New releases from Chas Crane great performance, relaxing blues.

This is a richly produced melodic album of soft rock funk.

The Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor, D. 821, was written by Franz Schubert in Vienna in November 1824. The sonata is the only substantial composition extant today for the arpeggione (which was essentially a bowed guitar). The sonata was composed in November 1824, about a month after Schubert had returned to Vienna from his second stay in Zseliz. It has been adapted to other string instruments, especially the cello. It can be played on the GuitarViol which is a Modern Arpeggione.

‘Away from this dream’ is a collection of songs I’ve written in the last year inspired by times I’ve had the need to please to deserve love and affection. I’ve been struggling with codependency and OCD for as long as I remember. These songs contain my thoughts and feelings through various situations with a lot of different people and moments I’ve met in my life.

Pianist Jenny Lin brings the world premiere of National Medal of Arts, Pulitzer Prize, and GRAMMY Award-winning composer William Bolcom’s “Suite of Preludes” to Hudson Hall.

Mario Biondi is known for his deep voice and unique style that fuses jazz, soul and rhythm and blues. International success came in 2010 with the album 'If', which established him as one of the most important voices on the Italian music scene. Since then, he has continued to release successful albums, collaborating with internationally renowned artists and winning over audiences with his live performances full of emotion and passion. With an artistic career full of recognition and success, Mario Biondi remains an iconic figure in contemporary Italian music.

Gemelo is the new album from songwriter and pop auteur Angélica Garcia. Its title is a reference to the twin self – the idea of a second, more intuitive self within. It’s a vibrant, prismatic hybrid-pop record that soundtracks a journey through the different stages and forms of grief. Angélica explores its inherent loneliness, beauty, and tension, eventually finding liberation. Gemelo also expertly deconstructs facets of universal themes like religion, spirit, heritage, womanhood, and ancestral veneration.

Giovanni Legrenzi was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era. He was one of the most prominent composers in Venice in the late 17th century, and extremely influential in the development of late Baroque idioms across northern Italy.

Pierre de la Rue was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as various forms of de Platea, de Robore, or de Vico. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, and a long associate of the Habsburg-Burgundian musical chapel, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and Weerbeke as one of the most famous and influential composers in the Netherlands polyphonic style in the decades around 1500.

KASHIWA Daisuke's 10th original album, "Ice," is set for an early release on Bandcamp on June 29 (general release on July 20). The album is based on the concept of emphasizing clear melodies and is a work that pursues expression through melody. It features songs with beautiful melodies played in various styles.

For the past forty-one years, La Roque d’Anthéron has been the festival of all who dare to express their originality and personality through the piano. Sages, iconoclasts, prodigies, poets of all ages and backgrounds, who are reborn every year under the hundred-year-old plane trees of Florans and the celestial vault of the Provençal night. Thus the magic of the nocturnal recitals in this ‘cathedral of greenery’ is perpetuated, renewed each summer. Lined with its three hundred and sixty-five plane trees, the central avenue leads to a setting at once grandiose and intimate where, at nightfall, music fills the air as if by enchantment. With its hundred concerts of classical music and jazz, the Festival of La Roque d’Anthéron is a unique place where everyone can live out his or her own dream of the piano. With the pieces in this selection, performed by some of the greatest pianists and discoveries of the festival, we invite you to share these precious moments of night music.

Rare (often referred to as Bowie Rare) was a David Bowie compilation released by RCA Records in December 1982. The artist's relations with the company were at a low[citation needed] – Bowie had recorded his last music for RCA Records with the Baal EP, and had been annoyed by the release of a five-year-old duet with Bing Crosby ("Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy") as a single without his consultation.[citation needed] Bowie informed RCA he was unhappy with the Rare compilation, and would sign with EMI Records for his next album.[citation needed] All tracks on Rare were being issued for the first time on LP and cassette.
The compilation contained rarities recorded between 1969 and 1980. RCA did not issue Rare in the United States; nor was the album reissued on CD along with most of Bowie's other RCA albums in 1984. On the UK Album Chart, where it remained for eleven weeks, the album peaked at number 34.

This album from the Katona Twins fully sustains the standards set by their previous three releases for Channel Classic. Highly recommended.

Jimmie Lee Robinson was the consummate Chicago bluesman. In fact, he was more Chicago than most of his more famous peers. Unlike the vast majority of Chicago blues greats who were from the South (overwhelmingly from Mississippi) and were part of the Great Migration north to make their musical mark, Jimmie Lee was born in the Windy City, just blocks from the bustling Maxwell Street Market which would help shape not only his own musical style but the entire genre of postwar Chicago blues as well. With "All My Life", his second APO Records release, Jimmie Lee is aiming for goose bumps and tears. And if you've got appreciation for acoustic, front porch blues, you'll have a tough time escaping his spell.

2xHD presents "Le French Album" - a wonderful musical voyage to France. This is a beautifully recorded collection of jazzy French songs both new and old. Including favourites such as "C'est si bon and Les feuilles mortes" sung by the likes of Juno Award-winning singer Emilie-Claire Barlow, and "Sous le ciel de Paris" by Juno nominee Jill Barber. This is a charming collection of chanson that is not to be missed.