Various Artists - Reimagining Opera - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Johann Sebastian Bach took the opportunity to enhance the previously mediocre inventory of string instruments in Leipzig's two main churches in 1729 by purchasing four violins, two violas and two cellos from the workshop of Johann Christian Hoffmann (Leipzig 1683-1750). Three of these eight instruments, two violins and a viola, are still owned by the Thomaskirche. They could only be admired in a display case for decades, but here they can be heard in a recording for the first time. The Art of Fugue is framed by Bach's first and last Leipzig chorale arrangements, recorded on the Hildebrandt organ in Stormthal near Leipzig, which Bach had examined and inaugurated. Hearing these emblematic works on instruments that the Cantor himself had played is an extraordinary experience that provides direct historical testimony to the sound world of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Digression Music responds to the national and international echo of the debut album of the Duo Re-Imagine, positively reviewed by the most important music publications, with the launch of the Gold Vinyl (limited edition) of the homonymous album signed by Dario Doronzo at the Flugelhorn and Pietro Gallo at the Piano. The Duo proposes a wide-ranging repertoire that finds it's roots in the complex and elegant reinterpretation in a modern key of compositions and arias of the cultured sphere. A continuous dialogue, without ever dropping tension, between spaces, dynamics, virtuosities, colors, synergistically merging into a music of new breath that finds in the revisitation the fulcrum of it's knowledge. Fil rouge is the theme of the Inchre-readingInch, a stylistic and aesthetic figure suitable for joining two such different worlds as classical music and the more fluid modern Jazz. InchDisassembleInch and InchreassembleInch works of a classic type with modifications and variations on a melodic, harmonic, timbric and rhythmic level leads the listener to fully savor the true value of Opere which, after about four hundred years, still move the mysterious strings of our soul.

2017 . GrandeMarshall is Allen Iverson's Practice? speech on disc incisive, headstrong, and not here for your bullshit. From his teenage 800 and Mugga Man mixtapes to last winter's My Brother's Keeper LP, Grande has built a catalog of high-grade, highly personal Philadelphia rap music that answers to no one. Risk/Reward is his latest statement piece, eight tracks (including single InchStressInch) featuring likeminded Philly MCs (Tunji Ige, Pauly Sue) and producers (Noah Breakfast, HeavenInStereo) in the service of one singular, head-nodding vision. Trust the process.