From the Notes:Although his international career lasted little more than a decade, from 1948 to 1960, Ferenc Fricsay's stylish and electrifying performances on the podium earned him fame as one of the most promising orchestral conductors of the second half of the 20th century. He worked relentlessly and his pursuit of absolute perfection made him both respected and feared amongst singers and musicians alike. And had he lived longer, he would undoubtedly have ranked amongst the greatest, easily on a par with a Bernstein or a Karajan….

Mire is a one man project from Manchester in the UK. Mire's music could be considered Black Metal or Melodic Death Metal.

German melodic metallers EDGUY will release their tenth studio album, "Space Police - Defenders Of The Crown", on April 18 via Nuclear Blast. In addition to the regular CD edition, the follow-up to 2011's "Age Of The Joker" will be made available as a limited digibook containing two CDs.

3rd album originally released on United Artists in 1971. Featuring Ken Constable, the younger brother of Adam Blessing, on vocals.

Parasites have been a pop-punk staple for over a two decades, and are one of the few bands that wasn't driven to mediocrity in the wake of the pop-punk explosion of the mid nineties. While every other pop-punk band was scurrying around trying to get a spot on the latest punk tour, Parasites were cranking out an insanely hooky soundtrack to your heartbreak. Here is some kind of the band's best-of compilation, remastered by Mass Giorgini. If you've ever been dumped, you know the therapeutic importance of the Parasites.

The Stranglers formed as the Guildford Stranglers in the southern England village of Chiddingfold (near Guildford) in 1974, plowing a heavily Doors-influenced furrow through the local pub rock scene – such as it was. Of the four founding members, only Hugh Cornwell had any kind of recognizable historical pedigree, having played alongside Richard Thompson in the schoolboy band Emil & the Detectives.

CPO has yet again magnificently endorsed the modern musical world, adding two long-neglected gems from the late classical era to the recording catalogue. Here, in CPO's new release of Anton Eberl's two piano concertos, we have been given the privilege of listening to Eberl's formidable piano music, for which he was better known in his day. A fine pianist and composer of several operas, symphonies among other works, Eberl's piano playing had an unusual fire and facility. Best remembered as a composer for the keyboard than for his operas, he carved and shaped his music with confused modulations, while ……A most delectable recording!

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It is quite relevant to notice how many new Russian Progressive rock bands that share similarities with Emerson, Lake & Palmer are arising. In fact, in cases such as Little Tragedies, Edward Artemiev or Horizont, it would be more accurate to evoke XIXth and XXth century classical music, for Slavic culture reasons. Aviva perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. It is in fact Russian virtuoso pianist and multi-instrumentalist Dmitri A. Loukianenko's project. With the help of a guitarist and a few guests, our man presents "Rokus Tonalis" on the Musea label…