One of Saxony-Anhalt’s oldest and most tradition-rich orchestras presents a compelling combination of two major orchestral works on GENUIN, marking the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus’s relocation from Weimar to Dessau: the Anhaltische Philharmonie of the Bauhaus city Dessau, under its general music director Markus L. Frank, pairs Mussorgsky’s „Pictures at an Exhibition“ (in Ravel’s orchestration) with „Feininger Fractals“ by Eisenach-born composer Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961) – two orchestral works closely connected to visual art. The finely spun textures of Buchholz, who in this work engages with Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger, and the endless colors of Mussorgsky/Ravel are in the best hands with this Dessau ensemble. Magnificent but not pompous, virtuosic yet full of meaning, the orchestra plays with intelligence and nuance under its chief conductor.

The Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima met the double bassist Oliver Potratz and the drummer Oliver Steidle in Berlin in year 2000. These three have become companions on a musical journey that has lasted almost twenty-five years so far. They have defined their own sound and are solidly challenging the limits of the musical possibilities of the trio formation. The combination of Finnish roots and Berlin vibe results in original, wild, creative jazz music. Klima Kalima uses elements from rock, blues and folk to give their modern jazz sound a quirky accent.

The singer of Thales" is written on a memorial stone for the composer Johann Gottlieb Naumann. One could hardly have appreciated him more aptly.

Four-LP Set Includes The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Trio’s Entire 2002 Performance In Rio de Janeiro, Plus Two Bonus Tracks From The Same Tour Available From Rhino On January 18 LOS ANGELES – Following a nearly five-year break from touring, Rush returned to the stage in 2002 to support the trio’s seventeenth studio album, Vapor Trails. During the tour, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart played to some of the biggest crowds of the band’s career, including 40,000 people at the tour’s final stop in Rio de Janeiro. That concert was released in 2003 as RUSH IN RIO, which was certified gold in the U.S. and Canada.

Seine posthume Bekanntheit verdankte der Protagonist dieser Produktion einem Irrtum: Die »Jenaer Symphonie«, die man 1909 in der Universitätsbibliothek der Stadt entdeckte, wurde als ein vermeintliches Frühwerk Beethovens gründlich studiert, diskutiert und sogar eingespielt.

Hollow Souls are the musical-collective brain child of internationally respected British guitar player Kris Barras and his right-hand man, acclaimed producer Josiah J. Manning.

An intimate voice-and-piano album weaving five witty originals among six classic standards. Captures Angela and pianist Ray Gallon in a late-night, romantic mood with In the Wonder of the Night.

Since their days at Trondheim’s Jazz Program, they have known each other musically inside out, alternately collaborators and critical mirrors. Their combined range extends from contemporary composition to improvisation, pop, and electronics. With Time to Crystallize, they unveil a dimension of that shared language which has, until now, remained unseen.

The new programme »Opium – Light and Shadow of the Twenties« by the Berlin-based dream duo Eckart Runge and Jaques Ammon reflects the creative, decadent and frivolous 1920s - a brief era of awakening, turmoil, sensuality, seduction and ecstasy, but also a time with a premonition of impending catastrophe.

An exciting listening adventure: The "Ten Preludes" by Sofia Gubaidulina from 1974 merge with the Allemandes from Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites into a fascinating dialogue between past and present.

“Brawny shuffles, swinging horns, searing guitar, passionate vocals and balls-to-the-wall enthusiasm” – LIVING BLUES World-renowned, horn-powered, houserocking blues band releases their first new album in five years. Recipients of five Grammy nominations and winners of multiple Blues Music Awards (the Grammy of the blues), plus numerous victories in DownBeat’s International Critics Poll, Roomful of Blues are celebrated coast to coast and around the world.

This eleventh volume adds the three juvenile concertos which Mozart composed in 1771 - 72, all re-writes of keyboard sonatas by J.C. Bach. Bach had been something of a mentor to Mozart whilst he was living in London (1764 – 65) and these concertos not only draw on Bach’s thematic material, but are very much in the gallant style of which Bach was a leading proponent.

When Sun Ra released his debut Saturn release in 1957, he signaled the Arkestra’s mission for the future. The cover declared the album a "21st Century Limited Edition." The compositions on Supersonic Jazz conveyed optimism and hope, bringing a message auguring the World of Tomorrow. Ra declared this the first dimension of a fresh art form, as he set about evolving a new American music — a composite of the past and future, the known coalescing with the unknown. The album, not very well received upon release, reveals a vibrant universe of sound, with highly developed arrangements and sophisticated musicianship, especially Ra’s innovative keyboard work and John Gilmore’s astonishing tenor sax solos.

The baroque ensemble Oslo Circles is back at the Opera with its brand new concert program of captivating, surprising, slightly crazy (or completely insane?) Italian and Austrian baroque music from the 17th century.

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