An article from All About Jazz

New series of Jazz Icons DVD’s features vintage unseen concerts featuring Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Lionel Hampton, Nina Simone, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, Rahsaan Roland Kirk…

… The running time for the DVDs range from 60 to 100 minutes. All seven Jazz Icons titles will be sold separately and as a deluxe boxed set with a bonus eighth disc featuring additional rare, never-before-seen, performances…

… Naxos… redefined how classical music is presented and marketed. The innovative strategy of recording exciting new Grammy nominated and Grammy winning repertoire with exceptional talent has enabled the label to develop one of the largest and fastest growing catalogues of unduplicated repertoire available anywhere…

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Article and audio features on NPR’s All Things Considered highlighting the 100th Anniversary of Leroy Anderson’s birth:

An interview with euphonium virtuoso Adam Frey about his CD Majestic Journey, with music by Kevin Kaska, John Golland, Vladimir Cosma, Peter Graham and Philip Sparke.

Adam talks about the history of the euphonium and commissioning composers to write new music for his instrument.

Album details…
Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.570538

Richard Hickox’s lengthy association with the Chandos CD label has been incredibly fruitful.

In the past 20 years, he has made an astonishing 280 recordings. In this interview he talks about this relationship, plus his latest project, a recording of Britten’s opera Owen Wingrave.

Album details…
Catalogue No.: CHAN 10473(2)