Soprano Mary Bevan is among the most versatile figures on the British operatic scene, with a repertory stretching from Monteverdi to contemporary premieres. She has a bent toward comic opera and has appeared several times in operettas by Gilbert & Sullivan. Bevan was born in Hertford in southeast England in 1985 into a musical family: her siblings Sophie Bevan and Benjamin Bevan are both successful vocal soloists, and their father, David Bevan, was a conductor.

De-Phazz The prolific and long-running De-Phazz (also known as DePhazz) is a contemporary lounge project led by Peter "Pit" Baumgartner, a German-Austrian producer who has surrounded himself with a shifting cast of collaborators that includes vocalists Barbara Lahr, Karl Frierson, and Pat Appleton. Beginning with Detunized Gravity (1997), Baumgartner and company have explored various forms of lounge music, much of it balancing samples with live instrumentation, with innumerable cross-sections of vintage jazz and soul, easy listening, and Latin music.

Dragon’s Domain Records presents the soundtrack release of THE BRIAN MAY FANTASY FILM MUSIC COLLECTION, a 2 CD collection featuring music composed by Brian May (MAD MAX, THE ROAD WARRIOR, CLOAK & DAGGER) for a select group of Australian horror/fantasy films produced by Antony I. Ginnane during the boom of the Australian New Wave of cinema in the late 1970s and early 1980s. THE BRIAN MAY FANTASY FILM MUSIC COLLECTION includes music from PATRICK (1978), SNAPSHOT (1979), HARLEQUIN (1980) and THE SURVIVOR (1981).

The dynamic young American pianist John Wilson first encountered Michael Tilson Thomas in 2015 when he was a fellow with the New World Symphony.

Disco Reggae Rockers features wicked reggae disco versions of funk, soul and disco classics! This new album follows on from Soul Jazz Records' earlier highly successful 'Hustle: Disco Reggae.' and features reggae covers of classic songs by Earth, Wind and Fire, Michael Jackson, The Isley Brothers, Candi Staton, Curtis Mayfield and more as performed by Derrick Harriott, Devon Russell, Hortense Ellis, Glen Adams, Dave Barker and others

The Violin Sonatas and Partitas manuscript, which has fortunately survived, is dated 1720. The first page of the autograph carries the note “Libro Primo”; Bach’s Cello Suites BWV 1007-1012 may have been regarded as the “Libro Secondo”. A dedicatee is not known.

Luckily, here at EW, you can relive this moment in the woods over and over, making sure you can have always have more. We have your exclusive first listen to the new Into the Woods cast recording, which will be released on Sept. 30 digitally and be available on CD beginning Dec. 2 (a vinyl release is also planned for March 17, 2023).

The new album by Chineke! Orchestra presents works by the British composer Samuel Coleridge- Taylor

Nonesuch Records releases the first recordings of Steve Reich’s Runner (2016) and Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (2018), performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and conducted by Susanna Mälkki, available digitally and on CD on September 30, 2022; a vinyl LP version will be released on December 2.

Inspired by the writing methods of legendary Nashville songwriter Dennis Linde ('Goodbye Earl', 'Burning Love', 'Bubba Shot the Jukebox'), Ashley McBryde set out with a group of her favorite co-writers to work up a project they had no intention of ever recording or releasing. What came from that week-long exercise in a rural cabin outside Nashville is a distilled version of everything that listeners have come to appreciate from Ashley: Raw, honest, specific portraits of small town America and the many characters that you may encounter in any one of them.

After receiving four Grammy nominations for his highly successful series of recordings that "latinize" the music of John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Horace Silver, Conrad Herwig turns his attention to the legendary Charles Mingus.

Three CD set. Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? is the highly anticipated 2022 album by Tyler Childers, and his longtime band The Food Stamps. This unique collection is separated into 3 parts, each with a different sonic perspective, but all part of one album vision. Hallelujah is a pared-back version of the music featuring Tyler and his band only, Jubilee is full band including strings, horns, bgvs and a touch of sitar, and an exciting new sound in Joyful Noise. From Tyler Childers' vision, it's a genuine concept album meant to showcase the incredible musicianship of The Food Stamps.

Deluxe two CD edition of Brandi Carlile's 2021 album, In These Silent Days. Includes a bonus 10 track CD that contains acoustic versions of the album's tracks plus a cover of "Space Oddity".

SONICA, a dynamic trio featuring three of today’s most distinctive contemporary female musicians, includes GRAMMY-nominated vocalists Thana Alexa, Nicole Zuraitis and renowned first-call bassist Julia Adamy.

The legendary showcase tour by Ruf Records is now 17 years old, but the concept remains unbeatable and therefore unchanged. Three up-and-coming talents from the most respected blues label in Europe. Three live sets that go through the entire spectrum of genres and emotions. And to top it off, a huge jam session, where all the artists let out the acid together – and ask the audience to do the same.