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Personnel: Prince (vocals, various instruments); Dez (vocals, guitar); Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin, J.J. (vocals).
Recorded at Sunset Sound & Uptown, Los Angeles, California.
With the release of this seminal double-album, Prince evolves from the minimalist synth-pop that powered such discs as DIRTY MIND and CONTROVERSY into the pop genius that defined such quirky masterpieces as PURPLE RAIN and SIGN OF THE TIMES. Were it only for the hits--the loopy bounce of "Delirious," the moody slide of "LittleRed Corvette," and the irresistible title track (only Prince could have written the ultimate dance song for the turn of the millennium 18 years before the fact)--1999 would be essential. These tracks are as perfect as they are familiar from incessant radio play.
The rest of 1999 holds up to the radio hits. Loose, nasty grooves like "D.M.S.R." and "Automatic" are interspersed with the propulsive shuffle of "Let's Pretend We're Married" and the soulful, psychedelic pulse of "Something In The Water." This is not average dance music. Prince's hybrid of rich, trippy atmospherics, '80s synth-y keyboard sounds, lush, asymmetrical harmonies, elements of rock guitar, soulful singing, and strong songwriting--all rolled together with beats--weaves dark, sexual energy into ebullient boogie anthems. 1999 is one of the definitive pop music documents of the '80s.
SKU: 4135344

Also available on cassette on Rykodisc (40025).
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Personnel: Frank Zappa (vocals, guitar, bass); Tony Duran (guitar); Sugar Cane Harris, Jean-Luc Ponty (violin); Napoleon Murphy Brock (saxophone, background vocals); Ian Underwood (saxophone); George Duke (keyboards); Jack Bruce, Erroneous, Tom Fowler (bass); Jim Gordon, Johnny Guerin, Ralph Humphrey, Aynsley Dunbar (drums); Ruth Underwood (percussion); Ray Collins, Kerry McNabb, Susie Glover, Debbie, Lynn, Ruben Ladron De Guevara, Robert "Frog" Camarena (background vocals).
Engineers include: Steve Desper, Terry Dunavan,Barry Keene.
Digitally remastered by Bob Stone.
One of Zappa's most commercially successful albums, APOSTROPHE is also among his goofiest. The album found its way to the semi-mainstream chiefly on the strength of "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow"'s scatological humor, and the cheap jokes that were part of Zappa's stock in trade abound here, on tracks like the self-explanatory "Stink-Foot." Part of Zappa's genius though, much like that of Gong's Daevid Allen, was to deflate his sophisticated instrumental excursions and conceptual work with lowbrow humor and downright silliness. Nowhere is that process more apparent than on APOSTROPHE.
The typically large band (including violin and horns) that accompanies Zappa here follows him through daunting twists and turns as tempos get turned around and counterpoint riffs bounce off each other at breakneck speed. In the midst of all this instrumental facility, Zappa's satirical side is well-represented, as on the bluesy "Cosmik Debris," where he casts aspersions on the guru concept. APOSTROPHE finds Zappa at a peak, where he was still successfully mingling humor with harmonic exploration and yet succumbed to the excesses of neither.
SKU: 1002927

Title:Bählamms Fest
Composer:OlgaNeuwirth (b1968)
Conductor:Johannes Kalitzke
Ensemble:Klangforum Wien


SKU: 2083642

Title:Mass No. 16, 'Coronation' in C, K317
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Mass No. 17, 'Missabrevis' in C, K337
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Mass No. 11, 'Credo' in C, K257
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)


SKU: 2016123

Personnel includes: U.P. Wilson(vocals, guitar); Steve "Hook" Herrera, Paul Orta (harmonica); Bill Eden, Wilford Sims, Worm (saxophone); Matt McCabe, Mike Kindred (keyboards); Eddie James Stout (bass); Freddie Walden (drums).
Producer: Eddie Stout.
Reissue producer: Chris Millar.
Recorded at Sumet-Bernet Studios, Dallas, Texas in January 1988. Includes liner notes by Mick Rainsford.
SKU: 1025772

Title:Faust
Composer:Charles (François) Gounod (1818 - 1893)
Venue:Halle auxGrains,Toulouse


SKU: 5072925

Title:Fiesta Criolla (1718)
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Title:Fiesta Criolla (1718)
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Title:Fiesta Criolla (1718)
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SKU: 1079156

Title:Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in F, Op. 5/1
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5/2
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Sonata for Celloand Piano No. 3 in A, Op. 69
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 4 in C, Op. 102/1
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 in D, Op. 102/2
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:(7) Variations on Mozart's 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen' from "Die Zauberflöte', WoO46
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

Title:(12) Variations on Mozart's 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' from "Die Zauberflöte', Op. 66
Composer:Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)


SKU: 5014972

Title:(12) Sonatas of III Parts, Z790-801
Composer:Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)

Title:(10) Sonatas in Four Parts, Z802-11
Composer:Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)

Title:Fantasia upon a Ground, Z731
Composer:Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)

Title:(4) Pavans,Z748-51
Composer:Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)

Title:Chaconne for Strings in G minor, Z730
Composer:Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)


SKU: 8001971

Personnel: Isaac Hayes (piano, electric piano, organ, vibraphone); Michael Toles, Charles Pitts (guitar); Lester Snell, Sidney Kirk (piano); James Alexander, Ronald Hudson (bass); Willie Hall (drums, tambourine); Gary Jones (bongos, congos); TheMemphis Strings, The Memphis Horns, The Bar-Kays Rhythm Section.
Engineers includes Henry Bush, Bobby Manuel, Dave Purple.
Recorded at Stax Recording Studios, Memphis, Tenessee. Originally released on Enterprise (2-5002).
SKU: 1008360

Title:Symphony No. 4in G
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Title:Lieder aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Title:Lieder aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Title:Lieder aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Conductor:Daniel Harding
Ensemble:Mahler Chamber Orchestra


SKU: 2090376

Personnel: Bruce Springsteen (vocals, guitar, bass); Sam Moore, Bobby King, Bobby Hatfield (vocals); Tim Pierce (guitar); Mark Isham (trumpet); Ian McLagen (piano); David Sancious (organ); Roy Bittan (keyboards); Randy Jackson (bass); Jeff Porcaro (drums, percussion); Kurt Wortman (drums); Michael Fisher (percussion); Patti Scialfa (background vocals).
Producers: Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Roy Bittan.
Recorded at A&M Studios, Los Angeles, California.
After a five year recording hiatus following the emotionally eloquent TUNNEL OF LOVE (and a subsequent world tour), Springsteen returned in 1992 with the tandem release of HUMAN TOUCH and LUCKY TOWN. Though released separately, both albums signalled the singer's more mature preoccupation with introspective, complicated themes of desire, despair and regret. The albums were also Springsteen's first without the full E Street Band. HUMAN TOUCH and LUCKY TOWN marry Springsteen's popular persona of fist-waving, stadium rocker with the more reflective, rootsier sound the singer favored on NEBRASKA.
Of the two albums, HUMAN TOUCH is the more successful in this endeavor; songs like "Roll of the Dice" and "Real Man"are vintage, hell-raising Springsteen whereas the haunting "With Every Wish" and the roiling undercurrent of "57 Channels (And Nothin' On)" travel more uncertain avenues. "Human Touch" is pretty melodic pop and "Cross My Heart" generates pure sexual heat, gyrating with a bluesy guitar groove. HUMAN TOUCH and LUCKY TOWN may never be revered in same way as some of his other releases, but both albums are immensely satisfying as a double shot farewell to the raucous rebelliousness of Springsteen's youthful rock and roll years.
SKU: 1005461

This two CD set brings together rare tracks from the Steps back catalogue, including the unreleased songs, 'Human Touch', 'Why' and 'Mars And Venus'. The album also features remixes of classic Steps songs including '5,6,7,8', 'One For Sorrow' and the UKnumber one singles 'Stomp' and 'Tragedy'.
SKU: 1077679

Full performer name: Paul Bley/Evan Parker/Barre Phillips.
Personnel: Paul Bley (piano); Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones); Barre Phillips (acoustic bass).
Recorded at Rainbow Studios, Oslo, Norway in January 1994. Includes liner notes by Steve Lake.
This is a trio of pianist Paul Bley, saxophonist Evan Parker and bass player Barre Phillips. Bley's experience with drummerless trios dates back over thirty years to his work with Jimmy Giuffre. The interplay on these largely improvised pieces is empathetic throughout, and at times downright magical. On "Above The Tree Line" Bley's left hand is playing fragmentary low note melodic figures that entwinewith Phillips' string bass like the roots of a tree. Meanwhile, his right hand dances birdlike with Parker's soprano saxophone (and someone gets bonus points for titling this jointly credited composition in such an accurately poetic manner). Bley in particular has made a career of playing in duos and trios, listening intently, and playing off the other musicians with sensitivity and precision. This is quietly forceful improvised music of regal bearing.
SKU: 1002468

AM 4: Linda Sharrock (vocals); Wolfgang Puschnig (alto saxophone, alto flute, hoja, shakuhachi); Uli Scherer (piano, preparedpiano, keyboards).
SKU: 4121718

This 1999 reissue contains seven bonus tracks not on the original release.
Personnel: Stan Getz (tenor saxophone); Conte Candoli (trumpet); Lou Levy (piano); Leroy Vinnegar (bass); Shelly Manne (drums).
Producer: Norman Granz.
Reissue producer: Ben Young.
Recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California on August 9, 15 &19, 1955. Includes liner notes by Phil Bailey.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Chris Herles (Polygram Studios).
This is part of the Verve Master Edition series.
SKU: 4123265

Title:Métaboles
Composer:Henri Dutilleux (b 1916)

Title:(The) Shadows of Time
Composer:Henri Dutilleux (b 1916)

Title:Symphony No.2, 'Le double'
Composer:Henri Dutilleux (b 1916)


SKU: 1069407

Title:Symphony No.77 in B flat
Composer:(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Venue:Concert Hall, New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Title:Symphony No. 78 in C minor
Composer:(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Venue:Concert Hall, New Broadcasting House, Manchester

Title:Symphony No. 79 in F
Composer:(Franz) Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
Venue:Concert Hall, New Broadcasting House, Manchester


SKU: 5021174

Personnel includes: Jim"Little Wolf" Wilson (vocals, guitar, drums, programming); Priscilla Coolridge, Laura Coolridge-Satterfield (vocals); John Bartlit (guitar, drums); Ed Whap (flute); Jim Stallings (bass); Sal Farreras (drums); Celsa Machado (percussion).
Includes liner notes by David Carson.
SKU: 1037984

Hearts And Flowers: Larry Murray, Bernie Leadon, Dave Dawson, Rick Cunha.
Recorded in 1967 and1968.
SKU: 1078997

Title:Concerto da camera No. 1 in A minor, Op. 10
Composer:(Charles-)Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888)
Venue:Govan Town Hall, Glasgow

Title:Concerto da camera No. 2 in C sharp minor
Composer:(Charles-)Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888)
Venue:Govan Town Hall, Glasgow

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in F minor, Op. 16
Composer:(George Martin) Adolf (von) Henselt (1814 - 1889)
Venue:Govan Town Hall, Glasgow

Title:Variations deconcert on 'Quand je quittai la Normandie' from Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable', Op. 11
Composer:(George Martin) Adolf (von) Henselt (1814 - 1889)
Venue:Govan Town Hall, Glasgow


SKU: 5010229

Original score composed by Marc Shaiman. Performed byRuby Braff & His New England Songhounds.
Producers include: Eric Clapton, Marc Shaiman.
Includes liner notes by Rob Reiner.
SKU: 5085986

Title:Ecce quam bonum
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Missa 'Eccequam bonum'
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Accesserunt ad Jesum
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Job tonso capite
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Veni electa mea
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Pascha nostrum
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble

Title:Carole magnus eras
Composer:Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (1510? - ?1556)
Conductor:Stephen Rice
Ensemble:Brabant Ensemble


SKU: 2088253

Title:(Il) Barbiere di Siviglia, '(The) Barber of Seville'
Composer:Gioachino (Antonio) Rossini (1792 -1868)

Title:Luisa Miller
Composer:Giuseppe (Fortunino Francesco) Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Title:Manon Lescaut
Composer:Giacomo (Antonia Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini (1858 - 1924)


SKU: 8001745

BADMOTORFINGER was reissued briefly with a limited-edition bonus disc titled S.O.M.M.S, featuring B-sides and one live track.
Soundgarden: Chris Cornell (vocals, guitar); Kim Thayil (guitar); Matt Ben Shepherd (bass); Matt Cameron (drums).
Additional personnel: Damon Stewart (spoken vocals); Scott Granlund (saxophone); Ernst Long (trumpet).
Recorded at Studio D, Sausalito, California and Bear Creek Studios, Woodinville, Washington in 1991.
Soundgarden couldn't have picked a better time to issue its best album yet, BADMOTORFINGER, in the fall of 1991. The Seattle explosion (which also included Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Alice In Chains) was just about to take off, and along with such other classic albums as NEVERMIND, TEN, and FACELIFT, BADMOTORFINGER benefitedgreatly from all of the newfound media attention and critical praise. New bassist Ben Shepherd fit in perfectly with the band, evidenced by this incredibly consistent album. Although Soundgarden's breakthrough hit, "Outshined," remains the best-known track, the whole album is a must-hear from beginning to end.
While BADMOTORFINGER is certainly best experienced listening all the way through, single standouts include the barnstorming album opener, "Rusty Cage," the all-out assault "Jesus Christ Pose," as well as the crawling "Slaves & Bulldozers," and the tranquil "Mind Riot." Add to it the back-to-back epics "Searching With My Good Eye Closed" and "Room a Thousand Years Wide," plus the short punk blasts "Face Pollution" and "Drawing Flies," and you have one of the greatest rock albums to ever come out of the Emerald City.
SKU: 1005105

Original score composed by and conducted JohnBarry.
Recorded at Studio Davout, Paris, France in April 1979. Includes liner notes by Jeff Bond.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
SKU: 1081837

Title:Lulu
Composer:Alban (Maria Johannes) Berg (1885 - 1935)
Venue:Ridehuset,Christiansborg Castle


SKU: 5091215

Title:Symphony No. 5 in D
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Venue:Wessex Hall, Poole Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset

Title:Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Venue:WessexHall, Poole Arts Centre, Poole, Dorset


SKU: 5090427

Personnel:Speedy West (steel guitar); Jimmy Bryant (guitar).
Contains 30 tracks.
SKU: 1066648

Title:Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Composer:Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Venue:Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Title:Facsimile
Composer:Leonard Bernstein (1918- 1990)
Venue:Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Title:West Side Story
Composer:Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Venue:Symphony Hall, Birmingham

Title:Divertimento
Composer:Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Venue:Symphony Hall, Birmingham


SKU: 5013488

Dashboard Confessional: Christopher Ender Carrabba (vocals, guitar); Johnny Lefler (guitar); Dan Bonebrake (bass); Mike Marsh (drums).
Recorded live at MTV Studios, New York, New York.
Chris Carraba, the tortured soul who hides behind the stage name Dashboard Confessional, intros "The Best Deceptions" on his turn at the MTV UNPLUGGED mic with "here's a song about feeling bad and feeling better." That's practically him summing up his songwriting with zen-like simplicity, although like most who get tarred with the emo brush his compositions tend more towards the former. Many can relate and have related to the burning frustration and repeated indignities suffered during futile attempts at finding love and attaching meaning to an often-baffling existence; Carraba's songs tap into the confusion synonymous with growing up with startling clarity.
While one could question the necessity of an unplugged record from an acoustic artist with one legitimate full-length album and a couple EPs, there's something eclectic going on in Carraba's world captured on his volume of MTV UNPLUGGED. While he surely hasn't plugged in as long as he's recorded under current sobriquet, hiselectricity comes from his winding lyrics. In a live setting, the spark comes from his adoring fans who join him in taut lines like "...sit alone and wonder how you're making out but as for me I wish that I was anywhere with anyone making out."
SKU: 1082843

Title:(The) Battle of theBulge
Composer:Benjamin Frankel (1906 - 1973)


SKU: 2072846

Title:Pretty Ring Time
Composer:Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930)

Title:(2) Songs, Op. 83
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Title:(2) Songs, Op. 46
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré(1845 - 1924)

Title:Ave Maria, 'Ellens Gesang III', D839
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Corpus Christi carol
Composer:(Edward) Benjamin (Lord Britten of Aldeburgh) Britten (1913 - 1976)

Title:(2) Songs, Op. 83
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845 - 1924)

Title:Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Wiegenlied, D498
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:(Die) Forelle, D550
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:An die Musik, D547
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:An Silvia, D891
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Nacht und Träume, D827
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Heidenröslein, D257
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:Du bist die Ruh, D776
Composer:Franz (Peter) Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Title:(6) Lieder, Op. 34
Composer:(Jakob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) (1809 - 1847)

Title:Liederkreis, Op. 39
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Title:Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42
Composer:Robert (Alexander) Schumann (1810 - 1856)

Title:(2) Lieder, Op. 91
Composer:Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

Title:(5) Lieder, Op. 39
Composer:Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949)

Title:(4) Lieder, Op. 27
Composer:Richard (Georg) Strauss (1864 - 1949)


SKU: 1071734

Title:Lieder aus 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Composer:Gustav Mahler (1860- 1911)
Conductor:Claudio Abbado
Ensemble:Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Venue:Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany


SKU: 5007018

Title:Quartet for Piano and Strings No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845- 1924)

Title:Quartet for Piano and Strings No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45
Composer:Gabriel (Urbain) Fauré (1845 - 1924)


SKU: 1089269

Title:Sie haben heut Abend Gesellschaft
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Ich stand in dunkeln Träumen, UP49
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Das ist ein Brausen und Heulen, UP50
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Aus meinen grossen Schmerzen, UP52
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Mit träumte von einem Königskind, UP53
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen, UP54
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Es blasen die blauen Husaren, UP55
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Du bist wie eine Blume, UP26
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Wenn ich in deine Augen seh, UP27
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Mädchen mit dem roten Mündchen, UP25
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Wo ich bin, mich rings umdunkelt
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Es war ein alter König, UP64
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Mit schwarzen Segeln, UP65
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Spätherbstnebel, UP66
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Ernst ist der Frühling, UP67
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Wie des Mondes Abbild zittert, UP79
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Traurige Wege
Composer:Hugo (FilippJakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Herbst, UP77
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Frage nicht, UP76
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Herbstentschluss, UP75
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Abendbilder, UP29
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:(4) Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Stern mit den goldnen Füsschen, UP83
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:Nächtliche Wanderung, UP41
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)

Title:An***
Composer:Hugo (Filipp Jakob) Wolf (1860 - 1903)


SKU: 1079357

Har Mar Superstar: Sean Tillmann (vocals, various instruments).
Additional personnel include: Karen O (vocals); John Fields(various instruments); Michael Bland (drums).
SKU: 6570614

Title:Trio Sonata in A minor, TWV42: a 6
Composer:Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)

Title:(12) Sonate metodiche
Composer:Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)

Title:Trio Sonata in G minor
Composer:Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688 -1758)


SKU: 2079942

Title:Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Composer:Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

Title:Pictures at an Exhibition
Composer:Modest PetrovichMussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

Title:Prélude pathétique
Composer:Shura Cherkassky (b 1911)

Title:(The) Tale of Tsar Saltan
Composer:Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844 - 1908)


SKU: 2089319

A fan favourite and much requested, this completerecording of Queen's raucous, sold-out 1982 concert at the Milton Keynes Bowl finally gets a cleaned-up, digitally remastered release. Featuring many of their classic songs of the era as well as lesser-known album tracks, this is a document of a band at the height of their powers and is also available on DVD.
SKU: 6575608

Title:String Quartet in D minor, 'Voces intimae',Op. 56
Composer:Jean (Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865 - 1957)

Title:String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)


SKU: 1069653

Title:Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1 in F, Op. 8
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Venue:St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Hamps

Title:Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G, Op. 13
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 -1907)
Venue:St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Hamps

Title:Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Composer:Edvard (Hagerup) Grieg (1843 - 1907)
Venue:St Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Hamps


SKU: 5021324

The brothers from Crowded Houserelease their new album,
SKU: 6568338

Personnel: Alice Coltrane (piano, harp); Pharaoh Sanders (soprano saxophone, percussion); Vishnu Wood (oud); Tulsi (tamboura); Cecil McBee, Charlie Haden (bass); Rashied Ali (drums); Majid Shabazz (tambourine, bells).
Producers: Alice Coltrane, Ed Michel.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Recorded at The Coltrane Studio, Dix Hills, New York on November 8, 1970 and live at the Village Gate, New York, New York on July 4, 1970. Originally released on Impulse (9203). Includes liner notes by Alice Coltrane.
Digitally remastered using 20-bit technology by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios).
The death of John Coltrane left not only a musical, but a spiritual void among his many followers and admirers. By aligning himself with the searchers among the new generation, John Coltrane legitimized their quest and set a daunting standard of excellence for those who experiment outside the mainstream of modern jazz.
Among those searchers was young Alice McLeod of Detroit, a virtuoso on the vibraphone, piano, organ and harp. John Coltrane had always expressed a fondness for the harp, and while young McLeod never did bring that instrument into the context of Trane's working groups, she did bring her rolling, ecstatic style of piano to bear in the saxophonist's last quartets and quintets as Mrs. Alice Coltrane.
JOURNEY IN SATCHIDANANDA, recorded in the fall of 1970, is a serene, composed meditation on the lessons of the 1960's, a mystical work of enduring sweetness and spiritual longing. The concluding cut "Isis And Osiris" (recorded earlier that summer at the Village Gate), is a global village of texture and song, animated by Pharaoh Sanders' gently wafting soprano and Rashied Ali's quicksilver brushwork, as Vishnu Wood's feathery oud, Charlie Haden's woody bass and Coltrane's sweeping harp combine to create a dreamy vortex of sound. The title cut and "Shiva-Loka"--centered around Cecil McBee's sonorous, lyric bass vamps and Tulsi's droning tamboura--are gorgeous evocations of modal jazz and Indian ragas, again exploiting the contrast between Sanders' reedy chants and Coltrane's blissful arpeggios. And then there's"Stopover Bombay" and "Something About John Coltrane," which reveal the melodious symmetry of Alice Coltrane's piano playing, a singular style deeply imbued in the old time testimonies of the spirituals and the blues.
SKU: 1019800

This is the debut album from Lindsay Lohan, who kickstarted her career in television and has appeared in various movies including 'Freaky Friday' and 'Mean Girls'. A mix of teenage pop and rock, the album's sound is similar in vein to other female pop stars such as Hilary Duff and Ashlee Simpson. The debut single 'Rumours' isalso included.
SKU: 6579819

Ben Folds Five: Ben Folds (vocals, piano); Robert Sledge (vocals, bass); Darren Jessee (vocals, drums).
Additional personnel: Alicia Svigals (violin); John Catchings (cello); Matt Darriau (clarinet); Frand London (trumpet); Caleb Southern (Hammond organ).
Includes seven bonus tracks.
Ben Folds Five: Darren Jessee, Robert Sledge, Ben Folds.
Recording information: 1997.
Boldly hacking his way through the muck-infested swamplands of post-Nirvana alternative rock, Ben Folds comes to save the day with an album of pure pop delights that provide a welcome alternative to "alternative." Despite the name, the Ben Folds Five is a trio consisting of Folds on piano and vocals, a bassist and a drummer. There are echoes of everything from vintage Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson to Hoboken-based popsters like the dB's and Freedy Johnston in the band's frothy compositions. And there are no guitars.
Bassist Robert Sledge is on a one-man mission to bring back the fuzz-bass, utilizing the '60s bass technique to fill out the sound of the trio, and sometimes sounding more like a guitarist or keyboardist. Foldsis an accomplished pianist, and has no qualms about giving the instrument the rock and roll spotlight that it's often denied. Ignore the knee-jerk Elton John comparisons. Folds may be equally influenced by show tunes and the Beatles, but WHATEVER rocks more convincingly than a gaggle of guitar-worshipping grunge puppies.
SKU: 6586202

This is a continuous in-the-mix CDcompiled and mixed by DJ LTJ Bukem.
SKU: 1058373

Personnel: Eric Clapton (vocals, guitar); George Terry (guitar); Mel Collins (saxophone); Dick Sims (keyboards); Carl Radle (bass); James Oldaker (drums, percussion); Marcy Levy, Yvonne Elliman (background vocals).

Recorded at Olympic Studios, London, England in May 1977.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
SLOWHAND was the album which defined the new cool of Eric Clapton, a sultry, laid-back mix of rock and blues, with a heavy dose of country and southwestern regional sounds to leaven the blend. After LAYLA, SLOWHAND was probably Clapton's most popular, fully realized solo disc.
The opening number was by J.J. Cale, whose "After Midnight" had been one of the real joys of the guitarist's first solo excursion, ERIC CLAPTON. "Cocaine," with its slow grinding beat, menacing melodic vamp and one-step from perdition lyrics, was the toughest, most rocking number on SLOWHAND, and a major radio hit from the outset.
A couple of vocal duets with countryish harmonies set the tone for the rest of SLOWHAND. "Lay Down Sally" was a funky, chicken-fried bit of boogie with a taut, melodic aside from Clapton's twangy Stratocaster, while Don Williams' sweet, soulful "We're All The Way" provided a low-key vehicle for Clapton's tender vocal exchanges with Marcy Levy,as his understated arpeggios toll away in the background.
SKU: 1003192

Personnel: Joe Cocker (vocals); Bryan Adams, Phil Grande, Jeff Pevar (guitar); Lenny Pickett, Frank Elmo, Mario Cruz, Crispin Cioe, Deric Dyer, Arno Hecht (saxophone); Paul Litteral, Mark Pender (trumpet); Richie Labamba, Robert Funk (trombone); Jeff Levine (piano, organ, synthesizer, percussion); Chris Stainton (organ, synthesizer); T.M. Stevens (bass); David Beal (drums, percussion); Bashiri Johnson (percussion); Curtis King, Vaneese Thomas, Tawatha Agee (background vocals).
Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studio, New York, New York.
This followup to Cocker's comebackalbum (1987's UNCHAIN MY HEART) boasts the same band, the same production team, and the same esthetic approach, i.e. it's a savvy mix of slick late '80s power ballads and cannily chosen cover songs. The latter, not surprisingly, provide the meat of the album. Cocker apparently relates to the sexual paranoia in Leonard Cohen's "I'm Your Man," and he gives it an appropriately volcanic rendering. Even better, he seems to locate a similar feeling of dread in the old Little Willie John/Peggy Lee chestnut "Fever," and he positively out- Elvis's Elvis with his take on the similarly-themed title song. Guilt never sounded so good.
SKU: 5059796

Stereolab: Laetitia Sadier (vocals, guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, tambourine); Mary Hansen (vocals, guitar, tambourine); Tim Gane (guitar, Vox organ, Moog synthesizer, percussion); Sean O'Hagan (guitar, Vox & Farfisa organs); Duncan Brown (guitar, bass, background vocals); Andy Ramsay (bazouki, Vox organ, percussion).
Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, England in May, 1993.
Stereolab's brilliantly-titled third album is the first fully-realized example of the band's unique vision that combined the mechanical rhythms of early-'70s krautrock and the lush romantic flourishes of '60s soft pop inthe Astrud Gilberto/Dionne Warwick tradition. To this mix the band added the relentless drones and political fixations of late-'80s British indie guitar bands such as McCarthy (Stereolab leaders Tim Gane and Laetitia Sadier's first band) and the gorgeous textures of vintage analogue synthesizers.
Packaged in a perfect reproduction of the sleeve of an early-'60s hi-fi test disc, complete with technical liner notes, TRANSIENT RANDOM-NOISE BURSTS WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS follows one wonderful track with another, culminating in the astonishing 18-minute "Jenny Ondioline," an obsessive explorations of all the sonic and melodic possibilities of one chord, overlaid with creamy Beach Boys-style harmonies and Sadier's melodic trill. The song, like the rest of the album, is a definitive moment in '90s indiepop.
SKU: 1007016

Recordedat The San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California.
SKU: 1084313

Title:Freiheits-Lieder, 'Songs of Freedom', Op. 52
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Armen-Ball-Polka, 'Poor people's ball', Op. 176
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Melodien-Quadrille (on themes by Verdi), Op. 112
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Windsor-Klänge, Op. 104
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:'s gibt nur a Kaiserstadt, 's gibt nur ein Wien, Op. 291
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Bürgersinn, 'Public spirit', Op. 295
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Liebchen, schwing dich, "Sweetheart,sway!, Op. 394
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Feenmärchen, 'Fairy tales', Op. 312
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Fest-Polonaise, 'Festival Polonaise', Op. 352
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Adelen, Op. 424
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Violetta, Op. 404
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava

Title:Kaiser Franz-Joseph, Op. 67
Composer:Johann (Baptist) II Strauss (1825 - 1899)
Venue:Concert Hall, Bratislava


SKU: 2035495

Personnel includes: Terry Allen (vocals, piano); Lloyd Maines (acoustic &electric & pedal steel guitars, dobro, mandolin, tenor banjo, bell tree, background vocals); Luis Martinez, Jessie Taylor (guitar); Richard Bowden (fiddle); Joe Ely (harmonica); Ponte Bone (accordion); Don Caldwell (saxophone); Tommie Anderson (trumpet); Mark Anthony (trombone); Russ Standefer (tuba); Kenny Maines (bass, background vocals); Curtis McBride (drums); Allan Shinn (percussion, marimba, jawbone, castanets); Sylvester "Band Aid" Rice, Gwen Hewitt, Suzanne Paulk, Jo Harvey Allen, Freddy Pride, Mike Austin, Vincent Thomas, Jimmy Sampson (background vocals); Monterey High School Marching Band.
Recorded at Caldwell Studios, Lubbock, Texas.
Terry Allen's 1979 double album, LUBBOCK (ON EVERYTHING), is a 20-song folk-country-pop-jazz-art-weirdness masterpiece. Written and recorded in the somewhat isolated west Texas college town where Allen grew up, it is an ambivalently affectionate record. Allen's west Texas character studies, like the high school football star turned Pinkie's Mini-Mart robber in "The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)," are both empathetic and savage, skewering local mores and pretensions with a wit that never becomes mean-spirited. Other tracks, such as "The Collector and the Art Mob" and the surreal "Truckload of Art," give the same treatment to the world of visual art where Allen, an accomplished painter and sculptor, has spent most of his adult life. The album ends with the touching "Thirty Years War Waltz," a valentine to Allen's writer/actress wife Jo Harvey Allen. Despite the often sarcastic lyrics, sweetness and affection shine throughout this album.
SKU: 1009883

Title:Goyescas
Composer:Enrique Granados (y Campina) (1867 - 1916)

Title:(12) Danzas espanolas, Op. 37
Composer:Enrique Granados (y Campina) (1867 - 1916)

Title:(6) Escenas románticas
Composer:Enrique Granados (yCampina) (1867 - 1916)


SKU: 1060310

While juggling a hectic acting career, long time rapper LL Cool J finds time to record and release his eleventh album for the legendary Def Jam label. Produced by Timbaland, the album moves away from the lovers rock soundof his last few releases and opts for a more hardcore club sound. The first single taken from 'The DEFinition', 'Headsprung', is also included.
SKU: 6571190

Title:Sonata for Piano No. 3 in F, Op. 46
Composer:Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky(1904 - 1987)

Title:Sonata for Piano No. 2 in E flat, Op. 45
Composer:Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)

Title:(24) Preludes, Op. 38
Composer:Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky (1904 - 1987)


SKU: 8001266

Title:Sonatas and Interludes
Composer:John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Venue:Stuttgart

Title:Song Books I-II
Composer:John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Venue:Stuttgart

Title:Empty Words III
Composer:John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Venue:Stuttgart

Title:Music for Marcel Duchamp
Composer:John Cage(1912 - 1992)
Venue:Stuttgart


SKU: 5020648

Personnel: The Game (rap vocals); Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige (vocals); Eminem, 50 Cent, Marsha, Nate Dogg, Tony Yayo, Busta Rhymes (rap vocals).
On his official debut, THE DOCUMENTARY, Los Angeles rapper the Game (born Jayceon Taylor) observes he "was an ol' G in the hood" before he was 22. The Game has truly packed a lifetime of fury, chaos, and crime into his first years of adulthood, living life with a reckless passion. After a gunshot wound sent him into a temporary coma, he decided to put his agile mind to better use in hip-hop, and his complex, ferocious raps swiftly became mixtape staples.
After many twists and turns, the Game finally dropped the highly anticipated THE DOCUMENTARY as the first major hip-hop release of 2005, and it's quite an opening salvo. On the Kanye West-produced "Dreams," hedisplays a dizzying intellect, subtly working an apt quote from Nas into an imagined bi-coastal conference between Jam Master Jay and Eazy-E. (The track also invokes political figures ranging from Ronald Reagan to Huey Newton.) The Game's clearly been immersed in the rap world from an early age, and he tips his hat to both past masters and his contemporaries, many of whom appear on the record (Eminem, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, and others). THE DOCUMENTARY heralds a stunning new voice in rap by living up to its overwhelming hype.
SKU: 6581664

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 4 in D, K218
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 5, "Turkish" in A, K219
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in B flat, K269/K261a
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Rondo for Violin and Orchestra in C, K373
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:Adagio for Violin and Orchestra in E, K261
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)


SKU: 1065249

Cash Audio: John Humphrey (guitar); Scott Giampino (drums).
Recorded at Uber Studio, Chicago, Illinois in July1998 and Enginge Studios, Chicago, Illinois in September 2000. Includes liner notes by Mitch Meyers.
SKU: 1063841

On these final 17 recordings of Mississippi John Hurt's remarkable career, the septuagenarian songster evinces all the warmth, humor, and mastery that mark the entirety of his recorded work. A gifted fingerpicker, singer, and songwriter, Hurt spent most of his life in obscurity. The folk boom of the '60s revived the music career he had abandoned during the Depression. Before his death in 1966, Hurt completed four wonderful albums for Vanguard Records.
LAST SESSIONS includes Hurt's takes on others' blues classics ("Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home," "Goodnight, Irene") as well as a number of great originals ("Let the Mermaids Flirt with Me," "Trouble, I've Had it All My Days"). Throughout, Hurt deftly mixes the serious ("You Got to Die") with the bawdy ("Funky Butt") and whimsical ("Spider, Spider"). Like all available Hurt recordings, LAST is a great album from one of the '60s' greatest artists.
SKU: 1002518

Title:Requiem, Op. 9
Composer:Maurice Duruflé (1902 - 1986)

Title:(4) Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens, Op. 10
Composer:Maurice Duruflé (1902 - 1986)

Title:Mass 'Cum jubilo', Op. 11
Composer:Maurice Duruflé(1902 - 1986)


SKU: 2004976

Personnel includes: B.B. King (guitar); Sid Page (conductor); Paul Carrack (vocals, keyboards, Hammond B-3 organ); Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Marty Stuart (vocals, guitar, David Gilmour); Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, Mick Hucknall, Dr. John, D'Angelo, Joe Cocker, Heavy D, Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson (vocals); Keith Richards, Ron Wood (guitar); Bruce Dukov, Armen Garabedian, Berj Garabedian, Norman Hughes, Tamara Hatwan, Kenneth Yerke, Andrea Byers (violins); Robert Becker (viola); Larry Colbert, Marston Smith, Dane Little, Martin Tillman, Miles Tackett (cello); Joe Sublett (tenor saxophone); Brian Murray (trumpet); Jools Holland (piano); Leon Pendarvis (keyboards); Tommy Eyre (keyboards); Pino Palladino (bass); Andy Newmark, Charlie Watts (drums).
DEUCES WILD was nominated for a 1999 Grammy forBest Contemporary Blues Album.
You can't move an inch without tripping over a superstar on this album of celebrity duets. On DEUCES WILD, B. B. looks beyond the blues world to collaborate with such unlikely folks as Willie Nelson, Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour, and even rapper Heavy D. On newly recorded versions of classic B.B. numbers such as "The Thrill Is Gone" (with Tracy Chapman) and "Paying The Cost To Be The Boss" (with the Rolling Stones), the legendary blues guitarslinger reinvents his own material to accommodate his famous pals, whose respect for King and enthusiasm for this project are apparent on each track. Most effective are the tunes that find B.B. paired up with veteran blues belters like Joe Cocker ("Dangerous Mood") and Van Morrison ("If You Love Me").
SKU: 1000706

Original score composed by John Williams.
Performed by London SymphonyOrchestra and London Voices, conducted by William Ross.
Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, England.
The soundtrack to Warner Brothers Pictures' HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS is a fairly run-of-the-mill offering from the great John Williams. In other words, it's better than most other soundtrack composers' best work. Like the classic scores from CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND or JAWS, the music here is rich and elegant, with heady doses of Williams's trademark charging string sections and thundering tympani.
While it often recalls the composer's work on RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and ET: THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL, the HARRY POTTER score also occasionally sports a certain cartoonish stop-and-start quality seemingly influenced by Danny Elfman. This style may seem slightly out of character for Williams (who's known more for his grand, sweeping statements and heart-stopping climaxes), but the effect is totally appropriate for what is, after all, a movie about a teenage wizard who rides around on a broom in a coat and tie. HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS provides a perfect reminder of the excitement, intrigue and light-hearted spirit of both the film and J.K. Rowling's novels.
SKU: 1077406

Dropkick Murphys: Al Barr (vocals); Marc Orrell (guitar, accordion); James Lynch (guitar); Ryan Foltz (mandolin, whistle); Spicy McHaggis (bag pipes); Ken Casey (bass, background vocals); Matt Kelly (drums).
Additional personnel: Boston Police Gaelic Column Pipes & Drums, Harney School Of Dance Step Dancers.
Recorded live at the Avalon Ballroom, Boston, Massachusetts in March 2002. Includes liner notes by Nancy Hammerle Teacher and Dennis Lshane Author.
This Boston-based Irish punk band's proletarian, all-for-one attitude, as espoused consistently in its lyrics, is perhaps best exemplified by a live album like this one, where their energy and communal relationship with their audience can be clearly heard. You can hear the crowd chanting along to the lyrics of Dropkick Murphys' working-class anthems with faithful vigor, and the band responds in kind by kicking the already-high energy level up even further. Though their blend of punk and Celtic flavors is unique (they surely don't have much company in blending punk guitars and bagpipes), the sound (and the sociopolitics) also bear strong echoes of early Oi outfits like Sham69, all rousing shout-along choruses and martial rhythms. Interestingly, its when they tackle the more Irish-sounding tunes (as on "The Rocky Road to Dublin") that the boys seem to be at their punkiest.
SKU: 1074645

Personnel includes: Joe Venuti (violin); Jimmy Dorsey (alto saxophone, clarinet); DonMurray (baritone saxophone, clarinet); Adrian Rollini (bass saxophone); Frank Signorelli (piano); Eddie Lang (guitar).
Recorded in New York, New York between 1926 & 1928. Includes liner notes by
Anatol Schenker.
SKU: 6492675

Personnel: Diana Krall (vocals, piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Alan Broadbent (conductor); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Ron Mounsey (keyboards); John Pisano (acoustic guitar); Anthony Wilson (guitar); John Clayton, Christian McBride (bass); Jeff Hamilton, Lewis Nash (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion); The Orchestra Symphonique European.
Recorded live at the Paris Olympia, Paris, France on November 29-30 & December 1-2, 2001 and Avatar Studios, New York, New York.
LIVE IN PARIS won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album.
Diana Krall is best known as a purveyor of gently drifting ballads, with a trademark laconic delivery. Such preconceptions may be slightly nudged, ifnot altered, when her LIVE IN PARIS concert document kicks off with a swinging, up-tempo "I Love Being Here With You" that finds her making like Annie Ross, while also giving her top-shelf band a chance to blow. Aficionados of those aforementioned narcotized standards will soon be set to their ease however, as Krall moves slowly and deliberately through the likes of "Let's Fall in Love" and a bossa nova-tinged "I've Got You Under My Skin," her voice sailing atop a velvet sea of strings provided by Alan Broadbent and the Orchestra Symphonies European. Towards the end of the program, she turns to more modern contributors to the Great American (or in one case, Canadian) Songbook, offering a solo piano-and-vocal rendition of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You" and a decidedly pop-oriented studio take on Billy Joel's ubiquitous "Just the Way You Are."
SKU: 1075662

U2: Bono (vocals, harmonica); The Edge (guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Adam Clayton (bass); Larry Mullen, Jr. (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Daniel Lanois (guitar, keyboards, tambourine, background vocals); Brian Eno (keyboards, programming, background vocals).
Engineers include: Flood.
Recorded at Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
THE JOSHUA TREE won the 1987 Grammy award for album of the year.
After their arresting appearance at Live Aid, U2 album sales went berserk across the globe, and the world waited impatiently for their next release. The Joshua Tree arrived, and fans were not disappointed. There are few weaknesses, musical or lyrical, in this album. Thepure power of the music and patent honesty of the lyrics steer the band clear of whimsy and self-indulgence. The anguish and questioning is shot through with faith as they chant and stomp and batter their way through instant classics such as 'Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For', 'Where The Streets Have No Name' and 'With Or Without You', leaving the listener bruised but elated.
SKU: 1003716

Title:(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 1, '(Das) Rheingold'
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Venue:Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin

Title:(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 2, '(Die) Walküre'
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Venue:Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin

Title:(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 3,'Siegfried'
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Venue:Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin

Title:(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 4, 'Götterdämmerung'
Composer:(Wilhelm) Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Venue:Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin


SKU: 5014164

Title:Serenade No. 13, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" in G, K525
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:(6) German Dances, K571
Composer:Wolfgang AmadeusMozart (1756 - 1791)

Title:(Les) Petits riens, KAnh10/K299b
Composer:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)


SKU: 8001535

Geordie new-wave revivalists Maximo Park's debut album was produced by Paul Epworth, and is record label Warp's first foray into guitar-based music. Capturing the band's live energy withoug