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"Scarlatti" is the new album from the internationally renowned pianist Lucas Debargue. This stunning new album features 52 beautiful sonatas by Scarlatti—often considered ne of the most influential composers of the Baroque era. Debargue started taking piano lessons at the age of 11. At the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition , Debargue was awarded the coveted Moscow Music Critic’s Prize. Debargue has performed at numerous prestigious music venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Berlin Philharmonic hall , Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw. Debargue has won many awards including the highly regarded Echo Klassik award in 2017. Scarlatti (1685—1757) was a baroque composer who spent most of his life composing for the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. Scarlatti’s music has been praised by acclaimed composers and musicians including Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Horowitz and Pogerelich.

Click Click formed in 1982 by Adrian Smith, and Derek E. Smith, after the end of their previous rock project Those Nervous Surgeons (which formed in 1976 with bassist Tim Wilson).

Yet more buried treasure unearthed with this magnificent 3-CD set of previously unreleased recordings from the great jazz bassist/composer/bandleader Charles Mingus(1922-79) at Ronnie Scott's Club on the evenings of August 14 & 15, 1972.

Among the many prodigious and tragic talents in the Prestige Records stable of the mid-'50s, pianist Mal Waldron was one of the most prodigious and tragic. Waldron's abilities on the piano made him an accompanist of choice (he was Billie Holiday's from early 1957 until her death); his style in group improvisational formats was daring and innovative, pushing the envelope of hard bop and post-bop into more progressive areas.

Sir John Barbirolli was nearly as fine an interpreter of Delius as Beecham

With the 10 arias on Tormento d’amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century – often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago.

Susan Raye's country version of "Wheel of Fortune," a number one hit for Kay Starr in 1952, dispensed with the original's roulette wheel sound effects and reached the country Top 20 in 1972.

If ever there was a dream of a girl country singer Susan Raye is it. She’s romantically pretty graciously charming impressively intelligent teriffically talented… and there’s a special way she has about her that draws compliments from everyone…

Susan Raye is hard to talk about… just like it’s hard to talk about the smell of fall or the sound of love or any other private, intangible, unutterable feelings.

"Towards the end of 1971 the harsher realities of illness dashed all Jacqueline du Pre's hopes of a studio recording of Beethoven's complete works for cello and piano with her husband,