Zulu Guitar's Pioneering Tricksters But for this compilation of rescued songs masterfully restored from rare 78 rpm shellacs, few could imagine the diversely beautiful roots of Zulu Guitar Music emerging during the period 1950 – 1965. Story-tellers and master musicians appropriate outlaw personae, re-purpose country and western, Hawaiian and other styles, to stretch and challenge our notion of “the Zulu guitar”. Twenty-five songs (18 on vinyl) plunge us into the depths of the migrant experience. Translations in the liner notes offer us glimpses of pugnacity, melancholy and heartache, all coloured by the paternalism that circumscribed the singers’ apartheid-dominated lives.

With this recording, volume 42 of the complete music for solo keyboard by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Miklós Spányi continues his exploration of transcriptions of concertos originally written for keyboard and orchestra, to which he adds some movements from early versions of sonatas (the standard versions of which appear on earlier volumes in this series). Four of the six concertos from the Wq 43 collection are featured here (the remaining two appear on the previous volume, BIS-2397). When Bach published this set of six concertos for keyboard and orchestra in 1772, he also prepared a version for solo keyboard intended for moderately advanced amateurs who could then play them at home, without orchestra, thus opening up a much larger market. A smart move by the shrewd businessman that Bach was. About his decision to record these works on a clavichord rather than a tangent piano as previously, Spányi says that it allows ‘nearly infinite possibilities for fine dynamic shadings’ and that ‘the required dynamic contrasts can be emphasized even better than on other keyboard instruments of the period’. Spányi adds that this release is a tribute to the clavichord, and especially to his own instrument, built by Joris Potvlieghe.

"Bach from St Ludgeri in Norden" is a celebration of Johann Sebastian Bach's organ music, recorded on one of Europe's most magnificent historic instruments.One of Norway's most revered organists, Kare Nordstoga, returns with a deeply expressive and masterfully performed new album: Bach from St Ludgeri in Norden. This recording captures Nordstoga at the console of the renowned Arp Schnitger organin St Ludgeri Church, located in Norden, Germany.

1000 Hands: Chapter One is the fifteenth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician Jon Anderson, released March 2019. The album originates from sessions for a project to have been called Uzlot (a northern English pronunciation of "us lot") that Anderson had been recording in Big Bear, California, with Brian Chatton in around 1990. Chatton wrote most of the music, played keyboards and also sang. Anderson asked his then Yes bandmates Chris Squire and Alan White to play on the project too. At the time, Yes were preparing for a tour and Anderson put the master tapes in his garage and, as he has recounted, gave them very little thought for many years. In 2016, producer Michael Franklin contacted Anderson about using the tapes and finishing an album. Further recordings followed at Solar Studios in Orlando, Florida. Along with some newly written material, the final result is 1000 Hands.

Influences features works by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven—the three giants of the sonata form.Mariam has selected her favourite sonatas, as well as Liszt's Fantasia quasi sonata.The album also includes Liszt’s famous Liebesträume Nos. 1 & 3 and La Campanella, along with other beautiful solo works.

For their latest album, recorded live at the Reitstadel in Neumarkt, Christian Gerhaher and his long-time duo-partner, Gerold Huber, have revisited the songs of the great Romantic composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). Yet it is not their first time: on their debut album in 2002 you´ll already find the ‘Four Serious Songs’ Op. 121, and in 2017 they released their version of ‘Romances from L. Tieck´s Magelone’, Op. 33. However, with this album, they bring single songs and cycles to the fore that testify to an intense striving by Brahms to create a new ‘folk tune’. Embedded into social changes of the 19th century, Brahms here tries to establish the art song as a reflection of its own imagined history as well as a reminiscence and portrayal of a naturalness gradually becoming lost during the rise of the modern world – similar to the ambivalence between tradition and progress, noticeable in his instrumental works.

Downtown Train is a 12-track distillation of Rod Stewart's four-disc box set Storyteller, but instead of containing early hits, it concentrates on '80s singles like "Passion," "Young Turks," "Infatuation," "People Get Ready," and "Forever Young," adding a few '70s songs ("Stay with Me," "Tonight's the Night," "Killing of Georgie," "I Don't Want to Talk About It") and the new hit single "Downtown Train" for good measure. It may not have a wide scope, but it's a good sampler of his latter-day work for casual fans.

On their third CD, the outstanding concertante duo Reinhold Friedrich & Eriko Takezawa bring to life music that has hitherto lain dormant or has not yet appeared in such a brilliant light.In their new CD production, the two exceptional artists present three new discoveries by Alexander Albrecht, Boris Asafiew and Harold Shapero, which are of the utmost importance for the trumpet-piano repertoire. Also noteworthy are the three important repertoire works, the sonatas by Thorwald Hansen, Jean Hubeau and George Antheil, which shine here in completely new splendour.

Thomas Hoppe is widely recognized as one of the finest piano partners of his generation. He has performed with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Antje Weithaas, Vilde Frang, Tabea Zimmermann, Jens Peter Maintz and Frans Helmerson, to name but a few. Amongst his many partners within the younger generation are Richard Lin (2023 Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall), Feng Ning (2023 Wigmore Hall London) and Bomsori Kim (2022 Tonhalle Zürich, 2023 Davies Hall San Francisco).Born in 1971, the German pianist went to the USA as a student of Lee Luvisi and later completed his studies at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he was a long-time studio pianist for Dorothy DeLay and Itzhak Perlman. At the invitation of Mr.Perlman, Hoppe worked for many years at the PMP Music Program on Shelter Island, USA.

Banjo. Drums. Harp. Huh? To be sure, the new all-star trio of B?la Fleck, harpist Edmar Casta?eda and drummer Antonio S?nchez features instrumentation that might safely be called uncommon. Unless, of course, you're already familiar with 19-time Grammy-winner Fleck - the genre-blurring virtuoso who has done more to expand the possibilities of the banjo than any other player in the instrument's history. From his bluegrass beginnings through his otherworldly Flecktones, his duo with Chick Corea and his reimagining of Rhapsody in Blue, Fleck's work never fails to surprise.

Cosmosis was born out of an incredible desire to rediscover the universal through melodies that are apparently simple, but which reveal initiatory paths towards our unchanging essence. Laurianne Corneille takes us on an incredible musical journey through the centuries, building bridges between composers such as Bach and Glass, Schubert and Bill Evans, Scarlatti and Arvo Pärt. With this new solo project, she shares her desire to explore again and again the spellbinding music that reconciles us with the world. Each work on this album carries with it a unique universe, capable of soothing the heart. Cosmosis takes us on a poetic, dreamlike journey that will leave you spellbound!

Weißes Vinyl zum Gold-Album: „Votan Wahnwitz“, ursprünglich 1975 erschienen, zählt bis heute zu den wichtigsten Werken von Udo Lindenberg & Panik-Orchester – musikalisch zwischen Rock, Jazz und Theater-Pop, textlich ebenso bissig wie bildgewaltig. Remastered Version aus 2025: Das neue Remaster bringt den Klassiker in bestechender Klangqualität zurück – mit all der Energie und dem Wahnwitz, den das Panik-Orchester damals auf die Bühne und Platte brachte. Diese Edition ist mehr als eine Wiederveröffentlichung – sie ist ein Denkmal für Udos musikalisches Genie und die unbändige Kreativität der frühen Panikjahre. Die Neuauflage erscheint im Rahmen der der „50 Jahre“-Jubiläumsreihe von Udo Lindenberg.

Pee Wee Crayton, a popular L.A.-based blues singer and guitarist, recorded frequently between 1947-57 but this 1970 session was his first full album and ended an eight-year drought in the studios. At 55, Crayton performed some country-flavored tunes and soul ballads but is at his best on the simpler straightahead blues such as a spirited "Let the Good Times Roll," the atmospheric instrumental "Blues After Hours," "Things I Used to Do" and "S.K. Blues" which at 6:24 is easily the longest performance of the brief 41-minute set. Although not a major stylist, Crayton is in good form throughout his date.

This collection contains eight of the very finest original albums by Hampton Hawes, consisting of more than five hours of music celebrating his work. Among the finest and most influential bebop and hard-bop pianists of the 1950s, Hampton Hawes' impeccable sense of timing, swing and expression left a permanent mark on the entire jazz genre. With a sound that drew heavily on that of Earl Hines and other leading players from an earlier time, Hawes also blended elements of blues and gospel into his style while employing the technique of using his right hand to emulate horn lines. This unorthodox approach was later popular with a number of esteemed pianists who followed Hawes, including Horace Silver, Oscar Peterson and André Previn.

This 4CD set brings together Wanda Jackson's most popular recordings made between 1954 and 1965 in a comprehensive compilation of her finest work Born in October 1937, Wanda Jackson, a native of Oklahoma who has spent most of her life in the state's capital city, is a multi-talented performer, singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. One of the first female rockabilly singers, Wanda achieved enormous success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as a pioneering rock and roll artist, earning her the title of Queen (or First Lady) of Rockabilly in the eyes of many.