His most sustained success was as a songwriter during the post war years in Chicago, where he was supplying songs to a range of artists, from Muddy Waters and Little Walter to Otis Spann and others.

Le nouveau clip de Mylène Farmer est imminent. Selon "Gala", la star a tourné la vidéo du single "Des larmes" il y a quelques jours en compagnie de Stanley Weber, fils de Jacques Weber. Le résultat devrait être mis en ligne "avant la mi-mai".

Boccherini wrote very little vocal music; however he left two settings of the Stabat mater. It was first set in 1781 for solo soprano and strings and then in 1800 for two sopranos and tenor, obviously influenced by the hugely-popular Pergolesi Stabat mater of 1736. There are many similarities in the notation and harmony - even the same key of F minor is used. The writing is of extraordinary individuality and seems to come straight from the heart. This unjustly neglected piece is surely one of the most remarkable sacred compostions of the era.

Cassandra Wilson has garnered a deserving reputation for her soulful, visionary reads of songs by legendary composers old and new, from Robert Johnson to Van Morrison. On Glamoured, Wilson composed half the album, and her songs are as provocative and deserve the same weight of grace critically afforded her covers. She uses her trademark fluid, smoky delivery to redefine songs such as the old soul nugget "If Loving You Is Wrong"; the poignancy it was written with tells of a woman lost in the delirium of a forbidden love with a married man. The ache and euphoria in her voice shot through with producer Fabrizio Sotti's stunning acoustic guitar interplay is nearly overwhelming in its emotion.

Als erster US-Rockstar tourte Billy Joel 1987 durch die damalige Sowjetunion. Nun wird die legendäre Konzertreise unter dem Titel „A Matter Of Trust – The Bridge To Russia“ veröffentlicht.

From November 14 to 16 in 1985, the Joe Henderson trio held court at the Village Vanguard for a legendary 10-set engagement, some of which was recorded for Blue Note and released in 1986 as two volumes under the declarative banner The State of the Tenor. The saxophone titan was 48 at the time, and sat comfortably at the top of the heap among his peers. The great pugilist of the instrument, his muscular approach was reflective of the brash sensibility of the '80s; the heavy hitters joining him onstage, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Al Foster, complemented Henderson's take-no-prisoners style with a sense of airy restraint, swinging big when they needed to fill in the negative space.

The Cerny Brothers' upcoming release, Looking for the Good Land, is a heartland rock & roll album anchored in the anthemic spirit of Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp and other blue-collar bandleaders.

For their third audite album, the Cheng² Duo ventures to Russia. Portraying part of the cello’s musical history in Russia, Bryan and Silvie Cheng perform a programme centring on three great sonatas for cello and piano by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov and Prokofiev, which are contrasted by a series of shorter works.

All the music in this programme comes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and most of it was collected by its founder, Richard, Seventh Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion (1745 – 1816). A polymath, lover of music, amateur composer and harpsichordist, musically active from about 1760 until his death, Fitzwilliam created a legacy of exceptional importance to English musical culture.

After two earlier Dvořák releases, the Trios nos.3 and 4 (Dumky) and the two Piano Quartets, Omri Epstein, Mathieu van Bellen and Ori Epstein are joined by one of their teachers at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, the violist Miguel da Silva (founder member of the famous Quatuor Ysaÿe) and the violinist Maria Milstein, who was also an artist in residence at the Music Chapel from 2011 to 2014.

Heinz Holliger, Meisteroboist, Komponist, Dirigent und eine der charismatischen Musikerpersönlichkeiten unserer Tage, kann am 21. Mai seinen 80. Geburtstag feiern. Passend zum Event erscheint Vol. II der kompletten Sinfonien von Franz Schubert, die das künstlerische Multitalent mit dem Kammerorchester Basel aufgenommen hat.

The Norwegian vocal ensemble Edvard Grieg Kor is the resident a cappella ensemble at Troldhaugen, the home of Edvard Grieg. Displaying versatility across all musical genres, it performs regularly with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and also forms the core of the Chorus of Bergen Nasjonale Opera.

Noé Tavelli, is a band lead by the swiss drummer Noé Tavelli. It features some the most promising young jazz musicians from EU and US. Theband's music is a smart blend of traditional and modern jazz expressed through the strong personalities of its members.

Zeit seines Lebens hat sich Johannes Brahms mit der Chormusik beschäftigt. Als Chorleiter in Detmold, Hamburg und Wien sowie als Komponist, der ein riesiges weltliches und geistliches Chorwerk hinterlassen hat. Zu seinen bedeutendsten Kompositionen für Chor und Orchester gehört neben seinem "Deutschen Requiem" auch das 1871 komponierte "Schicksalslied" op. 54 für gemischten Chor und Orchester.

A mesmerizing drift into springtime; a journey across miles of open sands into tight city streets where neon blurs past the windscreen as night turns to day, this HEART beats to the sound of gorgeous hyperspace soul, metropolitan electro, scratched up ghostly radio transmissions and rumbling ultra heavy percussive techno.