Lydia Laurenson

Following up on the incredible success of his recording of "Being" Michael Torke has a new work, about to be released on Ecstatic Records, "Psalms and Cancticles". Featuring the talented singer Lydia Brown, this promises to be a new major work in Torke’s catalogue.

Acclaimed singer, composer and producer Lydia Ainsworth will share her upcoming fourth album Sparkles & Debris on May 21 via Zombie Cat Records. The record follows 2019’s Phantom Forest and blends live drums, guitars and bass with Ainsworth’s signature vast electronic landscapes.

Complete recording of Frescobaldi's first book of Toccate e Partite (1616), with the Aggiunta from 1637. The programme is complemented by most beautiful pieces from Recercari e Canzoni (1615), from Primo Libro di Capricci (1624) and from Fiori Musicali (1635).

Complete recording of Frescobaldi's first book of Toccate e Partite (1616), with the Aggiunta from 1637. The programme is complemented by most beautiful pieces from Recercari e Canzoni (1615), from Primo Libro di Capricci (1624) and from Fiori Musicali (1635).

Lydia Macdonald was a vocalist who specialised in film soundtrack work for the Italian film industry between the 1950s and 1970s [2]. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1923.

For centuries, ancient China has been fascinated by the Western world, with its exotic music, artful painting and writing, harmonious Gardens. The so-called Chinoiserie, a Western art movement that took the Chinese style as its model, was also very popular among the composers. Walter Niemann composed his Impressionist Suite "Alt-China", Cyril Scott" Lotus Land "and Abram Chasins wrote the entertaining" three piano pieces "with the impressive final piece"Rush Hour in Hong Kong".

Lydia Maria Bader wants to take us here into the adventurous world of the oceans and seafaring. Her enthusiasm for the sensual and emotional palette of colours that can be tapped here has an immediately infectious effect. The sea, which can be heard in the six compositions of this recording, shows itself in all its facets: from meditative silence to the unleashed force of nature.

This album contains songs in French, Italian and German including the “Romances op. 13 and 22”, “Cavatine op.39”, “Lieder op.89” and the first world recording of the “Romance op.151” and the “Ode di Anacreonte op.151bis” as well as one of the “Ariette op.95”.