Released in 2012, ‘Bish Bosch’ was Scott Walker’s final solo record. Scott began writing new material around 2009 and recorded it sporadically over the following three years. He was aided again by co-producer Peter Walsh and joined by the regular core of musicians Ian Thomas (drums), Hugh Burns...
Released in 2006, The Drift was Scott Walker's first album in eleven years. Tracks like “Cossacks” and “Hand Me Ups” rock with a dark, insistent force that's quite unlike anything else in the Walker catalogue, while the vast open spaces of “Clara”, “Jesse” and “Cue” open up to admit beauty and...
Originally released on LP in 1986, “World Of Echo” is a deeply intimate and meditative work of awe-inspiring grace and remains a timeless work of sublime beauty. Arthur’s aim was to achieve what he calls “the most vivid rhythmic reality”, with just cello, voice, and echoes. Arthur achieved all of...
In 1986 Arthur Russell was diagnosed with HIV, that same year he released his career-defining masterpiece ‘World of Echo’, the first and only solo album issued during his lifetime. Arthur had found his voice and a fresh direction with a set of new, transformative material, unlike anything he or...
Recorded live at the Wellington Town Hall on October 23rd 2009, Little Bushman Live In Concert With The NZSO marks a collaboration of historic amplitude, an unforgettable experience that is now available to all. With orchestral arrangements by NZ composer and Laureate recipient John Psathas, the...
West End’s most exciting new supergroup Leading Ladies – starring Amber Riley (“Dreamgirls”), Beverley Knight (“The Bodyguard”), and Cassidy Janson (“Beautiful”) – have released Songs From The Stage, an album of unforgettable songs from iconic musicals. Songs From The Stage hears the Leading Ladies...
Landfall, which was inspired by Anderson’s experience of Hurricane Sandy, is the first collaboration between the iconic storyteller/musician and the groundbreaking string quartet, who perform together on the recording. Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and strings with Anderson’s powerful...
Pulse (2015) is performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)—an artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced—and Quartet (2013) is played by the Colin Currie Group, an ensemble led by percussionist Colin Currie that specializes in the music of...
Commissioned by NASA for the Kronos Quartet and featuring pre-recorded sounds from the plasma around planets, Terry Riley’s Sun Rings is about as close an experience to being in space as it is possible to be. The ten-movement ‘spacescape’, as Riley refers to it, is a multimedia work for quartet and...
In January 2017 Rufus Wainwright toured with the prestigious all string ensemble Amsterdam Sinfonietta through the Netherlands. Critics and audiences of the ten concerts were enraptured by the intimacy and intensity of the program curated by Wainwright. The concerts reflected the immense bandwidth...
For his debut on Warner Classics, Samoan tenor Pene Pati (Sol3Mio) matches favourite showpiece arias with rarer operatic gems in a programme of Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Benjamin Godard. A singer of glowing lyricism who establishes an immediate rapport with his audience, Pati...
Telekinesis—an eighty-seven-piece work for electric guitars, orchestra, choir, and electronics—will be released on November 11, 2022, via New Amsterdam and Nonesuch Records. Featuring the Metropolis Ensemble conducted by Andrew Cyr, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus conducted by Dianne Berkun Menaker, and...
A brand new version of Sol3 Mio, the number 1 multi-platinum debut album, updated with 4 brand new tracks including Nella Fantasia, You’ll Never Walk Alone and Amazing Grace.
Global superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli announces his brand new album ‘Sì’ – his first recording of all-new material in 14 years, to be released on Decca/Sugar on 26 October. The first single ‘If Only’ is unveiled today and can be heard HERE. Bocelli’s humble manner belies his international status as...
‘Romantic Moments II’ features beautiful evergreen melodies, hits from the world’s famous movies, ballads andclassical songs that have touched the hearts of millions for centuries. Romantic classics on the album range from ‘Strangers in the Night’, ‘Sunrise, Sunset’, ‘The Way Old Friends Do’ and...
Two of Norway’s most celebrated musicians come together to perform the music of the country’s most celebrated composer Lise and pianist Leif Ove will be touring the repertoire around Norway, Germany, Spain, Austria and the UK. Recorded in the Arctic Circle in Bodø – Lise describes ‘magical’ time...
Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan (founding members of SQÜRL) return with a sonic exploration of the cinematic works of Dadaist pioneer Man Ray, a captivating project that melds music and film. Over the past eight years, SQÜRL have been enchanting audiences with their live scores to Man Ray’s short...
A must-have for choral-aficionados everywhere that sees perhaps the world finest a-cappella ensemble The King's Singers join forces with The Concordia Choir – one of the USA's best collegiate groups – to perform works by world-class choral composers Eric Whitacre, Bob Chilcott and Morten Lauridsen....
This unique programme is the first time that all the ballet music from Verdi’s operas has been brought together in a singe recording. Al- though The Four Seasons from I vespri siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers) and the ballet scenes from Aida and Otello have survived, substantial pieces from Il...
Jonathan Dove is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music, and his writing for choral forces is charged with intensity and beauty. The Passing of the Year is dedicated to the memory of his mother and sets seven texts with moving directness and a beguiling sense of the seasons’...