Things are getting better is a bold statement to make in a time when the world seems to be on the verge of world war 3 and the cost of living is rising beyond most of our reach. Five years ago when I started the Voices of Creation with Jack I knew the world would need new songs, new mantras and prayers for this new day that is dawning. We would need more faith, we would need love, we would need vision, and we would need each other. A part of every beginning is an ending, this is an observable law of nature.

Five CD clamshell box set. Featuring singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram's first five albums, all of her studio recordings made for WEA and EastWest, recorded between 1988 and 1995. Remastered and including many bonus tracks including B-sides, radio edits and original material. Tanita Tikaram is supporting this release and has provided exclusive album introductions and track-by-track annotations for the 24-page booklet. The booklet also includes many rare photos and memorabilia. Each disc is housed in a card recreation of the original album sleeve and features the original label design. The first two discs are expanded versions of the Top Three albums 'Ancient Heart' (2 x Platinum) and 'The Sweet Keeper' (Gold). These albums were worldwide hits. The other discs include the critically acclaimed 'Everybody's Angel', 'Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness' and the 'Lovers In The City' albums, all which feature many legendary musicians including Rod Argent, Jennifer Warnes, Carol Kenyon, Jim Keltner and Helen O'Hara. Tanita Tikaram has just finished recording her much anticipated new album, details of which will be shared shortly. She continues to regularly play live throughout the world.

The Minnesota Orchestra and Osmo Vänskä bring us Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony, an extraordinary work by any standards. Scored for extended Wagnerian woodwind and brass sections, posthorn, a large array of percussion, women’s chorus, alto soloist and boys’ choir, the symphony has a duration of over 100 minutes and is filled with extreme emotion, revealing what the composer wanted to say about his own connection with nature and humanity’s place in it: ‘My symphony will be something the world has never heard before! The whole of nature will have a voice in it…’ he wrote about this mammoth work.

American tenor Rockwell Blake in this pyrotechnical recital conducted by Patrick Fournillier performs hits from the French repertoire by Bizet or Donizetti, and rare pieces by Adam, Auber or Boieldieu. This album includes the often-dismissed aria from Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice “L’espoir renaît en mon âme”. At the time of this recording, Blake was at his prime in the 80s and the 90s one of the most sought-after performers of classical and early Romantic operas being gifted with an incredibly agile voice.

Henry Mancini Centennial is a celebration of the legendary Film Composer’s music on his 100th Anniversary. Featuring José María Moreno conducting Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga on the IBS Classical label.

This sequence of Wagner’s preludes and overtures ranges across his compositional output, from Rienzi, his first distinctive opera, through the stirring Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, to his last work, Parsifal from which we hear the Good Friday Music. They are performed by the St. Louis Symphony under the Polish conductor Jerzy Semkow who was the orchestra’s music director from 1975 to 1979.

Large group session featuring deep spiritual modal jazz and new age ambient synthesizer pads.

A remake of a special kind. 2024 marks 150 years since the premiere of „Pictures at an Exhibition“. On this anniversary the quartet now presents an extraordinary and progressive interpretation of this timeless masterpiece by Mussorgsky, having always explored innovative possibilities to transform the different genres of classical music, The Modern String Quartet hereby exhibits pictures within the framework of a fascinating contemporary tonal language— so very abstract and modern. A crouched Gnomus scurries through the disharmonious paint blobs of a Jackson Pollock, Baba Jaga skitters through the wild, expressionistic brush strokes of a Wassily Kandinsky. New pictures are hung up, being uncompromising in expression and enhanced by unrestrained imagination.

Erato brings you an album now available for digital formats featuring Busoni's 'Arlecchino' and Puccini's 'Turandot'. Despite Busoni's short opera being overshadowed by Puccini's masterpiece, Kent Nagano give a splendid rendition of the two works and showcases their musical qualities with a stellar opera vocal cast; Susanne Mentzer, Philippe Huttenlocher and more!

The Alhambra Palace was built in the early Middle Ages, in the city of Granada, following the Arab conquest of Spain. With its impressive mosaics and sun-drenched gardens, it inspired the creation of many wonderful compositions throughout the centuries. While several works of Francisco Tárrega, Isaac Albéniz and Joaquín Turina have a direct connection to the Alhambra Palace, the Arabian influence is evident in most pieces on this Album.

With this fiery version of Schumann’s piano concerto, the discography of the amazing Finnish conductor Paavo Berglund is now fully available digitally! It is coupled with other masterpieces of the concertante repertoire, including Grieg the quite rare Glazunov, and performed with undisputable mastery by genius soloist John Ogdon.

In the early 1970s Barclay James Harvest pioneered the fusion of rock and classical music, touring with their own symphony orchestra. On the 23rd September 2023, a stunning and unique concert took place which saw the first performance by any incarnation of Barclay James Harvest with a symphony orchestra to take place in UK since 1973. Joining JLBJH for this memorable concert was The Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Benjamin Ellin.

Erato brings you perhaps The Boston Camerata's most ambitious programs. Joel Cohen and his ensemble recreated 'Tristan & Iseult ' the legend of the most famous and tragic love story of the whole Western culture by mixing captivating recitations of the earliest German and French written sources with love songs from 12th and 13th centuries’ troubadours and adaptations of pieces excerpted from the famous Vienna manuscript. Now available on digital platforms, this album was an absolute hit of Medieval music at the time of its release and won unnumberable prizes. It was dedicated to the memory of star counter-tenor Henri Ledroit, who portrays Tristan.

Bruce Springsteen once said he intended to make an album with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector with vocals like Roy Orbison's, a nifty summary of many, but not all, of his artistic ambitions and a key to his appeal. Unlike any other singer/songwriters saddled with the appellation of "the new Dylan" in the early '70s, Springsteen never hid how he was raised on '60s AM radio. He loved rock & roll, whether it was the initial blast from the '50s or the mini-symphonies from the days before the Beatles or the garage rockers that surfaced in the wake of the British Invasion, and all this could be heard within his wild, wooly collective E Street Band, a group who debuted on his second album, 1973's The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle, and who would support him throughout most of his career.

DTS HD Stereo mixes. Considered by many to be among the greatest albums of all time, winning the Grammy® Award for Album of the Year in 1978. The album includes the band’s first No.1 smash, “Dreams.” RUMOURS has been certified Double Diamond by the RIAA, selling more than 40 million copies worldwide.