Michele Carreca - Gorzanis 1567Gorzanis' "Libro de intabolatura de liuto" (1567) is the first known case of music composed on every semitone of the octave. It is a cycle of 48 dances which explores all the fingerboard, using Renaissance modes and simple cadenza and diminution formulas. This album, conceived as a sound image of the manuscript, is recorded for the first time in it's entirety and it retains the exact order of the songs. Michele Carreca was born in Foggia and graduated

The resullt is infectious and joyful

who made it possible for me to come into the Fazioli Piano Salon in New York and make myself at home

This box set contains four exceptional and star-studded opera and operetta recordings from the Opernhaus Zürich: Vincenzo Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi with Joyce DiDonato and Olga Kulchynska

with which Alpha will soon be recording

From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s

Volume 7 is devoted to the Fourth Symphony

from the Great Depression of 1928 and notably covered by Ry Cooder in the 1970s

Teenage Gizzard is a newly unearthed collection of the very first material ever recorded by King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard between 2010 and 2011

To the delight of people who thought the mine of great 60s and 70s 45s had been exhausted

is quiet and experimental

the heart-rending 'Berenice

Hannah Daniel