A Compilations

These masterful oud performances highlight the unrivalled brilliance of Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian. Including folk music from Armenia, Greece, Turkey and the Middle East, beautifully accompanied on piano, accordion, violin, guitar, bass and percussion...

These 30 tracks are the first ever compilation from the vaults of the New York City labels Shad, Time and Brent Records. Featured acts are the Bell Notes, the Genies, Lewis (now Lou) Reed, Skip & Flip, Jody Reynolds, the Knockouts, Leon Russell, Don...

These 24 hits all made the Billboard Top 40 from 1970-76, and all of them stand the test of time. From one-hit wonders to those who still fill concert halls in the 21st century, all the featured artists here and their recordings played their part in...

There's a certain nakedness to a jazz duo. Everything is out there and exposed - no crashing cymbals to hide behind, or bass lines to get lost in. It often brings out a different side of your playing, a brutal honesty that is left after everything else...

There were many highlights to her musical career: the concerts she gave in the Netherlands between 1968 and 1989 feature prominently among them. This release is a faithful rendition, thanks especially to the remarkable audio quality. Dearie masterfully...

There is no doubt about it: Gy?rgy Kurtag is the greatest composer of our time. And this is not only thanks to his music, intensely sharp and exciting, written out of a pure and austere interior necessity. His figure as a man and artist, as well as...

There are no original works for women's or girls' choir and no octet in the so-called 'Schubert line-up'. The well thought-out arrangements of romantic Christmas music by master arranger Andreas N. Tarkmann presented here are so appealing that one can...

'There are few people as susceptible to certain musical beauties as I am; the more learned and complicated the instrumentation, the less I sense it, the faster it escapes me; on the contrary, if a simple and melancholic motif appears, I feel flooded with...

Then as now, the music of "Les Six" is a fascinating kaleidoscope of musical ideas and friendship; an idiosyncratic preciousness full of musical avant-garde, everyday melancholy, profound curiosities, virtuosity and passion that is in need of rediscovery...

Their major label hits for the first time on CD, incl.. Prev. Unreleased material, 12 tracks.1. The Idol 2. Fire Brigade 3. Lifetime of Love 4. That Same Old Feeling 5. Everything in the Garden 6. Whether You Like It or Not 7. Gasoline Alley Bred 8. Here...

The young professional singers of Michael Waldron's London Choral Sinfonia open fresh perspectives on the music of Christmas with a captivating debut album for Orchid Classics. O Holy Night unites familiar carols - arranged by Sir David Willcocks, Andrew...

The young Polish accordionist Maciej Frackiewicz takes us on a real adventure trip. On his album, one of the prizewinner recordings of the German Music Competition, he presents himself virtuosic, fast and at the same time sensitive and indulgent:...