Performance highlights of the Soweto Gospel Choir across their 10 year history, featuring 19 powerful tracks. Amongst the featured tracks include a message from Archbishop Demond Tutu, the choirs popular hits such as Sedilaka, covers of Sarah McLachlans Angel, and The Jackson 5s Ill Be There, and the Fish Out of Water remix of their collaboration track with …
During Chopins years of exile, from late 1830 to his untimely death in 1849, piano composition seemed to be theway of setting onto paper the spontaneous flow of improvisation, but also a moment of reflection before carrying out the following step. A symbol of this retrospective and critical outlook is the mazurka of Op. 6 and 7, his …
Jonas Kaufmanns matchless charisma and effortless physicality enable him to embody a broad range of characters onstage. These discs make clear, however, that Kaufmanns acting emerges above all in his voice. Through acute interpretative intelligence and deeply affecting dramatic involvement, every gradation of feeling is revealed. Whether in French, German, or Italian, this is one of the most …
Jonas Kaufmann is without question the most versatile tenor of his generation, and his current repertoire includes an astonishing range of opera roles from Mozart to Wagner. He is also a celebrated Lieder interpreter, equally at home on the concert platform. His Decca Debut album celebrates a luscious range of Romantic opera arias, showcasing the astonishing diversity of …
The world’s best-selling female classical artist, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, offers a brand-new recording of some of the most intriguing fruits of the Baroque era: selections from long-unheard cantatas and oratorios by Caldara, Scarlatti and Handel. Researched and reassembled by Bartoli and musicologist Claudio Osele, this heretofore neglected music is revealed in its original light, in a breathtaking …
Who better to bring you the great waltzes, marches, polkas and more by 19th-century Austria’s most famous composing family than the vaunted Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra? Willi Boskovsky has the baton as you hear Johann I’s Radetsky Marsch and Piefke Und Pufke-Polka Francaise ; Johann II’s Kaiserwalzer; Egyptischer Marsch; Annen-Polka; Du Und Du-Waltza; Napoleon-Marsch; Wiener Blut; Morgenblatter; Liebeslieder; Tausendundeine …
For millions of people all over the world Luciano Pavarotti literally was Classical music. This outstanding collection of popular oprera arias and duets, sacred songs, and Neapolitan favourites is drawn from the finest recordings Luciano Pavarotti made during an unparalleled career, and presents the definitive profile of one of the most important voices of all time. From ‘La …
Several other Baroque composers are represented, but this 5-CD set is dominated by the three titans of the era: Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Along with Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D Major Pachelbel; Adagio for Organ and Strings in G Minor Albinoni, and Quintet for 2 Violins, Viola and 2 Cellos in E …
Richard Bona’s 2009 album Ten Shades Of Blues appears ten years since his first project, Scenes From My Life (released in 1999). In the case of the Cameroonian bassist and singer, it’s not so easy to condense a decade into just a few short lines because the man is such a multiple character, with many lives impelled by …
