Best 16 March 2021

Imagine that you have the opportunity to fill your suitcase with the best music of your time. What would you take and what would you leave? Remember you do not have room for everything and you have to choose!

The best-selling Paris live performances by the great Karajan with the BPO and VPO are now available on SACD! The bestseller is back again with a new remastering and a surprise reissue of the bestseller, featuring the most coveted performances of Beethoven, Locatelli, R. Strauss and more. This is a remarkable disc with a new charm different from the CD version, carefully remastered using the original INA sound source (24bit/192kHz). The 180 minutes of content is recorded on a single disc, taking advantage of the recording time available only on SACD. The 1960 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic is from the final day of the Beethoven Ticles in Paris, which began on April 21 of the same year.The 1962 recording with the Vienna Philharmonic is also available in stereo. The very rare concerto concerto by Locatelli is sublime and gorgeous, and Boskovsky's solo is a gem. From the main work, Schubert's "Unfinished," to Karajan's eponymous "Zarathustra," to the encore, you will be struck by the seamless and magnificent sound. King International

After scoring his second GRAMMY Award (and 14th nomination) in March 2021, the protean vocalist Kurt Elling hangs an unexpected left turn with SuperBlue for Edition Records. It’s a torrent of roisterous funk, indelible beats and all-too-current lyrics that boasts the talents of producer-guitarist Charlie Hunter and two stars of the hip-hop generation: drummer Corey Fonville and bassist-keyboardist DJ Harrison (both of the genre-hopping band Butcher Brown).

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