What is the art of travel? As we all know there are many ways of traveling, both physically and mentally. Daydreaming is a way of traveling, where our flowing state of mind flies in and out of timezones without showing a passport. Or actually in real time going somewhere by train, crossing new territory, discovering the beauty of nature and meeting people, making new friends and making connections across borders.

Thomas Søndergård’s sophomore album as Music Director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra marks his first recording devoted to the symphony with the orchestra. Søndergård conducts an all-Prokofiev programme juxtaposing two contrasting symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in D major ‘Classical’ and Symphony No. 5 in B flat major.

On 2020's Believe, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli presents an uplifting and relaxing album of originals and finely curated classical works centered on the values of faith, hope, and charity. Produced with lush orchestral instrumentation by Steven Mercurio and Haydn Bendall, Believe follows Bocelli's 2018 album Sì.

Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, is releasing Stranger Things: Soundtrack from the Netflix Series, Season 4 in digital, CD and cassette configurations with the digital edition of Season 4, Volume I premiering online today. Season 4, Volume II (featuring all of Volume I plus additional music from the season’s closing episodes) will debut online Friday, July 1.

'Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum' is Seether's eighth studio album and was produced by Morgan and engineered and mixed by Matt Hyde (Deftones, AFI) in Nashville from December 2019 through January 2020.

The wind quintet of the Staatskapelle Berlin plays works by Frank Raschke together with the QuerBeat JazzQuartett Leipzig.

Andris Nelsons has held major conducting posts on both the concert and operatic stages, and in each realm, has distinguished himself as an incisive interpreter of a broad range of music. Whether conducting Puccini at the Met, Wagner at Bayreuth, or Stravinsky with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Nelsons has managed to win over both critics and the public alike. He is the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. In 2022, Nelsons led the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in the latest installment of their survey of Bruckner's symphonies on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Nelsons was born in Riga, Latvia, on November 18, 1978. His parents and stepfather were musicians, and at an early age, Nelsons studied piano but took up the trumpet at 12. He later sang in his mother's early music ensemble and played trumpet in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra. After local studies, Nelsons began studying conducting at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Alexander Titov.

Paramount Music will release a soundtrack album for the Paramount+ limited series The Offer. The album features the show’s original music composed by Isabella Summers (aka Isa Machine of Florence + the Machine) (Little Fires Everywhere, Panic, Sex/Life, Call Jane, Physical). The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, July 1. The streaming/download link will be added to this article soon. The Offer is is created by Michael Tolkin and stars Miles Teller, Matthew Goode, Juno Temple, Dan Fogler, Giovanni Ribisi, Burn Gorman, Colin Hanks and Patrick Gallo. The 10-part drama is based on producer Albert S. Ruddy’s experiences of making Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, one of the most legendary films in Paramount’s history. The series premiered over the last two months and is now available to stream on Paramount+.

A rapacious dragon has been terrorising a Yorkshire village. Gubbins and his daughter Margery, together with Mauxalinda, decide to seek the help of Moore of Moore Hall. Moore needs persuading away from his beer but succumbs to Margery’s pleading, and her promises of love. Unfortunately, he had already promised to marry Mauxalinda, and so the love triangle has to be resolved in dramatic fashion before Moore heads out and defeats the dragon, restoring harmony and prosperity to the village.Following the BBC Music Magazine Opera Award for his recording of Malcolm Arnold’s The Dancing Master, conductor John Andrews returns with the world premiere professional recording of John Frederick Lampe’s (1703-1751) operatic comedy The Dragon of Wantley. With librettist Henry Carey, Lampe combines a first-rate score with a quintessentially English plot, told in a tone of earthy satire, pastiching opera’s conventions with skill and affection, but also a razor wit.

A close contemporary of Buxtehude, Johann Pachelbel was, by all accounts, an outstanding keyboard player himself, and his compositions provide a fascinating stylistic bridge between early-Baroque composers such as Frescobaldi and Froberger (both of whom influenced him) and the later music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. Organist Matthew Owens continues his major exploration of the many extant organ works of Pachelbel with this second volume, recorded on a recent instrument by the renowned French organ builder, Bernard Aubertin. The recital includes Pachelbel’s largest set of Magnificat Fugues – 23 in total – alongside free works and chorale-based works.

A distanza di tredici anni dalla registrazione della Sinfonia n. 9, album di debutto su Decca per Maurizio Baglini, il pianista toscano ritorna ad affrontare Beethoven trascritto da Liszt con una nuova proposta: la Sinfonia n. 6 op. 68 “Pastorale”. Un progetto che presenta all'ascoltatore alcuni legami indissolubili: la figura centrale di Beethoven nella storia universale, l'inclusione di culture esotiche – quella turca, nello specifico – nell'evoluzione sociologica europea, l'intervento fondamentale di Franz Liszt nella valorizzazione della musica di Beethoven nel secondo Ottocento. Beethoven ebbe un rapporto fortissimo con la società, con la politica e con la natura, percepita come trasfigurazione dell'esistenza terrena e ultraterrena: un rapporto spirituale, oltre che concreto e quotidianamente alimentato da un desiderio di frequentazione dell'ambiente a lui circostante. Questo sentimento che lega la natura con l’esistenza stessa, la vita, sono tutti presenti nella “Pastorale” come anche nei brani di Liszt che completano l’album: dal carattere bucolico dell’Allegro Pastorale e della Pastorale n. 3 al senso di caducità dell’esistenza della Totentanz.

Moor Mother (aka Moor Mother Goddess or MMGz) is the solo outlet for Philadelphia-based artist Camae Ayewa. Moor Mother's music combines social issues with a visceral blend of hardcore electronics and her intense poetry, taking influence from punk, hip-hop, jazz, soul, and numerous other genres.

Some musical relationships require an ongoing effort, while others seem to function effortlessly from the very beginning. From their first meeting in 2009 on, the connection between the Italian guitarist Federico Casagrande and the French bass player Florent Nisse belonged to the latter category. Performing as a duo was a matter of when, not if.

Banjophobics look away now lest your delicate sensibilities be offended. Me, I like the sound of the banjo as much as the next man but I’m used to hearing it in certain contexts: bluegrass, complex Irish tunes, Appalachian songs and the diffuse genre of country/blues/folk/rock. With Banjophonics Damien O’Kane and Ron Block treat the banjo as any other musical instrument and apply it to all manner of tunes. The majority of the eighteen compositions here are written by Damien and Ron with a few borrowings. As well as banjos they play guitars – tenor and regular – and are supported by Steven Byrnes, Duncan Lyall and Josh Clark on some sessions and Sierra Hull, Barry Bales and Jay Bellerose on others. Plus guest appearances from Michael McGoldrick and Kate Rusby.

Alle Werke auf diesem Album stammen aus der Zeit zwischen 1945 und 1956. Es war ein gutes Jahrzehnt für Paul Ben-Haim, aber es repräsentiert nur einen Bruchteil der künstlerischen Laufbahn eines Komponisten, der der Nachwelt über 250 Werke hinterlassen hat.Dennoch waren diese Jahre für ihn von besonderer Bedeutung. Das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1945 und die Gründung des Staates Israel 1948 gehörten zu einer Zeit der Hoffnung, des Aufbruchs und der Erneuerung, während der Schatten der vorangegangenen katastrophalen Ereignisse in Europa und die schmerzhaften Erinnerungen an Verfolgung, Vertreibung und Exil noch nachwirkten.