Kent Nagano, who studied with Leonard Bernstein for six years until his death in 1990, and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal release the world premiere recording of the chamber version of Bernstein's opera A Quiet Place. Adapted by the senior music editor at the Bernstein Office, Garth Edwin Sunderland, A Quiet Place features an outstanding international cast of young singers headed by Claudia Boyle and Joseph Kaiser.

On March 6, 1963, John Coltrane and his Classic Quartet - McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones - recorded an entire studio album at the legendary Van Gelder Studios. This music, which features unheard originals, will finally be released 55 years later. This is, in short, the holy grail of jazz.

Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album will be released on June 29 on Impulse! Records, Coltrane's final and most creative label home.

The first week of March in 1963 was busy for John Coltrane. He was in the midst of a two-week run at Birdland and was gearing up to record the famed John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman album, which he did on March 7. But there was a session the day before that was the stuff of legend, until now.

On Wednesday, March 6, Coltrane and the quartet went to Van Gelder Studios in Englewood, NJ and cut a complete album's worth of material, including several original compositions that were never recorded elsewhere.  They spent the day committing these to tape, taking time with some, rehearsing them two, three times, playing them in different ways and in different configurations.

The album features the film's original score music by GRAMMY® Award-winning, multi-platinum international music icon, business entrepreneur and motivational Armando Christian Perez, aka Pitbull, and his long-time Grammy-winning producer Jorge Gomez. The project marks Pitbull's first assignment scoring a motion picture soundtrack.

The soundtrack also includes three solo Pitbull tracks, one of them being the single "AMORE" featuring Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Leona Lewis.

"Everything about Pitbull - his style, creativity, and culture make his scoring of Gotti - the perfect marriage of the artist and the material," stated John Travolta.

Deemed one of today's most charismatic and compelling young violinists, Ray Chen reveals his new album The Golden Age – a thrilling collection of chamber and orchestral works – to be released on June 8. It is his first recording on Decca Classics since signing to the label last year.

The Violinist handpicked a selection of works for the upcoming album, all of which celebrate the "golden age" of the violin – not only in terms of repertoire, but also in terms of performance style and ingenuity. The centrepiece is Max Bruch's Violin Concerto, performed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Robert Trevino and recorded in August last year.

Madeleine Peyroux's new album, Anthem, finds the singer-songwriter collaborating with writers/musicians Patrick Warren (Bonnie Raitt, JD Souther, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Lana Del Rey, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers), Brian MacLeod (Sara Bareilles, Leonard Cohen, Tina Turner, Ziggy Marley) and David Baerwald (Joni Mitchell, David and David, Sheryl Crow), who are also the basic rhythm section players on the album. Together, they cast a sober, poetic, and at times philosophical eye on the current state of the world. 

Austin born, Paris based 27 year old singer Hailey Tuck is an extraordinary talent. Her debut Silvertone album ‘Junk', produced by the legendary Larry Klein, is a 12 track masterclass in evocative, effortless, totally sublime singing. Hailey joyously rips up the rulebooks turning jazz on its head by putting her own spin on songs by artists as diverse as Leonard Cohen (They Don't Make It Junk), Ray Davies (Alcohol) and Paul McCartney (Junk). Classics from Cabaret and Leonard Bernstein rub shoulders with brand new songs. All are totally and literally addictive.

A Life in Music celebrates the London Symphony Orchestra's collaboration with John Williams that spans over 40 years, going back to Star Wars in 1977. Out May 4 (International Star Wars Day), this release features Williams's most iconic film scores, including the LSO's first ever recording of "Hedwig's Theme" from Harry Potter as well as a world premiere recording of the Theme from Schindler's List for solo cello.

A new Sony Classical release from Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell showcases two masterpieces from romantic composer Max Bruch. Available June 22, the album features Bell's first recording of the virtuosic Scottish Fantasy as well asa new recording of the Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor,which he first recorded over thirty years ago with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner. Now, as Music Director of the Academy, Bell both performs and directs the orchestra, and offers a fresh take on the Bruch Concerto in addition to a thrilling performance of the Scottish Fantasy. 

Leonard Bernstein unquestionably was one of the most astonishing and magnetic personalities in the world of music. He bestrode the musical scene in the second half of the 20th century like few others: composer, conductor, pianist, educator; but it was as a great communicator – of music and through music – that every facet of his life and legacy is bound together. He was a Renaissance man, a multifaceted genius, but it was his career as a composer that meant the very most to him.

Deutsche Grammophon joins the Bernstein centennial celebrations with a range of offerings including box sets, LPs and new recordings.

The Best of Bernstein is a 3-CD compilation featuring some of Bernstein's very best recordings for Deutsche Grammophon. This album is only available to classical radio stations at an exclusive rate to support fund drives and even includes a special note of thanks to listeners and donors for their support. The album is programmed as a celebration of Bernstein's work as both a composer and conductor and features excerpts from Candide and West Side Story as well as ever-popular works by Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Gershwin, Mozart, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and others.

Decca Records is proud to release The Official Recording of The Royal Wedding, one of the most eagerly awaited events of the year. Having recorded the entire service live at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle today, every piece of music, the readings, blessings and the vows will be available to listen to permanently on all streaming services in just a few hours: a first for a Royal Wedding. The physical album, on CD, will then be released into retail stores around the world from 1st June. 

The musical highlight of the moving and joyous ceremony was British cellist, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, one of the most exciting musicians of his generation, who was personally asked by the bride and groom to perform at their wedding. The 19-year-old musician took centre stage for the all-important signing of the register. Dressed in a black Paul Smith suit with vibrant pink tie, Sheku played three beautiful pieces: "Sicilienne" by von Paradis, Schubert's "Ave Maria," and "Après Un Rêve" by Fauré. He was accompanied by orchestra*, as the Royal Couple officially became husband and wife. Knowing he was performing not only for the Royal Family, 600 invited guests in the Chapel, and an estimated global audience of up to three billion people, the talented teenager was thrilled to be involved in the occasion:

Joshua Bell is a classical superstar. With more than 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and conductor, Bell has recorded more than 40 albums winning Grammy, Mercury, and Gramophone awards! Josh is currently the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, only the 2nd person to hold this post since 1958, and he is a Senior Lecturer for violin and chamber music at Indiana University. Radio Purdue - WBAA Music Director John Clare spoke to Bell about his most recent release on Sony Classical, Scottish Fantasy - his first recording of the fantasy and a fresh recording of Bruch's First Violin Concerto. LISTEN p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}

The Grammy-nominated string orchestra A Far Cry and pianist Simone Dinnerstein Orange Mountain Music - recording of keyboard concertos by Philip Glass and J.S. Bach, entitled Circles, features the world premiere recording of Glass's Piano Concerto No. 3, a new concerto for piano and strings co-commissioned by A Far Cry and composed by Glass specifically for Dinnerstein, whom the New York Times calls "an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation." It is paired with Bach's Keyboard Concerto in G minor. Glass finished Piano Concerto No.3 in 2017 as a response to hearing Dinnerstein play at the Glenn Gould Prize concert in Ottawa the previous year. Listen to the attached clip of NETNebraska's Robert Goldberg discussing the album with SD

Last month contemporary classical composer Max Richter re-released his acclaimed sophomore album The Blue Notebooks in celebration of its 15th anniversary, and a new Super Deluxe expanded edition is out at the end of this month via Deutsche Grammophon. In its inception, the album was a protest of the Iraq War that saw Richter, like many, using music as an externalized meditation on violence. The Blue Notebooks was and still is a delicate space for reflection. Today, Richter is debuting the George Belfield-directed video for one of the album's most well-known and compelling songs "On The Nature Of Daylight." Its slow-moving, cinematic nature has no doubt contributed to the track's extensive use in films such as Shutter Island, Stranger Than Fiction, and most prominently 2016's Arrival. The video stars The Handmaid's Tale and Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss, who shared a statement explaining that she regularly listens to Richter's music before shoots to get herself in the zone: READ THE FULL STEREOGUM ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO

Sarah McLachlan is opening up her beautiful home recording studio in Vancouver as part of a brand new charity campaign with Omaze. But this isn't just any old tour of McLachlan's studio, the Canadian singer-songwriter wants to make beautiful music with the lucky winner, writing and recording an original song together. McLachlan shows off her signature singing chops and sense of humour in the video, proving the "Building A Mystery" singer is open to any genre of music. All proceeds from the Omaze campaign will go to a cause close to McLachlan's heart: music education. Funds will go to The Sarah McLachlan School Of Music which provides music instruction for 1,000 underprivileged children in the Vancouver, Surrey and Edmonton areas.  p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px} READ THE ETCanada.com ARTICLE & WATCH THE VIDEO

Despite being forewarned that this wouldn't be a traditional evening of anecdotal entertainment from the beloved Bill Murray, it's probably fair to say that no one in the audience knew quite what to expect from Murray, Jan Vogler and Friends at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. There was an initial sense of palpable unease when, after being greeted by a warm ovation, a soberly-suited Murray launched into dramatic readings from the works of Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman. An old pro, Murray instantly broke the tension in the room by drily acknowledging what we were all thinking. After that first big laugh, he had us in the palm of his hand.  Accompanied by renowned German cellist Jan Vogler, Chinese violinist Mira Wang and Venezuelan pianist Vanessa Perez, Murray's colourful mosaic of spoken word, comedy and music was a non-jingoistic celebration of positive American values; a heartfelt reminder, much needed in the Trump era, that America has blessed the world with humane, life-enriching art. When Murray climactically strode down the aisles throwing red roses among his ecstatic throng, I realised I was in the presence of a modern American folk hero, one who embodies the generous and eccentric spirit of his homeland. A surprisingly magical evening.   READ THE FULL Scotsman REVIEW

Her voice is deep, rich and capable of raising goosebumps, dance moves and tears. Her songs range from wistful, slow-tempo ballads of personal journeys to roadhouse country rock. But over Mary Chapin Carpenter's more than three decades of record-making, a career that includes five Grammy Awards, it's her words, and the bridges that link her to fans, that matter most. It's why Carpenter is one of only 15 female members of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. "I have no words to describe how important that connection to my fans is," Carpenter said. "It's everything." Carpenter, 60, will play the first of three Colorado summer shows Friday night at Denver's Botanic Gardens, followed by a Saturday night show at Boulder's Chautauqua Auditorium and a Sunday performance at the Belly Up in Aspen. She spoke with The Denver Post from her home in rural Virginia, provided a peek into her personality and her craft. READ The Know - Denver Post Q&A

Interlochen Public Radio has won a Bronze Medal for Best Music Feature from the 2018 New York Festivals International Radio Program Competition, honoring its work with the New York Philharmonic and the University of Michigan's University Musical Society in the broadcast: "Interlochen Presents: The New York Philharmonic Live!, from the University Musical Society." Specifically named on the award are Peter Payette, IPR Executive Director; Nancy Deneen, Program Host; Mark Travis, Co-Host; Michael Culler, Recording Services Engineer; and Rory Baker, Executive Director of Interlochen Presents.  NYF's International Radio Program Awards for The World's Best Radio Programs honors radio content in all lengths and formats and across all platforms from radio stations, networks and independent producers from around the globe. READ THE FULL IPR ARTICLE p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060; min-height: 14.0px}