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In the latest release in Willowhayne Records' acclaimed Experience series, organist John Hosking is joined by soprano Olivia Hunt, violinist Xander Croft and harpist Bethan Griffiths in a varied programme from St Asaph Cathedral. With two world premiere...

In the last decade Luxembourgian composers have written a vivid body of orchestral music that takes in a wide range of inspirations. Ivan Boumans explores the field of biology in Meiosis where the music undergoes transformations, whereas for Roland...

In the last decade before his death in 2016, the Austrian early-music pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt returned to Baroque and Classical choral masterpieces he had interpreted with such individuality and intensity in the early decades of his long career...

In the greenhouse of musical influences. Welcome to a neo-Victorian nachspiel with three of Norway's finest improvisers, presenting the music history in a new way. Without boundaries, and with a lot of surprises, the album is a true expression of H?kon...

In the early '60s there was a flourishing combo scene that developed in Washington & Oregon in the wake of the Wailers & the Ventures, and these 31 tracks present the best of that scene. Features Rocky & His Friends, Don & The Goodtimes, Raymarks,...

In the course of his illustrious career, Fabio Biondi has nurtured a remarkable empathy with Italian music from across many centuries, but strikingly so with the early Baroque violin sonata repertory, the development of which was dramatically propelled...

In the 1970s era of country rock, the Texas Re-Cord Company stood out from the crowd. It was a time when country music and blues and redneck rock all collided with west-coast hippie-ness. But the TRC was based in Bulverde near San Antonio, where Augie...

-In the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a fierce race to successfully launch a satellite into space.-The Soviet Union fired up it's Sputnik satellite on Oct. 4, 1957, winning the race and heating up the battle for space supremacy...

-In the 1950s, the major Hollywood film studios established their own record companies, primarily to market the soundtracks from their films on record. -Bear Family Records½ dedicates the now already 39th edition in the 'That'll Flat Git It!' series to...

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city of ?vora was one of the most important center of Portuguese polyphony. The so-called "Portuguese school" developed at the city's Gothic cathedral, from which many important musicians emerged who also worked in...

In that year of 1960, Bob Azzam dominated the sales-charts with three inescapable hits made for parties: "Mustapha", "Fais-moi le couscous, ch?ri" and "C'est ?crit dans le ciel", three titles that mixed good-natured humor with Oriental rhythms. But Bob...

In recent years the choral music of America has become increasingly popular. 'The Road Home' presents a small survey of some of the lesser-known gems of the repertoire. Founded in 2014, The Willow Consort is an exciting new chamber choir based at The...