William Turner

A bold new mix that revamps and reinvigorates the star-studded progressive rock album from iconic actor/musical interpreter extraordinaire, William Shatner! The newly remixed audio brings Shatner's deft and poetic wordplay into the foreground while still making room for the stellar guests including Steve Vai, Rick Wakeman, Hawkwind's Simon House and Nik Turner, Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese, jazz great Al Di Meola, country superstar Vince Gill, and others! Shatner declared this concept album to be "quite possibly the most creative thing I have ever done" - and this new version of the album is sure to please his fans the world over!

Head On is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive, released in December 1975. On the original vinyl release, the album came with a 24x24 inch poster featuring all the members in the band at that time. It was re-released in 2003 on Repertoire Records in conjunction with Mercury Records. The re-release featured the bonus track "Down to the Line", which was released as a single in 1975 but not included on the vinyl nor the original Mercury CD release of Head On. The single "Take It like a Man" reached #33 on the US charts and received significant airplay at that time. Pioneering rocker Little Richard played piano on the recording. Near the end of the song, C.F. Turner tells him to "play it Richard", and he does, with heavy expression. Another single from this album, "Lookin' Out for #1", did not crack the U.S. top 40, but received heavy airplay upon its release on both conventional rock and soft rock FM stations.

While Joseph Mallord William Turner is considered by many to be Britain's greatest landscape painter, his private life reveals a man of extremes and contradictions. This docudrama explores the extraordinary story of a brilliant self-made man.

Byrd, the chief musician of Elizabethan England, wrote and published liturgical music for clandestine religious observance. Among his most serene and pure works, these intimate five-voice masses are drawn from his second book of Gradualia published in 1607.

Il celebre critico John Ruskin raccontava spesso che la sua amica Lady Simon, di ritorno dal Devonshire durante un temporale, aveva visto in treno un passeggero alzarsi di punto in bianco, aprire il finestrino e sporgere la testa nella pioggia e nel vento. Finalmente rientrato, il volto fradicio e grondante, l'uomo aveva detto soltanto: «Volevo osservare lo spettacolo». Nel 1844, alla Royal Academy, Lady Simon avrebbe visto gli effetti di quel viaggio in un dipinto: Pioggia, vapore e velocità di William Turner. Era lui, lo strambo passeggero. È questa, secondo Flavio Caroli, una delle primissime esplosioni della modernità dentro un'opera d'arte..

Sir John Manduell (1928-2017) was a pivotal figure in British music – as composer, BBC producer, first principal of the Royal Northern College of Music and founder of the European Opera Centre. Beloved and revered by musicians, yet someone whose name is shamefully little known outside the music and broadcasting professions.