My exploration of Beethoven’s music has been a long and deeply rewarding journey. Since 2002, I have dedicated myself to performing his works extensively, including two complete cycles of the piano sonatas, the piano trio cycle, the violin sonata cycle, and all of Beethoven’s works for cello and piano. In 2015, this journey took on a new dimension when I began recording the complete 32 Piano Sonatas at Teldex Studio in Berlin. After years of commitment and artistic reflection, the recording was completed in early 2023.Over the course of these two decades, much has changed—both globally and personally. Through it all, Beethoven’s music has been a steadfast companion, shaping my artistic identity and deepening my understanding of his profound compositions.

Of Italian origin, Dalida arrived in Paris in 1955, and with her dark hair, Mediterranean beauty, sincerity, and voice, she won over France. This 7-CD box set offers the complete collection of Dalida's songs from 1956 to 1962. It's an essential collection for everyone who, like us, fell under the spell of Dalida’s voice—a voice that once led Gérard-Henri Grandjean to say:“Dalida’s voice caresses, it makes you dream. It builds a world—perhaps an artificial one, but a necessary one—a world shaped like castles in Spain, of wonderfully eternal love, and fairy tales brought to life for three minutes, the length of a song.”

Spectacular Handel music by great specialist Neville Marriner: in addition to the famous Water Music suites, this album includes the grandiose Concerti “a due cori” (literally “for two choirs” but actually for two orchestras), composed as intermezzi to be played during oratorios entr’actes.

The sons of J.S. Bach continued an already remarkable musical dynasty well into the classical age and exerted a powerful influence over composers such as Mozart and Beethoven. Their illustrious father just lived to see the earliest fortepianos and professed to be unimpressed by the new instrument. C.P.E wrote a concerto for harpsichord and fortepiano, ushering in a new age, and saying goodbye to the baroque era.C.P.E was the most original composer of the sons (Beethoven admired him and recommended to Karl Czerny's father that his son study 'Emmanuel Bach's text book on the true manner of performing upon the pianoforte', and, in 1810 asked his publisher to send him all C.P.E's works).

When Niall Horan became the third member of One Direction to release a solo album (2017’s Flicker), the Irishman revealed a refreshingly low-key sound bathed in acoustic guitars and Americana melodies. For his second effort, Horan emerges from his comfort zone and cuts loose musically. See the album’s first single “Nice to Meet Ya”—an unapologetic soft-rock anthem charting the thrill of meeting someone new on a night out, featuring handclaps, rolling piano, and the kind of swagger usually reserved for his associate Harry Styles. Elsewhere on an album exploring heartbreak in all its majesty (written following his own public breakup), Horan dissects a relationship’s demise on the string-laden tearjerker “Put a Little Love on Me,” documents moving on with someone else (“Arms of a Stranger”), and commends always being there for a loved one (the Sheeran-esque “No Judgement”). Horan may not have healed his heart by “Still,” the album’s moving outro (“I’m still in love with you/Oh, we will be all right”), but this former boy-band member has never sounded so good on his own.

Gustav Leonhardt Though participants in the "authentic performance practice" movement might insist otherwise, the search for the old is really a search for the new. This statement certainly captures the spirit that Dutch keyboardist Gustav Leonhardt brought to his early music performances in the 1950s. His style was characterized not by a rigorous observance of rules, but by the intuitive, almost spiritual connection it tried to establish with the music – a kind of authenticity that sought validation not so much from a rigorously academic accuracy (though Leonhardt is by no means historically careless) as from its having an "authentic" effect on the listener. Born in Amsterdam in 1928, Leonhardt learned cello and piano before entering the Schola Cantorum in Basel to study organ and harpsichord with Eduard Müller.

Alicia de Larrocha's greatest contribution as a musician was her unrivaled advocacy of Spanish and Catalonian piano music. Her interpretations of the music of Albéniz, Granados, Falla, Mompou (a lifelong friend who dedicated several works to her), and Montsalvatge were universally described as brilliant, authentic, and masterful in tonal color, texture, and rhythm. She was also highly regarded for her recordings of Mozart and French Impressionist music. She began her career before the age of six with a solo recital, followed by her orchestral debut at the age of 11 performing Mozart's "Coronation" Concerto (K. 537) with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid. She studied with Frank Marshall at his Academia Marshall and also studied music theory with Ricardo Lamote de Gignon. Her adult career began in 1940, but she did not make any international tours until 1947, when she first toured Europe.

New recordings which have the field almost to themselves in an overlooked corner of Buxtehude’s output.
‘One of the world’s most prolific harpsichordists’ (Gramophone), Pieter-Jan Belder now leads this comprehensive and often revelatory survey of the surviving chamber music by Dieterich Buxtehude. Comprising eight musicians active on the Dutch early-music scene, Ensemble Fantasticus presents the only complete set of this music on record, making it an essential acquisition for all Baroque-music enthusiasts, further enhanced by detailed notes on both composer and works by Jon Baxendale.

Giovanni Battista Fasolo (1598-1680) was born in Asti (Italy) and spent his life as a Franciscan Friar in Rome, Naples and finally as Maestro di Cappella at the Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily. He is mainly known for his "Annuale", the largest compendium of organ music for liturgical use written in the 17th century.

Universal Music Presents Dylan Diverted: Just Like A Woman album original hits and the original artists genre Folk Rock.

Kiss' next live album will celebrate their previously undocumented 1985 Asylum tour.The triple-vinyl Off the Soundboard: San Antonio, TX 12-3-1985, which arrives March 28, will be the sixth entry in the band's live soundboard series. The 18-track show features '80s hits such as "Heaven's on Fire" and "Lick It Up" along with '70s classics like "Detroit Rock City" and "Love Gun."

Kiss' next live album will celebrate their previously undocumented 1985 Asylum tour.The triple-vinyl Off the Soundboard: San Antonio, TX 12-3-1985, which arrives March 28, will be the sixth entry in the band's live soundboard series. The 18-track show features '80s hits such as "Heaven's on Fire" and "Lick It Up" along with '70s classics like "Detroit Rock City" and "Love Gun."

Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal was a musical giant, doing much to popularize the flute and to broaden the acceptance of Baroque music; he was the first player to establish the flute as a presence in the international concert world. His recording career extended from the era of 78 rpm recording to that of compact discs, and he was among the most frequently recorded artists of all time.

Jimi Hendrix De Amerikaanse gitarist Jimi Hendrix groeit in de jaren zestig uit tot een van de meest legendarische popartiesten aller tijden. Zijn ongeëvenaarde gitaarspel wordt zijn handelsmerk en hij geeft memorabele liveoptredens op onder meer het Monterey-festival. In 1970 overlijdt hij op 27-jarige leeftijd aan een overdosis slaappillen. Maar ook na zijn dood blijft zijn muziek van grote invloed op steeds weer nieuwe generaties artiesten. In 2018 wordt het postume album Both Sides of the Sky uitgebracht, met daarop nummers uit het familiearchief.

John Williams One of the pillars of film scoring and the most popular film composer of his era, John Williams has created music for some of the most successful motion pictures in Hollywood history – Star Wars, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter are just a handful of selections from an extensive catalog that has included over 50 Academy Awards nominations. After getting his start in television in the late '50s, Williams worked more steadily on feature films by the early '70s, impressing with his stirring orchestral scores for blockbuster disaster films like The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The Towering Inferno (1974), as well as through his work with such emerging directors as Robert Altman (1973's The Long Goodbye) and Steven Spielberg (1974's The Sugarland Express). His recurring partnership with Spielberg would span six decades.