Boomslang (2024 Deluxe Edition - Remastered)
Released in 2003, Boomslang was Johnny Marr's first solo studio album. After his departure from The Smith in 1987, Marr spent a number of years with the likes of The Pretenders before recruiting Zak Starkey (drums), Alonza Bevan (Bass) and more to form The Healers in 2000. Recorded at Clear Studios in Manchester, with James Spencer (New Order, The Charlatans). ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Zac Brown Band is set to make waves again with the announcement of their highly anticipated EP titled, No Wake Zone, available on Friday, September 20th across all digital music platforms. The Grammy Award-winning country group will release a fresh five-track collection of songs that takes listeners through laid-back coastal ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Alternative Country
Mason Ramsey will release his long-awaited debut album “I'll See You In My Dreams” on 20th September 2024. The set takes inspiration from Elvis, Hank Williams, Jim Croce and Roy Orbison, and it'll be released via Atlantic Records. Ramsey co-wrote every song on the record and ‘Come Pick Me Up' gives you a taste of what to expect. ...
Genre: Country
Subgenre: Contemporary Country
Our principal oboe Ivan Podyomov performs in Richard Strauss's lyrical Oboe Concerto with his own Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. The live recording is now available in hi-res stereo! Richard Strauss’s lyrical Oboe Concerto in D major was composed in 1945, near the end of his life. Often described ...
Composer: Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Orchestral
Grammy Award–winning singer, songwriter, and musician Molly Tuttle and her band, Golden Highway, release a new six-song EP, Into the Wild, September 20, 2024, on Nonesuch Records. The EP, a follow-up to their Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed 2023 album, City of Gold, features three new songs—including the title track, available ...
Genre: Blues
Subgenre: Country Blues
Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati’s second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities – two of them in world premiere recordings. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi, Donizetti, Mascagni and Mercadante, while the French school is represented ...
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Jules Massenet (1842-1912), Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Legendary film music - Cinema Classics album: A sky full of violins or jazz bars that create tension - what would a film be without its soundtrack? It reveals more than a thousand words. In the famous love scene from Alfred Hitchcock's psychological thriller Vertigo, the protagonist's ...
Composer: Max Steiner (1888-1971), Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), Nino Rota (1911-1979), Maurice Jarre (1924-2009), Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), Trevor Jones (1949), John Barry (1933-2011), John Williams (1932), Alan Silvestri (1950), Howard Shore (1946)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Compilations
Oiseaux tristes. Couperin, Debussy & Ravel
Fazıl Say’s new album of French keyboard music takes its name – Oiseaux tristes (Sad birds) – from a movement of Maurice Ravel’s suite Miroirs. Additionally Debussy’s Suite bergamasque which of course contains the gently luminous ‘Clair de lune’. Closing the album is a set of five descriptively named pieces by François Couperin! ...
Composer: Francois Couperin (1668-1733), Claude Debussy (1862-1918), Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Berg, Schoenberg & Webern: Piano Works
One of the most celebrated pianists of our time, remaining true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era. This album pays tribute to the Second Viennese School, featuring works by Berg, Schoenberg and Webern. ...
Composer: Alban Berg (1885–1935), Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Anton Webern (1883–1945)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters
Continental Drifters are a congregation of like-minded, creative musical souls, whose other bands just happened to include The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The dB’s, The Cowsills, and more. From their 1992 debut single “The Mississippi” through 1994’s eponymous debut, 1998’s Vermillion, 2001’s Better Day, and Nineteen Ninety-Three ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Modern Rock
Gospel goosebumps guaranteed:: In October 2023 Lady Blackbird took a break from extensively touring Black Acid Soul to lay down some tracks in Los Angeles with producer and guitarist Chris Seefried, Foundation Music Label head and A&R Ross Allen. They decamped for a week long recording session with Jon Flaugher on acoustic and ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Nu Jazz
The Child of the Parish story starts in Glastonbury, when brothers Ben and Tom Vella vowed to start a kaleidoscopic new project which united euphoric disco, hazy psychedelia and live band energy to create a life-affirming melting pot of sounds. After releasing two EPs which flamed fascination in the project at media (Radio 1 support from Jack Saunders and Sian Eleri, airplay ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Adult Alternative
Humans Lib (2018 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Released in March 1984, Human's Lib entered the UK Album Charts at #1 selling over 100,000 copies in the first week and spending a total of 57 weeks in the chart whilst achieving Double Platinum status with sales in excess of 600,000 copies. Four songs from this album were ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
Confessions Of The Fallen (Deluxe)
Multi-platinum rock band STAIND has released a deluxe edition of its latest album, "Confessions Of The Fallen", featuring a brand-new track, "Full Of Emptiness". STAIND guitarist Mike Mushok states: "We're very excited to be able to offer our fans a deluxe edition of 'Confessions Of The Fallen'. There are a couple unreleased tracks on it, one being 'Full Of Emptiness'. ...
Genre: Rock
Subgenre: Hard Rock
In The Running (2021 Expanded & Remastered Edition)
Newly remastered and expanded release of Howard Jones fifth and final album "In The Running" (April 1992). In The Running marked a conscious move away from the use of electronic instrumentation towards more piano based melodies. It is the most deeply melodic recording that Jones had made up until that point, full of meticulously- ...
Genre: Pop
Subgenre: Pop Rock
A new Eva Cassidy album, Walkin’ After Midnight, will be released on September 6th. The album has twelve previously-unreleased tracks, which were recorded at the Maryland Inn’s King of France Tavern in Annapolis in 1995. Alternative renditions of most of these songs have appeared on previous albums, but these new ones have a different western swing sound. ...
Genre: Songwriter
Subgenre: Folk Rock
Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op. 61
“I have wanted to record this concerto for a long time, and Elgar actually has been a very late discovery for me, the Violin Concerto. But it didn't take me a long time to become a very passionate ambassador for this piece. And I really feel that the format of this piece is such a vast piece of music and it's more on ...
Composer: Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Concertos
Arias and songs by Mozart, Thomas, Gounod, Duparc, Messager, Mahler, Korngold, Rodgers and Britten. Thanks to his rapidly accelerating global career, the name Huw Montague Rendall is on everyone's lips among opera fans. His debut album on Erato offers a unique opportunity to get to know the young British baritone in all his ...
Composer: Pietro Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), Charles Gounod (1818-1893), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957), Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), Henri Duparc (1848-1933), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Andre Messager (1853-1929), Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Vocal tour de force Dinah Washington headlines this week with her 1955 release For Those In Love. This album is unique amongst Dinah's offering from that period, with the singer opting to work alongside a smaller combo as opposed to a larger jazz orchestra. This album also saw Washington team up with arranger Quincy Jones – who she used on subsequent releases; ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Vocal
