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Listening to this album takes you back to the atmosphere and sound of Jazzhus Montmartre on a random night in the 1960s, engulfing you in Dexter Gordon's enormous aura. Dexter's arrival in Copenhagen had a tremendous impact that left a lasting impression...

Listening to the new album by the Coritage Saxophone Quartet means immersing yourself, for a little over an hour, in an atmosphere of suspended contemporaneity, built on a complex web of historical, formal and auditory links. Boundaries consist of a...

Lisa Friend leads this collection of original works and transcriptions for flute and guitars, joined by Craig Ogden and the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet. The wide-ranging programme includes Faur?'s Pavane and Rachmaninoff's Vocalise. Lisa Friend (Flautist)...

Limited 14CD set. When the 50-year-old Fritz Reiner was appointed conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1938, he was still relatively unfamiliar in his adopted American homeland. This pupil of Bart?k at the Academy of Music in his native...

Like most musicians for most of the past 18 months, Dave Zinno and his Unisphere bandmates-Mike Tucker on tenor sax, Eric Benny Bloom on trumpet and flugelhorn, Leo Genovese on keyboards, Tim Ray on piano, Rafael Barata, drums and percussion, and special...

Like all the instrumental genres which were destined to last until today, the solo concerto - just like the sonata and the symphony - made it's first appearance at the beginning of the XVIII th century in Italy and spread all around Europe to gain...

Lights, Camera, Action! As SOMM Recordings says "Hooray for Hollywood" with it's second volume of Great Classic Film Music featuring the Scottish- born maestro Iain Sutherland directing the Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra of Hilversum. The first volume...

Les Kapsber'girls, an ensemble of four singers and instrumentalists directed by the lutenist Albane Imbs, has already released it's debut album (Che fai t??, released on Muso) which received several awards. The group now joins Alpha for several...

Legendary pianist Martha Argerich initiated a new musical Rendez-vous end of June 2018 at the wonderful Laeiszhalle of Hamburg (DE). From Beethoven to Debussy, from Brahms to Prokofiev, Martha Argerich performed in duo, trio and in concerto with musical...

Legendary California label Suburban Noize Records is celebrating their 25th anniversary by opening their vault of rare & unreleased music. The label dug deep to uncover never heard before tracks from the vault. The first release will be a new 2-CD set...

Led by Tcha Limberger, the Violons de Bruxelles group brings together the finest strings that Belgium has to offer, and puts the accent not on the guitar but on three violins. This string quintet takes the traditional swing formula of the "Hot Club de...

Leading performers of 17th-century music the Magdalena Consort, Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts combine forces under the artistic direction of William Hunt for their second release exploring the English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem -...