Shostakovich / Ashkenazy / Royal Philharmonic - Shostakovich: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 - VINYL LP

Bobby Oroza puts his desire for the profound on wax with his sophomore album Get On The Otherside. Musically, he has updated the formula we were introduced to on the first record. But lyrically, songs are bravely rooted in the more complicated, ubiquitous inner tangles of life like self-examination and coming to terms with the vastness of the human experience. With Coronavirus bringing the world to a halt, Bobby-a father and husband-had to do something. No tours to play or studio time to fill, Bobby found himself back in the construction yard, doing blue-collar work to provide for his family. InchI was super grateful for the work-a lot of my colleagues didn't have an option like that,Inch Bobby admits. More than a few personal hardships forced him to acknowledge and work through some brutal truths. And what came of it? Well, for one, this new record Get On The Otherside which pretty well describes what Bobby's been through He had to demolish his ego, his old ways of thinking, and his tried approaches to anchor into a refreshed perspective with new understandings. As Bobby tells it, InchI had to do some real self-searching, come to terms with what was wrong, and how much of it I was responsible for.Inch So how does this translate to the new album? Moments of clarity as to where the real value in life lies on InchI Got Love,Inch encouraging numbers like the title track InchThe OthersideInch, and declarations of self actualization on InchMy Place, My Time.Inch Even the more straightforward love songs are outside the box lyrically like InchSweet AgonyInch and InchLoving Body.Inch If you have never had the pleasure of catching one of Bobby's live shows you may have no idea that he is a maverick on the guitar. He let's us in on a little of that on InchPassing ThingsInch with a solo that possesses the same restrained and space that his lyrics do. As we'd expect, the songwri

Performing music from Baroque to new commissions on both modern and period instruments, Alina Ibragimova has established a reputation for versatility and the Inchimmediacy and honestyInch (The Guardian) of her performances. Alina has performed with orchestras including the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Swedish Radio Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Tonhalle-Orchester Z?rich; and conductors Vladimir Jurowski, Sir John Eliot Gardner, Jakub Hrusa, Robin Ticciati, Daniel Harding, Edward Gardner and the late Bernard Haitink, among others. Her 2020 album of Shostakovich violin concertos with Vladimir Jurowski and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov' won a Gramophone Award and Diapason d'Or and was one of The Times's Discs of the Year. This 2-LP set is pressed on 180g vinyl.

Zubin Mehta has long been a constant in Munich's musical life. Mehta has enjoyed an artistic relationship and deep friendship with the Munich Philharmonic in particular for decades. Since he conducted his first concert with the orchestra in 1987, he has been a regular guest and was appointed the orchestra's first and so far only Inchconductor emeritusInch in 2004. Twenty years later, the orchestra celebrated this milestone anniversary with a Brahms cycle, including all four symphonies and both of the piano concertos performed by one of today's most acclaimed and admired pianists Yefim Bronfman. This will be available digitally (both in stereo and the MSM immersive m-spatial), and physically on double LP & double CD.