Essential Dubstep Weapons Vol. 14 (2019)

Volume 8 of our complete Brahms songs proves the ideal platform for Harriet Burns in her debut album. As usual, Graham Johnson’s scholarly booklet notes are an indispensable companion.

More than the compilation series, more than the lovingly organised events, more than the radio shows: "Le Café Abstrait" is a philosophy of lifestyle: relaxed and culturally open-minded.
It was "Le Café Abstrait" and its mastermind, Raphaël Marionneau, who pioneered chill-out culture at Hamburg's internationally renown Mojo club in 1996: "Le Café Abstrait" reinvented nightclubbing in a new relaxing way. Once a month, stylish sofa installations and light projections transformed Mojo's dancefloor into a gigantic living room. There, up to 400 laid-back nightlife connoisseurs indulged in relaxation and Raphaël Marionneau's very special downtempo music selections. A new lifestyle was born: the couch culture…

Just in time for the beginning of autumn, the new Bravo Hits 107 lets the temperatures in your home shoot up again. And with the 48 hottest songs of the year, which could conquer the top positions of the music charts. With it are u.a. international superstars like Miley Cyrus with "Slide Away", Jason Derulo with "Too Hot", James Blunt with "Cold", Ed Sheeran feat. Chance The Rapper & PnB Rock with "Cross Me", but also German top acts like Sarah Connor with "Ich wünsch Dir", Sido feat. Monchi with "Leben vor dem Tod" or Tim Bendzko with "Hoch".

Agnieszka Oszanca presents the world premiere recording of the first volume of Salvatore Lanzetti’s Sonatas for Violincello and Basso Continuo, Opus 1. This work was composed in 1736 and displays the composer’s great imagination and full command of his instrument. Polish cellist Agnieszka Oszanca plays on a Baroque cello and is accompanied by a rich continuo, composed of a cello, a theorbo and a harpsichord.

Born within a couple of years of each other, Gottfried Silbermann and Johann Sebastian Bach were acquainted, and we know that Silbermann in 1736 invited the composer to inaugurate the new organ that he had built in Dresden’s Frauenkirche. That instrument was destroyed during the bombing of Dresden in 1945, but some thirty of Silbermann’s organs are still extant. From robust pedal stops providing a sturdy bass fundament to silvery flute stops, his instruments were famous for their distinctive&&& sound and contemporary sources often made use of a play on the name of their maker as they praised their ‘Silberklang’.

Deutsche Grammophon presents: Shanghai Symphony Orchestra Great Recordings (Vol. 2). Shanghai Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven Berlioz, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Strauss.