Rosenrot
Rammstein
Metal - Released October 28, 2005 | Vertigo Berlin
Schumann: The 4 Symphonies by Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Classical - Released January 17, 2023 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording
Prague Spring Festival Gold Edition, Vol. 4 (Live)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released May 22, 2023 | Czech Radio
Schumann: Symphonies No.1 "Spring" & No.3 "Rhenish"
Paavo Jarvi & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Classical - Released November 24, 2010 | Sony Music Japan International
Spring nicht (aus "The Voice of Germany 2023")
Naomi Mbiyeya
Pop - Released November 18, 2023 | The Voice
Letter from Home
Pat Metheny Group
Jazz - Released March 1, 1989 | Metheny Group Productions Inc.
Picking up where Still Life (Talking) leaves off (instead of throwing listeners a curve ball like Song X), the equally triumphant Letter from Home stresses Brazilian elements with superb results. While a number of these treasures -- including "Beat 70," "Have You Heard," and "Every Summer Night" -- are light and accessible enough to have enjoyed exposure on some smooth jazz stations, Letter contains the type of depth and honesty that's sorely lacking in most smooth jazz. Metheny has always known the difference between light and lightweight, and even at his most delicate, he avoids entering "Muzak" territory. True to form, the improviser doesn't shy away from making extensive use of technology, but is insightful enough to do so in a very warm and soulful fashion. Like Still Life, Letter from Home is a fine example of a CD that is both a commercial and an artistic success.© Alex Henderson /TiVo
Goodnight Summerland
Helena Deland
Folk/Americana - Released October 13, 2023 | Chivi Chivi
Dissonance
Asmik Grigorian
Classical - Released March 25, 2022 | Alpha Classics
The Complete Concert By The Sea (Expanded)
Erroll Garner
Jazz - Released September 18, 2015 | Columbia - Legacy
Drone Logic
Daniel Avery
Electronic - Released October 4, 2013 | Phantasy
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps / Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin Suite / Mussorgsky: A Night On The Bare Mountain
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Classical - Released October 3, 2006 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
This Deutsche Grammophon disc, Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic, is issued to celebrate the opening of L.A.'s new concert venue, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Disney is one of the most controversial structures to go into in the ground in the twenty first century, a twisted, semi-abstract edifice made of polished stainless steel and occupying 293,000 square feet with a seven-level parking lot below. Critics of the Frank Gehry-devised concert hall cum artwork ridiculed it as maximum ugly and overly expensive, and city leaders wondered if the inordinately bright building would need to be sandblasted so as not to blind pilots of commercial jet liners passing overhead. Although Esa-Pekka Salonen has made a number of successful recordings with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for both Sony Classical and Deutsche Grammophon, they have either recorded them out of town or in UCLA's Royce Hall, as the other large concert venue in town, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, simply isn't a good venue for recording an orchestra. Disney Concert Hall was, in part, designed with that in mind. Hopefully Deutsche Grammophon hasn't waited a bit too long to bring out this Super Audio CD of the first commercial recording made at the Disney. Comparatively, a 1964 RCA Victor LP commemorating the Chandler's opening appeared within mere days of the main event, and in some quarters is valued as a keepsake. Nevertheless, the prognosis is good for the sound of Disney Concert Hall as a venue for recording the Los Angeles Philharmonic at home. The recording of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain is truly wonderful stuff, as every measure of Mussorgsky's clotted and knotty but fearlessly innovative original orchestration is heard here in glassine detail. Percussion strokes are precise, the rendering of brass and wind has an almost photographic quality, and strings are heard as a wave of sound rather than as a mushy tangle of wire. This is one of the most stunningly realistic recordings ever made of a symphony orchestra. The Bartók Miraculous Mandarin in its concert version is new to Salonen's recorded repertoire, and while it is a good performance, it's a little cold, which reflects Salonen's usual M.O. with Bartók. In this rendering of Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps, Salonen is far more individual in his handling of the score and its effects, and the sound of Disney Hall almost seems to project Le sacre's extremes. Salonen delivers a performance that is far from the pristine, note-perfect recording by Pierre Boulez, closer in spirit to that of Igor Markevitch.Salonen's rendering of the Stravinsky may not please all who hear it, but this is one of only a few orchestral discs in perhaps 25 years that is an imperative just by virtue of the sonic reproduction of the orchestra alone. Le Sacre du Printemps -- Los Angeles Philharmonic is provocative and intense and will give any decent home system a serious workout; like Disney Hall itself, it is a miracle of engineering.© TiVo
Reger & Mahler: Works
Christoph Spering
Classical - Released October 6, 2023 | CapriccioNR
For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
Christian McBride Big Band
Jazz - Released September 25, 2020 | Mack Avenue Records
Night And The City
Charlie Haden
Jazz - Released September 1, 1996 | Universal Music Division Decca Records France
Rachmaninoff & Tchaikovsky: Romances
Piotr Beczala
Mélodies - Released August 25, 2023 | PentaTone
Dreamer in Concert
Stacey Kent
Vocal Jazz - Released August 31, 2011 | Token Productions
Distance
Astghik Martirosyan
Jazz - Released October 6, 2023 | Astghik Martirosyan
All In My Mind
Dr. Lonnie Smith
Jazz - Released January 12, 2018 | Blue Note Records