Out of curiosity, we asked the 'artificial intelligence' to write a press release for the latest new release. Question for the AI: Please write a press release for a CD with the complete works for violin and piano by Gabriel Fauré in a length of approx. 75 words. Matthias Lingenfelder, violin and Peter Orth, piano.

Thirty years after the release of the legendary album 'The Juliet Letters' by Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, Matangi and Ruben Hein present a 21st-century response to this masterful song cycle. Inspired by the collected Dutch letters from the book P.S. by Jet Steinz, Matangi and Ruben have created new songs that add a contemporary chapter to the world of multidisciplinary music experiences. The songs address themes of friendship, doubt, brotherly love, fear, and betrayal. They feature a contemporary, eclectic sound that blends elements of classical, jazz, and pop music. During the 2024/2025 season, they will tour across the Netherlands.

Zoe Knighton and Amir Farid present their seventh cello-piano collaboration — this time from the composer Johannes Brahms. The program includes his sonatas for cello as well as three songs where the cello presents the vocal line wordlessly.

Having spent years amidst Hong Kong’s live music circuit as a keen performer from his late-teens, Li’s burgeoning affections for jazz ended up taking him across the world. Having studied in the prestigious Spanish (Valencia) branch of the Berklee College of Music, Li boasts a Masters of Music in Contemporary Performance that has ultimately helped shape his music to encompass more global perspectives and ideologies within his own compositions.

Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra bring us a remarkable performance of select masterpieces from Tchaikovsky, including the well-known 1812 Overture, complete with live cannon recordings.

Inger Marie Gundersen is a Jazz vocalist from Arendal, Norway. She waited many years before venturing into a solo career, but more than twenty years as an active vocalist have provided her with ample experience in the music field. For twenty years she has been active as vocalist in several bands, ranging from a youthful rock band to a six year period as lead singer of a jazz big band. She has also fronted her own jazz quintet ”My Favorite Strings”, as well as collaborating with several excellent jazz musicians, among them Tom Lund, one of Norway’s finest Latin jazz-guitarists, founder of the renowned group ”Trio de Janeiro”. She have released five solo albums. "Best of The Best Of Inger Marie Gundersen" is her first compilation released by Hong Kong label Aurora Music with some co-operation with Stockfisch Records.

A premiere duo binaural release featuring jazz aficionados Mark Sherman and Kenny Barron (the tenth in the illustrious career of Kenny Barron and Mark Sherman's second with Chesky Records), Interplay is the blending of two generations of musical practitioners of the highest caliber. Lending their own unique verve and ingenuity to nine jazz standards and two original pieces, Sherman and Barron, both professors at Juilliard, teach us all a thing or two about the genre we call Jazz.

"Picking Up the Pieces" is Jewel's 14-track LP through Sugar Hill Records. She self-produced the record - with her first producer, the late Ben Keith, always in mind - and hired a band comprised mostly of Neil Young collaborators to help her strip away the veneer she’d built up over two decades in the music business.

"One Step Beyond" was recorded and released in 1963, and features Jackie McLean as a bandleader and alto sax player. It hints at his future movement towards "new jazz", but is still firmly rooted in hard bop.

Offramp is the third album by the Pat Metheny Group, released in 1982. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance. The album contains the popular ballad "Are You Going with Me?". Offramp is the first studio album on which Metheny used a guitar synthesizer, a Roland GR-300 controlled with a Roland G-303 guitar synthesiser controller. The guitar synthesizer became one of Metheny's most frequently used instruments. "Offramp" is also the first Group album to feature vocals, which became a fundamental component of the band's sound.

Pat Metheny's debut studio album is a good one, a trio date that finds him already laying down the distinctively cottony, slightly withdrawn tone and asymmetrical phrasing that would serve him well through most of the swerves in direction ahead.

The Journey - Steeped in the heart and soul of jazz, Marcus and Jean Baylor’s highly anticipated collaboration showcases the grace and glory, versatility and virtuosity of a truly extraordinary musical union.

This recording with Rebeca Omordia, on the Meridian Records label, completes Leon Bosch’s exploration of Giovanni Bottesini’s complete works for double bass and piano.

H.E.R. has announced that her new album Back of My Mind is coming out on June 18 via MBK Entertainment/RCA Records. The musician has also released a new song from the record called “We Made It.

By turns soothing, urgent, playful, and angry, From the Plantation to the Penitentiary distills Marsalis’ recent observations on our modern American way of life as he’s traveled the nation as a performer, teacher, and private citizen.