The Welsh composer Arwel Hughes (1909-88) played many different roles in what E.T.Davies – the first Director of Music at Bangor University – termed the ‘new musical awakening’ in Wales during the 20th century. Arwel Hughes was born in Rhosllanerchrugog, North Wales, the youngest of 10 children from a coal miner’s family.

Debussy’s song cycle Ariettes oubliées of 1888 set six poems from Paul Verlaine’s collection Romances sans paroles, beginning with C’est l’extase and Il pleure dans mon cœur – penetratingly poetic images of love’s ecstasy and rainlike tears of despair.

Celebrated Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio, “one of the most elegant and accomplished pianists on the planet” (Los Angeles Times) performs Romantic-era concertos and solo pieces by Mexican composers Ricardo Castro and Manuel María Ponce.

Few things have informed and inspired as much music as humanity’s search for God. Acclaimed baritone, arranger, and conductor Courtney Carey explores the relation between the worldly and the divine on I WANNA BE READY, a set of 12 spirituals arranged for different instrumentations — and each piece packs a punch.

Live Rust is a live album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse, recorded during their fall 1978 Rust Never Sleeps tour.

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist who is among the most influential figures in jazz.

"In the summer of 1989, when I was 15, my `love affair' with Alfred Schnittke's music began", recalls Daniel Hope. 3 years later the violinist became acquainted with the composer, studying with & performing for Schnittke many of his works over the next years.

Alphaville will reissue their second and third albums Afternoons In Utopia and The Breathtaking Blue in May, both with remastered audio and bonus material.

Shaped by pianist Andrew von Oeyen’s experience of lockdown, this solo recital comprises Bach’s eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas No 13 in E flat and No 23 in F minor, ‘Appassionata’, and arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff of two movements that Bach wrote for accompanied flute.

80: The number stands there as if chiseled in stone.

A quarter of a century after the release of her debut album "Horses", New York political rebel Patti Smith shows that the old fire is still burning.

Arnold Schoenberg called him "Brahms the Progressive".

The reason why I decided to make this album was to ask him about the natural sound source owned by UNAMAS Label for the treatment of my illness, tinnitus and (correctly, headache). The troublesome thing about this tinnitus symptom is that there is no such a cure. Even if you listen to the sound source, you do not lose your tinnitus, but when you are concerned about tinnitus, for example, when you go to bed, you can play it and listen to the "sound" to reduce the level of awareness of tinnitus. For the purpose, it is scientifically based on the theory of TRT. Therefore, I searched for various sounds and listened to them, but somehow some noise called "random noise", that is, white noise, and some "natural sounds" that came out when I tuned the frequency of the radio. I felt it was suitable for neutralizing the noise that was being generated.

'Rovanio' from Brazilian vocalist, percussionist, and guitarist Nanny Assis is a remarkable kaleidoscope of styles, textures, ideas, and even languages, yet it never strays from the distinctive Brazilian elements that form the foundation of Assis's music.

Baroque dedicatory letters seek to fmatter the addressee, such as those sent to Duchess Sibylla of Württemberg. This custom was as necessary as it was natural. However, it is remarkable how much Philipp Friedrich Böddecker (*1607, Hagenau in Alsace; †1683, Stuttgart) emphasised the particular musical abilities of the dedicatee in the preface to his Sacra Partitura, published in Strasbourg in 1651.