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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Mert Sungu - Carafa: Masaniello (CD) (New (N))
Michele Carafa was a student of Cherubini and formed a lifelong friendship with Rossini based on mutual admiration.Carafa established a career in Paris through his association with the Opera Comique, which is where he presented hismasterpiece Masaniello. Uniquely, Carafa was a descendant of characters in his own opera, which was based on realrevolutionary events that took place in Naples in the 17th century. The result is a well-paced historical drama, closer to French operatic models with limited reliance on bel canto and the influence of Rossini. UPC: 730099061476Label: NaxosRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Pdqb - Treasure (Aipd Q41/B47 Edits) (Ep) (7" Vinyl) (New (N))
UPC: 4070209021959Label: Synaptic CliffsRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: 7" Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Laura Strobl / Graewe,Georg / Sanders,Mark - Acutance (CD) (New (N))
Tracklist: Gambades 1 Raunen Warmless Sun Incrementally Faltenwurf a Circling Ilusion, Cornsweet Only Then Faltenwurf B Gambades II Cikiyrfuekds UPC: 9120036684386Label: Random AcousticsRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Daan Vandewalle - Frederik Rzewski Ein Mensch (CD) (New (N))
Frederic Rzewski - A MenschThe title of this album refers to the Yiddish word Mensch: literally 'a human being,' but in everyday use someone who acts with integrity, awareness and responsibility. For Frederic Rzewski, the term carried exactly this meaning. A Mensch is not a perfect person, but someone who remains fully human-capable of doubt, contradiction and critical thought, and resistant to becoming passive within larger societal systems. This idea runs quietly but consistently through his work. The pieces brought together here span more than sixty years, from the early 1950s to the last decade of his life, forming a kind of timeline across his career. The musical language changes, sometimes radically, but the underlying concerns remain strikingly constant. Rzewski's music engages with literature, politics and history, often through concrete situations-prison, injustice, personal crisis-but never in an abstract or detached way. The question is always how individuals relate to these forces, and whether they can remain human within them. In that sense, the ethical dimension of the Yiddish Mensch is not just a title, but something that can be heard throughout the programme. Taken as a whole, this recording traces a composer who never gave up on the idea that music can carry meaning beyond itself. Across decades of work, his voice remains clear in it's insistence that art can still ask what it means to live-and to act-as a human being. UPC: 5425004847072Label: PassacailleRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Green Carnation - Dark Poem Part Iii: The Messiah Complex (LP, Deluxe) (New (N))
UPC: 822603021165Label: Season Of MistRelease Date: 9.4.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Antonio Mercurio - Hidden Voices - 20th Century Italian Works For (CD) (New (N))
The double bass, the largest and lowest-pitched instrument of the string family, has a rich and evolving history. It's origins date back to the 15th and 16th centuries, when early bass instruments like the violone were used in European music. Unlike the violin family, the double bass developed with influences from both the viol and violin families, which explains it's varied shapes and tuning systems. By the 18th century, it became a standard member of the orchestra, providing depth and harmonic foundation. Over time, makers refined it's design, increasing it's size and improving it's sound projection.This enterprising program presents works for double bass from 20th century Italy, ranging from double bass solo, duos with violin and duos with piano. Composers include Giuseppe Marangoni, Giovanni de Capua, Virgilio Mortari, Lucia Berio and Vito Mercurio. The guide through this fascinating journey is Antonio Mercurio, with his musical partners Mihaela Costea and Alice Baccalini.Antonio Mercurio held principal double bass positions at the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in Parma, the L. Cherubini Orchestra under Riccardo Muti, he is regularly invited as principal by orchestras like the Orchestra Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Balthasar Neumann Orchestra, Teatro San Carlo, and Royal Northern Sinfonia and Filarmonica della Scala. UPC: 5063758974929Label: Brilliant ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Riccardo Mussato - Jongen: Une Rapsodie Creative (CD) (New (N))
Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) occupies an important place in early twentieth-century European music. Born in Liege, he demonstrated exceptional musical talent from a young age and studied at the Royal Conservatory of Liege, where he excelled in composition, organ, and piano. Jongen was deeply influenced by the French musical tradition, particularly the harmonic language of Cesar Franck, Gabriel Faure, and Claude Debussy, while retaining a distinctive personal voice. Jongen's piano works reveal a composer of remarkable craftsmanship and lyrical imagination. Rather than pursuing the dramatic intensity associated with late Romantic virtuosity, he favored elegance, clarity, and expressive subtlety. His music often combines flowing melodic lines with rich yet transparent harmonic textures, creating an atmosphere of warmth and sophistication. Impressionistic harmonic colors frequently appear, though they are balanced by classical formal structures and careful contrapuntal writing.Rhythmically, Jongen's piano compositions display flexibility and natural phrasing, avoiding excessive complexity while maintaining a refined sense of momentum. His writing is idiomatic for the instrument, demonstrating an intimate understanding of the piano's expressive possibilities without relying on technical display for it's own sake. Many of his works evoke poetic imagery through delicate textures, nuanced dynamics, and refined pedaling.Riccardo Mussato, born in Italy in 1998, graduated with highest honours in Piano Performance at the Conservatoire of Turin, where he also obtained a Master cum laude and special mention. After some masterclasses in France, he completed a Master at the Conservatoire Royal of Bruxelles with Distinction and he is ending a Master's degree program in Musicology at the University of Bologna.Particularly interested in French music, para-religious music, Italian music of 20th and 21st century, Mozart's opera, and Wagnerian drama, he maintains an active concert and outreach career, particularly through interdisciplinary lecture-recitals connecting music with the humanities. UPC: 5063758103787Label: Piano ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Föhn - Porcelain (LP) (New (N))
Tracklist: Blunt Edge Before the Infidel Sanctuary in Waiting Like a Mirror False Dawn Hagstone Lullaby At Moot Point Prove Fruitful In Shadows of Regret UPC: 843190091713Label: Odda RecordingsRelease Date: 9.11.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Chaarts Chamber Artists - Bella Furia (CD) (New (N))
A journey through time to castles, chambers and amorous settings around 1800.The irresistible soprano Shira Patchornik is a rising star on opera and concert stages.Many people are still familiar with Mozart's ""Figaro"". 'Al Desio di chi t'adora'. It is a song full of erotic tension addressed to her lover. And perhaps some are still familiar with Haydn's 'La vera Constanza'. The rest of this stimulating programme consists of discoveries and treasures from Italian opera of the same period, but largely forgotten. But what is it about?No opera can do without them: the maid, the lover, the chambermaid, the jealous wife, the daughter. Operas around 1800 are mostly intricate tales of intrigue and love. Sometimes dramatic, sometimes humorous, these stories inspired composers to the highest form of their art. Bella Ragazze, they become witnesses to amorous adventures, they are the projection screen for powerful men, or they themselves become energetic and vengeful protagonists. Shira Patchornik is a shooting star on the big stages and brings us key moments from opera treasures with a stupendous stage presence. She embodies characters in her own unique way and does justice to even the most breakneck coloratura. As if made for it, Mozart's rarely heard Divertimento joins the entertaining opera action: written as music for entertaining festive gatherings, it displays Mozart's characteristic humour in almost every moment. UPC: 4260123645533Label: Solo MusicaRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Antonino Errera - Novus Ritus (CD) (New (N))
Novus Ritus, a CD featuring percussion, voice, live electronics, and interactive video, has been released by Stradivarius. Thisproject is part of MUSIC4D, an initiative of the ""A. Scontrino"" Conservatory of Trapani, funded by the European Union under theNext Generation EU program, with scientific coordination by Eugenio Catone. MUSIC4D is an innovative project created to explorethe intersections between music and technology, redefining the boundaries of education, composition, and performance in thedigital age.Conceived by Antonino Errera, Novus Ritus was brought to life through a collaboration between the ""A. Scontrino"" Conservatoryof Trapani and Arizona State University, facilitated by Simone Mancuso and Gabriel Jose Bolanos, professors of Percussion andComposition, respectively, at the university.The tracklist unfolds through four tableaux vivants, animated by the pulse of percussion rooted in archetypal rhythms. The originalmusic is performed by the composers themselves, with the vocal contribution of Irene Sciacca, a student at the ScontrinoConservatory and co-author, alongside Errera, of the vocal lines for the chants, which are performed in four languages: Greek,Latin, Arabic, and Sicilian. The instrumentation includes both ritual Mediterranean instrumentso typical of Morocco and Tunisiaand instruments used in classical and avant-garde music, including the sixxen, microtonal instruments designed by the Greekcomposer Iannis Xenakis.In the album liner notes, Miriam Scotto di Santolo writes: ""Filtering, reverberation, granulation, and sound spatialization 'transport'the audio from the present to the remote past, closing the magic circle like contemporary mechanai. Novus Ritus, as the Latinetymology suggests, points to the cyclical nature of an Hypostasis: Rites dedicated to the Moon, the prehistoric Great Mother whoappears in the sky each month as a reflection of the Sun as a sickle announcing birth and death, wind and rain, sowing and harvest,in a mystical dance that has always inspired poets, mystics, and artists everywhere.""It is an original project with broad geographical and temporal horizons, an evocative listening journey that suggests narratives,stories, and references to be identified and discovered within an intertwining web of auditory and visual impressions. UPC: 8011570373700Label: StradivariusRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Ensemble Modern - Christian Ridil: Chamber Music Vol. 3 (CD) (New (N))
If there is one idea that unites Christian Ridil's chamber music, it is a fascination with musical communication. His music thrives on interaction: voices converse, challenge one another, overlap, and continually reshape their relationships. On the sixth album in GENUIN's Christian Ridil series, the musicians of Ensemble Modern illuminate these relationships with remarkable acuity and infectious vitality. These world premiere recordings bring together works from different phases of the composer's career and offer a multifaceted view of the chamber music of a composer now over eighty-from a work for solo viola and pieces for wind trio to large mixed ensembles with piano. UPC: 4260036259803Label: GenuinRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: La Serenissima - Hell's Angels (CD) (New (N))
Taking it's title from a legendary 1728 encounter between violinists Pietro Locatelli and Jean-Marie Leclair, whose contrasting styles were memorably described as angelic and diabolical, Hell's Angels traces the cross-pollination of French and Italian baroque technique through sonatas by Vivaldi, Leclair, Guillemain, Marcello and Mascitti. At the heart of the programme is Vivaldi's rarely heard early Sonata RV 820, it's final movement completed by Adrian Chandler following the loss of the original manuscript. Two-time Gramophone Award winners La Serenissima bring their characteristic authority to over 80 minutes of music spanning some of the most demanding chamber writing of the period. UPC: 635212100929Label: Signum ClassicsRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Orchestre Filmharmonique - Les Quatre Saisons Du Quebec (CD) (New (N))
Inspired by the tradition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Francois Dompierre paints a rich musical portrait of Quebec's seasons in a new work for violin and string orchestra led by Francis Choiniere. UPC: 722056295727Label: Atma ClassiqueRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Utopia Ensemble - Our Lady Of Antwerp - A Musical Path To Rubens (CD) (New (N))
Antwerp's collegiate church of Our Lady developed into one of the most important musical centres in the Low Countries over the course of the 15th and 16th centuries. This recording traces the lineage of the directors of music and the singers associated with the church, the later cathedral. Their music illustrates how polyphony evolved from it's late mediaeval roots into the early Baroque period. Gregorian chants from the Antwerp tradition are included with the polyphonic works as a reminder of the daily services and their music: there was always singing in the chancel, in the chapels and at the services of brotherhoods and guilds that were spread throughout the day. The name and image of the Virgin Mary were present everywhere, not only in the church's liturgy but also in the daily life of the city. That same connection remains visible today in the many statues of Mary on facades and street corners - even on the facade of the Town Hall - and in the celebration of Mother's Day on the Feast of the Assumption. The programme concludes with the early Baroque period, the era in which Peter Paul Rubens was also active. Peter Philips' Assumpta est Maria shares the same artistic context as Rubens' monumental Assumption of the Virgin in it's place above the high altar of the cathedral of Antwerp. UPC: 4250128525046Label: RameeRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Susato Trio - Mozart: Pno Trios Vol. 1 (CD) (New (N))
How can music by Mozart still feel undiscovered? For this ensemble, the answer lies in the piano trios: works that, despite their composer's fame, remain surprisingly absent from the concert hall. Bringing together K. 254, K. 496 and K. 548, this first volume follows Mozart's style across twelve formative years, representing three distinct periods in his writing for piano trio, from the lingering influence of the accompanied sonata to a richly conversational chamber style. UPC: 608917727425Label: Evil Penguin RecordsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Joudy - Permanent Maintenance [Colored Vinyl] (Ylw) (LP, Indie Exclusive) (New (N))
*** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 199874009599Label: Trash CasualRelease Date: 8.21.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Vivum Singers - Tony Hewitt-Jones: Choral Works & Complete Organ (CD) (New (N))
Many composers who wrote primarily for the English cathedral tradition have not had the recognition they deserve outside that cloistered world. Tony Hewitt-Jones (1926-89) is one such. Although the choral and organ works heard on this album naturally respond to the requirements of the performers for whom he was writing, they have a freshness, energy and individuality that transcend their origin, their sound-world overlapping with that of some of his close contemporaries, like John Gardner, Kenneth Leighton and William Mathias. UPC: 5060113448088Label: ToccataRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Klara Wurtz - Beethoven: Pno Con No. 3 Pno Sonatas (CD) (New (N))
A new recording of Beethoven masterpieces by a Hungarian pianist acclaimed for her 'intelligence, technical finesse, and innate musicality' (Classics Today).As issued by Brilliant Classics in 2025, a 34CD box of music from Bach to Bartok demonstrated the impressive range of Klara Wurtz's musical affinities, in recordings which span over two decades. According to Rob Cowan in Gramophone, the box testified to a career of consistent excellence in the studio, 'her performances attentive to detail, sprightly and invariably at one with her chosen repertoire'. Such praise amplified the enthusiastic reception accorded to her long-pondered recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, made for Piano Classics, and which was given an Editor's Choice by Gramophone for it's 'selfless commitment and personality, bringing delicacy, drama and architectural splendour to this great music.'In her latest recording, Klara Wurtz turns to equally canonic repertoire by Beethoven: the Third Piano Concerto, the 'Pathetique' and 'Moonlight' Sonatas. This illuminating combination allows the listener to trace Beethoven's development in a concentrated span of three years on the cusp of the 19th century, and specifically through his special feeling for the tragic-heroic key of C minor, which reached it's most celebrated expression in the Fifth Symphony. The slow movement of the 'Pathetique' Sonata has achieved hardly less iconic status in the popular imagination. It's mood of inward contemplation transports the listener to a space inside the mind of the 28-year-old Beethoven, which the outer panels of the sonata further heighten with their high and noble drama. From three years later, the C sharp minor of the 'Moonlight' Sonata further intensifies those contrasts of serenity and struggle with it's sublime opening movement followed by a pair of intricate and fiendishly demanding movements. In 1800 - the year before the 'Moonlight' - Beethoven addressed the legacy of Mozart head-on in the Third Piano Concerto, which takes both it's key and the shape of it's opening motif from the earlier composer's Concerto K491. Klara Wurtz is given attentive and lively support by the Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice under their experienced Armenian music director, Vahan Mardirossian. UPC: 5063758102902Label: Piano ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Beth Taylor - Deeps Have Music (CD) (New (N))
Mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor and pianist Hamish Brown make their debut recital album with Linn Records. A rising vocal star, Taylor came to international prominence as a finalist of the 2023 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition, and has since collaborated with both the Berliner Philharmoniker and Wiener Philharmoniker. An award-winning pianist, Brown enjoys a highly diverse collaborative career with singers, instrumentalists, orchestras and theatre. The sea-inspired programme showcases the duo's curiosity, with Taylor - equally at home in English, French and German repertoires - demonstrating her formidable technique. The recital exudes a saline atmosphere, starting with the evocative My Lagan Love arranged by Hamilton Harty and followed by Hedwige Chretien's Petits Poemes du Bord de l'Eau, Ethel Smyth's Three Moods of the Sea and Edward Elgar's celebrated Sea Pictures. Placed among these gems are songs by Schubert and Alma Mahler, together with a world premiere recording of Cameron Biles-Liddell's The Breakers. UPC: 691062079426Label: Linn RecordsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Jad Atoui - Change Image It Will Take Forever (LP) (New (N))
Tracklist: Pressure Dream Haptic Drift Purge Reaching Heart Blue Moon Red Cloud Weather of Collapse UPC: 5056688845384Label: RupturedRelease Date: 8.14.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Rosemary Standley - Songs From The North Country (LP) (New (N))
As great lovers of traditional music, Rosemary Standley and Francois Lazarevitch were bound to meet one day. The founding leader of Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien proposed to the iconic singer of the legendary rock band Moriarty - who has already recorded two equally iconic albums for Alpha Classic, Love I Obey (Alpha 538) and Schubert in Love (Alpha 418) - that they collaborate on a programme of English ballads: 'This repertoire suits her singing style and vocal timbre perfectly; she brings her experience of folk and song. The old ballads collected by Child and Sharp at the end of the 19th century are classics of the genre.' Rosemary continues: 'This repertoire is magnificent; The essence of American folk music lies in these English, Scottish and Irish ballads - it's a genre that resonates with me very naturally. ' With a carefully chosen array of instruments - baroque harp, viola da gamba, pandora, Scottish bodhran drum and, of course, the flutes and bagpipes so dear to Lazarevitch - and a sumptuous group of singers and musicians, Rosemary and Francois set sail for the North in the wake of Alfred Deller, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone and Simon and Garfunkel, who too had fallen in love with these tales of sailors, fairs, tailors and mouse, murder, betrayal and revenge. UPC: 3701624512692Label: AlphaRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Young Artists Of The Rome Chamber Music Festival - Mahler: Sym No. 1 Version For Chamber Orch (CD) (New (N))
Since the end of the nineteenth century, the large Wagnerian orchestra reached unprecedented dimensions, pushing listeners' expectations toward a gigantic sound overloaded with colour. Mahler continued this tendency, further enlarging the ensemble: additional winds, triple brass, and a rich percussion section became the norm. Today we naturally expect overwhelming power from Mahler's Titan, as if the very title evoked an immense orchestra. Scogna, by contrast, overturns this expectation through subtraction: he does not like to speak of arrangement, but rather of chiselling work. His idea is to reduce excessive doublings while leaving intact the principal lines chosen by Mahler, almost as if carving from marble only the contrapuntal skeleton of the work.Arnold Schoenberg (1918-21) had already theorized a similar idea with the Society for Private Musical Performances: the aim was to 'create a thinned-out sound in order to examine the essence' of symphonic works.In transcribing the First Symphony for only fifteen instruments, Scogna carries out a subtraction of the utmost rigor. Mahler's commanding orchestra dissolves into a small chamber ensemble, yet each fundamental timbre remains 'typically Mahlerian.'The result is a revelation, as if hearing Mahler with a new set of ears.Played by a select group of young Italian instrumentalists, conducted by Flavio Emilio Scogna himself. UPC: 5063758701426Label: Brilliant ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Julien-Victor Laferriere - Beethoven: Syms No. 3 & 7 (Integrale Des Syms (CD) (New (N))
Victor Julien-Laferriere and Consuelo continue their complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies with a triumphant double bill: the 'Eroica' Symphony, a grand epic that has left it's mark on the history of music, and the whirlwind Seventh, which Richard Wagner would go on to describe as 'the apotheosis of dance'. UPC: 3770005527884Label: B. RecordsRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Jean Bavouzet -Efflam - Beethoven Connection Vol. 2 (CD) (New (N))
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet continues his survey of works by Beethoven's contemporaries with this second volume featuring works by Hummel., Clementi, Berger, and Czerny. The pianist comments: 'The deeper I delve into the universe of composers contemporaneous with Beethoven, the clearer I perceive the nature of his originality and the power of his genius, that which he was able to take from others, or that which inspired them. Would this series, The Beethoven Connection, then, not have any further aims than to magnify the genius of Beethoven? Of course it does! If I may make a geographical analogy, a great mountain never rises isolated in the landscape. It is always surrounded by other mountains, perhaps not so great but in the absence of which it would not appear so impressive! We had better climb all of them for from each summit we are offered a different view of the others! It is with great enthusiasm that I have prepared this programme, conceived, like that of the first volume, on the counsel of that eminent specialist on this period, my friend Marc Vignal - an enthusiasm which rests on the incontestable qualities of this music and the joy of the opportunity to rediscover it!' UPC: 0095115235522Label: ChandosRelease Date: 10.9.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Jacquees - Mood [Colored Vinyl] (Org) (Aniv) (LP) (New (N))
In January 2016, a 21-year-old Jacquees confidently stepped into the spotlight and officially shifted the climate of modern R&B. Released as a mixtape hosted by DJ Spinz, Mood wasn't just a collection of songs-it was a bold sonic manifesto. Merging classic, unbridled Southern R&B vocals with the heavy, localized bounce of Atlanta's dominant trap scene, the project gave a generation of fans their definitive late-night soundtrack. Now, a decade after it's initial release, the foundational classic is finally making it's official debut on all major streaming services, as well as arriving on CD and vinyl for the very first time. Produced primarily by Nash B, Mood captured an artist on the precipice of superstardom. Backed by executive support from Birdman and the Cash Money Records family, the project features a powerhouse lineup of mid-2010s royalty, including standout guest verses from Kevin Gates, DeJ Loaf, Rich Homie Quan, Kirko Bangz, and Young Scooter. For years, Mood lived in the digital underground of mixtape websites and YouTube rips, passed around by R&B purists like a treasured secret. Whether you're streaming it on the go, spinning the rich analog grooves of the vinyl, or popping the CD into your car, this release honors the timeless body of work that cemented Jacquees as the King of R&B. 1xLP, Pressed on Orange Marbled Vinyl UPC: 199316693706Label: Fyb Records LlcRelease Date: 10.30.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim - British Music For Strings Vol. 5 (CD) (New (N))
Good things come in fives, said conductor Douglas Bostock as he set out to prepare a truly unrivalled selection of British works for string orchestra for this cpo recording. Over the past few years, he has created a stunning kaleidoscope in which international luminaries (Elgar, Parry, Bantock, Ethel Smyth) and more national figures join together in these recordings in an enlightening and uplifting way. The release of this fifth volume marks not only the conclusion of the series, but also the end of an era. After seven years in the role, Douglas Bostock is stepping down as principal conductor of the Sudwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, an orchestra that has provided him with outstanding support in this homage to his homeland. And once again, the sons and daughters of Albion rise up and soar over their unique musical landscapes - Imogen Holst draws inspiration from an old picaresque novel, Gordon Jacob delivers brilliant variations on a theme by Purcell, the conductor Eugene Goossens demonstrates his creative imagination, and finally, despite his ""progressive"" tone, the Welshman William Mathias leaves no doubt as to where he was born. A thoroughly successful finale! UPC: 761203580828Label: Cpo RecordsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Roberto Prosseda - Sonatas Op. 7 13 & 49 (CD) (New (N))
In this third volume of his acclaimed Beethoven fortepiano cycle, Roberto Prosseda explores four early piano sonatas composed between 1796 and 1799, including the iconic Pathetique Sonata, the expansive Op. 7, and the intimate Op. 49 sonatas. Performing on an original 1820 Conrad Graf fortepiano, Prosseda reveals a Beethoven who is bold, unpredictable, and deeply theatrical - an improviser whose music breathes with rhetorical power, expressive contrasts, and remarkable spontaneity. Rather than seeking historical reconstruction, this recording offers a fresh rediscovery of Beethoven's creative imagination through the distinctive colours and responsiveness of one of the finest surviving instruments of it's kind.Recorded at the renowned Musicafelix Studio in Prato, Italy, this album benefits from an exceptional acoustic environment that beautifully captures the fortepiano's unique palette of transparent bass, eloquent middle register, and crystalline treble. Together, Prosseda's insightful interpretation and the studio's natural sound create an immersive listening experience that brings Beethoven's early masterpieces vividly to life, balancing architectural grandeur with poetic intimacy.'I continue to perceive a remarkably living presence: a Beethoven who improvises, experiments, and takes risks.' -Â Roberto Prosseda UPC: 0608917200706Label: Challenge ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Geoffroy Couteau - J. S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (CD) (New (N))
How do you give new impetus to your artistic life after completing a project as intense as recording Johannes Brahms' complete piano works?Geoffroy Couteau's answer was to climb an Everest. For to perform Bach's Goldberg Variations is to undergo an exceptional musical and human experience. It is also to grasp the expressive power of polyphony and it's extraordinary force of attraction. UPC: 3760419361198Label: La Dolce VoltaRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Jiaxin Min - Das Lebewohl (CD) (New (N))
Introducing Jiaxin Min in her debut album, this recording marks the arrival of a compelling new voice on the international piano scene. Emerging as an audience favourite from the Queen Elisabeth Competition she combines expressive intensity, clarity of thought and a deeply personal artistic vision. Centred around the idea of farewell and reunion, the programme brings together Beethoven's intimate Sonata Lebewohl ('Les Adieux'), Liszt's dramatic Ballade No. 2, and Barber's powerful Piano Sonata. Through these landmark works, Jiaxin Min explores themes of absence, transformation and rediscovery, drawing on her own personal journey through music and returns to the stage. Balancing virtuosity with introspection and emotional depth, this first album reveals an artist of rare maturity and personality. UPC: 5400439008755Label: Fuga Libera LabelRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Geneva Lewis - Barber & Glass: Vn Concertos: Zorn: Partita For (CD) (New (N))
A BBC New Generation Artist in 2022-24, violinist Geneva Lewis is also the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a 2022 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, and has been Musical America's New Artist of the Month. For her recording debut on Delos, she revels in a high-flying all-American program, accompanied by Gemma New conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Starting with Samuel Barber's neo-Romantic violin Concerto - the notorious finale provides hardly any respite to the soloist - it is followed by the first recording of John Zorn's Partita for the Firebird, a solo violin work in which 'every note burns and demands your entire self' (Geneva's own words), and Philip Glass's Violin Concerto No. 1. Written to please his father, the work is less symphonic than operatic, befitting a composer then in the full flight of operatic composition. Recipient of the prestigious 2021 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Gemma New conducts the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in both concertos. UPC: 013491363820Label: Delos RecordsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Nessa Barrett - Tough Love (LP, Indie Exclusive Cherry Venom) (New (N))
Nessa Barrett's third album, "Tough Love" is a sonic dark romantic experience featuring the lead single "Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die". Releasing September 25th of this year, each song represents different forms of romance, diving into the darkest and toughest parts of love itself. It's a vulnerable story for those themselves who are tough to love, and love that’s tough to find. Tracklist: TBA *** Indie Exclusive ***UPC: 093624817000Label: Warner RecordsRelease Date: 9.25.26Format: Vinyl
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Robert Pomakov - Attila (CD) (New (N))
He was still young, but already an experienced composer: after all, Attila was already his ninth opera. In March 1846, the 32-year-old Giuseppe Verdi premiered it in Venice. The experience gained from his previous works is evident in the musical quality in many places: Verdi masterfully commands the dramaturgy of the grandiose choral scenes, which also play a major role in key moments of the plot in this work. At the same time, the portrayal of the individual characters' inner conflicts becomes increasingly nuanced and musically tangible. The ancient subject of the murderous Hun king offers many opportunities to present these. Marcus Bosch, the Cappella Aquileia, the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, and the hand-picked ensemble of soloists work together with their usual precision and add another jewel to the multi-award-winning series of Verdi's earlier and often less-noticed operas. UPC: 4039956926061Label: Coviello ClassicsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Christian Sands - Between Then & Now (LP) (New (N))
Storyville Records presents Between Then and Now, a new trio album by acclaimed American pianist Christian Sands, joined by Danish bassist Thomas Fonnesbaek and Swedish drummer Rasmus Kihlberg. An international collaboration that captures contemporary jazz at the intersection of American tradition and Nordic musical sensibility.The album features 7 tracks, balancing original compositions by Sands and Fonnesbaek with inspired reinterpretations of jazz standards and classic repertoire by Bobby Timmons, Luiz Bonfa, and John Coltrane. Recorded in the spirit of Copenhagen's jazz tradition it presents jazz as both a living art form of the present and a dialogue with it's past, hence the title Between Then and Now.The collaboration grew from Sands' relationship with the Copenhagen jazz scene, initiated when former Montmartre musical director Christian Brorsen discovered him online and invited him to Denmark. Like earlier generations of American jazz musicians, including Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon, Sands quickly became a compelling presence in Copenhagen, where attentive listening and subtle interplay guide every performance. Over the years, he has been a frequent guest in Denmark and loved by the audience here. Together, the trio represents a truly international jazz language. Sands is celebrated for his virtuosic piano playing, rich harmonic imagination, and improvisational energy. Fonnesbaek, one of Europe's leading bassists, offers melodic clarity and technical brilliance shaped by the Danish jazz tradition, while Kihlberg contributes a refined rhythmic approach marked by elegance, precision and responsiveness.Together they have a compelling sound of openness yet you always feel the classic American jazz tradition in the music. This is modern American/ Scandinavian music, not just jazz.Listen to Sands' inventive arrangement of Giant Leaves, which merges John Coltrane's Giant Steps with Joseph Kosma's Autumn Leaves, served as a tribute to legendary Danish drummer Alex Riel, who influenced both Sands and generations of jazz musicians in Europe.Original compositions such as Sands' Where Children Still Play and Where the Light Settles, and Fonnesbaek's Searching in Sahara reveal the trio's lyrical and exploratory approach. The Nordic hymn Til ungdommen / To the Youth (Kringsatt av Fiender) is another beautiful example of how this trio sound together.Enjoy this contemporary recording with three of the most interesting musicians on the Scandinavian and American jazz scene right now. UPC: 717101854691Label: Storyville RecordsRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: Vinyl
$39.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Amadeus Chamber Musicians: Dmitriy Daniel Askerov - Giuseppe Cambini: Chamber Music Vol. 1 - Str Qnts (CD) (New (N))
Giuseppe Cambini, born in Italy in 1746 and based for most of his life in Paris, left so much fine music - over 600 compositions - that it is surprising that the year and place of his death remain uncertain. Among that huge output are over 100 string quintets using a second cello rather than another viola, giving them an unusually rich sonority. Cambini's elegant melodic manner and his spontaneous counterpoint help explain why his chamber music was so popular during his lifetime - but not why it has been forgotten since then: it's refreshingly natural style has something of Mozart's tunefulness and Haydn's bright craftsmanship, and it's more thoughtful moments occasionally look ahead to Beethoven. UPC: 5060113448101Label: ToccataRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
$20.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Vox Orchester - Henry Purcell: Tales Of Love & Passion (CD) (New (N))
Henry Purcell Reimagined: Baroque Songs of Fate and FreedomIn this recording, the Vox Orchestra, conductor Lorenzo Ghirlanda and soprano Marie-Sophie Pollak explore some of Henry Purcell's most captivating songs from King Arthur, The Fairy Queen, and Dido and Aeneas. At the heart of the programme lies a theme that remains strikingly relevant today: the confrontation with the inevitable-war, love, duty, and loss.Rather than presenting these works solely as excerpts from Baroque stage music, the performers highlight their original character as songs. Purcell's memorable melodies emerge with remarkable directness and emotional immediacy, while instrumental interludes function like modern introductions and codas. Bold string playing, expressive continuo, and vivid contrasts of tempo create a sound world that feels both historically informed and surprisingly contemporary.Marie-Sophie Pollak brings the diverse characters to life with exceptional expressive clarity, favouring direct communication over excessive ornamentation. The result is a fresh and compelling interpretation that reveals Purcell's theatre music as a timeless collection of songs, bridging the distance between the seventeenth century and today's listener. UPC: 4260123645595Label: Solo MusicaRelease Date: 10.2.26Format: CD
$21.99
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Alliance Entertainment Pre-Order: Olsvanger - Honey Tangerine (LP) (New (N))
Tracklist: Source of Thought In a Nutshell Tulpa Nine Sunrise on the Lips Zoom It Out Some Air UPC: 4062548145687Label: OathRelease Date: 8.28.26Format: Vinyl
$25.99
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