The virtues of Uchida's playing are the ones classically associated with Mozart: grace, fluidity, restraint, and a certain playful quality. Those are all on display in these performances of Mozart concertos from the 1770s, early in the composer's career. Uchida's style is more concerned with small details than with large spaces, and this puts her somewhat out of the mainstream in a work like the Piano Concertos

Tons of Sobs is the debut album by English blues rock band Free, released in the UK on 14 March 1969. While the album failed to chart in the UK, it did reach #197 in the US. Free are cited as one of the definitive bands of the British blues boom of the late 1960s even though this is the only album of their canon that can strictly be called blues rock. According to bass player Andy Fraser, the title effectively summed up the album.

Free is the second album by English rock group Free, recorded and released in 1969. The band had spent time touring after their debut album Tons of Sobs the previous year, and there is a marked difference in the musicianship of the band as well as Paul Rodgers's voice. Whereas Tons of Sobs had been produced by Guy Stevens, Free was produced by the head of Island Records, Chris Blackwell.

Free Live! is a live album by English rock band Free. It was rush-released by Island Records to commemorate the band, who had broken up in April 1971. Possibly because of the publicity caused by their breakup (which had also earned them a successful parting single "My Brother Jake" that same month) the album was a hit, reaching #4 in the UK album charts.

The "French Suites" were devised as a technically less challenging preliminary level in learning the organ, situated between the studies of "Inventions and Sinfonias" and the "English Suites", the so called 'large' suites, and "Partitas". Bach's composing a remarkable number of pieces with a didictic purpose for the piano can be considered as an attempt to further his reputation as a teacher. Caspar Frantz combines his recording of the French Suites with two less known suites which demonstrate, that discoveries are still possible even in such a well-known ouevre like Bach's.

Studio 150 is the seventh album by British artist Paul Weller. It comprises covers of songs by a variety of artists, and showcases Weller's myriad musical influences. It was named after the small Amsterdam studio in which it was recorded. It entered the charts at #2.

Coltrane is a 1962 studio album by jazz saxophonist John Coltrane (do not confuse with same title 1957 album). Francis Davis of The Village Voice felt that, apart from the "modal, three-quarter time novelty hit "The Inch Worm", consumers should buy the album for the gorgeous "Soul Eyes" and a shattering 'Out of This World'." The composition "Tunji" was written by Coltrane in dedication to the Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji.

This 11-song audiophile compilation from the German Clearaudio collects such Classical Music demonstration material as Mozart's "Alla turca" and "Menuet D major", Beethoven's "For Elise", Rachmaninov's "Etude E flat minor", Brahms' "Hungarian Dance" and Schubert's "Serenade" among others. Classic Bestseller No. 1 uses a unique recording technique which contains an unusually wide dynamic range, making it ideal for listening tests and real comparison of the sound quality of different high fidelity components.

Rita Payés was born in 1999 in Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona, Spain. As a child she began studying at the School of Music in Premià de Mar, initially playing the piano. At the age of 8 years, at the School of Modern Music in Badalona, she added trombone to her studies. She has played and sung in several big bands, jazz bands and combos, including EMM in Premia de Mar, the EMM Badalona, the Big Band under the direction of Òrrius, Pere Paye, Josep Traver, Carles Vecino and Joan Moragues. In July 2013 she joined the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, under the direction of Joan Chamorro. In December 2018 she has recorded "My Ideal" for Japanese Venus Records. The album features Massimo Farao’ & Scott Hamilton.

Vocalist & trombonist Rita Payes is joined by Jerry Weldon, Massimo Farao’, Nicola Barbon, Louis Hayes and Jimmy Cobb for this set which includes "Someone To Watch Over Me", "Bewitched", "September Song" and "Theme For Basie".

The smooth-jazz acoustic-guitar star gets his R&B groove on throughout many tracks on this beautifully recorded disc, and not just on the obvious tunes like the sneaky Isley Brothers cover, "Who's That Lady" (with Kirk Whalum cooking on sax), and the old Temptations number, "Just My Imagination," but also on the very funky "Turn It Out," with sax man Euge Groove, and the Latin-tinged "Bueno Funk," with Steve Cole on the horn.

Maestro Sergiu Celibidache was one of the most uncompromising figures in the music world, demanding three times as much rehearsal time as other conductors and with an ardent dislike of making recordings because he feared they misrepresented his musical intentions. This recording of Anton Bruckner's fifth symphony was made in October 1986 in Japanese Suntory Hall.

Sergiu Celibidache and the Münchner Philharmoniker revisited Japan after 4 years, in October 1990. The performance on the last day, was selected as the best orchestra concert in the year, receiving rave reviews from the local media. Some said, given this is a long performance, that concentration of the musicians could tend to wander, but on the 20th concentration was perfect.

In the present recordings of Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 1 in C and 3 in E-flat ("Eroica") with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Philippe Herreweghe shows himself completely in command of all the resources of a large symphony orchestra. And he shows us something else. He knows his Beethoven. Hopefully much more is to come from this fruitful synergy of musical forces. Very highly recommended! The performances are superb.

After a series of symphonic recordings, one of the greatest musicians of our time completes his love of Jean Sibelius with solo performances of the composer's intimate piano pieces. Vladimir Ashkenazy recorded these works at Jarvenpaa Hall - which has the best acoustics in Finland - and at Ainola, the composer's own home. For "Valse triste", one of the most popular Sibelius pieces, Ashkenazy recorded the composer's transcription twice, first at Jarvenpaa, and then at Ainola using the composer's piano.