W roku 2017 mija 50 lat od ukazania się pierwszej płyty dla wytwórni Atlantic 24-letniej wówczas soulowej wokalistki Arethy Franklin. Z okazji wyjątkowego jubileuszu dziś już wielkiej legendy muzyki soul, ukazuje się wyjątkowe wydawnictwo – płyta z jej najsłynniejszymi utworami, nagrana wspólnie z orkiestrą symfoniczną. Tylko w 1967 roku ukazało się pięć przebojowych singli Arethy. Dziś można ich posmakować w aranżacji orkiestrowej. Kompozycji jest w sumie 14 i przygotowano je pod wymownym tytułem "A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra". Piosenki nagrano w legendarnych Abbey Road Studios w Londynie, z udziałem wspierającej legendę wokalistki, laureatki Grammy Patti Austin. Wspaniale udało się nadać nowe życie klasykom soulu, jednocześnie nie pozbawiając je wyjątkowego klimatu. Wśród "nowonarodzonych" evergreenów można znaleźć, chociażby numery jeden z listy R&B "Billboardu", "Respect", "Think", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "Angel". Płytę wyprodukowali Nick Patrick i Don Reedman. To właśnie ci panowie są odpowiedzialni za wielki sukces płyty "If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra", która sprzedała się w ponad 1,5 mln egzemplarzy na świecie. – Nie bez powodu Arethę Franklin nazywa się królową soulu. Trudno o coś bardziej ekscytującego niż ten nieziemski wokal, który zabiera twoje emocje w podróż roller coasterem przez te wszystkie piosenki. Praca przy tym projekcie była dla mnie wielkim zaszczytem, a słuchanie orkiestry symfonicznej, która gra te kompozycje, zapiera dech w piersiach – mówi Nick Patrick. – Miałem 15 lat, kiedy w radiu pojawiła się piosenka "Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody". Zwariowałem na punkcie tej soulowej siły. To, co wtedy poczułem, sprawiło, że od tamtej pory jestem zakochany w twórczości Arethy. Możliwość pracy przy tej płycie, wybierania na nią takich piosenek jak "Respect" i "Think", a potem zestawienie ich z klasykami pokroju "Let It Be" oraz "Border Song" i tym samym stworzenie bijącego świeżością, wszechstronnego albumu, było dla mnie niesamowitym wyróżnieniem – zapewnia Don Reedman. Z kolei James Williams, dyrektor zarządzający The Royal Philharmonic, powiedział: "Orkiestra była podekscytowana możliwością nagrania nowych wersji piosenek oraz połączenia ikonicznego głosu Arethy z bogatymi aranżacjami jej największych hitów". Tracklista: Side A 1. Think 2. Don't Play That Song (You Lied) 3. I Say A Little Prayer 4. A Brand New Me 5. A Natural Woman (You Make Me Feel Like) 6. Angel Side B 1. Border Song (Holy Moses) 2. Let It Be 3. People Get Ready 4. You're All I Need To Get By 5. Son Of A Preacher Man 6. Respect

• Wykonawca Franklin Aretha , Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
• Data premiery 2017-11-10
• Nośnik Płyta Analogowa

Glyndebourne Opera has a history of trend setting and pioneering opera productions and Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore is no exception. Popular in Donizetti’s own lifetime, L’elisir faded into relative obscurity until the 1890s when Caruso championed the role of Nemorino: his dedication and conviction were such that Covent Garden arranged a production of the opera in 1902. L’elisir was a personal favourite of Caruso’s, so much so that in 1920 he played Nemorino in his last appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. Almost 60 years later, in 1961, it was Glyndebourne who staged a production of L’elisir d’amore designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Such was the success and acclaim for this production that Glyndebourne revived it in 1962, enhancing the production with the addition of the lively and capricious Mirella Freni.As the press noted: ‘Her [Freni's] looks and her cantabile singing melt, so to speak, on the tongue, and she acts her teasing charades with Sergeant Belcore as if nothing were farther from her mind than cruelty.’ (The Times, August 1962) and ‘Mirella Freni, the sparkling new Adina, rightly allowed real tenderness to shine through vanity and caprice.’ (The Sunday Times, August 1962)Mirella Freni was first engaged by Glyndebourne in 1960 (and sings Susanna in Glyndebourne’s own recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro GFOCD00162).Previously she had also performed at the opera house in Torino in the late 50s and sung with Netherlands Opera in 1959-60 season, but her international break and recognition came by virtue of her role as Adina in this 1962 production.This recording, released here for the first time, precedes Freni’s EMI recording of L’elisir d’amore with Nicolai Gedda as Nemorino in a Rome Opera production by some 5 years. In this recording, Freni has a cast of equals around her. As the besotted Nemorino, Luigi Alva vividly portrays the wounded innocent with The Daily Telegraph noting in August 1962 that ‘Alva’s Nemorino is a wonderful combination of rustic clowning and exquisitely finished bel canto’, with Enzo Sordello a baritone voice big enough to fill a stadium, providing a fresh virile and bold Belcore. Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario enjoyed a 60 plus year career and is remembered for his masterful interpretations of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti operas and stands as one of the most singer-friendly conductors of all time.The 2CD set is packaged as a hard bound book containing a full libretto translated into English, French and German along with a commissioned article about the opera, and synopsis in English, French and German.

• Wykonawca Freni Mirella , Alva Luigi
• Data premiery 2010-01-01
• Nośnik CD

Benedict: Piano Concerto in C minor Op 45Piano Concerto in E flat major Op 89 Macfarren: Concertstück in E minor With Volume 48 of our groundbreaking Romantic Piano Concerto series we reach very uncharted territory indeed. Sir Julius Benedict has been all but forgotten today but he is yet another composer who gives the lie to the idea that Britain was ‘a land without music’ in the nineteenth century. Though born in Germany, Benedict settled in London in 1835, having already established a career as composer and pianist on the continent. He arrived in a city which had been the pianistic centre of Europe for the previous thirty years (though that role was shortly thereafter lost to Paris and the new generation of Romantic composers we remember today) and was soon performing his two concertinos in A flat and E flat, the latter work later being expanded into the E flat concerto recorded here. The C minor concerto was to follow in 1850. Both works are very much in the tradition of Hummel, of whom Benedict was a pupil, and combine brilliant virtuosity with an easy lyricism. The even-more-forgotten Walter Macfarren was the brother of better-known George, an early Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Walter was for many years a piano professor there, his pupils including Matthay and Henry Wood. His music is very much in the style of Mendelssohn and his Concertstück proves to be a very attractive work which could easily pass as one by the greater master.

• Wykonawca Shelley Howard
• Data premiery 2009-09-15
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1 1. All Of Me 2. Gloomy Sunday 3. I Cover The Waterfront 4. I'm Yours 5. Embraceable You 6. He's Funny That Way 7. Body And Soul 8. Strange Fruit 9. You Better Go Now 10. Good Morning Heartache 11. No Good Man 12. I'll Look Around 13. Fine And Mellow 14. The Man I Love 15. Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You 16. Billie's Blues 17. Trav'lin' Light 18. The Blues Are Brewing CD 2 1. Blues 2. It's Like Reaching For The Moon 3. One Never Knows, Does One? 4. Carelessly 5. How Could You? 6. They Can't Take That Away From Me 7. Born To Love 8. Swing, Brother, Swing 9. Who Wants Love? 10. My Man 11. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 12. I Can't Get Started With You 13. You Can't Be Mine 14. Here It Is To-Morrow Again 15. More Than You Know 16. Long Gone Blues 17. Tell Me More And More 18. St. Louis Blues

• Wykonawca Holiday Billie
• Data premiery 2018-09-14
• Nośnik CD

1 Monster/Suicide/America 9:162 Draft Resister 3:223 Power Play 5:264 Move Over 2:535 Fag 3:136 What Would You Do (If I Did That to You) 3:237 From Here to There Eventually 5:30

• Wykonawca Steppenwolf
• Data premiery 1991-01-01
• Nośnik CD

After eight discs with the 32 numbered sonatas, and a ninth comprising the early sonatas and sonatinas, Ronald Brautigam now embarks on the second leg of his traversal of Beethoven’s complete music for solo piano. In this volume he gives us the complete Bagatelles, and includes not only the three sets published during Beethoven’s life time, but also thirteen further pieces composed throughout Beethoven’s career, between 1795 and 1825. Some of these pieces, most famously ‘Für Elise’, are sometimes referred to as Bagatelles, others simply as Klavierstücke and several of them are only known by their tempo markings. Among Beethoven’s Bagatelles – whether official or unofficial ones – are pieces that may originally have been intended as movements of piano sonatas, as well as pieces of an extreme brevity, such as the 11 seconds long Allegramente, No. 10 of Elf Neue Bagatellen, Op.119.They left many of his contemporaries perplexed – the music publisher Peters reportedly turned down the Op.119 set, with the comment that such trivia was beneath Beethoven’s dignity, and might harm his reputation if published. What few suspected at the time was that the Bagatelles were to have an immense importance to the piano literature of the 19th century, and to the genre of the character piece. Previous volumes in this cycle have been highly praised by reviewers around the world, for instance in Gramophone, whose reviewer described the performances of the Waldstein and Appassionata Sonatas as ‘stunning … technically breathtaking, stylistically astute, emotionally intense and musically alive in every moment’. Ronald Brautigam brings no less commitment to the present collection of Kleinigkeiten – as Beethoven himself called them – performing the various pieces on two different fortepianos to accord with the types of instruments that the composer would have had at his disposal when writing them.

• Wykonawca Brautigam Ronald
• Data premiery 2011-04-01
• Nośnik SACD

Tracklista: CD 1 1. Shout, Sister, Shout! 2. Wha'd Ja Do To Me? 3. When I Take My Sugar To Tea 4. Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On 5. Sing A Little Jingle 6. I Found A Million Dollar Baby 7. It's The Girl 8. It's You! 9. Making Faces At The Man In The Moon 10. I Can't Write The Words 11. Shine On, Harvest Moon 12. Heebie Jeebies 13. River, Stay 'Way From My Door 14. An Evening In Caroline 15. Nothing Is Sweeter Than You 16. I Thank You, Mister Moon 17. Was That The Human Thing To Do? 18. Put That Sun Back In The Sky 19. Everybody Loves My Baby 20. There'll Be Some Changes Made 21. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea 22. If It Ain't Love 23. Doggone, I've Done It 24. Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane 25. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye 26. Down Among The Sheltering Palms CD 2 1. Charlie Two-Step 2. It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing 3. Louisiana Hayride 4. Crazy People 5. Mood Indigo 6. Forty-Second Street 7. Shuffle Off To Buffalo 8. That's How Rhythm Was Born 9. Coffee In The Morning And Kisses In The Night 10. You Oughta Be In Pictures 11. Alexander's Ragtime Band 12. The Darktown Strutter's Ball 13. Don't Let Your Love Go Wrong 14. Rock And Roll 15. If I Had A Million Dollars 16. The Object Of My Affection 17. Dinah 18. Saint Louis Blues 19. Fare Thee Well, Annabelle 20. Lullaby Of Broadway 21. Top Hat, White Tie And Tails 22. Cheek To Cheek 23. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter 24. The Music Goes Round And Around 25. Let Yourself Go 26. I'm Puttin' All My Eggs In One Basket

• Wykonawca The Boswell Sisters
• Data premiery 2014-03-03
• Nośnik CD / Album

Tracklista:1. But Not for Me2. Somebody Loves Me3. Someone to Watch Over Me4. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off5. It Ain't Necessarily So6. I Got Rhythm7. Love is Here to Stay8. They All Laughed9. Embraceable You10. They Can't Take That Away from Me11. Summertime

• Wykonawca Nelson Willie
• Data premiery 2016-02-26
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista:1. A Apolitical Blues2. Skin It Back3. Fat Man in the Bathtub4. One Love Stand5. Rock & Roll Doctor6. On Your Way Down7. All That You Dream8. Cold, Cold, Cold9. Dixie Chicken10. Tripe Face Boogie11. Willin'12. Teenage Nervous Breakdown

• Wykonawca Little Feat
• Data premiery 2015-03-16
• Nośnik CD

Tracklista: CD 1 1. Margaret Yang's Theme 2. A Quick One, While He's Away 3. These Days (Feat. Laura Stevenson & Chris Hansen) 4. Let Her Dance 5. I Am Waiting (Feat. Jesse Sykes) 6. The Wind 7. Needle in the Hay 8. Making Time 9. The Way I Feel Inside 10. This Time Tomorrow 11. Strangers CD 2 1. Alone Again Or 2. Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worrin' Bout That Girl 3. Here Comes My Baby 4. Fly 5. Ziggy Stardust 6. Play With Fire 7. Stephanie Says 8. Oh Yoko 9. Fairest of the Seasons 10. 30 Century Man 11. Street Fighting Man 12. Five Years

• Wykonawca Various Artists
• Data premiery 2014-05-26
• Nośnik CD / Album