Pardon my French

There's no lack of glorious melody in Sir Johnin Love, and not just folksong cunningly interwoven.
Musically, what comes over strongly, more richly than ever before in this magnificent recording from Richard Hickox, is the way that the writing anticipates later Vaughan Williams, not just the radiant composer of the Fifth Symphony and Serenade to Music, with keychanges of heartstopping beauty, but the composer's darker side, with sharply rhythmic writing.

One doesn't need to speak French to understand what Cœur de pirate is saying on her new album, En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. The emotion in her voice and delicately beautiful melodies say it all. For the sake of it, though, the title translates to: "During storms, this garden will be closed" — a double meaning that serves as both caution and preservation, and represents the turbulent narrative taking place on the record.

In the last days of his existence Louis XIV was abandoned by all his family and courtiers, and died in the presence only of priests, physicians, and attendants. He had attained the age of seventy-seven years, during seventy-two of which he had sat upon the throne, the longest reign on record.

Marty Bobgarner is an electronic music project by French musician and producer Thierry Frossard (aka T2’n and Charly’n Black). The album "Sound Design Of Ataraxia" is the 2nd longplayer album by Marty Bobgarner, released on the label Lemongrassmusic. At the same time this album is a part of an album triptych named "Sound Design Of Ataraxia". The first side of this triangle was released under Frossard’s pseudonym "Charly’n Black" in 2015. The second part of the trilogy followed in May 2018 and was released under the project "T2’n ". Now the series is being completed by Marty Bobgarner’s album - so let the magic flow!

The new boxset release from Vladimir Cosma following on from Volumes 1 & 2. This release has 17CD's in a hardbox and contains 58 soundtracks which are unpublished and rare.

'Dimitrij' was presented in several different versions during the composer's lifetime. It was premiered in 1882, with cuts and revisions occuring in the 1886 piano reduction. The work was further revised in 1894 (this version premiered in Prague in that year), however the final performances in Dvořák's lifetime (in Plzeň in 1904) consisted of the first version combined with the third act in the second version.