The recently released album "David Oistrakh - Great Violin Concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Bruch, Lalo, Brahms" showcases the masterful performances of the legendary violinist David Oistrakh. This compilation features some of the most celebrated violin concertos by these renowned composers, providing a rich listening experience of classical masterpieces.
David Oistrakh, a Soviet violinist known for his expressive playing and technical proficiency, brings his distinctive style to each piece, making this collection a valuable addition for classical music enthusiasts.

The Eighth Book of Madrigals, subdivided into a substantial series of vocal and instrumental partbooks, contains some of Monteverdi’s greatest music. In this sumptuous collection the material is carefully arranged by category into madrigals of war, love and those for the stage, with a wide array of human passions and compositional styles. This is the first recording to present Book Eight in its original, uncut form, also incorporating instrumental sinfonias and dances by Biagio Marini (1594-1663) to round off Monteverdi’s design. In keeping with seventeenth-century practice, the madrigals are performed entirely by male voices, including a boy soprano in the role of Cupid.

THE SONGS THEY DIDN T WRITE As comfortable performing cover versions as they are playing their top-drawer, self-composed numbers, the perfect beast that is Pearl Jam are huge fans of all types of contemporary music, and unusually for a rock band, their musical heroes, equally, appear to be huge fans of the mighty PJ. This CD houses an extraordinary collection of various live cuts by Pearl Jam, all of which are renditions of songs that the group didn t write, but which are delivered with the same passion and energy as any of their homegrown tunes. Displaying a wildly eclectic taste in music, proving, if such were necessary, the enormous knowledge and love of music past and present which has forever been a huge contributing factor to this awesome group s enormous appeal, this compilation of covers says as much about this seminal group as any of their standard albums

EXTRAORDINARY 1976 BROADCAST FROM THE MID-PERIOD YES LINE-UP Between 1975 and 1976, each member of Yes released a solo album. Their subsequent 1976 tour of North America with Peter Frampton featured some of the band's most-attended shows. Their concert on of 12 June, also supported by Gary Wright and Pousette-Dart Band at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, attracted over 100,000 people. Titled ‘the solo-albums tour’, the jaunt was essentially a ‘greatest-hits-to-date’ affair, with several songs from the aforementioned solo-efforts thrown into the mix for good measure. The band hadn’t released a group album since Relayer in 1974, prior to which which Rick Wakeman had left Yes over disagreements about their previous record. One of the finest concerts of the tour took place at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 17th June ’76, where Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Patrick Moraz and Alan White collectively played a superb gig which was recorded for live FM radio broadcast. Previously unreleased, this stunning event is now available in full on this new 2CD set.

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he was the top-selling classical music recording artist of all time, having sold an estimated 200 million records.

Swiss conductor Michel Corboz has devoted himself to directing the choral music of four centuries, bringing to it conviction and stylistic integrity (and a shrewd curiosity about the music of his own time). His performances of Bach are not universally liked, but that derives more from controversy over what constitutes authenticity than from lax interpretation. Corboz has addressed himself to Italian and French opera of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well, achieving middle ground in stylistic matters while welcoming the presence of fuller solo voices in many key roles.

3 x CD SET OF CLASSIC RADIO BROADCASTS 1973 1989 Featuring a fine selection of live performances from Bonnie Raitt, recorded across the extraordinary career of this unique talent, The Archives kicks off with a superb show the girl from Burbank gave in 1973 in Washington DC, alongside members of Little Feat and blues legend Arthur Big Boy Cruddup. Next up is a fine gig by Bonnie at the end of the decade, performed at The Orpheum Theatre in Minneapolis in 1979. Concluding the boxed set comes a concert the first lady of modern blues gave at Bogarts in Cincinnati in 1989, shortly before she walked out of the 1990 Grammys clutching an astonishing four awards.

THREE DISC SET CELEBRATING THE EXTRAORDINARY MUSIC OF R.E.M. It s more than 10 years since R.E.M. last toured, and almost eight since their last studio album, but it seems there is more interest in this seminal band right now then there has been at any time since they called it a day. This 3 CD set celebrates the stunning musical career of R.E.M. by compiling some of the best recordings available of the group in concert across their time together as a touring unit. Featuring full shows, all recorded for FM radio broadcast, in 1983, 1984 and 1989 respectively, this box-set will delight collectors of R.E.M. s music the world across.

Am I Okay? is the massively anticipated sophomore album from breakout Country superstar Megan Moroney, and is an up-close look at the life-changing pain of heartbreak and the glory of moving on. As she doubles down on the gorgeously detailed storytelling of her blockbuster full-length debut Lucky, the Georgia-bred singer/songwriter lights up every track with her signature balance of raw emotional honesty and warmhearted sensitivity—as well as the endless supply of down-to-earth charm that’s made her one of Country music’s most dynamic new stars.

Alors que l'Ensemble Matheus a aujourd'hui conquis une légitime notoriété pour ses interprétations du répertoire baroque, leurs deux premiers disques de 1995-96 compilés dans le présent coffret se mesuraient déjà aux Concertos de Vivaldi. Et avec quelle bonheur !

Classical Cult potential. Since the days of Glenn Gould there has probably been no piano recording so highly charged with individualism, so radically performed, and so consistently conceived.

THE COLLECTION II spotlights Van Halen’s second incarnation, with singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, drummer Alex Van Halen, and bassist Michael Anthony. The upcoming set includes newly remastered versions of four multi-platinum studio albums, along with a selection of rarities recorded between 1989 and 2004. All the music in the set was mastered directly from the original master tapes, a process overseen by the band’s longtime engineer, Donn Landee.

Originally released in 1994, Mother Earth’s The People Tree is a gem of an album that encapsulates a love of soul, funk and folk- tinged ‘70s rock. To mark its 30th Anniversary, it is set for a special edition 2LP reissue that includes the original album, three previously unreleased tracks, and a further six that have never- before been on vinyl. It has been remastered from the original analogue recordings. One of the best-loved albums in Acid Jazz history, it was the product of over a year of sessions, led by label-founder Eddie Piller, and features guest appearances from Paul Weller, Dee C Lee, and Brand New Heavies’ Simon Bartholomew. Bonus tracks include the previously-unreleased alternative ‘Apple Green’ with a distinctive female backing vocal, an alternative version of ‘Illusions’, and the title track. First-time vinyl cuts include the alternate master of ‘Jesse’, ‘A Trip Down Brian Lane’ and the heavy funk of ‘Slide Sweet Baby’. The album is presented in a beautiful ‘wide-spine’ layout, with two printed inner sleeves, adorned with in-depth notes form Eddie Piller and unseen photos from the original cover shoot by Gerald Mankiewicz.

Georg Forsters fünfteilige Edition der ,Frischen Teutschen Liedlein' ist die wohl bedeutendste von Liedern in deutscher Sprache aus Sammlung der Hochrenaissance. Da mutet es schon seltsam an, dass bisher nur ganz wenige Einzelsätze aus dieser umfassenden Sammlung auf CD veröffentlicht wurden - eine CD, die sich ausschließlich dieser Sammlung widmet, liegt hier überhaupt zum ersten Mal vor.

Collection of West Side Story's greatest musical moments reinterpreted by jazz greats such as Cal Tjader, Stan Kenton, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Oscar Peterson Trio, Andre Previn with Shelly Manne and Red Mitchell, Annie Ross and Gerry Mulligan, Marian McPartland and others. Never before had there been a musical whose protagonists were 'youths of the street whose speech is acrid and ugly', and whose conduct is 'neurotic and savage'. This was not a show meant to entertain and to amuse with a romantic story and lifting music but one of revolt, struggle and tragedy. That it became such an astounding success all over the world is due to the breath-taking sequence of scenes of an ever-changing character and mood, in which melodrama, solo and ensemble singing, dialogue, ballet, and instrumental interludes follow each other in stark dramatic succession.