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Few men have done as much to spread the music of the Spanish guitar as the late Celedonio Romero, virtuoso, composer and poet.

The Romero brothers are classically trained sons of a master guitarist who build an "electrical crescendo" with their music that sometimes transforms the decorum of classical concerts into the explosiveness of a rock concert. Standing ovations are the norm.

Ashford & Simpson, who had produced Diana's eponymous debut nine years earlier, teamed with her again on this 1979 release.

Alan Civil (horn), London Wind Quintet and Ensemble (wind ensemble), Walter Berry (bass), Lucia Popp (soprano), Ruth-Margret Pütz (soprano), Geraint Evans (baritone), Henry Smith (harpsichord), Elisabeth Söderström (soprano), Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Daniel Barenboim (piano), Hans Sotin (bass), Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano), Mirella Freni (soprano), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass).

"Karajan recorded the Fourth Symphony three times, once in the 1950s with the Philharmonia and twice with the Berlin Philharmonic.

The mid-20th century blues revival seems to have become largely identified with the style and personality of just a few major artists, primarily those that took their Mississippi Delta blues and evolved it into the "city blues" of Chicago and New York. As it was that style that would, in turn, provide a catalyst for the British blues-rock scene that spawned the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin, as well as homegrown practitioners like Canned Heat, it is often thought of as capital-B blues. However, there was a large swath of enormously influential players that exemplified the more traditional, acoustic-oriented country blues of the Delta.

Christopher Glynn continues his series "Schubert in English" and, together with baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Rowan Pierce, sings songs about loneliness and companionship, nature and the seasons, faith and doubt, wandering and homecoming, caution and comfort - all in new English versions by Jeremy Sams.

The first solo album of Swiss double bass player and composer Fridolin Blumer is an exceptional album, even for the rarity-driven catalogue of Carpe Diem Records.

The lute became the instrument of choice at European courts around 1500, the time of their greatest cultural and spiritual importance.

Expanded edition of the 1975 album; the follow-up to the band's international breakthrough album Moontan. Remastered from the first-generation IBC Studios master tapes, featuring unreleased track from the Switch sessions, single edits, B-sides and various previously unreleased outtakes and early versions & mixes.