Various Artists – Dutch Sonatinas For Piano 2 (2001)

Eva-Maria May concludes her cycle of piano and chamber music by Francis Poulenc with this, the fifth, recording. For this delightful combination of works for cello or flute and piano, a song cycle and the attractive L’invitation au ch teau, the pianist has assembled a group of renowned musicians, including the principal clarinetist of the Bavarian State Opera, Andreas Schablas, and cellist Martin Rummel.

Dédié à la comtesse Marie von Erdödy, grande amie et bienfaitrice de Beet­hoven, le Trio avec piano no 5 en ré majeur (1808) est souvent appelé Trio des Esprits (Geister-Trio) parce que la substance thématique de son deuxième mouvement provient d’un cahier d’esquisses dans lequel le compositeur avait noté des idées musicales pour la scène des sorcières d’un opéra jamais réalisé, Macbeth.

Still untouched by human settlement barely 500 years ago, the islands of the Southwest Indian Ocean, Mauritius, Reunion Island, Rodrigues and the Seychelles were colonized by Europeans (French, English and Dutch) from the end of the 16th century on and operated as trading posts on the Indian route. Slaves were deported from Africa and Madagascar to cultivate coffee, spices and sugar cane. On the margins of the plantations, during clandestine gatherings, they exorcised their daily lives through percussion, singing and dancing. It is the tschiéga, chéga or sega, from Mozambique and Malagasy influence.

Wagram Music Presents TSF Jazz city Vol.2 New York album original hits and the original artists genre Jazz, Blues. Includes tracks by Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and more.

Strut present the second volume in a series of compilations taken from the archives of Disques Debs International, the longest-running and most prolific label of the French Caribbean.Set up by the late Henri Debs in the late ‘50s, the label has continued for over 50 years, releasing hundreds of records and playing a pivotal role in bringing the creole music of Guadeloupe and Martinique to a wider international audience.Volume 2 of the series focuses on the label’s ‘70s output and the development of the unique Cadence sound, pulling disparate influences into a Pan-Caribbean blend of rhythms, styles and languages that dominated the dancehalls, clubs and concerts of the decade.ased in a small but state-of-the-art studio on the first floor of Henri Debs’ Club 97-1, just outside Pointe-à-Pitre in the town of Gosier, the label hosted sessions from the cream of local and regional talent, hothousing ideas into over 100 LP and 45 releases over the decade that reflected an increasingly confident creole identity.

Promotion for the first two iterations of the Bad Boys movie series, 1995’s Bad Boys and 2003’s Bad Boys II, were were bolstered in each instance by an era-defining jam. For Bad Boys, it was the crossover dancehall hit “Shy Guy” by Diana King. Bad Boys II had Diddy, Nelly, and Murphy Lee’s beach-party-ready rap anthem “Shake Ya Tailfeather.” If the initial marketing efforts for Bad Boys for Life were slow to pair the film with any one song, it might be because the breadth of genres across the soundtrack lends itself to the sounds of Miami, the franchise’s location playing nearly as big a role as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

As a composer, Joseph T. Spaniola has written works for band, chamber ensembles, orchestra, solo instruments, voice, choir, and electronic tape. That astonishing versatility is on full display on ESCAPADE, his first release with Big Round Records. ESCAPADE opens with its title track, performed by The US Air Force Academy Band, which launches into an unrestrained musical exploration inspired by the composition’s first four pitches.

Not only was Manuel Ponce the leading figure in the emergence of Mexican nationalism but his music embodies a wide variety of influences. Nowhere is this more evident than in his writing for solo piano, and this album, the third of eight volumes, explores three specific facets. The first is his youthful concert studies, which are virtuosic, atmospheric and memorably evocative.

Whoever you are, you can’t have gone too far without coming across BBC America’s Killing Eve. What’s more, you’ll know its sultry soundtrack. Composers David Holmes, Jade Vincent and Keefus Ciancia — known collectively as Unloved — manage stupendous genre leaps to score the show’s winning mix of noir-ish cat-and-mouse chase and international intrigue recalling much of the soundtrack’s stellar featured tracks from The Troggs, Cat’s Eyes, Cigarettes After Sex and Brigitte Bardot.

Showcasing a groove born from a generation of disco, 80s Soul Jams is a collection of dance-floor anthems from the funkiest period of club music history; featuring the golden hits from the legends - Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, Cheryl Lynn, Marvin Gaye, The Jacksons, Gwen McCrae, George Benson, Grace Jones, Jocelyn Brown, Colonel Abrams, The Whispers and many, many more. So ladies and gentleman, soul brothers and soul sisters, pull up to the bumper and let’s groove all night long to 3CDs of pure 80s Soul Jams power!