Christian Howes is joined by world-renowned accordionist Richard Galliano on his third Resonance release, Southern Exposure.

Handel’s beautiful, intimate settings of liturgical texts written for the First Duke of Chandos are among his less well-known choral works—and are proved by this second volume from Trinity also to be among his loveliest. They are a perfect example of the composer’s English style heard in Acis & Galatea and oratorios such as Judas Maccabaeus.

This disc of popular works by Emmanuel Chabrier marks the beginning of a new series of French repertoire, performed by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under its newly appointed Artistic Director, Neeme Järvi.

German prog metallers Assignment have announced that the worldwide release of "Inside the Machine" will be on October 11th. The album is the band's third release and first for its new label Mausoleum Records.The conceptual release features guest vocalists: Robin Beck, Michael Bormann (PowerWorld/ex-Jaded Heart/Bonfire), Mats Leven (Candlemass/ex-Yngwie Malmsteen/ex-Addagio) and Carsten Kaiser (ex-Angel Dust).The artwork, conceived by Belgium-based graphic artist Didier Scohier (Asia, Dokken, Ian Gillan, Uriah Heep, Code Of Silence, Max Pie).

Double album released in Europe, offering a collection of 32 themes of mambo rhythm (only five are chachachás) from recordings of some of the great performers of this style in the 50s and 60s. Bands of Tito Puente, with most subjects registered, Tito Rodriguez and Machito and the voices of Celia Cruz and Linda.

The Candid label recorded a series of live performances of the great Cuban percussionist Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria (Havana, 1917-2003), the 'King of the Conga', conducting his musical octet for two nights at the jazz club Upper Westside of Birdland (New York) in 1992. This CD, reissued in 1995 and later in 2003 after his death, contains 12 of the tracks recorded. Mongo popularity arose from its ability to accurately combine Afro-Latin rhythms with jazz and blues, marking a very specific tempos and achieving a spectacular and captivating rhythmic expressiveness. In this record Mongo fuses burning rhythms of soca, samba, chacha or boogaloo with jazz or blues themes.

Dynamic, prog/fusion metal ensemble EXIVIOUS release 'Liminal' on November 8th (November 12th in North America).EXIVIOUS (Tymon Kruidenier [ex-CYNIC]- Guitar; Michel Nienhuis [DODECAHEDRON]-Guitar; Robin Zielhorst [ex-CYNIC]-Bass; Yuma van Eekelen [ex-PESTILENCE]-Drums) operate in a space where metal meets jazz-fusion and post-rock. The band blends a wide variety of musical genres into a coherent, unified sound that’s driven by a penchant for lush sound-scapes, technical precision, and sporadic time signatures. EXIVIOUS have toured Europe extensively, playing shows alongside bands such as OBSCURA, SPAWN OF POSSESSION and GOROD.

MTV Europe Music Awards 2013 [Includes 7 Music Videos]
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November 10 in Amsterdam hosted the annual music prize awards "MTV Europe Music Awards 2013". Тhe post includes Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop, Robin Thicke and Iggy Azalea - Blurred Lines / Feel Good, Katy Perry - Unconditionally, Bruno Mars - Gorilla, Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball, Eminem - Berzerk / Rap God, Icona Pop - I Love It. Available separately. For technical parameters for each clip - see in details.

The temptation to call Casella's music »charming« may be great, but perhaps such a label will not do anything to take away from it. But with such a diminutive of perception one will in no way do justice to the high standards of his music and their virtuoso realization in a manner which has been recognized as having been unique along the paths leading to New Music.

This disc is the fourth in a series devoted to Bowen’s solo piano music, and like the earlier issues it is made up of a wide range of different works, from relatively large-scale structures to quite short, almost miniature, pieces. Unlike that of any other British composer of his generation, Bowen’s music for piano was written with the most profound understanding of the capabilities of the modern concert grand piano. The music here comes from ………..

Frederic Chopin - The Complete Works
Garrick Ohlsson, Piano / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra / Kazimierz Kord
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 3,41 GB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Hyperion # CDS44251/66 | Country/Year: UK 2008
Genre: Classical | Style: Romantic, Piano

'Garrick Ohlsson’s complete survey of everything Chopin wrote for piano (including chamber music, songs, and for piano and orchestra) will delight the completist and the Chopin connoisseur. Ohlsson (who won the Chopin International Piano Competition in 1970) gives us accounts of this wondrous repertoire in weighty and commanding style, aristocratic and impulsive (but not lacking light and shade or contemplative contrasts) and, at times, very sensitive and searching. These vivid recordings were made in the second half of the 1990s and have previously appeared on the Arabesque label. They now sit very well in Hyperion’s catalogue'