Drive! From September 2016

Christmas in September, the brand new single from Irish folk singer Heidi Talbot is a beautiful modern day Christmas song. Written by Boo Hewerdine and produced by John McCusker, the song was recorded in Talbot's own studio in the Scottish Borders countryside and finished in various hotel rooms across America. Christmas in September features Richard Bennet (Mark Knopfler, Neil Diamond), Glenn Worf (Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette), Nigel Hitchcock (Tom Jones, Robbie Williams), John McCusker, Phil Cunningham, James Mackintosh and Adam Holmes…

Viulisti Kreeta-Maria Kentala on Suomen vanhan musiikin liikkeen uranuurtaja, joka on kotonaan solistina, johtajana ja pedagogina niin barokin, klassisen ja romantiikan ajan musiikin kuin kansanmusiikinkin parissa. Hän konsertoi säännöllisesti sekä soolo- ja kamarimusiikkiprojekteissa että eri orkesterien solistina, konserttimestarina ja johtajana.

This simple celebratory cantata made Stradella a well-known theatrical personality. As opposed to using traditional recitative, Stradella incorporates string interludes interrupting the characters, which allowed them to express emotions during facial expressions and movement, a novelty during the Baroque era. The Concerto Madrigalesco performs these works extraordinarily with historical performance practices.

Metallica's debut album Kill 'Em All has been remastered and will now be available as a deluxe boxset including 4LP/5CD/1DVD and includes a book with 64 pages. New essays, never-before-seen phtos, ticket stubs, tracking sheets and a Metallica patchThe true birth of thrash…

"Enclosures 2011-2016" is a 5xCD box-set co-released by Pica Disk (run by Lasse Marhaug out of Norway) and End of the Alphabet and collects OMIT’s most recent self-released albums, artifacts that originally came in super limited edition CDRs with hand-made covers between 2011 and 2016. Unavailable except directly from the artist, these beautiful works are now available remastered in a deluxe box-set along with OMIT’s famous surrealist drawings and science fiction themed artwork, plus liner notes by close friend and collaborator Bruce Russell.

The ’60s would continue to be Cannonball Adderley’s most fruitful period, recording no fewer than 28 albums under his own name by the end of the decade…

Sony Classical presents legendary soprano Kathleen Battle in nine of her foremost studio recordings in her ‘Complete Sony Recordings’. In the course of a remarkable career, launched in 1973 by mentor James Levine in their shared hometown of Cincinnati, Kathleen Battle has captivated international audiences. She has taken home numerous awards – among them five Grammys and London’s Olivier Award for her 1985 Covent Garden debut as Zerbinetta in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, the first American singer to win that prestigious prize – and become one of classical music’s best-selling artists.

UK five CD set containing a quintet of albums from the British singer, songwriter and musician. Contains expanded editions of the albums Rebel (1976), Stranger In The City (1977), Zaragon (1978) and More Miles Per Hour (1979) plus a disc containing BBC live recordings. John Miles is a British rock music vocalist, songwriter, guitarist and keyboard player, best known for his 1976 Top 3 UK hit single, "Music". Miles signed a recording contract with the Decca UK label in 1975 and issued four albums Rebel (1976), Stranger in the City (1977), Zaragon (1978) and More Miles Per Hour (1979). However, Miles had the most success with singles and released a total of eighteen during this era. In addition to "Music", he also charted in the UK with "Highfly" (1975), "Remember Yesterday" (1976), and "Slow Down" (1977). Most of his songs were co-written with the bassist in his backing group, Bob Marshall.