Peter Wholleben

For the Ancient Greeks Elysium stood for a place in the afterlife where the blessed spirits resided. Romantics and their followers have embraced this Elysium as a mythical place of peace and beauty, as reflected in -among others- Richard Strauss's Das Rosenband.

During his lifetime, Hugo Alfvén became known as one of Sweden’s principal composers of his time, with works that struck a chord with a wide audience. As a result of his popularity, a nationwide collection was held in celebration of his 70th birthday in 1942, with the proceeds used to build Alfvéngården, the composer’s home during his final years. Now, 80 years later, Elin Rombo and Peter Friis Johansson are releasing their tribute to Alfvén’s 150th anniversary, recorded at Alfvéngården using the composer’s own piano.

Abélard will release an album "Rammstein at the Piano" on June 9th. The French piano duo Héloïse Hervouët and Emilie Aridon-Kociolek have signed with Decca Records, a label of Universal Music.

Music icon Peter Frampton will be returning to the UK to play a final tour, concluding at the Royal Albert Hall in 2022.

Rachmaninoff was one of the most gifted pianists of his time. His technical skills and musical expressiveness are unparalleled and r enabled him to thoroughly explore and transcend the boundaries of possibility in his own compositions.

Digitally remastered two CD set containing four full albums. This double disc contains the complete original Henry Mancini best selling albums the Music from Peter Gunn and More Music from Peter Gunn, both of which present Mancini's popular scores for the celebrated Blake Edwards' Peter Gunn TV series. Featuring some of the most impressive West Coast jazzmen like Pete Candoli, Dick Nash, Victor Feldman, Shelly Manne & Larry Bunker. As a bonus, two additional complete LPs presenting alternative versions of these compositions by similar formations: one conducted by Pete Candoli, and the other by Ted Nash & Maxwell Davis. A single tune by Shelly Manne has also been added, which did not appear on our companion volume Shelly Manne & His Men Play Peter Gunn. American Jazz Classics. 2010.

A brand new Deutsche Grammophon's recording of Prokofiev's childrens classic, Peter and the Wolf now coupled for the first time with a specially-written prequel. The imaginative pre-story places Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood, whilst weaving together excerpts from some of the greatest symphonic masterpieces by Wagner, Mahler, Elgar, Puccini, Mussorgsky, Schumann, Satie, Zemlinsky, Grieg, Smetana. The concept developed by the New York production company Giants are Small extends for the first time ever the Peter and the Wolf we all know by a 30min prequel with the full blessing of the Prokofiev Foundation to a one hour piece of family entertainment. American rock legend Alice Cooper lends his voice for the narration of this classic story!

The wonderful Danish pianist Peter Nielsen performs selections from the stage musicals "My Fair Lady" and "Porgy and Bess."

I/O (typeset as i/o) is the tenth studio album[a] by English rock musician Peter Gabriel, released on 1 December 2023 through Real World Records. It is Gabriel's first album of new original material in over 21 years since Up (2002), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in his solo career. Additionally, I/O is his longest studio album to date. I/O had been in the works for nearly three decades, with its initial production dating back to 1995, at around the same time Gabriel began recording Up. He began planning the follow-up to Up as early as 2000 and had originally intended to release it in 2004, but the album was repeatedly delayed, reworked and re-recorded at seven recording studios (and one arena during soundchecks while on tour with Sting in 2016) before its completion in 2022. This was due to Gabriel focusing on other projects such as his two orchestral albums Scratch My Back (2010) and New Blood (2011), which contained covers of songs by other artists and rearrangements of his older material, respectively.