3D September 2024

The English pop-rock singer/songwriter's first hits compilation, +-=%x Tour Collection gathers two dozen of Ed Sheeran's biggest tracks in one easy package. Reaching all the way back to his 2011 debut single, "The A Team," from his first album, +, the set (also known as The Mathematics Tour Collection) continues chronologically through his career and each hit-filled studio album (including his non-arithmetically titled No. 6 Collaborations Project). Non-album tracks such as "I See Fire" (from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug soundtrack) and "Lay It All on Me" (from British electronic group Rudimental's 2015 LP We the Generation) make this a solid grab for those listeners who only have his main catalog. Viewed as a single entity, +-=%x Tour Collection is an indisputable example of Sheeran's hit-making prowess and impact on 2010s mainstream music, so much so that this collection doesn't even include all of his platinum hits.

Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra enjoyed a long and intensive artistic collaboration, which came to an abrupt end with Haitink's death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and previously unreleased live recordings of concerts from past years. This recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony documents concerts given in November 1981 at the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz.

On "Resonance", Boris Blank's cinematic soundscapes unfold into expansive sound galaxies, with which the Swiss musician provides a fascinating glimpse into infinity from his studio on the famous Zürichberg. The twelve tracks on the new solo album originally emerged from a commission for the FORTYSEVEN thermal baths near Zurich, designed by Swiss star architect Mario Botta. Stefan Bock and Stefan Zaradic from the Munich-based company IAN Records worked with Boris Blank to create an elaborately staged 3D soundscape using the "SpatialSound Wave" system developed by the internationally renowned Fraunhofer Institute. A completely new challenge for the notorious sound researcher, who enters previously undiscovered ambient worlds on his new album.