Melancholic, melodic, sensitive, passionate instrumentals. Mostly pure acoustic, from jazz to neoclassical, melodic minimalism and and instrumental pop-folk.

It’s the fourth pre-release single to be unveiled, and follows in the footsteps of previous efforts Candle Power, Knappsack and Little Pretty in throwing up an abundance of classically Vai fretboard fireworks…

Rigged from Gallardo's well-loved run of EPs released between 2008 and 2013, "Selected Works" aims the spotlight at an artist who's almost impossible to pin down. His best-known work is the album's closer, 'Club Negro', a sluggish canned dembow beater that wedges Gallardo's spooky vocals between awkward detuned synths and a plasticky beatbox rhythm with essential Salem-esque half-speed trickery…

A Finnish rock project LIGHTHOUSE SPARROWS have got started in July 2019 as an experimental rock duo founded by Sami SARHAMAA (guitars, bass, voices) and Olli HUHTANEN (voices, keyboards), both of whom have worked in the music scene together for over a decade…

Greatest Hits 2 is a greatest hits album by American rock band Journey. The album was released on November 1, 2011 by Columbia Records.

The Miles Davis Quintet was an American jazz band from 1955 to early 1969 led by Miles Davis. The quintet underwent frequent personnel changes toward its metamorphosis into a different ensemble in 1969.

For decades now, Elisabeth Leonskaja has been among the most celebrated pianists of our time. In a world dominated by the media, Elisabeth Leonskaja has remained true to herself and to her music, and in doing so, is following in the footsteps of the great Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels, who never wavered in their focus on the quintessence of music despite working in a very difficult political environment.

Genderless tribute to opera's divas by the countertenor Théophile ALEXANDRE & the female string quartet ZAÏDE, redistributing musical direction to women and Ladies' agonies to a man, to celebrate the divas' arias beyond their gender clichés. Starring heroines by Mozart, Verdi, Bellini, Bizet, Haendel, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Haydn, Tchaïkovsky…

Shostakovich was in his early thirties when he first turned to the string quartet. He planned to produce a full cycle of 24; he completed 15. These works embody his resistance to a crushing Soviet power that held the belief that all art should be political. At the same time, he used them as a means of personal, autobiographical expression, aimed at presenting a true depiction of himself as a man and an artist. Bringing together nos. 3 and 8, the Novus Quartet make Shostakovich’s revolt tangible, while faithfully representing the magnificent, heartrending world of this great composer.

Having been on our wish list for a long, long time we were delighted to have Patty Waters take up a two night residency at OTO last December. Accompanying her on double bass is Tjitze Vogel, and on piano is Burton Greene with whom she recorded 'Sings' for ESP Disk back in the 60s. Greene's scratching and tugging of the piano strings during their first ever rehearsal had encouraged Waters to turn ballads inside out, and the same is true today.

François Couperin's Leçons de Ténèbres, set to the Lamentations of Jeremiah and intended for use on Thursday of Holy Week (they may have been part of a larger set, now lost), would seem on cursory hearing to be light-years removed from his glittering keyboard works, so redolent of the hothouse atmosphere of the French court. Listen again, however, and you find connections: Couperin transfers his uncanny way of making an ornament hang in the air to these deeply serious, arioso settings of the Lamentations for one or two voices, plus continuo…

PARMA Recordings presents LEGENDS & LIGHT, a compilation album featuring works by composers Hans Bakker, Jan Järvlepp, Clive Muncaster, and Shirley Mier. Each has a different, unique story to tell, and the narratives are brought to life by the orchestra and string ensemble.

The present recording consists of 6 fantastic, beautiful, sometimes a little bizarre, rare violin sonatas from the early 18th century and includes 3 première recordings. This release is the first of a new FHR series in which samples of the musical riches (mostly not yet published or recorded) that lie in the Dresden Schrank II collection which FHR will bring to life through new recordings.

The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, with Gordan Nikolic, puts down a spicy performance of two of Mozart's bubbliest symphonies: the "Haffner" and the "Linz". "Both symphonies swoop and swerve at sprightly tempos where needed, which is different from being just fast. They virtually tremble with life. The engineers have succeeded admirably with a transparent soundstage." (Fanfare)