Various - Solo 1 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

Recorded at the height of the international Covid lockdown, Oliver Davis's sixth album for Signum is a feat of both technological as well as artistic achievement. Following from draws together artists from across the globe for a selection of moving works for a variety of forces - recording a violinist in Los Angeles, a piano duo in The Netherlands, a guitarist in Argentina and the Budapest Scoring Orchestra conducted by Péter Illényi in Budapest. Davis's previous albums with Signum have reached the top 10 on both iTunes Classical and UK Specialist Classical Charts multiple times, receiving numerous five-star reviews and well over a million streams on Apple Music. British composer Oliver Davis has parlayed a long record as a composer of film and television scores into a successful career as a composer of orchestral music that in performance have attracted top-notch London orchestras and soloists. He has also been active as a composer of ballet - most recently premiering Lineage with choreographer Edwaard Liang at New York City Ballet's prestigious Fall Fashion Gala.

Selah (pronounced Seh-la) is a new Gospel group with a twist. They have updated many of the standards on their debut . Two of the members Nicol and brother Todd were raised in Africa. They started singing together when they were children. The trios CD was produced by Todd Smith, Jason Kyle, and Allan Hall. Tracks include InchBika Mono Ve/It Is Well With My SoulInch InchBe Still My SoulInch and InchPrecious Lord/A Closer Walk With Thee.Inch Album Tracks 1. Bika Mono Ve (Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior)/It Is Well with My Soul 2. Be Still My Soul/What a Friend We Have in Jesus 3. Precious Lord, Take My Hand/Just a Closer Walk with Thee 4. Great Is Thy Faithfulness 5. His Eye Is on the Sparrow 6. Sweet, Sweet Song of Salvation 7. When I Survey the Wondrous Cross 8. The Blood Will Never Lose It's Power 9. One Thing I Know 10. Wayfaring Stranger 11. Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus

For her fifth on BIS Clare Hammond has constructed an adventurous programme of twentieth and twenty-first-century variations for piano. From the imposing Chaconne by Sofia Gubaidulina, to the tender grief of Paul Hindemith's variations or Aaron Copland's bold and uncompromising proclamation, the disc presents a fresh perspective on the genre. Hammond opens with Karol Szymanowski's Variations on a Polish Theme from 1904, a virtuosic and intensely Romantic outpouring that contrasts strikingly with the wit and irreverence of Helmut Lachenmann's set on a theme by Schubert. The most recent works in the programme are Harrison Birtwistle's mercurial elegy and it's polar opposite I Still Play, a lyrical waltz composed in 2017 by John Adams. Described as 'a star interpreter of contemporary music' (The Observer), Clare Hammond has developed a reputation for imaginative concert programming. As she herself admits in her liner notes, variation form may on the surface appear to be both limiting and limited, but the works she presents here transcend the form in myriad creative, and at times daring, ways.