New This Week: January 4-10
Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Bavarian Radio Chorus - Peteris Vasks: Missa Pater Noster Da Pacem Domine (CD) (New (N))
The Latvian composer Peteris Vasks celebrated his 80th birthday on April 16, 2026. To mark the occasion, the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munich Radio Orchestra, conducted by Ivan Repusic, staged a gala concert at Munich's Herz-Jesu-Kirche, featuring three expressive sacred choral works by the composer, whose aim is to 'nourish the soul' through his music. This new CD from BR-KLASSIK - now the third CD of works by Vasks released by the Munich Radio Orchestra under the baton of Ivan Repusic - presents the live recording of this concert from April 17, 2026.Peteris Vasks originally wrote his 'Pater noster' for a cappella choir; the version with string orchestra was composed in 2000. Like many of his works, Vasks' meditative and evocative setting of the 'Our Father' is characterised by a simple, transparent musical language that draws on the tradition of sacred music, while also incorporating folk music influences from the Baltic region. The prayer from the New Testament is set to music using long note values. - This occurs in much the same way in the Gregorian antiphon 'Da pacem, Domine' from 2016, in which Vasks - as in much of his musical output - expresses a desire for peace. The message of his prayer for peace for choir and string orchestra extends far beyond the Christian petition.In the revised version of his 'Missa' for choir and string orchestra from 2005 - the main work on the new CD - the sound of the strings enriches the choral work with a form of 'instrumental singing' that directly conveys the message of Vasks' music. The traditional form of the Catholic Ordinary omits the Credo, the profession of faith. At the heart of the setting is a message of hope, offering a haven of tranquillity as a utopian alternative to the noisy, materialistic world. This music from a 'sad optimist', as the composer repeatedly described himself, continually offers new opportunities to adopt different perspectives and discover alternative ways of seeing and hearing.? Three expressive sacred compositions by the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, arranged for chorus and string orchestra:Pater nosterDa pacem, DomineMissa? The acclaimed Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munich Radio Orchestra perform under Ivan Repusic? Live recording of a concert on April 17, 2026 from the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Munich UPC: 4035719003628Label: Br KlassiksRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: K. Michelle - Jesus & Whiskey (LP) (New (N))
Three-time Billboard chart-topper and current Real Housewives of Atlanta star K. Michelle releases her latest album, Jesus & Whiskey. Produced by Kristian Bush, the 9-track collection features the previously released song “Jack Daniel’s” and the title track “Jesus & Whiskey.” The album explores themes of faith and lost and found love, with K. Michelle inviting fans to experience the first full-length extension into her country roots. Tracklist: Intro Yodel Blame Tennessee Damn Good Friend Jesus & Whiskey Anything (feat. Blush) Handle On It Jack Daniel’s If It Ain’t Broke UPC: 4099964293869Label: Bmg Rights ManagemenRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Sayaka Shoji - Takemitsu Hosokawa & Richter: Shadows (CD) (New (N))
Sayaka Shoji presents a highly singular project: 'Bringing Richter together with Takemitsu and Hosokawa is not an obvious choice at first glance,' says the Japanese violinist. 'Japan has a culture of kigo - a word or image in a haiku or tanka that evokes a season and it's specific emotion without the season itself being named - this concept has guided me in associating each piece with a season.' We hear two works by Takemitsu for violin and piano, with the magnificent partnership of Stephen Kovacevich: one inspired by the surrealist poetry of Shuzo Takiguchi, the other by the poem In the Shadows, co-written by Makoto Ooka, an ambassador for the ancient Japanese tradition of renshi, a chain of collaborative poems, which strikes Shoji as deeply musical. She also performs two highly impressive solo pieces by Toshio Hosokawa, one of which, Extasis, was composed for the violinist in 2016. This evocative journey through the cycle of the seasons culminates in Max Richter's famous post-minimalist work, Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, in it's original 2012 version, featuring the Spanish ensemble Franz Schubert Filharmonia. UPC: 3701624512999Label: AlphaRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Orpheus String Quartet - String Quartets 1 & 2 Vc Sonata Op. 24 (CD) (New (N))
Conrad Ansorge is one of those shadowy figures in music history whose name drifts through the biographies of far more famous musicians without ever quite emerging into the spotlight. He appears among the last pupils of Franz Liszt, surfaces as the teacher of Selim Palmgren and Wilhelm Furtwangler, and may even be remembered as the pianist once described as a "metaphysician of the piano." Yet anyone wishing to explore his own music will find remarkably little. At present, only two or three of his works are represented in the catalog, which means that this recording of the two string quartets and the cello sonata effectively doubles the available Ansorge discography.Here we encounter an extraordinary musical rhetorician whose roots lie unmistakably in Beethoven's late quartets. Expansive, emotionally charged recitatives, intricate counterpoint, intimate lyricism, distinctive formal designs, and striking sonorities combine to create an irresistible musical pull-one that invites repeated listening and leaves a lasting impression. UPC: 761203524921Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Matthew Long - Bernard Van Dieren: Works For Voice & Chamber Orch (CD) (New (N))
The Anglo-Dutch composer Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936) was much else besides: violinist, calligrapher, bookbinder, cabinetmaker, author and critic, photographer, polyglot, foreign correspondent, marksman, well read in the arts and sciences, capable of prodigious feats of memory. Based in London from 1909, he enjoyed the ardent support of a small group of musicians, but his intensely argued music baffled most of his contemporaries, and since his early death from kidney disease, it has rarely been heard. This pioneering recording reveals a musical language between the styles of his friend and mentor Busoni and early Schonberg: tonally anchored but chromatically adventurous - a harmonic ambivalence reflected in textures combining long, lyrical lines with intricate contrapuntal tapestries. It transpires that Van Dieren's reputation as an intellectual was only part of the truth: this music is animated by a wide range of heart-felt emotion, from impassioned anguish to a buoyant sense of fun. UPC: 5060113448194Label: ToccataRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Oliver Triendl - Symphony Op. 41 Pno Con Op. 37 Overture Op. 23 (CD) (New (N))
Luise Adolpha le Beau belongs among those women composers whom the much-discussed headwinds of the male musical establishment failed to hold back. Born in Rastatt, Baden, as the only child of an army officer with a deep love of music and his equally artistically minded wife, she received an exceptional early education in which the Karlsruhe court conductor Wilhelm Kalliwoda played a particularly important role. Later, in Munich, she became a private pupil of Joseph Rheinberger, and from that point onward her compositional activity expanded steadily, finding expression not only in works of increasing scope and ambition, but also in the growing diversity of her artistic pursuits and the widespread recognition of her achievements.This selection presents Mademoiselle Le Beau through a fresh, spring-like overture and two substantial orchestral works: the Piano Concerto, whose enchanting slow movement leads to a finale that might well have been inspired by E. T. A. Hoffmann's Little Zaches (Klein Zaches), and the Symphony, whose Scherzo in particular convincingly recalls the cardinal virtues of the early Romantics. A rewarding portrait. UPC: 761203568420Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Dorothee Mields - Three Sopranos - Earthly Delights For Angelic (CD) (New (N))
"Earthly Delights for Angelic Voices" is the promise of the latest recording from the Boston Early Music Festival, and the performers alone suggest that the title was chosen for good reason. Amanda Forsythe, recently honored with a Grammy for her performance in Telemann's Ino, joins fellow singers Dorothee Mields (soprano) and Cecilia Duarte in bringing back to life a legendary trio that, almost exactly four hundred years ago in the Eternal City of Rome, filled the city's most distinguished connoisseurs with heavenlydelight: Le Canterine Romane-Andreana, Leonora, and Caterina Basile, the celebrated "Roman Singers."It was for these three that the creme de la creme of composers-including Luigi Rossi, Domenico Mazzocchi, and Marco Marazzoli-wrote their music, and anyone fortunate enough to hear Mother Basile and her two daughters perform together never forgot the experience. "This concert filled me with such rapture that I forgot my mortal frame and imagined myself among the angels," wrote a French visitor in 1639. One wonders whether he wouldn't have liked to take a recording of the occasion home with him? UPC: 761203572922Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Magdalena Bajuszova - Joseph Kolkovich: Pno Works (CD) (New (N))
Joseph Kolkovich and his music have both been on long journeys. Born in Slovakia in 1957, he spent his first two decades there, as Jozef Kolkovic, becoming active in both classical music and rock. A move to California began a further decade as a rock keyboardist, after which he gradually returned to classical music, incorporating elements of both stylistic worlds in a language direct in it's emotional appeal. The two shorter pieces in this first album of his piano music show an ability to generate atmosphere and structure from short motifs, but it is his epic First Piano Sonata, almost an hour in length, that reveals him as a master narrator. He was particularly moved by the history of the victims of the military regime in 1970s and '80s Argentina, and by the courage of the 'Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo' in resisting it, and he responded with this monumental chronicle-in-sound, a multifaceted mix of explosive fast movements and tragic slow ones, drawing on both his rock and classical backgrounds in it's mixture of lamentation and wild rides. UPC: 5060113448279Label: ToccataRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Alexander Brincken: Orchestral Music Vol. 2 (CD) (New (N))
Alexander Brincken, born in Leningrad in 1952 and Swiss-based since 1992, writes in an accessible, expansive and unashamedly late-Romantic language. His grandiose Second Symphony of 1984-89, written for a huge orchestra of 114 musicians, has echoes of a number of earlier composers, among them Bruckner, Mahler, Richard Strauss and, especially, Franz Schmidt, whose walking basses help power Brincken's sense of momentum - all assimilated into a big-hearted style that blends dignity, lyricism and power. Written in Leningrad as the Soviet system began it's death throes, a time when Brincken was also experiencing personal trauma, this Symphony employs an epic canvas in it's unhurried articulation of a message of hope. UPC: 5060113448170Label: ToccataRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Ilan Rogoff - Ilan Rogoff Rediscovered (CD) (New (N))
Ilan Rogoff made two visits to the Nimbus Studio in Monmouth, in August and September 1978. At this time the directors were regularly experimenting with 'Directto-Disc' recording: a process that eliminated magnetic tape as a storage medium, cutting the sound directly onto a shellac platter from which the LP masters could be created. The technical advantage was in the elimination of the limitations of tape, the introduction of small amounts of noise and distortion, the disadvantage was in the necessity to find a performer capable of giving a faultless performance lasting for the full duration of an LP side - about 25 minutes - without stopping. Ilan Rogoff had the temperament and technical strength to accept the challenge and all three works on this release were made under those conditions. Unfortunately shellac platters are very fragile, nothing of them has survived. However, as a back-up precaution, tape machines were running during the sessions and they have provided the source for this release, nearly thirty-years later. The Schumann and Schubert works were released on LP - although not as 'Direct Cuts' as the company did not yet have it's own manufacturing plant capable of handling them. The Brahms Intermezzi are receiving their first release. They are complete, unedited takes. Interestingly the Brahms session, which also included a less successful recording of the Bach-Busoni Chacone, took place just sixteen days before Bernard Roberts's first session of 'Directto-Disc' Beethoven Piano Sonatas. It seems that Ilan had been present at the moment the process came together. © Adrian Farmer UPC: 0710357712722Label: Nimbus RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Cantores Nicolai Sancti - Pesnopeniya Dushi-Songs Of The Soul (CD) (New (N))
PESNOPENIYA DUSHI - SONGS OF THE SOULA journey into the profound spiritual world of Orthodox sacred choral music.Performed by the acclaimed Cantores Sancti Nicolai Men's Choir under the direction of Justyna Hanusiak, this new recording brings together nearly a century and a half of sacred repertoire, from the music of Pavel Chesnokov to contemporary works by Henryk Jan Botor and Konstantin Mironov.Sung entirely a cappella, the album unites ancient liturgical texts, Psalms and prayers with the rich sonority of the male voice - music of contemplation, mysticism and timeless beauty. UPC: 5902547021294Label: Dux Recording Prod.Release Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Cristian Sandrin - Beethoven & Neefe: If I Ever Become A Great Man (CD) (New (N))
On this recording, pianist Cristian Sandrin examines the musical relationship between the young Ludwig van Beethoven and his Bonn mentor, Christian Gottlob Neefe. The program pairs Beethoven's foundational Piano Sonatas Op. 2 with Neefe's rarely recorded Keyboard Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3. By presenting these works side by side, the album illustrates how Neefe's instruction in the galant style, structural clarity, and expressive phrasing influenced Beethoven's early composition style before his departure for Vienna. UPC: 608917726824Label: Evil Penguin RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Marie Chappuis -Claude - Mozart Haydn Schubert & Brahms (CD) (New (N))
This program traces the Lied from Haydn and Mozart to Schubert and Brahms, while revealing a deeper continuity between them.Across changing musical languages, poetry and nature remain a mirror to express inner experiences. The recurring image of the moon becomes a serene symbol of reflection and solitude, reflecting the close relationship between poetic imagery and musical expression throughout the repertoire. UPC: 5425004841827Label: PassacailleRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Catherine Trottmann - Figlia Del Sole - Italian Baroque Heroines (CD) (New (N))
Cleopatra, Berenice, Candace The heroines of ancient Egypt have fired the imagination of Baroque opera, bringing powerful, passionate and sovereign women to the stage. These figures from the banks of the Nile lie at the heart of stories where love, ambition, political rivalries and struggles for power intertwine. From Haendel to Hasse and Vivaldi, Egypt becomes the setting for passions as fiery as they are virtuosic. The legendary Cleopatra, in particular, inspired some of the most celebrated pages of the repertoire, beginning with Haendel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto, first performed in London in 1724. On this album, beneath the gilded splendour of Versailles, Catherine Trottmann lends her voice to the queens and heroines of ancient Egypt, whose destinies inspired some of the finest arias in the Baroque repertoire. UPC: 3760385430898Label: Chateau VersaillesRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Rachel Podger - Biber: Rosary Sonatas (CD) (New (N))
Johann Kuhnau, Bach's predecessor at Leipzig, composed biblical sonatas depicting stories -such as David and Goliath- in abstract, wordless, keyboard pieces. Biber's Mystery Sonatas are quite different because they form part of a linked meditation on the life of Jesus and therefore present remarkable potential for the interpreter as a kind of 'Evangelist'. Uniquely, these celebrated works employ fourteen different scordatura tunings where the altered intervals on the four strings create extraordinarily different 'sound worlds' to describe each event. Singers aside, performers are rarely presented with such heady subject matter to motivate their interpretations, apart from the usual movement titles indicating tempi, pulse and character. Some pieces may have meaningful titles with a dedication, perhaps to another composer or friend, and we also come across specific instructions to 'imitate' various animals. For instance, Biber's Battalia -a work which employs fashionable programmatic elements in the best traditions of a sonata rappresentativa- portrays both the battle and the lament for the dead in a fashion which requires no further explanation. Likewise, in the case of C. P. E. Bach's trio sonata Sanguineus and Melancholicus, a whole scene is described with meticulous and detailed instructions for expression, ranging from stubbornness and anger to laughter and ridicule, and even irony! UPC: 723385510260Label: Channel ClassicsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: William Popp - Romantic Accordion (CD) (New (N))
This is an album of favorite works from the Romantic period, arranged for and performed on solo accordion by William Popp, a master accordionist of the highest order. UPC: 044747421728Label: CentaurRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Mark Menzies - Cameron-Wolfe: Breathless / Unsilence (CD) (New (N))
This album presents the evocative contemporary sound world of American composer Richard Cameron-Wolfe. At the heart of the album is the "Breathless" Cantata, a profound seven-movement cycle for vocalists and guitars that weaves together ancient Sufi, Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, Jewish, and Hindu mystical texts to explore the essential unity of spiritual thought. Alongside this immersive vocal centerpiece, a collection of deeply personal solo and chamber works for strings and piano-ranging from the joyful defiance of Lilith to the light-regulating tribute of Iris - scuro/chiaro-unfolds with vivid emotional intensity. Delivered with striking conviction by a premier lineup of vocalists and instrumentalists, the album offers a captivating lens into a world of transcendence, memory, and un-silenced devotion. UPC: 608917739220Label: AntarcticaRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Diyang Mei - New Discoveries - Concertante Works & Arias (CD) (New (N))
Carl Maria von Weber, whose resourceful father had hoped to turn him into a profitable child prodigy, is well known to have led an unusually unsettled life. How, despite constant travel, financial hardship, and with his risk-loving father perpetually in tow, he nevertheless managed at so young an age to produce a wealth of imaginative and successful compositions with such ease-while occasionally having to earn his living through work outside the musical profession-belongs among those mysteries that conventional wisdom cannot begin to explain.This recording brings together five such works from those particularly turbulent early years in a program that is as virtuosic as it is entertaining. Unsurprisingly, Weber based his concertante variations largely on melodies whose popularity all but guaranteed enthusiastic applause. Yet the kaleidoscopic transformations of those themes, together with his thoroughly idiomatic writing for the solo instruments, give these works an enduring appeal that reaches far beyond the musical fashions of their day. UPC: 761203574926Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Bexblu - Always Moving (CD, Digipak) (New (N))
ALWAYS MOVING is an unfiltered snapshot of resilience, identity, and raw artistic evolution. Anchored by the sonic vision of South London producer BexBlu and the poignant storytelling of Thamesmead-raised rapper Paul Stephan, the album stands as a powerful testament to defying the odds and pursuing liberation on your own terms.Sonically, BexBlu constructs a sprawling canvas that bridges the gritty edge of UK Grime and heavy 808s with experimental hip-hop, Jerk, and meticulously chopped soul samples. In a nod to Paul's lineage, the production weaves in West African sample flips, grounding the project's hard-hitting, contemporary texture in rich cultural heritage. It's an elevated, genre-defying backdrop engineered to match every shift in energy-from head-turning anthems to reflective, deep-groove cuts.At the heart of the album is Paul Stephan's lived reality. With his trademark cadence and ear-catching bar work, Paul takes a deep dive into his journey through life and music. He pulls back the curtain on growing up in Thamesmead, grappling with harsh realities, systemic neglect, and the frustration of navigating a music industry that profits off the trauma of deprived communities while remaining detached from their struggles.Yet, for all it's sharp honesty, ALWAYS MOVING is defined by it's triumph. It is an album about relentless perseverance-a blueprint for overcoming adversity, securing financial freedom, and finding internal peace amid the noise. UPC: 199316822311Label: Always MovingRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Trio 1790 - 15 Pno Trios (CD) (New (N))
Discover the brilliant chamber music of Leopold Kozeluch! Once a celebrated rival to Mozart in Vienna, this Bohemian master was a true pioneer of the fortepiano. His exceptional keyboard trios capture the very essence of the Classical era, effortlessly blending melodic grace with dramatic, forward-looking expressions that foreshadowed Beethoven. Performing on authentic period instruments, the acclaimed Trio 1790 brings Kozeluch's inventive textures and catchy Scottish folk influences to life with flawless elegance. UPC: 761203555529Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Kolner Akademie - Joseph Haydn: Syms 44 49 & 45 (CD) (New (N))
The Kolner Akademie, under the artistic direction of Michael Alexander Willens, presents Joseph Haydn's Symphonies Nos. 44 ('Mourning'), 49 ('La passione') and 45 ('Farewell'). Written during Haydn's early years at the Esterhazy court, these works belong to his Sturm und Drang period, when he was developing a new approach to symphonic writing through experimentation with form, harmony and compositional technique. These three symphonies demonstrate the defining characteristics of Haydn's Sturm und Drang style: an intense and highly expressive musical language, adventurous treatment of form and harmony, sophisticated contrapuntal writing, and a sustained interest in exploring the possibilities of orchestral texture and instrumental colour.The Kolner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens previously appeared on PENTATONE with Vienna Mandolin Stories (2025) and J.S. Bach's Lutheran Masses (2026). UPC: 8717306265294Label: PentatoneRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Cuejero - Pintura De Color (CD) (New (N))
On Pintura de color, bassist, composer and arranger Javier Sanchez Perez, working under the name Cuejero, brings together musical worlds shaped by years spent between Spain and Northern Europe. Rather than placing traditions side by side, the album explores how cultures transform one another, bringing the language and rhythmic foundations of flamenco into conversation with Nordic jazz, Cuban music and wider Mediterranean influences. North and South become colours within the same palette, distinct and rooted in tradition, yet part of a shared contemporary sound.Across eight pieces, original compositions sit alongside imaginative reworkings of music by Jean Sibelius, Chucho Valdes, Paquito D'Rivera, Julio Gutierrez and Chick Corea. Cambia la vida opens with the energy of bulerias and a message of connection and resilience, while the bilingual Seinalla kuvasi brings Finnish Romani and flamenco voices together through cumbia and rumba. Sibelius's Valse triste is reframed through jazz and tanguillos de Cadiz, while Tangos de Misirlou places the familiar Mediterranean melody within the language of tangos de Granada.The title track turns painting into a metaphor for memory, love and erasure, reflecting the album's wider idea of individual colours forming a coherent whole. Elsewhere, the stripped-back arrangements of Chucho Influenciado, Inolvidable and Rumba de Armando place violin, percussion, double bass and voice at the centre, allowing groove, melody and improvisation to emerge with clarity.Recorded in March 2026 at Okoume Studios in Madrid, Pintura de color features an international ensemble including Jose Minguez, Juan Murube, Anette Åkerlund, Jacob de Carmen, Antti Korhola, Beatriz Vela and Oiva Haapamaki, with all arrangements by Javier Sanchez Perez. UPC: 0608917149425Label: Double MoonRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Orquesta Barroca De Sevilla - Musica En La Nueva Espana - Ignacio Jerusalem (CD) (New (N))
Ignacio Jerusalem left Naples as a young violinist and rose, by the 1750s, to become maestro de capilla of Mexico City Cathedral - the most prestigious musical post in colonial Spanish America. There he forged a sound entirely his own: Italianate melodic warmth wedded to the ceremonial splendor of New Spain's devotional life. This recording, largely world-premiere, gathers arias, sacred duets, and a dramatic Lamentation for Holy Friday drawn from cathedral archives in Durango and Mexico City. UPC: 5425004841803Label: PassacailleRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Mark Anderson - Julius Rontgen: Pno Music Vol. 7 (CD) (New (N))
This recording is the seventh in a series devoted to the piano music of the German-Dutch composer Julius Rontgen. Throughout this project, my admiration for hismusic-both for solo piano and for two pianos-has grown continually deeper. At the same time, I remain astonished that this repertoire has been neglected for so many decades. Since beginning this journey in 2014, it has become ever clearer to me that Rontgen's piano works, particularly his solo and chamber music for keyboard, deserve far wider recognition. My work as a performer, recording artist, and musical archaeologist has been guided by that conviction. With the support of Nimbus Records and Nimbus Music Publishing, I hope to help bring this rich body of music to the wider audience it deserves. © Mark Anderson UPC: 0710357812026Label: Nimbus RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Quintette Syntonia - Pierne & Dupont: Oeuvres Pour Pno Et Quatuor A (CD) (New (N))
In 1911, despite being terminally ill with tuberculosis, the composer Gabriel Dupont completed his Poeme for piano and string quartet. Dedicated to his teacher Widor, this vibrant work follows in the tradition of Cesar Franck. Acclaimed by critics at it's premiere, the work made a profound impression on his contemporaries. In 1917, Gabriel Pierne in turn composed a Quintet for Piano and Strings in the same Franckian tradition. Dedicated to Faure, this major work, written during the war, emphasises French aesthetic and popular continuity. Now largely forgotten, these two quintets deserve to be rediscovered as little-known gems of the early 20th-century repertoire. Syntonia, the only piano quintet ensemble formed in France, has championed these rarities since it's formation in 1999. It's members - violinists Stephanie Moraly and Thibault Noally, violist Caroline Donin, cellist Patrick Langot and pianist Romain David - are committed to combining essential masterpieces with the (re)discovery of hidden treasures of chamber music, as demonstrated by this recording. UPC: 3701624513002Label: AlphaRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Philippe Thuriot - Fratm (CD) (New (N))
FRATM brings together accordionist Philippe Thuriot and trumpeter Carlo Nardozza in a deeply personal meeting of two musical worlds. Thuriot's background in classical music, Bach and Scarlatti meets Nardozza's roots in jazz and Neapolitan song, yet the result never feels like a collision of genres. Instead, the duo play with a shared instinct: lyrical, direct and closely connected to the joy of making music together.The album began with the idea of recording music inspired by Piazzolla, but gradually became something more intimate. Rather than reproducing an established language, Thuriot and Nardozza chose to focus on music that felt completely their own. A decisive moment came with the death of Thuriot's brother Christiaan, whose memory gave the project a new perspective. From that experience grew an album about friendship, brotherhood, loss and, above all, the importance of being there for one another.That sense of closeness runs through the twelve original pieces, from 'Valse a Christiaan' and 'Cristianita' to 'Amici,' 'Freedom' and the title track 'FRATM.' The music is virtuosic without becoming distant: songful, open and accessible, shaped by two musicians who learned from an early age that music could entertain, move and connect people. UPC: 0608917364729Label: ChallengeRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Capella De Ministrers - El Conqueridor - Music In The Time Of James I (CD) (New (N))
Commemorate a foundational chapter of European history with the latest musical release from Capella de Ministrers. On the 750th anniversary of the death of King James I "the Conqueror," this carefully curated album captures the true sonic essence of a transcendent era.Through the meticulous recovery of the musical heritage tied directly to his reign, Capella de Ministrers joins this historic milestone. This exceptional recording highlights the power of early music as an invisible thread connecting our present day with the cultural and historical roots of the Crown of Aragon. UPC: 8216116226629Label: Capella De MinistrerRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Maria Lyapkova - Anton Ferdinand Titz: Complete Sons For Keyboard (CD) (New (N))
Anton Ferdinand Titz (1742-1810) is a remarkable persona in the history of Western art music, a violinist, and a giftedcomposer, who left a small but significant legacy. Thestory of his life is full of mysteries. N. Melgunov, hisfirst biographer, published the article (1842) thatbrought a lot of inaccuracy and confusion about Titz'slife events and chronology. Only recently did thoroughstudies of the composer's archives and manuscriptsmake it possible to restore the outline of hislife. UPC: 044747400327Label: CentaurRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Julius Berger - November (CD) (New (N))
With 'November', Julius Berger presents a personal concept album in which the cello carries a quiet, autumnally concentrated journey in sound. The programme centres on works for cello and piano as well as for two cellos, bringing together classical poise, contemporary threshold experiences and spiritual resonance within a symmetrically conceived whole.At it's heart stands Schubert's 'Arpeggione Sonata', the lyrical point of rest and reference in the programme, sustained by the fragile inner tension that makes it's melodic breath so unmistakable. Around it are grouped Klaus Hinrich Stahmer's nature-inflected 'Bergwind', Sciarrino's nocturnal study of perception 'Ai limiti della notte', Morton Feldman's expansive sense of duration and Mark Andre's approach to the threshold of silence.With Hildegard of Bingen and Stahmer's closing prayer of gratitude, the perspective opens beyond the present. Thus 'November' emerges not as a loose sequence of attractive pieces, but as a coherent album about sound, memory, nature and inwardness - carried by Berger's cello and by the concentrated dialogue with the piano and a second cello. UPC: 4010228681123Label: Wergo GermanyRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Noah23 - Tuff Racket (CD) (New (N))
UPC: 824296530153Label: Hand'solo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Daniel Pemberton (Colv) (Org) - Masters Of The Universe - O.S.T. [Colored Vinyl] (Org) (LP) (New (N))
Daniel Pemberton - Masters Of The Universe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tracklist: Eternia Young Adam The Battle for Eternos You Failed Skeletor and King Randor Portal to Earth Boys Don't Cry Comic Store Heist Freeway Escape Folding Space (Eternia) Eternos in Ruins What's Left of Us Prison Break (Edit) Conflict Territory The Power of Grayskull He-Man Vs Trap-Jaw Get the Sword Sky Fight Mulched You Are He See Another Morning Such Good Friends Journey to Snake Mountain Enter Snake Mountain Fight for Snake Mountain I Wanted to Protect You The Universe Shall Quake in My Shadow Battle Cat and He-Man The Witch and the Warrior Goddess Let's Have a Look The Sword of Power Skeletor Vs He-Man Return to Eternia A Job for He-Man Masters of the Universe UPC: 780163700022Label: Lakeshore RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Noah23 - Tuff Racket (Blk) (Post) (LP, Download Included) (New (N))
UPC: 199891946068Label: Hand'solo RecordsRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: Vinyl
$28.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Björk - Björk Orkestral with the Hamrahlíð Choir (CD) (New (N))
We're thrilled to announce the physical release of björk orkestral - with the hamrahlíð choir - part of the concert series that took place at Harpa concert hall in Reykjavik in 2021. The 24 October show featured the 50-person Hamrahlíð Choir conducted by Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir and musical director Bergur Þórisson on organ/electronics and features songs primarily from Björk's album Medúlla. These concerts were held in collaboration with Iceland Airwaves, RÚV, Harpa, Promote Iceland, and Icelandair. Available in multiple formats including LP, CD, DVD and Blu Ray. Tracklist: Show Me Forgiveness (Live at Harpa Hall) Pleasure Is All Mine (Live at Harpa Hall) Hidden Place (Live at Harpa Hall) Cosmogony (Live at Harpa Hall) Sonnets/Unrealities XI (Live at Harpa Hall) Unravel (Live at Harpa Hall) Vertebræ by Vertebræ (Live at Harpa Hall) Who Is It (Live at Harpa Hall) Mouth's Cradle (Live at Harpa Hall) Where Is the Line (Live at Harpa Hall) New World (Live at Harpa Hall) UPC: 5016958110710Label: One Little IndependeRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
$19.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Helluva Boss - Helluva Boss: Season 3, Part 1 - Original Soundtrack (LP) (New (N))
The complete Helluva Boss: Season 3 Part 1 (Original Soundtrack) from the hit animated series Helluva Boss created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. Includes hit songs “Nobody’s Bay Bay” and “Rope” and more to be revealed as the season unfolds. Featuring original music by Sam Haft and vocals from cast members including Brandon Rogers (Blitzo), Bryce Pinkham (Stolas), Richard Horvitz (Moxxie), Vivian Nixon Williams (Millie), Erica Lindbeck (Loona), Norman Reedus (Striker), Cristina Vee (Verosika Mayday), Mara Wilson (Mrs. Mayberry), Barrett Wilbert Weed (Octavia), Alex Brightman (Fizzarolli), James Monroe Iglehart (Asmodeus), Rochelle Diamante (Beelzebub), and more! UPC: 075678576119Label: AtlanticRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: Vinyl
$32.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Helluva Boss - Helluva Boss: Season 3, Part 1 - Original Soundtrack (Cassette) (New (N))
The complete Helluva Boss: Season 3 Part 1 (Original Soundtrack) from the hit animated series Helluva Boss created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. Includes hit songs “Nobody’s Bay Bay” and “Rope” and more to be revealed as the season unfolds. Featuring original music by Sam Haft and vocals from cast members including Brandon Rogers (Blitzo), Bryce Pinkham (Stolas), Richard Horvitz (Moxxie), Vivian Nixon Williams (Millie), Erica Lindbeck (Loona), Norman Reedus (Striker), Cristina Vee (Verosika Mayday), Mara Wilson (Mrs. Mayberry), Barrett Wilbert Weed (Octavia), Alex Brightman (Fizzarolli), James Monroe Iglehart (Asmodeus), Rochelle Diamante (Beelzebub), and more! UPC: 075678579677Label: AtlanticRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: Cassette
$16.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Helluva Boss - Helluva Boss: Season 3, Part 1 - Original Soundtrack (CD) (New (N))
The complete Helluva Boss: Season 3 Part 1 (Original Soundtrack) from the hit animated series Helluva Boss created by Vivienne “VivziePop” Medrano. Includes hit songs “Nobody’s Bay Bay” and “Rope” and more to be revealed as the season unfolds. Featuring original music by Sam Haft and vocals from cast members including Brandon Rogers (Blitzo), Bryce Pinkham (Stolas), Richard Horvitz (Moxxie), Vivian Nixon Williams (Millie), Erica Lindbeck (Loona), Norman Reedus (Striker), Cristina Vee (Verosika Mayday), Mara Wilson (Mrs. Mayberry), Barrett Wilbert Weed (Octavia), Alex Brightman (Fizzarolli), James Monroe Iglehart (Asmodeus), Rochelle Diamante (Beelzebub), and more! UPC: 075678576140Label: AtlanticRelease Date: 1.8.27Format: CD
$14.99
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