Old Gypsy

Nostalgia is a powerful element in our world, especially when it comes to music. People love to hear sounds that are already similar to them, but also add something new into the mix to define that band or artist and keep people coming back for more. That’s why bands like GRETA VAN FLEET and the whole New Wave Of Classic Rock are so popular. With that and the sound making its way back into the mainstream, it only makes sense to join in and create more modern classic rock for old and new fans to enjoy, as Tennessee’s NAKED GYPSY QUEENS have done with their latest EP, Georgiana…

Everyone – including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and the chorus of Turin’s Teatro Regio – gets a chance to bask in the spotlight. But it’s Aleko’s central Cavatine, where he ruminates on his lover’s infidelity, that defines the drama, and Sergey Murzaev seizes his chance, singing with the histrionic grandeur we have come to expect from Russian basses. Svelta Vassileva and Evgeny Akimov are scarcely less vivid as the ill-fated lovers… it [Aleko] manifestly works on CD, and Noseda can take much of the credit. Having served an early apprenticeship in St Petersburg, he relishes the colour of the music and profiles its fine contours, never resorting to cheap emotionalism.

The great Sergei Rachmaninoff was not primarily known as an opera composer. However, his three operas have an important place in the music history books. This three-disc set includes all three of Rachamninoff's operas in their entirety (one per disc) and are presented in jaw-dropping performances under the baton of conductor Neeme Jarvi. The orchestra as well as the soloists and choirs truly deliver emotionally-drenched performances on all three operas.

This is the third collaboration of John Primer and Bob Corritore, providing a further exploration of their deep Chicago blues roots. Sideman include Billy Flynn, Jimi 'Primetime' Smith, Bob Welsh, Ben Levin, Kedar Roy, Mike Hightower, Troy Sandow, Brian Fahey, and June Core. Great album art by Vince Ray with the back cover photo by Eric Kriesant

Cicadas chirp in the heat of the south, a bell alarms frantically in the distance, warning of the approaching train. After a short breeze of the rushing express, heat, silence and the cicadas take over again, until an irresistible lick of a dobro musically takes the heat to the extreme. These first notes show everyone who doesn’t yet know the blues man: He can do it! And, the man and his band can rock and have the blues.