Homecoming 2023

Only four years after celebrating their 300th release, Lemongrassmusic again return with an anniversary jewel box, filled with a top-notch selection of 50 (!) lush, luxurious Lounge grooves and Chillout moods, carefully chosen to herald the label’s vision. Over the past four years, things have moved onwards and upwards. A large group of highly appreciated new entries like Ben Nomadic, Circles Of Sound, TAWO, Aleyum or Emergency Kisses – to name a few – delivered album releases of tremendous musical quality, gaining even more the label’s global reputation.

Air Born: The MCA & Decca Years 1973-1984 is a new box set featuring the music of English prog-rock band Camel. The box features 27 CDs & five blu-rays and includes newly remastered versions of every Camel album and single issued between 1973 and 1984, but also includes new stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound versions of five albums, as well as new mixes of three concerts; The Marquee Club, London 1974, Hammersmith Odeon 1976 and Hammersmith Odeon 1977. The package also features previously unreleased outtakes from album recording sessions and BBC Radio ‘In Concert’ appearances from 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1981.

Claudio Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria is a love story pur sang. With this opera he narrates the long-awaited homecoming of Odysseus after his mythical travels in the aftermath of the Trojan War. After L’Orfeo - on the programme later this season - it was the second opera composed by the Italian master. Performing this masterpiece is I Gemelli, a young French ensemble founded by Chilean-Swiss tenor Emiliano Gonzalez Toro. The ensemble consists of a splendid cast including Fleur Barron, Emöke Barath and Zachary Wilder. Together, they will transform this tale of the union between Odysseus and his beloved Penelope into a breathtaking evening.

La-La Land Records and Universal Studios proudly present the seventeenth title within the acclaimed Universal Pictures Film Music Classics Collection – MOMENT TO MOMENT, music by Henry Mancini (THE PINK PANTHER, CHARADE, THE PRISONER OF ZENDA). Available for the first time in any format, composer Henry Mancini’s original motion picture score for the 1966 big-screen romantic thriller MOMENT TO MOMENT, starring Jean Seberg and Honor Blackman, and directed by Mervyn Le Roy is a long-buried musical treasure finally unearthed in all of its splendor!

Whitehorse is the prolific partnership of Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet. Uninhibited by expectation, boldly adventurous and categorically talented, Whitehorse's signature sound is always guitar-heavy, harmony-plentiful and lyrically deft. "I'm Not Crying, You're Crying" shows Whitehorse venturing deeper and further into Americana/country sounds and stylings than ever before. A twist on the 'pandemic' album, Whitehorse distilled and transcended the gloom and uncertainty with a collection of classic country poetry about heartbreak (not just romantic) and loyalty. The songs are playful yet profound, masterfully simple and timeless. When everything was stripped away, this turn to the universality and simplicity of classic country was the answer. With I'm Not Crying, You're Crying, Whitehorse venture deeper into country music than ever before, a move that is both a homecoming and an evolution of their sound.

The Terminal List is an American action thriller television series based on Jack Carr's 2018 novel of the same name. The series tells the story of a Navy SEAL who seeks to avenge the murder of his family. It stars Chris Pratt (who also serves as an executive producer), Constance Wu, Taylor Kitsch, Riley Keough, Arlo Mertz, and Jeanne Tripplehorn.

U2 catapulted over its post-punk peers to become the biggest rock & roll band in the world, a title they earned after the release of The Joshua Tree in 1987 and maintained well into the 21st Century. Alone among all the groups to emerge from the post-punk era, U2 channeled their yen for moody, experimental aural textures into clearly defined rock anthems and ballads–songs that sounded majestic yet felt personal. Much of that sense of intimacy can be attributed to Bono, a lead singer who gravitates toward grand gestures yet remains grounded by his belief in humanity and the revolutionary power of rock & roll.

Christopher Glynn continues his series "Schubert in English" and, together with baritone Roderick Williams and soprano Rowan Pierce, sings songs about loneliness and companionship, nature and the seasons, faith and doubt, wandering and homecoming, caution and comfort - all in new English versions by Jeremy Sams.