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The Original 1940s SageBrush Serenade Radio Series is a English album released on 11 Dec 2024. This album is composed by Frank Crumit.

In the penultimate episode of his widely popular and critically acclaimed HBO series, Painting with John, its creator, John Lurie, sat in a Manhattan recording studio, working out musical parts for the show’s soundtrack. “After the illness started, I didn’t think I’d ever be able to do this again,” said Lurie.

The Lisbon Film Orchestra is popular with audiences and delights with film music and conceptual concerts.

For her first album on Linn, Jasmin Iris Ghera embarks on a captivating journey through timeless masterpieces reimagined for trumpet and piano.

A welcome addition to the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series, violinist Charlotte Spruit’s debut album Le Mercure Galant recreates the intimate atmosphere of a seventeenth-century Parisian salon, where the city’s elite gathered to enjoy the latest musical treasures. Some of that musical elite is represented here: the prodigious Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, who was one of Louis XIV’s favourite composers, the King’s cherished lute player Robert de Visée, the illustrious violinist and composer Johann Paul von Westhoff, plus Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Michel Lambert. These distinguished composers all featured one way or another in Le Mercure galant, a prominent magazine reporting the vibrant cultural life of the French court. Charlotte is joined by Sergio Bucheli (lute) and Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba).

For her first album on Linn, Jasmin Iris Ghera embarks on a captivating journey through timeless masterpieces reimagined for trumpet and piano. From Mendelssohn’s powerful Cello Sonata No. 2 to Mozart’s vibrant Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, by way of Bach’s Siciliano from his Flute Sonata BWV 1031, the programme sheds new light on these works and transports the listener to a world of musical emotions and discoveries. This bold album, with pianist Junyan Chen, is part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series.

Pianist Xiaowen Shang has recorded a programme that spans three centuries of Spanish music as part of the Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series. Federico Mompou’s late utterance, Música callada (Music of Silence) is a cycle of meditative miniatures, distilling flamenco rhythm and ethereal ancient melody. Mompou’s visionary masterpiece forms the touchstone of the recital, combining Antonio Soler’s eighteenth-century flamboyant sonatas with piano transcriptions of the sixteenth-century sacred composer Antonio de Cabézon.

Smack Up is a 1960 jazz album by saxophonist Art Pepper playing with trumpeter Jack Sheldon, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Jimmy Bond and drummer Frank Butler.