The Gala

The time of rigid demarcations between musical genres is over. For those who see music, indeed who love music as a universal language offering unlimited scope for human expression, this can only be a positive development. When one considers the jazz pianists of our time, they have just about all received their grounding in classical music, and yet these are musicians who don’t just traverse many different jazz styles, they can also roam at will into other genres. And looking among them, it would be hard to find a pianist as quintessentially complete as Iiro Rantala from Finland.

Conducted by Alan Gilbert, the New York Philharmonic performs Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor, widely known as “From the New World”, Op. 95, B. 178. Recorded on September 21, 2016, during the gala concert of the New York Philharmonic’s 175th anniversary season, Music Director Alan Gilbert’s farewell season, and “The New World Initiative” – the Philharmonic’s season-long, city-wide project revolving around Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony and its theme of “home”.

Ray Bradbury, America's most beloved storyteller, has spent a lifetime carrying readers to exhilarating and dangerous places, from dark street comers in unfamiliar cities and towns to the edge of the universe. Now, in an extraordinary flight of the imagination a half-century in the making, he takes us to a most wondrous destination: into the heart of an Eternal Family. They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois and they are not like other midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, their children are curious and wild; their old ones have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws…

The second set of the wonderful collector's series "The voices of the 'Boites'" with 5 CD-portraits presenting outstanding representatives of the New Wave musical movement, from the sixties. Keti Homata, Popi Asteriadi, Giorgos Zografos, Aleka Mavili and Lakis Pappas are five talented and beloved singers that you will have the opportunity to know, through this collection. Enjoy warm and fresh voices, romantic and nostalgic music and plethoric talent from original recordings in a new remastered release of 2011.