethoven's technique of composing developed rapidly. The artists on this recording wanted to show the comparison between earlier and later pieces, and this is the basis of this new series of recordings. of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas on three volumes.

The ultimate 25th anniversary edition of Dannii’s classic 1997 album, ‘Girl’. • Featuring three massive #1 UK Dance Chart / Top 30 hits – ‘All I Wanna Do’ (#4), ‘Everything I Wanted’ (#15) and ‘Disrememberance’ (#21)! • This special deluxe Collector’s Edition CD box set expands the original 10 track release over four discs, totalling 46 tracks, packaged in a clamshell box with deluxe finish printing.

Crank up the magna opus that is "Paranoid," the rockin’ sophomore creation by the venerable English heavy metal maestros, Black Sabbath. Like a radiant celestial event, this masterpiece graced the auditory realms in the bountiful September of 1970, storming in with its melodious presence through the esteemed conduits of Vertigo Records in the enchanting lands of England, and Warner Bros. Records in the large expanse of the United States.

Here comes the complete recording of the great Bach masterpiece, "Brandenburg Concerto," by internationally acclaimed classical musician and musicologist Vincent Bernard and the up-and-coming Lithuanian orchestra, the Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra, under his direction. Vincent Bernard has studied organ, harpsichord, basso continuo, and historical organ performance at the Stuttgart University of Music, from Metz and Lyon to the Schola Cantorum Basel, where he won prizes in many international competitions.

The Missa Votiva, ZWV 18, of Czech-German composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was written in 1739, late in Zelenka's life. It has something in common with the String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, of Beethoven: both are late works written as prayers of thanksgiving after their respective composers' recovery from serious illness. And, although the Zelenka work is virtually unknown, both are staggering masterpieces. The more Zelenka's music surfaces, the more he appears a major composer of the late Baroque; he was probably ignored for so long because his life story, during eras when audiences loved to have biographies on which to hang music, is largely obscure.

DJ Shadow: "There are 14 tracks, and all but one is instrumental. This, by definition, places it closer to Endtroducing and The Private Press in terms of personality and feel, but this is no throwback. The songs represent my continued evolution as a producer and songwriter, and I can honestly say that I couldn't have made these tracks even a few years ago. Objectively, I hear maturity and growth. The arrangements are sophisticated but efficient, the programming more deliberate. As the title would imply, there's a wide variety of moods and a premium on melody and texture, with the intention of maximum emotional impact." "Why no big-name collabs? I guess after my last two albums, which had a TON of guests, I needed to get personal and make music for myself again. I didn't want to compromise or write music to give someone else a runway, I wanted to force myself to permeate every available sonic space and "own" the total composition. Time after time, I found myself writing songs that felt vocal-resistant somehow, so rather than fighting something organic, I embraced the challengeand "Action Adventure" is the result. I can't wait for you to hear it!"