Genres: World, Music
Released: 01 March 2012
Track List:
01 Viens Wayner 2

English cellist Jacqueline Du Pre began playing cello at age 5 and debuted professionally at age 16 to critical acclaim. For 10 years she was hailed as one of the most exciting and creative musicians in classical music, collaborating and recording with conductor/pianist Daniel Barenboim, who also became Du Pre's husband. Sadly, her career was cut short when multiple sclerosis caused her to lose sensation in her hands. She died of the disease at age 42, but her life and music were captured in the biography A Genius In The Family, which was co-authored by her brother Piers and her sister Hilary, a talented flautist in her own right. Hilary and Jackie, the 1998 movie based on the book, brought her story even more recognition.
Track list:
01. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: I. Moderato – Cadenza
02. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: II. Adagio – Cadenza
03. Haydn: Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob. VIIb:1: III. Allegro molto
04. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: I. Allegro ma non tanto
05. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: II. Scherzo (Allegro molto)
06. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: III. Adagio cantabile
07. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69: IV. Allegro vivace
08. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: I. Nicht zu schnell -
09. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: II. Langsam – Etwas lebhafter – Schneller -
10. Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129: III. Sehr lebhaft – (Cadenza) – Im Tempo – Schneller

Genres: World, Music, Rock, Traditional Celtic, Celtic, Contemporary Celtic
Released: Feb 28, 2012
This Baltimore-area group plays souped-up Irish and Irish-American music.
Track List:
01 Dulaman
02 Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears
03 Past the Point of Rescue
04 Scorn Not His Simplicity
05 Moondance
06 Song for the Mira
07 She's Always a Woman
08 Friends in Low Places
09 Somewhere Over the Rainbow
10 All Day Long
11 Cat's in the Cradle
12 Maid of Culmore
13 All Out of Love
14 This Is the Moment
15 The Galway Girl
16 Falling Slowly
17 Seven Drunken Nights
Digital Booklet - Voyage
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/voyage/id500339044

The young Italian tenor trio Il Volo consists of Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Gianluca Ginoble, all of whom were contestants on the talent show Ti Lascio Una Canzone (“Leaving You with a Song”) in 2009. The singers, who were in their mid-teens at the time, were individual contestants on the show. However, the producers decided they should sing “O Sole Mio” together on an episode of the show in May of that year, and Il Volo — which means “flight” — was born. The trio won the competition...
Track List:
01. Il mondo (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
02. Un amore cosi grande (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
03. Ti voglio tanto bene (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
04. Granada (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
05. E piu ti penso (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
06. O sole mio (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
07. Non ti scordar di me (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
08. This time (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
09. Smile (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
10. Mattinata (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
11. Music proibita (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
12. Mamma (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
13. La luna hizo esto (feat. Pia Toscano) [Live from The Detroit Opera House]
14. Notte stellata (The Swan) [Live from The Detroit Opera House]
15. Funiculi funicula (Live from The Detroit Opera House)
Digital Booklet - Il Volo Takes Flight
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/volo...takes-flight-live-from/id502232546

Not sesne the Ehnes and Van Dael recordings have I heard such compelling playing. The liner notes mention that she went back to the source material to get it right, as if to say that everyone else has it wrong. Truth be told this was more of a marketing ploy rather then an acedemic point. No one interpretation can be said to be more authentic then...
Track List:
01. Partita II BWV 1004 in D minor, I. Allemanda
02. Partita II BWV 1004 in D minor, II. Corrente
03. Partita II BWV 1004 in D minor, III. Sarabanda
04. Partita II BWV 1004 in D minor, IV. Giga
05. Partita II BWV 1004 in D minor, V. Ciaccona
06. Sonata III BWV 1005 in C major, I. Adagio
07. Sonata III BWV 1005 in C major, II. Fuga
08. Sonata III BWV 1005 in C major, III. Largo
09. Sonata III BWV 1005 in C major, IV. Allegro assai
10. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, I. Preludio
11. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, II. Loure
12. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, III. Gavotte en Rondeau
13. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, IV. Menuet I - V. Menuet II
14. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, VI. Bouree
15. Partita III BWV 1006 in E major, VII. Gigue
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bach-sonatas-partitas-for/id361231342

Songwriting icon Gretchen Peters underscores the brilliance of 2007's meditation of love lost and found, Burnt Toast & Offerings, with Hello Cruel World, as if it were a companion. Here, Peters catalogs the travails, wounds, and perils of living and loving in the 21st century; she examines humanity as an extraordinary event, a spiritual opportunity via the tragedies in our personal relationships, our economic disasters, our stupid ideologies, and our brief moments of triumph and celebration with equanimity. Each song refuses escape; Peters' poetic backbone celebrates the dignity in her protagonists as they struggle and thrive. In the title track, she mirrors Bob Dylan's "It's Not Dark Yet" with the lines "I'm not dead yet, but I'm damaged goods/And it's gettin late," in one verse, then refutes his conclusions: "Me, I'm gonna stick around/In for a penny in for a pound/'Cause I hate to miss the show." With Will Kimbrough's and Doug Lancio's guitars, Barry Walsh's crystalline inventive piano, and Viktor Krauss' upright bass, Peters finally sets her fine alto free; she speaks with more authority than she ever has. "Saint Francis" offers a haunting metaphoric allegory that examines the high-wire act between our intentions and our actions...
Track List:
01 Hello Cruel World
02 Saint Francis
03 The Matador
04 Dark Angel
05 Paradise Found
06 Woman On the Wheel
07 Five Minutes
08 Camille
09 Natural Disaster
10 Idlewild
11 Little World
Digital Booklet – Hello Cruel World