This recording was realized by Accentus Music in partnership with the Académie France-Chine. The academy was launched in 2018 by the outstanding pianist Zhu Xiao-Mei with the support of Cartier. The purpose of the academy is to promote music education and training, to encourage the emergence of highly talented young artists and to foster cultural exchange between Europe and China.
CelLocomotion, a solo cello album created in 2018, is a journey through centuries of music from the past up to the present. Works from the album range from composers Domenico Gabrielli to recently composed works by the artist himself, Khari Joyner. Featured in this trailer are two excerpts from "PetrolMusic" (2017) and Évanescent Éclairs (2018), both blending elements of music from the past with musical styles of today.
This collection returns us to a time when the city of shanghai was a mecca of international sophistication and daring, and U.S. swing and jazz musicians of the classic era found a home amid the city's nightlife, which they shared with the best-known Chinese singers of the period. These discs mix great western musicians like Coleman Hawkins and Ella Fitzgerald (and some western artists like Sammy Kaye who were perhaps more popular than great) with Chinese cabaret singers who had crossover appeal for western ears.
Doris Day, Louis Armstrong, Artie Shaw, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Count Basie and many others.
Acclaimed Chinese guitarist Xuefei Yang releases a new double-album - Sketches of China - featuring a unique collection of works ranging from the Han Dynasty (206BC-220AD) to the 21st Century, many of which are world premiere recordings. For this album, Xuefei has sought out and arranged poignantly beautiful traditional melodies, commissioned new works from leading Chinese composers and collaborated with colleagues who are the musical superstars in her native land.
Deutsche Grammophon presents: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Great Recordings (Vol. 2). Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven Berlioz, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Strauss.
This attractive and lively production of Puccini's Wild West opera makes the best imaginable case for it, especially the exuberant Barbara Daniels in the title role; while Domingo is at his peak, in 1992, as the nice bandit Dick Johnson. (BBC Music Magazine)