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Julian Bream, who passed away in August 2020, is the finest classical guitarist in the second half of the 20th century. DOREMi is proud to release this tribute to his wonderful artistry. The program of works for lute and guitar solo and in a variety of...

Joseph Summer's WHO IS SYLVIA, is a collection of Shakespeare's works set to music that will make you question everything you thought you learned in high school English. Summer believes that the famous playwright's true identity is not William...

Jonathan Hope returns to Willowhayne Records to present the sixth release in their critically acclaimed 'Experience' series. Played on the stunning Harrison & Harrison organ of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, (of which Arthur Harrison considered the...

John Rutter writes: "Revisiting this 1993 Cambridge Singers recording, I realize I should never have withdrawn it from the Collegium catalogue - and all because of an obscure musicological question in my mind over a Gregorian chant, long since resolved...

Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630), the great mathematician and astronomer, was very much concerned all of his life with the connection between practical music and cosmology. He felt strongly that music mirrors the cosmos and used phrases such as "the Song of...

Johann Strauss wrote hundreds of uplifting waltzes, marches and polkas, plus 16 charming operettas, the best of which are here. You get 150 minutes of favorites, like the Blue Danube; Tales from the Vienna Woods; Thunder and Lightning Polka; Voices of...

Johann Sebastian Bach? His very name arouses admiration, while his art generally provokes wonder, even ecstasy... To 'pay homage' to Bach is to acknowledge his special status - if not the God, at least the Pope of musicians: an unquestionable and...

Johan Smith, 2019 winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition, presents his dream programme in this recital. Bach's Toccata for harpsichord 'borders on the unplayable' for the guitar, especially in it's final double fugue, while...

Joe Haider: "For over sixty years I have been on the road as a jazz pianist / composer / arranger / educator, and as yet there is no end in sight. I am already 84 now, but still fresh and lively. But it sounds like the final stage, or overtime with a...

Jo?o Barradas writes: "For my first classical album, I wanted to mix original works for my instrument with transcriptions of works by composers whose art had created and formed my love for Western classical music, and so I created a wide-ranging program...

'Jiving Jamboree' marks up your dance cards for 25 reelin' & a 'rockin' sides from the late Forties, Fifties & early Sixties (the golden era of jump blues & rock 'n' roll). Artists include Louis Jordan, Clarence 'Frogman' Henry, Daddy Cleanhead, Big Mama...

Jewels from five centuries aptly describes this collection, featuring small pieces of great music, that the a cappella group Octavians presents on their new GENUIN album: canzones, motets, folk songs, and pop songs to which the winners of the 2017 A...