The piano music of the American composer Phillip Ramey (b. 1939) is rooted in the motoric athleticism of Prokofiev and Bartók, to which influences he has blended sober lyricism, spicy modernist dissonance and a fresh approach to the grand Romantic gesture. This second Toccata Classics album of his piano music presents the first recordings of the early Slavic-inflected Diversions and the dark, dramatic Piano Sonata No. 4. The other works include the loosely dodecaphonic Epigrams ……

Tchaikovsky - Symphonies, Orchestral Works (Claudio Abbado) [6CD box set] 2002
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Genre: Classical | Label: Sony

For turning out reliable recordings of the standard repertoire, it's hard to beat Neeme Järvi and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra because their releases on BIS are always highly enjoyable, and they are dependable for accurate renditions that are genuinely exciting. The six-CD set of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky's symphonies Nos. 1-6, the Serenade for strings, Romeo and Juliet, Capriccio Italien, Francesca da Rimini, and other less familiar orchestral works, is a bargain that shouldn't be missed, for the beginning classical fan has everything necessary to begin appreciating the Russian master, while connoisseurs will find unexpected surprises in the obscure selections.

One has to give high marks to guitarist and composer Frank Gambale. While an unabashed jazz-rock fusioneer, Gambale has always made music that was as interested in lyricism and inventive harmonic interplay as complex riffs and arpeggios. Gambale is a composer of the first order and, as he has gotten older, his writing style has become increasingly engaging melodically; his sense of harmonic architecture is full of shapes and colors and is weighted by use of the imagination that indulges flights of whimsy. He also understands on a cellular level the importance of ensemble communication. Accompanied by Billy Cobham on drums and either Ric Fierabracci or Steve Billman on bass, Gambale offers listeners 12 new cuts.

Celui que l'on peut considérer comme le chef de file hexagonal des guitaristes jazz, Christian Escoudé, rend à son tour hommage à la musique de Django. Avec une rythmique emmenée par Alain Jean-Marie, autre grande figure du jazz français, et accompagné par un orchestre à cordes, Christian Escoudé promène sa six-cordes acoustique et électrique sur les chemins qui mènent de "Belleville" au "Manoir de Mes Rêves", entamant un "Troublant Boléro" dans un "Nuage". L'aventure, chez Escoudé, consiste souvent à réinterpréter de façon très respectueuse des thèmes auxquels il apporte une touche personnelle…

Dave and The Gin Mill Gypsies debut album strives to make jazz music accessible and relevant once again in today's world of popular music. Catchy melodies, blazing solo's and heavy swingin' takes you back to the days of flappers and speakeasies. Dave and The Gin Mill Gypsies, based in the foothills of the rocky mountains, bring the styles of early 20th century swing, gypsy jazz, and blues music into the 21st century. Playing original music with tuneful melodies, catchy lyrics, blazing solo's and fast swingin' rhythms this band strives to make jazz music that's relevant, accessible and fun to listen to.

Foreigner is a British-American rock band,originally formed in 1976 by veteran English musician Mick Jones and fellow Briton and ex-King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American vocalist Lou Gramm.Jones came up with the band's name as he, McDonald and Dennis Elliott were English, while Gramm, Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi were American.Their biggest hit single, "I Want to Know What Love Is", topped the UK and US Charts among others. They are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time with worldwide sales of nearly 80 million albums,including 37.5 million albums in the United States alone.

Recent work of German instrumentalist David Bongartz (Aachen, 1980), aka David 'Garrett'. His acting talent made the Deutsche Grammophone his recruitment at fourteen years old and only fifteen years old made his first two recordings and was released on TV. Since then, after having graduated from New York in 2004, having studied with violinist Itzhak Perlman, his musical career has skyrocketed and has performed with many prestigious orchestras worldwide. In his performances is accompanied by their own group, including keyboard, guitar and percussion. This album features a diverse repertoire with compositions of hybrid versions of contemporary pop (Michael Jackson, Queen or AC / DC), film music, classical (adaptations of Debussy, Brahms, Vivaldi, Puccini, Bach or Gershwin) and own compositions in collaboration with Franck van der Heijden.

Nene Marianne Karlsson (born 10 March 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden) - Swedish singer, poet, songwriter and rapper, twice nominated for a Grammy and MTV Europe Music Award. Cherry - a name of his adoptive father and a sonorous pseudonym.1989 Nene recorded their debut album «Raw Like Sushi», which is a mixture of hip-hop rhythms and pop melodies.In March 1995, released the single «Love Can Build A Bridge», he took first place in the charts in the UK.

The singing and flamenco guitar come together in a very serious way with this recording of two ridges figures like Antonio Fernández Díaz 'Fosforito' and Paco de Lucía. This album was a complete creation of Fosforito in all lyrics of various songs, facing flamenco styles of substance as 'seguiriyas', 'tientos' or 'soleares', greening others obsolete as 'alboreás', 'romeras' or 'livianas', and bringing his own style as the 'zángano'. Fosforito was accompanied with the guitar of Paco de Lucía in a priceless task of strengthening his singing, sober and deep, with no concessions to easy.

METAL INQUISITOR release their fourth studio album, Ultima Ratio Regis on February 21st, 2014. Ultima Ratio Regis was mixed and mastered by Olof Wikstrand and is graced by a cover artwork created by Dimitar Nikolov. With the band’s fourth album Ultima Ratio Regis, Metal Inquisitor will continue to pursue their successful path and remember old classic metal virtues.

SILENT OPERA are releasing their new album ‘Reflections‘ in February 2014 via Massacre Records. “Reflections” was recorded by Mobo, alias Frédéric Motte, at the Conkrete Studio in Bordeaux (France).

We are used to perceive the world as we see and feel it. This is called reality, at least for most. But the search for new territories of perception never ends. What if there's another reality that we can't sense, because of our limited perception of the Universe? Another dimensions that exist in parallel to ours, superimpose each other like the layers of a multilayer cake. It is quite possible that they are out of reach, and we can only guess that they occur, at best feel some illusive emanation of other world. Who knows…