Downes Braid Association Live 2019

“This pianist has infinite possibilities!” – Stephen Kovacevich, Concert Artist MinJung Baek, a Fellowship recipient from the legendary pianist Earl Wild, is the winner of the 2006 Rachmaninoff International Piano Competition. Ms. Baek recently gave a successful debut recital at Carnegie Hall, performing an all-Rachmaninoff program that included Études-Tableaux, Variations on a Theme of Corelli, and the Second Sonata. Trained in New York City, Imola, and London, MinJung has performed at international venues and music festivals, including Barbican Hall, Wigmore Hall, and Schleswig-Holstein Festival. In 2006 she received an artist proclamation from the Illinois Senator Jeff Schoenberg. We are pleased to publish Ms. Baek’s performance, recorded live by producer Alessandro Simonetto at the historical Sala Maffeiana in Verona during the 2019 Aevea Piano Prize.

Supersonic Blues Machine will be releasing their brand new live-album, ‘Road Chronicles’ on 12th July 2019 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. 'Road Chronicles: Live!' is their first live album, after two acclaimed studio records, 'West of Flushing, South of Frisco' (2016), 'Californisoul' (2017) and it follows them on their first European headline tour. It was recorded during their show in Brugnera, Italy on 20th July 2018, capturing the band in a triumphant and joyous mood. The show was the final one of a 10 date tour that started at the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, London and took them through Switzerland, Poland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain and finally bassist Fabrizio Grossi’s native Italy. The legendary Billy F. Gibbons joined the band throughout the tour putting in the stunning performances that you would expect from such an icon and it was the first tour to feature fast-rising UK blues-rocker Kris Barras on lead vocals and guitar.

The material is from the Boerderij show during the Arena Re-Visited Tour in 2018. The 48 page booklet contains photographs taken throughout the tour!
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the birth of "The Visitor", the favourite album of the first fans, Arena gave them a great gift: during the 2018 European tour, the band played the entire work! The event was recorded and released the following year as a live album "Re-Visited Live!"…

Supersonic Blues Machine have the form of a supergroup, but only their drummer, Kenny Aronoff, is well known. The other two members – bassist/producer Fabrizio Grossi and guitarist/vocalist Lance Lopez – are behind-the-scenes musicians but they're all united by a love of classic blues and classic rock. The latter is what initially brought Aronoff and Grossi together. The two musicians were playing in Goodfellas, a side project from Toto guitarist Steve Lukather. Not long afterward, Grossi was working with Lopez on an album by the guitarist and that turned into the band that became Supersonic Blues Machine. Several guests visited the studio during the recording of the band's debut – the biggest being Billy Gibbons, Warren Haynes, and Robben Ford…

Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators are set to release a new concert film and live album. The Living the Dream Tour captures the band’s incendiary performance on their sold-out 2019 tour, in front of a rabid crowd at London’s legendary Hammersmith Apollo. Released through Eagle Vision, it’s set to be released on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2 CD, 3LP Black Vinyl, limited edition 3LP Red Vinyl, digital video and digital audio, on 20 September.

For a long time, a large portion of Handel’s early opera Rodrigo was thought to have been lost. It was not until 1974 that the printed libretto turned up again and nine years later the third act was found in the Earl of Shaftesbury’s Handel collection. On August 29, 1984, finally, the work was revived during the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music and in 2019 it’s on the programme at the Göttingen International Handel Festival. The opera narrates a freely adapted version of the end to the regency of the Last Visigoth King Roderich. In the libretto by Francesco Silvani, however, the reason behind it is less the lust for power on the part of his opponents than the thirst for vengeance of his spurned mistress. It was back in 1707 in Rome that George Frideric Handel wrote Rodrigo.

Released to mark the band's 40th anniversary, this album features 40 live tracks performed by the legendary heavy metal band at various venues across the world between 2007 and 2018. Saxon Celebrate Four Dominant Metal Decades With ‘The Eagle Has Landed 40 (Live)’ On August 2nd, British heavy metal legends will release their live 40th anniversary celebration The Eagle Has Landed 40 (Live) through Silver Lining Music. Featuring 40 of the band’s most iconic tracks spanning their entire career thus-far, the selection was personally curated by front man and founder Biff Byford, who selected the best live performances from an array of international shows over the last twelve years. From “State of Grace” to “Machine Gun” to “20,000 Ft”, The Eagle Has Landed 40 (Live) is Saxon at their loudest, proudest and definitive best, delivering a full-blooded journey through the songs which have established them as vanguards of heavy metal music.