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In 2017, Naxos Records celebrates its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1987 by Klaus Heymann, the label now boasts a catalogue of over 9,000 albums spanning every genre of classical music. This limited edition anniversary boxed set comprises thirty CDs spanning the wide range of the label's repertoire. Featuring releases from 1987 to 2016 and a host of stellar artists, every one of these discs has received critical acclaim and has contributed towards the huge success of Naxos: the world's largest independent classical record label. Naxos was launched in 1987 as a budget classical CD label, offering CDs at teh price of an LP when CDs cost about three times more than LPs.

Chandos’ Rimsky-Korsakov symphony cycle effectively steals the thunder from Neeme Järvi’s set on Deutsche Grammophon. Dmitri Kitajenko’s grittier and bolder readings better present the music. While Järvi luxuriates in Gothenberg’s smooth sonorities, Kitajenko draws more stark sounds from his Bergen Philharmonic players. This is especially telling in the Antar Symhony (which Rimsky-Korsaskov later published as a “symphonic suite”) where Kitajenko’s gruff approach makes the second movement’s growling argument more forbidding.

efore ‘La Stupenda’ came ‘The Voice’! Dame Nellie Melba was Australia’s first singing sensation, and one of the most famous Australians of her day; idolised in the theatre, mobbed on the street and known by name in even the most remote corners of the country. Soprano Lorina Gore and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra salute Dame Nellie Melba, Australia’s first singing sensation.

Rimsky-Korsakov is universally acknowledged as a great master of the orchestra. He even wrote a textbook on the subject consisting entirely of examples from his own music! He needed some sort of pictorial or literary stimulus to really get his imagination going, however. His "abstract pieces," like Symphonies No. 1 and 3, are comparative failures specifically because he believed that symphonic thought was incompatible with orchestral brilliance (he wasn't the only Romantic composer to succumb to that fallacy). So all of his best music is either obviously illustrative, or taken from one of his colorful "fairy tale" operas. This two-disc set gives you an excellent selection of works of both types at a great price.

VA - Tomorrowland 2016 The Elixir Of Life (2016)
MP3 320 CBR kbps | Tracks: 68 | 07:19:41 | 1.6 Gb
Genre: Progressive House, Electro House, House, Trance | Label: CNR Music Belgium

A week before the biggest and most important EDM festival in Europe Tomorrowland appear on July, the official compilation of the event named Tomorrowland - The Elixir Of Life. was mixed sampler of the star DJs Armin van Buuren, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Axwell & Ingrosso, Lost Frequencies, Yves V and Martin Garrix. They each have collected half a CD and so a total of 70 songs on the Tomorrowland Compilation packed The Elixir Of Life tracklist. Although one should mention that many titles appear only in short sections in each DJ mix. Nevertheless, the official compilation for Tomorrowland Festival 2016 provides the sound that her end of July also live on site to see or get to hear will. Now we throw but first a look at the tracklist of the sampler.